Ultimate elder scrolls question..

[crudicel]

Oblivion? Or Morrowind? Ive seen this asked so many times on an elder scrolls forum based on one game or the other. So ill ask you guys. For those who have played both, which do you prefer? I own both but after playing oblivion on my 360 i couldnt stand Morrowind.

[Vonwert]

Re: Ultimate elder scrolls question..

Morrowind for me. It just barely is above Oblivion in certain areas.

One, it has movable light sources, a.k.a. lamps and candles.

It has a heck of a lot easier "placement" of items.

You can put your stuff in any house. So if you don't like the ones you can buy, then just take the one you do like.

Also there is the stuff you find in certain dungeons. It gives more story to the dungeons. I loved reading the letter in the underground tomb, about how it was a last stand against vampires. Or finding specific loot in a certain dungeon without having all that random junk.

Now Oblivion has better settings and no giant mushroom uglyness. And I like the physics. But the moving of items seems so sloppy. It is overly easy to knock stuff over without meaning to. And trying to place skulls and books is a pain.

They both need to a better look to the characters. All the women look like they were beaten with a lead pipe.

Granted modders have fixed such problems, but that shouldn't be an excuse.

But overall, Morrowind has a special place to me. Oblivion is a lot of fun though.

[crudicel]

Re: Ultimate elder scrolls question..

.All the women look like they were beaten with a lead pipe.

LMAO

[Goufunaki]

Re: Ultimate elder scrolls question..

Actually, it's possible to make a decent looking female. Although with the way the game is set up for customization, it's kinda difficult.

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gen...topic=34612124

There's a topic in GameFAQs about who can make the best looking girl (some also included mods).

Not mine.





THIS one is mine, though. Was the best I could do.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Ultimate elder scrolls question..

I like Morrowind. There are SOOO MANY MODS. I wish my computer could handle Oblivion though.

[DYRE]

Re: Ultimate elder scrolls question..

I haven't played Morrowind, much, so I like Oblivion more. It seems more actiony. Although, if I spent more time playing Morrowind, I'm sure I'd like it. (just, I only played it at a friend's house, so I didn't really play it much).

[Kirin]

Re: Ultimate elder scrolls question..

For me, Morrowind.

Oblivion did have some improvements over Morrowind though: I did enjoy playing around with the ragdoll physics, but like Vonwert said, it's waay to easy to accidently knock something over or misplace items.

Being able to fully customize characters was also nice, and it seems that Oblivion improved the way Kahjits and Argonians looked and walked, which always bothered me in Morrowind.

Oblivion also has the advantage when it comes to interaction with NPCs. Just being able to hear a voice throughout all the conversation was nice, and I liked how I could overhear NPCs conversing with one another. Having friendly NPCs take my side when the guards come for me is also a plus, though it's led to many city-wide riots (see the topic "Mass Murder in Oblivion").

Quest-wise, Morrowind seems to be the winner by a landslide. For me, the main quest of Oblivion was too predictable and linear, and there weren't any surprising facts you learn about the characters as you progress. I found Oblivion's main quest to be disappointingly short (along with the faction quests as well), and I powered my way to the head of nearly every faction in a matter of days. In Morrowind, it took me the entire summer to finish all the quests. Many of Oblivion's lesser quests seemed too trivial for me to even bother completing; just by the way they were initiated, I felt as if I could automatically tell that they didn't add anything to the local stories or provide any sort of worthwhile reward.

As for leveling, I was pleseantly surprised that the developers of Oblivion had made creatures level up with you, which proved to make the main quest a bit more challenging for me, as I was level 30 by the time I actually started it. By the time I was 30 in Morrowind, nothing, absolutely nothing was able to stand in my way, and it even made the end game fight pathetically easy. It was also wise of them to include a training cap when training skills with NPCs. When I played Morrowind, I literally trained skills from 0 to 100 in a matter of minutes once I'd amassed the necessary amount of gold, which kind of cheapened my character. Intrestingly enough, no matter how much you level in Oblivion, it seems quite clear that the hero of Cyrodill (your character in Oblivion) will never be as powerful a character as the Nerevarine (your character in Morrowind), what with all the special weapons and abilities the Nerevarine has.

One thing really bugged me about Oblivion (which is one of the main reasons I like Morrowind better): the gimping of armor and special weapons in comparison to Morrowind. In Morrowind, Daedric armor was the ultimate powerful armor that I'd to spend forever searching for and took great pains to earn every piece, yet in Oblivion, the stuff is so common that apparently every average bandit in the steet is wearing it or weilding its weapons (or glass armor/weapons, which was the best thing those favoring light armor could get). I mean, in Morrowind, you're taught that daedric artifacts are carry a rare and terrible power forged from the souls of the damned that only a select few are privileged to own, yet just outside the Imperial City, kids are probably playing Guards n' Bandits with Daedric daggers they found in random barrels.

The daedric quests in Oblivion are a total rip-off in comparison to Morrowind, which really ticked me off. Any of the weapons/armor the Daedric princes offered me as a reward paled in comparison to the armor/weapons I'd self enchanted, and many of the random rewards (enchanted rings and such) I found while exploring Oblivion gates are a better prize than the Daedric rewards. I still seethe for what they did to the Cuirass of the Saviour's Hide. For a lover of dungeon-diving like myself, there weren't enough drops from special enemies or discoveries of rare armor to even make exploration of the outlands worthwhile. What, for all my troubles all I get is an extensive Nirnroot/Weylkund Stone collection collection? Pfft.

For replay, Morrowind wins me over again. I've played through it several times on Xbox and PC, made/played the mods of others, and even still I've not completed every little quest the game originally offered. I probably won't be playing Oblivion again, unless the expansion packs are released for the 360.