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Happy birthday, Oblivion! Twenty years of beautiful vistas and unnerving potato faces

Grant St. Clair
Mar 23, 2026
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion came out twenty years ago today, and there’s a good chance you played it on your Xbox 360, enthralled by the beautiful vistas and unnerving potato faces. The open-world RPG was still a fairly new concept in 2006, at least for mainstream audiences, and a game in that genre getting triple-A budget and ma…

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