When I first played vanilla Skyrim, I remembered the first time I played Oblivion (Legendary Edition). I was amased, happy like a child, e.g. main quest is better, I mean Oblivion Gates...f**k yeah, Saen Bean, Battle for Bruma, also factions are better, even DLCs (KotN, Shivering Isles) and more. I guess that after Oblivion I expected something incredible. I think that calling it "a horrible piece of s**t" is an overstatment, however after buying it I felt a little bit cheated because of my much higher expetations. Things like combat, too many useless and unimaginative perks, even hole skills, NPCs seems to be randomly generated without any motivation to give them some deeper purpose, realy caught my eye. But Bethesda gave us shouts, dragons, more quests, civil war (ofcourse they could have done it better), dual wielding, don't forget butterflies too :) After playing Skyrim some more, I learned to love it, even with its' crashes, freezes, stuttering, but now I couldn't imagine playing without mods. Skyrim is the best game I have played so far and I will keep playing, and Oblivion is not far behind but I'm missing it every day.