The Elder Scrolls Morrowind vs. Oblivion ~EDIT: Bought Oblivion

If you have Skyrim and get Morrowind, you can install the Morrowind remake mod, called Morroblivion, and play that instead of old Morrowind.

Skywind

You can fast travel in Morrowind.

Morrowind of course (if you really don't care about graphics, because it's a little old by todays standards)!

If you are familiar with Oblivion, I say Skyrim. If not, still Skyrim.

Seriously guys? He asked MORROWIND OR OBLIVION not anything about Skyrim. (>ლ)

I would recommend Morrowind. I honestly don't give a second thought into graphics, and I think Morrowind has the better story (and gameplay).

Morrowind.
You can't fast travel, but there are silt striders which can transport you between towns. Also, there is fast travel mod.

Depends. Graphics isn't the only difference between the two. Fast travel exists in Morrowind, but only in a very restricted form, you can only fast-travel from town to town.

If you want a good story and depth and don't have a problem with a stiff, mostly empty world, go for Morrowind. If you want a nice open-world experience and don't care about story and dialogue, Oblivion is the way to go.

btw, if you decide for Morrowind and got a decent PC, you should definitely check out the MGSO mod.

Morrowind is, in my opinion, by a wide margin the best in the series. Yes, Oblivion is a very fun and good game in its own right, but it just can't stand up to the depth and comparative originality of Morrowind.

It's a bit off topic, but I actually think that voiceover has kinda ruined big RPGs. The need to both pay VAs (often in multiple languages) to act every line, and also to fit every line of recorded dialog into a limited amount of space (yes, obviously not as big a problem with DD today, but it was with Oblivion's 4.3gb disc), causes a severe limitation to the depth of a game. Until voice simulation becomes a thing (a long, long way out), I think that open world RPGs like The Elder Scrolls will be incapable of reaching the heights of Morrowind again.

With regard to fast travel: Yeah, by default you can't do the anywhere-to-anywhere from the map fast travel like in Oblivion or Skyrim. But the boat/silt strider/teleportation systems work pretty well, and overall I found the fast travel in Morrowind to be more rewarding, and it didn't suck me out of the game as much.

tl;dr: Buy Morrowind. It's the best.

Okay, another question. I play Skyrim with some mods, low setting and 1280x720 res (Really nice on my laptop) and get about 15 FPS. What could be my FPS in Morrowind with MGSO. Laptop specs: 1.00 Ghz APU-C50, Radeon HD 6250, 2 GB RAM

" I really don't care about the graphics."
Not important. You can make the gfx in Morrowind better than a stock install of Skyrim.

Cyrodiil has beautiful nature, but its a boring life there.. Skyrim and Morrowind are superior to Oblivion and with mods you can make Morrowind look really pretty.

Fast-Travel in Morrowind is nicely embedded into the gameworld. There are different travel-services (Siltstriders, Boats, Mages Guild) that will get you from city to city and you can get teleport spells to freely choose a spot you can teleport to any time you want.. I like that system a lot better than direct fast-traveling and I´m glad they implemented travel-services again in Skyrim, so you can choose not to break your immersion with the "click-on-map"-fast-traveling.. in Oblivion you had to use mods for this.

both games are awesome :)

Morrowind, it's by far the best of the Elder Scrolls RPGs. There's also a ton of mods to upgrade the graphics to today's standards...

If you want to be really hardcore go for Morrowind. The world is absolutely huge and the game is hard as all hell. Oblivion is a little more player friendly: a lot shorter and easier to play.

Morrowind= good game, hard and punishing as hell, and you have to read alot... and I mean alot

Oblivion= good game, kinda easy and as punishig as morrowind and you had a whole dlc of shealgorath!

No fast travel is really only a minor downside to Morrowind, as the exploration is part of what makes it fun; (plus if you're really hard-pressed for it, it's possible you can find a mod to give you that feature). Graphics aren't an issue, and you can even find lots of quality texture replacers to fix aspects of that if you need to, such as Better Bodies. If you love story then Morrowind is the best one to go on for sure. Plus it has a lot of awesome mods such as Abandoned Flat, Morrowind Abodes, Tamriel Rebuilt, Mournhold Expanded, ones that add creatures and Children of Morrowind, etc. (There was one, something like Aladdin's Bottle that was a portable home in a genie bottle).

When it comes to Oblivion... I heard that there's some strange feature where when you get stronger the creatures around you do too. I don't like that, if I'm very strong I don't want giant mutant rats who can still beat the crap out of me, that just doesn't make sense. Well that's my thoughts. :)

They are both great, but you gotta play Morrowind if you've never done so. I've played through Morrowind and the expansions three or four times, whereas with Oblivion, once was enough. It might be kind of hard to get into...but stick with it, and don't be afraid to start over a time or two once it finally clicks.

If you don't have a lot of patience (it takes longer to "get into" than Oblivion and as stated, there is a lot of reading) then Oblivion may be a safer choice.