i want to know something

[I piss in grass]

i have about 90 hours in skyrim and i want to try to get into this game what makes this game better than skyrim and what other stuff is in it thanks for reading

[indeed.cheerio]

I feel even though the magic and combat is much better in Skyrim, what Oblivion lacks in combat it makes up for in the story. Now, this is my personal opinion, but I feel that the game is worth a play. I played through Skyrim pretty quick, whereas I felt more engrossed into all of the quests in Oblivion. I recommend downloading the game with the expansions (Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles)
Hope this helps with your decision

[ed]

I've put a lot of hours into Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim and IMO they are all good games and worth playing - however, they are DIFFERENT games. They all have different strengths and weaknesses.

Oblivion NPCs are notoriously awkward and potato-looking because it was an early attempt at the complex facegen Skyrim would later use, and I find the "random wandering around" that's so fun and interesting in Skyrim to be something Oblivion fails at (I've heard that a lot of the wide open spaces and random dungeons were generated by a computer rather than human level designers, and I believe it). There's also less to do in terms of crafting.

If you can forgive those things, Oblivion's strong points are a decent percentage of fun quests, some funny writing and a more involved magic/spellcasting system than Skyrim. You'll also understand more of the references to Oblivion that were snuck into Skyrim (along with references to Morrowind), such as the alchemist in Riften sometimes having a conversation about a quest NPC you meet in Oblivion. And the Shivering Isles DLC is my favorite Elder Scrolls thing ever.

So...Oblivion's an older game and it's not like you're not going to notice, and most of the fun is in the quests and storylines rather than going off the rails and exploring for a hundred hours. But I believe it's worth playing.

[Manager of Fat Girls Utd]

oblivion's excellent but if you're coming off Skyrim and hopping onto Oblivion, don't expect too much. Oblivion's combat and movement just feels overall so clunky and unsatisfying, not too mention that magic is extremely underpowered, but if you mod this game maybe you'll get more of your moneys worth.

another thing to mention is that oblivion is an 8-year-old game, the engine is likely even older than that, therefore expect some major issues in performance because my PC (pretty high end) struggles mantaining 60 constantly, so unless you can tweak and mod Oblivion to get it performing up to par, expect major framerate issues.

[woodsdog]

Originally posted by Carolus:

therefore expect some major issues in performance because my PC (pretty high end) struggles mantaining 60 constantly, so unless you can tweak and mod Oblivion to get it performing up to par, expect major framerate issues.

This make no sense at all. Why should a OLD game run ♥♥♥♥♥♥ on new hardware? its already D3D9... like Skyrim and most of the games today too (at least as fallback)... It's not Morrowind ;)

I got a pretty nice new rig here (win 8.1 64, 16GB RAM, i5, R9 280) and oblivion runs with HIGHEST possible settings, a "more grass" and a "better water" mod @ rocksolid 60 fps. (1980*1200 4xEQ AA + 16xAF)

in the middle of the woods with lots of trees, animals and stuff, the GPU sit @ ~50-60% Load, in castles/dungeons its 10-20%.

so either your "pretty high end" rig is not so high end or you got a mod/driver issue.

[Amycus]

Melee combat is without a doubt better in skyrim, but I'm not so sure that skyrim is better in the magic department. Better spell effects sure, but there is a much, much larger variation of spells in Oblivion. And, you have spellcraftig, so you can make your own spells too.

However, the greatest disadvantage that skyrim has is the system of leveled enemies. In the vanilla game, you will actually turn out weaker as you level up, unless you do it in a very specific way, as your enemies level up with you. But FRIENDLY npcs never level with you, which means that some quests were you are supposed to have help from friendly npcs become much harder as they are still wearing steel armor, while your enemies starts wearing daedric equipment. Thankfully, there are mods that fixes this though. I recommend Obscuros Oblivion Overhaul.

But the reason why I suggest Oblivion to everyone is the sidequests, which are still to this day more interesting than any other game has managed to do before or since. I don't even care what rewards they give me. And there are a LOT of them.

...Do note however, that despite having the best sidequests I have ever seen, the MAIN quest was for some reason pretty dull.

[I piss in grass]

is the questing in this any better than in skyrim cuz that was one of my favorite parts in skyrim

[Amycus]

Originally posted by ccodered:

is the questing in this any better than in skyrim cuz that was one of my favorite parts in skyrim

Let me say it like this: After playing Oblivion you will start to complain how BAD the sidequests in skyrim are.

