So in Oblivion, I found that my mages looked best wearing dwarven greaves and boots as well as orchish gloves. Something about the armor having that purple hip cloth just made it seem more mage-y then most armors, more so when saving the world. As I was playing Skyrim, I noticed that the chest piece seemed to interfere with the aesthetic like it did in Oblivion. Unlike oblivion, you can't take it off and wear the pants.

It got me thinking, in any elder scroll game, what armor do you have your character wear to complete a certain look?

In skyrim I wear full leather armor to complete my archer/ranger look. I only wear the helmet in tough fights because I like how my character looks without something on his head.

I wear only open face or no helmet because of not being able to put full face helmets on argonians in morrowind. Its a habit I guess. I'm not even sure if beast races can wear full face helmets in skyrim.

Yeah I don't really wear healmets either. I like my guys face.

I liked all of the different levels of armor in Morrowind. I tended to like the lower-level armors best in Oblivion and Skyrim.

Heavy stuff, which hides every shred of what makes you human behind an apathic juggernaught of destruction.

Yeah, me too. I wish there was some option to hide helmets but still have them equipped.

Heck, I spent all that time fine-tuning the face the way I wanted it. I want to be able to see it!

Oblivion had a lot more options for customized gear. In Skyrim, I mostly have one style per character. My Dunmer adventurer runs around in Elven armor with leather vambraces instead of the gauntlets. Sometimes I'll throw on a hood if the weather's bad. I like how it looks on him for some reason, and it's pretty decent in terms of protection. I also like leather armor on him, but the armor values aren't as good. My Nord currently has the Wolf armor, and I probably won't give him anything past Dwarven since the higher armor styles are a bit too outlandish-looking for his character type.
My Oblivion Dunmer, on the other hand, has numerous wardrobe changes. Usually, I run around with just Dwarven greaves and fur or leather boots. Sometimes I wear leather bracers or fur-gauntlets, too. No torso cover at all. He has pale blue skin, and that setup really looks wicked on him, and that cloth made it look like it was some fine, noble armor passed down through his family line or something. For a while, I had him wearing everyday clothes that looked surprisingly similar to the real-life garb I wear to RenFest (I'm a geek. What can I say?). And other times, I adopt a simple, somewhat Norman-esque style and wear a chainmaille hauberk over some leather pants and boots.

yh. Me also. I think many of the helmets in Skyrim are a bit of a let down. Many look either ugly or just plain daft.

With regards to armor, I try to match them in to the lore and race of the character.

My main character who is a Nord wears ancient Nord or Dragonplate.
I am also at present playing a Khajiit dual swordsman / thief / archer who wears glass with a hood.

In Oblivion & Morrowind my main characters were also Nord and wore Crusader armor (Knights of the Nine) & Nordic Mail or Ice (Bloodmoon)

In Oblivion I had a second character who was a Bosmer archer / thief who wore Elven with a mythic Dawn hood (the red hood matched the red sash on the Elven armor nicely)

Morrowind- Dunmer bard. Hlaalu (purple) extravagant shirt with bonemold bracers, greaves, and boots, and the bonemold right pauldron. No helmet.

Oblivion- Imperial knight. Legion cuirass and greaves with the legion horseman helmet, and the blades gauntlets and boots.

Haven't found my perfect look in Skyrim yet.

In Oblivion, I never really wore Armor, I found some pretty rare clothing and made it my main outfit.

I wore : Beggar's Shirt, Tan Hood, Black Wide Pants, and Leather Boots.

I actually have a Drawn picture of the outfit http://i44.tinypic.com/124ap0x.png, discluding the Leather Boots

In Morrowind, I liked to use the Indoril armour (later with the Gold cuirass/pauldrons/helmet) for my character, if nothing else than that made sense for the reincarnation of Indoril Nerevar.

My Oblivion character was a mage that I decided not to use armour for, just clothing - a green robe, to be precise.

And in Skyrim, I eventually found the Dragonscale armour (along with the helmet Volsung) looked good enough, though before that I was leaning towards the Saviour's Hide (with a mod so it would cover a bit more of her legs, the vanilla version just looked silly) and scaled boots, bracers and helmet for that barbarian look.

