True, but I think Daggerfall's fanbase was a lot more lax about Morrowind because it wasn't really a step forward or backward - more of a step to the side. Daggerfall had numerous complexities, but also failed to deliver much of its promised content and was, in the end, still a procedurally generated wasteland. The overall scope of the game and the freedom the players were given had been revolutionary and amazing at the time, but not necessarily superior to Morrowind's system. Many skills and factions were lost with Morrowind, and the dungeons were certainly simpler, but whereas Daggerfall pursued "quantity over quality", Morrowind pursued "quality over quantity".

I can imagine for TES fans at the time, even those who liked Daggerfall's system, were amazed to interact with such well-developed characters and discover the intricate, well-crafted locations. It was certainly a fair trade. Oblivion did what Morrowind did in that it removed even more gameplay aspects, but it did not really offer anything substantially new/revolutionary in return. The traps and combat system were a refreshing change of pace, but many felt those would not negate the massive slashing of plotline and skills. It's less of an "Oblivion has less stuff than Morrowind" argument, more of a "what the hell were you trying to pull, Bethesda?" situation.

i had a hard time answering the poll cause i voted arena for least favourite to avoid saying OB, and i voted todd cause ive never played anything by tht other guy. so i thought the questions kind of trapped me into saying something false.

Morrowind best all in all, loved the music, the environments, the voices everything but the fighting (which i really enjoyed in oblivion).
ive only played morrowind and oblivion and liked them both

Morrowind.
Redguard.
Todd.

Ditto. Hard to choose between Oblivion and Morrowind as favourite. I went with Oblivion because I play it almost vanilla, whereas with Morrowind, I used quite a few mods. But honestly a tough choice there. Battlespire as least since it's the only one I haven't played (not counting TESV, not sure why it's there) and I liked all the others. Todd because I think the series continues to improve.

so far ive put about 20 hours into Morrowind, explored quite a few regions, and find it overall amazing. But i still stand by my decision that i liked Oblivion better. Simply because i think TES NEEDS either fast travel or horses. there have been many quests where ive clocked 40 minutes walking through empty pathways and 10 minutes actually doing the quest, thats not what i want to be doing in a game. Overall i like the way Oblvion is an open plane which can be explored almost entirely wheras morrowind is more of a series of pathways carved in mountains. While there are things about morrowind that were missing in Oblivion (Spears, joining the imperial Legion, etc.) but i just preferred the open grasslands and woody wilderness of Oblivion to the mountainous rock ways, sandy deserts, and marshlands of Morrowind.

IF morrowind had horses it would be OK but at lower levels your character just walks to slowly to want do any exploring.

morrowind is king

morriwinds combat is meh but morriwind is bigger
oblivions is good, is big, and has way better graphics

I hate Morrowind [censored]....and theres a lot of them here !

I played Oblivion first and its awesome...then i tried to play Morrowind,and its just so non playable aaaahhh dont like it .....Oblivion is better at least i can enjoy playing oblivion.

Morrowind

whoa, it might sound like i was slagging on morrowind earlier but Morrowind and "unplayable" do not belong in the same sentence, you need to play into it a bit, its an amazing game, theres a LOT of stuff you can do in morrowind that you cant do in Oblivion,


But ill agree i enjoyed Oblivion a bit more.

I have played them all. Arena and dagger fall are practically the same look and the feel. They are neat in their scope and largeness but its all so generic. Walking threw the forest was just like looking at the same trees roll past over and over. Im also pretty sure morrowwind and oblivion hit milestones in record sales for bethseda under the guidance of Todd. Im just curious to the people who love arena and daggerfall, how would you have envisioned tes 4 or 5 to meet your expectations? I honestly dont think the heart of what makes up these games has changed. Only the graphics and technology along with a few design implementations like a hand created landscape instead of a huge generic randomly created landscape.