I played Skyrim as a tween and adored it but as an adult, I just find Morrowind more enjoyable, despite lacking the nostalgia factor (although the music certainly brings me back to all the time I've rewatched Fudgemuppet).
@@alexanderstilianov I am rather like that, I played Oblivion First, then Skyrim, (Perhaps ESO), and Then I Played Morrowind, yet I actually like Morrowind the most
@@alexanderstilianov I actually am not like that. I played Morrowind as an adult and am an avid fan of older games but I still can't bring myself to like it more than Oblivion OR Skyrim. I see why it's lauded and love its roleplaying depth but at the end of the day I'm just not into Dunmer culture. Oblivion remains my favorite main quest by virtue of being so charming while Skyrim is my favorite in terms of exploration. And I gotta say TESO is definitely phenomenal (beyond repetitive gameplay) and in terms of side quests even takes the cake. :)
Stop and think about it for a Second, do you Trust, Modern Bethesda...with making a Re-Master of Morrowind...knowing everything they could do to it...taking what is frankly already a good game even with it's bits of jankiness...and turning it into something worse?, I say this as a Player who played Oblivion and Skyrim first, yet Morrowind is my favourite
To be fair playing Skyrim (Without DLC'S) when I was 8 on a dusty old Xbox 360 felt like pinnacle of gaming. I played it for hundreds of hours (Like always not killing Alduin cuz fuck that guy?) and the game truly helped me through my hard childhood, the game has a special place in my heart and nothing will change it but like a year ago when I was 16 I decided to pick up Morrowind for the first time, man did that feeling return when I first turned on Skyrim. For all it's jank (I fucking hate when there are no markers) there is certain beauty in the game and it just captivated me, the entire prophecy of the Nerevarine and Dagoth Ur just surprised me because I never played Elder Scrolls necessarily for it's story telling but Morrowind felt different. Morrowind Imo is by far the best TES we have then Skyrim, sorry Oblivion fans but I could never get past the shit leveling system in it
Have to say it. Morrowind was one of the first RPGs I ever played, and that kind of spoiled me for what I expect from a fantasy world. I don't want medieval middle of someplace vaguely european, like skyrim and oblivion were. They were fine, I enjoyed them, but they didn't capture my full attention with the worldspace the way Morrowind did. I think part of why it was so interesting and captivating was because the more familiar, real world aspects, like the imperial forts and towns, were so starkly contrasted against the environment that it was clear they were colonizers. I'll always remember going to Sadrith Mora for the first time, thinking "oh cool. A castle. Never seen this before", stepping outside the tower walls and seeing the great hecking mushrooms curling up from the earth and being met with a dude wearing whole ass BUG as a helmet.
@@LymeGreen04 Sorry, i mean, in my opinion, you just thinks morrowind is a better game because you played it as a kid and The nostalgic feeling takes controll of your mind, morrowind is umpleyable nowadays
Morrowind was my entry to the franchise. One thing that has stuck with me all these years, was that unlike the main guilds (fighters, mages, thieves) which appeared in the citys to join, there was also mention of an assassin guild. Whithout quest makers I literally had to go around talking to npcs an collecting hints until i finally tracked them down to the sewers in Vivec where in a small room i found a locked trapdoor, inside i founs the hq of the Morag Tong assassins.
i would personally place Oblivion at #1 because, to me, Oblivion IS Elder Scrolls. it combines things I like from Morrowind and Skyrim, with just the right amount of everything else to make it incredibly enjoyable. the world is vibrant and beautiful, the guild quests are the best in the series to date (no TES game will ever top the thieves guild finale), the music is amazing, you get Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart, and it has some of the most fun quests in the series.
I agree with you oblivion was the first game I played in my life I remember I had a weak PC so my older brother installed a light game for my PC and my PC in Minecraft was 30 fps and this game is Oblivion which is the best game I've played in my life
Morrowind is such a magical experience. Sure, gameplay is the jankiest of the 3d games, but the world and most quest were fascinating. While Skyrim may not had a great story, the worldbuilding, side stories and additional content (like survival mode, becoming a Vampire or a Wolf) gave more depth to the game.
Great video! 100% agree with your list 👌🏻 Morrowind is the perfect embodiment of a single player D&D campaign and I like the way you worded it as “a campaign that the DM put way too much time into”. People complain about the lack of quest markers and combat system. To me having to actually read the journal and figure out where to go made everything so much more rewarding. As far as the combat system goes, as a D&D/tabletop player, that just feels like how it should work. Gotta roll on hit, then roll on damage
I put... probably 100s of hours into Skyrim and still feel that I enjoy that game in spite of the Elder Scrolls style of game play lol Also, the final dragon was such a pain to fight as a stealth archer.
Arena suffers in this regard from the fact that Daggerfall is just Arena but better, so everything you could come up with to argue in Arena's favor (e.g. the sense of scale) is also present but better done in Daggerfall.
Great video. Fricking love Oblivion, one of my favourite games of all time and completely blew me away when I played it back on the PS3 in 2007! Skyrim is fantastic of course but does feel a bit more identity-less in its vanilla form. Need to play Morrowind more, but probably with OpenMW and some visual mods.
