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I've played exactly 0 of them and I'm not sure where to start. :v

Morrowind or Oblivion

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I feel like Arena might be a little too archaic for me lol

teep_ posted...

Morrowind or Oblivion

is Morrowind very playable on Xbox One? Or is it a lot better with mods?

It depends. If you're a fan of "old game jank", Morrowind. If you're a fan of older games but don't want it to feel dated, Oblivion. If you only like modern games, Skyrim.

Arena is not worth playing and Daggerfall is really not much better (you play it more because it is one of the most impressive games ever made than because it's still fun).

Kadomony posted...

is Morrowind very playable on Xbox One? Or is it a lot better with mods?

Play Bethisda games on PC. You will only suffer without access to mods (if only for the bug fix ones) + the console.

ellis123 posted...

Play Bethisda games on PC

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The only games worth playing are Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim and ESO. Arena and Daggerfall (the first two) are fine but haven't aged well, and are very inaccessible to new players. If you're playing on console, just stick with Skyrim and Oblivion.

Skyrim is the most accessible and noob-friendly, at the cost of not having a lot of depth and coming off more as a first-person sandbox fantasy action game, rather than an action RPG.

Oblivion is the most 'cozy' and charming, at the cost of having a rather normal, bland fantasy setting and some very janky character design.

Morrowind is the most immersive and iconic, at the cost of not being noob-friendly in the slightest and having die-roll combat.

Skyrim, while others are better when it comes to many RPG aspects. IT looks and plays the best (to me) still.

It looks like I should probably start with Morrowind on the PC by the sound of it.

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Kadomony posted...

It looks like I should probably start with Morrowind on the PC by the sound of it.

Morrowind is very immersive and atmospheric, but a lot of new players are put off by its strange combat system and how players have to read a lot to figure out what to do and where to go.

If you want to play a TES game for the first time, I'd personally go with Skyrim, then Oblivion, then Morrowind.

Kadomony posted...

It looks like I should probably start with Morrowind on the PC by the sound of it.

Just make sure that you aren't squeamish about liberal usage of mods. The base game is fine, but the entire point of playing anything by Bethisda is that you are skirting the line between the game being runnable and all of the glomp of Thomas the Tank Engines crashing the game.

CRON posted...

Morrowind is very immersive and atmospheric, but a lot of new players are put off by its strange combat system and how players have to read a lot to figure out what to do and where to go.

If you want to play a TES game for the first time, I'd personally go with Skyrim, then Oblivion, then Morrowind.

I guess it would be better to start with something more beginner friendly and if I like it move on to the more obtuse stuff.

Kadomony posted...

I guess it would be better to start with something more beginner friendly and if I like it move on to the more obtuse stuff.

Then Oblivion. It is more complex than Skyrim, but not in any way that makes it harder to understand. It also has upgrades versus Morrowind that make it easier to get into, such as it being actual action combat (as opposed to DnD styled with dice rolls) and a quest log.

ellis123 posted...

Then Oblivion. It is more complex than Skyrim, but not in any way that makes it harder to understand. It also has upgrades versus Morrowind that make it easier to get into, such as it being actual action combat (as opposed to DnD styled with dice rolls) and a quest log.

Would it be hard to go from Oblivion to Morrowind you think? Since I do like the look of Morrowind from what I've seen. I wouldn't know where to begin with modding it though :v

Kadomony posted...

Would it be hard to go from Oblivion to Morrowind you think? Since I do like the look of Morrowind from what I've seen. I wouldn't know where to begin with modding it though :v

Frankly anything that is similar between the two games is super easy to understand and it's only the parts that are completely different that are hard on new players. Really it's far more a "are you willing to put up with Morrowind's jank" than a difficulty of going backwards in that sense. You aren't losing out in QoL like it would be going Skyrim->Oblivion, you are getting a very different experience entirely.

As for modding I'd say just look up whatever is current for graphics and then roll through Nexus for any misc stuffs you might want. For instance there is a mod that increases your accuracy by something like 1000% in Morrowind, which turns it into action combat.

Skyrim tbh.

Easily the most accessible. But it your are fine with old school jank, bad design choices and weird levelling systems the other two can be fine.

I tried playing Morrowind after playing a little Oblivion/Skyrim and it's just so janky. Probably would have been okay with it if I had played it as a kid 20 years ago, but now eh.