see, people talk about lots of things about why oblivion is so bad but i submit it's not merely the scaling, or the bad combat, or the stupid leveling system or bad dialog or ugly graphics or stupid quests or any specific single thing. I'm sure i've used this phrase before, but what i like to say is that the game is fractally horrible. every element of the game, examined closely, is exactly as bad as the entire game taken as a whole. it is an infinitely recursive exercise in overbudget, poorly planned, amateurish valueless bullshit from the moment you start it up to when you throw the disk into the garbage disposal in disgust.
this is why i say that it's kin to FF12: both games are so horrible that their horror forms a tight mesh, and no single element can be pulled apart from the whole, or improved to "save" the game.