YES.

And I'm waiting to see how many will join in the boredom after they've several playthroughs. I have three and almost but not quite 500 hours in. (486 or so)

I predicted many weeks ago now that those loving Skyrim in the present may change their minds after playing more.


The loss of character building attributes and other features has left an action adventure game more than an RPG.

I think a lot of the people who'd have answered YES to the OP post are gone from the forum. The people left love Skyrim.

So it's more in-depth than Oblivion is what you're saying? Damn, it must be a real academy award winner then.

Yes, but I am suddenly a lot more interested due to that Jam video.

I disagree I played the game for about 300 hours and did not really feel any real enjoyment.I was of the mind set there must be something good coming up or surely it will improve but at no stage did it most of the time I was walking around trying to find something interesting.I got more hours out of Dragon Age origins, the Witcher games,Baldurs gate,Mass Effect,any total war game,Diablo games, I have even logged more hours playing last stand matches in Dawn of war Retribution.

I didn't see the word depth in his statement at all, and thought the MQ in Skyrim was much more enjoyable than closing the gates of Oblivion.

You go to Oblivion in... Oblivion.

You go to in Skyrim.

Skyrim's MQ just seemed a little more epic to me, and a few others it seems.

Dude it depends on how you play it. The fun of Oblivion is roleplaying different characters and trying different things. I have over 1,000 hours into vanilla Oblivion on the PS3 and have still not started the main quest or gotten very far into KOTN or Shivering Isles or DB or Fighter's guild.

How did I do that? Well, I have started at least 30 different characters of different class/race/birthsign combinations and roleplayed them with different styles of play. Minimum level I got to with any of the characters was about level 9, and maximum was level 52. Some of them are total roleplays where I do not keep track of points or do any exploits. Some are extremely gimped, like my thief who always runs from fights. Some of them are efficiently leveled with the felldew glitch so most of their attributed are well over a hundred. Once I do the last Daedra quest, I will have a character with a natural intelligence of 125 and a natural mana of 500 (Altmer with Atronach birthsign).

Then there is spell crafting, and all the time I spend working on new spells for my various mage characters, each of which has their own specialization. You can spend hours and hours just spellcrafting in Oblivion, getting your chain spells to work for instance-- even the guys on the UESP say those chain spells don’t work, but they do if you know how.

My latest character is going to get the Grey Aegis shield from the Arena questline, so he will have 100% magic resistance. That is not supposed to be possible (cause you cannot loot Arena combatants), but it is possible to do so (with the skull of corruption and staff of worms) if you know how to use them and have some patience. I already have a character with the necromancer's amulet, which is not suppose to be possible on a PS3, but it is if you have the skull of corruption and know how to use it. You can also make permanent clones of yourself.

I have played a variety of characters in Oblivion, sneak archers, sneak thieves, Orc warriors, Redguard knights, Dunmer vampires, but the mages are the most fun because you can exploit the heck out of the magic system to render your mage a god even at master difficulty, and you can roleplay while you are doing it.

Don't tell me that no one could put 1,000 hours into vanilla Oblivion cause it all depends on how you play the game and what you find fun. I find all that stuff way more fun than the latest Bioware game. Each to his own, and certainly that style of play is not for everyone, but you are just plain wrong when you say that “no one can play vanilla Oblivion for 1,000 hours.” It may be “hideous and terrible” to you but not to everyone.

I have played vanilla Oblivion for much more than 1000 hours. Content is not the sole measure of a great RPG; the character build matters as much. And both Oblivion and Morrowind have more choices and process in their character builds than does Skyrim. Adding castles to Skyrim will only prolong the game as long as it takes to explore the castle.

The depth of the main quest in Morrowind was if you read all the books. The end battle was like something from a Japanese gag manga. A guy who looked like a cartoon bear fell off a walkway and jumped around in the lava.

Here let me help.

No. Oblivion bored me far quicker, but I went back to Oblivion more frequently, even in the early weeks after I ditched it.

There's only one thing I find truly disappointing, it's how the current faction quests have clearly deteriorated compared to Oblivion in both scope of content and quality, and clearly in scope compared to Morrowind. These faction quests have always been, for me, the most enjoyable storydriven aspect of an ES game.

lulz... pwnt

Yeah. I once banged my head repeatedly against a wall for three straight days. Though it hurt each time I did it, I was certain something good was coming up and the next time I did it I would feel warm and fuzzy inside. So yeah, I know where you are coming from, bro.

Absolutely.

Yeah...I'm not sure why.

I like it better than oblivion, but I don't think I've even sunk 100 hours in this one. I feel like I completed the game, and I've never felt that with a TES game.

Dark Brotherhood was more fun in Oblivion.

As was the Mage's Guild.

And the Thieves' Guild.

Nope all 3 are great and skyrim just keeps getting better

Not really. After playing Oblivion and Morrowind for one to two hundred hours within the span of 3-4 months I got tired of both of those games and had to take a break like I've done with Skyrim.

I have become SLIGHTLY bored, such a strange game, I feel the need to take Skyrim out after only an hour or two and whack Morrowind in, but then after a few hours I miss Skyrim again.... :/

Quicker no. It took around the same amount of time for me to to everything in OB, as it did Skyrim (200hours). I just completed those 200 hours in 2.5 months.

Except we didn't get our moneys worth. I got over a 1000 hours out of both Morrowind and Oblivion before mods became necessary to keep me playing the game. I've played a grand total of 175 hours in Skyrim and I'm basically at the point where I'm desperate for mods to keep me playing. Thats not right at all.

I only played Oblivion for about 3 weeks before I had enough of it. It was such a major let down that I couldn't bring myself to play it.

Skyrim lasted almost 3 months so no... Skyrim was far better than Oblivion. However, it still pales compared to the amount of time I had played Morrowind and Daggerfall.

THIS!

175 hours out of a $60 game make the price of entertainment approximately 34 cents an hour. That's not getting your moneys worth? There are really that many alternative uses for your money that would have gotten you a better bang for the buck?

KInda my feelings.

Morrowind is still king.
Oblivion was good and strange at the same time.
Skyrim is good and to my surprise uses actual Morrowind music which raises my liking of it by a small amount.

Morrowind > Skyrim > Oblivion

All I have to say for gameplay, Morrowind, fond memories. Oblivion, was ok. Skyrim, so far, I'm hooked. Some are saying that it can be boring or tedious. I still play morrowind as well, and I also play freelancer, diablo 2, baulders gate, nwn, ect ect. Yes games do have a end, and yes they can get kind of boring at parts, yet there's a reason why they have a re-playability, due to depth of story, orginiality, the overall ability to be able to loose yourself into the game because it's so capativating. The problem that I think many people have these days is that they are used to the whole run and gun, pedal to the metal rotune of the games(CoD, MW2 and 3, nfs) that once they are given game that has a slight change of pace, gameplay or style, they are not too sure how to handle it or play it. Yes, skyrim is not perfect, nor is any of the fore mentioned games I've listed. But they all have their positives, and negatives. Maybe it's just because I'm a old school gamer, idk, idc.