User blog comment:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's? S2E8: No Hardcore Mode./@comment-6092594-20130930230623

I'm in no means a hardcore gamer, but Skyrim seemed kinda easy overall. Oblivion was the first game I played and it was hard. You had to maintain your weapons and armor from breaking. Some of the quests were harder. Like the guild quests for instance. To be honest I'm still working through the thieves guild and darkbrotherhood in oblivion (partly due to not having much time to game). And in Skyrim I'm already done with both of them.

It was also much harder to get gold in oblivion. And whatever gold you did have you needed to spend it wisely. In skyrim you have a lot of it. Using magic in oblivion was better. That way you could fight with weapons and a spell. And Oblivion had a much richer landscape. The towns and cities were all distinctively different from each other. I also liked the Arena questline Oblivion had in it. And I would've liked Skyrim to have something like that.