Morrowinds direction were not great, they were non-negotiable, so you had to rely on one interpretation, they were specific to a specific starting point, unlike daggerfall, which gave you directions relative to your position. The NPCs were unable to acknowledge that you even had a map, where they could make things more clear, if you found their instructions vague. You bring up age, because you want to ridicule me into not opposing your view, you insinuate that anyone which has a problem with the directions aren't mentally over the age of 9. You are not intelligent because you managed to complete a decent chunk without help, and people aren't stupid for having problems with the directions. First of is that Morrowinds directions when working, are as easy as [censored] grocery shopping, to be able to follow them means you do not have the mind of vegitable, It's a trivial task, and does not present a challenge to anyone whatsoever. When people still have problems with them it, because it's made "hard" through vagueness, missing road signs. The task is still simple, now it just takes forever because you have little to go with, it's basically fake challenge. Morrowind asks you to walk 10 feet, you accept, and he then chops off both of your legs, saying "Isn't this challenging!?? LOLOLOLOL U havin' fun!!?!?!?!"

When Morrowind directions are adequate, the task is so simple they might as well mark it on the map, and when they aren't adequate, it's either because the NPC assumes you know of a place, and you of course can't a ask him about it, because that would be the logical thing to do, or they describe something too vague, or stupid stuff like missing road signs.

It's not even how it's actually done in real life. In real life you have a map, with loads of information on it, and you have a compass, and then the job is to find out where you are, relative to everything else. As opposed to a [censored] non-descriptive overhead island picture, showing you absolutely nothing, except yourself, which is of course completely logical! Also lacking a compass, and then you just have to assume that up is actually north, how lucky we are that morrowinds "map" conveniently always turned the same way when you took it out, and then the job is to find everything but yourself!

No! I stand by my conviction, let's NOT, have morrowinds system again. For the love of [censored] everything. If anyone was really interested in this hiking thing, make it like daggerfall, or properly, like in real life!

Without knowing the actual context, no I don't know how it would've said.

Isn't that the point?

You read it the way you think fits the scene, how you imagine the character and so on. And since it's all based on your imagination, on your "internal visualisation" of the text, it all fits perfectly together.

You can't have that with voice acting.

And that way I totally misinterpreted the message.

We derailed this thing for way too long... just don't say that voice acting ruined the direction giving.... just, no...

Not so much "ruined" as "made harder than it needs to be". I remember when we implemented a simple "Ask an NPC how to get to some place" system in a MUD once: The NPC would check if he knew where the place was, if he knew where he was at the moment, and if both were true calculated the "shortest" (dangerous paths had a significantly longer "virtual" length than their true length) path to there and tell it to the player. The end result were texts like "Walk north from here until you come to the second-next road crossing, there turn left into the Amber Road. Follow this road, cross the Ithilian Bridge, until you come to the Hanged Man Inn. The next crossing behind the inn, turn right. Walk straight ahead, the castle is on the right side not far from the inn."

That was in 1996.

That has nothing to do with voice acting, but with how MUDs work.

There are at most 12 ways to enter and exit an area in a MUD, and everything is set to grids, so it's easier to make a program that can tell you where do you need to go. Doing a system like this would be just as impossible in Morrowind.

I could not agree more, well said.

@Stormbird: You know if you had not implied that people who prefer voice acting over written text are more or less stupid, maybe the reaction would have been different and the discussion better.

No, you didn't. Your interpretation is as good and proper as anyone else's. Not even the author has the right to correct you. This is how written works function, and always did.