Skyrim Countdown

[Jackalope]

Last week I bought oblivion. I had never played the elder scrolls even though I loved Bethesda but I bought it because I'm excited for skyrim. Long story short, I hated it. So I'm kinda worried now.

I actually didn't care for Oblivion that much at first either. Once I found a character / playstyle that suited me, I spent way too much time playing it.

One thing that I liked about both games is that you don't have to follow the story line / quests at all. I had hours and hours of fun simply trying to steal everything that wasn't nailed down (particularly in difficult spots), and murdering everyone in sight, all without getting caught (and without using exploits that would make it easy). It was more practical in Morrowind than Oblivion, as in Oblivion getting away with murder is a lot harder.

It can also be fun to try and play the game as a notorious outlaw a bounty - for a real challenge, with a high enough bounty that guards attack you on sight. Try playing the Thieves Guild or Morag Tong/Dark Brotherhood arcs with the guards always on your ass. Not sure it can be done.

In my opinion, while Oblivion was obviously a more polished game and Morrowind suffered from dated graphics and a fairly clunky UI, Morrowind in a lot of ways was the better game with more replay value. There are some skills and such that are easily exploitable in Morrowind which make the game way too easy if you use them. Those were mostly fixed in Oblivion.

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Clicked on the wrong thread ... but while I'm in here ...


Can you game geeks tell me (a non-gamer) if Battlefield 3 is a good game? or it's priors?

I never played BF3, but the earlier ones were good, especially in big multiplayer games.