Oblivion is immense. The best game i ever played. I am still playing it six years later and not bored in the slightest! The graphics are a definite ten out of ten. the map is so huge and diverse, and the skybox... Oh my God! Just looking up and seeing this immense and beutiful sky was incredible for me. I made this thread to see what people loved most about Oblivion. So... yeah. Post and vote, discuss and stuff.

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I agree. The played the game through twice as a stealthy person. I'm playing it a third time as a mage and having a lot of fun. The amount of content in Oblivion is amazing. The only game I think I may have enjoyed as much was the original Fable- but that game has only about 12 hours of game play.

Looking bad.. not much, I guess the atrocious 'radiant AI', i.e two Imperial foresters fighting each other or NPC's raking while in the house.

I started playing Oblivion about 3 months ago,as I'm disabled and pretty much "house-bound" I have a LOT of free time to invest in playing. At first I was playing it with no idea of what I was doing but then I found this forum and started getting hints and tips on play techniques....then it started getting addictive! Now,I have 4 seperate games going all at once on the PS3 just so I can experience different characters and their differing abilities. My primary character is a Nord,born under the sign of the "Steed" and is a Warrior Class. The second account has a female Redguard,birthsign,"The Mage"and is a Battlemage class bad girl with a real talent for killing other baddies. The third account has a very sneaky Kahjiit named Dimitri born under the birthsign "The Thief" he is also classed as a thief and is extremely adept at his craft,Dimitri has stolen many things in his young life.My fourth character is an Argonian male,his birthsign is "The Serpent" and "assassin" his class.He is also a rare Blue Argonian, his skin is a beautiful medium blue shade and he's very difficult to see in low light or under water.I've rarely enjoyed a game as much as I have Oblivion and can't wait for Skyrim to come out so I can go battle a dragon or two. So,my answer to the OP,Agree! Oblivion is one of the best ever!

After some reflection, I can say that Oblivion is the best game that I own, and have played. I have several games that have excellent graphics, gameplay, or story lines across several genre's, but Oblivion is unique because it is the only game that makes me actually "give a damn." I care about what happens to my character, my friends, and my enemies. When I play other games such as SR, GTA, DA2, ME2, Fable... even Fallout series, etc I may enjoy several aspects but am always aware that I am playing a video game and eliminating pixels. For me, Oblivion is unique in that the game actually makes me care about my character, and the outcome of others in the game. In my case, I think it is the way the the chapels, pilgrimages, wayshrines, daedra, demons, and Hell gates all work together to make me factor my own spirituality as I role play. This makes me weigh the moral consequences of my actions better than any other game I own. I guess this would roughly fit under the category of immersion for me. Since I enjoy playing mages, I am somewhat concerned about some possible game play mechanic changes proposed by Skyrim, such as the removal of custom spell crafting. However, with a more advance radiant AI, relationships, etc I expect that my favorite aspect of Oblivion will only be magnified in Skyrim. I can only imagine the weight of caring for a spouse, or the potential of losing a spouse in adventuring or some other result of your own actions. Oblivion is currently my favorite game, and the only game I can see trumping it in the short term is Skyrim. Not based upon features (graphics, dual wielding, perk trees, dragons, etc) but on the basis of depth and immersion for me personally.

Morrowind was way better than Oblivion, in all aspects except graphics obviously

And combat. And landscape. And bugs. And AI. But that's just opinion of course.

Oblivion is the best game I've played so far. Hopefully it will be dethroned on 11/11/11.

I thoroughly enjoyed Oblivion and Morrowind. I have over 400 hours in Cyrodiil, and I don't regret a second of it.

If anyone here has played Oblivion, but not Morrowind, I recommend trying it out.

I picked 'choice' in the poll, as I think it's one of the main things that's kept me interested in oblivion so long. The fact that you can be anyone, go anywhere and do anything is so appealing. I've not found another game that could truly measure up to it. Eventually I always come back to oblivion. bliviongate:

It's a very good game, but I wouldn't say its the best. GTA IV is still my favourite game ever and, at least in my opinion, Fallout 3 and New Vegas does everything in this poll slightly better except maybe the diversity in the map. Coming out of the Fallout's and into Oblivion all of the varying locations is what impressed me the most. I realize that this can be a volatile thing to say in the Oblivion forum, but I'm a Vault boy at heart.

