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Please vote wich game is better (if you played all of them, or know them somewhat well enough) and comment on why did you chose that, thank you.

Morrowind (with Tribunal and Bloodmoon)
- 124 (58.8%)
Oblivion (with Shivering Isles)
- 16 (7.6%)
Skyrim
- 51 (24.2%)
Daggerfall
- 16 (7.6%)
Arena
- 4 (1.9%)

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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #135 on: July 13, 2012, 01:06:44 pm »
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Quote from: Silfurdreki on July 13, 2012, 10:42:07 am
The only part of Oblivion with any actual atmosphere or character (I never played Shivering Isles, I hear that's pretty good as well) was the Dark Brotherhood questline.
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(Shivering Isles was awesome. Even if you took away all of the good stuff except for Sheogorath's voice acting and dialogue, it is still awesome.)

I didn't have the hearth to play it after some asshole spoiled the story. It was like queueing to buy a ticket for The Empire Strikes Back, and that some dude coming out from the movie: "It was a big revelation, this is the greatest plot twist in cinema history, Darth Vader is Luke's father." really loudly. Or: "Shit, protagonist dies in Donnie Darko!"
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #136 on: July 13, 2012, 01:09:40 pm »
Quote from: Rex_Nex on July 13, 2012, 01:04:00 pm
Remember Sanguine's and Sheogorath's quests? One ended in you stripping an entire party of strangers naked and the other ended in it raining flaming dogs.
They are pretty alright in Skyrim.

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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #137 on: July 13, 2012, 01:13:45 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on July 13, 2012, 12:45:28 pm
Quote from: Silfurdreki on July 13, 2012, 10:42:07 am
The only part of Oblivion with any actual atmosphere or character (I never played Shivering Isles, I hear that's pretty good as well) was the Dark Brotherhood questline.
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(Shivering Isles was awesome. Even if you took away all of the good stuff except for Sheogorath's voice acting and dialogue, it is still awesome.)
I'd say both were awful. The Dark Brotherhood quest line made them out to be a bunch of idiots who got outsmarted by a cretin who's ultimate plan was to stab a ghost with a knife. Shivering Isles just showered us with "lol funny" caricatures of insane people. Sheogorath in particular. He was like Moira Brown, except with super powers and a dormant personality, which was his only sign of depth. I don't really remember anything good about Oblivion's writing.
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #138 on: July 13, 2012, 01:16:32 pm »
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on July 13, 2012, 01:09:40 pm
Quote from: Rex_Nex on July 13, 2012, 01:04:00 pm
Remember Sanguine's and Sheogorath's quests? One ended in you stripping an entire party of strangers naked and the other ended in it raining flaming dogs.
They are pretty alright in Skyrim.

"Shit, what did I do last night?"
Sanguine's Skyrim quest is just The Hangover in a Norse medieval fantasy setting, and that is a very good thing.
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #139 on: July 13, 2012, 01:17:23 pm »
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #140 on: July 13, 2012, 02:05:40 pm »
I remember making a 1 point damage spell, with the widest radius possible in morrowind. Then just bombing the crap out of cities with it to aggro every one. With a ring of levitation I'd always be just out of swords reach, and they'd just mill below me giving me angry looks.
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #141 on: July 13, 2012, 02:07:54 pm »
I remember stealing the hidden enchanted ebony longsword in Balmora and instantly getting a death sentence because it had a value of 14,000.

I also like that Morrowind had a death sentence.
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #142 on: July 13, 2012, 02:18:56 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on July 13, 2012, 02:07:54 pm
I remember stealing the hidden enchanted ebony longsword in Balmora and instantly getting a death sentence because it had a value of 14,000.

I also like that Morrowind had a death sentence.
Did you ever find the daedric face of god? I lost my mind what I found that for the first time. I knew that viking ship was lacking something.
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #143 on: July 13, 2012, 02:24:37 pm »
I never found the Daedric Face of God or the viking ship, but I did find Mehrune's Razor (as Rusty Old Dagger) by chance and had no idea of what it really was, so I just stashed it at my base and forgot about it. My base being the Hlaalu bar in Balmora after I accidentally angered everyone in it and killed them all. While I was in House Hlaalu. Which I joined by accident.

My early experiences in Morrowind were interesting, to say the least.
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #144 on: July 13, 2012, 03:53:05 pm »
I remember as a small child memorising the chests in Mothsomething fort outside Balmors that you could loot for the weapons without being caught by the guards. It was fun.
Oh, and you know you can beat Oblivion in 10 minutes? Same with Morrowind, record stands at around 7. Without bug abuse. And it uses an intended MQ path.
In Oblivion, the only quests that I found interesting were Whodunit, and the one where you have to murder your friends in the DB sanctuary. I actually really liked the orc, so killing him was depressing.
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #145 on: July 13, 2012, 05:10:56 pm »
I picked Skyrim. I've played Morrowind, Oblivon, and Skyrim. Why would I pick Skyrim over Morrowind? One reason... I play mainly on a 360. Getting killed by a rat repeatedly due to my % chance to hit on Morrowind sucked completely. I literally spent a few hours before even trying to get near the main quest because every enemy I fought pretty much killed me due to my % chance to hit sucking. The graphics were pretty simple (though it was made a long time ago) and the animations were.... not so good. Skyrim was a lot easier to get into, and seeing as how getting into Morrowind was damn near impossible for me...

That being said, if you play on a PC which I have done at a friends house, Morrowind trumps everything else by far. You can change the mechanics to be less DnD like, increase rendering distances, and a crapton more. Just vanilla though... Skyrim.

Oblivion was just crap.
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #146 on: July 13, 2012, 07:47:16 pm »
Am I the only one who remembers the Rusty Fork quest in Morrowind?  That's how you show a mad god.  Sheogorath didn't send you to kill a Ketch of Unusual Size with a kitchen utensil because he was crazy.  He sent you to kill a Ketch of Unusual Size with a kitchen utensil just to see if you'd actually do it.
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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #147 on: July 13, 2012, 09:00:30 pm »
It's a netch, not a ketch, Aqizzar. Off I am to do that quest again. Got to love the fork of horripilation and it's constant effect magicka drain.
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« Reply #148 on: July 13, 2012, 09:08:20 pm »
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It's a netch, not a ketch, Aqizzar. Off I am to do that quest again. Got to love the fork of horripilation and it's constant effect magicka drain.

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Re: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
« Reply #149 on: July 13, 2012, 09:53:40 pm »
Sheagorath is pretty much the Daedric Lord of Trolling in canon. No wonder he got his own expansion.
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