Cenequus said:
Uhm elder scrolls always had level scaling,just play Arena. I can't explain why people call Morrowind better than Oblivion if not by calling them hipsters. Sure today Morrowind is an old game and a classic but it's the exception in the serie and Oblivion was a return to origins,level scaling and goblins and minotaurs(call them generic monsters but TES was doing it almost 20 years ago.) Point is they are both great games and if played on PC with proper mods they ar both bugless.
Well, it's true that they've always had a very mild form of level scaling in certain encounters, but not in the same way Oblivion has. In Arena and Daggerfall it was possible to fight things above and below your level, and also possible to find objects above and below your level. Certain creatures and encounters were levelled, but many were not.
In Morrowind almost all of the content is not level-scaled at all, and even when it is levelled it is usually using lists with a very small range of levels, meaning it makes little difference. In Oblivion it was impossible to find anything below or above your level, (except due to a few mistakes the devs made with the levelled lists with regards to certain items).
When everything you find automatically has it's stats raised or lowered to match your level, what's the point in finding new things?
What's the point in levelling up when all your enemies are just going to level up with you?
What's the point in collecting that full set of daedric armour, when you know that pretty soon every bandit on the street is going to have his own set of the same thing?
The level scaling was far worse in Oblivion than in any of the earlier games, and it suffered a lot for it in my opinion. Morrowind is the all-round superior game by miles, as far as I'm concerned, and the absence of level-scaling is a major reason for that. (For a few of the other reasons see mine and other's earlier posts).
Also, randomly calling people who disagree with you "hipsters" is not the way to make a compelling argument, especially when it seems that it is you who is disagreeing with the popular opinion judging by the reaction on this thread. It makes me wonder if you even know what a hipster is.