I played Skyrim as a tween and adored it but as an adult, I just find Morrowind more enjoyable, despite lacking the nostalgia factor (although the music certainly brings me back to all the time I've rewatched Fudgemuppet).
@@alexanderstilianov I am rather like that, I played Oblivion First, then Skyrim, (Perhaps ESO), and Then I Played Morrowind, yet I actually like Morrowind the most
@@alexanderstilianov I actually am not like that. I played Morrowind as an adult and am an avid fan of older games but I still can't bring myself to like it more than Oblivion OR Skyrim. I see why it's lauded and love its roleplaying depth but at the end of the day I'm just not into Dunmer culture. Oblivion remains my favorite main quest by virtue of being so charming while Skyrim is my favorite in terms of exploration. And I gotta say TESO is definitely phenomenal (beyond repetitive gameplay) and in terms of side quests even takes the cake. :)
Oblivion has the best roleplaying (outside of Daggerfall) Morrowind has the best story (outside of Daggerfall) Skyrim has the best world (outside of Daggerfall)
Skyrim has shallow world and combat is most watered down, heck even if Oblivion combat was really simple yet you could try different play style and beign a mage meant something If we think this way, SKyrim is nicest looking Elder Scrolls game and thats pretty much it Builds mean nothing in Skyrim because soon or later, you become Stealth Archer You as mage? Nah you still became Stealth Archer. Trying to play as Barbarian Melee Fighter? Nah you end up Stealth Archer
Morrowind was my entry to the franchise. One thing that has stuck with me all these years, was that unlike the main guilds (fighters, mages, thieves) which appeared in the citys to join, there was also mention of an assassin guild. Whithout quest makers I literally had to go around talking to npcs an collecting hints until i finally tracked them down to the sewers in Vivec where in a small room i found a locked trapdoor, inside i founs the hq of the Morag Tong assassins.
Yeah I really dislike how in Skyrim every NPC info dumps on you everything you need to know. Morrowind I remember learning the spell levitate on my own and figuring out there was an entire set of Telvanni houses you can't access without it.
Stop and think about it for a Second, do you Trust, Modern Bethesda...with making a Re-Master of Morrowind...knowing everything they could do to it...taking what is frankly already a good game even with it's bits of jankiness...and turning it into something worse?, I say this as a Player who played Oblivion and Skyrim first, yet Morrowind is my favourite
To be fair playing Skyrim (Without DLC'S) when I was 8 on a dusty old Xbox 360 felt like pinnacle of gaming. I played it for hundreds of hours (Like always not killing Alduin cuz fuck that guy?) and the game truly helped me through my hard childhood, the game has a special place in my heart and nothing will change it but like a year ago when I was 16 I decided to pick up Morrowind for the first time, man did that feeling return when I first turned on Skyrim. For all it's jank (I fucking hate when there are no markers) there is certain beauty in the game and it just captivated me, the entire prophecy of the Nerevarine and Dagoth Ur just surprised me because I never played Elder Scrolls necessarily for it's story telling but Morrowind felt different. Morrowind Imo is by far the best TES we have then Skyrim, sorry Oblivion fans but I could never get past the shit leveling system in it
Have to say it. Morrowind was one of the first RPGs I ever played, and that kind of spoiled me for what I expect from a fantasy world. I don't want medieval middle of someplace vaguely european, like skyrim and oblivion were. They were fine, I enjoyed them, but they didn't capture my full attention with the worldspace the way Morrowind did. I think part of why it was so interesting and captivating was because the more familiar, real world aspects, like the imperial forts and towns, were so starkly contrasted against the environment that it was clear they were colonizers. I'll always remember going to Sadrith Mora for the first time, thinking "oh cool. A castle. Never seen this before", stepping outside the tower walls and seeing the great hecking mushrooms curling up from the earth and being met with a dude wearing whole ass BUG as a helmet.
@@LymeGreen04 Sorry, i mean, in my opinion, you just thinks morrowind is a better game because you played it as a kid and The nostalgic feeling takes controll of your mind, morrowind is umpleyable nowadays
Skyrim on the surface might seem like an improvement on oblivion, but after half an hour of questing you realize how shallow it truly is. Yes graphically it is a massive improvement. Yes the word is very impressively realized. However the problem is that in Oblivion I would struggle to name the 5 best sidequest because of how many bangers there are, but in Skyrim I struggle to name five good sidequests. And questing is the meat of these games. Not to mention factions where Skyrim truly shat the bed. I would argue the Companions is so unbearably bad that the even fighters guild in Daggerfall is better than it. The other factions don't fare much better either. The only faction that I wouldn't call straight up just bad in the base game is MAYBE the thieves guild. But even that is a maybe. Not to mention how insufferable dragonfights can be before getting dragonrend - a lategame shout - if there was any game to use levitation THIS was it to equalise the fight a bit, but I guess people are way too law obiding in Tamriel to commit such a horrible crime. You know thievery, murder, reanimation, vampirism, cannibalism - the criminals of Skyrim are OK with all of those but the second you bring up flight they vomit just by the sheer thought of this unspeakably heinous crime. (this criticism also goes for Oblivion btw) The main quest isn't anything to write home about either, with Delphine being the annoying asshole she is dragging you around pretty much ammounting to exactly nothing but a literal waste of time. And they were so sure we would think she was such a badass that you never get the chance to tell her to fuck off. Even when she COMMANDS you - the person THEY are supposed to serve - to kill the best character in the game. The game also seems to expect you to beat the main quest first, which is a very backwards idea in my opinion. Gameplaywise I guess it is passable, though its potential is hindered by the stealth archer and bethesda refusing to make players commit as well as magic being by far the weakest it has ever been, barely being viable to the point you start questioning why characters devote their lives to study such a worthless skill, when they could just croutch in a corner and walk forward for a couple of days and become literal demigods. Melee combat also is unsatisfying.
I agree with most of what you say but the world and dungeons just feel so boring and empty compared to Morrowind and Skyrim. There is just no exploration at all and makes the whole game feel boring.
i would personally place Oblivion at #1 because, to me, Oblivion IS Elder Scrolls. it combines things I like from Morrowind and Skyrim, with just the right amount of everything else to make it incredibly enjoyable. the world is vibrant and beautiful, the guild quests are the best in the series to date (no TES game will ever top the thieves guild finale), the music is amazing, you get Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart, and it has some of the most fun quests in the series.
I agree with you oblivion was the first game I played in my life I remember I had a weak PC so my older brother installed a light game for my PC and my PC in Minecraft was 30 fps and this game is Oblivion which is the best game I've played in my life
I’ve been slowly dipping my toe into Oblivion. And what I’ve played so far has been pretty fun! Only two things bother me about it: first, the lock picking minigame. Coming off Skyrim and Fallout, the lock picking felt truly random, and I ended up avoiding it as much as possible. Second, from the lore recaps I’ve seen for the main quest…it _sounds_ like the makings of a great story; by being the catalyst for a wayward cowardly bastard son to become a great hero-king on par with Tiber Septim. The problem I have, based on what I’ve seen, is that we don’t get to see it in real time. We constantly get sent on a mission, and only see a recap of Martin’s growth after we get back. So the actually intriguing part of the main quest largely happens off-screen. Other than that, the rest of the game seems really good.
