Earlier on today I had a spare half hour, and I fired up Oblivion.
Although I've played for hundreds of hours, including dabbling in many of the fine mods that have come out since the game was released back in 2006. But for some reason, I've never completed The Shivering Isles. So I made it my goal to do that before the release of Skyrim. A couple of months ago I took my Breton mage through 'the strange door' and started working on the main quest over in The Isles.
What with all the work that has gone into this site I never got around to completing it - hence the motivation to load up the game earlier.
But, you know what, I just couldn't get into it. I was noticing all the flaws in Oblivion that I feel confident will be addressed in Skyrim. I was looking at the jerky animation and thinking 'that will be smoother in Skyrim'. I listened to yet another example of the same voice actor and thinking 'there'll be a lot more voices in Skyrim'. I battled another Grummite whilst thinking 'I'll probably hit a cool finishing move at this point in Skyrim'....
After half an hour of this I came to a weird kind of realisation. I'm pretty well done with Oblivion.
I'm not sure I can find the motivation to finish The Shivering Isles even though I'm two thirds through the main quest. And there's no way I can see myself ever loading Oblivion again once I have my copy of Skyrim.
It feels like end of an era.
A game that has been part of my life for five years is now probably going to get put in the drawer to gather dust. It's shiny, sparkly new replacement will be here in just one week!
What about you? Do you still think you'll play Oblivion. What about once we have Skyrim? Is the end of an era for you as well, I wonder?
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