Post your opinions and discuss.

Why?

Just curious. They are all amazing but I wanted to know who thought which one was the worst.

I only played Oblivion and Skyrim. It's not that I hate it, because I don't. It was my favorite game back in the day, but time basically outgrew it. After playing newer games, namely Fallout, I went back to it and it felt really clunky and awkward to play. The graphics weren't that good, the combat was stiff and it just got really old. While I do have a lot of fond memories of it, it's safe to say that Skyrim is the best...

Oblivion was too short, too easy and changed too many of the things that did work about Morrowwind. Shivering Isles was a fast attempt to correct the shortcomings of the game by adding new content and removing some of the cheesy cheats, but it looked like just that, a quick fix. I am very happy for the most part though with Skyrim, it is well thought out and engaging. The dungeons are much better than III or IV...

People who vote for Oblivion haven't played Arena.

I did and I would still vote Arena over Vanilla Oblivion just for content alone.

I was bored with Oblivion.

I liked Arena because it's the only game where you could visit all of the Provinces, and the quest was pretty epic (if rather straightforward).

It was hard to choose a worst expansion as I thought they all were pretty good and added a lot of good stuff to their games. I picked Shivering Isles simply because I liked the other two better. Tribunal was the only expansion listed that actually added to the base story of the original game in a way. The others were more like their own mini games.

I'v only played Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim, so I'd have to say Oblivion as the worst, and Tribunal as the worst patch since I don't exactly remember what the hell that added, I loved shivering isles and Bloodmoon through.

Oblivion is easy, but I did like all the expansions.

Knights of the Nine is clearly the worst expansion, and you didn't even add it on the list.

He didn't add Knights of the Nine on the list because it's not an expansion. It's a DLC (i.e. a mod).

Arena was one of the greatest games back in 1994. I've played it in 1995 as far as I can remember. Don't compare games with a time gap of 12 years if you havn't played both of them when they actually where new. You simply can't imagine the spirit Arena had 17 years ago on a proper MS-DOS machine.

"Worst?" Well, for expansions, that IS a little hard, since all in all, all three are good. In the end, though, I might go with Tribunal, since it feels the most forced/contrived for a lot of it. It's not quite so much that it's BAD, but rather than the other two are simply more superb. Now if only all the flagship games had the same quality as the expansions for them...

As for the games, it's a toss-up between Arena and Oblivion. Of course, in all fairness, I can't count in mods, since game modding didn't even really exist in the early 1990s. In the end, I'd probably go with un-modded Oblivion being the least of the series, given how it represented a number of conscious steps backwards without any real benefit to come of it.

Wow interesting results that oblivion was voted the worst and that shivering isles wasn't. Truly amazing expansion actuall.

i expected more out of tribunal sure its beautiful but there's no wilderness and you mostly fight goblins and durzogs in the surprisingly clean and barren sewers. as for the worst game its not listed in the poll but my worst experience was with redguard even though it was a spinoff series that went nowhere (thankfully) its still set in tamriel so i consider it part of the series. but as for a one that is listed i will say arena is the worst because all in all the story svcked big time give me a pen and a napkin and i would have a better one figured out in 2 hours. and it just felt like a generic magic and swords fantasy game but there thankfully was potential in the lore and other such things to kick off the development of this grand series. but redguard shows a future that might happen. if elder scrolls gets to casual and ultimately becomes linear It will die

Agreed I fear it will be though.

Only played Morrowind (didn't complete it, but I did get to 40 or 50 and I don't remember my feelings on it), Oblivion, and Skyrim. So out of the three, I would say Morrowind simply because I don't really remember having any moments with it other then Bloodmoon. For expansions, I would say Tribunal since I never tried it.

Arena was AWESOME.
It was ALL of tamriel.

Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puQB8xA7OlY

thats skyrim/winterhold in arena

For me, Arena doesn't count because I never played it, so I have to go with Oblivion as being very significantly worse than Daggerfall, Morrowind or Skyrim; and the only one I would consider as an actual bad game.
Not just the genericness or the level scaling or the terrible plot or the awful NPCs or the repetitive dungeons, but mostly because it felt so phoned-in; not that there wasn't a tremendous amount of work put into it, but that it felt like it was a game the whole team dutifully plodded through checking off their list of features that needed including, but without anyone actually being even the slightest bit inspired by the project (aside from the Dark Brotherhood quest designers, who did an excellent job). So what came out was just so utterly pedestrian and unconvincing and dull.

Shivering Isles was a massive turnaround; with some actual genuine love put into it, and it showed. Great expansion.
I voted Tribunal as "worst" but really that's just "least good" because I really liked Mournhold and its crazy undercity, it just wasn't quite up to the extremely high standards of Bloodmoon or Shivering Isles.

Poor Tribunal. :tongue: I actually think it's my favorite expansion pack.

It was not my choice, but I can understand why people vote for it. Both your main quest givers are thoroughly unlikeable, which means there is a bit of a "why do I work for these people again" moment. The plot culmination is awesome, though.

This is not fair, I can't pick an expansion, I enjoyed them greatly :intergalactic:

i liked oblivion and skyrim, skyrim is a huge improvement. didnt play the others

Battlespire. Oh, I have to pick from the main series? Blah.

Arena. It just lacks all of that wonderful lore that makes me love the series. Honestly, Arena--story wise--is just an average fantasy game. Big evil wizard, king goes missing, magic here and there, assemble a powerful weapon and kill the bad guy. Voila! I mean, it was nice for its time and for what it is, but its been succeeded by every TES game after it, in my opinion. And I think that's a good thing.

My least favorite expansion is probably Bloodmoon. I thought Solstheim was kind of boring, whereas, while Tribunal may have just been the city of Mournhold and the ruin underneath, both places were incredibly interesting. Then again, I loved the Tribunal and I love the Dwemer, so my opinion is kind of biased.