The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

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8.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1785 Ratings

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  1. anarky321
    May 2, 2016
    0
    this has got to be the most overrated game on the PC

    the combat is awful and uneralistic the cities feel like set pieces with no soul the world just feels empty and uninteresting every dungeon is depressingly flavorless walk/run speed is obnoxiously slow graphics are OK with all the MGE mods etc. but the animations etc have not aged well even the guards won't attack monsters that    this has got to be the most overrated game on the PC

    the combat is awful and uneralistic
    the cities feel like set pieces with no soul
    the world just feels empty and uninteresting
    every dungeon is depressingly flavorless
    walk/run speed is obnoxiously slow
    graphics are OK with all the MGE mods etc. but the animations etc have not aged well
    even the guards won't attack monsters that run into town

    i have to say i've tried 3 times now to somehow get into this game and it is a no-go....

    if you want something to compare this game to, go play Gothic 3 which is light years ahead of this game in character, storyline, graphics and everything else..Gothic 3 (2006) came out 4 years after Morrowind (2002) but feels 20 years ahead in everything

    that fact that so many people seem to adore this game makes me wonder..it really does    … Expand
  2. zoob_m
    Dec 18, 2018
    4
    This game is simply clunky. I bought it because I loved Skyrim, and was told this game had the best narrative in the series. Sadly, that narrative is buried under far too many layers unintuitive gameplay for me to ever experience it. People keep praising it for how hand crafted it is, but the average quest is so mundane, I very much prefer the radiant quests from Skyrim. The skill system,This game is simply clunky. I bought it because I loved Skyrim, and was told this game had the best narrative in the series. Sadly, that narrative is buried under far too many layers unintuitive gameplay for me to ever experience it. People keep praising it for how hand crafted it is, but the average quest is so mundane, I very much prefer the radiant quests from Skyrim. The skill system, combat, leveling, inventory management, and just about every other system is clunky, and nothing is smooth. Every time I bring this up, people suggest graphics mods, even though the graphics are just about the only thing I don't have a problem with.… Expand
  3. nonaste
    Sep 25, 2019
    0
    This is the most awful game I've ever played. Dreary and depressing music and scenery. Crappy combat mechanics and all that reading. Jeez, what an incredible bore. All the positives must be from people high on drugs or booze or something. I played this wretched game over 10 years ago and I still can't get just how unpleasant this piece of garbage is out of my head.
  4. shellwyck
    Jan 7, 2019
    2
    I dont enjoy playing this at all, while I cant admit the lore is rich and cool, playing the game itself just isn't fun. The exploration gets boring after a minute, the combat is unbearing outdated, and its really ugly.
  5. vangomaextreme
    Jan 15, 2013
    2
    I am giving this a score of 2 as it does have technical merit. The designers put a HUGE amount of work into this game and as all the other reviews state this is a massive and very intricately designed world. However, with the risk of being controversial it is an outdated game and I found it overall a very bleak and depressing experience. The world feels soulless and like some fantasyI am giving this a score of 2 as it does have technical merit. The designers put a HUGE amount of work into this game and as all the other reviews state this is a massive and very intricately designed world. However, with the risk of being controversial it is an outdated game and I found it overall a very bleak and depressing experience. The world feels soulless and like some fantasy world post nuclear apocalypse. There is so much reading to do that after a while you feel you should be curled up on the sofa with a Tolkien trilogy and a good glass of wine instead of trying to play a game. As a result tedium sets in very quickly and with the by today's standards rather ugly and disjointed graphics it just becomes too much of slog to get to the end. I think you either love or hate this game. The haters are obviously the minority but we do exist - sorry!… Expand
  6. sometrashgames
    Feb 23, 2019
    0
    One of the most boring games i have ever played, just a stupid battle mechanic and the interface is just awful. In the same line, the side quests just seem like a expansion of the main quest and in 10-20 hours you just get bored and uninstall it
  7. suneater
    Nov 25, 2013
    3
    There is a lot of content here but no direction. The majority of the island's inhabitants hate you and all foreigners (not in a "you dirty thief" way but like a black-man-in-early-1900s-south way) unless you literally pay them to play nice or dump stats into speech skills. Quests start out interesting because they force you to explore and dig in places you normally wouldn't think of going,There is a lot of content here but no direction. The majority of the island's inhabitants hate you and all foreigners (not in a "you dirty thief" way but like a black-man-in-early-1900s-south way) unless you literally pay them to play nice or dump stats into speech skills. Quests start out interesting because they force you to explore and dig in places you normally wouldn't think of going, but later devolve into fetch quests that require you to go to the other side of the world to steal something and then travel back. Guild advancement is unrewarding. I usually got 10 times more loot & gold from thoroughly exploring the area i was sent to than I received from the quest reward. Combat tends to be a damage race of spamming left click while cycling magical weapons. I didn't like this game 10 years ago when I first played it and I don't like it now. With enough mods the bad graphics (even for it's time) can be fixed, but I wouldn't recommend playing it since better games of it's type have come out since.… Expand
  8. DustinB.
    Oct 25, 2006
    3
    God was thing game boring. Unless you enjoy wandering across vast empty spaces filled with identical monsters and npc's jumping to raise you 'acrobat' skill, skip it. They designers created a vast world but didn't bother to create any compelling reasons to visit any of the various locals. For the most part they all look the same and contain the same generic monsters God was thing game boring. Unless you enjoy wandering across vast empty spaces filled with identical monsters and npc's jumping to raise you 'acrobat' skill, skip it. They designers created a vast world but didn't bother to create any compelling reasons to visit any of the various locals. For the most part they all look the same and contain the same generic monsters and npcs. It also has some of the most repetitive and uninteresting combat I've ever seen. Quests are boring and nearly identical. Overall this game feels like a poorly made MMO only it's missing the second 'M' and the 'O'. The 'massive' monicure certainly applies, but it ends up just feeling empty and pointless.… Expand
  9. Loffruin
    Feb 10, 2012
    4
    This game has good and bad things about it. Mostly bad.
    On the large island of Morrowind things are getting interesting. With a large population of bugs and other animals this game is mostly fighting thugs, worms, and other stupid animals. The combat in this game is probably the worst ever. Unless you are a natural at it, prepare to die. A lot. The combat made me so mad, I quit. After    This game has good and bad things about it. Mostly bad.
    On the large island of Morrowind things are getting interesting. With a large population of bugs and other animals this game is mostly fighting thugs, worms, and other stupid animals. The combat in this game is probably the worst ever. Unless you are a natural at it, prepare to die. A lot. The combat made me so mad, I quit. After about three hours of solid gameplay, I made a good conculsion:

