In Skyrim, you're expected to succeed, and you have to work to live up to those expectations. You simply obeyed your fate. In Morrowind, you're expected to fail, and you work to prove those expectations wrong. You MADE your fate.

Collected every daedric artifact, and dealt with those princes and princesses. Defeated the legendary world eater, and devoured it's soul. Plundered dozens upon dozens of crypts and dungeons. Learned every known dragon shout, and absorbed dozens of dragons souls. Ended the civil war that threatened the land. Regrew the thieves guild, and took hold of the dark brotherhood. Ended the iron grip Mirrak had on Solstheim. Became the very last true dragon born. Brought back the Dawngard, and defeated Lord Harkon. Joined the companions, brought together the fragments of wuuthrad, and became a warewolf. Became thane of every city, bought every house, built all 3 available homes. Went to Sovengard, alive. And came back. Alive. Saved millions of lives, and ended thousands. Ripped the hearts out of slain daedra to make armor and weapons that contained their essence.. . . . . "Another traveler, here to lick my father's boots.."

Ordinator: My Lord, Dagoth Ur is planning to attack Vivec. Vivec: Oh ok but, um, me or the city? Ordinator:.............yes.

Morrowind let's me fly without mods or glitches 10 outta 10.

In Morrowind, you are used and are told to pretend to be this legendary hero in order to get the people's attention. You aren't this predestined hero of prophecy, you become that hero. You realize you're the hero because of the things you do. In Skyrim, it's all based off "destiny" where everything you do is "destiny" and "fate".

Balgruuf: Fancy robes. You a wizard or something? Me: Im the dragonborn. I saved your hold from a dragon. I defeated Alduin and ended the civil war. You helped me capture a dragon. Balgruuf: Fancy robes. You a wizard or something?

In Morrowind, you had to earn what you got. You had to fight, to investigate, to find your own way, and eventually you become a god-like being BECAUSE you built this power yourself. Because you made it yours. In Skyrim almost all of your power and prophecy are kinda just handed to you at the end of a dungeon. Every. Single. Time.

Got to miss the small things in Morrowind. Like the howls coming over the distant mountains in the mornings The lightning and thunder deafening you The guardsmen attacking you if you were seen wearing their armor Daedric gear not being standard issue to every 2 cent bandit The look of glass gear Secretive vampire clans Using the fold out map that came with the game A tutorial that prepared you for nothing

Ive heard someone describe Skyrim as 'An ocean with the depth of a puddle' and I think thats true you know.

Once upon a time there was a morrowind mod called "Nerevar say nerevar again". The mod made Jiub (the prisioner from the starting ship that asks your name) Nerevar. You were them just a randon person in a prisioner ship. They completely removed the main quest and every once in a while you would find the legendary Jiub with awesome armor doing super-heroic things. It was one of my most fond memories in a videogame up to date. The feeling of "screw prophesy, I will do whatever I want" was so beautiful.

I played Oblivion first, then Skyrim, then years later Morrowind, and Morrowind is hands down my favourite of the three, with Oblivion being second.

Bruh speaking of the skyrim ending it didn't even feel like the end to a prophecy, you got 3 other people helping you cheese the fight, steal your kill and then you just sod off back to tamriel and no one gives a single feck

One thing I hate about Skyrim is that without the Quest Marker it's almost impossible to find where you're supposed to go. Almost all the information you'll get about your next destination is the Quest Marker. I liked that in Morrowind, finding your way was part of the gameplay. Skyrim is a big guided tour... It's not a bad game but I enjoyed Morrowind way more.

In Morrowind, you do quests because you think: "This seems interesting, I wonder where it takes me" In Skyrim you do quests just to check them of the list and grab another one

"There is a settlement that needs our help, let me mark it on your map" "There is a draugr cave that needs clearing, let me mark ot on your map" "There is an oblivion gate that needs closing, let me mark it on your map" "There is is this bizarre faction that needs help/needs to be destroyed, go find it" - MW/FNV

morrowind: "Where do i find location x?" "it's a short ways to the south west of Y" translation: "Imagine a line south and a line west from location Y. loction X could be anywhere between or even on those lines."

