I still haven't finished this game yet, but I was playing as a assassin/thief.

PC veterans tend to hate it. Console owners are divided on the game.

I was going to do Archer/Sneak for my next character. I did a straight warrior really for my first time through. I made it custom though, the class name was Awesomer. I Awesome game though, I love it.

altough first time in the sewers I was thinking WTF I can't see sh*t, but then I remembered the brightness wasn't all that. Man that made a hell of a difference

QFT. Level scaling ( both loot and enemies ) destroyed for me.

I borrowed a friends copy of Oblivion recently and just couldn't get into it.

Instead I spent most of my time crushing defenceless villagers with a huge hammer, having boxing bouts with wild bears and trying to find glitches.

I suggest you spend your next play through as I spent my first. It was throughly rewarding, and of course, very amusing.

I also liked the shivering Isles, i loved that crazy old guy^^

Lol I played Daggerfall, Morrowind and most of Oblivion as an archer/assassin.

The main difference is toward the end in Oblivion I started to shoot arrows from stealth and then finish my opponents with melee weapons and shield ( mainly because melee items with charges do the job pretty well too and I was trying to level STR/END).

I have actually never played a true caster or a pure melee in any of the Elder Scroll serie.

Archer is really easy once you learn to shoot and run back...

I can't say level scaling was really an issue as I found myself stopping using poisons toward the end of the game as the enemies were really a bit too easy ( I finished the main quest at level 15).

Oblivion. I spent more than 100 hours of my life with that game. The horror! I was addicted.

Play Morrowind if you haven't :P that's my suggestion.