Poll: Which did you prefer, Morrowind or Oblivion

[Azaraxzealot]

oblivion. i actually played it for more than 10 minutes before getting bored out of my mind

 

[Ben Hussong]

just weighing in:
I personally tend to like older games more for some reason * i prefer fallout 1 to 3 and yes I played 3 first* And in morrowind one of the things I loved was the huge variety. Not just in weapons and spells, but in the terrain. I felt that in Oblivion the land basically looked almost the same no matter where i went, a few trees here, a valley there, the only landscape i really liked in Oblivion was the Jeral Mountains. The world of Morrowind felt more alive because the various regions looked different. As you get closer to Red mountain, it actually feels like your entering a different part of the land, as the green valleys and forests eventually dry out and lead into dry sun baked rocky regions and instead of rain, dust storms appear. The world in Morrowind felt a lot more like a real living world to me. And this is just talking about the terrain, not to mention the diversity in guilds and the great houses, which for me felt a lot more developed than the admittedly, nice guild storylines in oblivion because of the various conflicts and rivalries within the guilds and houses, and with other powers. For example the thief and Fighters guild storyline in Morrowind had this slowly building conflict with the local criminal organization, the Cammona tong, and i just found it reallly compelling * mourns the fact that his PC with Morrowind got fried earlier this year and I lost the steam account*

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

I preferred Oblivion overall in comparison. I still enjoyed both though.

 

[Saelune]

Morrowind by far. Most of the people who like Oblivion like it for superficial reasons...graphics being number 1. Combat being number 2, but Morrowind offers way too much better stuff to allow something as minor as always hitting to say its worse. Morrowind actually has better combat if you ask me. I like having 3 different damage types, and the fact you dont always hit is good for some characters.

Plus potions, soul gems, enchanting, magic, weapons, armor, enviroment, quests, guilds, plot, clothing, monsters, exploration, skills, and depth are all superior in Morrowind. Probably more stuff too, but you get the point.

 

[demotion1]

Morrowind.

I got bored with Oblivion

 

[StormShaun]

I want to play Morrrowind, but I aint botherd, I loved Oblivion but hated the ending, so I say Skyrim...

 

[Zay-el]

I'm playing Oblivion right now, packed with a buttload of mods and I gotta say, this way, I prefer it to Morrowind a bit. The enviroments could be a little more diverse and there are some bugs here and there(mods got rid of level scaling, too), but overall, it's still very fun to play.

Only thing that really, REALLY pissed me off about Morrowind was the most atrocious journal design I have ever seen. After 5 quests and several topics discussed, I dare you to find the description to whatever you were supposed to do.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Morrowind has more stuff than Oblivion in almost every single category.

Weapons, armour, spells, NPCs, quests, factions, artifacts, clothes, environments, items and a much better fast travelling system that made sense.

Not to mention Morrowind has waaaaay much more lore than Oblivion. Morrowind explores the dwemer, Daedric worship, slavery, races and religion in the Elder Scrolls universe much more. Not only do some of the daedric princes have more involvement but you even get to meet some of the Nine Devines as avatars.

What did Oblivion have? "Teh pretty graphics", and wasted voice actor potential. Seriously what's the point of hiring Patrick Stewart if you're going to kill him off in the fricken tutorial?

Oh and I almost forgot..."STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!"

 

[Ben Hussong]

Am I one of the few people who was not annoyed by the combat in Morrowind? Yes, at first it was a bit annoying until you leveled some, but it made sense to me. If you have never used a sword before, you're gonna swing wildly, miss a bit, or not hit hard enough to hurt them. I will say not being able to block on command got annoying but not ridiculously so.

 

[Ben Hussong]

Morrowind has more stuff than Oblivion in almost every single category.

Weapons, armour, spells, NPCs, quests, factions, artifacts, clothes, environments, items and a much better fast travelling system that made sense.

Not to mention Morrowind has waaaaay much more lore than Oblivion. Morrowind explores the dwemer, Daedric worship, slavery, races and religion in the Elder Scrolls universe much more. Not only do some of the daedric princes have more involvement but you even get to meet some of the Nine Devines as avatars.

What did Oblivion have? "Teh pretty graphics", and wasted voice actor potential. Seriously what's the point of hiring Patrick Stewart if you're going to kill him off in the fricken tutorial?

Oh and I almost forgot..."STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!"

that's another point, the weapons, were much more diverse and in my opinion unique looking, with a bunch of different categories than just the material they were made from, like Nordic weapons, I loved those ! And the Vampire quests how they had different factions and quests. Was there even a point to being a vampire in Oblivion aside from the one quest for Count Skingrad and the stats?

 

[ChupathingyX]

that's another point, the weapons, were much more diverse and in my opinion unique looking, with a bunch of different categories than just the material they were made from, like Nordic weapons, I loved those !