[bellofury]

Originally posted by woodsdog:

Originally posted by Carolus:

therefore expect some major issues in performance because my PC (pretty high end) struggles mantaining 60 constantly, so unless you can tweak and mod Oblivion to get it performing up to par, expect major framerate issues.

This make no sense at all. Why should a OLD game run ♥♥♥♥♥♥ on new hardware? its already D3D9... like Skyrim and most of the games today too (at least as fallback)... It's not Morrowind ;)

I got a pretty nice new rig here (win 8.1 64, 16GB RAM, i5, R9 280) and oblivion runs with HIGHEST possible settings, a "more grass" and a "better water" mod @ rocksolid 60 fps. (1980*1200 4xEQ AA + 16xAF)

in the middle of the woods with lots of trees, animals and stuff, the GPU sit @ ~50-60% Load, in castles/dungeons its 10-20%.

so either your "pretty high end" rig is not so high end or you got a mod/driver issue.

I think Oblivion runs on the Morrowind engine, just based off their Construction Sets.

[bellofury]

Originally posted by Amycus:

Originally posted by ccodered:

is the questing in this any better than in skyrim cuz that was one of my favorite parts in skyrim

Let me say it like this: After playing Oblivion you will start to complain how BAD the sidequests in skyrim are.

Coming into Oblivion from Skyrim, how true!

In Oblivion, some NPCs are funny. One of them, you go out, kill a minotaur, and get the mighty.... Big Potato... Yay?

In Oblivion however, many quests are FAR more interesting, for instance, the Saguine sidequest is just... what the heck, Bethesda?

[RADKILLA[420]]

every single thing about this game is better than crap ♥♥♥♥ lame skyrim.i was so disapointed when skyrim came out.dont get me wrong it was okay.and kinda fun.and i beat it.but the game was waay over hyped and did not live up to it.graphically bland and everthing looke dthe same and bad boring colors and crap loot in chests.i give skyrim a 5/10,oblivion a 8.5/10 and morrowind a 9/10.

[Paco]

Originally posted by RADKILLA420:

i give skyrim a 5/10,oblivion a 8.5/10 and morrowind a 9/10.

Same here, it seems as if they're upgrading the graphics and dumbing down the gameplay with each generation of TES. In Morrowind there were a whole lot more weapons, skills, and you had to find your way around. Then they dumbed that down a little with Oblivion and made it so that you had preset fast travel points, waypoints, and your magicka regenerated. Then they dumbed it down again in skyrim with your health regenerating, no spell making, and you can only choose to "level up" your health, magicka, or fatigue. In the next Elder Scrolls, you'll probably only be able to follow the main quest on closed maps similar to FF XIII only being able to use a healing spell, bow with infinite arrows, and a sword.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Amycus:

Originally posted by ccodered:

is the questing in this any better than in skyrim cuz that was one of my favorite parts in skyrim

Let me say it like this: After playing Oblivion you will start to complain how BAD the sidequests in skyrim are.

Yeah, because all the quests in Oblivion were actually done individually, instead of that 'radiant'
problem/modifier/completecondition bs that occurs in skyrim.

[Amycus]

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Originally posted by Amycus:

Let me say it like this: After playing Oblivion you will start to complain how BAD the sidequests in skyrim are.

Yeah, because all the quests in Oblivion were actually done individually, instead of that 'radiant'
problem/modifier/completecondition bs that occurs in skyrim.

This is the primary reason, but not the only one. I think that the removal of influence points for every NPC, and the change in dialogue system are to blame as well.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Amycus:

Originally posted by DarthNachoz:

Yeah, because all the quests in Oblivion were actually done individually, instead of that 'radiant'
problem/modifier/completecondition bs that occurs in skyrim.

This is the primary reason, but not the only one. I think that the removal of influence points for every NPC, and the change in dialogue system are to blame as well.

The change in dialouge system is fine. The pie minigame is straight up wierd. But the removal of the opinion system meant you could no longer truly do investigative quests.

[loseygosey]

I personally think Oblivion is miles better than skyrim. The geography is more diverse. Not just snow and mountains. More cities that are larger and with a higher population but the amount of people you can really interact with is about the same. The quests are much better especially the factions. Combat is not quite as good but you have spell crafting which is nice. Obviously the graphics are not as good but it still holds up really well and you can mod it. I liked skyrim but I probably have about 300 hours with that game across all platforms as opposed to about 800+ on Oblivion. I never really felt like I had too much of a reason to return to skyrim after finishing aside from buying it again for pc and trying out the mods.