I loved Oblivion... Actually got a character with 100 in all stats and skills. I think I'm gonna like Skyrim even more, REAL BEARDS!

I don't really like Oblivion, but love Fallout. I used to wonder why this was, until I realized that I also didn't like Dragon Age, but Loved ME.

High powered firearms make everything better.

Everytime I read the title of this thread, I think of these guys:

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(In unison) HAAATED ITTT!

I dont realy like Dragon age(but played it was ok not good) and hate Dragon age 2, i love Daggerfall adore MORROWIND and loved Oblivion and hope Skyrim will be as awesome as Morrowind.

Number one Developer so far for RPGs for me is Bethesda!

Bioware with games like ME and DA sunk below avarage for me not worth playing anymore.

Funny...

FIRST TIME I played Oblivion I gained boobies.

When i started oblivion for the first time i played it one hour and then uninstalled it. I just hated it, maybe because I played fallout 3 before i jumped into oblivion. But After few months i decided to start all over and reinstaled oblivion. And i dont know whats changed but i couldint get enough of it... Althou oblivion gates was a pain. Anyway what im trying to say is just stay calm and play it for a little longer joing guilds and stuff you should find something you can enjoy about that game.

Some of the opinions here are very black and white. I personally adored Morrowind. I played it inside out for years and yet Oblivion didn't seem to interest me as much.

I also finished fallout so it isnt due to the dislike of these type of games at all.

I've tried playing Oblivion with and without mods probably 10-15 times now.  I can't get much farther than the first Oblivion gate when I get bored with it.  I think the appeal is the open world sandbox style RPG.  It really is a unique game, but as the TC said, I'm incredibly put off by the terrible annimations and voice acting.

I'm sorry I find this extremely hard to believe.

I'm sure if i look through your post history I could find you discussing oblivion as if you played it.

This is like one of those guys that say they never played WoW... Either you're a troll or just want to be cool by not playing an extremely popular and critically acclaimed epic.

Oblivion is probably in the top five of greatest rpgs ever created in my lifetime. Somewhere between Morrowind, Kotor, FFVI & ME.

Not an Oblivion fan myself either. I ahve only tried it a couple of times but neither one ahs worked for me so far. Very much liked Fallout3. Perahps it is the active skill gain versus levelled-skill gain that is an issue for me. That I could go into sneak mode at the first goblin, face the wall and max out sneak before ever getting into the actual game was kind of a bummer. Not a fan of games that can be "cheated" that way.

Originally posted by kingfelix

Originally posted by Sovrath

Op, first of all, you are proably approaching the game "all wrong".

Especially if you said you loved Dragon age. Dragon Age is a storied, somewhat linear game. Now, I like DragonAge a lot but Oblviion and even morrowind are not linear games per se.

They are about exploring, doing what you want to do, creating a character you want to be.

Also, I believe most of the elder scroll games start you off as a prisoner. That is their "shtick".

And you are missing the point. It's not because some emperor had a dream of you. it was a confluence of two happenings: you in the prison, he having dreamt of you, and he suddenly comes upon you at the very time of his death.

This is the stuff of prophecy.

Whether you like that type of thing or not is up to you.

These games are about you creating your own "good time". As a piont of note, my roommate played oblvion and never finished the main quest )barely started it) and never finished any of the guild quests. He just loved  exploring and doing whatever quests he ran into in his travels.

Me? I still actively play oblvion and morrowind. Especially with some of the adventure mods.

But in the end, this is not a game like Dragon Age or Baldur's gate. It's about you being plopped into a world and "what do you do?"

it might not be your thing. But if you change your paradigm a bit and look at it more as a world than a game you might enjoy it.

I have so many stories of just "neat things" that I've seen in Oblvion. there is quite a lot under the hood. Heck, just start the assassin's guild quest and play through some of that, it's very good. Of course you have to "kill someone" i.e. murder someone.

There's the daedra prince who asks you to go to a party and spring a "surprise" or the deadra princess who asks you to free her subjects of the dark by doing away with the church officials trying to convert them.

There are so many little hints and easter eggs hidden in the world. Imagine entering someone's house and it all looks normal but you go into the basement and behind boxes is a circle of runes soaked in blood.

or the league of vampire hunters that asks you to help them out as they believe they have tracked a vampire in the city.