@@penguinmaster7 Doesn't help with learning the system, but okay. I guess I'll just cheese it. At least Nocturnal isn't that bad of a Daedra to work with...
Great video. Fricking love Oblivion, one of my favourite games of all time and completely blew me away when I played it back on the PS3 in 2007! Skyrim is fantastic of course but does feel a bit more identity-less in its vanilla form. Need to play Morrowind more, but probably with OpenMW and some visual mods.
Morrowind is such a magical experience. Sure, gameplay is the jankiest of the 3d games, but the world and most quest were fascinating. While Skyrim may not had a great story, the worldbuilding, side stories and additional content (like survival mode, becoming a Vampire or a Wolf) gave more depth to the game.
Or just go upstairs at an Inn and for some reason they have dozens of chests filled with daedric weapons and armor. My last daggerfall playthrough was in 2008 so maybe they fixed it.
Great video! 100% agree with your list 👌🏻 Morrowind is the perfect embodiment of a single player D&D campaign and I like the way you worded it as “a campaign that the DM put way too much time into”. People complain about the lack of quest markers and combat system. To me having to actually read the journal and figure out where to go made everything so much more rewarding. As far as the combat system goes, as a D&D/tabletop player, that just feels like how it should work. Gotta roll on hit, then roll on damage
I love how you were a prisoner traveling by boat in morrowind then they let you go and just plop you into vardenfell tes 6 should definitely do that again
I played Arena (a long time ago), then Skyrim, then Oblivion, then Morrowind and Skyrim is still my favorite game of all time. Across all the iterations I owned since 11/11/11 I have more than 3000 hours playtime in Skyrim, close to 800 hrs in the multiple play-throughs of Special & Anniversary Edition alone. Morrowind was the least enjoyable for me. I played ESO for three years straight, every single day, while maintaining quotas for three top trade guilds. I got so addicted to it that I had to walk away from it just so I could do other things in my life.
For me its 1.Morrowind 2. Daggerfall 3.Skyrim 4.Arena 5. Oblivion Oblivion is HONESTLY the only game in the series I actively dislike, hence its ranking at the bottom for me. Also; daggerfall doesnt generate the terrain on the fly. The game was procedurally generated in the 90's and has stayed that way. Same idea as oblivion, just a more rudimentary algorithm in a larger scale.
@RogueRanks yeahhh. It's a reference to kingdom hearts. I've long outgrown the name and go by a different one in most platforms, down to even having a new email with the one j more typically use but uhhh I REALLY do not feel like starting over on my recommendations and stuff lol
I'm sort of bias with Skyrim because Skyrim and Oblivion are the only Elder Scrolls games I've ever played, and I have played Skyrim for many years, I even platinumed the game, Skyrim has a huge place in my heart, I have played a little bit of Oblivion but nowhere near as much as I've played Skyrim, I don't really know that much about all the other main titles because like I said before Skyrim and Oblivion were the only ones I've ever played, I love almost everything about Skyrim, It's world, the dragons, all of the magical elements of the game, and I absolutely LOVE all of Skyrim's soundtracks and boss music, Oblivion's main theme sounds like something you would play as you watch the President walk by lol, but Skyrim's main theme is just pumped with action and adventure, I can't really put into full detail how much Skyrim means to me, It's one of the greatest games I have ever played.
Oblivion is the first Elder scrolls game I played and Morrowind was the second but Skyrim is by far my favorite tho. It is my comfort game when I am sad or a game I can play when I just wanna tone out the world. Also I think one of the more under appreciated things about it is its reach it had. The fact that I have friends that only play the type A personality games like COD, Halo, etc and they also played and loved Skyrim speaks volumes about the game.
I put... probably 100s of hours into Skyrim and still feel that I enjoy that game in spite of the Elder Scrolls style of game play lol Also, the final dragon was such a pain to fight as a stealth archer.
Arena suffers in this regard from the fact that Daggerfall is just Arena but better, so everything you could come up with to argue in Arena's favor (e.g. the sense of scale) is also present but better done in Daggerfall.
I never got a taste of late game oblivion sadly I am slowly trying to get there rn level 7 did the arena first for my free gold weekly and I love it still playing 14 years later I think I had it longer took me forever to beat
My first Elder Scrolls game was Oblivion, i loved the jank of it but Shivering Isle DLC was just master class expansion Skyrim, yea it was decent but good summary about Skyrim, Wide as an Ocean, Deep as a puddle, it just never managed to keep me in for the story and for the world of northern parts of Tamriel because it was just pretty much really shallow and mostly empty void experience after few hours But later i started Morrowind just 1 and half year ago and it is just something different, yea you dont have modern gaming plesantries but it doesnt matter Morrowind just hits different, I now have full playthrough with my brother using TES3MP mod what works really well. just crank difficulty to near max and it is still fun and challenging experience to 2 of us while we scout all of Morrowind, well atleast all what we can do Morrowind became my favorite Elder Scrolls game only withing 1 and half year time window
I would say Oblivion is my favorite mostly because it is the one I started playing and because of the Shivering Isles DLC but both Morrowind and Skyrim are also just as fun for me.
Was watching this video and felt like it had hundreds of thousands of views because of the quality only to see you're at around 400 right now. Keep up the good work man
Good opinions 👍 I completely agree. Morrowind nails that hand-crafted depth, roleplaying capability, and player choice without making it overwhelming with many arbitrary skills and overreliance on procedurally generated content.
I especially liked the realism in Morrowind of ability score and skill requirements to join and level in factions. In Skyrim you can become the arch mage knowing barely any magic
I've never played Daggerfall but I get the sense id like it. Morrowind my #1 game of all time :) I think Skyrim > Oblivion for me but its close. I find it more fun to mess around in
The only one I would argue with you about is your #1. The combat in Morrowind turned me off immediately. I was standing in front of this…IDK, creepy crawly thing, looked kinda like a dog sized ant. I swing my sword…and nothing happened. I kept swinging and kept swinging, my mouse never left the target, but what I assumed was this game’s version of a Skeever ended up killing me. Even magic failed me. Not to mention the walking speed was complete ass. I might love the game if I returned to it now, but so far, I’m perfectly content to wait for the Skywind total conversion mod.
I played morrowind as a kid prior to any other elder scrolls, and while I loved the atmosphere and world, the mechanics and character building just failed on so many fronts, being that trying to build a character without any understanding of RPG lingo and mechanics, was darn near impossible. I also dislike equipment health as a mechanic in games because if you get a one of a kind item, it will be expensive and just tedious to keep in good repair. Skyrim made it possible to just play quests and explore without worrying about how said ventures would absolutely destroy every part of your gear. While the world may have some to be desired when compared to Morrowind, on its own, Skyrim is still expansive and feels like it has so much to offer.
