User blog comment:The Joker~/Is The Elder Scrolls series overrated?/@comment-4057437-20120916064740/@comment-669073-20120917033623

Oblivion had 3ppl build every cave, ruin, fort and underground thing. Skyrim had like 30. so ya there was a lot more short-cutting, copying and such in Oblivion. So ya Oblivion is a whole different thing from Skyrim, Skyrim developed in about 3 years by about 100 people, Oblivion was developed in about 3 years (release was pushed back due to issues with the Xbox) by about 30-40 people (half was making the expansions, DLCs & patchs for Morrowind, the other half was on Oblivion)