thankyou OP you said exactly what i am feeling about skyrim.
best post in the forum so far.
its a fine game but not fit to lace the boots of that first morrowind experience.

My first elder scrolls game was Oblivion, and while I really enjoyed it I am finding Skyrim far more enjoyable as a whole because it fixes all of the issues I had with the last game.

What I do find though is that reading people's negative comments about games online actually makes me start criticising the games more and enjoying them less, whether or not I even agreed with the person in the first place. I think that I really need to learn to just ignore what other people say and make my own opinions about games, without letting other peoples arguments sway my own opinions.

As a younger person who has tried some of these older games that many people rave about, I must say that I think nostalgia comes into it a lot. I find the games virtually unplayable (Not because of difficulty, but because of poor gameplay mechanics, bad graphics and other things that are improved in more modern games). Even some games from my childhood that I loved seem fairly sub-par when compared to what I play now.

I started with Morrowind, I like Skyrim way way more though.

I started with Morrowind, but I was too young to enjoy it.

I never made it to Caius.

But after, when I was older and could enjoy it, What a Game!

I have this awesome memory of stealing alchemical supplies, mortar and pestle, calcinator, from a telvanni house and for some reason it's my most vivid and loved memory of morrowind.

Maybe you should stare at close-up Skyrim textures for a good minute, that'd give you a Morrowind feeling!

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This is neat I get the same thing. THere was a few times in Skyrim where I was reminded of it. Some of those rare moments when something from the lore pops up and you didn't see it coming. But yeah, I miss that sort of nostalgia.

You're right (same age here), but that void cannot be filled with anything, nor with Skyrim, nor with practically any other game.

Personally, I'm happy enough already that Skyrim feels so "Morrowind-ish" to me, and that brings back memories of the awesome moments I spent with that game

Of course your not going to get that feeling when you first played Morrowind when playing Skyrim, This happens with every single game series out there (i.e Dragon Age) I don't know why people are expecting Morrowind 2.0

Morrowind was fun, But I'm enjoying Skyrim way more.

I feel the same way about Oblivion (was my first TES though I'm 27 Oblivion was my first). Morrowind was your first and is a special thing that cannot be matched, Oblivion was my first and is special to me but just think, how lucky are those first getting into TES with Skyrim that wow feeling you get playing a TES for the first time.

I've been chasing the feelings I got from playing Ultima IV for 27 years now.

I think I get that with Half Life 2 for some reason, though it was by no means by first game since I started gaming in the 1970s (well, I didn't start in earnest until the early '80s, but anyway). My favourite of the series is still Oblivion, though that's with the qualification that it's modded Oblivion: time will tell if modded Skyrim competes with or overtakes it.

I am 32 and have nostalgia for the snes game zelda:alttp. younger people will look at it and go 'the graphics are crap', but when i played it as a teenager in 1994 it was amazing!

my god it would take to long, but i agree. take visuals out of the equation and morrowind was a much better game.

While I agree with a lot that the OP said, couldn't the same argument be used about Skyrim because it is our shiny new toy? After the "newness" wears off of Skyrim, let's see how favorably we all see it.

You're just saying that because Morrowind was the first TES game you played (maybe), so getting that open-ended feeling again is going to be almost impossible.

For newcomers Skyrim will have that feeling, and the next TES game won't feel the same.

Go back and read some original reviews for Morrowind. At the time Morrowind was groundbreaking for it's amazing visuals, everyone was slobbering over how beautiful it was at the time. For "it's time", I think Morrowind broke more ground, graphically, than Skyrim has today.

Think about it: was Daggerfall -> Morrowind a greater leap graphically or Oblivion -> Skyrim? I'd have to go with the former. Now art design is another story - Skyrim blows Oblivion out of the water.

AH, the summer of 85' Ultima 4 was probably one the best RPG ever

Finding the Icarus scroll, reading it and then face planting on the rocks around the river outside of Balmora.

I think that's a rather subjective opinion; I've put hundreds of hours into Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim (yes, already, I have no life.) Morrowind doesn't stand head and shoulders above the others, as much as I love it; it was just one step along the way. That's not to say it has no advantages compared to the others, but for every plus there was at least one minus. One can accept each game for what it is or be perpetually dissatisfied; I know which I'd rather be.

I miss flying, I miss having to work my way up in guilds/organizations, and I miss a long, interesting main quest. In fact there's a lot of things I miss in the newer games, but at the same time I'm hoping that all of this will culminate in 2-3 (4?) years when the next game is released. By then new consoles will be out, so we should get another upgrade in graphics and new places to explore. My hope is that Bethesda is watching the scripting/modding that people do with their games and implement the ideas in that release.

Example: Would be awesome if towns and houses were part of the game world, so I could stay inside a building and see what's happening outside.

Also, please stop snowing indoors.

Nostalgia is funny that way. You tend to forget problems you may have had b/c either you didnt realize you had them or didnt know any better or simply b/c the good overshadows all the bad as time passes. One thing is though, although you may be tempted to go back and enjoy that again, going back to an old game like that may (but may not) completely ruin the memory for you. How did I play this for so long?!?!?!

Just wait until they invent "Smellivision"...then you will know what groundbreaking is once again. The dungeon that I just came out of would be horrific to the senses.