Board Thread:Morrowind/@comment-65.13.179.156-20130521023026/@comment-24489208-20130619213643

The best is yet to stand out to me, it is true that Morrowind's nostalgia blinded many players so here is the overall opinion of the series of someone who got in to the series late in Oblivions life-cycle but before Skyrim.

I thought Oblivion was really fun but it seemed lack-luster compared to Fallout 3 which I played before, so I wanted a new Elder Scrolls game which updated the series, I got Skyrim. It was fun and had the best combat by far yet the stats and RPG aspects which stood out in Oblivion were gone. I still at this point preferred the Fallout series balance of stats and gameplay while Elder Scrolls juggled with it. I got really in to the Elder Scrolls series more so than Fallout despite this and played Skyrim through and through. I eventually decided to buy Morrowind online and I found it had a feeling of peace and adventure which Oblivion and Skyrim lacked, there was no straight line story, you could do what you want and the music added to this feeling of adventure and freedom. I was completely in to the game, but what I just couldn't get over no matter how hard I tried was the clunky controls and the graphics which were bad even compared to other games around that time. I wanted to love Morrowind, the RPG aspects, the story, the atmosphere but I just couldn't. Without the cussion of nostalgia Morrowind lacked in key components. When it comes to Arena and Daggerfall, I do not own them due to their price and Dosbox doesn't work with my laptop though it appears they suffer the same fate as Morrowind in my book. I have played and own Shadowkey, it is pretty good for a portable game and I play it when bored though you do need to change the controls A LOT to make them comfortable. Battlespire looks like pure camp and I wish to play Redguard, it costs a fortune but it looks like great fun. Online looks fantastic and is one of the best games coming to the 8th generation, the others being Fallout 4 and Thief. :P