Skyrim. I do love Oblivion though.

I prefer Skyrim - no higwaymen in glass armor!

Mechanics and Story----oblivion
everything else-----Skyrim

Skyrim by a GREAT margin. Oblivion failed on practically every level. Skyrim also carries over some of those failings, but at least the world and the dungeons they created were top-notch IMO. The quests and such still feel hollow meaningless and extremely linear with no consequences to their outcomes. Exploring the world and each of the dungeons though has been a real blast this time.

Skyrim. Even Morrowind I liked much more than Oblivion.

Nope, not quite. I encountered one just yesterday. But I'll admit, the item leveling is not nearly as heavy-handed this time around.

God, these endless comparisons are becoming mind numbingly boring!

Skyrim. A more varied and interesting landscape, more worthwile exploration, better use of level scaling (though not perfect), and NPCs don't talk about mudcrabs all day.

Oblivion has better story, setting, and better quests, while all Skyrim has is better combat and better exploreing. To me Oblivion is better, because it has whats needed in a good RPG.

Skyrim, only because of the art-work... Not much else...

Oblivion, mostly for the quests, but also for the art...

Morrowind, for the art, odd quests, the enchant system, the magic system, the explore factor (you actually discovered things on your own.)...

What would I like from Oblivion, in Skyrim... Not much... The quests are irrelevant here.

I would rather have Morrowind and Oblivion running in the Skyrim modded engine, if it didn't have the horrible save-game file corruption and if they actually fixed the other two games first. But that is beyond thier ability, apparently. They are, after-all, mostly artists, with a programming background, and some story-telling ability.

I am a mixture of both. Clearly Skyrim is a big improvement on many of the aspects of Oblivion. I like the new combat style, magic style, and changes in skills and removal of attributes.

However, I personally prefer the province of Cyrodill to that of Skyrim. Cyrodill just seems more diverse, with lush green forests, snowy environments, murky swamps, and coastal regions. Sure, Skyrim has many of these, but they're all part of an overarching, snowy, northern feel (which, being Canadian, I grow tired of rapidly, another reason why I enjoy more temperate Cyrodill)

Fortunately, as some PC players have found, Bethesda built BOTH the Morrowind province AND Cyrodill province (geographic features of course; no cities or settlements with the exception of landmarks like White-Gold Tower) With the near arrival of the CK, we can expect Cyrodill and Morrowind provincial mods for Skyrim

Of course, I'm still patiently waiting for a Tamriel-wide elder scrolls game, kind of to the scale of Daggerfall, though probably not that large (would be monstrous to handle, and would likely not sell if released in near future, meaning it's likely several years away, maybe even a decade or more)

All-round Skyrim is much better than Oblivion. Why? Because Oblivion's setting was generic (and therefor for me) boring and its gameplay repetitive (due to the similar dungeons and computer generated outside environments, that was only added later on by hand).

With Skyrim it is clear they hand-made it from the grounds up. The rock formations and just amazing to look at. Each cave is different and really has its own personality. But there were a few things they did better in Oblivion:

- Quests (in general)
- Guild quests (in particular)
- Amount of guild quests (Skyrim's amount of guild quests is pathetic and really not worthy of an TES game)
- Gaining ranks with in the guilds.

Oblivion was already a step back on all of these fronts compared to Morrowind, but Skyrim is even worse. At least Oblivion had you gain ranks in the guild every 2-3 quests. Skyrim cant do that because each guild only has 7 or so quests... Morrowind of course did it even better as you could gain 10 ranks with one rank after 4-5 quests. There was just a lot more to the guilds in both Morrowind and Oblivion.

Skyrim. The main reason being immersiveness, imho Skyrim is much more immersive then Oblivion.

Specific gripes I have with both Skyrim and Oblivion aside, since most are (or will be) fixable with mods.

And above that: Morrowind.

After 85 hours, I have to admit Oblivion was more fun. Skyrim has more going on, but it is years behind other games of 2011. So much the other developers have figured out and done this generation is missing from Skyrim.

