I am a huge fan of TES. Morrowind was one of the most immersive games I have ever played. You started out as someone who was weaker than the average Joe and slowly turned into a god. Now the combat in the beginning was downright horrid but increasingly got better. Oblav, while lacking for the most in gameplay/story mechanics, was immensely greater in combat than Morrowind. Skyrim, from what I have seen and played so far, is doing great job in blending the two. The combat is borderline perfect and so far the story isn't to shabby either. I just hope they have things like the werewolves and all the other magical things that made Morrowind amazing.

I am a huge fan of TES. Morrowind was one of the most immersive games I have ever played. You started out as someone who was weaker than the average Joe and slowly turned into a god. Now the combat in the beginning was downright horrid but increasingly got better. Oblav, while lacking for the most in gameplay/story mechanics, was immensely greater in combat than Morrowind. Skyrim, from what I have seen and played so far, is doing great job in blending the two. The combat is borderline perfect and so far the story isn't to shabby either. I just hope they have things like the werewolves and all the other magical things that made Morrowind amazing.

Its def better then OB. I loved Mw and i love Skyrim


A guard also said "aww, did someone steal your sweetroll?" That has to be a referance to the quiz you did as char creation in MW

Yes! I noticed this too. Very cool

Loved MOrrowind. Hated Oblivion. I am loving Skyrim. Maybe a bit more than Morrowind, even.

I knew i had heard that music before....that is cool

That was gonna be my next question. Does it seem Skyrim will be as moddable as Morrowind was? Mods were what kept the game alive for me, and I used gigs worth of them. They're not even additional quests and land masses even, they're mostly just tons of tweaks and improvements and lots of little things that all add up to one great game.

^ One of the most absurd things I've ever read on a gaming forum. It's like saying "Big Rigs is a highly polished game." When someone hears you say it, the first inclination is to suppose that you were being sarcastic. But when it's realized that you were trying to be serious, it brings into serious question your competency to make judgments. If we're talking PC here, then Skyrim's UI is one of the worse UI's to have been given to a PC game, and perhaps you mangled to order of your sentence and meant to say "Morrowind's UI beats Skyrim's by leaps, bounds, and a intergalactic space jumps."

I could probably agree with that.

Still adore Skyrim thus far, though.

I threw it on the ground and stomped on it. Those three bullies get no sweetroll from me!

Compared to Morrowind, I say this is an equally immersive and vast game. I used to play Morrowind for hours and hours on my old XBOX, and I just can see myself doing the same with Skyrim. I also got the PC version, which is a plus for mods and such which will definitely extend the experience. There's definitely some changes which will bother some purists (like OMG no attributes), but the game world is definitely breathtaking and full of things to do.

In my opinion, Oblivion was definitely much worse than this, to the point I never even finished the main storyline because it didn't hold my attention.

The game is pretty awesome in some ways, but pretty overwhelming in others. I feel like this might have that same effect in Oblivion where it seems awesome with its shiny graphics, but once everything becomes familiar there won't be a whole lot there to keep me going. It does, however, seem like quite an improvement over Oblivion, and while that's not really a notable accomplishment, I was really afraid it wouldn't be. Does it stack up to Morrowind or Daggerfall? That's yet to be seen. If you simply updated the graphics on those games, not even quite to the level of Oblivion and Skyrim, and added Radiant AI/Radiant Story, that alone would probably make the brilliance of those two games more apparent to everyone. But then, who would be around to drool over these new games that just don't have the same stuff? I have a feeling this will turn out to be a very fun game. It will just suffer as a sequel to 2 really amazing games (well, 3 really, Arena is a great game, it just didn't age as well as Daggerfall, and can't really compare with what it has to the advances of Oblivion and Skyrim) and seem less than what it is by comparison. I like to explain it with my comparison of Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or whatever. It was an above average action movie, but it was a bad Indiana Jones movie. Oblivion was an above average game, but it was a bad TES game. And I've only played Skyrim for 5 or 6 hours so far, so it's way too early to place that on the scale, but I have a feeling it'll be somewhere pretty close to the middle between Morrowind/Daggerfall and Oblivion. The trick is to see which it's closer to.

EDIT: Oh, and let's not forget, we've all suffered a handful of years of Oblivion, so in terms of recommending this game to TES fans, especially Morrowind ones, I most certainly do. And I might be one of the more harsh critics of recent TES and Bethesda on these boards, so that should tell you that it's worth the buy.

I thought this was a reference to your birthday during Fallout 3. Dang lol

Love it. Morrowind has started to age just a bit too much for me to enjoy anymore (about 2000 hours maybe, mostly on Xbox, only graphics mods for PC), and while I played quite a lot of Oblivion (about 300 hours PC, modded to hell), it never really filled the gap for me. Skyrim definitely has.

There are some issues, but I'm a long time Bethesda player so I'm used to it

If you do that, I recommend you do the rebellion/legion story line parallel to the main, it makes for a very chaotic and complex storyline.