Playing previous games

Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:09 am

After you have played Skyrim and experienced this whole new engine, new game play, new graphics (compared to Morrowind) and of course all these dragons which didn't appear in the previous games.
Would you play them again, and if you would say which of course :biggrin:
Hearing your opinion would be also nice!
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Katharine Newton
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:19 am

Couldn't be bothered playing the older games. Skyrim blows them out of the water.
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Melung Chan
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:50 am

Skyrim isn't like other TES games, its not like he is "just as" Morrowind/Oblivion only better.

Some things he does better some things he doe worst.
Im still playing Morrowind alongside with Skyrim, hell, Im playing morrowind more than Skyrim lately. They are just different and everytime I want to experience something else.
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Edit: Ill get a cure before the disease comes - lets try to compare for a second Skyrim and Morrowind, just a few points.

* Dialogue: Skyrim does it by voiceacting while Morrowind does it by text. Now - "Voiceacting" Is generally more favourable by people than text, but the fact Morrowind used text was giving morrowind more dialogue options and quantity. - So it comes to personal preferance between Variety&quantity VS Voiceacting.

* World: The world of Skyrim is bigger and dynamic. While Morrowind's world is static and small. The number of "events" is similiar in both games, so BECAUSE morrowind is smaller its actually feeling more "filled" by details and events, while Skyrim is bigger therefore has more of emptyness, but in the long term same amount of events and colors. Skyrim has more replay value and gameplay in the long-term even tho it gets repetetive. While Morrowind is handcrafted and gives you a better experience for the first time. There was some sort of crazy feeling in morrowind that you can find whatever whenever and it can totally change your gameplay. While in Skyrim you mostly get what you aim for. Enemys at your level will drop loot for your level. - Again, completely about preferance of the individual. Handcrafted or generated Radiantly & Dynamicly?

And so on...
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:09 pm

What Bidderlyn said, Each game is it's own entity and I will enjoy each one in its own right.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:50 pm

The older games out perform Skyrim in many ways and Skyrim out performs them in some. I'm greatly enjoying Skyrim but I doubt I will put as many hours into it as the last two games, yet at the same time I feel like Skyrim will be the only game I will ever manage to finish 100% testing every single character type possible.

I wasn't even able to make the kind of character I wanted after all in Skyrim due to the lack of spells. But Skyrim is still a great game, it's just not "as" good.

Will be playing some more Morrowind and possibly start Arena after I finish Skyrim.

Edit: Just wanted to remind everyone that what I find to be a strong point for a game may not be the same think others look towards when they think "woah, this game is good", different people with different opinions and all that.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:51 am

I can't go back to Morrowind or Oblivion. Skyrim has done them in. But Daggerfall is just a different experience, and I can always enjoy it.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:11 am

If anything, Skyrim has given me a craving to go play Morrowind some more. Perhaps once I've finished up my 2nd playthrough and done the things I didn't the first time around, that's just what I'll do. :)
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:25 pm

Each and every one of the TES games are different and have something bad and good about them, same with Skyrim.
As some of the posters above already said, this only makes me wanna play the older games more.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:07 am

The lack of complete dialogs in Skyrim and the omnipresent level-scaling making the game so easy even on master difficulty (as long as you don't rush like berserk and take time to prepare your fights which you should do in any RPG) made me want to reinstall Morrowind. So I tried that today.

Unreadable disc.
[censored] fate...
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:10 am

While I'm at home away from my gaming PC for a month I'm probably going to be playing Morrowind (or Daggerfall if I'm feeling adventurous). Graphics are nice but they can get old quick, and I really could care less about dragons.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:47 am

I'm actually a bit confused... Morrowind was EPIC and GREAT in every aspect of it (to me, at least). It was a unique experience for me and I always find myself wanting to play it again and again and again, mostly because it's so nostalgic for me, and I don't know if Skyrim gives me that same nostalgic feeling or not.

One thing I can say for sure, is that Skyrim feels and looks different from older ES games. Which is a good thing because I was afraid it'll be just an Oblivion 2 or something...

Skyrim is unbelievably amazing. For me, it has (almost) what every game needs. It has a sense of adventure, good conversations, choices and consequences in quests, one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a game (Morrowind had an amazing soundtrack as well). I've had amazing experiences playing Skyrim.

