It's like flanking Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings with The Martian Chronicles and Game of Thrones - sorry Pete, the window of nostalgia for the mid-2000s is at least another decade away, and it's frankly your only hope.Īmongst the desperate clamour to play 2011's Skyrim in new and interesting ways, such as On A Bus (£49.99) and In Discomfort (£249.99), it seems odd that Oblivion is yet to receive similar treatment. Its high-fantasy setting is an altogether bland proposition compared to the Dune-esque weirdness of the game it succeeded, and its straightforward ancient-evil-vanquished story is almost quaint compared to the branching political intrigue of the behemoth that followed. In a year when its predecessor Morrowind has been beautifully enshrined by TES Online, and its successor Skyrim enjoys yet another instance of two different versions of itself competing in the charts, it's tempting to think of Oblivion as the forgotten stepchild of the series. A golden age that includes The Witcher 3, as if anyone needs to be reminded. It isn't unreasonable to say that the 360 era arrived on the carrier wave of Patrick Stewart's Royal Shakespeare Company tones announcing the final hours of the life of Uriel Septim 7, god-emperor of Tamriel, whose death serves as the starting gun for The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion and quite arguably the golden age of western RPGs that followed. Most people would agree that the seventh gen started when the Xbox 360 launched but that answers a different and thoroughly less interesting question.
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