I recently picked this up as I have got major hype for Skyrim (hype is bad as I'm always disappointed).
Been playing as a heroic Nord and not levelling up, despite not getting access to later weapons staying at level one is awesome.
Trying to fly through the crappy main quest, I have gotten rid of dialogue subtitles and I find myself actually listening to characters rather than scanning through paragraphs hammering the skip button. Major flaw with that though is everyone sounds the same. It is awful.

I'm refraining from the dupe glitch or any glitches that futher my character economically. I'm a kleptomaniac so I have saved up enough money and bought the scummy shack in the Imperial City waterfront. Shocked to find I had to pay 744 gold to get any sort of storage, had to risk my life in the arena but now I have place to store my unique crap I have no use for but don't have the heart to sell.

I can't imagine I'm the only one replaying this game leading up to Skyrim so what are you up to?

YES!

Nope, not at all. I literally can't stand the combat in that game.

I already put in 1000 hours into Oblivion. I'm planning on playing through Morrowind!

"I already put in 1000 hours into Oblivion. I'm planning on playing through Morrowind! "

" I already put in 1000 hours into Oblivion. I'm planning on playing through Morrowind! "

I will probably start up a new game closer to skyrim's release!

I just bought the shvering isles. they add quite a few more voices in that DLC

Yep, been playing it off and on when I think of Skyrim and want to play it.

I actually started playing Oblivion again recently for other reasons, but the game still crashes on a regular basis, which suddenly made me all the more relieved that Skyrim no longer uses Gamebryo.

" @SlashseveN303 said:

" I already put in 1000 hours into Oblivion. I'm planning on playing through Morrowind! "

Not played Morrowind, I was considering buying it for my PC but it seems like such a step back from Oblivion in relation to ease of  game mechanics. I have heard it is better but a lot of people say these things through the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia. "

No, they are too similar. I don't wanna burn out on that style of game before Skyrim's release.

I tried man, I really did...It just felt so "old". I couldn't bring myself to hack my way through the rats and zombies of the starting dungeon again and manage that horrible inventory.

@PieGuy: I'll say this, what Oblivion added in pretty landscapes and easier game mechanics, it lost in freedom and depth of the world. Morrowind had a much more unique landscape and true consequences for actions (e.g. You can't become the leader of EVERY guild as some had rivalries). They're both awesome games, but as an experience I have to say I enjoyed Morrowind more. Perhaps the mechanics are tough to go back to now, but so is Oblivion to me. :P

I hope they fix being able to do everything in one playthrough in Skyrim.

Morrowind does sound good but I think I will find the old gameplay too much of a barrier now that I'm used to the nooby Oblivion layout. I hope they get rid of quest markers which tell you exactly where everyone and every item you need for a quest is, kind of takes away from the enjoyment. Atleast give the option to switch it off.

Not levelling is the most fun I have had on this game since I bought it with my PS3 on release. I had played it before on the PC at a friends, console commands rule! So jealous but my laptop would never be able to handle it, at least not in an enjoyable state. That Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul looks amazing and fixes most of the gameplay mechanic problems of the game, most notably levelling.

I've been playing it a bit lately, but whenever I boot it up, I realize that I've already done pretty much everything that's worth doing. I think going back to Morrowind makes more sense at this point.

I've been playing Oblivion off and on for about a month or two. I had put about 300 hours into it back in '06 and '07. I also have Morrowind, but I prefer Oblivion over it. Morrowind just bores me for some reason and I no longer want to play it. And if people think Oblivion's combat is bad, Morrowind's combat sucks ass.

Well from the sound of it there's so much that has changed on some of the mechanics of Skyrim that I think that personally I'll just keep playing Fallout New Vegas as Oblivion might look like Skyrim but better though having 3 stats will make the gameplay much different. Plus it doesn't sound like you can just jump around casting spells on yourself to boost certain skills.

I will be playing both Morrowind and Oblivion. This summer is going to be fun. :D

I'm sticking to wiki'ing the overarching Elder Scrolls plot since A. I don't want to go back to Morrowind/further B. Oblivion doesn't run well on my PC at all and 5. I have too big of a backlog right now to go play Oblivion on console.

