User blog comment:Jimeee/Bethesda Games Studios: "Moving to our next adventure"/@comment-68.36.174.189-20130526140521/@comment-69.126.201.37-20130528043123

Not necessarily true. Between Oblivion and Skyrim, most of the things that would have effected overall outcomes were between activity and inactivity, rather than two equally active choices. Even if you never finished the Oblivion questline, there are references to Akatosh taking the form of a dragon to defeat Merunes Dagon. However, there is the active choice between Ulfric Stormcloak and the Empire, both of which require fighting for one side or the other (or taking the peaceful option and doing the quest to make them accept peace) rather than fighting or choosing not to do anything, such as the Spectral Assassin's references to the betrayal of Cheydenhal in Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood quesline.