I never liked Skyrim, but I played small snips of Oblivion and it was neato. Not being able to have a house would put me off though. Same with no dragons.
Or werewolves
or no real time combat
and the level cap only takes 120 hours
and oh dear.
Let's see, in Oblivion you could actually own a house, and there's a LOT more challenge builds available for it than Skyrim, like single school, mundane, Atronach, iron-man, and even no weps. They are both great games, imo, so I won't bash Skyrim at all, since it has some other challenge builds in it as well.
Level caps aren't something to worry about, because in Oblivion they borrowed a monster system from another game, where the monsters leveled up WITH you.
Real-time combat is there in all genres, its just sometimes you have to up the difficulty to notice it.
Dragons & Werewolves, though, I agree completely.