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I was expecting far worse performance from the comments tbh and strongly hesitated before buying the game. I honestly caved due to the kind of limited Switch library right now and needed a break from BOTW / TOTK / Mario Kart World lol.

I’m not an Oblivion fanboy, I played Skyrim as a kid but I can’t force myself to replay it at this point, so I wanted to check out Oblivion.

Overall, having a lot of fun. Very good game for its time. Most of the jank I’ve run into has been classic Bethesda stuff or what you’d expect from a game from 2006.

Did I run into issues? Yes… but not horrible.

Game froze during the very first loading screen, and then again during intro scene after I rebooted, so I couldn’t talk to the first character I needed to speak with. Rebooted and it was fine, fortunately not much time lost on that. Haven’t run into other issues yet.

Both issues happened after clicking the home button and putting the game on switch during either cut scenes or times where you’re in the middle of interacting with a character, just fyi.

Otherwise, frames did dip a little when I got to the open world, but manageable and nowhere near as bad as I was expecting.

Do I expect better far performance and quality from a billion-dollar company charging $50 for a 20-year-old game?

Yes, absolutely…

But I’m having fun with the game. Haven’t run into any other major issues that I’ve noticed yet (fingers crossed), but it’s playable. Still pretty early, but I’m enjoying it.

I’ve heard about issues if you have auto-save enabled - I still have that enabled and no crashes from that yet, but we’ll see if I end up having to turn that off.

I think it likely helps that I’m playing the downloaded version rather than a cartridge, and I play almost entirely handheld either way. I hear performance is pretty bad in docked mode, but haven’t tried that yet.

Figured I’d make this post as someone who was on the fence about it, didn’t have high expectations and was half-expecting it to be really bad lol.