One of my big issues with skyrim was that a lot of the time I felt like I was just being spammed with little errands and quests by NPCs. After 50 or so hours I was already felt like I had WAY too many quests going on to the point that I would occasionally adventure into a dungeon and stumble across some item for a quest I didn't even remember taking. I almost got afraid to talk to NPCs to organically learn more about a town I was visiting because I was too afraid they would be like "ohh, I accidentally left my ancestral camping chair in a dwemer ruin a few years ago, now since then I just haven't been able to get my erection up without my magical ancestral camping chair and everything has gone to shit. I don't even remember what the hell I, a random farmer, was doing in there or why I'm telling you about it, but can you go out and get it for me?"

the best thing about Morrowind is how loot is hidden literally everywhere, it seriously encourages you to explore every nook and cranny haha. Look under things, look behind things, chances are there is something hidden - especially when the world doesn't scale to your level and it's totally possible to get good gear early on. Not to mention how tense it is going into a cave not knowing whether you're going to get your butt kicked or not. In Skyrim and Oblivion there is none of that. There are no hidden items, and all of the caves and dungeons are marked on your fucking compass... no sense of discovery or wanderlust. You find a chest and know what's going to be in it... OOO what a surprise; items that are appropriate for my level. Go into a cave; OOO what a surprise, enemies I know I can kill because the world scales to me

The birthday kazoo killed me lmfao

*Finally, an N'wah who apprecite our work. We still might be friends.*

Not every Elder Scrolls game lacked urgency. In the second game, Daggerfall, there were actually time limits to many quets. In fact, the very first story quest had a 1 month in game time limit to find and Imperial courier. That game is also a lesson in why you sometimes need characters to wait on your character forever in these types of games; If you failed to find that carrier in the month you had, he would leave the region of Daggerfall, you would fail the mission and be unable to complete the main story. Did I mention that Daggerfall had a map the size of Great Britain?

The point about the prophecy is really good, especially considering the possible answers you can give to Dagoth Ur when he asks whether you really are the Nerevarine. In short, they are: 1. Yep. 2. It doesn't matter, I only serve the Emperor. 3. No, but I'll kick your ass anyway. 4. I have no clue. The game doesn't force an answer down your throat. They are all perfectly valid and Dagoth Ur has interesting dialogue for each of them.

I'll never forget the first time I was dicking around in Balmora, only to be confronted by a dreamer. It was such a simple experience, but something about it stuck and made the main events feel urgent and present. Also, I remember being yelled at by Caius Cosades for not having the package (I sold it to Arrille for some elven vodka or something), and the wording of his speech reminded me almost exactly of that distinct feeling of being blasted in a military setting. So I walked my bitch ass back to Seyda Neen and bought it from Arrille for twice the price that I sold it to him, and Shitbag Stu took the package back to Caius and went on to fulfill the Nerevarine Prophecy. In Skyrim, nobody blasts you for anything. Their voices are so tame and the words are simple. In Morrowind, I have a feeling that if the game had more voice acting, they would have made Caius scream at you, and they would have made the Dreamers sound really creepy and deranged, and so on. In Skyrim, you can show up to an Imperial Legion muster completely naked. In Morrowind, they make you put on your shitty standard-issue chain mail, and you better like it. You can still go off your own way and fight in your fancy Gucci armor though.

Honestly, Soule's soundtrack makes these games so much more deep than they actually are. His music is like it's own character in the Elder Scrolls series.

Personally I found Oblivion's main story a lot more interesting and engaging than Skyrim's which bored me to shit.

I think the most limiting decision for making TES games more story intensive is full voice acting. In Morrowind, the writers could pull all their resources in just writing stuff. They could go over several iterations of trying out how the story fits together and rewrite entire parts at any point of the development process. With voice acting you have to keep in mind that every line will cost the project and once recorded there is little room for changing things. Also, if all the monologues and chats from the Morrowind NPCs where to be voice acted, the average player would soon loose patience. You can skip parts of the chat reading as you see fit. If you are a fast reader, you can control the pace of the information. I don't think Bethesda will go back to written dialogues for obvious reasons.

Is it weird that I prefer Morrowind's dialogue system over Skyrim? It's more of an RPG to me without listening to already bad voice acting. We wouldn't lose much without it.

