Yep - only by a small margin but yes.

i don't think i could rank them. they are just all so good.

Skyrim above Oblivion. I would add Morrowind, Daggerfall and Arena in the mix but I never played those three (actually technically I played Morrowind on my original Xbox, but I was so terrible that I couldn't do anything and gave up)

How so? Oblivion was definitely a good game when it came out, but in comparison to what Morrowind and Skyrim bring to the table, I think it's average-at-best.

I've been playing over 60 hours and the game has kept things from getting repetitive unlike Oblivion

So yea Skyrim is the best in the series.

Skyrim.. by FAR.. doesn't even come close

I love Skirim better than Morrowind, Daggerfall and Might and Magic 6, and that says a lot

It feels bigger than morrowind, more scary (because I exclusively play on master difficulty),
a whole lot more fun (crafting, hunting, mastering all the spells mechanics)

The environment and immersion is better because of the mountains, forest, lakes, rivers, waterfall, wildlife ...

(I mean 66% of morrowind landmass was empty wasteland. with verry sparse, not verry varried mutated wildlife)

In skyrim, you never know what happen next.
I saw a thalmor patrol on the road, decided to follow them (safety in numbers when low level on master difficulty)
the crazy high elves went straight toward nowhere-land, until they hit a hugue bandit fort,
they didnt just respond to the ambushers but actually assaulted and pursued inside the fort before leaving
they didnt clear it, but must have killed 4-5 bandits, and lost a soldier
I gained an elven armor in the process

You think it stopped there .... those guys were in a hurry and didnt wait as I looted
I ran after them, got attacked by a crazy khajit dark brotherhood assassin
nearly died, and soon after got ambushed by 5 thugs.
fortunately faedal, vigilance, and my trusty fire atronach saved the day

that stuff .... never happened in morrowind or in any game I played

I also saved khajit of one of the caravans from marauding wolves,
I spoted those khajit in the middle of the river near windhelm, swimming to save their lives

I also once stopped a stormcloack party raiding a whiterun farm, trying to kill the lady there

events like that are a daily occurence in skyrim

I also like the new spell system, feels verry like diablo I, you must think, because you risk killing friends
for that matter your trusty flame attronach can also accidentally kill you or your associates

I was affraid because the old spreedsheet is gone
but the hands combos, along with choice of magic equipment (like cost reduction)
create a lot of possibilities

The initial feeling I got when I started Skyrim was that it actually did, to my astonishment, compete with Morrowind on some level. After playing the game feverishly this past month, I've formed my complete opinion, and I believe that in total, Skyrim may be just a little bit better than Morrowind, all aspects considered. However, Morrowind did give me a more unique, mind-blowing experience back when I got swallowed into its depths, and I can't figure out what the missing element here is. So Skyrim may be a better game in terms of visual properties and gameplay, but Morrowind still holds a special place in this nerd's heart, and the grim truth is that it is extremely unlikely that any game of the Elder Scrolls series will surpass that, no matter how excellent the game itself may be.

The thing about Morrowind, in my opinion, is that it didn't feel like the game was pampering you, or trying to make itself easy for you to digest. The world and gameplay of Morrowind were sticky, clumsy, harsh and crude, and the game seriously pissed you off again and again. Quests didn't have markers and you couldn't fast travel, so someone just sent you to find the designated location by giving you directions such as, "Start from town X, head south-southeast until you see a really big rock, then turn straight east until you see an old fort somewhere in the north, that's when you should turn south and hope to the gods that you're even close to the place where you're supposed to be". No matter how frustrating Morrowind was at times, it just made you care about the game and feel joy when you actually managed to pull off one of those ridiculous blind-fire quests, or win a fight by a complete fluke, et cetera.

While on one hand I thoroughly enjoy not having to do those things in Skyrim, I constantly miss the cruelty of Morrowind. For example, it was sometimes rewarding in a twisted way to delve through a dangerous dungeon that consumes a lot of time and effort, only to find out that there is absolutely no loot for you to find. That way, when you actually found something worthwhile, it seemed more like actual treasure, even if it was just a mundane blade or a piece of armor. In Skyrim, knowing that every dungeon has at least some excuse of a treasure hidden in it sort of desensitizes you, and anything short of a kick-ass piece of loot feels like junk.

Wow. This turned into a rant. I'll be stopping now.

What is the best? Hard to say, I love them ALL. :tes:

I love Arena espically since we can visit the entire Continent. I love Daggerfall for the awsome character build, and options we have. Also the scale, but sadly never completed much but had 100s of hours of fun. Love Morrowind since it's the first time I didn't have to be on a PC to play. Loved Oblvion as well.

I guess I will say Skyrim since it's the newest and refreshing. I agree, it has the Morrowind feel to it. I also feel Oblivion in there as well. Now I guess it's up to TES VI to have a Daggerfall feel to it. I doubt it though since that would actually mean having alot of options in the game. :woot:

Well, the major reasons were replayability and quests. Oblivion lasted for me longer tbh from the character development perspective. I also enjoyed quests more - in Skyrim most absolutely bored me. Another thing for which Skyrim loses many points for me are npcs and dialog scripts. I just can't immerse myself into the game or rp easily. The more i played Skyrim the more bored of it i was. It was the opposite with Morrowind/Arena etc.

Haha Thats amazing,and i also like the spells.i dont understand why everybody hates it! And stuff likes that happens in the world of elder scrolls! love it!
I also have been trying to get into daggerfall(right now) and i am just trying to show my love for this game<3 i think bethesda did a great job! wich they do with every game.

I agree with you man I played morrowind on the xbox and pc.And that would be amazing.then i guess they have to work reeeaaally long with the next elder scrolls game.what about it includes both elseweyr and valenwood?
And gotta love the daggerfall conversations!

Daggerfall>Morrowind>Skyrim>Oblivion

Skyrim. I'm enjoying it more thananything right now

Daggerfall, if only for the work and effort I had to put into it just to get past the bugs when it was released. I loved having real cities to visit, an assortment of homes to buy, and an endless number of silly dungeons to get lost in.

Morrowind brought the series out of "generic, randomly generated" and made it the hand crafted model that it is today. It is the single most significant step that the series has taken, and it has not been matched.

Oblivion > Morrowind >>> Skyrim

Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying Skyrim, but I find the UI and Steam involvement way too frustrating and/or irritating. Also, Oblivion's quests in general were better. Oblivion is only a little better than MW, mainly quest quality again. Never played the earlier TES games.

I think that Skyrim is the best one yet.

Morrowind is very close behind.

Oblivion is a bit more distantly behind that, but it's not by miles. Oblivion was still a great game, and still my #3 game of all time.

Daggerfall>Morrowind>Skyrim>Oblivion

I have more of a wishlist than a favorite TES. I'd like a lot of things from morrowind to come back, things like spell creation, being able to see your rank in a guild, mostly cosmetic stuff while having the graphics that skyrim has.

Skyrim is for me. Couldn't really care less if any one else agrees or not.

I never could get into Morrowind. It was OK but Vivec or whatever that big city is in the South just annoyed the hell out of me. I quit playing shortly after that.

It has some great stuff, but I'm having a lot more fun playing modded Oblivion. The Mouse controls are just awful on Skyrim.

I used to play Skyrim like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee.

I would say Skyrim.. Morrowind is very good also just a little boring.. But I did like the tree towns and the sand towns.. They were cool.. I never really done like any quests.. I only explored..