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Awesome Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
Hundreds Of Gameplay Hours!
Tons of Quests
The Ability to steal,kill and buy your weapons.
The Ability to play the game without doing any quests.
Beautiful Graphics!
Very Unique Characters.

Cons:
Long long long loadtimes.
Freezes Sometimes.

Its is a awesome game to play but you have to keep saving it all the time which gets annoying.If you can wait about 2mins for a game to load every time you die then it shouldn't be that bad.But if you would rahter be playing then waiting then im not sure you would want this game.

A Truly Great American-Style RPG (and now it's cheap!)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Morrowind is a great RPG. It's huge. It's mature. There are vast choices you can make to personalize this game. Those go to the depth of astrological signs and appearance. There are many side quests that you have the option to take on, for money or points, as you emerse yourself in the invironment. The storyline is also fanciful and addictive. The fighting is realtime and that includes tactics like sneaking up and stabbing people.

A Japanese-style RPG is very linear with very strong storyline and many video interuptions to your quest, to tell the story. You are usually given the main preconfigured character, without a choice. You are wisked around from location to location by default, and are there to live out a predefined story. The graphics are usually superior. A good example is Final Fantasy. Morrowind is NOT this type of RPG!

An American-style RPG, on the other hand allows you many choices in an open invironment. You choose when and where, and many times, who you are. You create your character as you play. Usually, the graphics and sound are not as detailed but the worlds are much larger. Morrowind has great audio and it would be wise to use your surround-sound if you have it, just so you can tell when something starts to happpen behind you. Morrowwind is a perfect example of an American-style RPG.

I am a 51 year old gamer. I am very satisfied with buying Morrowind, and I paid $50.00 for it. Now that it's less than $20.00, it's a steal.

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Major Pros, Minor Cons and such a deal!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am playing the XBox version.
Pros: --*Lots* of things to do. Four categories: main quests, secondary quests for specific groups (guilds, "Great Houses", cultural groups), minor quests, places to explore like caves and such. They all work well together too.
--Nifty controller features. Like the game pausing as you find that perfect spell, potion or weapon in your inventory to kill a bad guy. Controls are pretty easy to memorize too.
--*More* things to do. Make your own spells and potions, customize items like weapons and armor through magic(enchantment), explore all kinds of thieving possibilities, learn and upgrade lots of skills.
--Not overly gory and seems to reward good deeds more than evil which makes it a nice game for the young and impressionable.
Cons: --Has a tendency to freeze. This is easily solved by saving often and having some backup saved games in case of file corruption.
--A few minor annoyances, getting stuck in little spaces and the characters sometimes get in your way and it is very frustrating to try to get around them.
--Not being able to try again on a quest that you screwed up or turned down earlier. Sometimes, a request is made for a quest and you can't exit talking until you've answered yes or no.
Overall, a great game and the price is excellent for the amount of gameplay you get.

Best RPG ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game seemed daunting at first because of it's vastness, however, after playing it for a couple of weeks, I realized just how much there was to do. This game is not for those who need constant fast-paced gameplay. It is for gamers who love to explore and enjoy vast lands and extensive plot lines. This version even includes two new expansions which are a challenge! This is the best RPG I've ever played.

Just not what I thought it would be...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm not a big RPG fan, but on occasion I can play one and truely enjoy it (i.e. Fable). So when I bought Marrowind [...]I thought that it should at least be worth the money I put into it. When I first started playing I began walking around talking to people, having more or less no idea what I was supposed to do. So I left town and came across a 'Mud Crab.' It killed me, and not know I was suppose to save, I was sent right back to the beginning of the game, where I had to re-pick my charector. I wasn't happy.
From there I learned more about the game, including the incredible usefulness of using codes (e.i. heath replenishing). I've faught bandints and beasts and wizards of all kinds in the 15+ hours I've put into the game, taking on quests and wandering aroudn through the vast map. I still don't know what I'm supposed to be doing and as far as I can tell, I haven't even started the main quest. There's no sense of direction and the term 'open-ended' is taken to a new extreme to where you just wonder aimlessly. The 'combat' is hardly that. It consists of rapid 'hack-and-slash' style fighting thats about as fun as fighting battles in the boardgame "RISK." It was a huge letdown compared to the combat in so many other games (Zelda, Fable)
But while there is plenty of 'bad' to the game, there is more than enough to keep certain gamers happy (especially RPG fans)The graphics are amazing for their time and still stand up against most of today's games graphics (Grand Theft Auto). the story line is VERY deep, and while many gamers will be turned off by this (myself included) plenty of people will love emersing themselves into the rich history of the island (marrowind). The map is huge, the biggest I've probably ever played (except for maybe San Andreas) and the climate changed along with your sorroundings depend on where you are (forests, swamps, mountains, ect.) Your customization abilities are incredable. Theres so many differant ways to change you appearance and abilites. You can make your own potions out of things you find throughout the island and build your own spells. Theres so much to do its unbelievable.

But don't make the mistake of thinking this was a game you could cruise through with engaging combat and a set path for you to fallow. Its just not there. I don't think I'll ever finish this game, its just to big.

[Out of 10]
Graphics: 9
Gameplay: 5
Storyline: 9
Overall: 7

buy this for the pc not the xbox!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: August 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

its an awesome game but as soon as you start to get into it and your game gets large, it starts freezing and giving you a dirty disk error message! it can really ruin a good game so dont waste your money on the xbox version and get the pc version.

Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (Game of the Year)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: September 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, my sons love this game!

Cool game but long time to get it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: September 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It takes too to get here it took a month just to arrive...

I Really Wish I Could, But...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: September 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I know, I know, it won a game of the year award, it is critically acclaimed... but, really, who cares what the critics think? I personally did not like this game. Heck, I couldn't even get an hour of good gameplay in before I fell asleep... and yes, I did fall asleep (no joke!). So basically, if you want to go around a pointless world killing little crayfish that paralyze you, all the more power to you, but that really didn't do it for me.

Pros:
-Interesting... at first
-3D person / 1st person view preference
-Amazing graphics (well, on the water)
-Fast load screens

Cons:
-Poor, repetitive sound
-Tedious combat
-Repetitive, almost absent music
-Weird and annoying fatigue meter
-Game sometimes drags
-Odd, confusing conversation interface
-No ability to lock on to objects
-No warning that you will be attacked by about 2 billion people if you commit a crime.

In summary, I did not like this game. This is one of the few that I've had high expectations for, actually. So, no, I would not recommend this game. But who knows? You may like it.

2nd most dissapointing XBOX game I've played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: January 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As an RPG player, as a video game player, I found little endearing in this title from any standpoint. While level settings gaphics are fairly well done, active graphic entities are shoddy. Further annoying is the music in this game (man, turn it off!!) and the dialougue of it's charachters, and especially the NPCs who swivel expectantly, each time you pass them as if they have greased poles in their rear ends and blurt something worthless(which reminds you again that you wish you were able to hit the MUTE button)-not very effective! Movement is stiff and clumbsy, combat is borring, incorporating the same unrealistic movements, in every situation.

It's hard to comment on plot for this game, because I never noticed one developing; any books or leaflets, etc, I came across, I had to quickly skim through without reading them-even there things were written very poorly. I found nothing compelling enough, nothing pressing or interesting enough to make me curious to try the sequential missions...I sold this game for a loss of about $10, after about a week.

Although, I think maybe some new ground was broken in this title for RPG adventure video gaming, it did not transfer over to gameplay well, at all-and the bad points of play far out weigh those things. -Again, I'd say this game is a basic annoyance.

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