I love both Oblivion and Skyrim, but I voted for Oblivion because what I felt in that game listening to the music along with the exploration/scenery and lounging with the NPCs.. it really made me feel right at home. Unfortunately, Skyrim is missing a lot of what I felt in Oblivion but I've slightly remedied that somewhat.

That's why I voted Morrowind. It has way more choices than subsequent games. I play on console so I can't play Daggerfall. Otherwise I might have voted for it. I downloaded it on my fiancées laptop a couple years ago and it looked pretty cool but I can't work a keyboard for crap and could not control the character enough to kill the rat in the beginning or even look around the room very well. So I gotta go with Morrowind d cause I can play it on my Xbox and it has more choices than any other game I've played.

I played Oblivion and Skyrim before Morrowind but I have to agree with you about the art. Oblivion and Skyrim are beautiful but there is something mystical and very artistic about Morrowind. I have it on Xbox so I am running with the original graphics.

All three are great games though. I don't really play anything else except fallout.

For the Lore and story Morrowind was awesome, but it sufferes from antiquated game design now. Not dated well. The shoddy combat, follow-the-hyperlink conversations, and the poor functionality of the Journal for tracking quests really let it down.

Despite the glitches I feel Skyrim edges out. Sure, it's simplified in terms of many RPG elements, but still a greater product overall.

A system that links all the games (areas) into one giant world.

Never played morrowind. Heard the story was fantastic. However, one can see from youtube that the game mechanics and graphics are at this point rather primitive. What's more important, though, is that the setting itself was rather alien for this sort of game. It could have almost been a science fiction setting.

Oblivion was much more of a fantasy/sword and sorcery setting. I was quite taken with the size of the world and it's openness. However, it's mechanics and graphics were also a bit limited, and the game itself felt a bit..............goofy.

Skyrim is not perfect. However, the size of the game is..........astounding. Also, it finally hits the fantasy theme right - it's an epic tale of high adventure, along the lines of Conan the Barbarian (the original stories, not the spectacular Arnie film), the Saga of the Volsungs and stories of that sort. This game has changed the course of the industry. It will be mentioned in the same vein as breakthrough games like Half Life, System Shock and Deus Ex.

All of them are Elder Scrolls just with their own strength and weaknesses. Each game is different. Personally Oblivion is my favourite but all of them are elder scrolls worthy of that title, well perhaps arena is exempt, but the other are all worthy to be called THE elder scrolls game.

All of them. Each one is like a chapter of a bigger book. Skyrim contains more of the story because of everything that's gone before but we're still moving through the world of Tamriel and the story of The Elder Scrolls.

I completely disagree.

In fact it's almost the opposite.

Skyrim has taken away massive amounts of content from Morrowind - not added to it.

Shouldn't have posted this in the Skyrim subforums, me thinks.

Skyrim's winning! Yes!

I play on PC so morrowind, oblivion, and skyrim dont look outdated to me.
Each game is a different game with common lore and charectors.

Overall morrowind impressed me the most from its landscape, atmosphere, music, everybody interacts with everybody feel, and choices and consequences in who u join up with it combined with imo the best main story and pacing in a tes game, morrowind it is for me.
its not perfect and in no way means are oblivion and skyrim horrible games, I like them and still play them, but morrowind has wowed and impressed me the most.

Again I play with mods so even the 10 year old game looks like it came out last year and oblivions horrible faces arent so horrible anymore, and skyrims console graphics actually look like PC graphics.
All good games, but my votes for morrowind.

How about a "None of them option". I've played every game but Arena, and I can say that there are features I really like in all of them, and features I've really disliked in all of them. If I could pick and choose just the parts I like and assemble them into one game it would be "the greatest game ever". (for me, the rest of you would hate it of course).

Having played, and enjoyed, each TES game other than Arena as soon as they shipped - and I agree that they are cumulative, each building upon and superseding the last - I feel that, precisely for those reasons, Skyrim is the best in the series thus far, in spite of its faults.

All TES games merged into a holo-suite, Star Trek style, would be the ultimate TES for me. Probably won't happen in our lifetimes, but...

I'd settle for retrofitted past ES gams as expansions for Skyrim.

Everyone has their own opinion on what is definitive, therefore nothing is definitive.

Definitely.

;-)

To me, Morrowind had everything that makes a great Elder Scrolls game what it is (or should be): exploration, wonder, mystery, non-liearity, unique culture, feeling of desolation and being lost and isolation, etc.

Oblivion lost much of that, and Skyrim gained much of it back imo.

Hasn't come out yet. It'd have to be a fusion of Skyrim's smoothness, engine and combat, on one hand, and Morrowind's everything else (freedom, story depth, skills, magic). Less gimmicks and less dum... streamlining.

I've only played Oblivion and Skyrim, and Oblivion is better hands down.

Lol . Even science agrees that Morrowind is the best.

I have voted for Morrowind, mostly because I just loved the setting. It was my first TES game and I loved the dark elves. Regarding system, I really hated Oblivion leveling system and never managed to end the main story because I felt it was lame, compared to the darker one form Morrowind. ATM I am really enjoying Skyrim; although the system is too simple for me and I still find the leveling system slightly uncomfortable and I am liking the setting. Playing DID, I have not really advanced any of the quest lines too far, but they do not look even as complex as the Morrowind ones.