Now it's backwards compatible, here are Oblivion's best moments

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The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is now on Xbox One backward compatibility, an excellent excuse to relive its signature moments. And that means even if seeing them demands a considerable investment of time and, depending on your tolerance for bugs that were never squashed, the uncanny valley horrors of its famously potato-faced population, and the sheer early-gen jankiness of it all, sanity. Playing a game from the early days of the 360 is like watching 90s television: you wonder how we ever coped. You can see how we got from there to here, but it's painful to go back.
It is, of course, a game that's all about those signature moments. Right from the start, Oblivion lays some of its most iconic cards on the table. Waking up in a prison shortly after the character creation screen, you encounter Valen Dreth in the cell opposite, a bored Dunmer elf with nothing better to do than taunt you with a torrent of abuse that is tailored to your chosen gender, and whichever one of the ten races you've picked.
After telling you you're definitely going to die in prison (rude), he whispers: "Hey, you hear that? The guards are coming..."
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