Do you hate Oblivion but love Skyrim?

[bojackx]

Personally, I love both, they're great games, but recently I've seen people saying that they hate Oblivion but love Skyrim. I'm not looking for an argument, although I downright don't get how your opinion of the two games can differ that greatly, they are pretty darn similar.

So what's your opinion? And if you are amongst those who hates Oblivion but likes Skyrim, feel free to explain why.

EDIT: Kind of a second question, but since so many people did actually hate Oblivion it seems necessary: If you hated Oblivion, why did you buy Skyrim? I didn't like Assassin's Creed 1 and even though everyone said the second one is a lot better, I still didn't get it, because it was obviously going to share the same basic mechanics found in the prequel. Anyway, yeah answer the second one too.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Love is a strong word. I rather enjoy Skyrim, but I feel like it still has a ton of flaws still. I really didn't like Oblivion though, for a few reasons. First off, Oblivion's combat is extremely clunky. Skyrim's combat is better, but still rather clunky. Oblivion's locations were really repetitive and the whole world felt rather generic high fantasy. Skyrim still feels a bit like that, but Skyrim is a much more interesting region that Cyrodil. Also, Skyrim's main questline is marginally less crappy than Oblivion's was, and Skyrim has a really damn good opening, while Oblivion's is a dull slog.

There are a lot of small things that made Skyrim better than Oblivion for me, but it's just a smoother experience and more fun to play.

 

[shimyia]

yepp... i absolutely hate oblivion but i enjoy Skyrim a lot more.
my PC is kinda weak so i could run oblivion on medium graphics, Skyrim on the other hand, i lowered the settings even from the .ini files so it looks like absolute crap, and still has many many (2-5 seconds) lags while i explore so i dont do much of that but i still onjoy SKyrim A LOT MORE...


about the reason... hmmm... i guess it's just better executed than oblivion

 

[Fishyash]

I think it's mainly two things that make me prefer skyrim over oblivion.

One, the combat feels faster paced and more show-offy. I know it isn't really different from oblivion, but I do prefer it this way.

Two, the level scaling. Oh god the level scaling in oblivion was insufferable. The same bloody rat gets harder and harder to kill as you level up, unless you manage to balance your skill-ups perfectly to get the best possible bonus attribute points. It's stupid. Levelling up does not feel like progress on oblivion, where it does on skyrim.

 

[1-up]

I wouldn't say I hate Oblivion, but I couldn't get into it despite trying three or four times.

I just didn't know what the heck was going on in Oblivion. The skills and mechanics of the game weren't really explained well. You lock into a character (pre-made or custom) and try to guess what's going to be good and crappy (Because that's the nature of these types of games). Tooled around for a bit and wasn't able to get anywhere interesting. Tried to follow the main quest and just got bored. Maybe I was just supremely unlucky and picked the cruddiest random direction to head off to (The Nord village, actually, now that I think of it).

Anyway, after aimlessly wandering and feeling my interest wane, I started poking around and learning about the mechanics. Strike 1 was being clueless and bored when I started on my own. Strike 2 was learning about the enemies leveling with you (One of the few things I despised about Fallout 3 - "wtf is every mutant an overlord with a gatling laser gun" was what I was thinking before I found out about the leveling). Strike 3 was reading about how people gamed the system by picking crappy skills and avoiding leveling.

Might give it a try again during a gaming drought, but I have a backlog of something like 8 games (Including things like Mass Effect 1 and 2) from STEAM so I doubt I'll get to it any time soon.

 

[Nietz]

I enjoy Skyrim very much. Have enjoyed it since its release.

Oblivion on the other hand is a more complicated scenario. I remember playing hundreds of hours of Oblivion. I played it and enjoyed it when it was still "new", but now, playing it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I don't really know why, might be that I've pretty much emptied Oblivion out(we're talking about 300+ hours of gameplay). Or it could be that I was in kind of a dark place personally at the time.

Anyway, I can't say that I hate Oblivion, but I can't vouch for it's quality either.

 

[Thyunda]

I enjoy Skyrim for much the same reasons as I enjoyed Oblivion. My character. My backstory. Thrown into adventures I could section off in my head as episodes, and playing out a story that often turned humorous.
Hell, I plan to write the Adventures of Nightingale Grimm. But that's for Skyrim. And I'm gonna do it on a side-quest by side-quest basis, and NOT include how he became the Nightingale, because I wanna get stuck in on the comedy-adventure writing, not horse about with freakin' origin stories.

