Morrowind for $4USD...Should I dive in?

[jokr2thief]

Morrowind is hard to get into at first. You have to force yourself up the learning curve. But the initial effort is well worth the the payoff.

If you're like me, well, like I used to be before I started playing MMOs, then you would buy a game, and not buy another one until you beat it. (The exceptions, of course, being Fighting and Racing games, because you buy those to play with other people, and they hold no real interest for you if said other people aren't around.) You have my personal guarantee that this game will save you money for the next few months.

The world is expansive, and immersive, and fun to explore, and the Elder Scrolls series is one of the best examples of a Western RPG that we have to offer. Perhaps the most fun thing is that once you are given a quest objective, there is nothing holding you to that objective, and you're not getting reminders in the form of a support character jabbering in your ear every 10 seconds reminding you that should be following the path that the game wants you to take.

Pick it up. If you don't like it, then hey,.. You're only out 4 bucks.

 

[Mordwyl]

I should slap that hesitation out of you. It's seriously the best Elder Scrolls game released so far. We'll have to wait and see if Skyrim dethrones it.

 

[Fiad]

For four dollars, yes. Get it and never look back.

 

[Sordak]

Buy it, dont listen to what idiots say. Cause if you say Morrowind is bad chances are you are one.
Morrowind is the greatest RPG ive ever played without all these sissy new school "character interactions" that is alls o important to them and a Storyline that actually is interresting.

 

[Fishyash]

I've haven't played morrowind much (played the xbox version and I just couldn't get over the really choppy FPS and the loading times when I tried to play it on the 360), but I could easily say that it's definately worth a go if you get the PC version, especially since you can pretty much mod away most of the problems you may have with the game.

There is a lot of running at the start though, at least I think there is, but there is LOTS of stuff to do on the game.

 

[Collins254]

its one of my all time favourtite games!! and i had it for xbox without the mods!!

cliff racers are a pain, (sung to ghost buster theme)if you healths going down, and you down know why, guess who it is? CLIFF RACER!

also its best not to always attack on sight, just be wary of scary orcs, especially UMBRA!

and if its still factory sealed means you get a map of the world with it, id advise using it lol, helped me alot =]

 

[Neonit]

If you are going to play morrowind, you need to know one thing. It didnt age well. You will NEED a lot of mods to play it

But if you mod it out right, its awesome. There are a lot of awesome mods on morrowind, a lot better than those on oblivion. But base game is kinda.... dull, bugged, and unbalanced. But if you ask me, 4 usd for that game is a good deal. Very good in fact. Go for it. But iirc its not so well optimized, so you will need mods for that as well

 

[hitman_7]

A friend of mine told me that was one of the best games he ever played in hios life

 

[ChaosBorne]

if it's worth your time? hell you'll probably have to be careful you don't spend too much time on it.
so yeah get it, it's one of the most enjoyable games i've played, there is so much to see and do in morrowind it will keep you entertained for a long time to come.

 

[Miggiwoo]

It's a good game, well worth at least a look. It's not as good as Oblivion, but they are so similar that it's a pretty meaningless comparison.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Great price. Do it, you'll probably enjoy it.

 

[Drizzitdude]

FUCK YES, Morrowind is the BEST of the Elder scrolls series, it's open world with crazy epic shit to do. I had it for xbox, bought it twice, regular and Game of the Year, and I spent over 300 hours on it, and not with only one file, I had like 6 just to try things differently. The world is huge, the random NPCs are pretty boring, but there are some really interesting ones too. So, yes, it's great even by modern standards. My friend has a $1,000 laptop that's only 2 years old, and it runs fine for him.
And finally, Morrowind is better than oblivion by just about every fans standards, and the two are totally different than Fallout 3.

I hate ibn people say 'just about everyone' because this is such a great over exaggteration. I have played every elder scrolls game and I found morrowind to be the worst of them all. At the time, morrowind was a fun new rpg, but it simply doesn't hold up today unless all you care about is the story (which I agree is better than most).

Here are some fun opinions I have of the game

Many fans complain oblivion was simply a copy pasted meadow over and over, morrowind was worst in my opinion because it was the same thing, except with swamps instead.

Morrowind was very big world, but not in a good way at all. It wasn't big in the 'wow this worst is so expansive and fun and there is so much to do and explore!' kind of way, but in the 'jesus, I have been walking in this swamp for to hours trying to find this town and the last interesting thing to happen was a mage falling from the sky in the first 30 minutes of the game' kind of way

Combat was terrible and was MUCH better in oblivion.

Many fans complain about how pauldrons were taken out of the game in oblivion and morrowid had much more customization, well this if mostly compensated for by the fact the armor look GORGEOUS in comparison

Morrowind armor: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Imperial_Steel_Armor#Imperial_Steel_Armor

Oblivion armor: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Steel_Armor#Heavy_Armor_Images

Alot of the jitboxes were terrible or glitchy: Example: CliffRacers

alot of the enemies were completely idiotic with their powers: Example: Bonewalker with stackable debuff that makes it so cannot move ebcause you are over encumbered for a good ten minutes

Many Fans also seem to complain about the addition of fast travel in oblivion, claiming it made the game to easy: Solution: Don't use it?

I could continue going down this list but I think you get my point. I am a huge fan of the elder scrolls and I prefer to speak for myself.

 

[Voration]

Hell yes, one of my favourite games ever. It will consume your life with all the possibilities and is also difficult.

 

[Fusioncode9]

I don't think Morrowind has aged well but if you can get past terrible combat, clunky design, and crap graphics then you can find a huge world, a great story, and a ton of things to do.