I especially liked the realism in Morrowind of ability score and skill requirements to join and level in factions. In Skyrim you can become the arch mage knowing barely any magic
I'm sort of bias with Skyrim because Skyrim and Oblivion are the only Elder Scrolls games I've ever played, and I have played Skyrim for many years, I even platinumed the game, Skyrim has a huge place in my heart, I have played a little bit of Oblivion but nowhere near as much as I've played Skyrim, I don't really know that much about all the other main titles because like I said before Skyrim and Oblivion were the only ones I've ever played, I love almost everything about Skyrim, It's world, the dragons, all of the magical elements of the game, and I absolutely LOVE all of Skyrim's soundtracks and boss music, Oblivion's main theme sounds like something you would play as you watch the President walk by lol, but Skyrim's main theme is just pumped with action and adventure, I can't really put into full detail how much Skyrim means to me, It's one of the greatest games I have ever played.
Was watching this video and felt like it had hundreds of thousands of views because of the quality only to see you're at around 400 right now. Keep up the good work man
The only advantage Skyrim had over Oblivion was better graphic and engine capabilities. Talking about moving the needle, which was never done in Skyrim IMO, eventhough I absolutely love the game
Enjoy Oblivion more then Skyrim the more vibrant coulors, better character buildings different builds more viable, And less repetitive are the main reasons, as someone who began with oblivion i wait for Skywind think i couldn't play throu Morrowind without fast travel and quest markers
You and me both Skyrim just too repetitive and copy and pasted to enjoy .loved oblivion though but I can’t wait for Skywind because morrowind is too old for me to play. I believe Skywind will be my elders scrolls five . What skyrim was supposed to be.
@@KingJ1397-v8q Morrowind doesn't even have native widescreen support, not even 1080p. It came out when Diablo 2 came out. Meanwhile, Oblivion on PC in 4K still looks great!
it's not that hard to play morrowind without fast travel and quest markers because unlike the games that were made after, it was designed with it in mind.
Oblivion is the first Elder scrolls game I played and Morrowind was the second but Skyrim is by far my favorite tho. It is my comfort game when I am sad or a game I can play when I just wanna tone out the world. Also I think one of the more under appreciated things about it is its reach it had. The fact that I have friends that only play the type A personality games like COD, Halo, etc and they also played and loved Skyrim speaks volumes about the game.
Better cities, better enchantments, better factions/guilds, better Npcs, better main quest, questlines and sidequests, spellcrafting, better writing, etc... even the menus/hud are better, The Elder Scrolls I.V over V. I even like combat more, and that's an unpopular opinion I know... the only things I prefer in The Elder Scrolls V the shout power, the soundtrack, some of the monsters and the setting itself though like Oblivion they made it much more generic from the lore, oh and dungeons could be considered better overall as well, etc.
@@RogueRanks That is completely understandable. Skyrim is a fantastic game and is one of my favourites as well! I just think it's the weakest out of the big 3
Skyrim on the surface might seem like an improvement on oblivion, but after half an hour of questing you realize how shallow it truly is. Yes graphically it is a massive improvement. Yes the word is very impressively realized. However the problem is that in Oblivion I would struggle to name the 5 best sidequest because of how many bangers there are, but in Skyrim I struggle to name five good sidequests. And questing is the meat of these games. Not to mention factions where Skyrim truly shat the bed. I would argue the Companions is so unbearably bad that the even fighters guild in Daggerfall is better than it. The other factions don't fare much better either. The only faction that I wouldn't call straight up just bad in the base game is MAYBE the thieves guild. But even that is a maybe. Not to mention how insufferable dragonfights can be before getting dragonrend - a lategame shout - if there was any game to use levitation THIS was it to equalise the fight a bit, but I guess people are way too law obiding in Tamriel to commit such a horrible crime. You know thievery, murder, reanimation, vampirism, cannibalism - the criminals of Skyrim are OK with all of those but the second you bring up flight they vomit just by the sheer thought of this unspeakably heinous crime. (this criticism also goes for Oblivion btw) The main quest isn't anything to write home about either, with Delphine being the annoying asshole she is dragging you around pretty much ammounting to exactly nothing but a literal waste of time. And they were so sure we would think she was such a badass that you never get the chance to tell her to fuck off. Even when she COMMANDS you - the person THEY are supposed to serve - to kill the best character in the game. The game also seems to expect you to beat the main quest first, which is a very backwards idea in my opinion. Gameplaywise I guess it is passable, though its potential is hindered by the stealth archer and bethesda refusing to make players commit as well as magic being by far the weakest it has ever been, barely being viable to the point you start questioning why characters devote their lives to study such a worthless skill, when they could just croutch in a corner and walk forward for a couple of days and become literal demigods. Melee combat also is unsatisfying.
Good opinions 👍 I completely agree. Morrowind nails that hand-crafted depth, roleplaying capability, and player choice without making it overwhelming with many arbitrary skills and overreliance on procedurally generated content.
I've never played Daggerfall but I get the sense id like it. Morrowind my #1 game of all time :) I think Skyrim > Oblivion for me but its close. I find it more fun to mess around in
The procedural generation used by the old Bethesda dev team to make the early games did not generate the land mass “on the fly”. Yes it was used to create continents worth of countryside, cities and dungeons, but it is the same game that boots every time, and everything is static, not randomised.
