Just something I started thinking about while trying to figure out where I'd find the harddrive space for Skyrim. I took a look at my Oblivion folder and found that it takes up nearly 24 gig! I could obviously make that a lot smaller if I went through and cleaned out some of the mods. But it got me to thinking, will I even play Oblivion any more after Skyrim comes out? Looking back at Morrowind I still get an itch to go back and play it every now and then.

But Oblivion... as fun as it is (after I mod the hell out of it), most of the things that irritate me about Oblivion are being fixed in Skyrim and I feel like if I try to go back and play Oblivion I'll just be reminded about all the things that were bad about it and not want to play it anymore. I don't really feel that way about Morrowind because it still has a lot of cool features that were removed in Oblivion and still aren't being brought back in Skyrim. I just don't feel like I'll have much of a reason to play Oblivion anymore.

So what are your thoughts? Do you think Oblivion and Morrowind still have some life left in them?

Very dependent on how good Skyrim is.

I still go back to play Morrowind sometimes. Oblivion? I've uninstalled it because I was so sick of it.

I'll probably still play Daggerfall after Skyrim, the thing with TES games is that they are all different.

Like Prince albums, it's never the same gameplay/songs twice.

No, they wont.

Oblivion lacks Morrowind's replayability. I think Skyrim will have replayability making modding the game a more popular likelihood than modding Oblivion.

im not really into nostolgic stuff... I will play Skyrim and never touch Oblivion again... Im kinda dissapointed with myself.. seeing as I didnt even finish the main questline in Oblivion...

Personally I believe you're not a true TES fan unless you've never played through the main quests.

Oblivion failed to send Morrowind into obscurity and Skyrim is more structured on Oblivion. So if any title is about to become pointless, then there is no doubt it's Oblivion. However odds are neither will.

-DL :chaos:

That's how I see it. I've been playing Oblivion as much as I did when I first got the game right now, and I play Daggerfall and Morrowind off and on. I played Oblivion so much when it was released that I got sick of it and stopped for a year or two. But now it's been so long that it feels fresh again.

I would play Arena again, but that first dungeon is so hard!

Ill be playing Skyrim ALOT but I will occasionally go back to Morrowind, Oblivion, FO3/NV

Haha that just may be true... I became leader of all the guilds and did a TON of side quests and exploring, just never made it through the main quest.

We'll just have to wait and see how good skyrim is. :thumbsup:

I can't really comment on Morrowind because I've only recently started playing it.

However, as for Oblivion, in order to get the game "just right," I had to install lots of mods and the game is a bit more unstable as a result.

I'll never go back to Oblivion, but Morrowind on the other hand, I plan on playing again some day when I get a gaming PC. I'll have to download tons of mods, especially the graphics enhancing mods.

No matter how good Skyrim is, Morrowind will always hold a special place in my heart.

TES is timeless.

Most people are probably LOVE Skyrim, but some are probably complain about how much better Oblivion was. It happened with Oblivion/Morrowind, it happened with Morrowind/Daggerfall, and It's probably going to happen with Skyrim/Oblivion. It happens to pretty much EVERYTHING.

This is the most ridiculous post i have ever read on this forum. And that's saying something. I've played every ES game (even the ES adventure games). I've put in thousands of hours into Daggerfall, and still never finished the main quest. But, according to you, i must not be a "true" TES fan.

i still play morrowind to this day. i havent played oblivion in over a year. if skyrim end up replacing morrowind as my favority TES game then i wont go back to any older games. except when daggerXL is finished so that i can finally play daggerfall.

I don't think Skyrim will have any bearing on making the older installments "obsolete." That's really up to a person's preference. Obviously, some people (myself included) still play and thoroughly enjoy Arena and Daggerfall, and by strictly gaming industry standards, those are pretty obsolete in most senses.

Haha, that's hilarious that the two highest votes are "I'll get back to Morrowind" & "I'll never touch Oblivion again"!

I'll be modding Morrowind for years to follow any ways. I play Oblivion once in a while for references or to see how certain aspects of the game were done. But I don't play it seriously.

@darnoor............read his post again. slowly.

For me it just seems like Skyrim is building upon Oblivion more than other TES games (a great thing IMO). Many things are different but not so different that I can't get the same "fix" from playing Skyrim. I will definitely go back to Morrowind (I actually like Morrowind less than Oblivion though) If only because I have not beaten everything in Morrowind. I'll probably be playing Daggerfall as well (I don't bother to touch Arena, first part is too hard).

If anyone wants a great tip: Play Daggerfall (or Arena) for a few days before getting Skyrim without playing any other games except perhaps Minecraft. Make sure you are playing Daggerfall right before you go out and buy Skyrim. When you play Skyrim the graphics will make you piss your pants. I was playing Daggerfall for a few hours one time and then turned it off in favor of playing Morrowind and the graphics BLEW ME AWAY! I couldn't stop thinking just about how great it looked and how smooth everything was. (I don't have any graphics mods on Morrowind)

To answer the op's question, hardly, this isn't like Call of Duty or Battlefield, where the old games will get dumped simply because their online servers will be become ghost towns a month after the new games release.

For starters every game takes place in a different Imperial Provence, and each one has a different look and feel to it, Morrowind is a land of volcanic activity ashland deserts and dwarven ruins. Cyrodiil is the central Provence of the empire filed with lush fields and the ruins of the ancient elves that the empire overthrew, Skyrim is a land of ice and snow and all things Led Zeppelin's Immigrant song.

Secondly, Bethesda, like many other companies that have made rpgs have a nasty habit of fixing one thing but breaking something else.

For example Oblivion's spell casting mechanics was an improvement on Morrowind, and made casting magic in combat more viable then the previous game, and combat was better overall. And the skill perks were a nice touch.

At the same time however they removed several fan favorite spells like Levitation and teleportation. Plus they nerfed the enchantment process, fact the whole process of making custom enchantments was pretty much undermined with the introduction of Sigil Stones. Training was also nerfed and only allowed you to train up 5 times per level, for really no good reason. And then there was the whole "everything level's with you" fiasco.

Sure the graphics get better, the AI get's better, but that doesn't stop people from playing those old games, especially given the large mod community that got built around those games. I mean I just got svcked back into playing Morrowind cause I found a mod that replaces the Morrowind Golden Saints with the Golden Saints from Shivering Isles.

I have no doubt that Skyrim will be awesome, and I will enjoy playing it, but as a Bethesda vet I now by now that each game is going to bring its own set of flaws along with improvements. .

Nope. I love Cyrodiil and its atmosphere, and I'll never throw that away, just like I still play Morrowind. People who say they'll just stop playing it altogether are silly.