Weapon degradation is one of the things I miss, it's not even a issue in Morrowind or Oblivion and you can repair stuff yourself, its more realistic weapons will break.
I’m glad he put daggerfall at the bottom only better than arena It has a cool story and ambitious but it’s as broad as the see and shallow as a puddle. Huge world, all looks the same. Ultimate customization, most builds are unplayable. Good story, but the game forces you to grind to enjoy any of it.
That's an opinion. The main three all have merits and drawbacks. Skyrim absolutely does not do everything the best out of the three. It's why it's okay to have an opinion and not everyone thinks Skyrim is the best.
no. It depends on whether you like a more rpg experience or not. Each of the 5 main games have core differences when it comes to that. Skyrim is the less "traditional rpg" experience out of all. Worldbuilding and scenarios also change wildly from game to game. I have played 2 TES games so far but Skyrim becomes a little repetitive, specially for its combat system/gameplay. I played Skyrim first so nah, it's not nostalgia.
I love this, my ranking is slightly different but only because I never played Daggerfall as I was young at the time and couldn’t buy it. My dad bought Arena so that was still my first. So my ranking is: 5. Daggerfall 4. Arena 3. Oblivion 2. Skyrim 1. Morrowind Even though I’ve heard of such greatness of Daggerfall I’ve never played it so I can’t place it above the rest. I still love the series and have brought others into it.
I dont understand why people say skyrims leveling system takes away from the rpg element, bro you actively do stuff to improve skills and you choose your play style, like just roleplay
Enjoy Oblivion more then Skyrim the more vibrant coulors, better character buildings different builds more viable, And less repetitive are the main reasons, as someone who began with oblivion i wait for Skywind think i couldn't play throu Morrowind without fast travel and quest markers
You and me both Skyrim just too repetitive and copy and pasted to enjoy .loved oblivion though but I can’t wait for Skywind because morrowind is too old for me to play. I believe Skywind will be my elders scrolls five . What skyrim was supposed to be.
@@KingJ1397-v8q Morrowind doesn't even have native widescreen support, not even 1080p. It came out when Diablo 2 came out. Meanwhile, Oblivion on PC in 4K still looks great!
it's not that hard to play morrowind without fast travel and quest markers because unlike the games that were made after, it was designed with it in mind.
Placing Daggerfall so low is wild. It is the game w the most freedom, rpg elements, factions, weapons, spells. the only thing bringing it down was the tech of the time and the story ending w the warp in the west effecting every game is awesome I also like that the main character is just an average fucking Joe. The agent is the one of only elderscrolls protagonist who that isn’t some prophesied legend allowing for maximum roleplay
The procedural generation used by the old Bethesda dev team to make the early games did not generate the land mass “on the fly”. Yes it was used to create continents worth of countryside, cities and dungeons, but it is the same game that boots every time, and everything is static, not randomised.
It may be too good to be true one day, but i hope that es6 has morrowind style rpg elements, no weird facial expressions like in starfield (hope they make em better), little to no bugs (just a wish tbh), unique voice acting (cause cmon, you really wanna hear nick valentine voice half of the region again?), and better models for everything. I would say no building, but Bethesda is really pushing it with building stuff in games now
@@OGtruthserumI can't wait for my 0.2% resist frost ability when I play as a Nord! It's going to be so distinct from my other race playthroughs! Oh, nevermind! They removed elemental damage! It's only physical and magical now! YEAH!😃
As you mentioned the "vanilla" western fantasy settings of Oblivion, originally, instead of forests and meadows, Cyrodiil was supposed to be tropical jungle. However, devs were supposed to watch Lord of the Rings during development of the game, and were so enthralled by it they opted for change of the game (shame imho, I would prefer exotic jungle much more). Even in lore, it is stated that originally, Cyrodiil was supposed to be jungle. But after Tiber "Talos" Septim achieved CHIM, amongst many a-holeness he did (yes, I hate that imperialist warlord, F-Talos! And no, I'm not a Thalmor sympathiser, ok? Just because I hate certain deity doesn't mean I start bullying said deity's worshippers. Maybe mock them in privacy, but no conflict initiation from my side.) was turning Cyrodiilic jungle into place of temperate climate.
There are many great things you cover in this great video but I think the best outcome from TES six is a mix of oblivion in quests and the complexity of the mechanics and skyrims levels of art direction and world design and skill trees and morrowind level righting and exploration and world travel and the cities should be oblivion scale city’s with more people and Skyrim level characterization also they need to bring back unarmed give it a skill tree please Bethesda thank you for coming to my Ted talk
The only advantage Skyrim had over Oblivion was better graphic and engine capabilities. Talking about moving the needle, which was never done in Skyrim IMO, eventhough I absolutely love the game
Better cities, better enchantments, better factions/guilds, better Npcs, better main quest, questlines and sidequests, spellcrafting, better writing, etc... even the menus/hud are better, The Elder Scrolls I.V over V. I even like combat more, and that's an unpopular opinion I know... the only things I prefer in The Elder Scrolls V the shout power, the soundtrack, some of the monsters and the setting itself though like Oblivion they made it much more generic from the lore, oh and dungeons could be considered better overall as well, etc.
@@RogueRanks That is completely understandable. Skyrim is a fantastic game and is one of my favourites as well! I just think it's the weakest out of the big 3
Seems like the main reason why you put Skyrim over Oblivion here was because of the setting. Every other part about Skyrim was that it was just as good or worse then other ES releases then you basically go on to say, "but I still like it"
Nah cuz people here are delusional 😂😂😂 Skyrim is the only TES I've played and it is the only TES I need to play to understand that it is OBJECTIVELY the best TES game so far. Would never even lay a finger on the previous ones. Stop being blinded by nostalgia 🤣🤣🤣
It's not nostalgia. You cannot say it's the best without playing the others. How can you judge anything like that? Its like someone that likes oblivion saying it's the best because that's all they played. All have merit grow up.
Morrowind was my first BGS game and I love it but boy has it aged like milk. If any game needs a remake its a tie between Morrowind and The Witcher 1 imo
Radiant AI hands down is the reason oblivion deserves number 1 lmfao Yes it's broken, but when it works, or broken in funny ways, it's the charm behind it. You will never see that in another game today.
@@RogueRanks Once Skyblivion comes out, it will show why Oblivion in Skyrim engine is more enjoyable. Oblivion is lush green while Skyrim is grey and brown. Now modded Skyrim is a different story. Skyblivion is a remake, not a remaster, so dungeons will get an overhaul and so is the wildlife. I hate to say this but I'm more interested in Skywind and Skyblivion than ES 6. The passion of the modders/developers in Skywind and Skyblivion is apparent.