It may be too good to be true one day, but i hope that es6 has morrowind style rpg elements, no weird facial expressions like in starfield (hope they make em better), little to no bugs (just a wish tbh), unique voice acting (cause cmon, you really wanna hear nick valentine voice half of the region again?), and better models for everything. I would say no building, but Bethesda is really pushing it with building stuff in games now
@@OGtruthserumI can't wait for my 0.2% resist frost ability when I play as a Nord! It's going to be so distinct from my other race playthroughs! Oh, nevermind! They removed elemental damage! It's only physical and magical now! YEAH!😃
Nah cuz people here are delusional 😂😂😂 Skyrim is the only TES I've played and it is the only TES I need to play to understand that it is OBJECTIVELY the best TES game so far. Would never even lay a finger on the previous ones. Stop being blinded by nostalgia 🤣🤣🤣
I love this, my ranking is slightly different but only because I never played Daggerfall as I was young at the time and couldn’t buy it. My dad bought Arena so that was still my first. So my ranking is: 5. Daggerfall 4. Arena 3. Oblivion 2. Skyrim 1. Morrowind Even though I’ve heard of such greatness of Daggerfall I’ve never played it so I can’t place it above the rest. I still love the series and have brought others into it.
And in Oblivion you're the warrior that always fights and wins through the Oblivion gates. Not that great in that department. At least the dragonborn has a nicer narrative and mechanical presentation than the gates.
@@RogueRanks Once Skyblivion comes out, it will show why Oblivion in Skyrim engine is more enjoyable. Oblivion is lush green while Skyrim is grey and brown. Now modded Skyrim is a different story. Skyblivion is a remake, not a remaster, so dungeons will get an overhaul and so is the wildlife. I hate to say this but I'm more interested in Skywind and Skyblivion than ES 6. The passion of the modders/developers in Skywind and Skyblivion is apparent.
My rankings of best to worst are 1) Oblivion 2) Morrowind 3) ESO 4) Skyrim . I have never gotten the opportunity to play arena and daggerfall for myself so I'm leaving those out. Skyrim is full of soulless quests and marked the beginning of game studios prioritizing graphics over content. The game was good in general as an rpg, but it's the weakest elder scrolls title. Nearly every quest in the game is some variation of the same: go to this cave, kill draugr, come back. It was completely lifeless compared to Oblivion. You may have a preference for skyrim's setting versus oblivion's and I respect that, but as a whole Skyrim is the weakest installment. It doesn't come close to any of the others. Even ESO has more depth in some of its questlines than Skyrim did and I 100%d Skyrim. Oblivion has also aged much better than Skyrim. I can replay it forever. The stylized graphics aged well, while Skyrim feels clunky and looks visually dated because it chose to go the "emulate realism" route instead of a soulful stylized route.
Morrowind is in contention with New Vegas for my favorite game ever. Skyrim is ok but it starts to feel like Groundhog Day after a few quests and dungeons. I played several hundred hours of Oblivion, but it was very bland, and I can't really get back into it even though I need to play the dlc's at some point. There are things I like more about all of them, but I am not a fan of the post Morrowind direction. Apparently, many Daggerfall fans feel the same about Morrowind. It's a shame we can't all get the game we want.😢
Curious. Oblivion is far more creative than Skyrim in terms of quests. And given its unintentional funny side Shivering Isles was a stroke of genius by totally embracing what they had created. I love all three games but yours is a crazy hot take.
Skyrim is always my number 1, i could never get into the other games as much as i got into skyrim. And same, when winter comes, skyrim is like my comfort game.
this is just wrong, having morrowind at number 1 and not even having ESO in it. The true list is: Oblivion 1st, Skyrim 2nd, ESO 3rd, and then the rest doesnt matter
Oblivion is definitely the best. It's quests (there is a reason the Dark Brotherhood quest line is considered the best quests Bethesda has ever made), magic system (spell creation and being able to heal while using 2 handed weapons made way more builds viable and branches like conjuration had way more spells), character creator (with classes and star signs and races mattering more), DLC (The Shivering Isles is one of the best DLCs ever) are all better than Skyrim. Culturally speaking, Skyrim is the more important/popular game but in almost no way is it better than Oblivion.
@RogueRanks I'll also add that I do like that the enemies scale in Oblivion as it kept the game interesting and prevented you from becoming OP. And yeah while the Oblivion Gates weren't that diverse, they were fun and only a few dozen could appear at max. By that metric Skyrim's dragons are way more repetitive. I also liked how natural the caves felt in Oblivion. In Skyrim I knew every cave would loop back on itself and that took a lot of the fun of exploring away. I didn't address sound before so I'll just say I love the Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim sound tracks. Not sure I could pick a favorite. I really wish the next ES would just have simple co op. Not like Fallout 76, just simple 2-4 player co op.
@@RogueRanks Skyrim was my first ES game, and I bought the hard cover collection book for it (no regrets), which I had never done for any other games. However, between the release of Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, Skyrim was my least anticipated. Back in 2002, I would always look at the PC box for Morrowind at my local Sam's Club and wish I had a PC back then to play it. I did the same with Oblivion. Morrowind was always my most hyped ES game, but it hasn't age well, and I cannot for the life of me figure out its combat. I literally died to rats. Back when I was a kid, Morrowind and Diablo 2 (came out around the same time), were the two games I wanted the most.
