The only radiant quests I can think of in Oblivion were after you had finished the Dark Brotherhood or Arena quest lines. I don’t remember any other random quests from that one.
It was not ignored because of Disco Elysium. In fact I had never even heard of DE myself until like last year.
The reason it was “ignored” (it really wasn’t though) is that it was a pretty mid game.
ETA: it was also hyped up to be the “Bethesda Killer.” IGN was literally posting articles and videos saying things like “Bethesda should probably start looking for a new job.”
Honestly the new seasons and specials are great. If recommend watching season 18 onward, but the real meaty stuff comes around in about season 20 or so.
Sounds like a you issue. If you wanted to use other weapons, you definitely could have. The game gives you ammo left and right, and it doesn’t take long to build up a small stockpile of a bunch of different kinds.
I’m a sucker for energy weapons. It’s a space game, and I wanna pew-pew some baddies. I got that double-barrel laser rifle and that’s been my primary weapon for like 75% of my playthrough.
It’s fine if it actually worked perfectly for you, but “just working” isn’t exactly a measure of success.
They still needed the playerbase to actually use it, and devs to actually make games for it. Which they got very little of both. So it wasn’t successful.