I Played Every Elder Scrolls Game In 2021 

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Can't wait for the inevitable "I Played Every Game Ever"

The first Elders Scrolls tried one of the first "Motion Controls" attacks by moving the whole mouse in any direction... That's so cool!

Jeremy Soule is the one that has composed every single elder scrolls track since Morrowind. I don't think any other composer could do it justice.

Morrowind was so dark and ethereal. And enemies didnt level with you. If you ventured too far out and stumbled into the wrong place, you'd get lit up. Also there was way more options for everything. Spears, crossbows, ninja stars, tower shields, pauldrons that you could mismatch. Man it was amazing.

2:13 TES:Arena was the first game to feature environmental lighting from mobile objects (the fireball in this case). All other games prior had lights in static positions. One of the first things everyone who bought Arena did was fire off a projectile spell at night and watch how it lit up the environment as it flew.

Ok slight correction, in Morrowind you can wear what ever armour you want regardless of your class, in fact Morrowind has a much more in depth armour system than Oblivion’s. I thought it went without saying that I know about the beast races not being able to wear certain boots or helmets but this comment kind of blew up.

My favorite thing from oblivion besides spell making was the enchanting. I miss putting 20% chameleon on 5 pieces of armor for 100% invisibility all the time

I LOVE Oblivion's soundtrack. It's so relaxing. I have it on my chill out playlist.

I kind of can't believe that you actually played the first two games and gave them a fair shake. Usually RU-vid videos like this either breeze past them calling them dated garbage or pretend like they never existed and this is a really refreshing change of pace considering that Daggerfall is my favorite Elder Scrolls game

I've only played Skyrim, but Morrowind looks enticing too. For me Skyrim is like "home". You never really abandon it, it's always there in the back of your mind.

I love every game in this series. Every. Single. One. No matter how many other RPGs or games I play in general, I will always hold the Elder Scrolls games closest to my heart

One thing I wished you would have brought up about Skyrim's opening song: It's literally Morrowind's theme overlaid with Oblivion's theme and then Skyrim's nordic twist on it with the vocals

You didn’t seem to know this but, skyrims map is actually a live render of the real world and sometimes you can see things like dragons if you look where you are and there’s one FROM THE MAP. It’s crazy

Daggerfall is lowkey addictive, exploring dungeons and hoping that the next corner will be what you're searching for feels like playing a turn based strategy game where you keep saying "just one more turn" until its 3am

The reason Morrowind’s combat feels like Flailing is because it is based on Hit Chance. Every time you attack a dice is rolled and that decides wether you hit or miss. The Weapons that your class is skilled in have a very good chance to hit, but weapons you are not skilled in are just gonna do nothing. You can pick up any weapon you want and use it, doesn’t mean you’re gonna be great at it. While I get that maybe you and many other people wouldn’t like that, I personally enjoy it more then any of the other combat systems. It actually feels like I’m getting better at something, slowly building up my way from hitting maybe every nth time to hitting every time and killing the opponents in 2 hits. While I’m Skyrim and Oblivion, I cannot tell the difference between level 10 One handed and Level 100 One handed because it is based off player skill, not character skill. As long as the player is good at ducking out of combat and making the models intersect then they deal damage. In Morrowind I love the fact that it does expect the player to work to get better and makes the skill based progression system make sense, and it is incredibly satisfying to get really good with your preferred weapons and spells. Any thoughts on that?

I honestly loved breaking oblivion by enchanting all my gear with chameleon to make myself permanently invisible.

Playing Morrowind for the first time and when it just ‘clicks’ and then you get addicted in the games mechanics, lore, and magical world is one of the best feelings I’ve had in gaming

5:45 A common misconception about stealth in this game is that it's not enough to crouch down to automatically enter stealth mode, as in modern games. In Daggerfall, stealth is a separate mode, and if you don't turn it on, any theft will be considered undisguised robbery, just squatting.

