Well, if you already have Oblivion, then get Morrowind... They're both great games, but Morrowind is a bit better in the sense that it is much harder and more of an adventure. It has more content as well...weapons, armor, spells, variety, etc. I read about people not liking it because magicka and health don't regenerate, but if you buy it for the Xbox or the Xbox 360, there are cheat codes that you can use to gain them back quickly. The graphics aren't good, but are bearable and are made up for with the greatest gaming experience that I've had. So yes, get Morrowind.

I went from Oblivion to Morrowind without much trouble. Once you get used to the graphics, loading time and combat system (which was rough), then the game becomes extremely entertaining.

id actually prob still be playing it, but on a 360 it runs like sh!t. so unless u want a seizure when u play it then whtever. still a wicked game though which makes it a shame it doesnt run well on a good console, and my xbox original is practically broken so tht rules tht out too.

I had no problem with Morrowind's graphics, as I bought Morrowind in 2002, back when its graphics and effects were actually very good. That is why I don't have any issue with it (except for it's teeeeerrrriiible animations for walking).

Also, to Mirander: I primarily play Mage types in all RPG games, and had no problem with Morrowind's magic system. I found it pretty easy to do with a decent alchemy skill and good bartering intelligence, as if one can remember where all the "standard restore magicka potions" are sold, then one can travel around and buy them all. In one game, I had over 20 that I had just bought, and a single standard restore magicka potion can fix most mage's magicka problems by itself. Also, I did not mind casting with my hands only, although I felt the change in Oblivion was very welcome. Besides: Morrowind has more spell effects and more freedom (such as enchanting with cast-when-used :stare:).

Also; using a cast-when-used effect on a spear to levitate and shoot my crossbow at non-leveled enemies.

I said "oblivion or morrowind" so that I could see if I should stick with oblivion or go move on to morrowind.
and this the TES general discussion, not the oblivion section.

Always bet on Morrowind.

no poll just for all to see morrowinds superiority ?
of course morrowind.

I still get Morrowind.



Morrowind graphics are fine even vanilla.



Humans (non robot) make mistakes.

I see people complaining about the graphics and it just leaves me confused. Does a lower polygon count and lower res textures really bother people that much? I'm not being biased against younger members, but I can't help but think the majority of the people with graphical issues are younger then the former.

Anyway I'm being a tad off-topic with this, but I still prefer Daggerfall over any other in the series. Excluding the side titles, I'd have to list the games in terms of quality as such:

Daggerfall
Morrowind
Oblivion
Arena

I played Daggerfall first. Then went back and played and beat Arena. After which I went straight back to Daggerfall. I was deeply saddened by Morrowind's departure from the TES mold and once I had my fill of it, went promptly back to Daggerfall. I did the same for Oblivion as well and suspect that TES 5 will be the same. With that said, here's a list of my favorites. The biased list that is.

Daggerfall
Arena
Oblivion
Morrowind (again, this was the one that broke my heart)

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I remember having fun playing this game with my cousin, on his atari 2600.

i only play oblivion (sometimes morrowind) on my xbox 360 (yes, morrowind works on the 360 if you get the "Original Xbox Games Spprt 2007 Xbox" from xbox.com) for these reasons:

1) control layout - im too familiar with the feel of the controller and the button layout on the xbox controller, the pc's is too confusing and hard to remember for me (it has to be the short-term memory loss)

2) my computer svcks
2a) its slow with good graphics
2b) i have to keep it at graphics worse than the xbox's to keep it running
2ba) it is still pretty choppy

of course, the pc has all the mods, but if you dont need them then xbox 360s the way to go

Im on amazon and GOTY edition is 34.99. 0.0 USED. Lol. Its still pretty expensive. Im thinking about buying it. Because i loved oblivion and I want to be prepared for TESV!

My main problem with the graphics of oblivion is the lighting and lack of shadows. The problem with the textures are theyre way too low resolution and so you loose alot of the detail that the devs put in. And ended up just looking like poo. I blame this on the Xbox 360, because of its tiny RAM, My computer has 4 gigs of ram (3 gigs are usable), and the Xbox has what? 250 megs? Yeah the major problem with Oblivion was that it was a console port. Plainly evident by the horrible UI and menus. And Fallout 3 has exactly the same problems.

And I am extremely disapointed to hear that Microsoft plans to keep the Xbox 260 alive for aother 10 years. Being limited to old technology realy brings the graphics quality of games down.

It was never officially announced. And oblivion, being one of the first game on the xbox 360, I think it has excellent graphics, shadows, resolutoin, and every other graphic terminology-thing.

Overall, I think Oblivion looks 'pretty', but IMO it does seem to have very unnatural lighting. Everything around your character looks all bright and shiny, as though your aura radiates sunshine :shocking:

Pick up the GOTY edition and budget yourself at least 100 hours on your main toon. You wont be disappointed.