    This game might have been good in 2002, but now it's a disgrace to Bethesda's name and title.    … Expand
  10. Valknaz
    Dec 15, 2010
    1
    Morrowind's combat is broken. It has no quest system. To get into cities you have to levitate into them-not walk through a door. There is no fast travel. It is a tedious and **** game, do not recommend to anyone.
  11. DavidL
    Nov 15, 2009
    0
    This game is so overrated... Even if the world is vast and things like that, it's so deeply flawed that I won't even give a 1/10. The fighting system gives me nightmares, when I try to kill something I have to try to swing my weapon about 10 times to actually hit the thing. This game has an extreme amount of bugs, so many that this review would be longer than the bible if I This game is so overrated... Even if the world is vast and things like that, it's so deeply flawed that I won't even give a 1/10. The fighting system gives me nightmares, when I try to kill something I have to try to swing my weapon about 10 times to actually hit the thing. This game has an extreme amount of bugs, so many that this review would be longer than the bible if I wrote them down. Many Morrowind fans say that this game is better than Oblivion, but it simply is not. If you're reading this review, don't buy this game. Ever.… Expand
  12. SalmanA.
    Aug 7, 2008
    0
    15 hours until you get to the main part of the main quest? That's not impressive, that's just poor game design. Vague instructions and directions as to where to go, piss poor combat that leaves you swinging your weapon more minutes at a time before you hit anything, so on. Trying to get some info from a NPC? Be prepared to spend a good 5 minutes getting anything out of them ,if 15 hours until you get to the main part of the main quest? That's not impressive, that's just poor game design. Vague instructions and directions as to where to go, piss poor combat that leaves you swinging your weapon more minutes at a time before you hit anything, so on. Trying to get some info from a NPC? Be prepared to spend a good 5 minutes getting anything out of them ,if anything. I understand that there may be a good game in here, but there's just too much misery to go through to get to it. This isn't even counting the horrible bugs abd technical issues.… Expand
  13. huntercreed
    Oct 28, 2007
    1
    THIS GAME SUCKS to many fucking glitches its bullshit i sat there for 3 hours had some good shit
    then hit a glitch on a table and it saved and i couldnt move had to reset twice fuck this game ive already broken it into 18 peices and burned it its case it being melted as well AS I SAID THIS GAME SUCKS!!!!!!!
  14. Einar
    Jul 23, 2016
    2
    ok so i am going to start with listing the positives: the artstyle is the good (just google why. my opinion on the artstyle basically belongs to the entire human race as well) ok now for the **** parts: the combat is awfull with you having to move for diferent attacks and therefore mising all the time and even with the always use best attack on you miss anyway becuse unless you are levelok so i am going to start with listing the positives: the artstyle is the good (just google why. my opinion on the artstyle basically belongs to the entire human race as well) ok now for the **** parts: the combat is awfull with you having to move for diferent attacks and therefore mising all the time and even with the always use best attack on you miss anyway becuse unless you are level 10000000000 in the weapon you are using then you will miss a lot no matter if you are a mele guy. traveling is complete torture becuse even if you are sprinting then you still walk in a decently brisk pace and becuse stamina drains so fast then you will have to rest every milimeter (by the way no fast travelling). and the interference is so unintuntutive that a nuclear reactor would burst into laughter. i could go on and on about why this game i so bad but have **** to do like say deleting this **** tragedy of a game from my steam library. (sorry if there are typo's im terrible at spelling).… Expand
  15. Broyax
    Apr 26, 2018
    0
    J'ai jamais réussi à dépasser le chapitre d'introduction de ce jeu, l'espèce de prologue, l'un des plus laborieux qu'il m'ait été donné d'expérimenter soit dit en passant; que ce soit sur la version Xbox ou PC.