The Elder Scrolls is Such a beautiful masterpiece of a series

SPOILERS FOR MORROWIND What I love about Morrowind is that its so... unique. The story is amazing and looking at the lore behind the game is just... WOW. It makes me want to look more into what exactly happened to get us to where we were then. What did happen that fateful day on Red Mountain when the First Council confronted Dumac? I love how a lot of stuff is up to interpretation. Did Voryn actually kill Nerevar? Or was it the Tribunal? (yes.) What did the Dwemer do that made them disappear? Was it using the tools on the Heart or separating the tools FROM the Heart? There's so many questions we just don't have the answers to, so much so if they wanted they could create a new game based around the First Council and the Battle of Red Mountain. Morrowind's lore is so deep and rich and I feel many people overlook it.

Word of advice to everyone, DO NOT DO WHAT IS DEPICTED AT 10:03 Because 1. Power attacks are significantly more stamina efficient in morrowind, so you should not be "spamming" attacks. And 2. NEVER USE THE IRON DAGGER! Just ignore it, it's a trap. You in all likelihood did not make a character with short blades in mind so you WILL miss. And if you did, USE ANY OTHER DAGGER! HECK, YOU PROBOBLY HAVE SOME OTHER WEAPON CHOSSEN LIKE LONG SWORD, JUST USE ONE OF THE ENCHANTED WEAPONS THAT ARE JUST LYING AROUND NEAR THE STARTING AREA. OR DO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DOES AND JUST BUY ONE.

While the elder scrolls games are great in their own right, it's the unparalleled mod support that really sets them apart in the industry. 10 years later Skyrim is still thriving like it was released just a few months ago, and a big part of that is due to the ridiculously active modding community. Some of the ongoing modding projects are absolutely huge, involving hundreds of developers. Many of these teams could probably just make a game of their own (and some of them did).

I really like how positive and happy you sound, thanks for the video!

hey man! please never stop. your enthusiasm about this topic is contagious, and your brevity is so digestible. much love man.

The feelings you had about oblivion being your first are the exact same I had with morrowind. I played it on Xbox and it blew me and my friends minds. We would steal from Shopkeepers, plunder random dungeons, talk to every random npc, and create insane spells. I remember creating a spell that made me FLY!. It was special.

7:35 "Just steal everything in sight". That's actually a major point and one of the reasons why this game is so special. This is the first (or one of the first) games ever where most of the objects in the environment were interactable. It's adds to the immersion in a huge way. My earliest memory from Morrowind is walking into a store and seeing items sold by the shop actually placed on the shelves. I remember being totally mind blown by that back in the day.

I love this, you sound like an incredible wholesome person! ❤️

Great Summary and Reviews thank you for this fine content

7:18 daggerfall had custom classes 12:16 morrowind let's you equip whatever you want regardless of class

The Music for Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim were all done by the same composer. The amazing Jeremy Soule. I'm not 100% sure but I saw a video that said that they did NOT get Jeremy Soule for Elder Scrolls 6. That's very upsetting because his style of music has become a crucial part of what The Elder Scrolls is. I hope whoever does 6 can be even half as good as Jeremy Soule.

Great video! I wish you would have mentioned something about the main story of each but it's cool that you kept it gameplay focused.

Hey man, when this video came out I remember being annoyed at the fact you only played the main games despite the title, but good on you for trying out the spinoffs late on. Something I brushed over is how well you cover each older game in such detail but keeping it brief, a lot of youtubers who claim to be experts on the series haven't even tried the older titles. For example in Arena you speak about the thievery and burglary, something a lot of people who try the game out never experience due to it's obscurity, keep it up bro

I bought Morrowind totally on a whim in '03. It was like a "road to Damascus" moment for me. I had never experienced a truly open world game before.

Morrowind will always have a special place in my heart. It is an amazing game, even in modern standards.

Creating a class from scratch isn't new in morrowind. It was already an option in Daggerfall by selecting "custom" in the class list. You could even name it Edit: also soul gems and capturing souls to make magical items with was already in daggerfall. It even had this thing where, upon breaking, the item would release the soul of the creature used to create it and it would be hostile to you

Having played daggerfall unity so much, I genuinely think the games size and general fantasy life simulator vibe lends itself to potentially being a good multiplayer game. It's really got enough space for an entire MMO worth of people milling about. If the modding scene pops off some more I could see something similar to Skyrim together or Morrowind multiplayer being a reality

I dont know that I agree with everything you said, but this was a really fun video. Love seeing other peoples perspective on the series.