Oblivion is definitely the best. It's quests (there is a reason the Dark Brotherhood quest line is considered the best quests Bethesda has ever made), magic system (spell creation and being able to heal while using 2 handed weapons made way more builds viable and branches like conjuration had way more spells), character creator (with classes and star signs and races mattering more), DLC (The Shivering Isles is one of the best DLCs ever) are all better than Skyrim. Culturally speaking, Skyrim is the more important/popular game but in almost no way is it better than Oblivion.
@RogueRanks I'll also add that I do like that the enemies scale in Oblivion as it kept the game interesting and prevented you from becoming OP. And yeah while the Oblivion Gates weren't that diverse, they were fun and only a few dozen could appear at max. By that metric Skyrim's dragons are way more repetitive. I also liked how natural the caves felt in Oblivion. In Skyrim I knew every cave would loop back on itself and that took a lot of the fun of exploring away. I didn't address sound before so I'll just say I love the Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim sound tracks. Not sure I could pick a favorite. I really wish the next ES would just have simple co op. Not like Fallout 76, just simple 2-4 player co op.
@@RogueRanks Skyrim was my first ES game, and I bought the hard cover collection book for it (no regrets), which I had never done for any other games. However, between the release of Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, Skyrim was my least anticipated. Back in 2002, I would always look at the PC box for Morrowind at my local Sam's Club and wish I had a PC back then to play it. I did the same with Oblivion. Morrowind was always my most hyped ES game, but it hasn't age well, and I cannot for the life of me figure out its combat. I literally died to rats. Back when I was a kid, Morrowind and Diablo 2 (came out around the same time), were the two games I wanted the most.
@@OGtruthserum There are some decent Morrowind combat tutorial videos on TH-cam. They always say something dumb that annoys me as a guy who has played it since 2003, but they get most of it right. It's definitely worth learning how to play. The sense of adventure and exploration is unbelievable, and so is the feeling of getting strong enough to just go wandering and checking out dungeons. They really should have kept the formula the same and just improved on it for the later games. There are A LOT of things that could be fixed without changing the feel of the gameplay, but they decided to "streamline" instead.😐
Morrowind is in contention with New Vegas for my favorite game ever. Skyrim is ok but it starts to feel like Groundhog Day after a few quests and dungeons. I played several hundred hours of Oblivion, but it was very bland, and I can't really get back into it even though I need to play the dlc's at some point. There are things I like more about all of them, but I am not a fan of the post Morrowind direction. Apparently, many Daggerfall fans feel the same about Morrowind. It's a shame we can't all get the game we want.😢
Curious. Oblivion is far more creative than Skyrim in terms of quests. And given its unintentional funny side Shivering Isles was a stroke of genius by totally embracing what they had created. I love all three games but yours is a crazy hot take.
Oblivion is comparable to Fallout New Vegas in terms of fun and well made games. Skyrim is equivalent to Fallout 4. Fan service, a shell of what made the game popular. I got it, the two brought more fans to the franchise but those games are far easier and more convenience based compared to their peers.
And in Oblivion you're the warrior that always fights and wins through the Oblivion gates. Not that great in that department. At least the dragonborn has a nicer narrative and mechanical presentation than the gates.
Everyone’s favourite elder scrolls is just which ever one you played when you were a kid.
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I played Skyrim as a tween and adored it but as an adult, I just find Morrowind more enjoyable, despite lacking the nostalgia factor (although the music certainly brings me back to all the time I've rewatched Fudgemuppet).
@@alexanderstilianov I am rather like that, I played Oblivion First, then Skyrim, (Perhaps ESO), and Then I Played Morrowind, yet I actually like Morrowind the most
@@alexanderstilianov I actually am not like that. I played Morrowind as an adult and am an avid fan of older games but I still can't bring myself to like it more than Oblivion OR Skyrim. I see why it's lauded and love its roleplaying depth but at the end of the day I'm just not into Dunmer culture. Oblivion remains my favorite main quest by virtue of being so charming while Skyrim is my favorite in terms of exploration. And I gotta say TESO is definitely phenomenal (beyond repetitive gameplay) and in terms of side quests even takes the cake. :)
Oblivion has the best roleplaying (outside of Daggerfall)
Morrowind has the best story (outside of Daggerfall)
Skyrim has the best world (outside of Daggerfall)
IMHO Oblivion had the worst role playing (outside of Skyrim), it has almost none, Skyrim actually has none.
Skyrim has shallow world and combat is most watered down, heck even if Oblivion combat was really simple yet you could try different play style and beign a mage meant something
If we think this way, SKyrim is nicest looking Elder Scrolls game and thats pretty much it
Builds mean nothing in Skyrim because soon or later, you become Stealth Archer
You as mage? Nah you still became Stealth Archer. Trying to play as Barbarian Melee Fighter? Nah you end up Stealth Archer
Morrowind was my entry to the franchise. One thing that has stuck with me all these years, was that unlike the main guilds (fighters, mages, thieves) which appeared in the citys to join, there was also mention of an assassin guild. Whithout quest makers I literally had to go around talking to npcs an collecting hints until i finally tracked them down to the sewers in Vivec where in a small room i found a locked trapdoor, inside i founs the hq of the Morag Tong assassins.
Morrowind is just a mature game. The world expects the player to read, explore, and pay attention and being rewarded for that is so awesome.
Yeah I really dislike how in Skyrim every NPC info dumps on you everything you need to know. Morrowind I remember learning the spell levitate on my own and figuring out there was an entire set of Telvanni houses you can't access without it.
I've never even played morrowind but I somehow saw that one coming
Tbh Morrowind is dated but if you want a hardcore RPG elder scrolls Morrowind is the best
All Bethesda needed to do instead of wasting resources on Starfield was to divert all their attention to a Morrowind remake.
@@debopamroy56 we can only hope Starfield at least taught them lessons or inspired new tech for the next elder Scrolls
Stop and think about it for a Second, do you Trust, Modern Bethesda...with making a Re-Master of Morrowind...knowing everything they could do to it...taking what is frankly already a good game even with it's bits of jankiness...and turning it into something worse?, I say this as a Player who played Oblivion and Skyrim first, yet Morrowind is my favourite
Oblivion remaster
Screw that, let's get an Arena remake, I want the entire continent of Tamriel at my fingertips lol
@@TheOnyxSpyjust play ESO.
