This kid is about 5 years of age, and he has played a few seconds of Skyrim. Had no idea what to do there and the controls weren't suited for his hands. He has tons of motor skill issues, so most of the TES games probably are hard for the kid to play combat wise right now. He can't read, either. He wasn't even interested in trying out Morrowind until he came in yesterday just to watch me play Daggerfall. He wants to be like me, since I am the person he looks up to, and this was bound to happen. He asked to play and I had told him Daggerfall is harder on his hands, so I rolled an Argonian whose name I will not use due to him having the kid's name in there. He wanted his class to be Monster Thing or something like that. I had him approve of all the skill choices. He wanted light armor, axe, and short blade particularly.

Let's just call the kid Dar-Lio since I wish to keep his name out of this. I know I could have just called him Josh instead, but whatever. So, I get everything all set up. He starts wanting to play as a thief who kills randomly after a few minutes. Now before we get into the story of his time playing, better explain what made him interested. He thought Morrowind was just a boring kiddy game(yeah... A ton of you are probably confused as to why a kid is saying a T rated game is a kiddy game... He's obsessed with cars and it's kind of like how I was with my Pokemon games. Haha. Anyway, the kid is almost always playing racing games when he's gaming.) and wondered why I would be playing it and other Elder Scrolls game so much, especially Morrowind.

Well... We all know of that Bosmer who falls from the sky, right? Those scrolls probably are never used unless in Red Mountain. Guess what? Those spell scrolls are why he found the game more interesting. Let's just call the kid Josh and his Argonian will be Dar-Lio. Josh found it extremely funny when I used the spell and told me to use it again and again.

That is, until he wanted to play. He always wants to play any game I play if I allow him. I let him play M rated games as long as I know the experience can be enjoyed without muting. I will let him play Prototype to his heart's content as long as I have the TV muted. In fact, he's the only reason I keep games I find I don't like that much but he does like them more than me.

Anyway, Josh wanted me to roll an Argonian(okay, I had him have no choice because I had the least appropriate version of Better Bodies enabled, and use a patch for the beast race bodies to make them more okay for kids to look at...) and he started out his journey, or should I say he started out his mass murder that was never going to go well. He didn't have his glasses on, so he had to stand up to play, and my laptop cooler probably made the laptop harder to reach, so PC gaming while standing up!

His Argonian Dar-Lio started out as just a simple man. Then the kid decided he wanted to kill the people of Seyda Neen. He only was able to kill two people. He wanted to go into that cave that I said had the magic user who I always got killed by. I did the cave for him, and found running up to the magic user was the best way to kill it. This playthrough ended for now because we wanted to watch My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. No, not a brony. Just like the show.

Well, here's what was surprising about this experience:
This was a kid who had many of the same motor skill issues I had as a child, and Morrowind's combat was the only combat in the TES games he could understand.
He knew where the goodbye button in conversation windows was.
He apparently felt so secure in the game's world, considering he normally isn't one to goof around before figuring out how to play a game. By that, I mean he was pretty quick to figure out that the game was open world, and he could do just about whatever he wanted.
This is a five year old who kept assaulting someone in-game while a guard was looking in-game... He kept saying, "This is wasting my money!" and continued assaulting the same people. It actually was kind of cute to watch.
I kept telling him why not to try to kill a guard. He tried. This was before he figured out 50 drakes in fines is wasting his in-game money. He tried lockpicking and was caught, as well.
Little kids and old RPGs can make for great family fun, or find that they have taken after their relative's way of play.
He thought a non-touchpad mouse was near his hand. It wasn't, and he took about a few minutes to figure out the touchpad was to be used to look around even though I kept telling him that was what was used on a laptop.
Kids like open world games. Especially when killing random people is allowed.

Curious. It is possible that Morrowind menus, are not so prehistoric after all?. I have not played Skyrim ... but there are people who hate their tedious menus, apparently.
Thankfully, the intention was to make them more accessible to the public or something. You know, some people have great ideas on the toilet, other slip and hit his head with the white cup. But for taste ... colors. Tell Josh to not give up, that ugly people living in Seyda Neen, well worth it.

It could just be a matter of taste. I like old RPGs for because they fit my playstyle more. My nephew is a five year old who looks up to me and is always trying to be like me. Especially when it comes to gaming. Now as for whether the menus in Morrowind are prehistoric or not, I wouldn't say they are. They just are menus that do their job and aren't a pain to use. Josh doesn't really mind the graphics at all. The only time I ever heard him complain about a game's graphics was when I was playing Castevania and he acted like he was being attacked by the graphics. My love of older things might be why he doesn't have much to say about them now.

I actually find Morrowind to have better UI, but it is a game where time spent in menus is larger, so makes sense for the menus to be simpler.

"Josh" sounds quite similar to me when I was 7. My dad played Morrowind all the time, I loved to watch him. When he finally stopped playing (He had beaten the Main Quest) I asked him if I could play. Granted, I didn't do anything the first few years I played the game besides walk in the cities, but once I tried combat, I had no problems at all. I knew how to work dialogue, combat (I didn't even use Agility as a favored Attribute ), and magic. I find it quite amusing how I can relate to "Josh." Thanks for the read.

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I also think so. And I play with a controller on the PC. I'm a klutz with the keyboard. But the UI is simple, and is quickly everything in sight and that is appreciated, even today.

well my kids tonight had thier first taste of seeing Morrowind...well for my 2 little girls it was thier second but much better time. Started a new charector and my kids are asking what race each person is and what that means and are they good guys or bad guys. Took off into the marshes and between themselves a certain one would warn me if a rat was coming and another a crab and the other the 'worms". The "pirahnas" as they called them no matter what i said, was all on me. It was priceless watching them jump whenever a crab came up or i was treading in shallows and a big slaughterfish would swim up and start atking. They really just enjoyed watching and me tryign to explain the current story to them "death of a taxman". My son justw anted me to go ape[censored] basically in town, just to atk someone but once i told him they were all good guys he was all liek get outta town go find soem badguys...and i didnt have the heart to tell them my dunmer was a bad guy technically lol.

Now as far as my game goes, i only had the overhaul morrowind 2012 mod and nothign else. Well it was quite a shock when i came across a nakid nord on the side of the road who had been a victim of robbery and his junks hanging out. Didnt know a nudity mod was in it but hey whatever, actually does add to realism to me. Well truth be told, i ended up gettign into a fight with this buttass nakid Nord and i get knotched to the ground and u just see his junk and fists atking my body on the screen and it was at that moment my 2 girls came up to askme for a drink and saw said man. They started askign questions liek "whats that on his body daddy?" "whats that near his legs daddy", and im getting my butt handed to me and im just realize they are there and im like yelling "Shut ur eyes! Dont look at the screen! Quick! Go away right now!" Thankfully kids have short memories becasue the girls didnt knwo it was the same game lol.

I got Morrowind 2 days ago, and it is AWESOME i think it is way better than Skyrim in all ways except graphics and I love how it is a traditional RPG that really relies on stats. I'm going to recreate my mage character with different skills now that I know how things work. I did like oblivion a lot but I think that Morrowind is now better. KOTOR was my favorite RPG but its probably gonna have to make room on the bench...