"At the beginning you had to have to take the bus. Like everyone else."

Every time I hear Morrowind mentioned I want to reinstall it and build my collection of soul gems in an abandoned house I found somewhere all over again.

Mournhold! City of light. City of magic.

Elder Scrolls VI will be a step in the wrong direction, I gaurantee it

In Skyrim gaining recognition from the dragons at the end of the game would've been awesome, like if they called you "thuri" and instead of just attacking you all the time they would be passive but you could instead challenge them to combat with a shout to take their souls if you still needed dragon souls.

if they remade Morrowind, i would play the shit out of that

Anyone remember this quote from Todd Howard? "There is an unlimited number of dragons. One of our designers actually put in a random event I encountered, where I ended up being chased by three dragons and I thought "who the hell did this?" I felt like Frodo in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and was really frightened. So I asked him to remove it." Smh.

The success of Morrowind pretty much saved Bethesda, and then they went about abandoning most things that made Morrowind great. And now, in 2019, after Fallout 76, you can see where did that lead. The games got so mainstream, shallow, unimaginative, lacking difficulty and innovation that Bethesda pretty much lost its reputation, and gamers turned to studios like CD Project to deliver actual value. I'm not even looking forward anymore to another Elder Scrolls game. :( Btw, I never actually finished the main quest in Morrowind, but still I spent a ton of time in it, and it's one of my favorite games of all time.

Now I want to play Morrowind again... DAMN YOU!

Point on directions in Morrowind. 1 persons dialogue is not always correct. Best to ask around to get as many details as possible. I asked about a dungeon, NPC gave a list of flawless directions then said "at the path by the lack, go North East." I went from the lake all around the northeast corner around it, 3 hours I searched. The dungeon was sitting, beside the lake on the right side of a road that pointed north and VAGUELY pointed northeast further up.

when Morrowind came out way back in 2002, i was 10, my brother was 13. he bought it and we both read the case front to back, looked through the manual. and then... i saw it...... THE MAP... we unfolded it. i had never seen such a big and beautiful video game map and i absolutely had to see this world. i have always loved maps. just like our family holidays my brother gave me the honourable task as the navigator. (meaning, he bought it so he gets first go) but i didn't mind. because i was just so excited to explore this map. it was actually a lot of fun. while he was playing i was giving directions and familiarising myself with the map. my brother has always gotten his left and rights mixed so its funny as hell giving him directions too. and then sometimes we worked together to figure out what the hell you are supposed to do on some of the missions. i enjoyed that time with my brother so much that i never played it more than 10 hours myself. i also wasn't the best reader so all the dialog turned me away a little. i was used to not having to read what every person says from all my fave N64 games. Morrowind is wrapped up in so much nostalgia, this video clears some things up for me. and no that i'm an adult who loves reading. when i get a decent enough pc i'm definitely going to install it. navigator and helmsman this time! :) then oblivion came out. which introduced many new things, npc's have there own lives and routines. can actually see mountains in the distance. and of course the physics engine. i think we all remember the chain in the prison cell. and the bucket tied to a rope in the well. and when you shoot an arrow into it, it recoils back and hangs on its side as the arrow ways that side down. my friend stole every single book he could find and put them all in the little shack you can buy. 360 couldnt handle that too well. rolling heaps of cheese wheels down the hill, walking on watermelons floating in a lake and my personal favourite... placing baskets over shop keepers heads then stealing ALL THAT DARDY SHIT. truly breath taking stuff back then.

I played Morrowind for years, hours on end even. I explored, did random quest, searched for powerful weapons and learned tricks to not die. After a few years I finally decided it was time to do the mainquest, which by the way was a brand new adventure in and of itself. Also, let me tell you kids something, there is nothing more terrifying than encountering a Greater bonewalker. I can't play Skyrim for extended times because it is just boring. Exploring skyrim just isn't the same.. and there are tooooo many enemies that level with. In morrowind you would enter a dungeon and get destroyed because you're not ready and lets not even talk about how they butchered Magic in Skyrim...

I haven't even talked to the greybeards and I've been playing for 80 hrs

Your critic of Skyrim can be copied to Fallout 4.

