I haven't looked into this game to much but am starting to and the first thing I want to know is if I should play oblivion before I get this game?

i suggest no,because by playing oblivion

u will either like skyrim or haite it like the minority

You don't need to, but it might help to give you a little bit of story and understanding of the world. Undoubtedly some of the controls will also be familiar, and since you can usually find Oblivion fairly cheap it wouldn't hurt to bide the time with it. Just make sure to try to find the GOTY (Game of the Year) Edition if you can, as it has the expansions included.

its all your choice man.. usually the opening cinimatic and then the story will fill in questions u have about oblivion.. You will have just as good as a experience playing skyrim even if u didnt play oblivion. thats the good thing about TES is u can jump in anytime and still have a good time, Oblivion was my first TES game and I didnt feel confused for not playing the other TES games.

No, they designed the game in a way to make it easy enough to just "pick it up and play"

There will be enough explenations and the Lore will become clear pretty fast to you probably through Esbern (the first NPC you interact which saves your life and tells you about a faction called "The blades")


Not saying the game is simple, hell - you can play for a month and not fully understand half of it. But its easy enough to play it even if you don't know everything the game-mechanic and the lore are holding.

It's not required to be able to follow Skyrim's story, since the story of each TES game is completely apart from the others. I think Skyrim takes place around 200 years after Oblivion?

Still it's nice to have a little background, learn the races and lore, etc. by playing the older games.

Same question I pondered when I first played TESIV:Oblivion when it came out in April of 2006, I like you had not played any of the previous games.

But once I started playing I Really, Really, starting liking The Game and The Lore.

So eventually after I had played TESIV:Oblivion many times through, I did go back and buy and play TESIII:Morrowwind, to see what it was like and learn more about the Lore.

Going back and playing with that game engine and animations took some getting used to doing for sure, but it Was Worth it do so.

So maybe for you, it will be the same.

But I would do it like I did and play TESV:Skyrim through many times and then go back and play last one in the series and maybe even the one before that if you get into the Lore really good like I did.

I hope that helps you.

You don't need too but it is a good game to buy so you can bide your time waiting for Skyrim. The only benefits really would be; when you first play Skyrim some controls would seem more familiar and you'd have something to play until Skyrim release. Lol

Buy it cheap, play it, read a few books in the game, get used to the look of the npc's so you can be happy about the huge improvements in that department when Skyrim comes out. Don't read UESP, just enjoy it.

Oblivion's the worst game in the series and I'm convinced it will remain that way, but you're probably young and thus will be discouraged by the technical inferiority of the graphics of older games so why the hell not, go for it.

To better understand the game if anything else, I would recommend it.

People will say to better understand Skyrim, they would need to play Oblivion and to better understand Oblivion, they would need to play Morrowind and so on and so forth.

My First Game was Oblivion, heck i still dont understand most of what is going on, but i just play because its Awsome and the same goes for Skyrim.

Oblivion is Incredible, but it has Allot of Bugs, so Dont waste your Money on the Game.

Since the Game is to open space with Many Forts and Dungeons looking the Same, its too Old for Patches and Updates and you would need Allot of Unofficial Patches for the Game.

The Main Problem with Oblivion is right after you created your Chracter and you set out for the World, you are Expected and Forced to start the Main Quest without realizing you dont need to and thats what confused me and Hated about the Game.

I still give Oblivion a 9/10 but rather wait for Skyrim, its worth the 2 Months

I wouldn't. I HATED oblivion after seeing and hearing Skyrim stuff. I was just like "Wtf am I doing playing this it looks like poop". Since you are an ES virgin I recommend Skyrim to be your first game. Oblivion is.... outdated. Atleast if you are on console.