I can agree. I also started recently, I thought I would hate not having waypoints, but now I think the game (or any game really) should definitely not have waypoints. It changes the experience dramatically for the better, encouraging actually using your brain.

I payed four bucks for my first copy of this.. best four bucks that was ever spent anywhere for all of time.

I spend a lot of my time gaming with reviews and essays playing on my phone, so it's always nice to find a high quality one of a decent length. I appreciate it!

Still the best in the series. You literally have to mod Skyrim to hell to include enough mechanics to keep it interesting for more than a few hours.

I started with oblivion, then put 4,000+ hours into Skyrim, THEN finally played Morrowind… I hate myself for waiting so long to play this masterpiece. I play with open mw and the I heart vanilla mod list and I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into this game in the last few months. It’s completely taken over my life and ruined oblivion for me

Not only does corpus make you immortal, it makes you immune to all other diseases

25 million INT, enough damage to nuke whole Vvardenfell in one shot, potions that restore 75k HP per second for the duration of a real time week...Yep. Magic is truly magic in Morrowind

The thing about good loot in morrowind is that it's VERY well hidden in dungeons. Often requiring levitation to even get to. If you know where to look, there's some seriously OP weapons and artifacts dotted around the map. They didn't make it easy to find because THIS ISNT SKYRIM. It's a ROLE PLAYING game. Not an interactive movie over which you have almost no control of the outcomes.

i think an underappreciated reason for the vibes morrowind has is ken rolston being an uber d&d nerd. also he is socucius ergalla.

Played on release night and still playing it. No replacement for it.

For Morrowind newbies that want an easy time I recommend a Redguard, custom class with combat specialization, preferred attributes being strength and endurance, long blade and heavy armor as major skills, and alchemy as at least a minor skill, and The Lady birthsign. You will start with 85 endurance giving you a decent amount of starting health and good health gains every time you level. A starting long blade skill of 50 means you won't miss nearly as much, and there's no shortage of good long blades and heavy armor. You need at least some alchemy skill to even see what potions will do which is why I recommend picking it up as at least a minor skill even if you don't plan on using it. For your other skills you can pick whatever you think would be fun to experiment with, but you should be decently competent in combat from level 1, and you can use the ability Adrenaline Rush once a day to make you much more powerful if an enemy is giving you trouble.

Morrowind can be insanely easy or hard, all depends on how you play it.

One thing a lot of people seem to miss (lol) is that hit chance is a 2 way street. There is also an evasion chance for your target. Enemies with low agility are easier to hit. When I have a low weapon skill, I just use it on slow, weak enemies to train it on the go. For example, if I am primarily a long blade user, but I'm trying to train short blade, I will carry a few daggers on me and only use them on mudcrabs, rats, kwama foragers, etc.

You can totally join the telvanni as a member of the mages guild. But you have to pick one or the other by the end of it.

Dungeons have no sense of good loot? What in the actual fuck? Are we talking about the same game, where you can find game breakingly powerful artifacts in half of them if you're just attentive enough to look out for items hidden in nooks or high-up shelves where you have to use levitation to get them? The whole point of Morrowind dungeons was to feel real, there's just trash scattered everywhere, leftover from ancient cultures, but if you're careful and thorough, every once in a while you come across a find that can be a turning point of your playthrough. I'd take it any day over the infinitely boring leveled loot of Skyrim and Oblivion, where you will always leave a dungeon with a bag of shitty loot that is never interesting, because going in you know exactly what it will be.