I honestly do not remember my favorite armor in Morrowind as I didn't play it that much.
I played Oblivion religiously and grew attached to (I know I'll get flak for this) the Heavy Imperial Dragon Armor with the Escutcheon of Chorrol. I didn't like it because of its stats or enchantments but quite frankly because I thought it looked great lol. The shield is sick though.
In Skyrim, I used the Daedric Armor with an Ebony helmet up until my last character who now wears full Blades Armor. I am loving the look of the Blades armor in this game and really enjoy the fact that it doesn't make you that over-powered.
Edit: Have now added a Crimson Red Cloak to my Blade Armoured character .

(In Oblivion) Full Daedric (6 pieces) = 75 defense, and you look just like a generic Dremora.

2 rings and an amulet with Frost/Fire/Shock shield from Transcendent Sigil stones (3 pieces) = 75 defense, and the character looks however they want.

I gave up physical armor for magic a long time ago.

I hate the fact that the armors are tiered 1iron 2steel 3dwarven etc. and the civil war armors are effectively cardboard! morrowind had the best invent... selection of items and spells, in Skyrim having, what, 4-6 tiers of a few spells per school, it's laughable. The mages have been getting worse over time! No levitation, teleportation, waterwalking, bound armor and no Spellmaking!
Skyrim is too action-orientated and shallow! I want my spears back! And who the hell uses 20-30 INGOTS of metal in a set. and let's say a single ingot weighs 5 kg, that's ower a 100kg! A fully armored knight in the 15th century carried less than 20kg of armor(inGame an ingot weighs 1 and an armor of ebony takes 5 ingots and weighs 43!) Rant... Rant... Rant...

Skyrim's orcish is the best yet...

My favorite Morrowind character ended up finishing the MQ with an Imperial Dragonscale cuirass, helmet, and shield, with various Imperial Chain pieces and black Heavy Leather Boots (mod-added) to complete the suit (all of it but the boots available for purchase at Level 1). Depending on whether he was "adventuring" or on official Telvanni business, he sometimes wore a robe over it. After completing the MQ, all but the boots, a conventional silver longsword, and a "healer's" robe went by the wayside, and he travelled only minimally armored, which was good enough for the character by that point (at least for a while, until meeting TB and BM opponents).

After a while of trying to "RP" what suited the character concept and failing, my OB character started using whatever was latest and greatest because of the linear armor stats progression nonsense, and I hated it.

I liked the assortment of native Morrowind armors and the House variations (Bonemold alone included 2 different cuirasses, 3 sets of pauldrons, at least 2 helmets, three shields, and a choice of gauntlets or vambraces), the Imperial set and the many partial sets to add variety to it, and the different netch leather and boiled netch variants on a theme. In Oblivion, each "set" consisted of no more than was needed to complete it, with perhaps an optional tower shield instead of the standard version. I don't know about Skyrim's armor choices, since the Steam requirement doesn't allow me to play it, but it sounds even more stripped down and simplistic than OB.

I usually have several Crusader/Paladin themes characters over the lifespan of a TES game and I tend to go for a knight-ish look for them. Usually it is steel armor(Morrowind, Oblivion and steel plate in Skyrim) for that.

In Morrowind I will either wear my Daedric armor with a modded in cape or a armor mod called "Field Sorcerer's armor" which is from the witcher 2, its the clothing worn by Triss.

In Oblivion I wear my crusader armor

and In skyrim my fighter character wears Dragonbone Armor, my mage wears an enchanted version of the unenchanted black robes I found in a fort and my ranger/thief wears the guild master's armor with nightingale boots and gloves.

In any games, i usually find out that lower level armors are cool, but higher level armors will make the character look like Robocop or Power Rangers. (Blood Dragon Armor of Dragon Age, Daedric Armor and Glass Armor of TES) I don't know why, maybe the artists thought those cartoonish armors look cool, it don't look cool, at least for me.

I prefer realistic armors, like Medieval Europe or Middle Eastern armors, it is realistic as well stylish. Roman ancient armors also cool too. They are practical.

Another thing, most armors for women in games can't be considered as armor, look like iron bikini or something...why? Whhhyyy?

Theres no armor that looks like iron bikinis in a vanilla TES games.

i know, but i said in most games

You haven't seen http://www.witchqueensia.com/gallery/d/54453-1/Skyrim035.jpg then.

lols, i don't know why 'bikini' is an armor for women

You clearly haven't seen the male rendition.

http://images.wikia.com/elderscrolls/images/7/7f/Forsworn.png

One, thats fur not iron and two its because the forsworn are tribals and the temperature near hammerfell is supposedly warmer then the rest of skyrim, plus the Forsworn are suppose to look like savages, you don't look like a savage by wearing clothes that cover your entire body.