» Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:37 pm
My first BGS game was Morrowind (GOTY). I was just cruising the game aisle at Walmart one day reading the boxes when I picked it up. I had never heard of it, or BGS, but thought they did a pretty good sale job with the description on the box, so I tossed it in the cart. My computer gaming days were forever changed. (I had been playing Ultima Online for years. After playing Morrowind for a couple months, I decided to give my house and all my stuff to my guild master to either distribute to other guild members or sell for gold for the guild, and cancel my account.)
I got the Oblivion CE the day the game hit the shelves. I got each expansion as soon as it was available on disk, and downloaded Fighter's Stronghold the day they posted it on the web site. I got the GOTY just to show support for Bethesda. I can't say I like Oblivion more than Morrowind, but I will say I like it for different reasons. Morrowind as a FRPG kicks Oblivion in the britches. The story and the characters in Morrowind are also better than those in Oblivion. But Oblivion still has enough going for it that it ranks number one on my all time favorite computer games list. That includes Betrayal at Krondor, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale (& II), and Diablo (& II). (Ultima Online wasn't really a "game" from my perspective. It was more of an interactive chat room where you could kill the other people and loot their corpse.)
Even if Skyrim lives up to all my expectations, and supplants Oblivion for number one as Oblivion supplanted Morrowind, I'll still keep playing the predecessors. Even if for no other reason than their being sentimental to me.