Am I the only one that feels Oblivion is a superior game compared to Skyrim? Yes Skyrim may have better graphics and the talent system....but it just doesn't have that same feeling of open expansion exploring and dungeon diving... I feel the cities are better.... There is more I could say, but am I the only one who feels like this? Thoughts and comments?

I'm sure you're not the only one, but the 4 of you are extremely wrong.

That's all about personal taste.

I like both of them about the same, but in different ways.

I'm sorry but I'm getting absolutely allergic to these "which-game-is-better" threads. All of the games in the Elder Scrolls series have their strengths and their weaknesses. I try to appreciate the strengths in each game and to look past their weaknesses.

It's a matter of taste. In fact, so much that exactly the same things you find better in Oblivion are the things I find better in Skyrim.

That much it does, my friend. I won't deny that Oblivion is more fleshed out when it comes to questlines and certain details. I also like Oblivion's cities better because each of them has an unique design.

But Skyrim's dungeons are much more creative, you gotta give it that. If you've been to a cave in Oblivion, you've see them all. Same goes for Ayleid ruins.

You won't find anything like Blackreach in Oblivion, that's certain. Even the bandit/forsworn camps are designed differently rather than a dull repetition.

I'm with you. Is there some kind of forum quota, that requires we have at least one of these threads every week? It's so silly.

Given your posts in the Skyrim forums, you're not the best person in the world to start throwing stones.

Lol what is it with you and those 2 games? You've edited the post because it seems you realised you sound insane but I still know the motivation behind it is the rage you feel that I don't think that highly of baldurs gate and witcher. Just chill out man. If it makes you feel any better I haven't even played them, I game on a ps3 which neither of them is on, I'm just going by the fact that baldur's gate looks like some entirely different style of game and in witcher you're some geralt dude who I already know I definitely don't want to be. So to me this is enough to confidently say they aren't 10% of skyrim because 90 % of skyrim's appeal is encompassed by stuff those games, as a matter of fact, do not provide.

I like some weird games you wouldn't like at all, but I wouldn't give a [censored] if you said they weren't 10% of geralt's gate or whatever because in some ways they probably aren't.

I do apologize. .... I didn't realize this was like a common occurrence that was frowned upon... I was honestly wondering. .. I normally stick to my Fallout section.

Of course you aren't the only one, considering both have their merits. For example, I'd say exploration hampered by the fact it's all a smooth bowl, though. Much too flat compared to Skyrim's cliffs and mountains. I do agree with the cities, though. Much, much better.

Still, as others have said threads like these are rather pointless, as it all comes down to personal taste.

Bahahahahaha!

Hilarious.

I personally don't care whether you like those games or not, but you raged when Skyrim was criticized over at the Skyrim forums, to the point where you called Oblivion's plot like "being stuck in a deranged nerd's head". Your defense of Skyrim there bordered on zealotry; I saw many calling you out on that because you ignored what they were saying.

So you don't like Oblivion, cool, but was it necessary to come into an Oblivion thread in an Oblivion forum where the poster thinks that Oblivion is better than Skyrim, and tell him that he's wrong?

Yes.

To answer the question...I liked OB's dungeon diving more. Sure, Skyrim's dungeons are prettier, but with few exceptions they're practically linear corridors of draugr/bandits/warlocks with painfully boring, templated loot. Oblivion snuck in 'named' generic loot along with its templated loot, so there's still that bit of plundering preserved.

Plus, the large variety of enemies was nice.

There′s nothing wrong with comparing games in the same franchise. It′s just so happens these topics usually get infected and creates two sides trying to out-shine the other with opinions and specs.

Too bad, really.

To answer your initial question, I haven′t played Skyrim so I don′t have an opinion about it. Looks good, though. But as I have a long-lasting character in Oblivion that won′t let go of me you just won′t see me in Skyrim

I am starting to agree with you here. I will admit there was a time not long ago when I was pretty upset at Bethesda for some of the changes they made to the series with Skyrim. But that was when I played only on console. Now that I play on PC and have seen first hand what you can do with mods, well, let's just say that it doesn't bother me anymore. Pretty much all my disappointments in Skyrim can be fixed with mods.

I could say the same thing about Oblivion. I had some dissapointments with Oblivion too, but since Oblivion was my first TES, those did not bother me as much. Now with mods I can make those disappointments go away in Oblivion too.

So yeah, like you, I don't feel the need to debate whether TES4 is better than TES.