What's your favourite TES game?

For me #5 was easy.

Morrowind, for the time I played it, was more a much more awesome experience than anything I had ever played. It was a bit difficult at first. I won't lie, it definitely isn't baby's-first-RPG. I wanted to play a mage, so I promptly joined the Mage's guild and got lost trying to find the mushrooms for the first quest (even though they were so easy to find, but I didn't know any better and got lost with the directions the NPC gave), making me ragequit for a bit after getting stuck out in the swamps and killed by monsters. Once you really get your feet wet and get an understanding for it though, it is really, really great. Unfortunately, it is aged now so it is difficult to get back into.

Oblivion is a good game in its own right, but it desperately needs modding to be enjoyable for me. The generic, pretty fantasy environments and lack of much aesthetic dungeon variety kinda killed it for me. I hated the leveling system, I hated the Oblivion gates, and the NPCs all looked kinda creepy to me. I got a decent amount of enjoyment from it, but it didn't have that spark that Morrowind did for me. It also had a dreadful problem with crashing on my PC no matter what I did. I tried to load it up recently on my PC that can just about max out Skyrim, and it still crashes after hardly 5 minutes. This is probably an oversight on my part, though. The thing with Morrowind was that it was such an odd, new environment that I hadn't experienced in a game before. With Oblivion, I felt like I had already "been-there-done-that" without even extensively playing the game. Despite all this, Oblivion gets points for being a nice evolution in the combat system from Morrowind, as well as having some really great questlines.

Now, Skyrim had the spark Oblivion didn't have for me. The combat is much more evolved and interesting, the dungeons and environments are great (I know all TES dungeons are very linear, but I felt that Skyrim had more variety between the caves, icey caves, Dwemer ruins, Nordic ruins, etc.). I wasn't sure how I'd feel about it at first, because I was never a big Nord fan, but I ended up really enjoying the architecture and styles of the game. The game overall is very beautiful to me and well done. Hell, I put over 250 hours into the game before even modding it. 350+ hours later and I'm still finding bits and pieces that are new. Skyrim only loses points for me for having short questlines and not-quite-as-interesting quests. Could use some more variety in the magic department as well; however, I feel that playing a Mage is MUCH MUCH more fun and viable than in previous games still. I'm not sure if i'll forget the first night I jammed five hours out in the game the night I got it at midnight, and slayed my first dragon. Very epic. Then throw in the great amount of Morrowind nostalgia in the new DLC and you've got a winner for me.

Not sure why I bothered to type all that out, but it's early and I'm jacked on coffee and have not much else better to do.