Hello, I have recently been thinking of getting Oblivion. I need your input if I should get it or not.

I DO have Skyrim right now, I just want to get another game like Skyrim since it is so much fun.

Does Oblivion offer what Skyrim has?

Thanks in Advance

Oblivion is definitely worth getting! but it's basically a whole other animal. the leveling is different, combat is different, there's spellmaking, enchanting is different, equipment needs to be repaired after to much battle, and the skills are a bit different. and just because someone has a quest doesn't make them essential so be careful. and a bunch of other little stuff. i think you would LOVE this game! and when you do get it make sure it's the Game of the Year edition. it's just as cheap and you get Shivering Isles, which is every bit as big as Oblivion itself, and Knights of The Nine, short but extremely rewarding quest.

Well put. Def worth getting. I have been playing it for 4 years and I still find things I have never seen before.

You'll have to be more specific.

Oblivion is the same type of game as Skyrim: open world that you can explore to your heart's content, several questlines (all of them optional, including the main quest), multitude of NPCs offering side quests, first person combat etc. The overall feel of the game is very similar.

Overally, Oblivion is definitely worth getting and IMO sometimes is even more fun than Skyrim - I'm thinking of the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild specifically, and of certain side quests. Shivering Isles are arguably the best expansion in any TES game, so make sure to play it.

However, many things are different - Partsman already mentioned the most important.

Levelling system is different: there are attributes, major and minor skills, but no perk trees. It's not better or worse, just different.
You can't assign spells to your hands like in Skyrim - they fall into their own slot. You can cast them while holding a weapon, similarly to shouts in Skyrim. Magic is more complex because there are more spells, they're more varied and you can create your own spells if you want.
Health doesn't automatically regenerate. You have to use spells, potions, wayshrines or simply rest.
If you're a vampire, sunlight hurts you and can eventually kill you.
You can't craft weapons and armor, but you can (in fact, have to) repair the one that you're using because it degrades over time.

If you thought Skyrim was good you haven't seen anything until you've played Oblivion. The dialogue and characters are amazing allow will perfect guild and quest plots.

This is as good a description/comparisson that you're going to get. While I love Skyrim and have been spending most of my available time on it, I still have an abiding love of my Oblivion avatars and go back every so often to run with them through a dungeon or twelve.

It's definitely different than Skyrim, but the story and the characters are just as rich and varied as they are in Morrowind and Skyrim. It's definitely worth your money.

I bought Oblivion after Skyrim and I've played it a lot.

Basically it is like Skyrim... In some areas I think it's better; in other areas I think Skyrim is better.

The most tricky thing for me to get into was attributes. While your character in Skyrim is like a sheet of paper with their different skills, perks and powers on, attributes add another dimension. The attributes affect player skill, and they affect health/magicka/stamina.

So what happens if you meet an enemy that uses a poison or a spell on you to drain your attributes? It means your character will do worse in combat! If your agility is drained, you will become clumsy and eventually fall. If your strength is drained, you will become over-encumbered and so on... But you can also use that against your enemies. They used attributes in an excellent quest in Shivering Isles ... won't say anything more about that

Morrowind and Oblivion use almost the same skill and character development system... but for some reason I thought it was hard to get into Oblivion's while Morrowind's was piece of cake. I think some of the attributes in Oblivion affect other things than they do in Morrowind...

This times a gazillion!

http://uesp.net/wiki/Differences_Between_Morrowind,_Oblivion,_and_Skyrim

If you have a open mind about games, you will like Oblivion and even Morrowind at that. The one mistake I see new TES players via Skyrim do is get the older games and expect Skyrim. Oblivion was my first and I still have lots of memories about it

Don't think about it, don't compare or contrast it, don't deconstruct or anolyse it.
Just buy it and live it.

Your imagination will Love You Forever.

Mine does every day.

Wanting another Skyrim in Oblivion? Well, afraid to say you won't get that. You will get the Oblivion experience, much like how with Skyrim did not end up being Oblivion 2. It ended up being Skyrim. Each game has their charms, and flaws, but are all great. So yeah, definitely worth the low price of admission. I'd suggest PC if you can for the unofficial patches, and then whatever mods you like, but we have console users here who have gotten very far without any mods, and I am sure they'd say the vanilla experience is good, too.

My imagination is my mod, along with some helpful homemade mods. Thanks to Rene Gade's post awhile back. Wish I had that link again. I obviously play on a PS3

Using your imagination (obviously), *and* using mods is ideal for Oblivion play.

But you could probably get by with just one or the other...

I strongly recommend playing heavily modded Oblivion. It can be one of the best games out there, then. Otherwise, it pales in comparison to Skyrim in various ways (yet is still better in others, of course).

It is very much its own thing. Not Skyrim++, nor Skyrim--.

this is great!! can i sig this?

Oblivion>>>>>>>>Skyrim.

That is all my friend.

Did you expect readers of an Oblivion forum to say anything but "Yes?"

No, not even close. But if you loved Skyrim it's a fat chance you might like Oblivion so I suggest you try it. But get it for PC if you can, I bought it for ps3 and on ps3 it becomes a very dull game, very fast.

Who said everyone are Oblivion forumers, I saw this post on Recent Topics.

Oblivion won't offer the graphics that Skyrim offers.

Other than that, everything else will be better. Everything. I am avidly playing Skyrim now. It's a great game. Oblivion is better, imho. All you gotta do, is go up to the first guard you see, and ask him a question. Then you will be sold. Or stand, in the streets, and listen to the life around you.

I agree with arafel and Chaka ZG: get it for PC. Oblivion is a great platform to mod for. Modded Oblivion is one of the greatest games you can buy. Unmodded, not so much.

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Unmodded is fine too if you′re new to it. I only discovered what I wanted to change several years after I started to play

and the music, don't forget the music.

Also, I disagree with the comments that vanilla oblivion gets boring. There are many of us console players that have made many years and many hours of this game just as awesome as the first. I have been playing on a ps3 for years and still never gets old. Sure, mods are better, i've watched a few LP's with mods and, yes they are amaziong but with a vivid imagination and some roleplaying, this game, even in its vanilla state, will never get old.

I played vanilla Oblivion for quite a long time before installing mods. (Did the same with Skyrim btw). In my opinion Oblivion is great without mods too; I use mods in my games to make them even better

the guards.

Just get it. It's $20.