Excellent video. I have now subscribed. Keep 'em coming.

In Morrowind you can wear any armor you want. In fact, Morrowind's armor system is much more customizable than the later games

Dude, there is no atmospheric, ambient music in Morrowind? What about "Peaceful Waters", "Over the Next Hill", "Blessing of Vivec", "Silt Sunrise", "Shed Your Travails" and many other? I've spent years in Morrowind and I couldn't disagree more. Except from that, you deliver some quality content. Good job!

Always loved the immense amount of lore in each game.

Such massive advancements from 1994-2011. I feel like 2011-now hasn’t been as big.

Glad that you mentioned the Radiant A.I. in Oblivion, which is arguably one of the biggest additions. Great video.

You said at 12:16 that you could not wear different armor types in previous games to Oblivion, which is not true. You could do it in both Morrowind and Daggerfall. In daggerfall however you could have a sort of attribute that pevents you from using different weapons, armor, shields and so on. Which you could also choose when making a custom class in (which is possible) Daggerfall.

What a masterpiece this video is, well done. I subscribed

Thank you for your time and patience

Somehow every TES becomes a classic instantly. I really hope they won’t mess up TES 6, the expectations are very high. Good video dude.

Another standout feature for Morrowind compared to the other entries is its creativity. Oblivion and Skyrim have their strengths and I enjoy them, but they mostly come across as standard high-fantasy (dragons, trolls, what-have-you). Whereas Morrowind had a much more unique ecosystem, which I appreciate.

i love dio that appeared when you mentioned slow time. you a goat bro

Great video I subbed now I'm gonna check out the spinoffs

I didn't see it mentioned in the Morrowind Segment, but the reason it feels a bit 'mashy' is that it is dice-based rolls to determine hit/miss, where as Oblivion & Skyrim went the full action route. It takes time getting used to, and isn't for everyone, but when looked at as a 1st person 3D pen-and-paper game imitating aspects of things like D&D, it adds a bit of charm.

12:25 "Morrowind and games before that wouldn't let you wear any armor you wanted" - Morrowind did, not sure about the previous games, but you could wear any kind of armor you wanted in Morrowind.

This video is so chill. Loved it. New subscriber here!

I think the "flailing" feeling in Morrowind comes from a tendency [from playing games like Skyrim and Oblivion] to just sort of mash to attack w/occasional long clicks. Pre-oblivion combat definitely relies a lot more on the type of attack you use and your hit chance.

If you mashed while playing Morrowind, you did it wrong. That wastes stamina and makes the game infinitely harder. You're supposed to be careful, hold the attack button, and time your strikes. Also use the strike your weapon is best at.

Im always craving info on the details of the next Elder Scrolls. So if you can do a video of that...Awesome!!!

You got my sub brother. Very competent video. I am looking forward to binging your content. When time permits. Peace and blessings

Looking really quickly at your Morrowind character screen, I noticed that Short Blade is not one of your Major or Minor skills (skills that start with a higher number and contribute to level gain when they increase). This is why you had the flailing feeling when using the dagger as in the gameplay footage. Your character is not skilled enough with short blades to be able to hit your enemies with them reliably, and so you don't. Also, hit chance scales with the amount of fatigue (stamina) you have, so starting a fight with low fatigue or running out of fatigue will end in a lot of missed attacks.

Hey, just wanted to say that you made a teensy mistake. Even though Oblivion's persuasion system has more depth, in Morrowind you actually can persuade NPCs all over the game to like you or not. Unlike Oblivion's dynamic system with different NPCs liking different ways to persuade them, Morrowind had three options: persuade, taunt, and bribe. Persuade usually ups the disposition of an NPC but it can fail based on your speech skill. Taunt is the same except it lowers disposition and you can also lure NPCs to attack you. Finally, there's Bribe which is a guaranteed raising of disposition at the cost of 10, 100, or 1000 gold, which match with how high the increase is.

