User blog comment:Atvelonis/Winter Sales on Steam and GOG/@comment-27498244-20151229115650/@comment-25356303-20151229160506

My first TES game was Skyrim, but I've played all of the main series games except for Arena (which I will get to eventually). They're all very enjoyable in my opinion and the older games actually offer very interesting worlds and characters and stories. Even Daggerfall is fun in its own way.

Oblivion and Morrowind are definitely worth playing—they do look and feel pretty different from Skyrim but they're excellently crafted. Oblivion has just so much to do and explore and the quests are very enjoyable. Morrowind has one of the greatest storylines I think I've ever seen in a game, and the lore in it is absolutely fantastic.

Daggerfall is a completely different kind of game from the later ones and I wouldn't blame you if you're not interested (the controls are hard to get used to and movement and gameplay is a little clunky), but if you like the classic dungeon-crawling games you'd probably like Daggerfall (I actually feel like the graphics enhance the dungeon-ness of it, heh). Arena is pretty similar from what I've heard but isn't quite as advanced, though if you're a big fan of the series it doesn't hurt to try them all.

The hop from Skyrim to Oblivion isn't that difficult and while the graphics aren't as advanced in Oblivion, the quests and characters and cities etc. are still amazing and there's stuff you can do in Oblivion that simply doesn't exist in Skyrim. Morrowind is a lot tougher and rather complicated, and the graphics are a step down from Oblivion, but again the game itself is fabulous. I think the best way to think about old games (especially RPGs) is not to judge by graphics and struggle through it, but instead to adapt and pay attention to the lore and development and everything so you get a good feel of what so many players never get to experience.

If you bought Oblivion and Morrowind now it would still be a fraction of the price you would pay for most new games, so if you don't end up liking them you won't have spent very much money anyway so it's not a big deal. So I'd definitely recommend you play Oblivion and Morrowind and if you want to go further even the oldest ones; they're all really unique and fun in their own way.