To be fair playing Skyrim (Without DLC'S) when I was 8 on a dusty old Xbox 360 felt like pinnacle of gaming. I played it for hundreds of hours (Like always not killing Alduin cuz fuck that guy?) and the game truly helped me through my hard childhood, the game has a special place in my heart and nothing will change it but like a year ago when I was 16 I decided to pick up Morrowind for the first time, man did that feeling return when I first turned on Skyrim. For all it's jank (I fucking hate when there are no markers) there is certain beauty in the game and it just captivated me, the entire prophecy of the Nerevarine and Dagoth Ur just surprised me because I never played Elder Scrolls necessarily for it's story telling but Morrowind felt different. Morrowind Imo is by far the best TES we have then Skyrim, sorry Oblivion fans but I could never get past the shit leveling system in it
Lmao same but on ps3 and then ps4 for special edition and then ps5 for anniversary edition i have 3k hours between all versions
Have to say it. Morrowind was one of the first RPGs I ever played, and that kind of spoiled me for what I expect from a fantasy world. I don't want medieval middle of someplace vaguely european, like skyrim and oblivion were. They were fine, I enjoyed them, but they didn't capture my full attention with the worldspace the way Morrowind did. I think part of why it was so interesting and captivating was because the more familiar, real world aspects, like the imperial forts and towns, were so starkly contrasted against the environment that it was clear they were colonizers. I'll always remember going to Sadrith Mora for the first time, thinking "oh cool. A castle. Never seen this before", stepping outside the tower walls and seeing the great hecking mushrooms curling up from the earth and being met with a dude wearing whole ass BUG as a helmet.
The vibes of Morrowind are immaculate
I love morrowind. But I think vardenfell is one of the ugliest areas to the eyes in all of tamriel.
@@LymeGreen04 nope you fell this just because played morrowind as a kid, skyrim still is the greatest Bethesda game.
@@fwelpsofera4635 what?
@@LymeGreen04 Sorry, i mean, in my opinion, you just thinks morrowind is a better game because you played it as a kid and The nostalgic feeling takes controll of your mind, morrowind is umpleyable nowadays
Skyrim on the surface might seem like an improvement on oblivion, but after half an hour of questing you realize how shallow it truly is. Yes graphically it is a massive improvement. Yes the word is very impressively realized. However the problem is that in Oblivion I would struggle to name the 5 best sidequest because of how many bangers there are, but in Skyrim I struggle to name five good sidequests. And questing is the meat of these games.
Not to mention factions where Skyrim truly shat the bed. I would argue the Companions is so unbearably bad that the even fighters guild in Daggerfall is better than it. The other factions don't fare much better either. The only faction that I wouldn't call straight up just bad in the base game is MAYBE the thieves guild. But even that is a maybe.
Not to mention how insufferable dragonfights can be before getting dragonrend - a lategame shout - if there was any game to use levitation THIS was it to equalise the fight a bit, but I guess people are way too law obiding in Tamriel to commit such a horrible crime. You know thievery, murder, reanimation, vampirism, cannibalism - the criminals of Skyrim are OK with all of those but the second you bring up flight they vomit just by the sheer thought of this unspeakably heinous crime. (this criticism also goes for Oblivion btw)
The main quest isn't anything to write home about either, with Delphine being the annoying asshole she is dragging you around pretty much ammounting to exactly nothing but a literal waste of time. And they were so sure we would think she was such a badass that you never get the chance to tell her to fuck off. Even when she COMMANDS you - the person THEY are supposed to serve - to kill the best character in the game. The game also seems to expect you to beat the main quest first, which is a very backwards idea in my opinion.
Gameplaywise I guess it is passable, though its potential is hindered by the stealth archer and bethesda refusing to make players commit as well as magic being by far the weakest it has ever been, barely being viable to the point you start questioning why characters devote their lives to study such a worthless skill, when they could just croutch in a corner and walk forward for a couple of days and become literal demigods. Melee combat also is unsatisfying.
I agree with most of what you say but the world and dungeons just feel so boring and empty compared to Morrowind and Skyrim. There is just no exploration at all and makes the whole game feel boring.
i would personally place Oblivion at #1 because, to me, Oblivion IS Elder Scrolls. it combines things I like from Morrowind and Skyrim, with just the right amount of everything else to make it incredibly enjoyable. the world is vibrant and beautiful, the guild quests are the best in the series to date (no TES game will ever top the thieves guild finale), the music is amazing, you get Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart, and it has some of the most fun quests in the series.
I agree with you oblivion was the first game I played in my life I remember I had a weak PC so my older brother installed a light game for my PC and my PC in Minecraft was 30 fps and this game is Oblivion which is the best game I've played in my life
I’ve been slowly dipping my toe into Oblivion. And what I’ve played so far has been pretty fun! Only two things bother me about it: first, the lock picking minigame. Coming off Skyrim and Fallout, the lock picking felt truly random, and I ended up avoiding it as much as possible. Second, from the lore recaps I’ve seen for the main quest…it _sounds_ like the makings of a great story; by being the catalyst for a wayward cowardly bastard son to become a great hero-king on par with Tiber Septim. The problem I have, based on what I’ve seen, is that we don’t get to see it in real time. We constantly get sent on a mission, and only see a recap of Martin’s growth after we get back. So the actually intriguing part of the main quest largely happens off-screen. Other than that, the rest of the game seems really good.
@@DragonxFlutter in th case of lockpicking, do nocturnal's quest to get the skeleton key and just spam the force-lock button
@@penguinmaster7 Doesn't help with learning the system, but okay. I guess I'll just cheese it. At least Nocturnal isn't that bad of a Daedra to work with...
@@DragonxFlutterthe lock picking in Skyrim is way more random and less skill based than oblivions
This is actually the best Elder Scrolls content on TH-cam. I’d love to see you discuss more lore from these games you do great at it!
Thank you that is too kind 😎
Oblivion is personally my favorite. And I can’t get enough of it, even after 10 years
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Great video. Fricking love Oblivion, one of my favourite games of all time and completely blew me away when I played it back on the PS3 in 2007! Skyrim is fantastic of course but does feel a bit more identity-less in its vanilla form. Need to play Morrowind more, but probably with OpenMW and some visual mods.
Skyrim just barely edges out Oblivion but I get more immersed in Skyrim personally. Oblivion is amazing though!
Did you do all 200 dungeons and did it get repetitive for you?
Loved Morrowind. Was one of the first games I got to play on my own personal PC with a 126 MB card haha
126 MB 😄 legendary
Morrowind is such a magical experience. Sure, gameplay is the jankiest of the 3d games, but the world and most quest were fascinating. While Skyrim may not had a great story, the worldbuilding, side stories and additional content (like survival mode, becoming a Vampire or a Wolf) gave more depth to the game.
Daggerfall is so good, I love getting a huge loan at the bank, buying a boat and fleeing into a different country to avoid having to pay it off.
Or just go upstairs at an Inn and for some reason they have dozens of chests filled with daedric weapons and armor. My last daggerfall playthrough was in 2008 so maybe they fixed it.
i played em first time around 2021
the order i did was skyrim>morrowind>daggerfall>oblivion
morrowind is the best by far
Skyrim for me is number 1 Oblivion is number 2 Morrowind is number 3 and Daggerfall is number 4 Arena is number 5
1. Oblivion
2. Skyrim
3. Eso
4. Morrowind
5. Daggerfall
Never played arena or the others
Great video! 100% agree with your list 👌🏻 Morrowind is the perfect embodiment of a single player D&D campaign and I like the way you worded it as “a campaign that the DM put way too much time into”. People complain about the lack of quest markers and combat system. To me having to actually read the journal and figure out where to go made everything so much more rewarding. As far as the combat system goes, as a D&D/tabletop player, that just feels like how it should work. Gotta roll on hit, then roll on damage
It really makes piecing together the plot much more intriguing and engaging as well.
