The best elder scrolls game

[Jynthor]

Best Elder Scrolls RPG: Morrowind
Best Elder Scrolls Action game: Skyrim

you hadn't played Daggerfall, have you?


Honestly, hasn't aged too well, but if you are a fan of old school no apologies RPG's, then its a great game.

It is also free.

Only problem though, learn to love fast traveling in the later games, because it can take the better part of two real life weeks to travel across the Dagger Fall game map with NO FAST TRAVEL.

Dont get me started on how almost everything is trying to kill you either.

[sub] or the fucking Rats in the starting area, seriously, fuck those rats.[/sub]

Yeah my Daggerfall experience wasn't that great.
I joined the Mages Guild once I got out of the starter dungeon and had to go to a dungeon for a quest. Obviously I got lost because; Randomized dungeons. Then I thought to myself: "Do I really want to go through this for every single quest in the game?" My answer was no.

 

[accipitre]

I want to say Morrowind. But I just went back and replayed it for an hour or two, and damn... the mechanics really were just terrible. I think I'd say Morrowind anyways, but I've got to say: Morrowind with Skyrim-quality graphics and fluidness, combined with Morrowind-quality story, setting, style, and the Morrowind stats system would be just about the best RPG you could make.

 

[Mariakko]

Morrowind is greatest, the story and quests were so much fun compared to Skyrim. Oblivion is second. I want to play Daggerfall but every time I do it feels awkward to use. I'm sure If I gave it time I'd like it too.

 

[Link55]

Morrowind is greatest, the story and quests were so much fun compared to Skyrim. Oblivion is second. I want to play Daggerfall but every time I do it feels awkward to use. I'm sure If I gave it time I'd like it too.

I have played Daggerfall and it's fun no doubt but haw could it make you feel ackward.

 

[WFox]

Best Elder Scrolls RPG: Morrowind
Best Elder Scrolls Action game: Skyrim

Pretty much this. Morrowind had an awesome story and was just great from a narrative perspective. I got immersed in the history of Morrowind and the Neravarine.

Skyrim is absolutely beautiful, and has better magic and combat, it's a lot of fun but doesn't feel as deep in the narrative.

Morrowind re-done in Skyrim's engine? Oh yeah that would be awesome as hell... after a no-cliffracer patch/mod. Hell they might not be so annoying in Skyrim's engine.

Actually Cliffracers in Skyrim would be awesome. They're Dragons' natural foe- and drove them out of Morrowind. How sweet would it be to see a flock of those bastards punishing a dragon, instead of harrying your character every 5 minutes?


OT: I started the series with Morrowind. It was the first RPG I'd ever played and I've been playing them ever since. Overall, I probably got the most enjoyment out of Morrowind, though I am not blinded by nostalgia- the combat in Skyrim blows Morrowind out of the water. That being said, Morrowind was a much more unique world and story than either Oblivion or Skyrim. The Shivering Isles expansion proved that Bethesda is still capable of creating settings other than the bland medieval European-esque stuff they had going on in Oblivion, but then they stepped back with Skyrim (beautiful, sure- but the still bland, or at least unoriginal).

My hope is that Elder Scrolls VI will move on to one of the more exotic provinces, and not one where they can just go "It's like Vikings, but with real Dragons!"

 

[Chunga the Great]

Well considering that I can't get into Morrowind due to the laughably terrible animations, the fact that Oblivion had only 7 voice actors, and Skyrims mediocre story, I'd say Skyrim. The Steam Workshop integration makes mod so ridiculously easy to install that the other games, even if they do also have great mods, just can't compare.

(Those are the only 3 I've played so....)

 

[Gatx]

My first was Morrowind but I never finished any of the quest lines for that. While I enjoy many of the new features in Skyrim (like kill animations that make assassin characters much more satisfying to play), the dreary landscape (in my opinion), and the fact that all of my shirts are attached to my pants (yes, I'm still miffed about that) make me go with Oblivion.

 

[Darkmantle]

Skyrim, no contest.

I HATED Morrowind.

I know how you feel buddy. I honestly don't know how people liked that game.

must be a lot of masochists into rpgs.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

Hard to decide. Daggerfall had the biggest map, Morrowind was the best RPG, and Skyrim had the best gameplay.

