The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind GOTY Edition

Morrowind is simply one of the greatest RPGs of all time. With its immensely dense and elaborate story, great sandboxy player liberty, and an incredibly creative open world, playing Morrowind is like drinking a fine Redoran Sujamma : Yes, it may be a little rough at the start, but you just always get new flavors each time, and after a while its downright tastefulliscious. You never tried Morrowind ? What a grand and intoxicating innocence... ! Just try it. again and again. Until you awake in House Dagoth drinking Skooma...

...stayed for the world. When it came out and I saw the screens I thought how can a game look so unreal, it whispered to me of playing it, and I had to buy a new pc too, so it took a while. Then I disappeared from the real life at least for a month, oh how young and strong and free I was to allow myself such a thing. Of course now it looks old, still the atmosphere is unsurpassed, at least for me. All kinds of spells, creatures, the cities! The world! Go anywhere kill whatever you like, get killed, start again! The music... probably the most iconic theme in rpg games, so beautiful. The story... the story is minimal or so it seems, a cutscene now and them would've helped but I guess the story was not the point of the game, at least for me. The point of the game is to explore a gigantic world, the lore, the factions, the depression, the mystery. It has aged, but for the fans of rpg's it is must play.

This is a phenomenal game. Keeping things short, it has: 1. A vast, open, and interesting world. 2. Good graphics (for it's era), that still look decent today. 3. Solid (albeit dated) gameplay mechanics that are still fun and interesting. 4. An extensive modding community to improve the above and add tons of additional content of every conceivable variety. My only hitch with GOGs version of Morrowind is that it doesn't come packaged with the video files that the original installer ran from the CD. I keep getting a brief (not gamebreaking) error message every time I start, but all else runs as smooth as can be.

This is one of if not the best most open ended rpgs ever. Do not compare to later elds they are little more than action games with level up that give you perks no real development. I will not buy from here as I already have an old copy goty and it runs bad on modern pcs. I did play this back in the 32bit days and it ran so smooth never looked great but was good enough. The immersion and ability to actually do nearly anything you want makes its story line top notch. This is one of the first games I cut my teeth making mods you could do so much more. The biggest problem was always stability even running vanilla you had to save often. The difficulty level was pretty high many veteran rpgers had hours of trouble and learning.

I don't want to repeat the praise that is written here already, but I often read that this oldie is not so enjoyable nowadays. I don't agree. Morrowind was not my first Elder Scrolls game, but nevertheless it is my favorite. Nearly everything that some describe as a downside (dice roll, no magicka regen, no voice acting, no quest markers ...) is an upsite for me. Even grafic overhauls are not necessary IMO. But if you want a grafic overhaul or magicka regen you can get it. There is a huge number of mods and the Morrowind modding scene is still alive.