Destroying a classic
That said, Oblivion was much better. The melee addictiveness and brutality is gone, any RPG strategy build-up is terribly gone.. basically, guns are lame and the game is terribly dumb.
Speaking of dumb, 75% of the content comes from Fallout, but terribly dumbed down and turned easy, and so, character building choices become irrelevant, as building any one skill or multi skilling will be more than enough to beat any kind of adversity..
Speaking of choices becoming irrelevant, welcome to the new world of RPG free will: the upper choice will always be nice, the middle one neutral and the lower one evil. Wow. Convincing characters? pump points into the speech skill and the right option will appear eventually, creating situations where you convince computers they should not be presidents because they were not elected, causing them to self-destruct. Seriously.. in-depth RPG? Look somewhere else.
Dialogue has got to be the game's worst feature. I even chose a perk for having "special" dialogue options with females, didn't find any.. don't think I'll try to..
Just as I won't try to give any structure to this rant, the game does not deserve more than the hours I spent just to finish it.