User blog comment:The Joker~/Is The Elder Scrolls series overrated?/@comment-4057437-20120916064740/@comment-4113369-20120918140801

I second that. Oblivion was probably the most forgetable of the bunch. I don't remember a single dungeon that felt unique whatsoever, possibly except the tutorial dungeon. The badly balanced auto-levelling of equipment and NPCs was utterly ridicuolous (marauders with daedric armor, anyone?), the guild quests (Dark Brotherhood excepted) were a joke, magic was simplified and felt more like a side-arm of sorts rather than an alternative to conventional weapons, and the setting's blandness was made even worse by the fact that it was retconned (Cyrodiil originally had more of a jungle climate).

It wasn't a bad game, and it did wonders for the franchise's reputation, but it was a disappointing entry in the series. I'm also pretty sure that Skyrim is Bethesda's least buggy launch title to date, although that doesn't really say much...