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It's weird, for me it gets better as the years go by. Must be because we didn't have Oblivion and Fallout 3 back in 2002.
Exploration was good, but I also loved the character system. Starting as a useless random stranger, then grinding your way up, abusing the hell out of alchemy/enchantment, and ending stronger than god. Because the first time you play, you don't know how laughably broken all these custom things are.The exploration/world is it's only saving grace. The character system is atrocious. Combat is mediocre at best.I liked Morrowind, but these claims about "such exploration, much wow" are about as ridiculous as "Gothic is worse than unmoded Oblivion".
This is why the character system is atrocious....abusing the hell out of alchemy/enchantment, and ending stronger than god.
It's not as much atrocious as broken.The exploration/world is it's only saving grace. The character system is atrocious. Combat is mediocre at best.I liked Morrowind, but these claims about "such exploration, much wow" are about as ridiculous as "Gothic is worse than unmoded Oblivion".
This is why the character system is atrocious....abusing the hell out of alchemy/enchantment, and ending stronger than god.
It's not as much atrocious as broken.The exploration/world is it's only saving grace. The character system is atrocious. Combat is mediocre at best.I liked Morrowind, but these claims about "such exploration, much wow" are about as ridiculous as "Gothic is worse than unmoded Oblivion".
It's soundly designed overall,
It's called accessibility.
Doesn't matter if you can only do it through meta-gaming, what matters is it utterly fails in terms of balancing/being a challenging experience.
Morrowind is the worst cRPG since Arcanum
I agree that without meta-gaming, Morrowind would probably be unplayable for me.
That's why I don't consider its systems to be flawed, because they allowed me to play the way I wanted.
If you could play any way you wanted, you wouldn't need to metagame to keep it from falling apart, no?
cRPGs since Arcanum include Oblivion, Failout 3, all the nu-bioware stuff and so on.Morrowind is the worst cRPG since Arcanum
Am I wrong? People act like the only alternative to shitty systems that are easily abused is dumbed down/'accessible ones.' Pretty terrible defense, imo. It's possible to make better systems but developers are too lazy. That they choose not to does not mean Morrowind has a good system. It means Morrowind has a terrible systems and the subsequent ones are even worse.