I have a weird relationship with this game where I think it has many faults and I would rate it low but I still always find myself returning to it and starting a new playthrough. In the case of my most recent playthrough, it didn't last very long. All the problems of boring world and mission design are still there. It really is a massive drop in quality from Morrowind with even less thought to complete missions as you just follow a marker. You do have tons of places to go and people to talk to and things to poke at which is the strength of the series but it's fairly uninteresting in Oblivion. I installed like 400 mods in the Oblivion Rebirth package on Nexus Mods which is a great collection that the author put a lot of work into but it doesn't do much to salvage the game. All this negativity yet I'll still probably return to the game again at some point. Or I should really just wait till the Skyblivion release. I have many problems with Skyrim too but it's a little bit more fun mechanically. Or just continue to play Morrowind which is still a masterpiece and the absolute highlight of the series.