mediocrepoet
Philosoraptor in Residence
Yeah, really just to be clear since a lot of the advice I've gotten below this is redundant. I probably have a few hundred hours logged in Morrowind over the years. I'm just mentioning the things that bug me the most about it and generally stop me from getting back into it to try and actually complete the MQ, for instance.There's a lot that you can do to alleviate it, even at low levels. Restore Fatigue potions are plentiful and cheap (free for Fighter's Guild members) and the most efficient race+class combos will have you starting with a weapon skill of 45-50. Dark Elves, Nords and Imperials all get a +10 with a melee weapon, and Redguards get +15. Khajiit also get +15 with H2H but that sort of doesn't count.I have a better time wandering around the later more dumbed down versions of TES simply because the combat is good enough* not to bug me
While Morrowind's melee combat feels wooden as fuck, I still prefer it over melee combat in Oblivion and Skyrim, because in those later games the melee combat is such a fucking slog. Never had issues with the dice rolls system, and when you do hit your enemy in Morrowind, it felt satisfying to hear that hit sound and see the blood splatter.
Yeah, I can see that. For me it's just that at low levels the amount of whiffing and stamina management is brutal. It'd probably bug me less if it was more abstracted (like isometric low level D&D) or if you didn't have to manage stamina. Later on once you can start hitting more reliably and/or have more stamina, I expect it'd bug me less.
I've played all the main line Beth games since Arena and I've never completed any of the MQs, rarely complete faction quest lines, etc.