The more videos I watch by you, the more I´m impressed of the depth of analysis you subject every game to. You seem to examine every aspect of a game, make coherent points about them and finally give solid arguments for these points. You don´t find that very often for sure.

Let it be known that you can literally fly in morrowind. It was the coolest shit when I used a levitate spell to get to the rock floating above vivec city, or even to find hidden artifacts in caves. That was another thing I miss, the artifacts you found actually FELT like they were these powerful artifacts. Not just some piece of gear with higher than usual enchantment.

One could also add that Morrowind has interesting antagonists: Dagoth Ur and his Sixth House. I know that canonically he is a villain, but the forbidden texts found in Vivec make him so much more interesting a character. (Kinda reminds me of the Master from the first Fallout game.)

The Nerevarine would kick the Dragonborne's ass.

"Wide as the sea, deep as a bucket."

"Morrorwind did more with less" that sums it up nicely. Morrorwind took advantage of its limitations for immersion purposes, Skyrim tried very hard (and failed) to dissasiociate itself from them.

The veriaty of playstyles in morrowind is far greater than in skyrim. There are many different ways to play magic builds in morrowind, where as there is only a couple in skyrim. I recently played an enchantment based build, and it was not only viable, but a hell of a lot of fun. You wind up collecting amulets and rings to put every spell on them. Since the enchanted items recharge over time, it doesn't rely on your magicka pool. You can also instantly cast when using a magic item. I made rings that blasted targets with damage, and could spam them like I was Darth Sidius. If I know what sorts of enemies I am facing I can load up with the exact counters I need. I could summon whole armies by enchanting each ring or amulet to do a summon. An emergant quest of my build presented itself to me. I wanted to make a magic item that would prevent fall damage, without me having to cast. I had an amulet that allowed me to jump really high, and I had the boots of blinding speed so I could go far with it too... the problem was that I would die from fall damage. So I knew that golden saints would give me the soul I needed for a constant effect enchantment. I went and traveled the lands looking for a scroll to summon a golden Saint, and eventually found it. Then I discovered that golden saints could beat me, so I gathered the supplies to make all new equipment to counter it, and even a small army of lesser summons. I set up a ritual site and had a bloody battle with the creature, and died twice before beating her. Finally, I has its soul, and was able to make my enchanted belt, which had a 1 point feather fall effect. It would let me fall normally but without fall damage. Thus I was now equipped to leap mountains in a single bound. I *earned* that, and it was a hell of a lot of fun.

I was excited over Skyrim at first. I really like the enviroment and all the snow. Then I noticed that the melee combat kinda... has no weight or impact and well didn't like it much. But it's ok, sneaking is still fun... even when you have to pump 6 arrows to guy's face to kill him. Kinda dissapointing too... Anyhows, the biggest problem I have with the game. Is the fact that you are not given a proper choice of things. Why can't you refuse the werewolf-gift? I didn't want to be a werewolf, I'd rather rat them out to the Yarl than be one. Can't even do that, it's either werewolf or walk away and leave these characters into this cave for the rest of their lives. There are few other examples I could post. But yeah, the quests aren't that great. Exploring was fun... for awhile. So I stopped playing, as there was almost nothing but the enviroments I enjoyed in it.

TES V: Skyrim They should have called it TES V: Postman simulator. 90% of what you do in this game is fetch and deliver stuff.

When writing is based around verbal storytelling over written storytelling you will always lose depth. Morrowind is a video game book that you're writing while Skyrim is a Michael Bay movie. In a game like Morrowind, the developer has the creative luxury of fleshing out multitudes of player/NPC interactions and rich storytelling without the restriction of hiring voice actors and programmers for believable open ended verbal dialoge implementation. The latter is obviously more difficult than we realize since the amount of awkward dialogue in Skyrim is noticeable to say the least. With Morrowind, like a book, you're filling in nearly every NPCs voice with your mind. This allows the developer to exposition much more elaborately than they would be able to if they were constrained, ultimately, by the voice acting budget. Classic movie vs book experience difference. For me, I want the UI and visuals of Skyrim (or better hopefully) with the predominantly text based storytelling of Morrowind.

When I first tried playing Morrowind I was falling asleep. Now I can't help but be excited. When I first started playing Skyrim I couldn't help but be excited but now I'm falling asleep.

