the degree of freedom it offers compared to its successors is wild. Levitate, jump, the weird interlocking fast travel systems. The culture of the dunmer seeping through in so many small ways. If you haven't seen their art yet @callistron.bsky.social loves to work in that setting
yessss agreed 100%, obviously I am biased but Morrowind is truly one of the greatest games of its generation if not all time, it really is like Bethesda just scooped up a fantasy world and put it on a disc for us all back in 2002 and said "yall have fun now :)"!!
some months ago i started playing it properly for the first time and played about 3 enthralled hours until the fact that it was isolated on my work computer kept me away from it. now it's on the steam deck i'm back in business
i'd not played it before, but picked it up yesterday because of your posts. the world & the way you interact w it is strangely compelling. i was trying to navigate around balmora and thought, "yeah. this is exactly what moving to a new town is like"
I remember being 14 and playing it for the first time, and later trying to explain to my dad that I could just leave the main quest and wonder along a river until I saw the moon rise; just trying to articulate this experience of a new type of game world that felt alien and beautiful.
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