Your fine Lobo, there are FO fans here too. Say hi to Dala, for me. Tell her, Teddy Bear will return.

While this is an awesome game, I mean I still play it, I think its graphics is not as good as you say. Mid-terrain looks awful and the sky looks anything but normal. It sort of looks like chemtrails, along with normal clouds.
However, nearby graphics still look good and I love being able to see far away. The amount of freedom is beyond anything I′ve ever played and I′m really into both the magic and combat system, although nowadays I don′t fight so much. I just enjoy the game and the history I share with my one and only character, Lothran

I voted for everything except graphics and skybox. I thought Bethesda took a step backwards from Morrowind with skies and water. To me, Oblivion's stars look like amateurish flecks of paint. The Oblvion versions of Masser and Secunda are possibly the worst-looking representations of moons I've seen in a video game in the 2000's, in my opinion. They look like cardboard cut-outs that a stagehand is moving slowly over a painted background.

I have been a vocal critic of Oblivion's implementation of LOD technology. I think distant land in Oblivion looks horrible. To me it looks as cheesy as a model railroad train set on a 4x8 sheet of plywood. Bethesda, to their credit, realized it did not look good and attempted to improve LOD in later patches. But there are still areas left in the game where one can see a grotesquely stretched vertical wall of LOD terrain up ahead - which will suddenly "snap" down to its proper shape as one moves forward.

Those criticisms aside, I enjoy playing Oblivion. I am still at it some six years later. The ability the Construction Set gives us to mod the game is unique. I know of no other games whose editor allows a modder to change so much so easily.

Oblivion is truly the most immersive game I have ever played. I have I think 400+ hours dedicated to this amazing game. But, on 11.11.11 all of that will change.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will always be the king of GTA. bliviongate:

In some ways, particularly the design of the world and it's culture, I feel Morrowind is a far superior game than Oblivion, however, I find Oblivion much more immersive due to the AI, voice acting, etc. Morrowind's NPC interaction can sometimes feel very robotic due to the lack of voice acting and how the dialogue is done (Most things NPCs say are generic encyclopaedic information and don't show much personality). And things like NPC schedules and all that make playing a stealth character far more fun and less stupidly frustrating in Oblivion (Trying to steal a key from a character in Morrowind is seemingly impossible because they are constantly surrounded by people who never look away).

I refuse to be pulled into an off topic debate... :facepalm:

Fun sandbox game, but in my opinion weighed down by too many flaws for me to call it the best.

Is it alright if I ticked every box?

When I look at Oblivion with an open mind and wider perspective, I dont really see anything that good about it, the bliviongate: 's are repetitive, the people look funny, the AI is pretty horrible, but overall, it just outshines everything, there is just that little bit of it that is massive and incredible, therefore, I love Oblivion

^^ About the Oblivion gates and stuff, I am stating my opinion on the matter, and no I'm not a troll, for gods sake.

What killed me for me was the leveling scaling and the leveling system. Graphics I can deal with. Hell my favorite game of all time is still Final Fantasy 6 and it's graphics are nothing compared to modern games.

I don't agree. It's one of my favorite games, but best of all time? No way. No game (not even Skyrim) could possibly ever be "the best"....all games have features not found in others which could possibly make them "the best".

Speakin of features, I voted for all the categories on the poll (cuz I like them all) except the skybox. Not sure what a skybox is :shrug:

Vanilla Oblivion -- no, level scaling and level system are too problematic; I also much prefer games where I have a party of diverse members instead of one God-like character.

Modded Oblivion -- possibly, it's very, very good; FCOM and nGCD take care of the level scaling and level system problems and make the game overall much, much better. However, I still prefer party-based play and Baldur's Gate II is still my fav game of all time (amazing storyline).

So don't...



... go off topic :rolleyes:

very good game and certainly one of the better ones but best game ever? No chance - not even close.

It's a subjective question anyway but i rate - Fallout 3 - Vice City - San Andreas - Final Fantasy 7 - Assassins Creed(all of them) and Metal Gear Solid (psx/pc) way way higher than Oblivion.