Feel free to post your reason why.

Oblivion? *throws up*

None, I like all of them and all of them piss me off at some points.


(Except Arena, clearly that's my least favourite)

I was in the Morrowind camp, and I did nothing but [censored] about how much better MW was than Oblivion when it was new. Now though, I'm firmly of the opinion Skyrim is the best TES yet.

1. Morrowind
2. Daggerfall
3. Arena
4. Oblivion
5. Skyrim

Definitely Skryim. Played them all. I even loved the ones most people seem to hate like Battlespire. Of course that isn't technically an Elder Scrolls game.

Skyrim is gritty, barbaric and violent. It screams of awesome. It's like a great metal song pumped up with testosterone. It's a game for men who are men. FUS!

Morrowind.

Skyrim is a very fun game to play, and I enjoy it. However, it's simply too streamlined and cut down for it to compete. Basically, it's to the point where if I want to play the many-choices RPG, I'll grab Morrowind; if I want to play a more simple, fun action game, I'll grab Skyrim.

Daggerfall. Unparalleled freedom, few limitations on the character you can create, and an actually good main storyline (gasp!).

I voted TES IV: Oblivion, only because I have not played Skyrim enough to really tell. But I few months from now it is very possible that I would vote for TES V: Skyrim.

I have not played Daggerfall, Arena or Redguard.

hard to say i love them all and as someone put it they tend to piss me off equally although idk actually id say the shivering isles an expansion it may be was probally my favorite it had alot of charachter to it and made what was fun about oblvion even better i havent played skyrim to rank it yet and i loved morrowind for the time at least (still a great main story ) :intergalactic:

Morrowind.

Skyrim.

Morrowind.

MY journey through Elder Scrolls :

Arena: never played
Daggerfall: it was great and lots of fond memories... but ancient past and I'd never start it up again
Redguard: never played
Battlespire: BOOBS! ...khm... it was a weak game in my opinion
Morrowind: perfection, only marred by bugs, several questionable game design decisions and some graphical assets that were horrible even by those days standards (modding ftw)
Oblivion: horrible, only saved by active mod community
Skyrim: A LOT better than Oblivion, great world, but a tad too simplistic and shallow.


Skyrim is the pretty girl of the bunch that is fun to date but a nuisance to have around in a long run, because you don't have anything meaningful to talk about and every conversation with her is short and a bit boring
Morrowind is the gray mouse type, that maybe isn't such a looker, but when you get to know her better, you'll have time of your life.

So yeah... I still go with Morrowind on this one.

And believe me, I thought for long about it, its not just a "nostalgia thing".

Skyrim - Takes what the others had and makes them better.

THIS.

Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall if they reamde it awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I can only dream has everything I could want and more.

Skyrim because hunting down dragons is EPIC !

Gave it to Redguard, since I doubt many others vote for it... . It was very enjoyable and well put together, if hardly open ended. But hardly anyone has played it, due to some terrible supported video card choices they made.

Of the well known ones, its for me currently a toss-up between Morrowind and Skyrim. The dungeons in Daggerfall literally made me feel sick with all the "spinning around" you had to do to work out where you were. And Oblivion was just banol. Skyrim lacks the vivid imagination of Morrowind,, but it really DOES feel like you in a barbaric world - that is just done outstandingly well

Skyrim is fantastic, it has some extremely annoying flaws but overall I've enjoyed nearly every second of playing it, though with that said there are quite a few things I still prefer from the Morrowind Era that I think would have made Skyrim that much better.
Bethesda are taking steps in the right direction, they certainly aren't back at the top of the Stair case yet but they're going to get there eventually.

As much as I like the Perk system Skyrim has, the more I play the more I come to realize I miss the whole attribute system with all the extra skills we had, I mean yes some things were a tad redundant but TES has always been about Freedom, I feel the new Perk/Level System is going against that.

It has to be Skyrim for me.

Skyrim!

I love Skyrim, but I appreciated the fact that Morrowind let me become a god if I put enough time into it. You could become a master of everything if you really wanted to (and invested the unreasonable amount of time). With the perk system, Skyrim somehow makes me feel like it's not quite there. If leveling got much harder and it was much more difficult to max out all the perks, but you could, I'd probably be happy.

It was tough, but Skyrim just about edged out in front of Morrowind.

Though really they are all great (except for Arena, couldn't get used to it).

Who the hell voted for Arena?

Arena and Daggerfall are pretty much the same game, but with different story lines and different maps, but Daggerfall has more features and improved the features of Arena. Unless you just liked the story more, I can not possibly fathom how Arena > Daggerfall. :confused:

I like Skyrim the best, personally. While Arena and Daggerfall had bigger maps, the maps themselves were bland and uninteresting; they also are more traditional in their RPG roots, with no skills and everything based on abilities you arbitrarily raised after netting enough XP to level up. Morrowind changed that by adding skills, along with the attributes, and a system that focused on making gaining "experience" more active and realistic; you got better at certain activities through practicing those abilities. You couldn't be going around the world swinging a huge hammer everywhere and then suddenly, be a master of the arcane arts without ever casting a spell. It had a great story, lots of political intrigue and was pretty mysterious because of it's scale (to this day, I haven't done every single quest or seen every single unique item or character). It also had the advantage of being "real" 3D and not the pseudo 3D sprite filled dungeons of yore.

Then came Oblivion... What a trainwreck. It had some good points, but mainly in the fact that it looked better (at the time, of course) and that they moved to a completely voiced dialogue system. It also improved combat over Morrowind, which arguably had the worst combat system out of the 5 main games in the series. However, when compared to Morrowind (which any fan would do) it was severely stripped down in terms of mechanics and story. There was no "background" stories like there were in Morrowind and now have in Skyrim. The "unique" guilds were the finer points of the story line in the game. The MQ was absolute rubbish.

Now we have Skyrim. To me, Skyrim is what Oblivion should have been. It's still a bit stripped in terms of mechanics from Morrowind, but, for the most part, these simplifications are better, not worse. Leveling in Skyrim is a truly active system now. You don't need to think about how to play your character simply to level him correctly so he's useful in the areas you want him to be. You no longer determine your preferred class by taking Primary Skills; now you simply pick a race that would suit your style of play and play in that style. It also has a great story both on it's surface and in the background. Sure, it's not as in depth as Morrowind, but as I've said numerous times before in other posts, it is only concise because it is completely voiced. You can still get the depth you so desire by reading the great deal of new in-game books in Skyrim, doing some of the larger side-quests (like the civil war quest line) or simply talking to NPCs about the current political climate. Not to mention their art style and hand-crafted world are simply stunning to look at; even if the textures on the PC version are the same quality as the consoles (which is to say, they could be much, MUCH more detailed on PC).