I think this is something Bethesda did better even in Fallout 3, deciding to make the story more personal and private. You're not the ultimate badass who is destined to bring life back to the wasteland, you're some schmuck who emerged from the ground completely befuddled by the world around him. You're some doofus looking for his dad, someone with a small personal story, who keeps getting involved in other people's small personal stories and who ends up making a big impact on the world almost by accident, stumbling dick-first into a much bigger scheme that he was supposed to have no part in whatsoever. It was pretty classy, in retrospect, which is a lot to say of Bethesda, masters of schlock.

Morrowind should be Remastered.

As an Elder Scrolls veteran, Skyrim is my favourite game in the series. That said, I absolutely agree with you in regards to its main questline, the story and pacing did drag and it wasn't until Dawnguard that I began to get invested in a main storyling, albeit a DLC one. Morrowind is brilliant though and I seriously adore its storyline more than any other Elder Scrolls story.

12:36 That small sound effect added in just had me cringing with laughter xD Let's be clear here: The Bethesda which made Skyrim isn't the Bethesda which made Morrowind or Oblivion. Many of those responsible for that classic had left, just like BioWare lost quite a few talented people after their Dragon Age Origins/Mass Effect/Knights of the Old Republic glory days. With new developers come new ideas and those ideas can result in very different games.

As for the topic at hand: You are 100% right, my dear Mr. Bunnyhop. Skyrim is a fine game, but it's simply not in the same league as Morrowind. Another strong point for the latter title, in my opinion, is how utterly _alien_ Vvardenfell feels. I don't think I've ever seen a more compelling, imaginative Fantasy world in any RPG - hell, probably in any _video game_, period. It's definitely a far cry from the same old, High Fantasy Tolkien-aping that dominates the genre so completely.

Skyrim is like a lake that is seven miles wide and one inch deep.

I feel the same way about the main quests. I have been playing Skyrim since its release, and I have way more nostalgia with Skyrim than Morrowind. I started playing Morrowind in 2015. I'm Skyrim, I always avoided the main quest like the plague because it's so dull, but in Morrowind I actually enjoyed the main quest almost above all else. I also love how Morrowind goes out of it's way to let you know that you are a nobody, a weakling Outlander who always gets killed by mud crabs. Through blood, sweat and tears, you must gain the trust of the people and prove that you are a hero, incarnated or not.

I always knew that Morrowind was a big and awesome game, but 15 years ago i couldn't understand english enough because i was a scrublord..i still got the Morrowind+Tribunal box and never touched it since :(

"Will you be a douchebag or a cool dude?" Sounds like Mass Effect

One big thing for me was magic going from playing a bomber plane in morrowind to look mom two hands in skyrim

Morrowind: You are a God-King! Skyrim: Go get 20 rare plants for me.

Balgruuf told me to get to High Hrothgar "immediately" while I was level 6 So at level 44 I finally got myself up there after becoming harbinger and archmage :D

This is all true, but there is one MAJOR factor that decides whether Morrowind is truly better than Skyrim's vast modern world. Cliff Racers.

Actually there is no ambiguity to whether you're truly the Nerevarine or not. The obvious proof would be The Moon and Star ring which kills anyone wearing it who is not Nerevarine. Also the events are divinely orchestrated by Azura who had prophesized that Nerevarine would come to take her revenge. She also tells you "fear not for I'm watchful" indicating that she does indeed have a hand in this.

I think the amount of dislikes on this video is quite telling, many of the new age TES fans unfortunately won't be able to understand why Morrowind was so great because they care more about dragons and graphics than well made characters and story.

I actually didn't enjoy skyrim as much as I did oblivion.

