Okay, so, when I play Morrowind, I can see from what everyone is saying is that it's a good game. I end up saying some of the same things in polls and such or things like talking about Morrowind's pros and cons. But underneath all that, I feel like there is something underlying to my...how to say..."actual" opinion about the game and that is that it is just another game on the shelf. Another game on the shelf as in it's not all that great and that it is in some perspectives a little bad and not what it's made out to be such as being a role model game for future games and such. Are anyone else like me on this perspective.

most people that start later in the series have a hard time going to morrowind. and it is a hard game to start. a good number of people that love the game alot remember when morrowind was cutting edge in graphics and game play which factors in. but if you stick with the game and just take your time with it you'll find something that gets you latched onto it. i really dont have anyway of explaining it. you just hit a point during gameplay where you get hooked. for me it was during the main quest when you have to convince the great houses you are the nerevarine. something about it just hooked me and haven't stopped since.

I think many of us are swayed by what we hear others say, to some extent. We are not always conscious of it. To take an example from my own life, I was told that that Citizen Kane was the greatest movie ever made. And because of that I watched Citizen Kane with different eyes and ears than if I had been told it was the worst movie ever made.

Sometimes, I think that when we expect a thing to be good or bad we see what we want to see. In the case of Citizen Kane I watched the film more than once. And each time I had the same two competing thoughts: 1) that it was the greatest movie ever made and 2) that I wasn't enjoying it very much.

Eventually I had to come to the conclusion that Citizen Kane wasn't my cup of tea. It may have been the greatest movie ever made but it sure wasn't "clicking" for me. And it's possible that you may have to come to the same conclusion about Morrowind. You may have to accept the fact that, good game though it might be, it just isn't "clicking" for you. There's nothing wrong with that. We aren't required to like a thing just because other people like it. And not liking a thing does not necessarily mean that thing is bad either.

But, as mikepen0287 says, give it some time before you decide. Morrowind is one of those games that does not give up all its secrets immediately. You have to work to discover many of them, you have to meet it halfway. So give it a chance. You may not have reached the halfway point yet.

I had a really hard time getting into Morrowind. I had unintentionally nerfed my character really bad right from the start because I didn't fully understand how the skills worked. And the stat-based combat where you can still miss your target even if it's standing still and you're a foot in front of it kinda bugs me. Some people like that kind of old school, pen-and-paper RPG style, but it's not for me. Even now, I still have to be in the "mood" to play Morrowind, whereas I'll play Skyrim or Oblivion whenever I just feel like swinging a sword around.

However, once I got a little deeper into some of the quests, joined one of the Great Houses, and got my character to a point where he didn't completely svck anymore, I really started to enjoy it. Added a few mods and it's pretty darn fun, though it can still be frustrating at times.

So just take it for what it is. If you get into it and genuinely like it, fine. If not, fine. Don't feel like you're the odd man out because everyone else makes it sound like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I picked up Morrowind because my PC couldn't handle Oblivion at that time. I started playing it because I didn't feel like playing any other game, so I wanted to give this praised RPG a try. I can't say I didn't enjoy it at first, but I couldn't get into it the way my stuttering Oblivion absorbed me. The main quest started slowly, I thought Ithat was quite boring, but soon enough, and I can't tell why, I couldn't stop playing Morrowind.

My mindset when I first played it: "This can't be better than Oblivion."

Oh, no. That was wrong.

I love Morrowind, but can't say it's the best RPG ever, or even a role model game. I like Daggerfall more, though.

Morrowind is a place. When two people visit a foreign country, one may love it and feel right at home, but the other may be homesick.

Loving your homeland is a virtue: patriotism. That means it's also a virtue for other people to love their countries.

Once a virtual place like Morrowind or Cyrodil or Skyrim or High Rock starts to feel like home, the virtue of patriotism can kick in. This is part of the reason why folks get so passionate about defending one rpg or another. Respect them, but don't feel obliged to like what they like.

