Hi,
this is for the people who really, really liked MW (at that time...) and were not so happy about Oblivion.
It's not so much for people who only knew Oblivion and liked it.
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What do you think about Skyrim after playing it for a while? Is it great?
Thx for your opinions!

I love MW but wasn't crazy about Oblivion.

Skyrim is just incredible, and comes very close to capturing the sense of awe I first got when playing MW.

Yes, I did't hate Oblivion, but I couldn't get into the game as much as I did MW, and i loved MW. Skyrim is every bit the same feeling of, i MUST log in,when the hell did the sun come up? Why cant i have more Vacation time left game.

I really need to play this game longer to have a good judgment on this.

Morrowind will probably be my nr.1 game forever, but a lot of that is due to it's nostalgy value. Thinking back, I really played it like a spreadsheat min/maxing and being as effective as possible.

In Skyrim I just play and enjoy it. So far it's a close second to Morrowind but it might get worse or better, I'll just have to wait and see about it. I like Skyrim's environmental setting more than I did Morrowind's but Morrowind's culture and lore is hard to beat. And I miss the ol' Dunmer voice. Greatly.

I love Morrowind.
Oblivion is alright.
Skyrim is just... no words can describe.

Both are equally great. Skyrim has a lot more going on than Morrowind (Dragons, civil war, end of the world, that type of things) while Morrowind has a very unique feel, like an alien place. Morrowind also has a nostalgic advantage over Skyrim.

I was just telling a friend last night about Skyrim being the best since Morrowind. MW is still No. 1, but this is a very close second.

If you had some more of the features from morrowind (More pieces of armor, greater volume of spells, more guilds, guild relations, spell creation), combined with skyrim's look, freedom, and awe inspiring setting (You kill Dragons... what else do you want?)... you'd have the best game I would have ever played.

People bang on about morrowind but at the end of the day, sure it was a detailed world with lots to explore, but thats all it was. They are forgetting to look at it in the sense of the game dynamics and mechanics. It was clumbsy, combat was gerneric and the world was completely static.

People need to stop comparing this by 'area' and start comparing it to the entire peice. Moaning that there are no crossbows or spears is pointless, especially when the combat in morrowind was nothign to shout home about even then, its an invalid point.

Morrowind was great, I loved it, but I am a realist and I know what it is I am comparing.

Wait about 2 months. We'll have all of these (Mods & DLCs)

I realy liked morrowind, didnt like oblivion so much, stupid portals ru?ning the landscape and the stupid power scaling on everything T_T

Skyrim is awesome though! Although i still got the feeling the powerscaling is there it could just me being in certain area's i shoudnt be at yet (i sorta forgot about the main quest and explored). Or maybe its my jack of all trades that ups my lvl while my actual power lvl doesnt match it. After some more specialized lvl it seemed to even out again. Also no portals ruining my landscape! Instead a dragon fly's over every now and then. Way better then those portals they seem to pop 2 more for every one you close...

But the game looks awesome, ive serious said to myself, multiple times, wow, this landscape looks nice/awesome! IMO its very close to morrowind with such awesome graphics. Must buy!

loved Morrowind, Oblivion was both good and terrible

Skyrim is much closer to Morrowind than Oblivion to me, enjoying it so far

I loved both Morrowind and Oblivion.

So far, Skyrim is great. I need to play more of the game (with mods) before I decide how it compares to previous TES games though.

I agree with this.

I loved MW, spent a lot of time on it. I had many characters over 200 hours and two that I can remember over 300 hours.



I don't think it was clunky at all, and the combat animations might have been generic but the game its self was not, in anyway.
It used stats and dice rolls like any older rpg for combat. Ill give you the static world part, but Oblivion was static too from what I remember. Skyrim seems to have some dynamic changes to it though.
Crossbows could have been added easily enough, and with dragons in the mix would have made perfect sense, as well as spears. However I could see the problem with longer spears both in player and NPC use.
Morrowind was more for those with the ability read well and use their imagination, and if you could do that it would take you a long way.

I still miss the questions asked at the start of the game, MW had a lot more memorable moments that stayed with me than oblivion ever did.

Morrowind is what got me into the Elder Scrolls games. I didn't hate Oblivion, but I have to admit that Bethesda has learned from each game in the series; Skyrim is great.

