I for one found this article refreshing. It gets on🏅 my nerves to see so many people treat Oblivion as some sort of hidden RPG gem, when it was actually extremely dumbed down and followed the aesthetic trends of the zeitgeist (Peter jackson's LOTR) to the point of having the most generic high fantasy setting imaginable.

But you adopt the point of view of a fan of the series. I love Morrowind, old Fallout and Fallout New Vegas. I don't give a f..k abou the Elder Scrolls or Bethesda Fallout. I do not "enjoy t💯he fact we have this series at all". I very much resent the direction taken by Bethesda. Lots of people do. We keep🔥 complaining because we never got what we thought was the logical development to Morrowind.

The combat system is downright awful in all of these games, Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim alike; so I never understand how the combat system is seen by many as in favor of more recent entries. If anything, Skyrim is worse than Morrowind, because it's much more recent. Even Fallout New Vegas🍸 offers something far more interesting than all of the TES, with a similar system. The weapon diversity in FNV offers real gameplay choices. And that's not even talking about Dishonored or Dar🐓k Souls, which released at the time as Skyrim.

Not exactly an easy thing to do in a few words in a blog♐ articl💦e... FYI people who prefer Morrowind have been making such critical thinking on Youtube for a decade. This takes hours.

That's not quite true. Morrowind was more complex in ways that actually matter: world-building, lore, writing, a 💙sense of verisimilitude... "Not being able to buy a house or a horse" or "where have the language skills gone" faꦑde in comparison. Just like, in the grand scheme of things, I don't really care that Oblivion ditched out throwing weapons, spears, levitation or whatever. That is not what is important.

Your view is short-sighte🧸d, to say the least. If the biggest dumbing down of the series occured between Morrowind and Oblivion and not between Oblivion and Skyrim, it's got every right to be mentioned in the current discussion. ANd the wierd reverence shown to Oblivion recently does make me mad. Morrowind was for intellectuals, the next entries are for peasants :)

Excellent article! Finally someone who expresses this opinion! As a Morrowind fan, I can꧋not even begin to fathom why anyone would consider Oblivion an oldie, rich with RPG features. The biggest dumbing down of the series appeare𝔍d between Morrowind and Oblivion, not Oblivion and Skyrim.