The first time I saw Oblivion was in my friend’s house. Related: Elder Scrolls Online Added 3 Million New Players Last Year So anyway, I’ve installed Oblivion as a fond farewell to productivity for the foreseeable future.

“I don’t need you in my life anymore!” I yell at Oblivion with the sheer chaotic frenzy of a dril tweet. Ultimately, though, I’ve been trying my very best to abstain from becoming the Hero of Kvatch in the year of our lord 2021. I’ve already written about how I reckon Game Pass is the best thing to ever happen to video games, and have published loads of stories about the stuff I’ve been playing there, from Yakuza Kiwami to Modern Warfare 2 - yes, the one from 2009. As someone who’s been a Sony fanboy for longer than The Elder Scrolls 6 has been in development, it still feels a bit weird to say that the Series X is a titanically impressive console, but with Game Pass on offer, it’s just undeniably brilliant. That all changed with the advent of my Xbox Series X, my new pride and joy. So, because of the limitations I set myself, I’ve had no Oblivion machine for a pretty long time. I’m also aware of the fact that you can stream it via PlayStation Now, but could you be arsed? My internet dips like a hairy old man on the beach in summer.

While I know the mods on PC are brilliant, I like playing Bethesda RPGs with a controller on a big telly with ten ginormous cans of beer in front of me. I own it on PC, but the prospect of playing it there was never properly appealing to me. I first played Oblivion on the Xbox 360 - a console with UI that has yet to be matched - and have only played through once in the last five or six years. I’ve also got Oblivion installed via Game Pass, though, which could throw a real spanner in the works here - I mean, why would I consciously choose not to play the best Elder Scrolls game? I’ve pumped hundreds of hours into the most recent Elder Scrolls game - released ten years ago this November, brb crumbling to dust - and will likely spend hundreds more traversing its wonderful world in the lead-up to The Elder Scrolls 6 in 2050. Games don’t pick up communities this devoted if they’re anything less than excellent - but that doesn’t mean they can’t be less excellent than something else, which is the case when it comes to Skyrim and Oblivion. People have also modded it to be playable on everything from smart fridges to pregnancy tests. Skyrim is brilliant - it wouldn’t be coming to next-gen microwaves and calculators if it wasn’t.

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