Why I'll always say Morrowind is the best TES game

**Furunculus** · 05-06-2009, 00:27

good review Sheogorath, i agree with it.

i played morrowind for months, but got bored with oblivion after only weeks.

on the other hand my mother played oblivion (plus expansions) religiously for what must have been nearly a year!

**Mailman653** · 07-27-2009, 04:23

I saw Steam has ES III GOTY Ed. for $20, I was thinking about getting it but I'm unsure. I have ES IV for the 360 and I liked it a lot although I know ES III is a lot different from ES IV in many ways.

**Centurion1** · 07-28-2009, 02:34

Love morrowind unconditionally. I miss playing it so much.

However, i hated the Cliff racers, they sincerely made playing the game un enjoyable. The quests and dungeons were so much more varied. I loved being able to walk around, but i also hated the time it took. So i would just teleport using a command line. I think it was a good idea for oblivion but they took it to far, to the point where by mid-game you never walked anywhere. It should have been like pick three locations and teleport there.

Now this is the best ES character.
Step one: Choose a Dark elf
Step 2: Model said dark elf to look like the guy on the boat in the beginning (Still my favorite character). Thats another oblivion flaw, it touts this face modelling thing but, i couldnt give my character anything cool, like tats or earrings (look stupid in real life personally but in game they rock), i also wasn't allowed to shave his head and i always feel my characters look dumb and unrealistic with things like mohawks or flowing manes I mean you were supposed to be a slave??? *end rant*
Step three: Become a marksman, with range, short blade, and thief skills.
Step Four: Get the blinding boots of speed
Step five: This is a slight exploit but you can do it "legally", take a potion of resist magic and in the brief time it still works put on the boots
Step 6: Never take off boots.
Step 7: level
Step 8: go to corpus place and get the curaiss of saviors hide. voila you have a magic resistant marksman who is too fast to be caught.

Oh and don't forget to make a short blade with an enchanment of like superdamage for instant kills in case you get attacked up close.

If you like breaking the game, make yourself invisible with Chameleon.

Oh and i loved how you could build your own house it always felt like an accomplishment. Oh and this seems small but i loved how the candles and stuff actually provided light.

Gosh, i think i am going to go install it again.......... graphics or not, i played it after oblivion came out and i never thought the graphics were THAT bad.

**Mailman653** · 07-28-2009, 03:54

Yeah I was looking at some mods for ESIII, not as many as ESIV seems to have, but I did find some that changed the textures, even one on this thread replaces the NPC's with really cool textures. I'm still debating but so far it sounds interesting.

I tried ESII from another thread but I couldn't get into it, I didn't like the combat with the mouse and it was so massive I felt a little lost.

**rvg** · 07-30-2009, 21:51

Speaking of Morrowind and other TES games, somebody at Bethesda must have an obsession with oversized androids.

Daggerfall (Numidium), Morrowind (Akulakhan), Oblivion (Mehruhes himself) and even Fallout 3 (LIberty Prime) all prominently feature giant humanoids.

**Guru** · 08-01-2009, 12:40

Originally Posted by rvg

Speaking of Morrowind and other TES games, somebody at Bethesda must have an obsession with oversized androids.

Daggerfall (Numidium), Morrowind (Akulakhan), Oblivion (Mehruhes himself) and even Fallout 3 (LIberty Prime) all prominently feature giant humanoids.

Perhaps chronic gigantomania? The monumentarilous disorder? The jumbopathic syndrome? GRF? Gigantesque resistance failure?

**Nelson** · 08-01-2009, 13:02

I enjoyed Morrowind immensely having played through it several times.

But wasn’t the combat magic really screwed up? I always thought so. Spells never seemed to scale with your character like melee power did.

**Sheogorath** · 08-03-2009, 05:40

Originally Posted by rvg

Speaking of Morrowind and other TES games, somebody at Bethesda must have an obsession with oversized androids.

Daggerfall (Numidium), Morrowind (Akulakhan), Oblivion (Mehruhes himself) and even Fallout 3 (LIberty Prime) all prominently feature giant humanoids.

I have to admit, Liberty Prime is the most awesome of all of them, though.

"OBSTRUCTION DETECTED. COMPOSITION: TITANIUM ALLOY SUPPLEMENTED BY PHOTONIC RESONANCE BARRIER. PROBABILITY OF MISSION HINDRANCE... ZERO PERCENT!!"

**lars573** · 08-08-2009, 16:27

So with my 360 on the red rings I've been playing Morrowing again. Oblivion is better, because of the VAST improvements. And I'm not talking about technical stuff like graphics, or physics, or the recorded voices. I'm talking fast travelling, stability, streamlined character skills, easier persuation. Yes these improvements come at a price. For example a return to traditional Elder Scrolls level scalling. And a smaller world. Or that there are fewer factions in Cyrodill than in Morrowind. But these are the only real knocks I have against Oblivion and I can live with them. Comparing the two I like the Oblivion better.

**Raz** · 08-01-2009, 12:04

Originally Posted by Mailman653

Yeah I was looking at some mods for ESIII, not as many as ESIV seems to have, but I did find some that changed the textures, even one on this thread replaces the NPC's with really cool textures. I'm still debating but so far it sounds interesting.

I tried ESII from another thread but I couldn't get into it, I didn't like the combat with the mouse and it was so massive I felt a little lost.

Don't let Daggerfall throw you off, heck I've been playing TESI - Arena for the past few days.

Morrowind is a truly exceptional game. I really can't stress how enjoyable it was for me to play. My only regret was removing it from my hard-drive.