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RE: Top Three Desert Island Video Games
If you really want to see the origins, you have to go all the way back to Arena, originally released in 1994. That was the first of the Elder Scrolls games. Daggerfall came next. Morrowind was the third game.
The good news is that both Arena and Daggerfall have been released as free downloads from Bethesda's website, so there's no charge to try them out.
The bad news is they're extremely unfriendly to modern systems, with controls that are quite clunky and non-intuitive to the modern gamer. I loved them both, Daggerfall especially, but there's no denying they're practically hostile to players who did not grow up with them during the DOS era. Morrowind was Bethesda truly hitting their stride, and if you're looking to see where Skyrim started, it's a better place to look than the two prior titles in my opinion.
I have yet to play any of the Elder Scrolls games. I had roommates in college that played Arena and Daggerfall. At the time I preferred the old school AD&D Gold Box games (and later games like Baldur's Gate). I keep saying one of these days I'll get around to the Elder Scrolls games. If I ever do, I'll probably start at the beginning and see how it goes.
I remember Daggerfall in particular was very buggy, at least early on. I don't know how well all the bugs were ironed out at the end but it was very common to get stuck in a wall or fall down an endless hole in the universe.
The final official patch (1.07.213) for Daggerfall stabilized the game, but little more, @darth-azrael. Bugs are still rampant. There are around twenty unofficial/fan patches you can install that improve stability and fix more bugs, but even using all of them you'll want to make sure you save frequently. :)