Question:
As you know, Oblivion has just been released and is a great game, but I prefer Morrowind. What's your opinion?

Choices:
Oblivion kick's Morrowind's a**
Morrowind's better
My computer cant take Oblivion's mass requirements
What's Morrowind? (for those casual gamers)
Who gives?

 

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God damnit.

Why so glum you have your first visiter that has rated this poll. I think Oblivion kicks some serious *** to be honest even though i haven't completed oblivion i enjoy it loads and am level 22 now but i don't know how long i've played.

i've not played Morrowind....so I'm just going so say Oblivion is better.

YEAH i did the same i saw Morrowind in the shop but thought i would stick with keeping Oblivion as it has got to be better like for sure.

Hmmm... I really liked them both. Morrowind was great but my friends and I got so much stuff that when we loaded our saved games it froze right away... happened to several characters for us all. We explored every cave in the game and did ever quest. Ended up being to much to handle for the game.
It seems that Morrowind was quite a bit larger in land mass...

But Oblivion is very fun.

I would say that I liked them the same. Both Great great games!! n_n

I didn't vote because I don't believe one is WAY better than the other. The second I played Morrowind, I loved it. The second I played Oblivion, I turned down the graphics a bit, then I played it, and couldn't help but compare it to Morrowind. At first I didn't like it as much, and there's still a few things i'd change. For one, quests are toooooo easy. Anyone can do them, and you can click past all the dialog and never know what's going on, and still complete a quest. That's dumb, I say.

Ive got Oblivion on the X360 to avoid specs problems and its an awesome game but... i probably prefer TES: Morrowind on the PC as there are ALOT more factions to join such as The Imperial Legion, Temple, House of Hlaalu, House of Redoran/Telsanni etc, and loads more. Aswell as that Morrowind on the PC is completely screwed (in a good way) pressing the ` key (below esc) brings up the console in which you can type commands on Morrowind. So.... you can teleport anywhere on the map by typing in COC(space)[Name of Place] and you instantly appear there. Also you can do things like edit your stats, turn on god mode to make you invincible etc etc. Its just great to piss around on and generally i play Morrowind more (PC version remember).

I say oblivion has the best game engine: physics, actual blood, combat, dialog (it makes you actually listen which is more lifelike), horses, cutscenes, graphics, and capibility in terms of freedom. Morrowind has the best storyline, quests, unique weapons, diverse environments, weapons (staves, spears, crossbows, throwing knives, darts), but the whole medium, light, and heavy armor doesn't work well, spell casting, and has no incentive for getting high levels of skills. read on for detailed analysis.

for those of you who have not played morrowind, play it. It has the most immersive storyline of any game I've played: it doesn't have any huge sixth sense plot twists, but there are characters that you tend to think about as beings, rather than a collective of scripts. Oblivion, though, has the best game engine of anything its size. The combat is fun, unlike in morrowind, which consisted of 3 different attacks total, each the same animation over and over. Also on the subject, the spells in morrowind are cast by essentially pushing the air, and effects are little balls of red, white, or blue sending lightning bolts into the enemy. But on the other hand, morrowind had much more variable scenery. There were the mushroom buildings of telvinni, the grunt-like heads of redoran, the block houses of hlaalu, the imperial castles, the daedric shrines, the sixth house fortresses, the dwarven ruins, and the huge temple structure of vivec and, if my memory serves me well, molag mar. Then there's the huge amount of caves that you come across while traveling to the hard to reach places that you need to go to. Ald velothi, i believe, is the subject of a pretty early imperial legion quest. In the main quest, if you go from khuul to urshiluku, you come across a cave that has a daedric shrine in it. Also, realize that this is all from memory, so the names may be wrong.
Also, if you have the game, go to ebonheart, then travel southwest, keeping in line with the islands that extend out that way (you can start by looking from the coast for an island, then from that island look for another island) and you will find a grotto. Explore it a bit, and bring some water breathing potions/spells/scrolls with you. You'll need them for the grotto.

I broke the tie and voted Oblivion. I love Morrowind, and I played it obsessively; but the same is true for the Big O and it was also easier to get into it, as more focus was placed on the player's actual skill rather than the character's stats.

Alrighty, the big dispute.

Now, unfortunately the only thing that kept me from going bak to Morrowind was graphics. After seeing Oblivion's graphics i cant play Morrowind anymore.

Goods vs Bads:
Glitches - Oblivion wins here. Morrowind had that big crash error where the game randomly crashed during play. As well Certain spell combinations could cause the game to crash as well. Add mods (which usually made the crash bug worse) just was bad. I would like to say that Oblivion has only crashed once ever on me, and that was when my CD-ROM drive broke meaning it wasnt Oblivions fault.

Graphics - Oblivion Obviously. However, they do tax even the most advanced computer after a few hours of gameplay.

Quests - Morrowind has a much better main quests (and side quests then Oblivion) Half of Oblivion's quests require you to kill something sometimes in order to get something and return it to X character. AND, they give you the location on a map. Making this WAY too easy. Morrowinds MQ had much more depth and quests were more challenging simply because you were not given the information.

Levelling System - Oblivion. Levelled Lists allows for your character to never overpower NPC's fully unless you use the glitched levelling system.

Items - Morrowind. More artifacts to find. More Armor to wear.

Setting - Without Oblivion's expansion Morrowind wins. Morrowind had multiple areas that made the game seem huge while Oblivions forests, forests and more forests made the game seem small and dull. Also dungeons and caves in Morrowind aimed more at interesting then.....well whatever Oblivion tried to scare us with.

HOWEVER, with the Shivering Isles I would say Oblivion is better setting wise.

Final Word - I enjoy Oblivion more then Morrowind simply because of its challenge. I am going to soon be installing mods for the game to make it more challenging and more interesting for myself. If you play the Vanilla game. You will probablyt want to switch back to Morrowind simply because of the dullness of forests.... forests.... and more forests. However with the Shivering Isles and a few mods ive been looking at I think this game's a keeper.

i would say that Morrowind was a deeper game but that may just because Morrowind was such an amazing experience for its time. I loved both the expansions though for that game and the guilds and factions. I would say that Oblivion is barrrely behind that though, both are amazing games. I also liked how much more stuff there were to customize, there wasn't just blunt and blade for weapon skills

Morrowind crowns Oblivion in the categories in thematic composure of elements and mood as well as plot relevance to theme and design.

Oblivion has far keener immersion, better tuned overall design, character-relevant voice acting, and PC-plot inconstriction.

If you're looking for a more cinematic approach, go Morrowind and you wont be dissapointed.

If you really just want to run around and do your thing, you want to go play Oblivion.

Finally, pitching the quality of content across both packages available in their respective modding communities (an extremely unfair comparison, given the amount of time Morrowind's been around), Oblivion -still- has pulled ahead.

That's my two cents, anyway.