User blog comment:Draevan13/Thoughts on TES IV: Oblivion./@comment-5558140-20130308000535

whether or not someone finds the setting to be generic is purely subjective. i myself found it refreshing from the rellentless dark khaki backrounds of morrowind. someone who had played something similar may have found it bland, or just not what they had expected. the storylines of all 3 had a recurring theme-imminent destruction. each game went about these stories in a different and unique way. of the 3, i suppose oblivions character could have been considered the "generic" part simply because he/she was not some prophisized hero like the neravarine or the dragonborn, he was just some guy/girl. morrowind i suppose left high standards because before morrowind we had nothing truely comprable to it. afterwards, the transition was less dramatic. we had morrowind to compare oblivion to, and oblivion to compare skyrim to. but in the end it all just really depends on the player.