» Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:16 am
There are very strong feelings going around on Oblivion and Morrowind. And there have been immense numbers of verses threads. I hope this doesn't go in that direction.
Both are good games. Oblivion is obviously the more recent, so the graphics will be better. If you play Morrowind you may need to mod it a lot to get acceptable graphics and also you will still need to read the dialogs (mostly it's not voice acted).
For Oblivion I highly recommend OOO and MMM which are huge mods to change gameplay and monsters etc; Quarls retexturing and Natural Environments makes major graphical improvements, in some places the game is comparable to Skyrim (except NPCs), also the nGCD mod for improving a weird leveling system.
For Morrowind, this is a good source of mods:
http://www.mwmythicmods.com/telesphoros.htm
This is very, very subjective but I'd recommend Oblivion, since to me it seems closer to Skyrim in several ways. But that is just an opinion based on taste, and also that Oblivion is the more recent game.
One thing you may want to consider is Fallout 3 (or Fallout New Vegas). They are actually similar to Skyrim (and Oblivion and Morrowind) in that there is a huge open world to explore. Completely different environment (Fallout 3 is a nuclear devastated Washington DC in a 1950s future).