Really love this idea of content of playing all the games in a series it lets us the viewers see how much the games have grown and developed through the years. Great job my guy

Great video!

The one thing about Morrowind in this video (apart from the armor types in Morrowind) that's wrong is the combat situation. The combat in Morrowind is stat based. That means that if your statistics for combat are high you're most likely to hit the enemy every time, so yeah in the start it's kinda like he says but as you progress it's no different than the sequels. And the stats apply to different types of weapons, in general some mechanics of Morrowind are way more complex than the sequels like the combat. For example in Skyrim there's a skill tree for two handed and perks that gives you effects on two handed weapons, in Morrowind if you use a dagger your expertise in short weaponry is increasing to the point of you hitting your target every time, that means that if you pick another type of weapon like a two handed longsword it's not going to be hitting quite as often. So you not hitting the worm on your way to balmora it's not because the game is old and janky, it's by design. Lovely video tho I really enjoy this type of content, especially when it has to do with the es series.

A couple small corrections: At 7:19 you say "something new in morrowind is the ability to create a class from scratch". You could create a fully custom class in Daggerfall, you even showed this option at 3:49. At 12:15 you say that Morrowind and earlier games didn't allow you to wear armor types unless they were part of your class skills. That's untrue for both Morrowind and Daggerfall. All classes can wear all armor types in Morrowind, and in Daggerfall you could wear all armor types unless you specifically took a disadvantage "Forbidden Armor Type" at character creation. Custom classes never had to take that disadvantage, though some premade classes came with it. Haggling with merchants, having it be affected by how much they like/dislike you, and being able to talk with them in different ways to make them like/dislike you aren't new in Oblivion. They were all present in Morrowind, and some were present in Daggerfall. The only new part for Oblivion was the "wheel" minigame. Which, I agree with you, was cool but too easy. Definitely gotta disagree with your comment on Skyrim taking class customization to the next level. It's objectively less customizable than Morrowind or Oblivion. It has perks, but you don't get to choose primary/major/minor skills that define your class, and attributes were removed entirely and replaced with the simple Health/Stamina/Mana. Races also have almost 0 impact on your character build, which is both good and bad. There's also less skills and *way* fewer spells than in previous games. Spells also get outclassed fast by combat, as nothing can improve the power of spells in the game. Once you have the most powerful spell, that's it. You aren't getting stronger as a wizard except by having more mana. Same thing with shouts; they have a total of 3 upgrades (2 extra words, and then the black books) and that's it. Weapons keep scaling far, far beyond that. Any damage shout becomes useless quickly, only the utility ones stay useful. In the end, Skyrim and Morrowind are definitely tied as my favorite Elder Scrolls games, for totally different reasons. Oblivion was my first ES game, and its my 2nd favorite. Daggerfall was too boring, but I appreciate what it did for the time.

It's always nice to see the strong bias when it comes to your fav but not the other two

Amazing video!!!!

The first game is inspired more by Ultima Underworld than Doom. When they were making it. They were just making a generic fantasy arena fighting game. You'd tour the land of Tamriel and fight in the arenas. But then they added a dungeon crawlling minigame and thought it was fun. The game inevitably grew in scope from there.

I started playing Skyrim for the first time a month ago, and honestly it’s a masterpiece. Everything in this game is satisfying, clearing a dungeon, smithing a new sword and enchanting it, leveling up, it’s just amazing

Oblivion was also my first ES game. Man that soundtrack takes me back.

i just discovered your channel through this video, great job, i subscribed and liked.

Here is my ranking of the main 5 games 5: Arena 4: Oblivion 3: Daggerfall 2: Skyrim 1: Morrowind Skyrim and Daggerfall could also be swapped potentially.

It'd be nice to see Bethesda remake some of the older games instead of re-releasing Skyrim over and over

nice video bro keep up the great work

23:55 Tods face just appearing over the mountain gave me a chuckle

custom class creation and "random events" both started with daggerfall, not morrowind. A lot of people have already mentioned the former, but it really cant be overstated just how expansive character creation is in daggerfall.

