The game before Skys Rims Belong to the Nords. Oblivion is THE game for Xbox360, with that being said in 2026 does it still holds up? Yes actually, even if you were to play the Remastered Version, Its still the same code so the same things that are "weird oblivion jank" would still apply to the Remastered version. I don't think I will be playing Remastered because I don't particularly feel like im missing any sort of content just shiny new graphics with worse performance/storage.

Anyway game, the leveling system in this game is broken, it is not satisfying. You are constantly being punished for having strong characters, you know how like when your lv40 in Skyrim and bandits start using Elven Gear/Glass/Mythril/Daedric? Its like that but tenfold, Gears aren't the problem, the problem is the game doesn't do Damage Calc properly, if your character is not a warrior your Endurace will be lower hence you will get one shotted by anything tbh even when your Magic is high enough at 100 Intelligence as a Breton with Apprentice signs you only get like 350 Mana, which is about 3/4 casts of fireball for 60 damage vanilla wise not including custom spells. NPCS SPAWN WITH 80 DAMAGE FIREBALL STAFF AND WILL RUN YOU DOWN AND WRAITHS OMG WRAITHS, PAIN IN THE BUTT because they steal your Endurance now ur Encumbured and the worst of all you can't dispel that and NOW UR MUTED LIKE WHAT.

The game has some of the most interesting quest and honestly 10 voice actor did their jobs back then and still better than slop games of today. Its a 7/10 perhaps a 8 for its time. But yeah game balance is funny, enchanting is broken. conjuration is interesting for all the things you can summon leveling restoration and alteration/illusion is not that fun. Anyway this game is why they removed Attributes and dumbed it down in Skyrim because it was just poorly balanced. Morrowind has a better End game stat, Early is rough but you will "click" eventually. Oblivion is the opposite, you feel strong at the beginning and at the end you are still strong but you gotta wittle down your enemies and circle them because if they cough on you ur dead.