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Alphachris on 17 November 2011
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It is happening again... Everyone is praising skyrim as the game of the year. Somehow I am getting interested again.

But I already fell for the Goty Edition of Oblivion. RPGs have always been my favourite Genre, although only few of them were released in Europe. During the RPG drought in the early years of the PS3 I saw the reviews and the praise for Oblivion I decided to try it out. I bought it togehter with Dragon Age.... and I was soo disappointed with both of them. If you are used to JRPGS it is very, very hard to appreciate WRPGS.

After over 20 hours of gameplay i gave it up. The game got boring after 30 minutes and over 19 hours of boredom were too much to handle. I did not have the feeling that Oblivion would get any better.

I simply prefer enjoying a great story and interesting characters in a RPG. Oblivion has a silent character and I felt pretty lonely the whole time. The main story was very disappointing to me and I did not get the impression that there was a connection between the main story and the world.

The whole "explore a huge world" turned out to walk through randomly generated dungeons for random loot. The sidequests seemed to be unimportant... The guild quests also didn't feel very interesting. The leveling system was also bad in my opinion. All in all I did not like a single bit of Oblivion and it turned out to be the worst RPG for me.

I must admit that it was my very first WRPG and I had pretty high expectations due to the high reviews and the general praise... but in fact Oblivion was almost the complete opposite of what I like about RPGS.

Don't get me wrong. In its own Genre Oblivion certainly is a true masterpiece. But this genre just isn't suited for everybody. Maybe the Oblivion fans feel similar when they play Final Fantasy XIII.

Skyrim surely has its own merits... but I think that if I buy it I will be heavily disappointed again...