Note: this is note a " Which one is 'better" thread. This is about which of these two * both excellent in my thoughts* games did you personally prefer, and why?
Poll: Which did you prefer, Morrowind or Oblivion
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I really loved Oblivion and I would love to see what all the fuss is about Morrowind but unfortunately the graphics are just too outdated for me now. :< 3D graphics don't age too well
...prefer might be too strong a word.
I like morrowind for some things...i liked Oblivion for some things. What I want is a hybrid. An Oblivowind if you will.
Hopefully they named something that awesome much better than I did. Like....Skyrim. Skyrim sounds cool. They should name it Skyrim.
I like morrowind for some things...i liked Oblivion for some things. What I want is a hybrid. An Oblivowind if you will.
Hopefully they named something that awesome much better than I did. Like....Skyrim. Skyrim sounds cool. They should name it Skyrim.
I like Morrowind but I also like Oblivion but Morrowind edges it by still having secrets I'm still discovering
(like the Banhammer)
(like the Banhammer)
You should also ask which one we played first. I played Oblivion and then tried Morrowind. Really liked (I won't say loved. There's a good amount of boringness to it) Oblivion and hated Morrowind.
I've only finished the main story of Oblivion once, though. I hate the planes of Oblivion with their infinite red and brown and redundant tasks. Shivering Isles (which I will say I love) is 10000x better than the main game.
I've only finished the main story of Oblivion once, though. I hate the planes of Oblivion with their infinite red and brown and redundant tasks. Shivering Isles (which I will say I love) is 10000x better than the main game.
Morrowind's combat kills it for me, I just hate the background dicerolls.
In that respect, along with graphics, Oblivion wins, so I prefer it as a game.
Morrowind's soundtrack however.....
In that respect, along with graphics, Oblivion wins, so I prefer it as a game.
Morrowind's soundtrack however.....
If morrowind's combat was better, there would really be no contest. But the depth of the story, and the quality of the faction quests really make Morrowind stand out from Oblivion.
Oblivion, Morrowind was much to raw for my taste, I hated the map, the graphics were gritty, walking around felt like... walking around, it wasn't really an adventure when you walk for thirty minutes and all you encounter is a bit of wild life and then come upon a big wall so its time to turn back...
Oblivion on the other hand, was a bright and awesome world, I walked for five minutes and came upon a cave, which I entered, inside the cave I fought off ghosts and zombies until I got to the end, of which I found a book that revealed the history of this cave and made me feel like I was a little more connected with the world overall. Just enough connection to keep me playing a bit after I finished it. Thats not to say Oblivion was faultless of course, level scaling was silly since it felt that it defeated the purpose of having a level system in the first place for me, melee still felt a bit dull by modern day standards, gear never looked cool, your character had no soul, the story was a bit generic and didn't feel all that special, the people you ran into, had no soul, the spell making system felt a bit limited and controlling... Overall I think skyrim will awesome but Oblivion and Morrowind were both so close to be pure AWESOME but due to them failing so close to the borderland of awesome land they feel some what lesser to me.
Combat in morrow ind was broken as I rolled a mage and the first thing I did was grab levitation and fire ball and has pretty much beaten half the enemies in the game RIGHT there.
The monetary system in Morrowind was likewise broken since as I stated a second ago I started out as a mage and joined the mages guild, in which a guy is standing in front of a gem which I noticed is worth more than you will ever need. I talked to the guy and he walked away from the gem out of the room and left me alone, so I snagged the gem and a few others then went and sold the others some merchant around the corner and bought a ring which regenerated my fatigue faster than I could spend it and a shield which regened my HP faster than people could hurt me.
Which bring me to my conclusion, morrowind was MUCH to raw for me, the story also felt very... was there a story? I didn't really notice if there was, and my character background was a blank slate so naturally he had nothing going for him...
Oblivion on the other hand, was a bright and awesome world, I walked for five minutes and came upon a cave, which I entered, inside the cave I fought off ghosts and zombies until I got to the end, of which I found a book that revealed the history of this cave and made me feel like I was a little more connected with the world overall. Just enough connection to keep me playing a bit after I finished it. Thats not to say Oblivion was faultless of course, level scaling was silly since it felt that it defeated the purpose of having a level system in the first place for me, melee still felt a bit dull by modern day standards, gear never looked cool, your character had no soul, the story was a bit generic and didn't feel all that special, the people you ran into, had no soul, the spell making system felt a bit limited and controlling... Overall I think skyrim will awesome but Oblivion and Morrowind were both so close to be pure AWESOME but due to them failing so close to the borderland of awesome land they feel some what lesser to me.
Combat in morrow ind was broken as I rolled a mage and the first thing I did was grab levitation and fire ball and has pretty much beaten half the enemies in the game RIGHT there.
The monetary system in Morrowind was likewise broken since as I stated a second ago I started out as a mage and joined the mages guild, in which a guy is standing in front of a gem which I noticed is worth more than you will ever need. I talked to the guy and he walked away from the gem out of the room and left me alone, so I snagged the gem and a few others then went and sold the others some merchant around the corner and bought a ring which regenerated my fatigue faster than I could spend it and a shield which regened my HP faster than people could hurt me.
Which bring me to my conclusion, morrowind was MUCH to raw for me, the story also felt very... was there a story? I didn't really notice if there was, and my character background was a blank slate so naturally he had nothing going for him...
MorrowindBen Hussong said:
+Epic story
+Heavy immersion
+motherfucking spears
-Barely any spoken lines
-Modding ability is meh
-Horrible overall combat
~Graphics
Oblivion
+Best modding ability in the franchise (Heart of the dead or ruined tails tale anyone?)
+Better overall combat (Still not great though)
+Fully spoken dialogue
+Captain Picard and boromir
-Its all god damned woods
-Story is overly cliched
-Level scaling (bleh)
~Exploration can be rewarding but is also a chore
All in all i love them both equally as long as mods are added into the equation
Morrowind - It felt like a genuinely fantastic world where I wanted to keep looking around every corner and down every cave. Oblivion was a much improved version of Morrowind, but lacked the sense of 'other' that made Morrowind special.
Both games found great success in the early part of the game when just about anything could kill you if you weren't paying attention. Those heady moments at low level when you're stalking a creature with your bow, deep in its lair, about to slain the fiend... You loosen your arrow, it whistles through the air, only to smash into a poorly defined edge of a rock. Suddenly the immersion is gone. That's where both games occasionally fell flat on their faces.
Both games found great success in the early part of the game when just about anything could kill you if you weren't paying attention. Those heady moments at low level when you're stalking a creature with your bow, deep in its lair, about to slain the fiend... You loosen your arrow, it whistles through the air, only to smash into a poorly defined edge of a rock. Suddenly the immersion is gone. That's where both games occasionally fell flat on their faces.
