Objectively, we can agree on this. Right?

Objectively, we can agree on this. Right?

>Morrowind more popular than Oblivion, let alone Skyrim
nigger what

were you like 4 when morrowind came out? it was far more popular than skyrim on release. Oblivion can't even compete.

morrowind is always last because of the shitretard combat system

Really now, Morrowind moved 20 million copies in a year?

Change popularity to quality I'd agree.

but it literally sold more

It's fucking retarded in every way.

>Morrowind ever more popular than Oblivion and Skyrim
>TES pre-Oblivion having "DLC"
>Skyrim having more hours of gameplay than Morrowind
>Daggerfal having 40 hours of gameplay

None of the statistics support your echochamber. Not sales wise, nor xbox or PC popularity wise

>Morrowind 3dlc

Great job OP I'm trigger

>Skyrim
>300+ hours of gameplay
lmao try 30

Pretty sure Skyrim is by far the most popular Elder Scrolls ever

Okay, expansions. Is your autism sated?

I was eleven and that makes no difference because popularity equals sales like I'm sorry if you liked it more but that doesn't change the fact that as shallow of a game skyrim was it fucking sold. I have the same Bullshit arguments in TV and ASP, I wholeheartedly agree that certain films/TV shows and wrestlers are better quality, but the reason we have transformers 6 or whatever and Shaq vs big show at wrestlemania is because that shit sells and studios don't give a fuck about artistic integrity since you can't pay your mortgage with that shit

This picture is retarded on almost every possible way

>morrowind is more popular than oblivion and skyrim.

these morrowind fans are the worst, Just because you played morrowind on xbox doesn't mean shit.

to this very day oblivion is played more than morrowind, granted it's through sex mods but that just proves how much better the engine is.

Bethesda games are defined by the modding community and morrowind has the least mods of the 3 and the worst ones overall.

you could make the vanilla experience a valid point but nobody touches morrowind now without a bunch of mods.

hell I even think ESO at this point is more popular than morrowind Ever was.

Skyrim does have more content than Morrowind though, by a large margin. It may not have nearly the same depth, but there is certainly more and saying otherwise is stupid.

You're wrong though. Doing everything in Vanilla Skyrim would total out to around 300 hours. Does that mean it's fun? No. Does it have any depth? No. But the fact remains that the content is there, as stupid and shallow as it is.

Uh oh!

Skyrim is the most popular TES. Anyone who says otherwise is a blind retard.

Skyrm, Oblivion, Morrowind, Daggerfall, Arena is the correct order.

>calling autism when being corrected
You must be highly intelligent.

No, Regardless of quality or how you feel of the game, Skyrim is way more popular than any of the Elder Scrolls.

>Morrowind
>most popular

Explain a functional difference between expansion packs and dlc that is not essentially semantic.

When you can't, ask your doctor if your inability to understand and accept normal usage of english is a sign of autism.

Most popular, yes, but only due to the influx of Normies.

Oblivion is objectively the greatest.

I've done pretty much everything there is to do in Skyrim and I've sunk ~170 hours into it, DLCs included.

I got one

>addons used to be good
>DLCs are shit

dont fucking argue with this retard

know what pisses me off about fallout/tes games?

the little details that just show they don't give a fuck when making their games. like if you're in a house and looking at items that don't belong to you and it says Steal [item] but then you find one random shelf or bench that is just [Take] and it's not a crime and no one cares. It's like they forgot to flip a switch or something.

For some reason the little details piss me off more than the games lacking depth, having awful writing, awful gameplay, bugs out the ass, etc.

Wow, you sure showed him. How could he possibly counterargue your nostalgia?

you're fucking stupid

Morrowind isn't even definitively the most popular among video game enthusiasts...It's not even close to being most popular.

Each Elder Scrolls (so) has been more popular than the last.

There have been many dlc of similar scope and quality to expansion packs boyo.

how far removed from reality are you, skyrim took the franchise mainstream, it started the bullshit open world fad

>how far removed from reality are you
>it started the bullshit open world fad
How can you write both of these phrases in the same sentence?

it did though

It didn't? Ubisoft already perfected it's open world formula with AssCreed 2 that came 2 years ago, and even that game wasn't the one that started the fad.

...but morrowind did it 10 years prior

that's why it was such a huge fucking deal, this giant open world was running on a fucking xbox.

that's why it was most popular.

he is right moron

Stop saying Morrowind was the most popular, because literally everything you can find on the subject will tell you that you're wrong.

The open world fad you're describing is far more inspired by Ubisoft's generic design they had "perfected" by AC Brotherhood in 2010, Bethesda's open world style is still pretty unusual.

>perfected
>ubisoft
hoooohoho noooo. no sir.

You're legit dumb

>morrowind more popular than skyrim
halal

There are so many open world games that came out before Skyrim saying that you're wrong. AssCreed 1 and 2, Far Cry 2, Just Cause, and Red Faction Geurilla just to name a few.

>Morrowind 127+ Hours of gameplay
>Skyrim 300+ Hours of gameplay

Nigger wut

Even unmodded Morrowind has more content than fucking Skyrim. Do the 300+ hours include 250 hours of "radiant" quests or what?

franchises like MGS, Witcher and Zelda going open world was in part due to Skyrim's fucking massive popularity. I know Aonuma has definitely said Skyrim is the biggest influence for BoW, Kojima might have too but I'm not entirely sure.

