User blog comment:Draevan13/The streamlining of the Elder Scrolls series, and some Skyrim flaws./@comment-1600847-20121114020756/@comment-30303790-20121116022442

Draevan you commented:


 * "That must be why it won so many awards and sold so well, because it was so boring... sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but I like Oblivion."

Joker's then followed with:


 * "And MW3 broke world records in terms of sales. That must have been so amazing, and the Best Shooter Awards it won must certainly mean something.

Just saying, sales/awards are not very valid points."

While I don't mean to put words in anyone's mouths, Joker sounds much more like he's sarcastically refuting your sales justification as a measure of Oblivions success. It was a way to parallel CoD's awards and lack-luster story with that of (in his opinion) Oblivion's.

The reasoning for the "Story is one of Bethesda's weakest points, actually." is not absent it comes in the previous post "Anything, existing or not, can be generic. Generic means plain, boring and unoriginal"

So please defend Oblivion without playing run around with CoD.