@Shibbleton I didnt read the post your referring to, but I clicked on this post to know what it was like. Skyrim was my first TES game, I was in middle school at the time. I loved Skyrim. I didnt start playing oblivion until whenever I bought this copy on steam. I love Oblivion way more. Aside from the memeable aspects, which add comedy relief, the quests are so much better, both in story telling and design. Skyrim's magic system was atrocious, but this one's was fantastic. All the skills that affect the tiniest aspects which you could use potions, custom spells and enchanted items to make insane, like acrobatics or athletics. They took out the hand to hand skill too! -----

Tl:DR: My own experience proves that Oblivion's superiority isn't just an effect of nostalgia.

i personally say oblivion is better than skyrim but yeah skyrim is still a good game and its one of my favorite games

@Michael4C don't shit on Skyrim. every recent Elder Scrolls game, Morrowind, oblivion, skyrim, all are amazing games and we all had our favourites as kids.
however, all three are janky as fuck and have pretty severe flaws, but they're still amazing games. just because you have nostalgia of oblivion doesn't mean it was better than the other games. I have played around 50 hours of oblivion, its good, but its dated, and my kids will be saying the same about skyrim.
oblivion is still really good though, its fun and has cool little quirks that unfortunately aren't in skyrim, but that doesn't make skyrim inferior.

Skyrim is only inferior because Nazeem and Delphine exist.

There were mods on the Nexus. They were so cool to what my game could become. I didn't know anything about anything about computers except how to turn it on and some DOS stuff. I was going to make those mods work. I was a teacher so I spent a whole summer vacation learning to mod and use OBMM, Wrye Bash, BOSS, etc. I played with my world and over about a year, I have what I think is the perfect fantasy world. Also learned about some performance files and mods along the way. And so now I have the PERFECT finicky fantasy world to live in. I say finicky because it is still modded oblivion, sometimes I can play 2 hours straight with no problems and sometimes it is 30 minutes before a crash. But I have an autosave manager that saves before any loading screen, after combat and about every 10 minutes in between. BUT the BEST thing is my collection of EPIC Music I put in the game. Some of the best of TSFH, Hans Zimmer Audio Machine..etc.

y is jump rebind e jump to space. life is good again

Bang on!

love this game but E to jump is an uninstallable offense

i remember getting this game and reading the manual on the way home and when i finally installed in on the crappy window vista computer we had in the family room and playing non stop.

I remember the first time I played this, it was on a crappy dell laptop on the lowest setting with no mouse. Good times.

This game got me through some rough times in my life. Thanks, OP, for reminding me why I love Oblivion so much to this day