There's literally nothing to debate over this. Skyrim was without a fucking doubt the more popular game. There's no discussion to be had.

Were you actually able to download Bloodmoon or Tribunal for consoles? I thought it was just buy them piecemeal or get the GOTY edition.

AC1 wasn't open world

Switch skyrim and morrowind

Okay, so 1 out of my 5 examples isn't totally open world. There is still far more evidence saying Skyrim didn't popularize the open world game design.

How is 1 any less of an open world game than 2?

Skyrim is more popular than Morrowind you fucking cuck, it's one of the top selling games of all time

He's wrong on so many levels it's not even funny. There's was nothing new or popular about open world when Skyrim was released, because it Skyrim hasn't invented anything beyound the Oblivion nor it popularized an already popular mechanic, that was a staple of their franchise. There were tons of open world games before Skyrim that were popular and defined the generation. AssCreed games, GTA IV, RDR, Fallout 3, Saints Row series, fucking Oblivion for god's sake. And before them we had GTA SA/VC/3 and Morrowind that really popularized the mechanic.

They go open world not because of Skyrim, but because it sells. Skyrim sold the most not because of open world, but because of clever marketing. There was nothing in Skyrim they did better than other games, they popularized nothing. Skyrim was just a number 1 game when it came to action/rpg, it's not even number 1 game when it comes to open world, GTA V would take that crown.

Oblivion was also more popular than Morrowind by every metric Morrowind should be third on that list, if popularity is the only thing we're ranking.

...

Skyrim sold exceptionally well for whatever reasons. People loved it because of the huge open world. Other franchises began turning open world too. It's no coincidence the fad started after Skyrim.

Oh i get it, nice b8

The retards in this thread that are arguing that Skyrim is more popular because it made more money are probably the same people that would argue that The Titanic isn't one of the highest grossing movies of all time because they don't understand infliation, neither in terms of economy or audience.

Literally the only game I ever heard of on this list is Skyrim.

Are these games even related at all? As far as I know Skyrim is a standalone game not part of a series. What is Morrowind?

-Things millions of people will very obviously say

by not being an open world game?
it's linear, segmented, and compartmentalized

Skyrim had that whole fat bitch singing the song on Youtube thing, tons of fan videos left and right, we're in the Internet age now, Morrowind came out before any of that, so I don't even know how it could be more 'popular' when no one was talking about it in a mass scale, being that there was no platform for such discussion.

You're beyond help

>morrowind more popular than skyrim
you have no clue what you're talking about

Skyrim is literally one of the best selling games of all time you stupid fuck.

>the fad started after Skyrim

...but it didn't you fucking idiot

It's some contrarian sperglord autist who thinks their circle of video game freak fans defines the world at large.

Kind of sad because they aren't joking or being ironic but are this self centered.

tl;dr OP is a vain, self obsessed smug fucking cunt.

you're from reddit aren't you

It's half a decade later, and lots of people are still playing it on Steam. Its modding community is still strong. Nintendo fans practically orgasmed when Skyrim was confirmed for Switch. The SE sold well on PS4 and Xbox One.

Just accept the game was more popular.

And Fallout 3 sold well. And GTA IV sold well. And AssCreed games sell well. They all have "living breathing worlds" kind of open world shit, go and explore, achievement and unlockables, that kind of jazz. Skyrim sold well because of marketing, there was nothing new or particularly inventive in the formula, they just marketed it as such, as if "infinite quests!" were somehow better than their "radiant AI" and the world of Skyrim was more detailed or bigger than Oblivion. It wasn't and some people would argue that it was less detailed. I think people often forget how much the gaming has grown in the last gen. People wanted an open world RPG because they were too young to play Oblivion or Morrowind when it came out. Remember Far Cry 3 marketing campaign? It's the same here, people wanted Fallout 3 with swords. I'm not saying that Skyrim didn't have the influence, it sure did to an RPG genre as one of the most sold games out there. What I'm saying that Skyrim applied already existing and popular mechanics too boost it's popularity along with clever marketing.

I think Morrowind had a greater impact because it was rather unique at release. That being said skyrim is vastly more popular overall.

>Skyrim started the open-world fad

Just because it was the first open world game you played doesn't mean it started the open world craze.

lol, i quite dislike reddit but you can't deny its existence / the existence of reddit types.

Reddit loves Skyrim and never heard of any other video game. Add tumblr, youtube, and pretty much any social media site to that list too.

Try searching for Skyrim fanart vs Morrowind fanart too, if ya like ( a quick google search shows 1/3 results for Morrowind)

Way to completely miss the point fucktard

Not that one should expect a Skyrimbabby to understand basic economics

The 3D open world "fad" started with GTAIII mang.

It's a shit series anyway.

>CHIM DEEPEST LORE RIGHT GUISE

You have a tenuous grasp on what you're trying to argue at best

>skyrim
>300+ hours
Ive done three 100% playthroughs in 231 hours

mb ill reinstall and do 4 in less than 300.

Morrowind is about as much more popular than Skyrim as Trump is more popular than Hillary

In other words not at all

Impossible to say who would actually be more popular.

There are people who would say they dont like either but still vote for one.

>He's wrong on so many levels
I hate this normalfag phrase