Skyrim, the only other TES game i played was Oblivion, but they have improved so much compared too that game.

I heavily modded Oblivion but still love Skyrim the most. There are some things I would definitely fix about it but it's a truly addicting great game. Morrowind I spent about 10 minutes in.

I've played them all, but I'm not just another nostalgia struck fan-boy for Morrowind like the other old-schoolers. The game had tons of problems, and I'm glad that most of them are gone. Skyrim eats all of the rest of the TES games.

Morrowind. I like having multiple locations for each faction (several mage guild locations etc) and many quests within each location usually involving most of the people.

In Skyrim each faction pretty much has one location (the stormcloaks/imperials have outposts but you only take quests from solitude/windhelm predominantly) and only 8 -10 quests before you become guild leader. Also the Main quest in Skyrim forces you into the college (you actually join it as a mage, not as dragonborn, no matter your method for joining) and forces you to talk to the thieves guild guy (putting it in your quest log permanently) which I find unacceptable.

I still really like Skyrim but it really feels like Oblivion 2. Morrowind is better.

/opinion

Nostalgia? No. I did a full play through of Oblivion & Morrowind in preparation of Skyrim. 96 Hrs into Skyrim and Morrowind by far is still my favorite game.

Most of this I do not get... What meaningful choices are presented to you in Morrowind? What "deep" characters? How can a character be "deep" and "unique" when it has no voice or actions, it just stands there spewing text? How can a plot be deep when it is essentially just the "common person given powers who rises and defeats an ancient evil" that we see everday?

Seriously, I like Morrowind but you guys overhype it waaaaaay too much.

1) Skyrim
2) Oblivion
3) Morrowind
4) Daggerfall/Arena (basically the same game anyways)

I see...

Daggerfall

I spent more time playing that than all other TES games combined. I dislike the forced guild quests in Skyrim, but otherwise it's a great game.

I am not understanding how you are associating text as being incapable as being "deep" or "unique", no books can be deep or unique? I see it as a detriment that they forced the entire game of skyrim into voice acting. It seems to have limited the content by a large amount since they have to pay voice actors. You also get less content anyway because reading something is faster than listening to someone talk. In morrowind they didn't hesitate to give you paragraphs of lore and interesting topics but in skyrim they try to make everything short and sweet which is rather bothersome since it makes the game more hack/slash since all you do is skip convos and run to your next bandit raid imo.

Also you get clone characters that say the same thing everywhere. In morrowind many characters had topics only they had and you could hear tidbits of their lives. Much fewer in skyrim, though it is there.

Thank you. Morrowind had the same thing. It seems that a lot of people are just determined to find reasons to still like Morrowind better than Skyrim, regardless of whether its better or not. And the dude who said that Morrowind had more content that Skyrim makes me want to laugh. Skyrim has ten times more quests and content than Morrowind did, and that doesn't even include the random events.

Believe me, I had a ball playing Morrowind, but I"m not so blind to use such over-exaggerated words when describing it like, "Masterpiece" or "perfection". Give me a break. Its called nostalgia. Learn the meaning of the word. Its when you over-mystify a past experience to the point where you can only remember the positives, and not the negatives. This keeps you from liking anything new, or (gasp!) different.

Just FYI, when Morrowind came out, there were JUST AS MANY COMPLAINTS about the game's design decisions as there were for Oblivion and Skyrim. I was there. You know who complained the most? Daggerfall fans. Its always that way.

Clearly you don't like reading too much.

Morrowind > Skyrim > Daggerfall > Oblivion.

I havent played Arena.

I read everything in Morrowind, and I still feel Skyrim has more depth.

1-Skyrim - builds on the others. Will need lots of DLC and mods
2-Morrowind - endless things to do. Characters stiff though.
3-Oblivion - Fantastic to look at and nice things to do. However empty in many places.
4-Daggerfall - My first. Loved it at the time but very tedious.

Sorry, then you just have not read everything in Morrowind.
Most of the depth Skyrim has is in its books anyway.

In regards to a person being "unique", a person is not supposed to be a book. Completely irrelevant.

There was no uniqueness in Morrowind's characters because whatever text option you chose there was still just the standard cookie-cutter reply. Think of it this way... Max Von Sydow saying a dialogue line vs. the dialogue line itself. Having it voiced can bring personality and "uniqueness" to the dialogue line which would otherwise be dull, bland, and lifeless.


No, I was fine with Morrowind's "text", but I still think having it voiced brings more "uniqueness" and personality to it.

Skyrim is tied with Morrowind for me right now. I have WELL over 1000 hours with Morrowind, Skyrim a bit over 100. I know Morrowind like the back of my hand, but Im still finding new things constantly in Skyrim.

For all of the things that I wish had not been done (removal of attributes + others), Skyrim, when taken as a whole,

is far and away the best TES game ever. For me it boils down to the AI and radiant story. They are a huge improvement on what came before. Whatever their imperfections, the game feels great to play, and IMHO NPC AI (next time I'll go for a whole sentence of acronyms) is the biggest single factor. The characters are just so much more believable.

spoilers

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Mages_Guild
3-9 at each location, 5 main locations + general quests
40+members

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/College_of_Winterhold this is missing a few
8 total main quests
17 members including the augur, one ex member is in winterhold

Wrong, yes I have. I've completed every quest, heard every line, and read every book in Morrowind. Skyrim is deeper in every way.

I wholeheartedly disagree.

All that, plus tons of actual cities (More than one vendor? How can that be??!?) with more homes you can buy in each one than all of Skyrim combined! Whatever happened to cart travel, anyway!

Biggest downside, other than the glitches, is the Khajiit vampires. Have to be the ugliest characters, ever!

Then please tell me what is Skyrim's equivalent of the Sermons of Vivec?
The mysteries and riddles in there foretold Oblivion and Skyrim, among other things.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:36_Lessons_of_Vivec,_Sermon_29

You may have read it that way but when reading a book or reading text in a game, you aren't supposed to read it in dictionary blandness. Just because it is text doesn't mean people have no character. Try talking to the dremora lord in the shrine quest (the one you have to attack, attacks you) again and just because there is only one option (taunt the daedra) doesn't mean you cant imagine your insults. Also you cannot tell me the dremora didn't have character.

In an ideal world all the text in morrowind would be voiced. But it wasn't. You should still be able to compare the content of what is read vs the content of what is voiced and compare them without comparing mediums.