Yep:)

I wanna go back and play through Morrowind again actually. Thinking about looking for a mod pack for Morrowind similar to what FCOM did to Oblivion. After playing through vanilla Oblivion a couple times, I was amazed at how mind-blowingly better it was after I installed FCOM. Hoping to find a similar experience for Morrowind.

Screw that! I'm playing through Redguard!

No, I can only go through so many duplicates of the exact same dungeon. I'm still looking forward to Skyrim though!

So i can play the 2 different styles of dungeon over and over again? no thanks. That game is the land above the dungeons. the actual game play isn't all that appealing to me anymore. The combat lacks "weight" or "meatyness" for lack of a better term. 

While I've already 100%'d the game and put many many hours into it, I did think about starting a new save recently leading up to Skyrim's release... But then I thought against it and decided I'd actually cut out all RPG's until Skyrim comes out which'll keep all elements totally fresh.

(Having said that, not playing Oblivion = cutting out all RPG's for me. I don't really have any others.) :p

I considered it, but I decided to go cold turkey, just to make me saver that first Skyrim playthrough all the more.

So i can play the 2 different styles of dungeon over and over again? no thanks. That game is the land above the dungeons. the actual game play isn't all that appealing to me anymore. The combat lacks "weight" or "meatyness" for lack of a better term. 

I'm doing the shivering isles again to get the Duke of Mania achievment.  It's been annoying me for ages that I have 1220/1250 points!  Also since we're talking Oblivion this made me laugh earlier -  http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=631191

As much as I love Oblivion, I could never play more than an hour of it at a time. Never beat the game.

I couldn't even play Oblivion after being exposed to Fallout 3. 

me too

I've invested over 700 hours into Oblivion, I'm fucking ready. If anything, I want to find my Morrowind GOTY discs and immerse myself into my own made up story with tons of mods again.

Haven't even played through it once yet, perhaps it's time for that, Skyrim looks neat.

I've put hundreds of hours into Oblivion, I played that game when I didn't have a job so didn't have to many games. Now I have a ton of games and don't have the time to go back to it for another hundred hours. Fantastic game though, was my GOTY 2 years in a row.

I might closer to release, but for people who haven't played Morrowind make sure you play that. The storyline of Skyrim is sounding somewhat similar to Morrowind's style. Which is a good thing. In Skyrim you play as the Devahkiin (or however it's spelled) and Morrowind has a similar deal where you play as a special type of character. Not sure just how close they'll go with the Devahkiin thing but it's sounding to me like another Nerevarine. Oblivion's story was so boring compared to Morrowind's which was actually awesome. So fucking pumped for Skyrim.

@SlashseveN303 said:

" I already put in 1000 hours into Oblivion. I'm planning on playing through Morrowind! "

Not played Morrowind, I was considering buying it for my PC but it seems like such a step back from Oblivion in relation to ease of  game mechanics. I have heard it is better but a lot of people say these things through the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia.

I'm planning to pick it up again this summer. Maybe even I will turn on my xbox for some Morrowind.

Indeed does, and actually got a pretty funny death-pose on an enemy in the arena.
 

Already played through that game. It doesn't age very well, at least I have quite fond memories of playing it but upon playing it again it's a bit painful.

Already played through that game. It doesn't age very well, at least I have quite fond memories of playing it but upon playing it again it's a bit painful.

Yeap. Just recently started up a new Breton. Although, I haven't played in a few days. I have him in some ayleid ruin ( can't remember the name), hiding in a corner, over-encumbered.

@Garfield360UK said:

I had started to get back into it but then got made into a vampire or something which suddenly cut my interest in playing when I cant walk around during the daylight hours.

Haha, you should have read a little more. :) But I don't think it's a big problem, as far as I remember you can stay at (vampire) level 1 by drinking blood every day or cure yourself completely.. or just load an older save.

@emergency said:

Already played through that game. It doesn't age very well, at least I have quite fond memories of playing it but upon playing it again it's a bit painful.

I think it aged just fine.. it doesn't look like The Witcher 2, but with mods it's still the 2nd best "looking" amazing rpg out there. If you don't know that the leveling is messed up you probably won't even realise it on your first playthrough either, imho.