Poll: How Many Escapists Who Are Excited for Skyrim Actually Played Oblivion?

[Flailing Escapist]

I'll admit that I wasn't excited for Oblivion to come out mostly because I didn't know what the fuck an Oblivion was. But around Christmas time in 2006 one of my friends recommended it so highly that I had to check it out... And it was one of the best gaming experiences I ever had! And I did eeeeeeverything from crawling through Sundercliff to searching nearby ruins for yarn, lettuce and a lesser soul gem to getting glitched for Clavicus Vile. I still consider The Shivering Isles to be the best piece of dlc to ever be released if not the best part of any video game ever. The best selling point Oblivion has for it is that after 5 years I am still playing it; it's fantastic.

Of all my friends who play games only 1 of them has enjoyed the Oblivion experience like I have. A couple of them have played it for a few hours or watched it played but thats not Oblivion. Yet each and everyone one of them are as excited as I am for Skyrim and as much as I want them to play Skryim (and thus be happy) I'm a little turned off because, "they didn't play Oblivion. What the hell?"

Does anybody else feel like this? As much as Oblivion was played and enjoyed I kinda find it a little hard to believe that all the people (it seems) that are excited for Skyrim actually played Oblivion also.

And that bugs me a little (in the most pleasant of ways).

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I'd imagine most Escapists who are psyched for a new Beth game have played Oblivion, Morrowind or both.

I understand why people who didn't like Oblivion would be hyped for Skyrim... it looks prettier, has dragons and the combat seems greatly improved.

 

[Liberaliter]

It shouldn't bug you, people are anticipated for a game regardless of whether they played the previous entries in the series.

I have played all entries in TES, so yeah... I am excited for Skyrim.

 

[Techsmart07]

I played morrowind and oblivion. I greatly enjoyed both and am looking forward to skyrim. I'd be looking more forward to a return to morrowind, but this looks like its gonna be fun.

 

[Rawne1980]

Played Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion. Only one I didn't play was Arena.

Played all of them to death and then played them some more.

 

[synulia]

I'm NOT excited for Skyrim because I played Oblivion. What a truly awful awful game.

 

[Brandon Logan]

I'm more of a fallout guy to be honest. I like the elder scrolls games to a point but the fantasy thing just seems over done in my opinion. I'd rather play dnd.

Not to say if I have some spare disposable income I won't be picking up....but to answer your question yes i played oblivion.

 

[MassiveGeek]

I'm NOT excited for Skyrim because I played Oblivion. What a truly awful awful game.

This.
I love Fallout 3 to death though, and I like fantasy, so I'm hoping Skyrim will be more or less like FO3 but in a fantasy setting. -Shrug-

 

[Blunderboy]

I've spent hundreds of hours exploring Vvardenfell, and a little less time in Cyrodiil.

 

[evenest]

I'm still working my way through Morrowind and enjoying the heck out of it. I haven't started Oblivion yet, so while I am interested in Skyrim, I've got a while until I'll be ready to play it. I am more likely to wait until the game of the year comes out so that it'll have all the patches and expansion packs in it.

 

[NLS]

Wheres the option "Played Arena, Daggerfall or Morrowind"?

 

[Eleima]

I have played all entries in TES, so yeah... I am excited for Skyrim.

Glad to see I'm not the only geezer, *cough*, I mean Elder Scrolls veteran, on the Escapist.
Yeah, I've been playing the Elder Scrolls since day one, so heck yeah, I'm excited about Skyrim!
Currently taking a stroll on Vvardenfell to keep myself occupied until Skyrim arrives.

 

[Bishop99999999]

I played the hell out of Oblivion, and yet when I tried to start up another play through for Skyrim's sake, I just couldn't get into it. Funny that.

 

[Irridium]

I'm NOT excited for Skyrim because I played Oblivion. What a truly awful awful game.

Same here. Well, less because it was an awful game and more because it was a horribly buggy, unstable mess.

