I struggled with this game at first. I didn't like it. It was easy to get sidetracked, caught up in minutiae of the world (like picking flowers), and didn't seem to have a clear goal. So I put it down. Tried again a year later. Put it down again. Then tried Oblivion, which I enjoyed immensely. Before trying Morrowind again, I read some advice of "it's easy to get stuck when you first start out. Just ignore the town you start in, and immediately head to the first goal. Ignore everything else." That worked wonders for me. The game is deep, immersive and challenging. It is very open as to how you want your character to develop. Later games in the series (Oblivion, Skyrim) started dumbing down character options, and especially for me, lessening magic capabilities. (I was pretty annoyed with Skyrim about how shouts are more powerful than magic spells - thus making a mage character somewhat meaningless). I have now replayed this game fully over 2 dozen times. I love the mechanics (you can even fly everywhere), the storyline, sidequests, and the world itself. It is great in it's vanilla form, or with the myriad of mods that exist. It is older, but if the graphics bother you, then a graphics mod, like https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/36945 works great.
