The weirdness was so perfect and that personality and flavor is completely lacking in Skyrim. There was so much more variety in items and the unique stuff was great. This really enriched the storytelling and made for a lot of memorable moments. One of my favorites is when you're just walking through the world and an NPC just falls out of the sky, hits the ground, and dies. Then you loot his corpse, get his unique item of super jumping, and probably 99% of players immediately try it out, launch into the stratosphere, and splat like a tomato in exactly the same fashion. Or there were the unique boots that massively increased your running speed, but made you blind. Crafty players could leverage magic resistance to reduce the blinding effect and basically zoom around at superhuman speed with sunglasses on. Magic actually felt magical, compared to Skyrim where it amounts to little past being a source of damage. The system was designed to allow you freedom and find ways to surpass human abilities, and I think the world of the newer games is conversely designed to limit you as much as possible. No spellcrafting, extremely limited enchantments, few summoning options, no levitation, and the scaling system actually disincentivizes leveling. All the gear is essentially the same. It's a tragedy.

Now if you N'wahs will excuse me I have some clouds to yell at.

Morrowind is a lot like the UK.

The weather is bleak and depressing, and everyone in the capital is rude.

It's impossible to get a house unless you do a lot of favors for one of the great houses.

Jobs are all zero-hour contracts where you have to buy your own equipment, and once you account for wear you might not even be making minimum wage.

Still my favorite one, spent hours playing it with my friend. The journal entries for the quests get vague and sometimes buried with other entries. Kinda added to that charm though, The best part about it though was you could find great items/equipment without it being quest related. Something the newer games dont have. Exploring is best in this game. Skyrim didnt really give me the same incentive to explore

I really wanted to love that game. I built a computer specifically for it. And I played it a LOT.

But the world seemed so dead.

I started by wandering the wilderness and finding all these little dungeons. But when I went to follow the roads they led to... all the little dungeons.

Once I'd been through an area there was nothing left alive.

And then I had to start modding to enjoy the game more and eventually hit on the concept that I don't want to play a game that is released incompleted and expected to be completed by the community.

I haven't built a machine from parts since then.

I bounced off this when I was younger, but came back to it once I saw this quick retrospective and got caught up in their enthusiasm. Played it and really enjoyed myself along with the world and the power curve. I figured out what held me back and fixed it (slow movement, so took the steed sign). Finished the main quest. I still need to go back and do the expansions at some point.

Definetely good years for all kinds of RPG fans. There were no ready concept how they should've been built, so there were a space for experimentation. And that game was wild.

I loved this game back in the day and also just never got far in it because of the gameplay being flat out bad.

I'm glad I played this when it was new and exciting and that it led me to be hyped up for Oblivion, which I enjoyed more, and Skyrim which is my favorite of the series.

I love the immersion these games provide and just being able to, to an extent, exist in a somewhat live-in feeling world of magic and adventure is a feeling I haven't gotten from any other game series.

It's my favorite game of all time. Nothing has ever been as immersive for me as that game was. I spent so much time digging into the books and discussing the lore with people on the forums. I wish I could recapture the feeling I had from that game but I don't think it's even possible as an adult with all the other responsibilities I have distracting me.