So true. I do play Skyrim more than Oblivion, but just because it can be much more fun with mods. It's mods that make Skyrim entertaining, not itself. Oblivion was great as vanilla.
All NPCs have interacted with eachother much more; Drunken brawls, people talking to eachother about weather, fishes...If they sat together at the inn, they would DO SOMETHING TOGETHER, THEY WOULD TALK. And allllll quests in Skyrim are soooo boooring... It's pretty much just walk in a cave and kill everyone in there, pick an item from the cave, go bring it back to the person, go do another thing like that, return back to the person, go there, back, there, back... I feel like a mailman.