Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25563616-20141022060550/@comment-24755309-20150219043829

For me Oblivion was a much better experience and I prefer it to Skyrim, especially now that the disk is pretty much in...oblivion. The game has a lot more emotional siognificance, especially since I played the game in my younger days and did not really understand much of the lore. Instead, I made my own lore. I took stuff from the testing hall and roleplayed at just about every waking moment. Also:

A) The weapon degradation, which was not present in Skyrim, made the game much more realistic than the axe that survived for over a thousand years.

B) The fact that if you got in trouble for stealing a random vegetable, you couldn't just go to another city and not go back unless you have to. In Oblivion, all of Cyrodiil is on the lookout for you, and escaping prison is much harder, with no easy sneaky escape routes from your cell. And if you want to live on the run, you have to live in the woods and kill any guards that come your way.

C) The questlines were much better and had more depth than the Skyrim questlines, especially the Kvatch ruins and the hopeless priest that escaped, and the epic battles of Bruma and the Imperial City. The ending was much more satisfying as well.

All of this among other things. Oblivion will always be much better than Skyrim. Sorry I have made a pretty cruddy post that you have had to read, but this is my personal opinion.