money >>> root of all evil
I don't believe that, of course, I just hear it all the time.
To better explain Oblivion to Raiju, it is an extremely advanced role-playing game in which you can choose from ten different races, and instead of selected a bunch of preset options for your character's appearance, it has what's called the "next generation character generator", where you move around little scroll thingys that change your character's appearance. For example, I read somewhere that there is one part with three different scroll things (I can't remember what they're called) that change the size of the chin, but all in a uniquely different way.
As for the gameplay itself, the graphics are amazing, the game has huge forests and hill areas that just look astounding, and you have this huge world to explore, with tons of dungeons, and hundreds of different armor and weapons sets all over the place. And, I hear that the AI is impossibley proficient. My friend drools uncontrollably just saying the word "AI". This game, though not a MMORPG, makes games like WoW look like crap, no offense to those who enjoy WoW.
I've got the game Morrowind, which Oblivion is the sequel to, but Morrowind is not even half as advanced as Oblivion.