The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind GOTY Edition

I'm just getting into RPGs and they've recommended this game. So far so good. I couldn't get it to run with Wine on linux and I found OpenMW which can extract the game data from the GOG installation and lets you play on Linux.

The combat doesn't hold up well, but as it stands, Morrowind is the prime Elder Scrolls experience, featuring everything that makes the franchise brilliant, and without sacrificing the essence and personality of itself or the genre it inhabits. An essential buy.

This is the third episode of The Elder Scrolls, while it is the first TES game whose lore was mainly designed by Michael Kirkbride. That man is awesome. He made The Elder Scrolls distinguish from those old-school, DND like fantasy RPGs and created a mysterious and dramatic Tamriel. Though out of fashion in graphic, system ,etc. You still deserve a try.

I honestly think Morrowind is the best game I've ever played. This is because I understand how it works. Many people who come to this game from later entries in the series don't understand it and so, they don't like it. I have no intention of giving anyone a hard time. I would just like to invite people to learn how this game works and then play it. It's a wonderful experience with infinite replay value!

You're a prisoner, sent from the Imperial City -- first by carriage, and now by boat -- to Morrowind. Specifically, to the island of Vvardenfell. You're a reincarnation of Lord Indoril Nerevar, some dude who was betrayed and killed by three people who went on to make themselves physical gods, reigning as the Tribunal. One of those three went on to rewrite history itself so as to "justify" his actions. Their enemy is Dagoth Ur, who has been working for centuries to build a god, slowly convert the Dunmer on the island into an assimulated army, and use these to conquer the continent of Tamriel for the glory of the Dunmer race. Oh, and he's Indoril Nerevar's old best-buddy. None of them are good, none are entirely evil, all four are corrupted. Yes, you are *a* reincarnation -- not the first, and if you fail like the others, not the last. You're nobody special, aside from that shared soul and a prophecy. Life will go on if you fall, and another will be born who might take the role, until time runs out. That's not important, though. Or is it? Well, that's your choice, isn't it? This is an open-world Bethesda game, after all. Follow the main quest, or don't. Continue on through the Tribunal expansion and investigate the mysterious appearance of mechanical, clockwork creatures in the Morrowind Province's capital, Mournhold, and eventually exact justice for the crimes of the other two-thirds of the Tribunal, or don't. Investigate Solstheim and become a werewolf, and kill a third of a Daedra, or don't. I strongly recommend using the Morrowind Patch Project with this -- Bethesda's always been known for great games with myriad bugs, and Morrowind is no exception. I also recommend using the OpenMW engine reimplementation, as it's quite stable, fixes engine bugs, takes advantage of modern multicore CPU better, and some other useful features. Oh, and it supports GNU/Linux and macOS. :D Even without that, it's still the best in the series. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.