I have played Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. Each of them on both Xbox and PC. I've also played Arena and Daggerfall on my PC.


Oblivion was the first I played, and I personally think I like it the most out of the three (although it's probably connected to it being my first ES game). I've found one person who agrees with me; many consider OB to be the worst of the 3.

What is it about Oblivion so many people dislike?

Using "Search" would probably be best - there's about 98837635 topics asking the same question.

Anyway, for me it's the difference between Morrowind and Oblivion and all things that were lost. People who started with Oblivion usually love it - you're a good example. But those who played the earlier games tend to complain a lot about the changes they didn't like.

The colors. Awfully bright colors that hurt my eyes.
The faces. They all look the same, they don't resemble real faces at all and are just ugly.
The "generic medieval fantasy" feel. Some people like it, some don't. I admit I enjoyed it, but those who were used to Morrowind's weirdness expected something different. Some wanted to see a jungle.
Butchered lore. Say what you want, the main quest is just ridiculous.
Where's my levitation?
Quest markers. Compass. Fast travel. It all started there.

There's a lot more, but I won't list it, because I quite liked Oblivion - even though I never managed to finish it

No hate here. I love Oblivion. End of story.

Yep loved it too even if Daggerfall was my first TES game.

I love it too and I also love Morrowind and Skyrim.

No hate here. Oblivion is still my favorite of the three. Though I also really like Morrowind and Skyrim. I'm still playing Skyrim almost daily since it's release.

I could be wrong but in at least some cases it appears to me from the posts on these forums that some people fell in love with Morrowind. And when Oblivion came they were very upset that it wasn't a Morrowind expansion. And so they just noted those things that were dropped from Morrrowind, and ignored the improvements. And maybe didn't give Oblivion a fair chance. The ludicrous claim of automatically generated dungeons and landscapes is particularly egregious I think. Note that I am not saying this applies to everyone who prefers Morrowind/Skyrim to Oblivion, but I think it applies to some (vocal) ones.