Hey guys, been playing a lot of Skyrim, what with all the horrible undetailed dialogue, terrible journal system, and in general watered down gameplay. I have this to say.

Over the years i have negelected the hand written journal of Morrowind, but now, looking back on it, it's hand written dialogue, vague hints, personality of its own, make it the very essence of what is right with Morrowind, and wrong with its successors. It felt like it was written by an actual person!

Ya, the Morrowind journal is really a key feature about this game. In Oblivion and Skyrim its just your list of quests. There is no personality, like you said, in the new games like their was in Morrowind.

I will always see Morrowind as the better story teller and the better "experience" simply because it immerses you. The newer games, not that I dislike them for this, are much more about the physical gameplay and less about the total immersion of the player.

I miss those index in my morrowind journal, why they're gone? :huh:

Why would you need a journal? The location of your quest is only one click away....

I mean come on even Oblivion had a journal... This is looking too much like MMO types of quest system

Morrowind's journal was great, because I could actually re-read previous conversations regarding a certain thing. Very usefull. And now? Useless and gone...

There's a fine mod that adds back the journal into Oblivion, strictly for notes you can make in game. And a mod in Morrowind allows you to add comments into your journal, too.

But simply by itself, I think the journal was an extremely imspired idea. Shame gamesas abandoned it, but as remarked above, what would you need obscure hints for when everything is simply laid out for you?

To clarify, I'm not supporting the quest marker compass crap. It was meant to be a satirical statement.

Even Daggerfall had a journal. But it wasn't as immersive as the one in Morrowind.