Vanilla Skyrim is alot better than vanilla Oblivion, even with the further simplifications in Bethesda's traditional RPG system. It just 'works' better out of the box.

It's not a patch on Morrowind though sadly, although obviously there have been some improvements, combat mainly. I'm all for complexity in my games and Skyrim is borderline action game so far. Still great fun though, and I'm lucky enough to have a nice PC so it's only going to get better.

Made me lol! needed that : )

I'm glad you found it funny. Of course my opinion is my own, and only my own. To me, Skyrim is simplistic and contains nothing like the complexity found in Morrowind. So on 'popej's scale of RPG'ness'? it rates just above Dragon Age 2.

Each to their own.

I loved both Morrowind and Oblivion (the latter only at the start). What turned me off about Oblivion was that there was no reason the explore dungeons - all were generic, there were no quests, special items or at least some lore in there. In Skyrim, however, exploration is like in Morrowind: There is something special to be found everywhere. It's absolutely incredible.

Love Morrowind, like Oblivion and love Skyrim.

Oblivion didn't blow me away in the same sense as Morrowind did, but it was a great game on it's own. Skyrim on the other hand does blow me away in every sense. It gives that sense of adventure again that I felt in Morrowind but not in Oblivion. You actually feel like you are in a whole new world. Stumbling across a mountain altar during a blizzard and hearing a roar echo across the mountain tops and seeing a dragon come swooping down at you and breathing fire and commencing a dramatic battle is one of the lasting memories of this game i'll get. Nothing compared to that in Oblivion. It's almost like stepping off the boat in Seyda Neen and seeing the Silt Strider. Knowing that you were in a strange and wonderful world and it was the beginning of a whole new adventure you'd never forget.

So yeah, I think I might hold this in as high regard as Morrowind.

I agree, so far all the dungeons have been very well crafted and I have only seen what is likely a handful of them so far.
Every area feels different, and all the major citys have a unique feel to them.


I quoted you for truth and saying almost exactly how I feel. Skyrim has the sense of wonder that Oblivion was missing and MW did so right.

Agree totally. I think half the time people get caught up in nostalgia. Combat in Morrowind was just dreadful. Click, click, whiff, whiff. Meh.
Hell i loved Morrowind, but in my opinion, Skyrim beats the crap out of it in so many ways. It evolved, thankfully.

Morrowind was a fantastic game.

As someone who readily admits that i prefer the stat based RPG to the action based RPG, i was initially dubious about Morrowind and its 1st person ways but it soon pursuaded me of its many strengths.

Oblivion failed in most of the important areas. Where as Morrowinf had an interesting world, Oblivion did not. Where Morrowind had an abundance of customisation options, skills etc, Oblivion lost some of that. And although the graphics were much improved, IMO it failed at being anywhere near as engaging as Morrowind. Though i think saying it was a bad game is a bit harsh.

Skyrim is somewhere in the middle. I find the character customisation too bland and cut down for my tastes. The perks system works, and im aware of the diversity it offers. But it doesnt match Morrowinds variety in either levelling up or loot.

The world, IMO is every bit as engaging as Morrowind and Bethesda really should be praised for that. The characters are equally interesting if not more so. The music? Well i preferred Morrowinds music (though some is the same) but Skyrims certainly does the job.

I would say i prefer Morrowind. Not because of nostalgia. But because it was a game more suited to my tastes.

I wont mention the horrendous UI in Skyrim as that has been discussed to death. ... Doh i just did. lol

Don't get me wrong Skyrim is great and a huge leap in the right direction from Oblivion and I've really enjoyed the 5 or so hours I've played, but it still follows the dominating trend of simplification/dumbing down/consolification (whatever you wanna call it). You expect improvements to combat (the new dual-wield system is great!) and gameplay in sequel, but they still tend to remove stuff game by game. Lack of spears and crossbows doesn't matter much in it self, but I can't help but be a little disappointed that I can't levitate, mark&recall, lock/unlock with spells, customize armor piece-by-piece and wear a briastplate with my mage robe, etc.

In the end, though, most of these cuts were made in Oblivion, and Skyrim has a lot of improvements over both Morrowind and Oblivion that make it a great game. So, yeah, I'm also in the Morrowind was great, Oblivion was meh, and Skyrim is great-camp. Keep in mind that I've only had one long playsession with Skyrim, though