I started a couple days ago. It's amazing. I am struggling with all the names and info tho

I would just say don't explore the world unless it's through quests, the game is so open you can spoil it for yourself if you go peeking around where you shouldn't :P

@@ethanwasme4307 Or, more likely, get killed. I went on foot from the starting village to the first city. I went into every cave I could find. Most of them I went in, took 2 steps and got killed in one hit because the enemies in there were far more powerful. Same with some areas of the overworld. I tried going to explore, some enemy was in the middle of a cross roads and it killed me in one hit. Too many Morrowind fans claim 'it has endless possibilities'. They never tell you that those possibilities don't happen until you're dozens of hours in. Morrowind is from the era of games where a level 1 character is weaker than the average toddler. So nevermind story spoilers or missing out on context, you can't explore early on because the game simply won't let you. Unkillable enemies are just another form of 'this door requires a specific key'.

My first time playing Morrowind I went with a strong murder hobo play style and would just randomly kill NPCs to take their stuff. 100+ hours into exploring the game and friends are talking about the story line. I’m like; what story line, don’t you just wander and kill stuff? (This was 20+ years ago when my previous games were Earthworm Jim and Mario… games where you just wander and kill shit) They tell me to go to Balmorra and find Caius Cassades, he’ll start the main story line. So, I find the town, locate his house walk in and discover his dead body, laying naked on the floor, all of his belongings pillaged by none other than yours truly. 😂 Whoops! Guess I won’t be talking to him on this character.

It also shows the flaws in having multiple endings in an Elder Scrolls game. The Warp In The West book in later games show this. Apparently they all happened, but also none of them happened, because of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. And then players get mad when their decisions 'didn't count' because it wasn't what future games chose as happened. Take Elder Scrolls 6. Assuming it is set after Elder Scrolls 5 (I don't see why it won't be as all games in the series have been set after each other). Who will have won the civil war in Skyrim? Will it still be ongoing in order to avoid that becoming an issue? Will the game be so far removed that the Skyrim civil war is a complete non-issue and thus it's never brought up? It's like when Fallout fans say they want a New Vegas 2. The different endings means there is no way they can make a sequel that takes that into account. The NCR winning will be a completely different outcome to Caesar's Legion winning, which will be completely different to Mr. House winning. Or they could just take the coward's way out of 'oh but after the battle of Hoover Dam this thing happened which meant that the actual battle didn't matter in the end' which no one will like. Mass Effect fans realised this in Mass Effect 3. Sure you get a lot of choices in that series, and they do carry over into later games due to how it was designed. But there is the key issue: your decisions don't really matter. Did you save the Rachni Queen on Noveria? Cool, she shows up again in Mass Effect 3, because you spared her life. Did you kill the Rachni Queen on Noveria? Oh well, that extinct race magically appears again in Mass Effect 3 anyway. That's what I think the main complaint with the ending of Mass Effect 3 was. It was the realisation that none of your choices ever really mattered.

Freedom* *after you've spent dozens of hours of skill grinding to survive and earn enough gold to craft those game breaking spells and enchants

@@henryhunter9643 Yes.

but it increases with athletics skill and speed attribute. and you can also enchant gear to increase your speed. in mid game you move faster than skyrim on horse full sprint. and have potential to jump very high, like over buildings

Just jump and level acrobatics. You go faster and you can also end any fight just by jumping high and the enemy will flee.

theres a mod that increase it i always use it

@@TearMeOpenIBelieve Ah yes, ideal solution. Grind your Athletics skill so you can move faster than a crippled slug.

@@henryhunter9643 but Acrobatics gives strength multipliers so I need it to min max strength early game lol. Speed has to wait

Because the RPG elements, when handled poorly, can ruin the game. The last time I played Oblivion, I did most of the Arena, several quests and killed almost every goblin and rat in the sewers. I had gained several levels before even starting the main quest. And when I got to Kvatch, everything destroyed me. Because I had played the game wrong. I'd gained levels but I hadn't done it the right way. I also hadn't been dungeon diving to get the leveled loot. I'd played the game, I'd used the freedom it gave me, but I did it wrong. Morrowind is very much the same. If you know how the systems work and how to abuse them, the game lets you crack it wide open. But if you don't and try to enjoy the freedom the fans claim the game has, it simply won't let you. You have to play the game a certain way.