I played Oblivion on 1 Dec last. After a break I felt an urge to hop back on and played some last week. I already finished the main quest, so now I'm just running around doing side quests, mage's guild etc.

He's a Dark Elf, mage-y, but can smack with a blunt weapon.

Morrowind was last Sunday. I stream my PT on twitch, so play regularly each Sunday Viewers, from available poll options, chose a female Dark Elf, who joined the Telvanni.

Ah, Oblivion! Good times. Let's see.... June 22, this year, a High Elf nobleman who got himself in over his head. He fights with longswords, but his actual major skills are Athletics, Alteration, Destruction, Illusion, Mysticism, Restoration, and Acrobatics. Stuff for casting utility spells and running away very fast. (Optimal for leveling? No, but it's fun. Also, I made myself a tiny mod so that health is directly tied to Endurance and nothing else, which helps.) He survives into the time of Skyrim and becomes a hardened rogue/ranger by then.

In ESO, I play this very character as a Templar since he likes to use sun magic. Right now he is parked in a city, doing crafting writs and catching up on trait research.

June 4th... one of those games I randomly play obsessively and then stop for months haha. I play as an Imperial warrior, though his class is more of who he pretends to be rather than who he really is.

I've been doing this the past couple months, dailies in ESO (basically just endeavors) and then boot up Oblivion. Skyrim also feels meh to me in comparison, and although I still like it, Oblivion is my first choice.

I kinda ignore the time differences between the games because I want to play my same characters in each. I really only do sidequests and RP so it doesn't matter.

The character I'm playing now is an altmer woman who is my sorcerer tank and DD in ESO. She uses alteration, conjuration, restoration, destruction, block, blade, and blunt. Skills within each skill are limited to what suits her RP-wise, for example no undead summons, no ice destruction spells, etc. No other combat skills except alchemy and light illusion spells.

I'm intending on clearing every location, collecting collectibles like nirnroots and spell tomes, and doing every RP-appropriate quest with her, since when I was a kid I only cleared the same 5-10 places because I was afraid lol. I'm doing this on max difficulty as well since it makes combat engaging.

I'm about to go do the Hackdirt quest which freaks me out badly so pray for me

I've played through Oblivion multiple times over the years on Xbox 360.
Probs been 10 years since the last one.
Each time I did every quest inc. the DLC.
Think I was always a KittyBlade.

When I last played oblivion, I super enjoyed it because I added three mods,
(1) OOO which I believe is named Obscuros Oblivion Overall,
(2) MMM which I believe is named Mortigans Monster Mod, and
(3) some mod (do not remember the name) which starts one off in a random location, so you can enjoy role playing as a new character (instead of a save the world over powered super hero) more often, including death.

Been a few years for me. I have some other games I pick up as an alt. Right now just doing dailies, endeavors, then log off. I've not done all the content. Stopped around The Reach and didn't finish the main. Played with someone through mains and just stopped. I have a lot of catching up but waiting for stability on platforms I play on and a better combat experience.

To minimize the hassle with attribute maxing, get a mod that gives +5 to an attribute every time at levelup when even a skill governed by the attribute is raised by a single point (if you play on PC). That makes the experience smoother.

On topic, I played Oblivion in July and Skyrim in June. It was nice for a change, but those games couldn't hold me for long. Sadly, I've just played so much of both during the years that I get bored with them pretty fast. Incredible games, both, but there's a point where one moves on, it seems.

In Oblivion this time I made a Breton woman custom class that was a sneaking spellsword- type. Quite fun to play, that. In Skyrim I played an ex-vampire Breton female magical archer and made some other characters to test new builds (but couldn't bother far with them).

Maybe I should try playing the Morrowind main quest again with the game modded graphics-wise up to eleven - and, of course, with movement speed and +5 leveling mods. Morrowind's writing is the deepest in the series, and the mechanics of the game such as alchemy and spellcrafting make some awesomely broken things possible. Or maybe some roaming around in Daggerfall. I'm by no means bored with ESO, but sometimes it's nice to play something else to keep things fresh.

This one played as a khajit, Redguard or Breton in Skyrim, and as a khajit and Breton in Oblivion.

Reading all these posts is making Sammy nostalgic for paintbrush staircases and persuasion wheels. That, and an excellent storyline where “the end is nigh” was done well.

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

What is it about Oblivion that people like better than Skyrim?
(no judgement in the question, just honest curiosity.)

I have both Morrowind and Oblivion downloaded, but I haven't tried either one yet.
(I've been aware of TES since Daggerfall was in development, but ESO was the first TES game I tried, then Skyrim.)

The leveling system (as someone mentioned a few posts above), and the difficulty setting.

A family member played it for a while and I looked over their shoulder occasionally and I could identify exactly where they were geographically. A sign of too many hours in a game.

Same deal, mostly logging in just for endeavours and going back to single player tes games for healthier gaming experience. Last Oblivion one was like a week ago, was my favourite game for years but currently Morrowind helds more interest mechanically. Though atmosphere wise Oblivion is unbeatable.

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

What is it about Oblivion that people like better than Skyrim?
(no judgement in the question, just honest curiosity.)

I have both Morrowind and Oblivion downloaded, but I haven't tried either one yet.
(I've been aware of TES since Daggerfall was in development, but ESO was the first TES game I tried, then Skyrim.)

For me it's many of the same reasons I enjoy ESO.

Oblivion has this charm. It has a vibrant world design and fun voice acting, interesting and funny NPCs, wilderness that feels vast and refreshing to run around in, and so many quests that are witty, great at showcasing the characters, and satisfying to complete. I feel that ESO is quite like this, just with the endearing cheesiness turned down several notches.

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

What is it about Oblivion that people like better than Skyrim?
(no judgement in the question, just honest curiosity.)

I have both Morrowind and Oblivion downloaded, but I haven't tried either one yet.
(I've been aware of TES since Daggerfall was in development, but ESO was the first TES game I tried, then Skyrim.)

It's original and has a lot of variety. Eg the dark brotherhood, the very, very different side quests (painting with trolls come to mind), the visual style is also more interesting than Skyrim's endless grey plus snow, every quest does not take place in a dungeon that looks almost exactly the same as the last one, and you're not endlessly trapped in the same, generically "gritty" emotional mood. But overall, it just plain better written and you're not expected to spend your time sympathising with violent, drunk racists who have nothing interesting to say. Skyrim feels like it was written for teenage boys who want to hit things and fantasise about being gods, with very poor attention paid to storytelling (the mages guild quest line fizzles out into "well that was weirdly pointless", the Dark Brotherhood quest feels like a low effort "well we need to put that in the game" waste of time, etc). It feels cookie cutter. Oblivion doesn't.

(The bits where you actually go to Oblivion are terrible, mind you...)

Northwold wrote: »

(The bits where you actually go to Oblivion are terrible, mind you...)

The first mod I install in both Oblivion and Skyrim is an "alt start" one. After all these years in these games, I'm totally uninterested in the main quests of either one any more, and that includes messing with the icky "going to Oblivion" parts!