If you don't plan your skills carefully and account for what enemies you'll be facing, you will quickly find yourself outmatched just during the normal gameplay progression. One of the main difficulties is the fact that the enemies scale to your level. The regions are not as diverse as they were in Morrowind, and you shouldn't expect to find any interesting fauna like mushroom trees about the landscape. The area near Skingrad has a lot of colorful flowers and the area near Leyawiin looks vaguely like a marsh, but for the most part everything's green. One of the most annoying parts about Marksman in Morrowind was that even if you managed to hit with the arrow, it still had a chance to miss based on your Marksman skill.Īnother major gripe is that most of Cyrodiil (the world for Oblivion) looks relatively the same. The combat system is vastly improved, and it is satisfying that any attack you make will hit and deal damage so long as the animation hits. Even so, many of the quests are very well-constructed and you feel accomplished for having completed them. You can complete the Mage's Guild with little or no actual experience in magic, and they still call you the archmage. There are no stat requirements for advancement, just quest requirements. Not only that, but you can have one character complete all the factions. There are no other factions to join, and each one has somewhere on the order of 10-15 quests, including the little mini-quests at the beginning just to whet your appetite. In Oblivion, you still have your 3 guilds, and you have the Dark Brotherhood. If you got to the top of the Fighter's Guild, people reacted to you differently. Even then, some were mutually exclusive, making you really feel like you were in the world. Morrowind had the 3 Houses, the Fighters/Mages/Thieves guild, the Morag Tong, the Imperial Cult/Legion, and I'm sure I'm missing some, all in addition to the main quest. Sure, it has dungeons littered about the landscape, and there's no shortage of adventuring, but there are not nearly as many factions. One of the main problems with Oblivion is that it doesn't have the same world depth that Morrowind had.

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