The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind GOTY Edition

Well first off the graphics are great,the music and sounds are excellent,the voice acting is wonderful.All in all a very good game indeed.So why not 5 stars I hear you ask? Well that would be because the game seems to crash at random making it extremely annoying.The other thing I find is that since you can do anything,there is just too much to do.it doesnt hold my interest for long enough to get everything that could be done completed.

It's a shame I don't like this more than I do. The main story is by far the best of any Bethesda-developed title and has tons of interesting quests and characters to meet in its duration. Playing this game as a female character resulted in probably one of the funniest and most unexpected ways of completing an otherwise difficult quest that I've ever seen in a game. In addition, despite its aged graphics, the game's environments and level designs are still incredibly immersive. You can spend easily hours just exploring the landscape from swamps to forests to the dusty wastelands in northern Vardenfell. The architectural design also deserves special mention. Where later ES titles had much more familiar, European-style designs to their settlements and buildings, Morrowind's structures are far more creative and alien looking than anything you'd seen in Skyrim or Oblivion. Where the game falls flat is unfortunately in every other area. Combat is a drab bore with awful controls and a bizarre hit-detection making it far worse. While the magic system is quite varied and expansive, its limited range of animations and visible feedback result in most spells feeling exactly the same their usage. But mediocre gameplay can be overlooked as long as the story and characters are good right? Well, yes and no. Again, the MAIN quest is good, but almost every other quest isn't because virtually non of the NPCs that aren't at least tangentially related to the main story have no personality. This is because rather than having unique dialogue, most NPCs have recycled dialogue that is repeated word-for-word regardless of location, race, or class. Thus, doing sidequests and talking to NPCs, something that is a staple of RPGs, becomes completely pointless, severely impacting your immersion in a gameworld that is dependent on immersion to work. The game isn't bad by any means (I still put around 90 hrs into it). But don't go in with sky-high expectations, or you will be disappointed.

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.

Morrowind it's a great game. The only Con i've encountered is that it doesn't have a quest marker nor there is any mod for it. Nevertheless i want to thank GOG to give us the chance to know better older versions of the Elder Scrolls Series

Hello CD Projekt RED.I'm from Russia and was upset to see that the game does not have the Russian language.I would not install third-party programs to Russify the game,but if you installed the Russian Localization from Akella, I would be very happy.Thanks for your attention!