To me it's what you've mentioned about the Dragonborn being "born" to be the big hero, while the Nerevarine isn't exactly. In Morrowind you may or may not be the chosen one and you learn that many others have walked that path of the "chosen one" before you only to fail. You start out no more impressive than most other people, but through your adventurers you become stronger. If you join a guild they don't care about you supposedly being the reincarnaton of someone, you have to work your way up, you have to go through the ranks, do the quests, show the skills and stats and everything. At the end when you're a badass you feel like you've earned it with your own virtual sweat and blood. Now in Skyrim on the other hand there's no mistake, you're the chosen one, the Dragonborn, you have an innate power that is rarely seen and there's a big prophecy describing your destiny. So far so good, even if destinity/fate stuff is really old and tacky these days. But then it turns out you're also the ultimate mary sue and the chosen one of absolutely every guild you even glance at! You get chosen by the Psijic Order, you get to be the Listener, you get to be in the super secret thieves club, you find the cure for lycantrophy, you you you. Your destiny is to fight a dragon and win or loose, that's it... why are you the chosen one of every other faction? And you join a guild, do a few quests and then get catapulted to guild leader or something similar. When I became Archmage the first time I didn't even knew any spells outside of the initial firespark-thingy. I never really felt like I've accomplished something in Skyrim, everything was handed to me on a golden diamond encrusted plate. Nobody else could've done what I did because I was always the chosen one.

I always felt the way we completed the prophecies made it feel more mystic and supernatural. It gave a much different sense of what it means to be a reincarnated god king than most games try to accomplish and also made it feel very mythological.

Only 200 hours. That's pretty casual.

The issue is that with each passing iteration of both The Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, Bethesda is leaning toward a more casual audience. The amount of mechanical depth that was present in Morrowind was completely lost on Skyrim. Skills are shrinking, alchemy and enchanting are getting weaker, weapon and armor archetypes are disappearing, even class making is straight up GONE. In Fallout 4, you don't even have the option to be a bad guy and the 4 speech options are all essentially illusions of choice. THIS IS NOT ROLE PLAYING BETHESDA!!! Bethesda's games are becoming glorified open world action games. The RPG elements are dying people!!! I can only hope this terrible trend of making the games simpler and less player involved will turn around, but with the way the gaming industry is going, I don't believe it will.

I may be wrong, but I feel like the games nowdays are all about the graphics and easy gameplay. Back in the time Morrowind came out it was much harder to impress gamers with graphics, so developers had to concentrate on the gameplay and storylines. Look at games like Heroes of Might and Magic 3 or Hearts of Iron or classical point-and-click games, for example - poor graphics, but incredibly detailed story lines and very complex mathematical combat systems. Gaming industry still wasn't such a huge business so sometimes we had to wait A LOT for a new really great game to be released. Now there's too much money involved, the competition on the market has become more fierce, graphics are generally incredible so no one bothers with story lines anymore, and there's plenty of amazing games to play, so it's like developers are afraid to make games which require too much effort to finish because few people are going to bother with that when they can always just pick another game.

Skyrim. " See that cave. Go in. Kill the rat." Oblivion. "Sharkeydogath the third said there was a cave out of town. People were complaining about rats coming from it. So I should go kill them." Morrowind. "Some guys name I can't remember told me of a cave 2 miles away. It was infested with disease carrying rats. He said I should go south of town. I'll see a sign. Turn west and go over the bridge. Then look for a pink mushroom tree. Go north east here. If you miss it, you'll get to far off track. And die by cliff racers. After that, you'll see 5 caves. The one with 3 rocks that are exactly 2in in diameter is the cave I must go in."

Shit I feel attacked, poor oblivion never in the limelight.

Skyrim was made for the main stream and Morrowind was made for people who love to RolePlay.

Finally, someone put into words what kept me from enjoying Skyrim. I'm exaggerating here, but I really felt like I was playing a world-exploring-simulator instead of an RPG, because the exploration was the only fun I had in the game... and that wore of after about 30 hours.

The Morrowind world is far richer, and actually worth exploring as it wasn't built with random loot and thrown together with random cave building software. I was so excited to have Oblivion come out when I was a kid after playing Morrowind for hundreds of hours. Oblivion was cool until I realized there were very few personal touches and meaningful variation put into it compared to Morrowind. Each place felt like it had meaning and that there could be something new in Morrowind. Not so in Oblivion or Skyrim. All the same. Gets boring FAST. Oh, and the music was richer and more engaging in Morrowind. There was more communication in it. Oblivion simply felt like it was riding the coat tails of inspiration from Morrowind and Daggerfall without much real innovation or substance aside from the graphics. I am saying this entirely objectively. I simply want good, inspired well thought out games with a sense of actual mystery. There are very few of those any more.

