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I put 400 hours into one oblivion save file and 200 something on another and never got that glitch of doom.

What did happen is that both eventually got the bug where they run out of unique IDs so all items would disappear when stored.

What you could carry was the only working inventory space.

Never felt the need to sink so much into skyrim.

The colors and built up areas really are what does it. I would spend hours and hours roaming around doing random shit/collecting everything.

Skyrim is white, gray, and Viking huts (sometimes with exquisite version!). (Markarth is cool, and riften has just enough with the thieves guild to feel slightly built up I spend most of my time there)

Honestly in oblivion though, I would move into an area set up a local house and just spend the next 20-40 hours doing everything in/around/involving a major city. It felt like a game that rewarded you for spending a lot of time in an area as well.

I would probably still be playing it if my two previous attempts at a complete file hadnt crashed and burned. If you are going to make a game people can spend a thousand hours on, make sure its fucking mechanically possible.

Anyway that was way more than I intended to write and now I have an odd mix of nostalgia and the ghosts of old gamer rage.