i'm not saying morrowind should be recommended. but the retarded argument about movement speed is retarded and should be replaced with one that is not retarded.
Wait, but then why am I retarded, too (he asked innocently)?
Wanna start a real debate ? Replace morrowind by daggerfall.
Mace, you make a great point. Usually when someone says Morrowind was shit, someone else will say, ah, but what about Dagerfall!? Taking off my mid to late 90s nostalgia goggles, Dagerfall ain’t much to write home about. I do think it’s better than the other TES games—more skills and abilities—but it also has most of the same flaws as Morrowind and Skyblivion. Except in the case of Dagerfall, the world was more like a thousand procedurally generated miles wide and only an inch deep. I never played Arena, but I’d say Dagerfall was the best game in a lousy series. If Arena was actually better then this fucking series has been in decline since its inception.
The big difference is that when Dagerfall came out in 1996, while its world was incredibly shallow and full of random FedEx/kill quests, it was very ambitious and there was a sense that maybe they’ll get it right next time. It had potential. I liked it more as a young teenager, but I came to it after I played Fallout, so I couldn’t possibly love it. Still, back then I felt like they could make a strong game if they hired some decent writers and started giving a fuck about role playing as more than just designing your character for combat. Instead, they kind of doubled down on the flaws because Bethesda doesn’t understand what an RPG is.
So to answer your question, the fatal flaw of TES has been there from the beginning and we’re really just talking about gradations of disappointment.