But hey, I'm an Obsidian fanboy, I can take bugs. but unlike Obsidian, Bethesda has no decent story to fall back on. The story for the game and most of the quests were just crap. The saving grace was the Dark Brotherhood questline, which was awesome. But that's it. Almost everything else was forgettable and poorly written. NPC's were forgettable, enviornments were repetitive, going through ruins/dungeons got real old after a couple of times, Oblivion gates were just boring slogs(I eventually just tlc'd through them), there was a criminally short amount of voice actors(those who were decent/unique get killed off), and it just wreaks of a boring, generic fantasy setting.

I mean yeah, Bethesda is saying that they're fixing all or most of that, but I'm not jumping on. I'll be waiting a month or so after release before I buy. And to see if the game is actually optimized and its system requirements aren't a damn, dirty lie like Oblivion's.

Wheres the option "Played Arena, Daggerfall or Morrowind"?

Oh yeah, also this.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Morrowind could use a bit of a revisit, but I'm pretty glad we're seeing Skyrim. This is Tamriel at its grittiest, dirtiest, down-to-earthiest, and I like it. As much as I thoroughly enjoyed Oblivion, it felt a lot like a standard Fantasy RPG, what with its Emperors being assassinated, quaint little towns and grandiose cities, every square inch of Cyrodiil looking like the Eastern Townships in Quebec or the English countryside, etc.

This, on the other hand, feels extremely diverse. I'm looking forward to the blinding snowfalls as much as I am to skulking along autumn leaves with a bow in hand, waiting for the right moment to killerate a poor, hapless stag. Yes.

I've tried getting into Morrowind and its expansions, but it isn't so much the graphical barrier that stopped me as the controls. Clicking doesn't swing my sword, the interface feels clunky compared to Oblivion's, the navigation system could definitely use some work, etc.

Still, even though I haven't played much more than Oblivion, I got sucked in so completely that I ended up not only reading every book I found, but also perusing as much of the Elder Scrolls wiki as I could. I basically caught up on the series without playing Arena or Daggerfall, both of which I'm not even sure would run on Windows 7 if I don't use DOSBox.

OP, I'm pretty sure most of us have played one or two previous games in the Elder Scrolls series. And so what if we hadn't? Each game is wonderfully self-contained and provides enough clues about the surrounding world for the whole package to feel cohesive. My first playthrough for Oblivion was done in blessed ignorance of the world outside Cyrodiil, and I still enjoyed the crap out of it. I went back, got a handful of DLC and mods, and my already high appreciation skyrocketed.

So honestly, don't be bugged if people play Skyrim while not having played Oblivion or Morrowind or somesuch. Don't think of it as something that needs correction so much as potential. For everything the uninitiated player doesn't know, there's a potential hour or two spent researching online awaiting. And that's just as fun as playing the game.

 

[cefm]

I'm NOT excited for Skyrim because I played Oblivion. What a truly awful awful game.

There was the potential for a good game somewhere in that mess of Oblivion, but damn it was hard to get it out. The visuals were great (more-so even when it came out) and there was a TON of content that truly boggled the mind. However the leveling system was a disaster, combat was bad, and leveling up enemies was annoying in the extreme (bandits are bandits - if they had top-end gear that is worth more than a small kingdom they wouldn't be hanging out in the wilderness robbing travelers!!).

So I'd say that playing Oblivion may or may not make someone excited for Skyrim. The folks who loved it will be jazzed up for more, the folks who didn't like it but loved Morrowind will hope for a return to greatness, and the folks who never played it won't have their expectations of Skyrim altered.

 

[DanielBrown]

Yes, and I played Morrowind before Oblivion, like I assume the majority here did.
Great fun!

 

[Caimekaze]

I did, and spent way too much time on it.

Which is why I am so ridiculously excited for Skyrim.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I haven't. I only got a 360 around 2007/2008 and by the time I discovered Oblivion (a friend recommended it) I found the graphics too old and it put me off. Silly..I know, but it really affects the enjoyment of the game when everything is being upgraded and you get used to it. I find it hard to believe Fallout 3 is only two years younger than Oblivion because it feels like more. I actually own a copy though so I might give it a go.

Gaming noob here o/

 

[CommanderL]

I did, and spent way too much time on it.

Which is why I am so ridiculously excited for Skyrim.

i am in this catacory i got a few of my friends into oblivion and they called me for tips all the time said thing is they had logged way more time in the game then i did my disc broke havnt been able to replace it