Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28041236-20151118154902/@comment-94.189.239.172-20151125143338

-: Older engine, worse graphics, worse vanilla melee combat mechanics (the latter can be fixed with mods). Some consider the lockpicking mini-game difficult.

+: Much better archery mechanics than can be implemented in Skyrim even with heavily modding the game, much more enjoyable quests, longer guild quest lines, etc. Some consider the lockpicking mini-game more enjoyable than Skyrim's.

=: Some say Skyrim's magery is better, some say Oblivion's magery is better.

All in all, I'd love to play Oblivion even today, but unfortunately I had about 20 playthroughs of it with different configurations from vanilla to FCOM, exploring almost every inch of the game's world and probably completing every quest at least once, so it's nowhere near as fun for me now even with heavily modding the game as it was once before.