This didn't always look like a warmed over turd. I bought a brand new 1.2 ghz 512 mb ram with a Geforce 4 ti 4200 to play this game with, and it looked spectacular. I had never seen water effects so lifelike. Once upon a time this was the cutting edge. Who cares about the janky animations. I stood outside my Eletronics Boutique for an hour to claim my reserved copy. I took it home and was instantly transported to heaven. I have logged more time with this game than any other (with the exception of WoW) and bethesda has been unable to top the unprecedented amount of freedom that they offered here. Oblivion offered some quality of life improvements like the combat and instant travel but I think the rest of it was absolute crap. In my mind a completely unworthy successor. Skyrim is a distant second. It was good but nowhere near as good as Morrowind.