I love how you were a prisoner traveling by boat in morrowind then they let you go and just plop you into vardenfell tes 6 should definitely do that again
Awesome content man! Glad I found your channel, and keep of the great work!
Great video!
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feel like daggerfall should be higher
Theres a strong case to be made for it
Aye Daggerfall with Unity should be in the top 2 at least lol
Why do you think Daggerfall did not carry any influence over to future rpgs, while Dragon Age Origins and Skyrim inspired tons of games?
Great video, got a sub. High quality video.
I appreciate that!
I played Arena (a long time ago), then Skyrim, then Oblivion, then Morrowind and Skyrim is still my favorite game of all time. Across all the iterations I owned since 11/11/11 I have more than 3000 hours playtime in Skyrim, close to 800 hrs in the multiple play-throughs of Special & Anniversary Edition alone. Morrowind was the least enjoyable for me. I played ESO for three years straight, every single day, while maintaining quotas for three top trade guilds. I got so addicted to it that I had to walk away from it just so I could do other things in my life.
For me its
1.Morrowind
2. Daggerfall
3.Skyrim
4.Arena
5. Oblivion
Oblivion is HONESTLY the only game in the series I actively dislike, hence its ranking at the bottom for me.
Also; daggerfall doesnt generate the terrain on the fly. The game was procedurally generated in the 90's and has stayed that way. Same idea as oblivion, just a more rudimentary algorithm in a larger scale.
That’s pretty funny considering your username 😄
@RogueRanks yeahhh.
It's a reference to kingdom hearts. I've long outgrown the name and go by a different one in most platforms, down to even having a new email with the one j more typically use but uhhh
I REALLY do not feel like starting over on my recommendations and stuff lol
I'm sort of bias with Skyrim because Skyrim and Oblivion are the only Elder Scrolls games I've ever played, and I have played Skyrim for many years, I even platinumed the game, Skyrim has a huge place in my heart, I have played a little bit of Oblivion but nowhere near as much as I've played Skyrim, I don't really know that much about all the other main titles because like I said before Skyrim and Oblivion were the only ones I've ever played, I love almost everything about Skyrim, It's world, the dragons, all of the magical elements of the game, and I absolutely LOVE all of Skyrim's soundtracks and boss music, Oblivion's main theme sounds like something you would play as you watch the President walk by lol, but Skyrim's main theme is just pumped with action and adventure, I can't really put into full detail how much Skyrim means to me, It's one of the greatest games I have ever played.
skyrim ❤❤❤❤❤
Oblivion is the first Elder scrolls game I played and Morrowind was the second but Skyrim is by far my favorite tho. It is my comfort game when I am sad or a game I can play when I just wanna tone out the world. Also I think one of the more under appreciated things about it is its reach it had. The fact that I have friends that only play the type A personality games like COD, Halo, etc and they also played and loved Skyrim speaks volumes about the game.
I put... probably 100s of hours into Skyrim and still feel that I enjoy that game in spite of the Elder Scrolls style of game play lol Also, the final dragon was such a pain to fight as a stealth archer.
That playstyle is so strong up until that point too
Quest 64 😢 that one hit the ❤️. Subscribed
yay another morrowind fan! I love morrowind. Even though i grew up on Oblivion and skyrim, morrowind is just great.
Every mainline Elder Scrolls game is the best for different reasons.
This is the real ranking
Ngl, I would have to see some very strong arguments for why Arena is the best but I do agree for the last 3 games.
@@The_Libationist The only thing I can say for Arena is the sense of scale, especially for the time, but that's about it.
Arena suffers in this regard from the fact that Daggerfall is just Arena but better, so everything you could come up with to argue in Arena's favor (e.g. the sense of scale) is also present but better done in Daggerfall.
@@krzysztofwozny9742 so, all of them are the best except for Arena. I can live with that.
There's one great thing about Morrowind you forgot to mention. It starts with a D and ends with Ur.
Honestly a very well thought out list
I never got a taste of late game oblivion sadly I am slowly trying to get there rn level 7 did the arena first for my free gold weekly and I love it still playing 14 years later I think I had it longer took me forever to beat
My first Elder Scrolls game was Oblivion, i loved the jank of it but Shivering Isle DLC was just master class expansion
Skyrim, yea it was decent but good summary about Skyrim, Wide as an Ocean, Deep as a puddle, it just never managed to keep me in for the story and for the world of northern parts of Tamriel because it was just pretty much really shallow and mostly empty void experience after few hours
But later i started Morrowind just 1 and half year ago and it is just something different, yea you dont have modern gaming plesantries but it doesnt matter
Morrowind just hits different, I now have full playthrough with my brother using TES3MP mod what works really well. just crank difficulty to near max and it is still fun and challenging experience to 2 of us while we scout all of Morrowind, well atleast all what we can do
Morrowind became my favorite Elder Scrolls game only withing 1 and half year time window
I would say Oblivion is my favorite mostly because it is the one I started playing and because of the Shivering Isles DLC but both Morrowind and Skyrim are also just as fun for me.
Was watching this video and felt like it had hundreds of thousands of views because of the quality only to see you're at around 400 right now. Keep up the good work man
Thanks! I'm glad you checked it out
Good opinions 👍 I completely agree. Morrowind nails that hand-crafted depth, roleplaying capability, and player choice without making it overwhelming with many arbitrary skills and overreliance on procedurally generated content.
It struck an almost perfect balance for me between player freedom and accessibility
I especially liked the realism in Morrowind of ability score and skill requirements to join and level in factions. In Skyrim you can become the arch mage knowing barely any magic
I've never played Daggerfall but I get the sense id like it. Morrowind my #1 game of all time :) I think Skyrim > Oblivion for me but its close. I find it more fun to mess around in
The only one I would argue with you about is your #1. The combat in Morrowind turned me off immediately. I was standing in front of this…IDK, creepy crawly thing, looked kinda like a dog sized ant. I swing my sword…and nothing happened. I kept swinging and kept swinging, my mouse never left the target, but what I assumed was this game’s version of a Skeever ended up killing me. Even magic failed me. Not to mention the walking speed was complete ass.
I might love the game if I returned to it now, but so far, I’m perfectly content to wait for the Skywind total conversion mod.
I played morrowind as a kid prior to any other elder scrolls, and while I loved the atmosphere and world, the mechanics and character building just failed on so many fronts, being that trying to build a character without any understanding of RPG lingo and mechanics, was darn near impossible. I also dislike equipment health as a mechanic in games because if you get a one of a kind item, it will be expensive and just tedious to keep in good repair. Skyrim made it possible to just play quests and explore without worrying about how said ventures would absolutely destroy every part of your gear. While the world may have some to be desired when compared to Morrowind, on its own, Skyrim is still expansive and feels like it has so much to offer.
