The game is just so perfect in so many ways. I agree, the best game i played this gen

i really couldn't stand playing it. i started it 2 or 3 times, but i never could stick with it longer than a couple of hours.
i just didn't have any fun playing in the bland world. don't know why, but for me it has to be one of the worst rpgs ever.

this gen i enjoyed Dragon Age, The Witcher or even Risen far more.
not really a fan of the sci-fi rpgs.

If Mass Effect hadn't come around, I would completely agree. There is nothing like Oblivion available on current-gen consoles, it's in a league of it's own (I can say this because Mass Effect is Sci-Fi and Oblivion is Fantasy )

Well second best, i think Fallout 3 is better, it's because i love guns.

never played it

Can't think of much Oblivion did that wasn't done before.

Morrowind was more focused (smaller game area with just as many points of interest basically) had a more interesting game world (almost everything in Oblivion seemed either to be a generic hell or a generic ruin, Morrowind had quite a nice variation of places/dungeons) had more interesting characters (hermaphroditic warrior poet false god =D much better than long lost emperors heir) and a better plot (which I'm not going to spoil).

All in my opinion of course.

I agree with you (if this is even your opinion).

I must have put over 300 hours into the Xbox 360 version a few years ago and recently just ordered the PC version on Amazon because I bought a gaming laptop capable of playing it on max.

Just short in second place is Fallout 3, followed by Mass Effect 2, Fable II and Mass Effect.

I love my huge worlds to explore and endless quests. Unfortunately RPG's are becoming more and more linear (besides Bethesda Rpgs)

They live on in our hearts and souls.

R.I.P. Black Isle

Despite thinking that Oblivion is a fantastic game, it is in no way better than:

Mount & Blade: Warband (one of the few WRPGs with multiplayer)

Dragon Age: Origins

Dragon Age: Awakening

Fallout 3

Mass Effect

Mass Effect 2

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl (It counts as an RPG)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky (Still counts)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat (Still counts)

Does Neverwinter Nights 2 counts as current gen?

It's sad too, as Morrowind is my favorite game of all time (Tied with Half-Life 2 and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time).

I compeletely agree. i have not played many RPG's but this game is awesome. I started playing like 1 or 2 months ago, maybe i have put 50 hours in it so far and it's outstanding. First, I was doing the main quest but i found it boring so I decided to do the guilds quests and it is really good. There is really a lot of things to do, and this is what make the game so great. At the begining, I stopped playing because I lost my first character. I was in the plane of Oblivion and tried to swim through lava to reach an island. I died, so I tried again and I used my only healing potion. Then, I saved. I couldn't go back and was stuck there.

Oh oh, here I come. I have a different opinion from the guy who wrote the article.

I tried to play Oblivion, I seriously did... but I don't see the appeal from this game at all. The world is so dull, but the real thing I hate is how everything is just so shiny because of the Unreal Engine. The characters are very ugly too, I mean all of them, and the same voice actors voicing every single NPC in the game breaks immersion. I'm always like "Wait, I talked to that guy befo... oh wait, no, it's just the same voice actor again!" I guess the music is OK... very Bethesda and fantasy like though.

Also, how long is the main quest? 5-6 hours if you set the battle difficulty to medium (if I recall correctly). Then... what's next? You do sidequests just to get pieces of armor and weapons that you won't even be able to use in Elder Scrolls V anyways? What can you do with overpowered equipment if you can't even show them off online or something. I mean, what's the point?

I must say I'm not a fan of fantasy and the medieval time that much in the first place, but I must also say that I had no trouble playing Dragon Age: Origins. I seriously wonder why. o_O

With that said, an Elder Scrolls online could be great and there would actually be a reason to play the game. Also, I would be willing to try the game again, but on PC this time around. There must be a way to turn off the shiny-ness in the .ini files and mods could probably change the character models and some of the environments.