# The Elder Scrolls.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elder-scrolls/508577>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 2, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elder-scrolls/508577 "2009-09-02T00:31:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elder-scrolls/508577/21 "2009-09-07T08:13:43Z")

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Morrowind was too dark for me. I tried really hard to get immersed in it but the whole look and feel turned me off. Just playing it mildly depressed me and creeped me out, so I never finished.

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**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elder-scrolls/508577/22 "2009-09-07T17:24:12Z")

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If you want real classic Elder Scrolls, you’re talking Arena. Which was a great game, with huge amounts of customizability in spells, which led to horrific exploits but was great fun.

I’m with most of the others here - Morrowind captured my imagination enough that I played through it all the way 3 times, once for each of the Great Houses so I could get all of the questlines. The mods for it were excellent as well.

Oblivion is prettier (although Better Heads and Better Bodies for Morrowind helped a lot with that), and many of the game mechanics are more streamlined, but the world didn’t capture me in the same way. I keep wanting to have the Oblivion engine with the Morrowind setting and stories.

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