Poll: How Many Escapists Who Are Excited for Skyrim Actually Played Oblivion?

[Fourspaces]

Yeah, I played Oblivion. I thought it was a competent game, just with a few bad decisions made (voicing all dialogue with about 12 voice actors).
I'm excited for Skyrim not because I believe it'll be a revolutionary game, but because I believe it'll fix the problems Oblivion had while still keeping and expanding on what worked.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Yep; I have Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion all under my belt right now. Me and my friend are heading to the midnight release of Skyrim, actually!

It's the only game this year I've actually been excited for.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

I did play Oblivion but I'm not excited for Skyrim. In fact, I'm not even buying it. Bethesda can't design a game to save their own lives. The only reason I got so much enjoyment out of Oblivion was because I used mods.

 

[vivster]

i'm exited for skyrim just BECAUSE i played oblivion
i mean it cannot get possibly worse
and now that they are finally implementing features that gothic already had 10 years ago it must be good...

 

[someonehairy-ish]

My playtime for Oblivion is probably well over 300 hours now, so yeah you could say I've played it.
As for Morrowind I played it (and enjoyed it) when I borrowed it off a friend for a few weeks, but I never bothered just buying the game properly.

 

[topwomble]

I played Oblivion for a few hours, found it to be so boring but now I'm very anticipated for Skyrim don't know why

 

[Ruwrak]

I'll admit that I wasn't excited for Oblivion to come out mostly because I didn't know what the fuck an Oblivion was. But around Christmas time in 2006 one of my friends recommended it so highly that I had to check it out... And it was one of the best gaming experiences I ever had! And I did eeeeeeverything from crawling through Sundercliff to searching nearby ruins for yarn, lettuce and a lesser soul gem to getting glitched for Clavicus Vile. I still consider The Shivering Isles to be the best piece of dlc to ever be released if not the best part of any video game ever. The best selling point Oblivion has for it is that after 5 years I am still playing it; it's fantastic.

Of all my friends who play games only 1 of them has enjoyed the Oblivion experience like I have. A couple of them have played it for a few hours or watched it played but thats not Oblivion. Yet each and everyone one of them are as excited as I am for Skyrim and as much as I want them to play Skryim (and thus be happy) I'm a little turned off because, "they didn't play Oblivion. What the hell?"

Does anybody else feel like this? As much as Oblivion was played and enjoyed I kinda find it a little hard to believe that all the people (it seems) that are excited for Skyrim actually played Oblivion also.

And that bugs me a little (in the most pleasant of ways).

I completely destroyed Morrowind & Oblivion. In Morrowind I have soaked a good 3-400 hours, and in Oblivion 2-300 (including all the expansions on both games) So yeah. I think I can say "For Sithis and the Nightmother, Brother." And yes, the Shivering Isles returned the fantasy into Oblivion. I felt like Oblivion betrayed me with not beeing a fantasy, but a rather realistic medieval with an unicorn in it.

Skyrim however got me pumped again. I got full faith in Bethesda to deliver a masterpiece, one I hope to surpass the legendary 500 hour mark. Yes. You heard me. 500 hours

 

[LordXel]

I've played Oblivion and its a fine game but I'm not getting Skyrim, at least not yet because there are too many other games I want, and personally I'm more interested in buying Dark Souls, but hey I might buy Skyrim next year, its just that November is a damn expensive month.

 

[Eggsnham]

I played the shit out of Oblivion, and can't wait to play the shit out of Skyrim.

Goddamn, it looks so awesome.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Played Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion. Only one I didn't play was Arena.

Played all of them to death and then played them some more.

My answer as well.

I'd imagine most Escapists who are psyched for a new Beth game have played Oblivion, Morrowind or both.

I understand why people who didn't like Oblivion would be hyped for Skyrim... it looks prettier, has dragons and the combat seems greatly improved.

My friend HATED Obvilion but he still going to pick skyrim up.
For the simple fact he love mages.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I barely touched Morrowind and didn't touch Oblivion at all, yet I'm definitely picking Skyrim up on Friday. Skyrim looks to bring to me something that the previous two games didn't, that being a setting I actually care to spend a huge number of hours in. If you're essentially going to be a giant sandbox fantasy game then you need to draw the player in with a world they want to be part of. Skyrim totally looks to give me that, which is why it has my eye while previous entries in the series did not.

 

[TheScientificIssole]

Never played Elder Scrolls. I love Fallout 3 and NV though so I am going to get it.

 

[shasjas]

i played oblivion last week, but i found it was satisfying my urge to play RPGs, so i stopped, as i want the urge to be as strong as possible for when skyrim comes.

 

[Heroes and Cons]

Never played Elder Scrolls. I love Fallout 3 and NV though so I am going to get it.

This.

I don't expect it to be like Fallout 3 / NV much, but hopefully it is as engrossing as them so I can enjoy it for 100 hours or more. I've watched my bro play Oblivion and, to be honest, I thought it just plain sucked - it was boring and repetitive, so i decided never to play it. Skyrim, however, looks much more enjoyable.

 

[Icehearted]

Now, when you say play, is that in the "to completion" sense or the "I start nodding off every time I get as far as delivering the amulet, goof off, and uninstall" sense?

I'd be in the latter, in case it wasn't obvious enough.

 

[Ashendarei]

I'm NOT excited for Skyrim because I played Oblivion. What a truly awful awful game.

This.
I love Fallout 3 to death though, and I like fantasy, so I'm hoping Skyrim will be more or less like FO3 but in a fantasy setting. -Shrug-

This is my hope... I liked the open world of Oblivion, but hated it at the same time because unlike Fallout 3 they didn't provide you with much of a means to know where you were going next or to give you much of anything other then "here's an ENORMOUS landscape, go have fun" which is all well and good, but too open-ended for my taste.

Hopefully they'll take the interface from Fallout 3 and the bright shiny new world of Skyrim and merge them together

 

[Sarpedon]

I played Oblivion, and I'll do you one better. I played Morrowind before that.

 

[Lerasai]

I think playing Skyrim is the only way I'll be able to stop playing Oblivion.

 

[AugustFall]

I don't know where I stand with the Elder Scrolls series. For one I have never heard anyone say the story is good. To be aware of these games for this long and not have a single person tell me anything about the story, praise the story in any way or reference anything that has happened in the story seems kind of suspect. What is the overarching story behind this series of games? To be this popular and that not be obvious is weird.
However, that's fine. It's more of a sandbox game, it's exploration and the depth of the mechanics. However from what I've heard Oblivion removed a lot of this and I'd imagine Skyrim will to. It was developed for xBox, Morrowind was like 12gb or something, I dunno what wizardry they're planning on using to fit all "dem grafix" (it will be a beautiful game for sure) and the depth people want into it.

I dunno, I hope I'm wrong. I hope this is the game to get me into the series and it looks so damn pretty I hope it's a good game to go along with that.

To answer your question I never played Oblivion, I played a bit of Morrowind but was so completely lost from the start I didn't get far. I am excited at the prospect that Skyrim will be god's gift to gamers but tentative enough that I'll wait for a steam sale and all the info on whether or not it's good.