morrowind's graphics have not aged well, at all.
if a game can't hold my interest long enough to be fun, that's not my fault, that's the game's fault.
Did you read the rest? That's what I said--I just said Morrowind is a better game than the other TES games on the whole.
You're entitled to your opinions--at the same time, "one hour" of a game isn't really getting the breadth of it. The thing is you didn't "slog" through anything, you went to Balmorra--like... the easiest thing to do in the game. Just complete your character and get on a Stilt Strider, done. If your experience in walking several feet to the fast travel station was not as wild and adventurous as you expected I dont know what to tell you, lol. I'm not telling you it's the holy grail of RPGs, just something that people often forget is what MADE TES--I mean in comparison, Skyrim isn't even a TES game really, the Witcher does Skyrim better than Skyrim does.
I'm not even talking graphics--ya, better graphics would be great, but the gameplay has just gone so downhill since Morrowind--Oblivion's was okay, but every year they strip it down a little more. One less thing to customize, one less ability, etc. Like I mentioned earlier (if you read anything I've written at all--I assume you just fixated on the "How Morrowind is Better than Skyrim" part) Bethesda is the real worst Sequel--whenever they have something good they tirelessly whittle it down to the bone and it isn't fun any more.
Even worse is how, like I mentioned earlier, how uninspired Bethesda games have become. The worlds themselves are just get less interesting. In case of TES, Every year the wonder just goes--even if the environment is beautiful, it's nothing I haven't seen or could go to Norway and see. OR, if it fantastical in nature it's so cookie cutter and stereotypical that I don't even care about it. In the case of FO... while the concepts are more original, they're almost campy in presentation, and specific places themselves have no real character for the most part. Neither series captures the imagination like it used to.
If you don't like a game sure. All these games I've mentioned can stand on their own two feet as individual games, but we'r talking about sequels here and more often than not these games fail their predecessors hardcore.
I sure love all the subtle ad hominem! Now I'm really convinced that Skyrim is literally Hitler and Morrowind is the savior of video games!
It still doesn't change that I didn't really touch Morrowind again after I walked around some in Balmorra, got some directions to go some place, walked a bit, was swarmed by Cliff Racers and died trying to swing my sword but failing, and deciding my time would be better spent playing other games instead of figuring out Morrowind. Apparently that makes me a simpleton?
The game may be great, but it
really hasn't aged well. Early 3D graphics in general haven't aged well, and while I can't blame the game for that, it does reduce my enjoyment (I really can't stand it, for some reason). The lack of explanation is also pretty annoying to me. And before anybody says "spoonfeeding", I'd just like to be told how the basic mechanics work. The fact that all characters speak in walls of text was also not something I particularly liked. It's just personal preference, but reading stuff, especially literature, on a screen is something I just don't like. So a physical manual would be nice, as a child I was always dissapointed in how short my PS2 manuals were. But a PDF is something different entirely.
That's just things that come to mind immediately. There's probably more, but most of it is probably rather minor. I'll probably come back to Morrowind someday and actually try it, because everybody says it is good, and I believe them, but the game is a bit too hard to actually get into for the amount of effort I'm willing to make right now. For the record, I have 3 hours logged on Morrowind according to Steam.
And I'm sure Morrowind was really groundbreaking when it came out, which is probably why so many people like it. It feels to me as if it was released in another era, when almost all (PC) games were sort of inaccessible in some way or another, and Morrowind was something really unique and unheard, so people were willing to put in more effort? That's just an extrapolation of my limited, youthful experience, though. It's in no way ment as an insult to old games, because there are many gems, which I'm sure includes Morrowind.