It is like a big bag of generic cereal. It cost pennies per bowl, but half way through the giant bag, you find that everything has gone stale and tasteless.

They are different games and I have enjoyed them both for different reasons.

I'm glad Skyrim is not the same as Oblivion or Morrowind as I've already played those and wanted something fresh and new.

i much prefer the Oblivion landscape & it's diversity compared to Skyrims, The forest outside Leyawiin was diverse & beautiful as are some of the Aylied ruins, However i feel that Skyrims landscape was designed that way to fit the theme & i cannot fault it for that, As much as i find it lacklustre in many respects.

As for the oft mentioned "generic & boring caves/ruins etc etc" in Oblivion i still notice this happening in Skyrim, Although to a lesser extent but it's still there & was never a problem for me in Oblivion..

I could go on & on regarding spell creation/birthsigns/racial traits but it's been mentioned very eloquently by the posters above, I adore both games & have room for both of them on my list of top 5 favourite glass half filled favourite games of all time.

Can't answer this question as Skyrim is my first TES game. However I have always been a huge fan of the games that straddle halfway between the RPG and action worlds with lots of atmosphere, rather than a hardcoe RPG player, so from what others have written I suspect even if I had played Oblivion I would still prefer the overal atmosphere and feeling I get from Skyrim.

Story-wise, probably Oblivion (including the many guilds in each town etc)
But Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild questlines were amazing. Main quest was meh, kind of predictable. Mages Guild - Oblivions! Fighters/Companion - Oblivions!
Although ya Skyrim has beautiful graphics

Both are disappointing in the fact when you become the head of everything, no one realises! They still treat you the same.

I know most people won't agree with this but I loved jumping in Oblivion. I wish there was at least some kind of option to jump high. Maybe a potion.

acrobatics was indeed pretty fun.

I have been acosted by a Thief in glass armor(just a random highwayman to be exact). Also many of them have those cool leather armor hoods that for some reason are the only unlootable thing on their body. Feels pretty cheap to me.

While I am sure the mods for Oblivion are awesome (and someday maybe I will get a PC and try them), I enjoyed vanilla Oblivion very much on both PS3 and Xbox, having logged well in excess of 500 hours (probably closer to 1,000) and played a dozen different character builds. Sure, I had complaints about Oblivion, but that is true of every Elder Scrolls game. There are things I don't like about Morrowind (dungeons do not respawn, for example), but it is still an awesome game, better than Oblivion and Skyrim in some ways.

Right now it is too soon to tell if I like Skyrim or Oblivion better. Since I have only logged about 150 hours in Skyrim, it is what I want to play right now moreso than Oblivion because there is so much more to discover in Skyrim and I have pretty much explored every square inch of Cyrodiil.

Ask me again in two years after I have spent as much time in Skyrim as I have in Oblivion (and after the DLC/patches for Skyrim are available) and maybe I will be able to answer the question.

To follow up on my last post and answer the OP, if I could choose one thing from Oblivion to carry over to Skyrim it would be the spellcrafting and additional spell effects from Oblivion (and Morrowind). I understand why they cannot allow levetation when the cities have walls (cause you could jump a wall and end up in never never land), but that doesn't explain why they took away spells like command and water walking from Oblivion and slow fall and mark/recall from Morrowind. I never use fast travel, ever, but a teleport spell would be like the ones available in Morrowind would be awesome.

Come to think of it, there is no good reason why we can't have a levitation spell like they had in Morrowind, the programmers could use an invisible wall boundary to keep people from levitating in and out of cities, like they use at the edge of the map. How cool would it be for a high level mage to levitate to the top of a mountain to battle the dragon up there!

There is a very long list of spell effects that have been eliminated from prior games, and with no spell crafting, it makes magic seem like a hollow shell of its former glory.

Skyrim.

Skyrim!

i loved oblivion as well but skyrim is better in my opinion, but i do wish they brought back acrobatics and athletics as a skill