Why I prefer Oblivion to Skyrim...

[conius7]

 

THIS POST ISN'T SKYRIM HATE THE GAME'S AMAZING THIS IS MY OPINION AND THAT ALONE, PERSONAL PREFERENCE, CONTINUE IF YOU LOOKING TO ENHANCE YOUR BETHESDA EXPERIENCE...

 

 

If you played Skyrim when it came out without playing anyother games in TES series I would probably put Morrowind pretty high on the spectrum, But if you're looking for a better roleplaying experience and funner and more satisfying combat. Than let me express my opinon, Oblivion in my opinion adds a lot of comic releif without taking away from the seriousness of the franchise. The voice acting is way superior to that of Skyrim and Slightly brushing up against fallout, But the combat, boy. If you've played Any Elder Scrolls be it Daggerfall or even that Zenimax Fanfic pile of s#*!, Than I would say TRY oblivion. As the combat is just way more fun. If you just started the game and you find yourself bored in the city of cyrodill, which beleive me, is verry rare. Head over to the arena. So much fun. Get GOTY version try all the DLC.

[Bloodinfested]

Warning this post has skyrim hate....

Oblivion, Morrowind and Daggerfall remain on my top list of favorite TES games Skyrim ranks at the very bottom due to the massive amount of elder scroll elements they gutted...It had some good additions to the series like the combat was an improvement and the perk tree from fallout but most of what you see is just graphical The storyline was great and the faction quests were good and where oblivion vastly outshines skyrim is the faction quests it just was overall better progression. Ppl can fix a lot of things by mods I know I could dl a mod to bring back classes in skyrim but I shouldn’t have to dl a mod for something that should have been in the game. I realize they try to redesign the game every time sometimes they have good ideas and other times its pure idiotic. I did find the guards humorous on skyrim.

I always found the storyline in Oblivion very refreshing you may have been a hero but technically speaking you were not the main character you end up helping the main character not many games do this. I don’t know if they had better voice actors most of the ppl in oblivion are in skyrim although you had Patrick Stewart too bad he gets killed off at the beginning. Whoever did Martins voice is pretty good but only if they could of switch his for Patrick Stewart.

Edited September 15, 2014 by Bloodinfested

[conius7]

I'm with you on that, though I find skyrim fun. It's sorta oriented mire towards the triple A casual market. Not the die hards. I prefer the voice actong in oblivion because of how natural it sounds. Take the adoring fan, Sure he was silly, but it foesn't sound as scripted as say, the court wizard in dragonsreach.

[Bloodinfested]

My favorite actor in oblivion for comic relief was that roll playing orc he was ether north or northwest of Cheydinhal I believe he was tie to a fighter guilds quest. Been replaying oblivion I guess the voice acting is a bit more natural.

[conius7]

I am currently playing the dark brotherhood quests just completed the arena. I felt cheated when the orc just wanted to die.

[thebestdamncourier]

You know what I hate about skyrim?!?! The fact that I dont own a copy.

[TheMastersSon]

Finally bought Skyrim when Steam had it for $13 a few weeks ago, and so far I'm glad I waited. I was expecting a lot of improvements considering it had been so many years since Oblivion, but in most regards I'm disappointed. Visually there's something unclear about Skyrim. Not that there's any lack of detail, in fact the problem (I've tried several AA/AF combos so far) is more like everthing is homogenuously overdetailed, to the point where nothing really stands out from anything, if that makes any sense. Also the outdoor lighting to my eye is way too flat in most weather conditions. Between the two I can never flipping see anything clearly, and after just a few hours of play the irritation is already outweighing the fun. I had the same general problem and criticism about Far Cry's engine and maybe it's just me, but overall I much prefer the look of Oblivion.

 

As for the voice acting, so far I've seen virtually no signs of it. Most of these actors seem to go out of their way to make it perfectly clear they're reading from scripts. Not even at attempt at acting in many cases, and the first time Farkas opened his mouth I knew Bethesda cared about it as much this time around as they did with Oblivion. Close to unforgiveable imo, considering the universal reaming Oblivion got by reviewers for its voice acting. At some point I hope the company figures out that no voice acting is preferable and much less of an immersion killer than bad voice acting.

 

I wish I could say the inventory system was improved, if I could figure out how to sort it by weight like I always did in Oblivion. Anyone know, short of a mod?

 

Anyway just from a few hours with Skyrim I completely agree Oblivion is a better overall gaming experience.

[Bloodinfested]

Look at all the stuff that was removed the 8 main attributes, no repairing your gear, they put in stationed alchemy?what why!, less gear to equip, no spell making, most topics that are known you can't discuss with any npc this was more highlighted in arena–daggerfall-morrowind, no classes, removed skills, missing spells armors weapons, Info location on any quests, faction quests were much more involved even from looking up what faction you were apart of the most trivial of things.. now there is a bunch of stuff oblivion lacks from the older games but atleast Oblivion is a very solid rpg Skyrim is a water down rpg. At this point in time I have more faith in Zenimax making elder scrolls then Bethesda I think Todd Howard must of fell down the stairs Zemimax is bring back some very old elements of elder scrolls that I feel is most welcome something that Todd Howard seems to of forgotten. I hope in tes 6 Todd Howard pulls his head out of you know what.

Edited October 10, 2014 by Bloodinfested

[RS13]

@Bloodinfested: I'm not sure why the lack of classes is such a big deal. In Oblivion they didn't do anything except determine your major and minor skills and raise those respective skills. But the major/minor dichotomy doesn't *do* anything outside of Oblivion's legendarily terrible leveling system and having high level 1 skills would be a handicap in Skyrim: you'd hit the level cap (and thus the perk cap) earlier than with low skills.

 

@Everyone: I agree that Oblivion is, in vanilla, overall a better game. But I think people tend to forget the ways that Skyrim is a marked improvement over Oblivion. For example, this is literally how you persuade people in Oblivion: "You're awesome. No, *I'm* awesome. Now reward me for my awesome or you'll regret it. I like to take a toothpick and throw it in the forrest and yell 'you're free.'" Except 5 or 6 times a person. With slight variations on the order depending on a mini-games mechanics. That maybe the worst persuasion system in the history of games. And Skyrim didn't just have higher-res textures, it also had better art direction: Oblivion faces are notoriously bad. The leveling and scaling in oblivion were both awful. That's not to say that Oblivion's the worse game; as I said, I think it's better. But let's not act like Skyrim was one massive step back everywhere except where it was bound to improve: graphics.

Edited October 10, 2014 by RS13

[TheMastersSon]

@RS13: Skyrim does have improvements, but does anyone know the justification for taking the sort options out of inventories? It's put a major snag in game flow for me since like all good players I'm usually at or near my weight limit. :) Did Bethesda think nobody used the options?