Now i would say that Oblivion actualy IS a better game then skyrim... and the reason why i would say it is is just 1 thing, FACTIONS
In skyrim the factions are so lame, so retarded, so over-the-top-shit-in-your-face-from-the-go that i personaly think that the whole game can not even exist.. Why i say that?
Well what do you even get to do in skyrim if u ignore factions i ask you? Not much in any case, you can go around doing INFINITE "RADIANT" quests for no reason at all, gold is overly broken to the point it even might not exist, or you could go and do a couple of "sort of interesting quests" ( they are just as stupid as the rest of the game if u ask me, but that is like my opinion) that are related to towns, or few deadric artifact
Now lets look at those two options
1) doing the deadric quests, WHAT IS THE POINT? u get weaker weapon/artifact that u could craft, u get no global reputation, u dont affect world in any way, u just get to LARP a bit, and LARP very aggresivly
2) Doing town quests, same as above with the ocasional guard complementing you, again no real influence on the world, as if u didnt even do the quest
So i ask you, what is the point of that whole world besides faction? I would say, nothing almost, then just LARP walking around the streets, getting gay marrage in which your wife/man gives u money for the lulz, or just jump from the biggest mountain to see youtself die horribly, heck why not
No i would address as to why the factions are so retarded, and i will just give one example of it
The guild of mages ( bear in mind all other factions are just as retarded)
So here u go with a lv 1 char, u cast lv1 spell to get in ( ant that is it for the magey part), u get 1 initation quests, and after that every1 starts talking all mighty and shit, giving you jobs that arch mage himself would be scared of doing.. here you are just a random idiot picked up from the street that can cast 1 lv 1 spell, and all of the sudden YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE OMG AWSUM HOLY SHIT. I cant strees enough just how retarded did u feel when playing that, so anyways after that first quest you are sent to banal shit boring dungeon to find some hidden artifact of the chosen one or whatever(a sane person by this point wouldnt even care), and soon after that, folowing an utter shit quests of more banal shit boring dungeon crawls, that ARE SCALED TO YOUR LEVEL-proven fact , you are being assigned as the arch mage.... And u get a shitty robe that is WEAKER THE EXPERT ROBES that u can buy after u get lv 25 or smthing ( they magicly start appearing in the shops-level scaled)
To add insult to injury most of the NPC dont even percipate you as the Arch mage, they still tell you that you should go to Winterhold ( or what ever it is called) to learn some spells or something like that... Just lame, so weak. I gave up on the franchise...
Morrowind was a last TES game that had it. And Oblivion at least had some faction progres, it is not like you just got into mages guild and u were the chosen one of doom. U had to at least work a bit for it... At least there is some LARPing potential.. IN Skyrim no matter how hard u LARP u can not LARP over such shitty faction system