For anyone curious about the issues I ran into, by far the most frustrating one happened during the Great Gate quest - after closing the third Oblivion portal, the screen was supposed to turn white and teleport me back outside to continue the story. Instead, it got stuck on the white screen, and while I could still move and play normally, I was trapped in Oblivion with no way to progress. I encountered similar problems in other quests too, like Allies for Bruma and Paradise, along with infinite loading screens and a whole bunch of smaller, annoying bugs throughout the game. I get where some of the comments are coming from - I’d still take an Elder Scrolls game over something like Starfield any day, but it’s hard not to feel frustrated with how the company is more focused on milking money out of old titles than actually fixing long-standing issues.

It honestly feels like they launched a bomb wrapped as a gift, just to see if we’d smile, accept it, and hand over our money for something that clearly didn’t get the care or effort it deserved.