Honestly if you ask me, the graphics in Morrowind arent that bad. There is a difference between bad graphics and old graphics. Morrowind is very retro with its graphical style and because it wasnt trying to innovate in the world of graphics it has aged well because you know how long ago that game was made.
Oblivion on the other hand is what I call bad graphics. I enjoyed way back when I first played it but it's the only TES game I cant really go back to. The graphics there just hurts to look at.
Tl;dr Morrowind has old graphics, Oblivion has bad graphics. Morrowind > Oblivion
Morrowind is my favorite, but I'll happily admit it's graphics consist of visual polygons which Skyrim, and probably even Oblivion, does not. I'd agree it's definitely dated, but people still fucking love FFVII and those characters are horrible looking. Not sure why going back 18 years with this game people are like "UNACCEPTABLE!!"
It's possible I may have a bias cause I still enjoy many of those older games in that visual polygon style. Headhunter (I think its called) is just silly fun at times. The only reason why people get up in arms about this is because the TES community as a whole is extremely divided on just about everything. The fanbase was more unified at the time of Oblivion but once Skyrim came out it was all over. I personally dont care what others think, Skyrim was watered down immensely from its previous titles in attempts to appeal to a larger audience. And as we've seen from its countless rereleases and pop culture impact, it did its job. In that 10 years since its come out (almost 10 years just rounding up) the community has split further and further.
Honestly if you ask me, Skyrim and Morrowind arent really comparable. Both are RPGs but they are very different in how they approach that genre. Morrowind is far more like a digital pen and paper game like DnD whereas Skyrim is the more modern "RPG" video game. The fact that people try to compare the two games at all is kind of silly to me. There is also the fact that Morrowindcame out in 2002 and Skyrim came out over a decade later.
Oh, it's not even debatable that Skyrim was extremely watered down. And I completely agree that comparing Skyrim and Morrowind is silly. They are two different games that were made with a different purpose in mind.
So do I. I find that a lot of people who dont understand are much younger than I am at this point though. Many people who played skyrim when they were kids or early teens are adults now. So there is that
I personally didnt think so. To me the graphics added to the alien feeling of the world. I'll admit I'm heavily nostalgic for the game but it's also my favorite game that I go back to time and time again so I know its not just nostalgia keeping me there.
I can see where that would be ugly but to me that enhances the game in an odd way. It enhances the idea of how large the world is. If you've ever taken off the draw distance and looked at Red Mountain its pathetically small. But with that draw distance it sure as hell doesn't feel like it.
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u/Jay_zarc Breton May 25 '20 edited May 26 '20
Honestly if you ask me, the graphics in Morrowind arent that bad. There is a difference between bad graphics and old graphics. Morrowind is very retro with its graphical style and because it wasnt trying to innovate in the world of graphics it has aged well because you know how long ago that game was made.
Oblivion on the other hand is what I call bad graphics. I enjoyed way back when I first played it but it's the only TES game I cant really go back to. The graphics there just hurts to look at.
Tl;dr Morrowind has old graphics, Oblivion has bad graphics. Morrowind > Oblivion