All in all, I don't think you can compare the two games. They bring to the table different things which are a matter of preference. Thing is, now Elder Scrolls is more commercialized for the open crowd. Even those who don't like RPG's like Skyrim. Which is an amazing achievement for a RP game in our time.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:52 pm

If anything, Skyrim has given me a craving to go play Morrowind some more. Perhaps once I've finished up my 2nd playthrough and done the things I didn't the first time around, that's just what I'll do. :)

Yeah I plan on dusting off my old original xbox and playing Morrowind, After I play Skyrim for awhile longer. I have it modded out big time on my old PC, just to lazy to pull it off that HD and put it on my new one.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:44 pm

Heck yeah, once I get bored with Skyrim I`ll continue with my neverending Daggerfall.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:16 pm

I'm not sure yet. I absolutely LOVE Oblivion but I tend to want to play the latest technology. I have a game of Oblivion I never finished. One of these days I'll fire it up and see what I get out of it. Oblivion is dear to my heart so it may be just great. :)

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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:05 pm

I'm not sure yet. I absolutely LOVE Oblivion but I tend to want to play the latest technology. I have a game of Oblivion I never finished. One of these days I'll fire it up and see what I get out of it. Oblivion is dear to my heart so it may be just great. :)

:tes:

I know people like OB and that is fine, to each his/her own. It was just too bland for my taste. When it came out I played it through a few times. But I tried playing it before Skyrim and couldn't force myself past level 6 without becoming bored. I was even bored of FO3 by then. I was playing that awhile till I was sick of it....lol :bowdown: :tes: :bowdown:
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:38 am

After you have played Skyrim and experienced this whole new engine, new game play, new graphics (compared to Morrowind) and of course all these dragons which didn't appear in the previous games.
Would you play them again, and if you would say which of course :biggrin:
Hearing your opinion would be also nice!


I want to experience the whole ES-series, so the plan is to finish Arena, then continue with Daggerfall, Battlespire ,Redguard, ...
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:09 am

I still have Oblivion and it's 16+GB, FCOM, modded out the blow hole folder installed. I could see myself giving it a go again. Probably even Morrowind at some point.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:21 pm

dont know why but i feel like playing oblivion.
too bad i dont have it anymore
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:17 pm

The older games out perform Skyrim in many ways and Skyrim out performs them in some. I'm greatly enjoying Skyrim but I doubt I will put as many hours into it as the last two games, yet at the same time I feel like Skyrim will be the only game I will ever manage to finish 100% testing every single character type possible.

I wasn't even able to make the kind of character I wanted after all in Skyrim due to the lack of spells. But Skyrim is still a great game, it's just not "as" good.

Will be playing some more Morrowind and possibly start Arena after I finish Skyrim.

Edit: Just wanted to remind everyone that what I find to be a strong point for a game may not be the same think others look towards when they think "woah, this game is good", different people with different opinions and all that.


Well, we don't even have mods or official DLC yet, so don't judge what your experience with Skyrim will be quite yet, right? :) I mean, the game hasn't even been out a month yet, and won't be out in Japan for a few days.

Skyrim is unbelievably amazing. For me, it has (almost) what every game needs. It has a sense of adventure, good conversations, choices and consequences in quests, one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a game (Morrowind had an amazing soundtrack as well). I've had amazing experiences playing Skyrim.


Skyrim includes a lot of Morrowind's soundtrack, perhaps even all of it. I have heard a lot of Morrowind music in Skyrim (and that's not a bad thing, of course).
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:54 pm

I will play Morrowind again for sure, but will probably never, ever go back to Oblivion.
Installed it while waiting for Skyrim and spent more time downloading the mods i NEED to enjoy it only to get bored after playing for an hour or two.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:55 am

Absolutely love Skyrim! I will still go back and play Morrowind though, nothing can ever replace that first time I beat Morrowind. Plus I like the old school journal way of keeping up with quests and what not. Nothing can replace having to read the notes in the journal, trying to figure out where/what it was talking about and then having to spend 4 hours finding the cave. It made me think that I was really part of the adventure. Skyrim you just follow the arrow…hope someone comes up with a mod to remove it and give me back my journal.
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:51 am

I will play Morrowind again for sure, but will probably never, ever go back to Oblivion.
Installed it while waiting for Skyrim and spent more time downloading the mods i NEED to enjoy it only to get bored after playing for an hour or two.


I feel like I've made this exact post myself, possibly even word for word, before, lol.

The most recent time I installed Oblivion, I didn't even start playing until I had found and installed mods that increased arrow damage and fixed level scaling. And those were just the major issues.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:56 pm

I'll play Oblivion and Morrowind again.

Have to get saturated with Skyrim first and that will take more than the 200 hours I have in it.
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