The GOTY Edition of Oblivion is on sale today on Steam! You can pick it up here for $6.79. If you are at all curious how we got to Skyrim, Oblivion is definitely worth playing and experiencing, regardless of what a lot of people will try to tell you.

Oblivion might not be fun but I'm sure fucking around with the console in Oblivion is marvelous; also they have nearly identical metacritics/reviews so chances are when the next Elder Scrolls game comes out there'll be a bunch of revisionism about how bad Skyrim was and how amazing the new one is and blah.

I never actually had to buy Skyrim due to everyone else having it so probably not going to buy Oblivion unless it's 2 or 3 bucks. Will accept random steam codes though.

so skyrim is tomorrows sale ? im only saying that cause we had morrowind and now oblivion !

I always get bummed when any ID or Bethesda stuff comes up for sale mostly because I bought the QuakeCon pack in 2011 and it came with goddamn every ID and Bethesda game for $99 so now these sales are useless to me. Heh.

Heads up to potential buyers: Oblivion is super crash-happy on Windows 7 and (PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong) I don't believe there are any reliable fixes for it.

Not worth a dollar seeing how badly Bethesda treats devs like Human Head. Don't support Bethesda scum.

@TrafalgarLaw i agree with bethesda treating some developers badly but scum is pretty harsh duder

You forgot to spell it Bethe$da!

@jimmyfenix said:

They're scum alright, releasing broken games for $60 only to have the game in a playable state a year later. They never patched the memory bug (inherent to their Gamebryo engine), dating from Oblivion and still persistent in skyrim, in Fallout: NV for Ps3.

Activision gets a lot flak for using an Id-Tech 2 engine dating from 2005. Bethesda gets praise for using a 2003 engine in a 2011 game. Constant bugs and glitches only modders on PC can fix. And then they flat out scrap Prey 2 (a near finished game) after not paying their contractual payments. Dishonored development went bad and Doom 4 got scrapped also. I correct my statement, they're

I didn't have any issues playing Oblivion when I was using Windows 7, and I still don't have any issues playing it on Windows 8

Prey 2 was near finished?

You got a citation on that?

You mean Bethesda publishing aka Zenimax or Bethesda game developer aka Todd Howard? Not that I care anyway, they could run game dev sweat shops and as long as Fallout 4 comes out I would turn a blind eye.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/06/01/prey-2-was-a-full-game-and-a-crazy-fun-one-says-ex-human-head-employee/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPMr0joaE6A Looks pretty far along in 2011 (!) to me.