The Elder Scrolls Swap (Sign-ups: 12/31/11 - 1/11/12, Send outs: 2/11/12)

[queenofmarigold]

Wood elf thief for Skyrim, Dunmer for Oblivion and Morrowind (I notice nobody else mentioning Morrowind - don't tell me you guys haven't played!) but no less a thief. I've tried to play non-sneaky characters and I just can't do it. They end up being sneaky characters after all, just with the wrong stats.

[Anofeles]

Argonian mage

[lelila]

My mains were Redguard in both Oblivion and Skyrim. It's cause I tend to play tankish, heavy-hitting melee types, probably...

[crymson]

One more day for sign-ups!

[TheManicCrafter]

Wood elf thief for Skyrim, Dunmer for Oblivion and Morrowind (I notice nobody else mentioning Morrowind - don't tell me you guys haven't played!) but no less a thief. I've tried to play non-sneaky characters and I just can't do it. They end up being sneaky characters after all, just with the wrong stats.

No, I've never played Morrowind, but I'm going to remedy that soon    Heck I might replay Oblivion too maybe I'll be better with a bow now, though I prefer a good hack and slash, unless I'm playing D2 in which case I had an assassin character...there's just something satisfying about tossing throwing stars at weird critters, lol.

[Anofeles]

Skyrim is actually the only TES game I've ever played..

[mouser882]

I don't know if any of you follow TES on facebook, but they posted this video today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YEMD28MMtNg
Thought everyone here would appreciate it

[queenofmarigold]

Considering it's now ten years old, you have to go into Morrowind accepting that it's not going to be pretty... especially when compared to something like Skyrim. However most people who've played them all seems to agree with me that for so many reasons, Morrowind was the best of the lot.

The combat isn't great, and oh my lord you'll wish Cliffracers had never been invented, but the inventory system is (mostly) simpler, you can physically place all your loot wherever in your house you want and it doesn't go flying through the air when you next enter the room... The journal system actually records more than just one line of information on a quest (more like ALL information on it!) which you can search through to find pretty much a particular line of dialogue you were told about it, and you aren't led around by the hand either. If it says "there's this rare book and it's probably in the West Canton of Vivec", then you have to go there and work out for yourself that hey, West Canton has this rare book store, maybe I'll talk to the owner. As opposed to "Go talk to Applesauce the Khajiit, in the Old Rare Book Store in Vivec's West Canton here we'll put an arrow to guide you right to him" in the newer games.
Plus the modding community has done AMAZING things. It's pretty much recommended you start out with a few of the mods installed, unless you really want the original experience.

Man, I could talk about Morrowind all day. The opening sequence is so nostalgic for me, I can still hear the guy's voice

[Goomba]

Morrowind is a tough play. I played it before Oblivion and didn't really dig it that much. Got it for a buck for my xbox and played it a little more and while it's missing a lot of great features that showed up in Oblivion, it's great in that way that it shows the progression.

[Goomba]

Here is my Redguard from Oblivion. Sorry about the quality.





I'm not that far into this file so I don't have everything that I like to in my stock.

I'll load skyrim later and try to get a good shot off my ps3.