Morrowind, looking back, is at best a 4/10 game.

[ThatsRightImInIt]

It's true. I wasted an estimated 400~ hours of my life on this game in my senior year of college back a decade or so ago, and I'm sorry but the game just isn't good at all. Combat isn't satisfying, and yes I know how to play the game and not miss, but that doesn't excuse it for being so poor. I haven't played the game in around 8-10 years and I've forgotten most item places, but somehow I am only a level 2 mage and I'm wrecking the fuck out of anyone in my way with custom spells. I've also accumulated 4329 gold in around 3 hours play time, and I have full Indoril, the best medium armor set in the game. This is a problem.

Don't get me wrong, I like walking in my RPG's and exploring; but with Morrowind there isn't a whole lot to explore. Enemy variety is mediocre at best, and dungeon layout isn't any better. 90% of dungeons have utter garbage loot, uninteresting layout and have no purpose. Don't get me started on the dialogue. Most NPCs have no reason to exist, because they all spout the same damn lines. Bethesda should have just made the NPCs like regular CRPG villagers: they'll say a prerecorded line of dialogue, and that's it. Another ridiculous issue I've run into is the fact that I can join any faction in the game, even if they hate each other, just by bribing the individuals that I have to talk to. FFS I can be a member of the mages guild AND Telvani, two factions that are huge rivals, just because I have money. At least they got the houses right, you can't join House Hlaalu and House Redoran for example.

Well this game is semi-playable I guess, unlike modern Beth RPGs. I'd much rather play Planescape Torment, Fallout 1/2, or other CRPG any other day of the week...

 

[DraQ]

Barely Literate

Not even that.

 

[Infinitron]

Barely Literate

Not even that.

Check out his other post

 

[Darth Roxor]

Urmom, looking back, is at best a 4/10 lay.

 

[catfood]

sup drog

 

[Lord Azlan]

Try reading this thread - does a game really suck if I spent 400 hours on it.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...ally-suck-if-you-spend-100-hours-on-it.99424/

 

[Kuhrazy]

Everything that has ever been created in every field of human endeavor has been nothing but utterly overrated garbage that appeals exclusively to retards, so I don't see why Morrowind would be any different.

 

[Whisky]

I think this topic is an annual thing; even when not done by Drog.

 

[aleph]

ThatsRightImInIt , looking back, is at best a 4/10 troll.

 

[Cthulhu_is_love]

No he's right, it's shit.

And don't say: "It's no walking simulator, cause you can fly"

Edit:

unlike modern Beth RPGs

It's a troll, whole series is shit.

 

[pippin]

Official soundtrack for OP:

 

[Cadmus]

your mom is 4/10

Spoiler

in b4 Melcar

 

[ThatsRightImInIt]

I like how the only counters to my argument are blatant shitposts and calling me edgy.

 

[rado907]

If by 4/10 you mean 4/4, then for sure brah.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

The OP is probably trolling, but I still have to agree. Never understood how Morrowind wound up in the top 10 in that last poll. It's just so flawed in so many ways. I've played through some very old games, and some very flawed games, but I can never play past a few hours of MW. I mean, I get it, it has great lore (never played long enough myself to see it), but is that enough to excuse everything else?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

All the games in the top list are flawed, the ideal perfect rpg only exists in our hearts. Plus the Codex has a hardon for "rough gems", and Morrowind is one of the roughest around.

No he's right, it's shit.

Joined:Apr 29, 2015

"he"

 

[G.O.D]

400 hours in untill coming to the conclusion the game sucks. gg.

2/10.

 

[abnaxus]

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

the fuck is wrong with codex lately? all those newfags from neogaf or leddit with their idiotic threads...

next time some newfag to fallout series will ask us which game should he start with and someone tells him to skip first two and start with fallout 3

 

[prodigydancer]

Never understood how Morrowind wound up in the top 10 in that last poll.

TES3 was the last Beth sandbox that: a) was made for PC, b) had an interesting (sub)setting and c) didn't punish you for your playstyle. Anyone who wants to rate it low should first name a better open-world CRPG.

 

[Ismaul]

Never understood how Morrowind wound up in the top 10 in that last poll.

Newfags.

Let me quote the Codex 2003 year in review, by good ol' Spazmo:

It's the same old hopelessly dull Morrowind gameplay. You run around fairly pretty countryside beating the tar out of hordes of stupid cliff racers doing completely pointless quests that involve murdering people for no real reason and occasionally 'talking' to the walking search engines the game calls NPCs. Morrowind is a terrible game and the expansions for it don't seem to fix any of that horror.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

the fuck is wrong with codex lately? all those newfags from neogaf or leddit with their idiotic threads...

Witcher 3's release and FO4's announcement. Enjoy while it lasts, it's not often that entertainment comes to us.

 

[Ismaul]

Joined: Feb 16, 2015

See? It's like I said.

Spoiler

 

[prodigydancer]

The best thing about the Codex is /ignore.

 

[Ismaul]