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To be precise, in ES4, you don't just go to "Oblivion" which is a name for many places and realms. you go to the Deadlands, realm of Mehrunes Dagon, Daedric prince of violence, destruction, change and revolution. If the Deadlands looks like traditional hell, Molag Bal's realm of Coldharbor looks like hell after it froze over and then had the toilets overflow.

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This video is awesome ❤

Hey man! Super cool video! It was a shame you didn’t dig around in Daggerfall a little more, though. Daggerfall’s class customization system (which is definitely there) is INSANE. So many skills to pick from, the ability to set up attribute offsets for when you roll your stats, and the ability to custom design your character’s strengths and weaknesses! You even get to pick how well you are liked by people in the world from the different castes the world has, so you can fully invest yourself in your RP. Daggerfall is old, which makes it difficult to really get into… but after I spent the time, it quickly became my favourite! The verticality of the dungeons and cities, the INCREDIBLE magic system and spells (you can LEVITATE) and the magic weapons are always exciting to find!

In general, a good review! 😄 But there is one important thing you missed, I think. The spell variety: Morrowind has a lot more to offer in the kinds of spells you can cast. Sadly, that variety has been narrowed down in Oblivion and even further in Skyrim. Although the latter one introduced trap spells and the ability to cast two different ones, simultaneously.

Oblivion was my first Elder Scrolls game, I absolutely love that game. This video has made me consider reinstalling and playing through it again now that im older

In fact, Morrowind wasn't the first one to have the option to make a custom class. Idk about Arena, but Daggerfall has it and it is way better than chosing a premade one, because you can customize your advantages and weaknesses. Like the one you said when you spoke about Oblivion, in Daggerfall you could choose if your custom class can or cannot use certain weapons, armors or shields.

I can see why you’re blowing up, with only a few videos they feel like they’re from a channel I’ve been watching for years.

Started with Skyrim and went backwards from there. Oblivion is probably my favorite out of the older games. Tried Daggerfall and holy hell did I struggle. I don’t even think I got out of the starting dungeon but that’s definitely on me.

Your content is epic dude

You can climb those mountains! With Todd's head in the back round lol best review of elder scrolls hands down!!

Wow, I had no idea the first Elder Scrolls was a first-person shooter. What an interesting way to do a RPG. I would've never thought of that. That's awesome. I want to play this game now.

This really reminded me how much I loved Skyrim and I haven’t played it in several years

Really great video! Didn't have any spoilers either, which I like -- I've played Skyrim and Oblivion but not Morrowind, which I plan to play next.

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Cool video! I played Morrowind back in '03-'04 and it's still one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. I can definitely appreciate that it feels super janky nowadays. One thing that I really feel was undersold in this was the incredible level of detail and environmental storytelling in Morrowind. I feel that it punches way harder than it's successors in that regard.

Custom classes started with Daggerfall. You just need to scroll all the way to Custom. You can choose your primary skills, major skills, minor skills, advantages, disadvantages, and even alter your base reputation with the different types of NPCs.

wow the graphical improvement from Oblivion to Skyrim was astronomical! :0

I didn't like morrowind at first, gone back to it recently and I love the immersion, no map markers you have to ask around and refer to your journal to find out where to go, its refreshing these days as every game nowadays holds your hand

The channel is blowing up because the content is good. The played every game angle is good for a series ans you can always supplement with other series or one-off videos. Keep it up so long as you enjoy it and we'll keep watching. Cheers.

You can make spells in Arena, it's basicaly like Daggerfall's spell creation, but a few more limitations.

The Streets of Whiterun is possibly my favourite relaxing piece of music ever.

Incredible! 👏 Top notch! As someone who started at Skyrim and wondered about previous titles from TES, I will definitely give Oblivion a shot! I fired it up and the graphics threw me off. But it took like 3 different attempts, over months! before I truly delved into the amazing world!

"I'm okay with spellmaking dying for smithing." As someone who often goes pure mage and literally have no use for weapons or armor, I 100% disagree. Staff enchanting does not make up for this, either. Otherwise, fantastic video.