The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind GOTY Edition

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.

this is what i was looking for, first time playing an Elder Scrolls game and is one of the best RPGs i have played.

Morrowind is the BEST Elder Scrolls game to date. Everything you do has a skill progress bar - including walking, how likely you hit an opponent with a sword (like a dice roll in RPGs), and how likely your spells work. Thus said, Morrowind is grindier than Skyrim and Oblivion. This is why Morrowind is better! It Oblivion and Skyrim, combat got realistic. You had to simply aim your fireballs, and watch how big of a spell you used or else youll run out of magicka to use and wait for it to recharge. In Oblivion, that's the same. In MORROWIND... it DOESNT recharge. You had to think like a mage and find the recipe or a place to buy restore magicka potions to keep you safe! I can go more into it - but simply Morrowind is better. Once you select the right skills for your intended class and find the right faction to associate with and place you want to live for a while... you'll know what I mean. Morrowind doesn't get stale cause of how mod friendly it is and how much bigger and more complicated it is to the other games. But who am I kidding? They're all basically worth playing (idk about Redguard or TES1. Theyre so old. Dos and early PC games.) Morrowind > Oblivion > Skyrim > Daggerfall Unity (Play all of these.) Then: Fallout New Vegas > Fallout 3 You will be free to be whatever role you observe in each of these. These are CRPGs at their absolute Best. Forever Memorable.

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.