Many disappointments yes, but 2 things annoy me the most : (1) the audio-bites used for NPC characters when you talk to them. It's really hard to enjoy any given conversation with an NPC (and let's face it there are alot of them in OB) when they use one voice for the first response and a completely different one for the next response. How hard is it to assign the same person's voice to a given character?!? It really destroys my ability to take the Oblivion world seriously when I talk to a beggar who answers my first question with an old woman's gravel-throated voice and then responds to the next question with the voice of the Queen I just conversed with at Anvil castle. Sorry but I'm not that unintelligent that I can pretend I can't tell the difference! Overlooking the use of the same person's voice with scores of NPC's is enough to deal with! (2) Item Placement I will never ever comprehend how they allowed the terrible system that exists in OB for placing your own items ... eg books in bookcases, wine in wine racks, weapons in weapon racks ... even just vases on tables ... why allow us to enjoy the time-wasting idea of adding your latest books collected from a recent adventure to your own library or fancy enchanted sword to your weapon collection at all if the process of placing an item and keeping it there makes you want to smash your keyboard into a million pieces?!! They would have been better not to allow it all than leave it as is. Just leave it alone or ask Will Wright to take a break from The Sims 2 and come teach them the basics of player-object physics?! lol There is so much more they could have done with the vanilla game that would have given them much more scope for expansions and add-ons into the future. Instead it only allows for more of the same with KOTN and SI. It's such a great game, a real shame they couldn't see how much long-term potential it could have had. They could have made more money and we could have enjoyed a better game.