 

[Zhukov]

Yes, but with both opinions taken down a couple of notches.

That is to say, I dislike Oblivion but consider Skyrim to be adequate.

Why? Well, Skyrim has slightly better combat, more varied environments, non-hideous NPCs, improved voice acting and a vastly superior stats system.

 

[Smeggs]

Oblivion was kinda meeeeeeh for me. I wouldn't say I loved Skyrim, by eprsonally I feel it was an improvement.

 

[Cazza]

I couldn't get into Oblivion. After that idiot lost the necklace. Which I saw coming. I quit. Skyrim though I played right through and have explored some of the world.

 

[Vault101]

Hated oblivion..overall "meh" about skyrim

its frustrating...thease games are well loved and well reviws but I just CANT get into it

think Ill wait for fallout4

 

[SycoMantis91]

I'm totally among these. Let's compare (ranting so excuse any grammatical errors).

Oblivion: poorly-controlled combat, clunky movements, that stare of death whenever a convo is entered, it's big but everything in the game looks the same. I often had to check my map to have any idea where i was, the leveling system was obnoxiously complex, as was item management, and the whole thing just plain didn't have that epic feel, i never knew where i was going, and it was such a bore. And soooooooo glitchy. Some of them were amusing, but so many times i was totally impeded from any resemblance of progress.

Skyrim: The world is amazing. Large and sprawling, the environments change when you travel so you have some resemblance (yea I like that word) of where you are. It actually looks like a society, roads, traveling groups, towns with individual mentalities, I love the wintery landscape, especially in the mountainous areas. It's just a spectacle. I've never stopped nearly as much to just look at a game. I don't usually praise graphics as I usually think they're fairly mute as long as the game is good. But that game's by far the most gorgeous piece of art I've laid eyes on. But that's not all I love about it. The combat flows and the controls are so right. It's actually fun and engaging to fight instead of being a chore. There are so many different ways you can customize your own style of fighting. Weapon types, what and how you dual wield, it makes every character unique and makes them feel like your own. Also, the leveling system is simplified, not streamlined, but it's made complex enough to feel like you're totally customizing your specific character, but easy enough to navigate that it doesn't become a chore. The world just sucks you in. Oblivion never interested me in anything it did. Everything in Skyrim intrigues me. Makes me want more and makes me want to keep playing and progressing.There's not as much irritating grind as there is in Oblivion and you actually feel significant. Almost everything about the game is a vast improvement over its predecessor and it makes you feel like an entity in this huge, beautiful and plain fun world, an individual that holds personality and significance. Something oblivion failed horribly in in every aspect.

 

[Muspelheim]

I adored Oblivion back in the day. It could be because it was the first RPG (Or whatever you'd want to call it) I could get into and enjoy. But when compared to Skyrim... I doubt I'd ever want to play it again, despite Shivering Isles being the best add-on ever. Skyrim just feel so much... Better, smoother, more sense-making. And the art-direction at least goes somewhat above "Vaguely Byzantine fantasy". I wouldn't say I hate Oblivion, but I can't say I'd recommend it.

But then again, I was unexpectidly and happily surprised by Fallout 3, so Skyrim is by far not the only nail in Oblivion's coffin. Still, as lackluster as it was, Oblivion is, in my mind, still better than Morrowind. At least we're going in the right direction, here. Furthermore, it could also be me getting some higher (depending on who you ask, of course) standards, as well as every new Bethesda-RPG feeling more and more tailor-made for me.

Perhaps I'll feel the same way about Skyrim that I do with Oblivion one day... Although I certainly hope not, that won't be a pretty break-up.

 

[hagar2]

i absolutly love Oblivion but Skyrim is....eeeh. the only real problem i have with Skyrim is that it didn't inherit Oblivions interface menu. it was so much easier to manage... other than that its a good game

 

[pilouuuu]

I do! I hated Oblivion which was utter rubbish, with it stupid dialogue system, five actors for all NPCs, beyond stupid levelling system.

Skyrim is enjoyable, with nicer graphics, better looking characters, slightly better animations, awesome and less repetitive dungeons, etc.
It still has bugs, scarce dialogue options, limited role-play, undistinguishable characters and some annoying stuff, but even so it is a great game.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Nope. Loved Oblivion. Just love Skyrim more

 

[Helscreama]

I didn't hate it but I was bored with it very quickly. Skyrim however is amazing!