@@OGtruthserum There are some decent Morrowind combat tutorial videos on UA-cam. They always say something dumb that annoys me as a guy who has played it since 2003, but they get most of it right. It's definitely worth learning how to play. The sense of adventure and exploration is unbelievable, and so is the feeling of getting strong enough to just go wandering and checking out dungeons. They really should have kept the formula the same and just improved on it for the later games. There are A LOT of things that could be fixed without changing the feel of the gameplay, but they decided to "streamline" instead.😐
completely disagree. while the system was not perfect it was far more interesting and skyrim feels very basic between builds because of it. i do think the two systems merged could be extremely interesting because oblivion's skill based perk system was very simple and skyrim's system was generic by itself.
Oblivion is comparable to Fallout New Vegas in terms of fun and well made games. Skyrim is equivalent to Fallout 4. Fan service, a shell of what made the game popular. I got it, the two brought more fans to the franchise but those games are far easier and more convenience based compared to their peers.
I like Morriwind and oblivions story and dungeons more than Skyrim but Skyrim has better combat its more fun. Oblivion combat is okay but morriwinds is just not responsive and kinda extra janky. Most of skyrim dungeons are really bland except for a few like blackreach, the atherium wars quest and some from Dawnguard and Dragonborn DLC. As someone who has 600+ hours in the game on pc alone not including Xbox 360/PC (LE)/PS4/series x I really like Skyrim but i know its not the best of the series my brain is just too zoomer to play morriwind so i watch people play it on youtube. Edit: i also have 500+ hours on eso on pc i love it. (minus my unkown hours on ps4 it wasn't as good on ps4 it lagged and had slow loads)
Enjoy Oblivion more then Skyrim the more vibrant coulors, better character buildings different builds more viable, And less repetitive are the main reasons, as someone who began with oblivion i wait for Skywind think i couldn't play throu Morrowind without fast travel and quest markers
Everyone’s favourite elder scrolls is just which ever one you played when you were a kid.
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You aren't wrong
I played Skyrim as a tween and adored it but as an adult, I just find Morrowind more enjoyable, despite lacking the nostalgia factor (although the music certainly brings me back to all the time I've rewatched Fudgemuppet).
@@alexanderstilianov I am rather like that, I played Oblivion First, then Skyrim, (Perhaps ESO), and Then I Played Morrowind, yet I actually like Morrowind the most
@@alexanderstilianov I actually am not like that. I played Morrowind as an adult and am an avid fan of older games but I still can't bring myself to like it more than Oblivion OR Skyrim. I see why it's lauded and love its roleplaying depth but at the end of the day I'm just not into Dunmer culture. Oblivion remains my favorite main quest by virtue of being so charming while Skyrim is my favorite in terms of exploration. And I gotta say TESO is definitely phenomenal (beyond repetitive gameplay) and in terms of side quests even takes the cake. :)
All Bethesda needed to do instead of wasting resources on Starfield was to divert all their attention to a Morrowind remake.
@@debopamroy56 we can only hope Starfield at least taught them lessons or inspired new tech for the next elder Scrolls
Stop and think about it for a Second, do you Trust, Modern Bethesda...with making a Re-Master of Morrowind...knowing everything they could do to it...taking what is frankly already a good game even with it's bits of jankiness...and turning it into something worse?, I say this as a Player who played Oblivion and Skyrim first, yet Morrowind is my favourite
To be fair playing Skyrim (Without DLC'S) when I was 8 on a dusty old Xbox 360 felt like pinnacle of gaming. I played it for hundreds of hours (Like always not killing Alduin cuz fuck that guy?) and the game truly helped me through my hard childhood, the game has a special place in my heart and nothing will change it but like a year ago when I was 16 I decided to pick up Morrowind for the first time, man did that feeling return when I first turned on Skyrim. For all it's jank (I fucking hate when there are no markers) there is certain beauty in the game and it just captivated me, the entire prophecy of the Nerevarine and Dagoth Ur just surprised me because I never played Elder Scrolls necessarily for it's story telling but Morrowind felt different. Morrowind Imo is by far the best TES we have then Skyrim, sorry Oblivion fans but I could never get past the shit leveling system in it
Lmao same but on ps3 and then ps4 for special edition and then ps5 for anniversary edition i have 3k hours between all versions
Have to say it. Morrowind was one of the first RPGs I ever played, and that kind of spoiled me for what I expect from a fantasy world. I don't want medieval middle of someplace vaguely european, like skyrim and oblivion were. They were fine, I enjoyed them, but they didn't capture my full attention with the worldspace the way Morrowind did. I think part of why it was so interesting and captivating was because the more familiar, real world aspects, like the imperial forts and towns, were so starkly contrasted against the environment that it was clear they were colonizers. I'll always remember going to Sadrith Mora for the first time, thinking "oh cool. A castle. Never seen this before", stepping outside the tower walls and seeing the great hecking mushrooms curling up from the earth and being met with a dude wearing whole ass BUG as a helmet.
The vibes of Morrowind are immaculate
I love morrowind. But I think vardenfell is one of the ugliest areas to the eyes in all of tamriel.
@@LymeGreen04 nope you fell this just because played morrowind as a kid, skyrim still is the greatest Bethesda game.
@@fwelpsofera4635 what?