Super Bunnyhop, thank you for being so well articulated in your speech. I was in a place where I couldn't put the audio on, and the auto-subtitles got almost everything right on! Awesome!

Well, Skyrim got playable after modding it to its breaking point. ...and the questlines are still shit. Dammit, Oblivion was better there, and that's saying something. At least their dungeons are tolerable.

Awesome analysis! And wow, I didn't think you'd go through so much effort filtering through the Morrowind vids 0_o

tbh im just pissed that they didnt remaster morrowind or oblivion instead of skyrim

One of the best few es analysis videos on youtube. Thank you for this... it really helped me gain insight on good story writing and level designing.

totally agree about the game is boring, although i do disagree about oblivion being boring, I loved most of the quests there.

I'll never forget Oblivion, my introduction to the Elder Scrolls series.

1:48 about that speech at the end, for most elder scrolls protagonists, their respective game isn't the end of their story. It's the beginning. The first mighty tale of a legendary mage, warrior, or menace. The Nerevarine went to akavir to continue his tale, the Hero of Kvatch continued his war against evil, and the Dovahkiin's story isn't fully told, because alduin's death is canonically the most recent event in the history of the elder scrolls.

Finding a relic/artifact in Morrowind actually felt like an accomplishment. Downside is you know where it is if you decide to start over.

It all went to shit when the morrowind team left and Kirkbrid got sacked.

Are we pretending Oblivion never existed or something?

that 3 years bit got me like damn he really has no idea how long it'll be

I started the elder scrolls series in 2011 with Oblivion, it was truly life changing. In the following year I bought Skyrim which was a lot of fun, but just last year I bought Morrowind...and Skyrim became this Red Headed step child I didn't care about.

"You better get up High Hrothgar immediately..." Hey relax, guy! Dovahkin'll go up the mountain when Dovahkin's ready to go up the mountain...

I think you summed it all up in the fact that Skyrim's main quest just farts in the general direction of Morthal and Falkreath and lets fast travel take care of the rest. It also makes your second stop at a settlement one of the most useful cities in the game (Whiterun) similarly to how Oblivion made the biggest city in the game available to you as soon as you turned around after the tutorial. Not only does Morrowind start you out in the middle of backwater-bumblefuck-nowhere because you start as a backwater-bumblefuck-nobody, it directs you to bigger things gradually. If you have the spine to walk to Balmora, you'll come across Hla Oad which is just a tiny fishing village where you'll see different guards, then stop off in Pelagiad which introduces you to some factions, before finally arriving in Balmora, probably by carefully making your way down a cliffside before admiring the first bustling city. And when you finally do make it to Vivec, the main quest sends you on a pilgrimage to go explore different parts of the world. Morrowind actually takes pride in Vvardenfell and encourages you to see and savour it, Skyrim's too busy giggling at the fact it has 'dragons and stuff'.

I feel like one of the few who actually really liked Oblivion

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I've been a pretty big fan of this series since Daggerfall. I put hundreds of hours into Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion. Hundreds per game, that is. Skyrim was probably the most disappointed I've ever been with a game. Skyrim was a game where, at its core, the gameplay was "follow an arrow and fight the enemies." Everything else did itself. The story was boring and rushed. Oblivion had a similarly boring main quest, but its guilds were extremely compelling and it still had fun skills like speed and acrobatics that allowed for a far greater variety of character builds. Morrowind was just so tops. The world felt truly interesting and alien; you felt like a stranger in a strange land. The game didn't explain itself to you and hold your hand; you felt weak and confused at the beginning, which is what you should've felt. You had to learn cultural norms and navigation within the world.

I Have the same feeling for Skyrim that I have for GTA 5. I loved GTA 4 because of the story-lines and the interesting characters. And GTA:San Andreas because I could mess around in a sandbox. GTA 5 and Skyrim had worlds I just wanted to live and explore in without caring so much about the stories and the characters.

"Even though I barely played it..." Play time 119 hours.

11:10 Dear god! Caius my old friend! I can hardly recognize you!

I don't know why people hate oblivion so much to be honest it one of my favorite elder scrolls games