Morrowind is a flawed gem. It has a charm about it that some players find impossible to ignore, while others just don't see its charms, or can't get past those flaws. I recognize most of the flaws, but feel that it's still a fantastic game in spite of them. Morrowind is about risk versus reward, and it's a long, hard struggle for the first 5-10 levels until your character gets good enough to survive most of the content, yet is still fairly vulnerable to a lot of it until level 15-20. To me, the effort and the risks make the freedom and the rewards feel like I earned them, rather than having them all-but handed to me, as in the later games (where both risk and reward are "nerfed" to my level).

Depending on your playing style and what you want out of a game, the pros may not be worth the cons to you. Ultimately, it's your opinion that counts the most to you, so if you find yourself not enjoying it after putting at least 25-50 hours into it, then maybe you and it just aren't "compatible".

The videogamer in me recognizes it for a superb yet flawed gem that if I didnt have responsiblities and was smakoing weed again, it is a world I would never leave.
The advlt father of 3 with one on the way working full time job and spending time with kids sees it as a masterpiece that unfortuantly to long of a game for me to savor the right way.

You are right. This is why Cyrodiil and Skyrim don't feel like home to some players, me included, I guess.

Skyrim's snowy landscape felt pretty at home for me. I would rather live somewhere where it snows often, though. The snowy parts of Oblivion felt more comfortable for some reason, though. I love Morrowind's ash storms even if they carry diseases. Storms are calming.

I think I'm going to save this post for when this comes up taking to people outside of this forum. Couldn't have been put better,




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I played Morrowind for the first time in 2011, after I already had played Oblivion for around 500hours. But I couldn't get into the game. After Skyrim came out I begann to remember the cities and the quests of Morrowind and started playing again. It's not easy to get into it, but once you've done it it's completely astonishing.

The .ini for Morrowind has the chance of getting a disease from ashstorms set to the point where you can't get any, but lore wise, they do carry diseases.

Right, then. Thanks for all your opinions. I agree with all of what you guys said. I don't feel as if I'm mishandling something into my life that makes me feel like that in an all actuality kind of thing, that morrowind is a bad game or that it's not my cup of tea.

Mm, still somewhat cool. Oh well. Would be cool though.

This. Give it some time, feel the quests and political intrigues and whatnot. If nothing else, level up a bit and explore the ruins and stuff. If it doesn't cut, shelf it, no one's gonna hate you for it. Maybe you're that kind of person that would like the game much more with some mods to suit your needs. There's plenty of people who can't stand vanilla Morrowind, but love the game in heavily modded state around here.

For me, Morrowind is an exploration game, and the quests are your tour guide designed more to show you the places in the world and the aspects of the culture. To me, this is fascinating. Also, it is built in such a way, especially with mods, where you can essentially play The Sims right inside your epic fantasy game. Get houses, collect NPCs and customize their clothing and gear, place furniture and decorate it with your loot, and even have needs like sleep and hunger if you want it. Pretty sure you can even get married and get pregnant. In many ways, it is dated, though some of the "out-dated" aspects, like the re-sizable, drag and drop interface is a plus for me. If you make the game about battle and skip over the rest of what it offers, it's probably not that amazing. But, you have ten years of mods created for this game, so there's a lot of extremely varied ways to enjoy the game beyond the gameplay choices you have in the vanilla game. I don't think I know two people who play the game the same way, with the same goals in mind, even with the x-box version.

Thank you.

I remember in my early days once getting a blight disease while just walking in an ash storm, but now that you mention it, that never happened again. Perhaps it was an original feature, and a later patch changed the chance to 0%?

My favorite areas in Skyrim are the snowy ones. In Oblivion, I enjoy the view of the Anvil and Niben countryside the most. Even though I love the Nords (Bloodmoon was amazing), I can't bring myself to like them the way I like the Dunmer and their homeland. It really is patriotism, and it's not always good, as mindsets such as this might cause you to enjoy the other TES games less, which is why I've learned not to think of the Dunmer when in Cyrodiil or Skyrim. You go to Vvardenfell, you never go back. Wait, someone has that is his or her sig. Good sig.