@@LymeGreen04 Sorry, i mean, in my opinion, you just thinks morrowind is a better game because you played it as a kid and The nostalgic feeling takes controll of your mind, morrowind is umpleyable nowadays
Morrowind was my entry to the franchise. One thing that has stuck with me all these years, was that unlike the main guilds (fighters, mages, thieves) which appeared in the citys to join, there was also mention of an assassin guild. Whithout quest makers I literally had to go around talking to npcs an collecting hints until i finally tracked them down to the sewers in Vivec where in a small room i found a locked trapdoor, inside i founs the hq of the Morag Tong assassins.
Morrowind is just a mature game. The world expects the player to read, explore, and pay attention and being rewarded for that is so awesome.
i would personally place Oblivion at #1 because, to me, Oblivion IS Elder Scrolls. it combines things I like from Morrowind and Skyrim, with just the right amount of everything else to make it incredibly enjoyable. the world is vibrant and beautiful, the guild quests are the best in the series to date (no TES game will ever top the thieves guild finale), the music is amazing, you get Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart, and it has some of the most fun quests in the series.
I agree with you oblivion was the first game I played in my life I remember I had a weak PC so my older brother installed a light game for my PC and my PC in Minecraft was 30 fps and this game is Oblivion which is the best game I've played in my life
Morrowind is such a magical experience. Sure, gameplay is the jankiest of the 3d games, but the world and most quest were fascinating. While Skyrim may not had a great story, the worldbuilding, side stories and additional content (like survival mode, becoming a Vampire or a Wolf) gave more depth to the game.
I've never even played morrowind but I somehow saw that one coming
This is actually the best Elder Scrolls content on UA-cam. I’d love to see you discuss more lore from these games you do great at it!
Thank you that is too kind 😎
Daggerfall is so good, I love getting a huge loan at the bank, buying a boat and fleeing into a different country to avoid having to pay it off.
Loved Morrowind. Was one of the first games I got to play on my own personal PC with a 126 MB card haha
126 MB 😄 legendary
1. Oblivion
2. Daggerfall
3. Skyrim
4. Morrowind
5. Arena
Great video! 100% agree with your list 👌🏻 Morrowind is the perfect embodiment of a single player D&D campaign and I like the way you worded it as “a campaign that the DM put way too much time into”. People complain about the lack of quest markers and combat system. To me having to actually read the journal and figure out where to go made everything so much more rewarding. As far as the combat system goes, as a D&D/tabletop player, that just feels like how it should work. Gotta roll on hit, then roll on damage
It really makes piecing together the plot much more intriguing and engaging as well.
I put... probably 100s of hours into Skyrim and still feel that I enjoy that game in spite of the Elder Scrolls style of game play lol Also, the final dragon was such a pain to fight as a stealth archer.
That playstyle is so strong up until that point too
Every mainline Elder Scrolls game is the best for different reasons.
This is the real ranking
Ngl, I would have to see some very strong arguments for why Arena is the best but I do agree for the last 3 games.
@@The_Libationist The only thing I can say for Arena is the sense of scale, especially for the time, but that's about it.
Arena suffers in this regard from the fact that Daggerfall is just Arena but better, so everything you could come up with to argue in Arena's favor (e.g. the sense of scale) is also present but better done in Daggerfall.
@@krzysztofwozny9742 so, all of them are the best except for Arena. I can live with that.
i played em first time around 2021
the order i did was skyrim>morrowind>daggerfall>oblivion
morrowind is the best by far
Great video. Fricking love Oblivion, one of my favourite games of all time and completely blew me away when I played it back on the PS3 in 2007! Skyrim is fantastic of course but does feel a bit more identity-less in its vanilla form. Need to play Morrowind more, but probably with OpenMW and some visual mods.
Skyrim just barely edges out Oblivion but I get more immersed in Skyrim personally. Oblivion is amazing though!
Did you do all 200 dungeons and did it get repetitive for you?
I especially liked the realism in Morrowind of ability score and skill requirements to join and level in factions. In Skyrim you can become the arch mage knowing barely any magic
I'm sort of bias with Skyrim because Skyrim and Oblivion are the only Elder Scrolls games I've ever played, and I have played Skyrim for many years, I even platinumed the game, Skyrim has a huge place in my heart, I have played a little bit of Oblivion but nowhere near as much as I've played Skyrim, I don't really know that much about all the other main titles because like I said before Skyrim and Oblivion were the only ones I've ever played, I love almost everything about Skyrim, It's world, the dragons, all of the magical elements of the game, and I absolutely LOVE all of Skyrim's soundtracks and boss music, Oblivion's main theme sounds like something you would play as you watch the President walk by lol, but Skyrim's main theme is just pumped with action and adventure, I can't really put into full detail how much Skyrim means to me, It's one of the greatest games I have ever played.
feel like daggerfall should be higher
Theres a strong case to be made for it
Aye Daggerfall with Unity should be in the top 2 at least lol
Why do you think Daggerfall did not carry any influence over to future rpgs, while Dragon Age Origins and Skyrim inspired tons of games?
Was watching this video and felt like it had hundreds of thousands of views because of the quality only to see you're at around 400 right now. Keep up the good work man
Thanks! I'm glad you checked it out
The only advantage Skyrim had over Oblivion was better graphic and engine capabilities. Talking about moving the needle, which was never done in Skyrim IMO, eventhough I absolutely love the game
Great video, got a sub. High quality video.
I appreciate that!
