Skyrim doesn't have the hype opening cinematic with both monologue and orchestral music. The monologue makes us familiar with the emperor before we the player get a connection with him.
I actually love Oblivion for the reason you are NOT the main chosen one character. Oblivion's people love you regardless, while they treat you like a fetchdog in Skyrim.
Oblivion's curse is the broken leveling system.
Pointless? Nah, the bourgeois probably needed a reminder of what can happen if they keep shafting people. Recon it won't be long until the greens starts to remind them too that the climate clock still ticks.
Skyrim doesn't have the hype opening cinematic with both monologue and orchestral music. The monologue makes us familiar with the emperor before we the player get a connection with him.