[Dids]

I gave up on Oblivion when I realized that he game was at it's core, just closing Hellgates over and over again, and they were all too similar. Also the pacing of the game is totally bizzare. It wants you to wander about and do side quests, but there's this amazing urgency of the Hellgates that makes you feel like an [censored] for doing anything other than saving the world.

I liked the engine, combat didn't bug me, and think it's a neat game, it's mostly just the plotting that blows (and yeah, the monsters leveling with you is really, really dumb).