It’s striking how many of the things they’ve changed seem to be slightly for the worse:

• the lockpicking and persuasion minigames are a little less fun
• the level-up choices are dumbed down
• the speed at which you gain levels is even faster
• the local map is weirdly hard to find for some reason
• the HUD looks worse
• there is much telemetry
• there are framerate problems

Then there are the things I’d have expected them to improve that are unchanged:

• they didn’t give us better difficulty settings
• there’s no walking slowly with the controller
• level scaling has most (but not all) of the same problems it did
• the day/night cycle still flies past at hyperspeed
• horses still report your crimes to the telepathic guards (okay I guess they had to keep that)

Of course there are mods to fix most of those problems. Oblivion is a great game, and it’s good to see a lot of new people playing it for the first time.