I agree that the dungeons and especially the Oblivion gates are boring. (I did 3 Oblivion gates, and then decided to just not bother with the silly things unless it is entirely necessary or I have forgotten about the last one so it feels somewhat different again)
I just ignore them and do the quests, which are far more interesting than repetetive dungeons full of boring monsters.
In my opinion, the ultimate RPG has very few dungeons and instead just loads of interlocked, overlapping, well-written quests.
Oblivion could easily have achieved this if they had mostly ignored the dungeons and spent a bit more time with the quests. (Time to add details to them such as story carrying on from one to the other to the extent that one quest could go completely against another).
Since the dungeons are quite repetive, I can assume that they sort of did this, but they clearly didn't ignore them enough because it is still entirely up to the player to not pay attention to them for the game to continue to have its effect of incredible variety.
So far, I have found it to be of great value!
A welcome change from most games these days.
This is one of the few games that gives me the feeling that, if it ever starts to slow down, I can just start again and things will be completely different.
I just ignore them and do the quests, which are far more interesting than repetetive dungeons full of boring monsters.
In my opinion, the ultimate RPG has very few dungeons and instead just loads of interlocked, overlapping, well-written quests.
Oblivion could easily have achieved this if they had mostly ignored the dungeons and spent a bit more time with the quests. (Time to add details to them such as story carrying on from one to the other to the extent that one quest could go completely against another).
Since the dungeons are quite repetive, I can assume that they sort of did this, but they clearly didn't ignore them enough because it is still entirely up to the player to not pay attention to them for the game to continue to have its effect of incredible variety.
So far, I have found it to be of great value!
A welcome change from most games these days.
This is one of the few games that gives me the feeling that, if it ever starts to slow down, I can just start again and things will be completely different.