Weapon degradation is one of the things I miss, it's not even a issue in Morrowind or Oblivion and you can repair stuff yourself, its more realistic weapons will break.
I’m glad he put daggerfall at the bottom only better than arena
It has a cool story and ambitious but it’s as broad as the see and shallow as a puddle. Huge world, all looks the same. Ultimate customization, most builds are unplayable. Good story, but the game forces you to grind to enjoy any of it.
1. Morrowind
2. Daggerfall
3. Skyrim
4. ESO
5. Arena
6. Oblivion
skyrim is easily the best. everyone knows it. those who say otherwise are just blinded by nostalgia
FACTS
That's an opinion. The main three all have merits and drawbacks. Skyrim absolutely does not do everything the best out of the three. It's why it's okay to have an opinion and not everyone thinks Skyrim is the best.
no. It depends on whether you like a more rpg experience or not. Each of the 5 main games have core differences when it comes to that. Skyrim is the less "traditional rpg" experience out of all.
Worldbuilding and scenarios also change wildly from game to game.
I have played 2 TES games so far but Skyrim becomes a little repetitive, specially for its combat system/gameplay.
I played Skyrim first so nah, it's not nostalgia.
I love this, my ranking is slightly different but only because I never played Daggerfall as I was young at the time and couldn’t buy it. My dad bought Arena so that was still my first. So my ranking is:
5. Daggerfall
4. Arena
3. Oblivion
2. Skyrim
1. Morrowind
Even though I’ve heard of such greatness of Daggerfall I’ve never played it so I can’t place it above the rest. I still love the series and have brought others into it.
I dont understand why people say skyrims leveling system takes away from the rpg element, bro you actively do stuff to improve skills and you choose your play style, like just roleplay
Enjoy Oblivion more then Skyrim the more vibrant coulors, better character buildings different builds more viable, And less repetitive are the main reasons, as someone who began with oblivion i wait for Skywind think i couldn't play throu Morrowind without fast travel and quest markers
You and me both Skyrim just too repetitive and copy and pasted to enjoy .loved oblivion though but I can’t wait for Skywind because morrowind is too old for me to play. I believe Skywind will be my elders scrolls five . What skyrim was supposed to be.
@@KingJ1397-v8q Morrowind doesn't even have native widescreen support, not even 1080p. It came out when Diablo 2 came out. Meanwhile, Oblivion on PC in 4K still looks great!
No way are you calling skyrim, the game thats been released 8 times and still gets bought, more repetitive than oblivion.
@@AtomicFlounder42 just because people buy it doesn't mean it automatically has replay value
it's not that hard to play morrowind without fast travel and quest markers because unlike the games that were made after, it was designed with it in mind.
Placing Daggerfall so low is wild. It is the game w the most freedom, rpg elements, factions, weapons, spells. the only thing bringing it down was the tech of the time and the story ending w the warp in the west effecting every game is awesome I also like that the main character is just an average fucking Joe. The agent is the one of only elderscrolls protagonist who that isn’t some prophesied legend allowing for maximum roleplay
I just find it funny that the best parts of TES3 and TES5 find their ways into mods for each game
The procedural generation used by the old Bethesda dev team to make the early games did not generate the land mass “on the fly”. Yes it was used to create continents worth of countryside, cities and dungeons, but it is the same game that boots every time, and everything is static, not randomised.
My top 3:
1. Oblivion
2. Morrowind
3. Skyrim
It may be too good to be true one day, but i hope that es6 has morrowind style rpg elements, no weird facial expressions like in starfield (hope they make em better), little to no bugs (just a wish tbh), unique voice acting (cause cmon, you really wanna hear nick valentine voice half of the region again?), and better models for everything. I would say no building, but Bethesda is really pushing it with building stuff in games now
We can only hope
ES 6 will be even more dumb down than Skyrim. Taking away the class system in Skyrim was so stupid!
@@OGtruthserumI can't wait for my 0.2% resist frost ability when I play as a Nord! It's going to be so distinct from my other race playthroughs! Oh, nevermind! They removed elemental damage! It's only physical and magical now! YEAH!😃
As you mentioned the "vanilla" western fantasy settings of Oblivion, originally, instead of forests and meadows, Cyrodiil was supposed to be tropical jungle. However, devs were supposed to watch Lord of the Rings during development of the game, and were so enthralled by it they opted for change of the game (shame imho, I would prefer exotic jungle much more). Even in lore, it is stated that originally, Cyrodiil was supposed to be jungle. But after Tiber "Talos" Septim achieved CHIM, amongst many a-holeness he did (yes, I hate that imperialist warlord, F-Talos! And no, I'm not a Thalmor sympathiser, ok? Just because I hate certain deity doesn't mean I start bullying said deity's worshippers. Maybe mock them in privacy, but no conflict initiation from my side.) was turning Cyrodiilic jungle into place of temperate climate.
I was hoping you would not put morrowind at the top but here we are, and you did it anyway
Yes I did
This is my exact ranking
for me its 1.oblivion 2. morrowind 3.skyrim
said everyone ever! 😂😂 Me too tho
switch them both and i agree
Thats the only correct opinion
There are many great things you cover in this great video but I think the best outcome from TES six is a mix of oblivion in quests and the complexity of the mechanics and skyrims levels of art direction and world design and skill trees and morrowind level righting and exploration and world travel and the cities should be oblivion scale city’s with more people and Skyrim level characterization also they need to bring back unarmed give it a skill tree please Bethesda thank you for coming to my Ted talk
Daggerfall unity with mods is very cool imo
How is oblivion at number 3
The only advantage Skyrim had over Oblivion was better graphic and engine capabilities. Talking about moving the needle, which was never done in Skyrim IMO, eventhough I absolutely love the game
Skyrim being above oblivion is criminal
Opinion mate
@@terrestrialextra4790 not really
Better cities, better enchantments, better factions/guilds, better Npcs, better main quest, questlines and sidequests, spellcrafting, better writing, etc... even the menus/hud are better, The Elder Scrolls I.V over V.
I even like combat more, and that's an unpopular opinion I know... the only things I prefer in The Elder Scrolls V the shout power, the soundtrack, some of the monsters and the setting itself though like Oblivion they made it much more generic from the lore, oh and dungeons could be considered better overall as well, etc.
Theres a strong argument to be made about why Oblivion is better, I just personally connected with the world and atmosphere of Skyrim more.
@@RogueRanks That is completely understandable. Skyrim is a fantastic game and is one of my favourites as well! I just think it's the weakest out of the big 3
Seems like the main reason why you put Skyrim over Oblivion here was because of the setting. Every other part about Skyrim was that it was just as good or worse then other ES releases then you basically go on to say, "but I still like it"
What about ESO (elder scrolls online)
Nah cuz people here are delusional 😂😂😂 Skyrim is the only TES I've played and it is the only TES I need to play to understand that it is OBJECTIVELY the best TES game so far. Would never even lay a finger on the previous ones. Stop being blinded by nostalgia 🤣🤣🤣
It's not nostalgia. You cannot say it's the best without playing the others. How can you judge anything like that? Its like someone that likes oblivion saying it's the best because that's all they played. All have merit grow up.
