Originally Posted by araczynski 
personally i've always hated this 'another plane' crap. how hard would it have been to have some big cataclysmic world even occurring and perhaps dropping the whole island into the main game world from the sky
last i checked there was a lot of wasted ocean space in the main game.
Actually, there's almost no ocean area in the game.
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Originally Posted by araczynski 
'another plane' is such a cheap copout in my eyes. i prefer world continuity, not some stupid 'plane' hopping.
Well, good for you. But the the background story of Oblivion is that there is plane hopping going on.