Posted on: September 2, 2015

viranimus
Games: Reviews: 14
Good.. Not 20$ good
While I have a love/hate relationship with Bethesda and their products, my review is not biased by that. The game itself is the definition of a land mark title. It has an important place in gaming history. Even for its time it was impressive and ambitious. Ultimately it was not a perfect game but this is a case where its scope and ambition helped to make up for technical prowess. It does suffer from graphics that did not age at all, Being a little TOO open ended without providing the player nearly enough guidance to keep the content moving along. However most these issues revolve around what it was attempting to do in emerging graphics, hybridizing gameplay mechanics and other ambitious aspects that would become a corner stone of gaming Yet for how "good" and important the game is, there is one simple truth about it. It is 2015.The game is twelve years old. While Im one of the first on the "its new to me" bandwagon, It simply is not worthy of a 20$ MSRP. This is not GOGs fault. It is Bethesdas fault for having unrealistic expectations of the value of their product. The base cost for even a digital download elsewhere is consistently around 12 USD. New Physical copies can start off as low as 5$ Even though it seems to technically still be in print, the game is within the realm of "Yard sale pricing" with how widespread it is, the fact that it CAN be bought and played used, and how old it is. So to see Bethesda expect the same price for morrowind that they want for Skyrim LE is not only perplexing, but illustration of a problem the gaming industry has that Bethesda has been historically at the forefront of. A good game, and an important one. Though ridiculously overpriced for what it is as the product would only merit a base MSRP of 10$ with sale pricing for it being more appropriate to around the 5$ mark. Ill purchase the game a second time for the DD/PC format, but not until a sale price drops it down to an appropriate price.
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