Enjoy Oblivion more then Skyrim the more vibrant coulors, better character buildings different builds more viable, And less repetitive are the main reasons, as someone who began with oblivion i wait for Skywind think i couldn't play throu Morrowind without fast travel and quest markers
You and me both Skyrim just too repetitive and copy and pasted to enjoy .loved oblivion though but I can’t wait for Skywind because morrowind is too old for me to play. I believe Skywind will be my elders scrolls five . What skyrim was supposed to be.
@@KingJ1397-v8q Morrowind doesn't even have native widescreen support, not even 1080p. It came out when Diablo 2 came out. Meanwhile, Oblivion on PC in 4K still looks great!
No way are you calling skyrim, the game thats been released 8 times and still gets bought, more repetitive than oblivion.
@@AtomicFlounder42 just because people buy it doesn't mean it automatically has replay value
it's not that hard to play morrowind without fast travel and quest markers because unlike the games that were made after, it was designed with it in mind.
I was hoping you would not put morrowind at the top but here we are, and you did it anyway
Yes I did
Oblivion is the first Elder scrolls game I played and Morrowind was the second but Skyrim is by far my favorite tho. It is my comfort game when I am sad or a game I can play when I just wanna tone out the world. Also I think one of the more under appreciated things about it is its reach it had. The fact that I have friends that only play the type A personality games like COD, Halo, etc and they also played and loved Skyrim speaks volumes about the game.
Skyrim being above oblivion is criminal
Opinion mate
@@terrestrialextra4790 not really
Better cities, better enchantments, better factions/guilds, better Npcs, better main quest, questlines and sidequests, spellcrafting, better writing, etc... even the menus/hud are better, The Elder Scrolls I.V over V.
I even like combat more, and that's an unpopular opinion I know... the only things I prefer in The Elder Scrolls V the shout power, the soundtrack, some of the monsters and the setting itself though like Oblivion they made it much more generic from the lore, oh and dungeons could be considered better overall as well, etc.
Theres a strong argument to be made about why Oblivion is better, I just personally connected with the world and atmosphere of Skyrim more.
@@RogueRanks That is completely understandable. Skyrim is a fantastic game and is one of my favourites as well! I just think it's the weakest out of the big 3
Skyrim on the surface might seem like an improvement on oblivion, but after half an hour of questing you realize how shallow it truly is. Yes graphically it is a massive improvement. Yes the word is very impressively realized. However the problem is that in Oblivion I would struggle to name the 5 best sidequest because of how many bangers there are, but in Skyrim I struggle to name five good sidequests. And questing is the meat of these games.
Not to mention factions where Skyrim truly shat the bed. I would argue the Companions is so unbearably bad that the even fighters guild in Daggerfall is better than it. The other factions don't fare much better either. The only faction that I wouldn't call straight up just bad in the base game is MAYBE the thieves guild. But even that is a maybe.
Not to mention how insufferable dragonfights can be before getting dragonrend - a lategame shout - if there was any game to use levitation THIS was it to equalise the fight a bit, but I guess people are way too law obiding in Tamriel to commit such a horrible crime. You know thievery, murder, reanimation, vampirism, cannibalism - the criminals of Skyrim are OK with all of those but the second you bring up flight they vomit just by the sheer thought of this unspeakably heinous crime. (this criticism also goes for Oblivion btw)
The main quest isn't anything to write home about either, with Delphine being the annoying asshole she is dragging you around pretty much ammounting to exactly nothing but a literal waste of time. And they were so sure we would think she was such a badass that you never get the chance to tell her to fuck off. Even when she COMMANDS you - the person THEY are supposed to serve - to kill the best character in the game. The game also seems to expect you to beat the main quest first, which is a very backwards idea in my opinion.
Gameplaywise I guess it is passable, though its potential is hindered by the stealth archer and bethesda refusing to make players commit as well as magic being by far the weakest it has ever been, barely being viable to the point you start questioning why characters devote their lives to study such a worthless skill, when they could just croutch in a corner and walk forward for a couple of days and become literal demigods. Melee combat also is unsatisfying.
Skyrim for me is number 1 Oblivion is number 2 Morrowind is number 3 and Daggerfall is number 4 Arena is number 5
Good opinions 👍 I completely agree. Morrowind nails that hand-crafted depth, roleplaying capability, and player choice without making it overwhelming with many arbitrary skills and overreliance on procedurally generated content.
It struck an almost perfect balance for me between player freedom and accessibility
Great video!
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DAGGERFALL HAS A SMALLER MAP THAN ARENA???????????
I've never played Daggerfall but I get the sense id like it. Morrowind my #1 game of all time :) I think Skyrim > Oblivion for me but its close. I find it more fun to mess around in
The procedural generation used by the old Bethesda dev team to make the early games did not generate the land mass “on the fly”. Yes it was used to create continents worth of countryside, cities and dungeons, but it is the same game that boots every time, and everything is static, not randomised.
1. Oblivion
2. Skyrim
3. Eso
4. Morrowind
5. Daggerfall
Never played arena or the others
skyrim ❤❤❤❤❤
for me its 1.oblivion 2. morrowind 3.skyrim
said everyone ever! 😂😂 Me too tho
switch them both and i agree
Thats the only correct opinion
5. Arena
4. Skyrim
3. Oblivion
2. Daggerfall
1. Morrowind
I’ll never understand why people like daggerfall. Gameplay is ahead of its time, but the randomly generated maps kill it for me.
