Favorite Elders Scrolls Game?

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I am still on the fence about the MMO. The Elder Scroll Series was all about your own personal experience. I still do not see how you will get that personal experience in an MMO. Also, it really breaks immersion to see random people running around getting the same quest as you. But, I am in Beta and will see how release goes.

Morrowind for overall game content quality.

Oblivion for overall game mechanics (better graphics and journal issues).

Skyrim was just....lacking.

I think if skyrim had spellmaking it probably would've been better, though the constant memory cache problems are really annoying.

My version of spellmaking: TES construction set. But I don't create new spell mods until the character has completed all the guild quests and becomes the master mage. Then i also try to keep spell strength within reason, proportional to that characters progress in the game.

I have put more hours into Oblivion than I care to count. I always modded it heavily, though, because the default character models are ugly as sin and the game is more fun the more stuff there is to do and see. I haven't put anywhere near as much into Skyrim, but that's mostly an issue of time now that I go to school and have a job. I personally feel that Skyrim's gameplay is an improvement, and wish I could invest more time in it.

Oblivion and Skyrim are my favorites, and really the only ones I've played. I think my love for Oblivion was greater at the time I played it than my love for Skyrim at the time I played Skyrim. The scenery, music, lore, character models, the fascinating NPCs, and the quests are all awesome in both games. I am very sentimental when I hear Oblivion music.

I liked morrowind the best for the world and quests, but the awful combat and lack of facial movement/talking in it keep me from replaying it. Graphics don't have to be something only new computers can run, but the style of a game should be adapted to the technical limitations. Morrowind, instead, has triangular things that just screem "I was meant to be a circle but that'd be too many polygons".

Oblivion was a decent game, but not great. With mods however it's the best, until skyrim modding has another 2 years or so to catch up.

Skyrim has an amazing world, with a lot of the little things that make the world look more alive. The design of the world rivals morrowind's in awesome fantasy epicness, but the game falls short when it comes to quests. The main quest, instead of being a complex tale of politics in a world torn by civil war while dealing with an existential threat as is hinted at in the beginning, becomes "go there kill that dragon and/or retrieve that item" x10 + end boss. My best guess is they just didn't have the time to finish it properly.

Alll in all, for me it's a tie between Morrowind and Skyrim.

I like oblivion better than skyrim....

story is better...
skyrim just seems like a whole lot of the same...

Skyrim's probably my least fav out of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim, but only because the game series has lost so much playability with skyrim, and not just because of what's been taken out. Skyrim is so full of freezing bugs that I actually expect my game to freeze randomly when I play it, it's pretty bad in that regard. I like morrowind best because it has the most customization to it, and despite what people think, the flying spells didn't break the game or any aspect of it. Morrowind is the perfect example of what the Elder Scrolls should be. Oblivion is also good, though the npc's looked really crappy, repetitive, and unrealistic in terms of how different people can look. They look like they were drawn out by a ten year old, then slapped onto a 3d model, stretched to fit, and recolored (I might be overstating it a bit, but you get the idea).

Mine's probably Oblivion, I bought the anthology the other week as I was missing Dragonborn and wanted Morrowind with the DLCs for when the Skywind mod is fully working. I prefer combat in Skyrim though, as the Thuu'm is just that little bit extra that makes the combat more awesome, and makes you feel as if your character is actually special compared to everyone else in the world.

there is something magical about Morrowind. as you said, the game is the most well imagined. it is also the most distinctive and creative (in my opinion). and the music is equally as good. i love the sepia look of Morrowind.

Oblivion was cool but the Oblivion gates all over the place were annoyingly samey.

Morrowind, Skyrim, then Oblivion.