Board Thread:Morrowind/@comment-65.13.179.156-20130521023026/@comment-24383960-20160116002328

Pelagius the Geek wrote: Never played Morrowind, but I'll say what I think about IV and V.

Something I'm surprised no-one has mentioned is how in Skyrim, it feels as though only a Nord can do the main quest. The Nordic afterlife and the Greybeards and the Throat of the World and shouts all feel to Nordic to me.

It's also hard/impossible to do the main quest as a thief/sneak character. I've not finished IV, but you can sneak attack 20 individuals, but not one dragon. Meaning you have to be a warrior or mage. And I find to fight as a mage (not battlemage) is really hard against dragons.

The Blades and some of the factions feel empty as well. In Oblivion, being a Blade meant something. In Skyrim, you just take the armour.

The Civil war annoys me too. You have evidence the Thalmor torture people and wasn't the civil war to happen so Skyrim is weak AND you have the possibility to say "Oy, I'm the Dragonborn, listen," but you can't talk about it - just kill hundreds of possibly/probably good people instead.

Oblivion I can't really talk about. I've done a fait bit of the main quest and the Arena quest but that's it. However, what I have done hasn't had any of those problems. I think I'd prefer Skyrim's combat and the persuasion thing annoyed me. "I'm a pure heated knight, threatening people, boasting and flattering them! Um... Shush!" Better to have persuasion for Speechcraft to be useful at all instead of dumbing it down to RNG and making Speechraft into Mercantile.