It may be too good to be true one day, but i hope that es6 has morrowind style rpg elements, no weird facial expressions like in starfield (hope they make em better), little to no bugs (just a wish tbh), unique voice acting (cause cmon, you really wanna hear nick valentine voice half of the region again?), and better models for everything. I would say no building, but Bethesda is really pushing it with building stuff in games now
We can only hope
ES 6 will be even more dumb down than Skyrim. Taking away the class system in Skyrim was so stupid!
@@OGtruthserumI can't wait for my 0.2% resist frost ability when I play as a Nord! It's going to be so distinct from my other race playthroughs! Oh, nevermind! They removed elemental damage! It's only physical and magical now! YEAH!😃
Daggerfall unity with mods is very cool imo
Kill Aldiun the best rank
I've always wanted to play Oblivion but alas I have a PS5. Heard is used to on PS Plus but not any more. Bummer
RIP 💀
Just play it on PC. I think Oblivion will run smoothly even on a shitty laptop.
This is my exact ranking
Nah cuz people here are delusional 😂😂😂 Skyrim is the only TES I've played and it is the only TES I need to play to understand that it is OBJECTIVELY the best TES game so far. Would never even lay a finger on the previous ones. Stop being blinded by nostalgia 🤣🤣🤣
Oblivion potatoes are one of the reasons I can’t play it, that and I hate how when you talk to a potato you get zoomed in on their face.
I love this, my ranking is slightly different but only because I never played Daggerfall as I was young at the time and couldn’t buy it. My dad bought Arena so that was still my first. So my ranking is:
5. Daggerfall
4. Arena
3. Oblivion
2. Skyrim
1. Morrowind
Even though I’ve heard of such greatness of Daggerfall I’ve never played it so I can’t place it above the rest. I still love the series and have brought others into it.
skyrim is easily the best. everyone knows it. those who say otherwise are just blinded by nostalgia
3. Skyrim
2. Morrowind
1. Oblivion
List for me, love them all!
First older scrolls can only throw the mouse to attack 💀
Play Daggerfall now? Try Daggerfall Unity!
@@enragedbard the only way to play it now really
I prefer Skyrim more but it’s cool to see someone who likes morrowind more.
You missed Redguard and Battlespire
skyrim isnt good as a rpg , you are forced to be a god. oblivion and morrowind are better at rpg.
If I'm a "god" in Skyrim then why can't I one shot everything.
With mezhrune razor you kind can and with high smiting
And in Oblivion you're the warrior that always fights and wins through the Oblivion gates. Not that great in that department. At least the dragonborn has a nicer narrative and mechanical presentation than the gates.
skyrim is the best. it put all this shit on the map
oblivion is a lot better than skyrim :v
I can definitely see why many have this opinion, its a valid take. I just enjoy the world of Skyrim more personally
@@RogueRanks it's more immersive but oblivion is a lot funnier and well constructed, not instant leader of all factions :'D
@@RogueRanks Once Skyblivion comes out, it will show why Oblivion in Skyrim engine is more enjoyable. Oblivion is lush green while Skyrim is grey and brown. Now modded Skyrim is a different story. Skyblivion is a remake, not a remaster, so dungeons will get an overhaul and so is the wildlife. I hate to say this but I'm more interested in Skywind and Skyblivion than ES 6. The passion of the modders/developers in Skywind and Skyblivion is apparent.
What about ESO (elder scrolls online)
Hey, Quest 64 was difficult for me too, but also good.
say "jank" one more time...
My rankings of best to worst are 1) Oblivion 2) Morrowind 3) ESO 4) Skyrim . I have never gotten the opportunity to play arena and daggerfall for myself so I'm leaving those out.
Skyrim is full of soulless quests and marked the beginning of game studios prioritizing graphics over content. The game was good in general as an rpg, but it's the weakest elder scrolls title. Nearly every quest in the game is some variation of the same: go to this cave, kill draugr, come back. It was completely lifeless compared to Oblivion.
You may have a preference for skyrim's setting versus oblivion's and I respect that, but as a whole Skyrim is the weakest installment. It doesn't come close to any of the others. Even ESO has more depth in some of its questlines than Skyrim did and I 100%d Skyrim. Oblivion has also aged much better than Skyrim. I can replay it forever. The stylized graphics aged well, while Skyrim feels clunky and looks visually dated because it chose to go the "emulate realism" route instead of a soulful stylized route.
Skyrim has J' Zargo Skyrim wins
I always wanted to play oblivion but the graphics sucks
1)Oblivion
2)morrowind
3) Skyrim
4) daggerfall
I tried playing arena and daggerfall. I opted out and watched lore videos instead
Civil war is best rank
daggerfall is probably 3 for me with the unity version its so immersive and in depth but its pretty janky and non remorseful
1. Morrowind
2. Skyrim
3. Who cares, the other titles are irrelevant.
Based.
Morrowind is in contention with New Vegas for my favorite game ever. Skyrim is ok but it starts to feel like Groundhog Day after a few quests and dungeons. I played several hundred hours of Oblivion, but it was very bland, and I can't really get back into it even though I need to play the dlc's at some point. There are things I like more about all of them, but I am not a fan of the post Morrowind direction. Apparently, many Daggerfall fans feel the same about Morrowind. It's a shame we can't all get the game we want.😢
Oblivion and Daggerfall are both better than Skyrim imho
Curious. Oblivion is far more creative than Skyrim in terms of quests. And given its unintentional funny side Shivering Isles was a stroke of genius by totally embracing what they had created. I love all three games but yours is a crazy hot take.