@@learningchannel3850 mate. Graphics DO, indeed, matter.
Morrowind was my first BGS game and I love it but boy has it aged like milk. If any game needs a remake its a tie between Morrowind and The Witcher 1 imo
Hey, Quest 64 was difficult for me too, but also good.
Daggerfall has a mod called unity which modernizes it a bit
Radiant AI hands down is the reason oblivion deserves number 1 lmfao
Yes it's broken, but when it works, or broken in funny ways, it's the charm behind it. You will never see that in another game today.
3. Skyrim
2. Morrowind
1. Oblivion
List for me, love them all!
More games need to just, be like morrowind. Copy paste differ maps wouldnt be upset.
I prefer Skyrim more but it’s cool to see someone who likes morrowind more.
You guys seem to forget not only that eso exists but is cannon
1)Oblivion
2)morrowind
3) Skyrim
4) daggerfall
Don't forget Oblivion can still kick those fans on, in some areas if you have all of those sliders up. 🤣it had so much grass.
Bro im trying but morriwind is potato i cant play it any advice 😶😶
The worse thing about arena is that music!
Agreed with almost everything you said but hard disagree with Morrowind.
oblivion is a lot better than skyrim :v
I can definitely see why many have this opinion, its a valid take. I just enjoy the world of Skyrim more personally
@@RogueRanks it's more immersive but oblivion is a lot funnier and well constructed, not instant leader of all factions :'D
@@RogueRanks Once Skyblivion comes out, it will show why Oblivion in Skyrim engine is more enjoyable. Oblivion is lush green while Skyrim is grey and brown. Now modded Skyrim is a different story. Skyblivion is a remake, not a remaster, so dungeons will get an overhaul and so is the wildlife. I hate to say this but I'm more interested in Skywind and Skyblivion than ES 6. The passion of the modders/developers in Skywind and Skyblivion is apparent.
1. Oblivion
2. Morrowind
3. Skyrim
4. Daggerfall
5. Arena
Oblivion is by far the best TES game. Still play it at least 4 times year
Absolutely nothing wrong with the women in the early games.
First older scrolls can only throw the mouse to attack 💀
Currently replaying skyrim again for the 400th time, so that should tell you what my number 1 is
There’s just something about that game
Oblivion is definitely the best. It's quests (there is a reason the Dark Brotherhood quest line is considered the best quests Bethesda has ever made), magic system (spell creation and being able to heal while using 2 handed weapons made way more builds viable and branches like conjuration had way more spells), character creator (with classes and star signs and races mattering more), DLC (The Shivering Isles is one of the best DLCs ever) are all better than Skyrim.
Culturally speaking, Skyrim is the more important/popular game but in almost no way is it better than Oblivion.
You make a strong argument. It is a fantastic title
@RogueRanks I'll also add that I do like that the enemies scale in Oblivion as it kept the game interesting and prevented you from becoming OP.
And yeah while the Oblivion Gates weren't that diverse, they were fun and only a few dozen could appear at max. By that metric Skyrim's dragons are way more repetitive.
I also liked how natural the caves felt in Oblivion. In Skyrim I knew every cave would loop back on itself and that took a lot of the fun of exploring away.
I didn't address sound before so I'll just say I love the Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim sound tracks. Not sure I could pick a favorite.
I really wish the next ES would just have simple co op. Not like Fallout 76, just simple 2-4 player co op.
Oblivion is easily the worst game in the series.
@@RogueRanks Skyrim was my first ES game, and I bought the hard cover collection book for it (no regrets), which I had never done for any other games. However, between the release of Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, Skyrim was my least anticipated. Back in 2002, I would always look at the PC box for Morrowind at my local Sam's Club and wish I had a PC back then to play it. I did the same with Oblivion. Morrowind was always my most hyped ES game, but it hasn't age well, and I cannot for the life of me figure out its combat. I literally died to rats.
Back when I was a kid, Morrowind and Diablo 2 (came out around the same time), were the two games I wanted the most.
@@OGtruthserum There are some decent Morrowind combat tutorial videos on TH-cam. They always say something dumb that annoys me as a guy who has played it since 2003, but they get most of it right. It's definitely worth learning how to play. The sense of adventure and exploration is unbelievable, and so is the feeling of getting strong enough to just go wandering and checking out dungeons. They really should have kept the formula the same and just improved on it for the later games. There are A LOT of things that could be fixed without changing the feel of the gameplay, but they decided to "streamline" instead.😐
*Seeing every other comment being about Morrowwind. Hm I wonder which one will be first
I always wanted to play oblivion but the graphics sucks
It’s the garbage gameplay I simply can’t get past
@@kingjom5651 ehhh yes it's janky, but the gameplay isn't exactly why I play these games, it's the rp aspect of it
DAGGERFALL HAS A SMALLER MAP THAN ARENA???????????
I tried playing arena and daggerfall. I opted out and watched lore videos instead
1. Morrowind
2. Skyrim
3. Who cares, the other titles are irrelevant.
Based.
Morrowind is in contention with New Vegas for my favorite game ever. Skyrim is ok but it starts to feel like Groundhog Day after a few quests and dungeons. I played several hundred hours of Oblivion, but it was very bland, and I can't really get back into it even though I need to play the dlc's at some point. There are things I like more about all of them, but I am not a fan of the post Morrowind direction. Apparently, many Daggerfall fans feel the same about Morrowind. It's a shame we can't all get the game we want.😢
Oblivion and Daggerfall are both better than Skyrim imho
Curious. Oblivion is far more creative than Skyrim in terms of quests. And given its unintentional funny side Shivering Isles was a stroke of genius by totally embracing what they had created. I love all three games but yours is a crazy hot take.
ngl Morrowind actually looks better then Oblivion
Oblivion is comparable to Fallout New Vegas in terms of fun and well made games. Skyrim is equivalent to Fallout 4. Fan service, a shell of what made the game popular. I got it, the two brought more fans to the franchise but those games are far easier and more convenience based compared to their peers.
skyrim isnt good as a rpg , you are forced to be a god. oblivion and morrowind are better at rpg.
If I'm a "god" in Skyrim then why can't I one shot everything.
With mezhrune razor you kind can and with high smiting
And in Oblivion you're the warrior that always fights and wins through the Oblivion gates. Not that great in that department. At least the dragonborn has a nicer narrative and mechanical presentation than the gates.
It's okay to be wrong, in this case you are.
Oblivion potatoes are one of the reasons I can’t play it, that and I hate how when you talk to a potato you get zoomed in on their face.
Skyrim has J' Zargo Skyrim wins
You missed Redguard and Battlespire
say "jank" one more time...