Morrowind was the most immersive though. The locations were exotic and unique, the characters memorable, and the political factions complex and engrossing enough to warrant multiple play throughs. Unlike it's later iterations, stats actually accounted for something. You couldn't be a straight up warrior and mystifyingly Head of the Mages guild, you had to actually work at it. Equipment was more varied too. You could equip clothing, armor, and cloaks and mix and match between them. Whereas Oblivion and Skyrim decided to make it one or the other and fused parts of them together, in Morrowind you could have a full set of armor and a black cloak on to give yourself a ring wraith look if you so desired. Limiting fast travel also made the world appear bigger, and encourage exploration and strategic packing.

That being said, the combat was boring and was more reminiscent of it's D&D origins. For all the complaints I've heard about the combat in Oblivion and Skyrim, I have to say it's much better than their predecessors where you'd essentially stand face to face whacking each other until one of you fell over dead. The fact that each of your actions was tied to a to-hit-roll made it more tedious. I find the newer fighting system to be more rewarding to proactive players who actually take the time to study the terrain they're fighting on and remember to block (especially since blocking used to be a passive ability), where actually hitting something is not tied to stats and enemies respond to the force behind your blows.

 

[el derpenburgo]

It's great to see I'm not completely weird; greetings fellow lovers of Oblivion! The game came out on my birthday, it was almost destiny that I should love it.

As for Skyrim, I could not stand playing for more than an hour at a time, and even then I never got past the first big town. I always assumed it was because I modded the crap out of Oblivion and thought of it not so much as a game but a creative medium, hence destroying my ability to appreciate the immersion of any Bethesda-designed engine forever. Same thing happened to Fallout 3. I knew how quests were stored, how items were distributed, how NPCs behaved, so it felt like I already played Skyrim and nothing could surprise me. Did anyone else feel like this?

*Apologies for potential threadjacking*

 

[poxyrom]

My favourite would have to be Oblivion. It was the game that really got me into gaming. I've played Morrowind and I see why people would think it's the best, but I never really got into it. I guess because there's no real action at the start.
I adored skyrim, but something was missing. It was a bit too dark for my liking. I liked the cartoony look that everything has in oblivion, and the landscapes are a lot nicer. Everything was so much more bright and vibrant.

 

[SecondPrize]

A version of Oblivion with mods that just fix the bugs.

 

[LiquidGrape]

Skyrim is the only one so far which hasn't bored me to tears within the first hour of gameplay.

...well, okay, I wasn't technically enjoying my first hour with Skyrim either, but it has grown on me since.
I think it's simply a matter of ambience. As all of the three modern-era games in the series have had forgettable stories at best, I've been depending on the sense of world and place to anchor me. Morrowind and Oblivion failed me in this regard, where Skyrim has successfully managed to pull me in to such an extent that I find myself enjoying the simple act of traversing the hillsides outside Whiterun.

 

[RastaBadger]

I'd have to go with Morrowind with Daggerfall in close second.

 

[Vrach]

Morrowind without a doubt. I loved everything about it, from the story, the way navigation worked (directions, not GPS), no fast travel and awesome spells. The combat was a little weak (and at the time, it was just fine), but aside that, the game was pretty much perfect as far as I'm concerned.

 

[ipop@you]

Crap, double post, sorry guys.

 

[ipop@you]

Well having played all 5 in the last week (everything but Daggerfall today in fact)I've got to say that, like may others, it's a tie between Morrowind and Skyrim. Morrowind's story and immersion were fantastic, mostly unparalled by any other game I've played, but Skyrim had fantastic gameplay and it is beautiful.

 

[Drop_D-Bombshell]

As much as i love Skyrim, i must go for Oblivion. That game in my eyes had so much to do i would spend hours in the wilderness exploring dungeons and creating potions, seeing what lurked around the corner and naming all my armour silly names.

 

[legend forge]

Skyrim, no contest.

I HATED Morrowind.

I know how you feel buddy. I honestly don't know how people liked that game.

must be a lot of masochists into rpgs.

Well I know why people liked it, especially given the time it came out. I just couldn't get into it because of the controls and gameplay, which were much better in Skyrim. I played Skyrim before Morrowind which probably sabotaged my chances of liking it.

 

[Link55]

The thing I hate about Skyrim is that it has soo many bugs and gliches in it.