Not to mention the actual variety of weapons such as throwing stars, knives, spears, halberds, crossbows, staves capable of melee and the unique Daedric crescent.

 

[RuralGamer]

Oblivion; 400+ hours on a single character and I'm still not done. That said, I have to admit I only played the first 30 minutes of Morrowind and didn't like that bit; maybe the game gets better, but I can't say really.

 

[Ben Hussong]

I missed the artifacts from morrowind, how they were not many unique legendary weapons in Oblivion.

 

[Ben Hussong]

"and instead of the twenty-one skills in Oblivion (twenty-seven in Morrowind), Skyrim will feature eighteen skills " http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Skyrim This slightly makes me nervous that in every game, more skills are removed.

 

[distended]

Am I one of the few people who was not annoyed by the combat in Morrowind? Yes, at first it was a bit annoying until you leveled some, but it made sense to me. If you have never used a sword before, you're gonna swing wildly, miss a bit, or not hit hard enough to hurt them. I will say not being able to block on command got annoying but not ridiculously so.

So you weren't annoyed but in your description of the combat you used the word "annoying" twice.

 

[Dys]

You should also ask which one we played first. I played Oblivion and then tried Morrowind. Really liked (I won't say loved. There's a good amount of boringness to it) Oblivion and hated Morrowind.

I've only finished the main story of Oblivion once, though. I hate the planes of Oblivion with their infinite red and brown and redundant tasks. Shivering Isles (which I will say I love) is 10000x better than the main game.

Did you have a chance to play the morrowind expansion bloodmoon? While I loved morrowind in and of itself, that expansion was so far beyond awesome I can't even begin to explain it.

I was hugely disappointed by oblivion, the main quest was comparatively crap (to be unnecessarily blunt). I was not a fan of the repetitive oblivion gates etc cetera, and the rest of the game was relatively small (in comparison to the side guilds and such in morrowind). That's not to say I disliked oblivion (or that there were no improvements), just that I felt it would have been a lot better if it was more like morrowind. On the whole, I thought morrowind was a better game.

 

[TH3_D15HWA5H3R]

personally id have to say morrowind, it felt like a much bigger game and your actions would have a much broader impact. you were given freedom to kill whom-ever you pleased, but in doing so you could royally screw over the world your trying to save. i made me think before i acted more often then not. dont get me wrong i love oblivion, ive clocked overr 300 hours on that game, but if theres someone important you can just beat them down and they just have a smallnap, that and oblivion just felt a hell of alot eaiser then morrowind

 

[RevRaptor]

I prefer morrowind. Oblivion lacks variety, less weapons less spells, less quests and lets not forget that there is only 4 dungeon types. after tramping through my 20th cave that looked exactally like the last 20 caves I had been it I lost interest. I would love to see some mods for oblivion that really gives it so variety. To me it feel like a simpler version of morrowind kinda like you give kids, you know like those 'my first' books to get them used to ideas before they move on to the big kids version.

The only thing oblivion has over morrowind is graphics and a quest log. with the graphics mods morrowind looks almost as good as oblivion and there is a mod that provides a basic quest log.

 

[Ben Hussong]

Am I one of the few people who was not annoyed by the combat in Morrowind? Yes, at first it was a bit annoying until you leveled some, but it made sense to me. If you have never used a sword before, you're gonna swing wildly, miss a bit, or not hit hard enough to hurt them. I will say not being able to block on command got annoying but not ridiculously so.

So you weren't annoyed but in your description of the combat you used the word "annoying" twice.

Okay i should have phrased as " one of the few who didn't hate Morrowind's combat"

 

[retro himself]

I liked Morrowind for its diversity, uniqueness and adventures. Also, randomness. Kinda what Dwarf Fortress is famous for.
You just never know when you're gonna stumble upon a great piece of armor or weapon. Sure, you could follow the FAQs and get this or that piece, but it's just so much more awesome just running around and stumbling in a completely nondescript farmers house and finding Daedric greaves just standing there on the shelf. I don't even know what I was doing in that guys house, I was just randomly barging in for some ill-needed cash. Not too far into the game either.

Or finding a left glove of awesomeness in some random cave and then finding some other type of awesome glove in an unrelated dungeon in the different part of the world.

Also, making your own spells, taking off your armor and jumping to INSANE heights at later levels, and later after killing every damn high level boss monster around just strutting around towns like a boss.


Oblivion, while I was anxious to play it, didn't have much of that. It looked bland and generic by comparison, although it was pretty stylish at the same time. I enjoyed it too, sure, but not as much as Morrowind due to the fact that everywhere you went it looked like the last place you've been.
But I enjoyed the multitudes of sidequests and unique locales (I remember once going into a painting to kill some monster, dude what.)

I'm not that excited for Skyrim, since it looks meh.