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It was genuinely innovative and revolutionary for its time. Like genuinely, not how zoomers refer to every other release as "revolutionary". It actually felt like a completely brand new experience relative to how every RPG had played before it. In that context, it's easy to see why there's so much nostalgia for it.

But there's a reason Skyrim immediately supplanted it as the defacto Elder Scrolls game in the collective consciousness. I'm sure you've all heard the nitpicking reasons why "Oblivion is better than Skyrim" but in literally every other way Skyrim substantially improved on Oblivion. In particular, it's actually crazy how much Skyrim's overworld and dungeon design blows Oblivion out of the water.