...it is lacking a certain warmth. Just happened to stumble upon my morrowind disk that I thought I'd lost, loaded it up, and was just instantly struck by the welcoming homeliness of the whole thing. The music, the sound effects, the voices, the visuals - it all has this tremendously calming effect. I just basked in it for a bit, wondering around with an old character that never ended up doing much, but had big ambitions [alas, like so many morrowind characters]. Even inspired me to pick up where I left off and actually finish the main quest for the first time in practically ten years playing the game on and off.

Now new vegas is an amazing game, but when I play it I have to immerse myself in the gritty survivalist nature of it, and that is all well and good in its own way - it is supposed to be like that after all. There is also a certain charm to the idea of surviving in a hellish post-apocalyptic hell-hole, but my god is it a slap in the face when you go back to morrowind - its like putting the vodka down and picking up a nice hot cup of coco

Until the cliff racers turn up...

Nostalgia does that.