You may notice right out the gate that one of these is the game of the year edition, and the other is regular vanilla oblivion. I grew up playing morrowind and oblivion WAY before skyrim came out, so i actually had vanilla oblivion way back in the day and then got the GOTY edition after that one released so that i could play all the DLC when it was still a pain in the ass to download them individually off of PSN.
But theres a very specific reason why i kept my vanilla oblivion disc. I was considering trading it for something else, until I got to the vampirism cure questline in my run at the time, and discovered that the GOTY edition had an extremely game-breaking innocuous glitch that was never fixed in any future patch, update, or even acknowledged by bethesda, but it has been the bane of every ps3 GOTY player ever since.
I want you to walk a mile in child me's shoes for a second here. You remember how much of a pain in the ass it was to get the cure for vampirism in oblivion? How it was the fetch quest to end all fetch quests? How you dont even get map markers and just have to fucking wing the whole thing and hope to GOD you can find enough grand soul gems out in the world to even START the second half of the fetch quest and just GET the list of ingredients the potion actually consists of?
This glitch in the GOTY ps3 edition is right at the end. When i say right at the end, i mean when youre supposed to hand over the very last ingredient of the very last list of bullshit it has you running around the entire province and the planes of oblivion itself like Cyrodiil's most exploited door dasher to get. All while you cant go out in the sunlight without breaking into peoples homes and drinking their blood about it first. Skyrim spoiled all of you with its blood potions lying around in piles in the vampire castle. Oblivion girlies fought in the trenches for your blood potion freedom.
The dialogue option to give the witch the last ingredient, a bunch of bloodgrass which can only be acquired from the game's equivalent of biblical hell, is broken in the GOTY edition. Its broken. You cant give it to her. You can keep clicking it with 30 times the amount of bloodgrass she wants and she wont take it, she'll just keep telling you where to get it while you contemplate ending it all and deleting your save file to achieve nirvana through a direct experience with the frivolity of material objects like "gaming consoles." You cant ever cure vampirism in the GOTY ps3 edition. Now go outside and experience the birds singing in the park.
This was never fixed. There was never a patch to fix it. There was never an update. There was never an acknowledgement by bethesda game studios owned by zenimax owned by microsoft that this game-breaking glitch exists. You have to be a vampire forever.
Unless you have a copy of vanilla oblivion from the same region your GOTY disc is from, where this glitch does not exist.
But wait, dear player. You must head my warning before you go loading up your GOTY save file on the vanilla disc. You must not start any DLC before you complete the vampire cure questline, for your key items will be disappeared and you can never complete it. Or, if youre very unlucky, it could just corrupt your save file altogether trying to load DLC items onto vanilla oblivion. And if you follow this warning but have too many things in your inventory when you load it, you get an infinite load screen instead upon which to gaze at your reflection in your tv screen and calculate how much money and how many hours youve collectively sunk into bethesda products throughout your lifetime.
No, you must go to the barrel in the side of the witch's cabin and dump every single item in your inventory except for the bloodgrass before you save on the GOTY disc, exit, and reload on the vanilla disc. Then you can talk to the witch, give her the very last ingredient, and the moment she accepts it you must immediately save again, switch the discs back, reload, and collect all your things.
So i kept my vanilla disc in order to be able to run through todd howard's greco-roman labyrinthian trial of getting some witch to take a handful of grass from Tamriel's biblical hell if i ever get bit by a vampire in any future playthroughs.
Oblivion is an abysmal game and i will never stop playing it
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