I see Cyrodiil as home (my avatar gives this away), and i agree with what you're all saying, sometimes you may wonder if you love Morrowind the game or Vvardenfell the place? The two get kind of warped in your memories.

I like Morrowind because it's a lot harder and don't hold your hand and it have a awesome atmosphere and great factions.

The first time i heard about morrowind was in school. A friend told me how he was fooled into buyind this game that was supposed to be a marvel, but that it was just a scam, the reviewer was paid for giving it a 10/10. The game svcked so much, it was the worst thing he ever played, etc. He wasted all his money on this thing, he even bought the expansions and couldnt afford to buy a new game for months. He asked me if i could trade one of my games for it. He already traded it before with another friend but they all returned it. At that time i had bought dungeon siege and couldnt get into it so i accepted the trade. I played morrowind having the lowest expectations ,so every thing that didnt svck looked very good. "For the worst game in the world it is actually pretty long" "at least it has many towns" i thought. Eventually i grew to love the game and i tought that the "worst game in earth" label was unfair. It wasnt until oblivion that i learned how morrowind was actually considered pretty good.
So from my experience the problem with the game is that since its often put as the "pinnacle of gaming" many people think it will be flawless and when they discover the many flaws they feel dissapointed. When a new game is released people say "morrowind did it better" and many people are fooled into believing that the game has cool graphics, 999 hours of gameplay, etc. Morrowind isnt perfect, and now its also an old, outdated game. But if you can endure the flaws you can discover some things that are well done and eventually enjoy it. Dont listen to the people that say "morrowind is better than skyrim" or "better than dragon age". Play it as just "morrowind".

I'm one of those people who like wastelands in their escapism. Shadow of the Colossus felt so at home to me. So did Fallout 3 to some extent. I suffer from a severe anxiety disorder and always found wastelands in games soothing. No one to provoke an anxiety attack. No one to bother me. Heck, not even someone to interrupt my peace. It just feels so soothing to feel like I'm away from everything. The politics and stuff aren't what made the ashlands so soothing. It's the fact that I could be there and be away from so much stress for a short time.

I bought morrowind wayyy back in the day for xbox when it first came out. I [censored] hated it. I had bought fo3 years later and fell in love with it. Saw who the company was and was in shocked. I bite the bullet and bought oblivion. As with fo3 I fell in love, but I was adamant about retrying morrowind. Years later skyrim comes out and had fun with it but was left feeling unsatisfied. After a good bit of time getting into heated arguements with morrowintes on the forums I relooked it up and came across the morroowind overhaul mod, I liked what I saw but still didnt want to buy it because the game back in the day left such a bad taste in my mouth, until I saw it on sale for steam for I think 5 or 10 bucks. I said wth and went ahead and bought it bc I was bored and installed the overhaul and was blown away.

My problem was I was so used to rpgs forcing me in a direction and was not used to or at the time welcomed the total freedom the game had. Once I knew about the controls and functions and vibe from the other 2 games, I was mpre at home. Now my only problem and it aint one, its more of real life restrictions is the amount and length of stuff to do.
Back when I didnt have responsibilities I would enjoy the game more but now im limited in how much I can do. Its not the games fault, its wonderful even with the flaws which I dont see yet, its my time restraints thats a problem.

Im still playing, ow hell ya and enjoying it, its myself that wants to do more or seems forced to cut time exploring for the satisfied feeling of getting farther. The game is like a really huge fantastic book with secrets and mysterys, its my fault for wanting to read a couple of chapters at a time when time only lets me read a couple of pages.

So that we are clear, I love the game and think its wonderful. I hate real life seems to force me to speed up when I want to enjoy each moment in its entirety.