Morrowind opening is the only reason I couldn’t play it. Zero direction or reason to play. Just, “hey, go do stuff”
Currently replaying skyrim again for the 400th time, so that should tell you what my number 1 is
There’s just something about that game
Shadowkey is best.
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Skyrim is always my number 1, i could never get into the other games as much as i got into skyrim. And same, when winter comes, skyrim is like my comfort game.
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this is just wrong, having morrowind at number 1 and not even having ESO in it. The true list is: Oblivion 1st, Skyrim 2nd, ESO 3rd, and then the rest doesnt matter
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Before this vid starts im gonna just say skyrim sucked ass and was extremely shallow
I've played all of these, Morrowind is definitely not #1 LMFAO
I agree, however it does excel in areas the others do not, so I can see why he put Morrowind #1
Oblivion is definitely the best. It's quests (there is a reason the Dark Brotherhood quest line is considered the best quests Bethesda has ever made), magic system (spell creation and being able to heal while using 2 handed weapons made way more builds viable and branches like conjuration had way more spells), character creator (with classes and star signs and races mattering more), DLC (The Shivering Isles is one of the best DLCs ever) are all better than Skyrim.
Culturally speaking, Skyrim is the more important/popular game but in almost no way is it better than Oblivion.
You make a strong argument. It is a fantastic title
@RogueRanks I'll also add that I do like that the enemies scale in Oblivion as it kept the game interesting and prevented you from becoming OP.
And yeah while the Oblivion Gates weren't that diverse, they were fun and only a few dozen could appear at max. By that metric Skyrim's dragons are way more repetitive.
I also liked how natural the caves felt in Oblivion. In Skyrim I knew every cave would loop back on itself and that took a lot of the fun of exploring away.
I didn't address sound before so I'll just say I love the Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim sound tracks. Not sure I could pick a favorite.
I really wish the next ES would just have simple co op. Not like Fallout 76, just simple 2-4 player co op.
Oblivion is easily the worst game in the series.
@@RogueRanks Skyrim was my first ES game, and I bought the hard cover collection book for it (no regrets), which I had never done for any other games. However, between the release of Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, Skyrim was my least anticipated. Back in 2002, I would always look at the PC box for Morrowind at my local Sam's Club and wish I had a PC back then to play it. I did the same with Oblivion. Morrowind was always my most hyped ES game, but it hasn't age well, and I cannot for the life of me figure out its combat. I literally died to rats.
Back when I was a kid, Morrowind and Diablo 2 (came out around the same time), were the two games I wanted the most.
@@OGtruthserum There are some decent Morrowind combat tutorial videos on UA-cam. They always say something dumb that annoys me as a guy who has played it since 2003, but they get most of it right. It's definitely worth learning how to play. The sense of adventure and exploration is unbelievable, and so is the feeling of getting strong enough to just go wandering and checking out dungeons. They really should have kept the formula the same and just improved on it for the later games. There are A LOT of things that could be fixed without changing the feel of the gameplay, but they decided to "streamline" instead.😐
Yea just wrong... oblivion/ Morrowind Skyrim dagger arena
Im so glad they removed the horrible leveling system of morrowind and oblivion and replaced it with perk trees in skyrim
Agreed for the most part, although I do miss picking a class honestly
completely disagree. while the system was not perfect it was far more interesting and skyrim feels very basic between builds because of it. i do think the two systems merged could be extremely interesting because oblivion's skill based perk system was very simple and skyrim's system was generic by itself.
Oblivion is comparable to Fallout New Vegas in terms of fun and well made games. Skyrim is equivalent to Fallout 4. Fan service, a shell of what made the game popular. I got it, the two brought more fans to the franchise but those games are far easier and more convenience based compared to their peers.
I like Morriwind and oblivions story and dungeons more than Skyrim but Skyrim has better combat its more fun. Oblivion combat is okay but morriwinds is just not responsive and kinda extra janky. Most of skyrim dungeons are really bland except for a few like blackreach, the atherium wars quest and some from Dawnguard and Dragonborn DLC. As someone who has 600+ hours in the game on pc alone not including Xbox 360/PC (LE)/PS4/series x I really like Skyrim but i know its not the best of the series my brain is just too zoomer to play morriwind so i watch people play it on youtube.
Edit: i also have 500+ hours on eso on pc i love it. (minus my unkown hours on ps4 it wasn't as good on ps4 it lagged and had slow loads)
Most nostalgic opinion based list I’ve ever seen, fucking Morrowind 1st over Oblivion and Skyrim? Maybe don’t smoke crack before making a yt vid bro.
Enjoy Oblivion more then Skyrim the more vibrant coulors, better character buildings different builds more viable, And less repetitive are the main reasons, as someone who began with oblivion i wait for Skywind think i couldn't play throu Morrowind without fast travel and quest markers
Fair! I connected more with Skyrim's world but I can agree Oblivion's roleplaying elements are superior
1. Oblivion
2. Morrowind
3. Skyrim
4. Daggerfall
5. Arena
5. Arena
4. Daggerfall
3. Morrowind
2. Skyrim
1. Oblivion
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