No offense, but that's simply not reasonable. "Get over it" is a suitable response, tbh. No offense intended.

The storyline I enjoy Oblivion storyline more than skyrim. And Oblivion city felt more live to me.

I play skyrim now, I did absolutely everything in Oblivion, I will give my thoughts on two games. Skyrim I feel is a much better crafted world then Oblivion the land is more spectacular (not graphical wise) of course this is just an opinion. The combat is improved this is expected thou. The dungeons are more diverse and not copy paste by rooms.

The bads of skyrim are the guild quest are absolutely terrible compared to Oblivion's. Less freedom to create a character then Oblivion, and my worst is getting rid of spell creation which absolutely destroyed my love for mages in Skyrim. I play on xbox so I can't create my own spells sadly. I feel overall Skyrim was a mixed bag.

They have the impact you want them to have. Want to ignore them? They don't have any impact. Want to include them in your roleplay? They can have little impact or a huge impact.

But to answer your question directly - no, there's no unique dialogue or events. Yes, there are definitely more people on Skyrim's roads, but Oblivion's NPCs have a pre-defined destination.

Sooo.. Oblivion for relaxing vacation, and Skyrim for action adventure.

And about Steam; Yea, i felt slightly irked about skyrim's association with steam. It made me feel like skyrim was tethering on the edge of become a multiplayer game (even though its nowhere near one). Queer psychological effect.

I play Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim concurrently. I just love ES.

Maybe you should "get over it". People have different preferences. I have no problem with using Steam. But, i'm not going to insult someone just because they don't share the preference as me.

It's not like Steam is evil/bad or whatever though, it doesn't interrupt your gameplay experience or anything. The download file is also relatively small. Can't believe anyone would miss out on a game because of something so trivial to be honest.

No offense, but that's a pretty offensive position to take. It's perfectly reasonable for a person to decide they don't like a company's business model, and to refuse to buy from them.

What makes you play Oblivion instead of Skyrim?

What an interesting question. There seems to be an underlying assumption of obligation to pick up any or every new game, or perhaps every sequel/new game in a series?

I tend to deeply involve my character and I into one game and stay there for years. In fact I love doing this, but one side effect is that I only see one or two games per decade.

Oblivion delights me on a daily basis, has done so for years and I feel no urge to move on at this point or defend that choice. When the time comes that I once again begin searching for a wide open RPG world set within a medieval fantasy framework, I’m confident there will be many games to consider. Although Skyrim might be on a future list of considerations, my last game was not a TES entry and my next one may not be either.

Jesus... What?.... How...?.......... Teach me.

That's amazing, you find a game you love and stick with it for years, i admire you. My problem is i tend to go off what people say on forums and end up wasting full retail money on an average game that i don't thoroughly enjoy.

One thing that makes that possible for Oblivion is mods. When the game starts to get stale, you can add something new to the old game, instead of having to replace it with a new game. It's like Upgrades versus New Computer.

I play Oblivion and Skyrim concurrently. I still play Oblivion because I love the game, and my characters have some rather elaborate plans in Cyrodiil that are nowhere near finished. Some day between paying for braces and paying for college, maybe I’ll scape together enough extra cash for a PC I can play on. Then there will be mods! Yeah, I’m still playing vanilla. And loving it.

I’m afraid I’m not interested in comparing the games or enumerating the attractive points. Since you have the good sense to already own Oblivion, you can enjoy discovering them yourself!

I would add Skyrim's more diverse non-threatening wildlife, too. That's one of the things that used to bug me about Oblivion: yes it's very pretty and lush and green, but there's a lack of peaceful wildlife to complete the picture.

Where are the bunnies? The foxes? The occasional birds? The goats? They're all in Skyrim.



I would say both games have aspects of "action/adventure", but neither is a relaxing vacation. They're both relaxing at times, but you never know when that relaxation is going to be tested by a troll or an arrow from an unseen archer!

Mankar Camoran and Paradise that's why.

The Elder Scrolls isn't like other series, where when a new game comes out, the old one is pretty much done. Every game in the series should be taken as seperate games. Personally, I don't even try to compare the games.

Like plenty of others have said, Oblivion's world is a more welcoming place. It might not be as realistic as Skyrim, but it has it's place. Personally, I just choose which game to play depending on my mood. I think in terms of gameplay, I prefer Skyrim, but in terms of the world and feel of the game I prefer Oblivion.

On the subject of Steam, I'm sort of annoyed that Skyrim forces you to use it. I quite like Steam, but I understand other people not wanting to use it, and the game shouldn't force you into it.

Welcome to the forums, MsErymry. It's always a pleasure to see articulate new people show up around here.

Thanks. I thought about making an account here for a while, but I only did it just now after reading through a few threads.

Welcome to the forums!

Yeah welcome to this crazy place.

*psst, someone give him a fishy stick.

The basket's nearer to you, get it yourself!

I like the music better. I like the province better. I like the more wide open landscape over the channeled corridors of Skyrim. The NPCs act more natural and lifelike. I guess in a nutshell, to me, Cyrodiil feels more like I'm part of a living world, where Skyrim feels like a giant script-fest where the world is always paused until I wander within 20 feet of the next scripted event.

That′s my only concern with the whole shebang. I can very well imagine myself using the service of downloading patches and DLCs at my own discretion, but not when I′m forced to create an account and download files just in order to play it in the first place when I already bought the disc in a store or even over the internet

On the subject of Steam, there is a thread dedicated to it http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1382539-unofficial-steamdrm-discussion-28/

Okay I started playing this again after many months, and despite the countless "why Oblivion > Skyrim" threads, there's one issue that was never mentioned or often brought up in them...

Melee combat in Oblivion is pretty darn hard compared to Skyrim! Were the NPCs really THIS aggressive with their hits and swings? Have I really forgotten how EASY it is for your player character to get staggered and the NPCs can get in a few more cheap hits while you stabilize? And this is at default difficulty!

(BTW I'm talking about 100% vanilla Oblivion, zero mods)

"Skyrim == Dumbed Down" seems to make some sense now...

Hmm. I mean, I don't really see this as an "issue". Our characters can still get destabilized in Skyrim, it's just that the animation isn't as dramatic. In Oblivion, if we get staggered, there's always the same 4-second animation, during which we have no control over the PC.

I mean, if Beth totally removed this in Skyrim, I could see this being a valid complaint. But they didn't remove it, they merely changed it.

Now if you wanna talk about attributes....and how dumbed-down they are, you've got my ear for sure.



Yeah, but for every way Skyrim is "dumbed-down", I can name a half-dozen ways it is also improved.

This really irks me, when people make blanket statements, without (seeming to) consider the whole picture.

*cough*