You rescuing a stupid prince who is playing "knight" and who entered into an oblvioin gate because he felt the bards would sing stories about him.

 

What about the rich high elf who is a collector of his ancestor's antiquities and he asks you to help him find some statues after you sell one of them to "any" local merchant. All seemed innocent enough. Or how about nut case who thinks everyone is watching him so he hires you to spy on them.

Or the lovcraftian village that is hiding a secret.

Or just you exploring a cave and suddenly part of the rock wall drops away and you discover a lost ruin.

I don't want to give too much away but there is quite a lot in this game.

Couldn't have said it better myself. In fact, reading your post has filled me with the need to play Oblivion tonight. To the OP, I'm sorry to hear your heart wasn't stolen by one my all time favorite games but I must say that is probably that first time I've heard that opinion from anyone, ever.

 im agree  im  still playing morrowwind  the game has never not been on my pc since i first bought it back in 2000  then i bought bloodmoon  with all the mods new quest  that get made this  game never gets old 

and it the  same with oblivion i leave the main quest till  ive done every thing in game . again i spend more time adding new mods  in so i never get to finish the game  just the dlc packs  .

I read this and was shocked I will admit. Everyone is entitled to their opinions though. I loved the game (on the PC) and enjoyed it more with mods. The storyline (as always) bored me so I ended up adventuring off.

Oblivion is\was a great game to me, I liked the side stories more than the actual main storyline. The Dark Brotherhood storyline is much much better. I play it more like a shooter as a rogue\bow type. If you run up and hack and slash the game gets old really fast. I do find myself wishing for better graphics, although to me, the game looks pretty good once you mod the resolutions, and crafting. I would have preferred to buiild a house in game rather than mod to get one.

The biggest problem with Elder Scrolls is that the games are barely a challenge. Running backwards and letting a few arrows fly will beat the game in general (in general).

Depending on what system you played on you can tailor the game to your likes. If you didn't go with the PC version...yeah may want to get your money back.

hey  now you people know how I felt when I played Fallout3 for the first time after all the hype. WOW I never made it out the first city. So Boring

I'm not a big fan of Oblivion either although mods help. With that said, I really enjoyed the fallout series (although I am not too fond of the game engine that Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout NV uses). Perhaps the first person view is a detractor for you? It is for me in fantasy based games.

everyone has there opinion...like me i HATE Guild Wars Series....and will not even be looking at GW2...

Yeah, I had to use mods to get Oblivion and Fallout 3 where I wanted them (especially on a difficulty level; they're beyond easy without modding the piss out of them).  New Vegas, however, was pretty much where I wanted it; I didn't need mods for it - they just supplemented it.

So my problem probably lies with Bethesda.

Once they cut mod support then I'll move on.  I'll really be in trouble, then, because I'm not a fan of modern Bioware, either.

so if you dont like biowears and Bethesda curren state means u dont like mass effect, fallout 3, oblivion, star wars knights of the old republic and hell lets throw in sum FPS they made...in that case i dont reccomend you look into the new star wars MMORPG cuz its purrty much mass effect online...i think all there games r the shit! and are one of the best top developers in the world if not top....all these games woudl make TRUE AWSOME MMORPG'S that would makes WoW and all its wanna be clones cry and dwarf away into nothing...this includes the epic fail GW series that tries soo hard to play and be a MMORPG. its sad really.

I think Oblivion is a wonderful game for people who basically want to ignore the story and forge their own destiny and create their own goals.  This is how I am.

On the other hand, I'm sure there are people who want a much more directed experience and the more story based RPGs (Bioware / Square) may appeal to them more.

I think if I were to make a continuum of Non-liner and linear RPGs, Oblivion and Morrowind would be on the non-linear end, and Final Fantasy XIII would be on the extreme linear end.

I tend to enjoy the more non-linear games more.  I couldn't even get 10% through FFXIII.

there is a way to run, walking everywhere would suck.  Also you can jump around using the map.  I forget exactly how you run, but you should be using run instead of walking like 95% of the time.  I think caps lock or shift will set you to run, forget exactly.

This should make you faster and less bored.