Yes the graphics are old, but the art is beautiful and the landscapes so diverse. I actually prefer the look of Morrowind to Oblivion, even though Oblivion is superior in the technical sense.

I do have one recommendation to make Morrowind more enjoyable- kill the cheetah and take his house in Balmora first thing!

Morrowind has a game of the year edition for xbox


It's good for xbox, it's just not as good as on the pc. because of mods and control.

Here's the thing, I have and play morrowind xbox edition which isn't the GOTY Edition, no patch, no nothing added. No seeing enemy health, no difficulty slider at all.

...But it's still enjoyable.

When you get you skills up, it almost feels like playing Oblivion, because you start hitting, you start getting progress.

If I could get the GOTY edition, I would because frankly, it got all the expansion, and patches that fixes a lot of stuff, but it's still enjoyable if you can only get a launch copy.

This is strictly speaking xbox version, of course if you got the pc for it, that's the way to go. Because the xbox GOTY edition is like a collector item now. Just go look at the price differences between the xbox and pc versions.

Morrowind is much better than Oblivion and that is mainly for 2 reasons:
1) sense of accomplishment
2) the world makes sense

re 1.
Since there is no strict level scaling and you are free to train as many times as you want per level. you really feel your character grows in power over time. To give the player that feeling is one of the most important goals of the game in which you spend sooo much time.

re 2.
The world in morrowind is very believable. A. is has a distinct feel and setting, not a standard fantasy setting, B. The story is much more interesting and less banol than in Oblivion (e.g. the disappearance of the Dwemer) with even some politics in it (e.g. the temple and the heretics, conflicts between Houses and factions), C. The construction of the world is logical - both Oblivion and Morrowind had engine limitations as far as. e.g. the number of characters on the screen is concerned but those limitations, while destructive to Oblivion, where well placed in Morrowind. Whenever you roam around Cyrodil you wonder "Why the hell there are no legions here given the threat is so grave, why the defense of Bruma is more of a bar brawl in terms of scale, why only 50 people live in the capital of the whole empire" whereas in Morrowind, which is only an exotic province of the empire, such questions do not spoil your fun due to lack of a logical answer to them (eg. "the empire posts, Forts, in Morrowind are few and small in numbers of soldiers because the Empire have given a large degree of autonomy to Vvardenfel and have never actually conquered it", "why there is no army of zillion of soldiers marching towards the Red Mountain? ? because of the blight disease, because that a.s.s. Vivec is becoming weaker and Dagoth Ur stronger and maybe because there is no friking invasion form hell but its just the plague is spreading, the winds from the Mountain are blowing, some evil force is lurking there and nobody really knows what is going on there).

!confirm to everything said above. I found Morrowind to be superior in almost every sense. Also check out some of the graphics update mods. Although the game is old it ages VERY WELL, especially with mods.

I have never experienced the sense of wonder playing a game like I did with Morrowind.

If your current rig cant play Morrowind, I don't know how you can do anything on it. Morrowind does not ask a lot of your rig.

Morrowind is in my top 5 RPG's of all time, Oblivion isn't in my top 10. So I'd definitely go with Morrowind. They're so different they may as well be from different RPG series.

1. Unique non-generic world
2. Very atmospheric
3. Challenging
4. More static
5. Little or no level-scaling
6. Limited Fast-travel
7. No quest compass arrows
8. No magic re-gen
9. No 1-hour total heal
10. Just less hand-holding in general

Daggerfall.

Nice.

Yes graphics is about 45-60% of the game.
Oblivion has voiceacting
Oblivion has fastravel.
In morrowind you dont gain magic.
Menu-system is better in oblivion
Quest compass
Level-scaling
Great music

Oblivion flows much better, i play games because it's a nice way to relax. Morrowind is just hopeless, i do not like the look of it, i hate to read every damn word. Futher more i do not like to walk across the whole map to get somewhere. But i guess if you ike lore & stuff like that go ahead and play morrowind.

By the way, why is it wrong to like a game because of graphics? Some people even like soocer & tennis, while others like football and hockey.

In my opinion I prefer Morrowind when I want to go about exploring the game in search of a good story and lore. I prefer Oblivion when I just wanna get the job done and kill a bunch of things in a nice graphical and physical environment.

Ha. Level-scaling, Quest Compass, Fast-travel, and voice-acting are all the reasons I don't like Oblivion. The problem many of us have is that The Elder Scrolls was never for casual gamers. There was nothing casual about Daggerfall and Morrowind, they were pretty hardcoe RPG's. With Oblivion many people like you, who are probably 15 and have never even played a real RPG like D&D or Ultima, think Oblivion is the be all end all, when for many of us, it's going backwards. I wouldn't worry though, Bethsesda will answer the call of $$$ and make another watered down, hand-holding game like Oblivion because there are a lot more people like you than me.