That was ridiculously uncalled for...(and mostly just gibberish...)

I like both Morrowind and Oblivion equally. Oblivion had bad level scaling, and Morrowind was merciless to new players. I should know that blank skill is important from the start, not later in the game. Sort of balances out.

As for story, I think Morrowind had better lore, story, and culture. But I think Oblivion had better characters, at least in the main story. I cared more about Martin, Jauffre, and Baurus since they all had personality and goals. Morrowind hardly had any of that unless you looked into deeper lore.

Nicely said, but people usually refer to Morrowind as an aggregate entity made of good quality parts that have inner coherence when put together, while Oblivion is indeed better in some aspects (mostly technical, not artistic! which was completely normal because it's 4 years newer) but it lacks in the overall sense of world coherence.

Yes, because critics always provide an accurate basis on which to judge a video game's merit. :rolleyes:

Oblivion kicked Morrowind's ass for a lot of reasons. That's not to say Morrowind didn't do some things better, but I'll be damned if it's so much better than Oblivion like people make it out to be.

Oh, as a person that played crap out of Morrowind I can say that yep, repetitive delivery quests EVERYWHERE and NPCs NOT TALKING AT ALL is wwway much better, let's have Morrowind 1.5

People, you are sick... Both of the games had flaws, and it looks like Skyrim heads to fix most of them, and you've heard not even that it is nothing like Morrowind, no, you hear there's probably less about it that's Morrowind, what is still one's IMHO. Exclude level scaling and few less significant flaws from OB, add some distinction in the world, and you will get a PERFECT game IMO, and a game very close to perfect objectively. Calm down and wait to see. I'm not saying Skyrim will be perfect, I'm saying it's too early to say the opposite

I've played every ES game. Daggerfall is my favorite and Oblivion is second favorite.

In this case its nearly EVERY critic :rolleyes: , so yeah...it is a pretty damn good basis.

That's better

It's not really a Wonder of humanity as the people in here make it out to be. It's a good game, just like all the elder scrolls games are.

Yea he attacked me for no reason. I want to report him, but can't because I don't have the report button on the mobile version of the forums.

There you go.

Not at all, really. The opinions of Video game critics are 90% of the time meaningless and irrelevant.

Absolute same here. Bro fist. :celebration:

Anyways, I think the most truth can be found in this statement.

In my book Morrowind kicks Oblivion's ass, although Oblivion did some things better. Its a matter of what particular things you appreciate more: story, culture, politics, character build (morrowind) or graphics, voices and physics (oblivion). I think a RPG benefits more from what Morrowind did better, while action and shooter games favorize what Oblivion did better.

Just out of curiosity, what order did you play them in?

LOL!!!

At most you can say Morrowind had higher standards which is why it scored lower on average, but either way Oblivion is still a great game and the fact it scored higher than morrowind by the almost all of the same people who scored morrowind must mean something

This. People also let a lot of sentimentality ruin their opinions of latter games. They remember Morrowind fondly because of its flaws that made it really hard (and enjoyable) and because of the time they got hand cramp from playing so much. As good as Morrowind was atmosphere and storytelling-wise, Oblivion made a lot of improvements on combat etc. that made it much more playable and isn't anywhere near as bad as people are making it out to be...

That's also a very nieve point for that journalist to make as he will have only seen a small portion of the game (not storytelling or quests or guilds or cities for example), and we do not know what he is referring to so it would be wrong to get overly worried.

In my book skyrim kicks everything's ass

:dead: I played a different Morrowind , on my game there was tons of different quests and a lot of talking npcs , lots of dialogue! indeed a lot! you mean voice acting perhaps? nope there was no voice acting at that time. Oh and the main quest was impressive , wich game did you play , or mabe was my Morrowind , yes mabe that was it :dance:

:facepalm: you have to be some kind of Obtuse...extreme obtuse to think anyone who likes Morrowind want Skyrim to be EXACTLY like Morrowind or that Mushrooms are what Made Morrowind Special........

If you think people want a Carbon copy of Morrowind, then you don't understand what makes Morrowind Special, Oblivions combat, Voice acting graphics, all of that come with Time, its the concept and detail spent in the game that made it worthwhile Oblivion isn't a bad game, its just not what it could have been, alot of wasted potential on Graphics, the masses, and money.

and no one who screams at people who like Oblivion better even elaborate on -why- they like it beyond It was better than Morrowind in Combat and Graphics the only thing I give to Oblivion is side quests, and thats technological. and I keep asking, If Oblivion and Morrowind were made both released in 2002 exactly the same in tech no Voice acting, same graphics as morrowind and same Combat -which- would you pick up? and WHY

I'm with the camp that loves Morrowind and Oblivion for different reasons. Both great games, both have flaws. Sometimes I'm glad I have the good nature not to troll this place, because damn...you guys make it easy. Haha.

and Sorry, but Sir Drake, you sound silly. Get a hold of yourself man. You're making us all look bad. :spotted owl:

Hehe, that's a frequent tendency around here; I have seen more people with your same opinion. I suppose that it's because, as I see it, Oblivion has more to do with Daggerfall in some aspects than Morrowind. It's very normal to find Morrowind's fan that hate on Oblivion but love Shivering Isles because of the same reason.