After playing Fallout 3 for around eight days (as in all the time added up equaled eight days) straight, I've decided to move back to my other favorite western RPG series - the Elder Scrolls. Being pretentious, I started with the Elder Scrolls II - Daggerfall. I quickly realized that as much as I want to love wandering around in gigantic random dungeons searching for random quest objects for hours on end, the game is
really boring. As someone on the Bethesda forums once said, it plays more like a half-finished computer science project than an actual game. So I traveled East - to Morrowind.
I think I have a new favorite (non-Quake) game! Morrowind has a story that is interesting and deep (but only if you want to care about it), terrain that is varied and unique (dank swamps and ruined steampunk cities > Oblivion's generic fantasy forest land), and a potential for modding that equals Bethesda's newer games.
The perceived "problem" with Morrowind is the graphics - it's a pretty old game. Nothing a few good hacks can't fix, however. The Morrowind Graphics Extender adds modern graphics features (including a ton of custom shaders) and there are plenty of texture and model replacers. Aside from the rough texture or mesh here and there, my game looks as good as (if not better than) Oblivion and even Crysis. SCREENS:
Bottom line - if you like RPGs at all and have a decent computer, then you should play this game. More pictures including lots of my character coming soon.