That's right I've never completed the main quest in oblivion besides going to Weynon Priory to tantalize the monk with the Amulet. Somehow I still got hundreds of hours out of oblivion. When I start playing Skyrim I'll probably feel a bit guilty.

You didn't miss much, that's for sure.
Doing all the guilds + side quests before the main quest upped my expectations...and it was a huge letdown.
Rest of the game was fantastic though.

I got as far as the huge obvlivion gate. Then i got bored, guilds quests were more fun.

On my recent re-play I didn't even do the Kvatch quest, for the first time ever I didn't even think of doing the main quest and it made the game so much more enjoyable for me.

I played Oblivion. I finally decided to beat the game and I was very disappointed by the main quest but I loved the rest of the game.

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I did that once. I did everything before starting the main quest, then once I got to the point where Martin says "Go find 4 magical artifacts to open the portal to the bad guy's world" I stopped.

I have had/played Oblivion pretty much since it came out and only a week or so ago finished the Main Quest line. Don't feel bad

Oblivion's main quest was fun the first time through and I liked the story. I played it a couple of times with different characters. However, few of my characters do the main quest now. If you don't start it, none of the Oblivion Gates pop up (or should not) and the land is a nice place to play a game. Otherwise I am stumbling over the things while I am doing other stuff.

The faction, side and misc quests are so much better in that game. I am hoping Skyrim's MQ is worth replaying like Morrowind's is.

I only beat the main quest two months ago. Up until then, I'd never gotten past helping to defend Bruma - I usually never even bother to go find Martin. I got a lot of enjoyment out of looting ruins and doing side-quests. I've still only finished the mage's guild once, and possibly the thieve's guild (might have just watched my brother beat that one). I've never done the dark brotherhood or fighter's guilds.

The main quest was one of reasons I stopped playing. To me it was very dull. And I hated visits to Oblivion.

I waited quite awhile to play the Oblivion Main quest. But on Morrowind I logged 600+ hours before even starting the main questline.

I only got as far as the "Blood of the Divines" quest, gave up, and just did faction and side quests. I will, however, most likely complete the main quest in Skyrim in at least one of my playthroughs.

I didnt beat the main quest because I was annoyed by the oblivion gates and i wanted to do all of the side quests. I have beaten the Main Questline 2 or 3 times

I have probably poured hundred of hours into Oblivion, but I have never once completed the main quest. Oblivion & gates were really well done, but tbh the inside was too gloomy for my tastes. I'm not really into to dungeons for the same reason, so I usually miss out on huge sections of TES content, yet I still find ways to spend countless hours just messing around and exploring, or making new characters that bring an entirely new perspective to the game. Mostly I just do side quests, fiddle with mods, and do the most compelling quest lines until I get distracted. I have always come back to the latest TES title regardless. I only stopped playing Oblivion when my last computer melted earlier this month, and I decided to wait for Skyrim rather than go through the trouble of reinstalling all of the mods on my new rig. It really looks like my favorite mods are incorporated into the design of Skyrim anyway

i've beaten it maybe a dozen times, granted i've played atleast thirty characters (actually played like did a few questlines or got to level 20) It was really cool the first time i did it, but i tend to want to rush through it so random oblivion gates don't fugify my sky when i'm off exploring. It is fairly short if you don't do all the optional gates.

Also the gates make me feel claustrophobic, like i'm trapped in there until i get those sweet Sigil stones, huge dungeons always make me feel that way though.

I played through the MQ once long ago and thought it was well done and very enjoyable. Moving even. I did not feel obliged to close every gate in the game. I simple closed some of the the city ones and a few that were a direct threat to travelers and inns and such. Since then however, it has not quite suited the purpose of subsequent characters.

My current character will soon be helping to close the gate at Kvatch (after about 760 hours of play). Then the Main Quest will continue slowly around her, but she will not be the Champion. We are clearly playing with some imagination and tweaks here.

Never completed the main quest. Got distracted on teh first attempt - too much other fun stuff to do. Made a good effort the second time but it was boring. Going after sigil stones was repetitive and after the second Oblivion Gate opened I couldn't stand the blight on the landscape. I thought, I don't want to see another half dozen of these eyesores about my beautiful Tamriel. So I restarted the game and never bothered going to Weynon Priory to start the MQ. Besides, a chaotic realm with no emperor seemed like the perfect environment for an opportunistic rogue to seek his fortune. Why spoil it by restoring the balance?

I completed it maybe twice, with a very large number of character. Playing on and off since release.

And the first completion of the Main Quest was not until after several characters, as I recall.

I did like the Main Quest.I just have many characters that are either not "cut out" for the main quest, or never got around to it.

I've done the main quests to both Morrowind and Oblivion once. I've tried several times to do both of them a second time but I've never been able to get through them.

Played oblivion all the way through unlocking everything pretty much several times.

Only ever completed the oblivion main quest once, with my first character. My current characters aren't doing it.

I've done the MQ a time or two, but soon the world started to feel empty after I beat the MQ.

So, I just stopped doing it. Gave Jauffre the amulet and left it at that.

Done the main quest before, this time i'm going to do it in bits and pieces, so that when the game ends, it was two gods that defeated Mehrunes Dagon, not one.

Yeah I'm kind of the same.It's too easy to get distracted by all the other stuff,I started this current character at the start of the year,Altmer Atronach mage,with the intention of completing the main quest and playing a different style for the first time,as I'm usually a stealthy sort.The plan was to finish it before Skyrim came out.I'm still nowhere near finished the MQ,with only a few days to go,and my mage has slowly reverted into a jack of all trades stealthy sort with lots of magica.I svck at completing the MQ just as much as I svck at role playing,lol.As others have said already,the plains of Oblivion don't really appeal to me,I hate going through the gates too,they are samey,and a bit boring,and the ones where you have other people in there with you are really annoying.(I'm looking at you here Farwil,Huzzah!)I seem to hit the same stumbling block every time too,everyone's in the chapel in Bruma waiting for me to instigate the action,all sounds a bit too heavy and instead I'm being chased by as many Minotaurs,bandits and whatever else as possible down a road before turning invisible and watching them turn on each other.The main quest could have been dropped altogether and the Guild quests extended instead and I would have been just as happy with the game.Maybe i should feel guilty,I don't get as much time as I'd like to play,so I should make the effort to see the big scenes Beth probably put a huge amount of effort into when i get some spare time,it's just everything else is so much fun...

I've played through it once, but I was using console commands and speeding through the whole thing. I mainly just wanted to see what the story was firsthand.