The Elder Scrolls games have served us for decades as the premier place to steal from shopkeepers, get addicted to skooma, be intolerant of cat people, and increase our agility by jumping. Every few years (okay, more than a few) we get a new installment of the game, and then within a few years after that we get the non-glitchy version with definitely at least half as many chairs clipping through walls.
But for all of its flaws, popping in Morrowind and taking a silt strider to Balmora and looking at Caius Cosades rippling abs or booting up Skyrim just to shout a few draugrs back into the grave never really gets as old as it definitely should by now. And with that time, boy have we gotten a whole lot of Elder Scrolls memes out of it all.
At the end of the day, it's not about graphics or horse armor. It's about what makes role playing games truly great. And that's naming yourself Barf Fart, setting your eyes way too wide in character creation, giving yourself a big purple afro and murder-hoboing your way through a swamp until you've killed and stolen just enough gold to buy a big hammer and fictional drugs. Absolutely terrific.
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