Completely subjective, of course.Werewolf wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 6:09 pm It seems that as Daggerfall Unity progresses, Morrowind looks worse. For years Daggerfall was this mythical game everyone talked about but few actually played with the clunkiness of the original DOS version but now Daggerfall Unity makes it easily accessible. Add the growing mod community that’s gradually helping the game reach the original vision and going from Daggerfall Unity to Morrowind is almost insulting. Even playing vanilla Daggerfall Unity and Morrowind side-by-side and the massive downgrade in ambition sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s laughable seeing Morrowind fans act like it was the height of ambition when the drop in ambition in Morrowind was far more severe then Skyrim. Skyrim was a simplified Morrowind, Morrowind strayed so far from Daggerfall it was essentially a soft reboot that abandoned the original vision
Again, IMO Daggerfall and Morrowind are great in their own unique ways. I think “ambition” is a little deceiving, it’s the feasibility of what can be achieved in a game and the end result is what matters ultimately. Lets not confuse/conflate ambition with attainability and outcome. Daggerfall never came close to achieving the dreams and ambitions the original devs had, DFU and its mods will never even scratch the surface of what they wanted in the game. Morrowind was much more grounded and came much closer to the goals and practicality its devs had of creating a more proper, balanced, complete game, despite its many bugs and faults. Their ambition and focus changed to something more practical and feasible overall for development. In the end, Morrowind added a tremendous amount to the world of Tamriel, near seamless unique open-world gameplay that made sense and fixed a lot of things myself and many others always hated in DF. Daggerfall, as ambitious the devs were and how awesome the released game became, it’s lacking so much, and was and still is a freaking mess with its ridiculous storyline, many half-baked and useless mechanics, an oversized empty generic world, barely any lore and culture, etc. - now tell me how this is better than Morrowind? I’m not saying one game is better than the other, but to me DFU even with mods doesn’t make Morrowind look worse, they are different games with different goals. There are some very good things Morrowind has that Daggerfall will never have and visa versa.
We have our preferences in what we enjoy and find valuable in games, some of us like the variety the TES series provided. Like I’ve said before in other threads, I’ve played Daggerfall the most by far out of all the TES games, the gameplay is addictive to me. Still, for the most part I’m satisfied with how they ended up developing Morrowind - for me, it didn’t have to be a “Daggerfall 2.0” that others demanded. If it ever became DF2.0, I highly doubt it would’ve ever had as meaningful and memorable a storyline, the insane depth of lore and culture or the incredible unique atmosphere and variety that t Morrowind has now.