>At this point, any credibility your arguments may have had is gone, and there is no point in continuing this conversation. Functionally, Morrowind is the best Elder Scrolls game in the series. It has the most solid engine, the most content, the best magic system, and the most in depth lore. Oblivion is nice because it has memorable side quests, charming environments, and is easily moddable. Skyrim has none of these traits.
Skyrim’s engine is so terrible that I had to reinstall the game dozens of times after installing a few mods that were incompatible. Morrowind would crash to desktop before anything corrupted, and Oblivion would lose the save file.
Skyrim’s environments were so washed out and colorless, it was like constantly looking at a shitty DeviantArt quality photograph. Oblivions world may not have been the most creative world ever made, but it looks pretty enough that I can still enjoy it all these years later. Then we have Morrowind, with its mushroom towers, steaming swamps, steampunk ruins, and clockwork cities.
Skyrims quests all followed the same formula of join faction, get called “new guy” for the first few quests, have some random entity tell you you’re the chosen one, then save the world in whatever way the devs deemed appropriate for that particular faction.
Then there are the character models. Morrowind models were shit, everyone uses Better Bodies. Nobody holds it against Bethesda. Oblivion gets shit for having odd, cartoony proportions, and nobody tries to say otherwise, fan or not. Skyrim fanboys love to pull the “improved” character models card. I once sat zoomed in during character generation and counted every polygon on my character, the males are all hairy macho men, and the females all look like they’re caked in makeup. Sure, the proportions are better, but they just make Bethesda’s half assed modeling and textures stand out more.b Most of the games textures in general look shittier than they should because they couldn’t be bothered to rig them to the models properly. Someone actually had to release a mod re-rigging all of the textures.
So, yes, you may have enjoyed Skyrim. It’s a matter of opinion if a game can be enjoyed. However, Skyrim is in no way better than or equal to any of the other main entries in the franchise. It was Bethesda’s attempt at cashing in on the Michael Bay-esque style of game design that was popular during that thankfully short time period. It succeeded, and now all elder scrolls games for the foreseeable future will suffer in quality as a result.
Do not insinuate that Skyrim is anywhere near Morrowind in terms of quality, be it in design, mods, or playability.

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