    Du coup, je me suis demandé si c'était bien un jeu Bethesda, car même dans le moyen Oblivion, j'avais bien tenu entre 30 et 40h avant de craquer d'ennui. Il faut qu'une fois    J'ai jamais réussi à dépasser le chapitre d'introduction de ce jeu, l'espèce de prologue, l'un des plus laborieux qu'il m'ait été donné d'expérimenter soit dit en passant; que ce soit sur la version Xbox ou PC.

    Du coup, je me suis demandé si c'était bien un jeu Bethesda, car même dans le moyen Oblivion, j'avais bien tenu entre 30 et 40h avant de craquer d'ennui. Il faut qu'une fois qu'on est lâché dans la nature, la lourdeur de Morrowind est sans commune mesure : là où on doit se rendre, c'est très loin et sur le chemin, la moindre bêbête te refait le portrait aussi sec.

    Evidemment, le jeu est vieux et graphiquement il pique les yeux, même sur la version PC mais les combats -horribles- et l'interface générale font partie de cette lourdeur de plomb qui plombe le jeu dès le début. Le monde des Elder Scrolls est connu pour son caractère tiédasse et générique mais il ne m'a jamais paru aussi mou et fade que dans ce Morrowind.

    Je me dis de temps à autre que je devrais retenter le machin -au moins avec un mod sur PC qui rehausse un peu cette baraque en ruines- mais rien que d'y penser, je me recroqueville à l'avance en cherchant l'issue de secours. Non, c'est définitivement trop naze en fait.    … Expand
  16. B-Bog
    Mar 22, 2019
    2
    If you would like for a game to make you feel depressed, confused, lost, bored and overwhelmed, this would be the one to get.

    You just get shat out into this MASSIVE, hostile world. There is no tutorial or direction whatsoever. Many people seem to enjoy this, but I don't. As someone else wrote, the presentation just does not seem thought out at all. Right from the start you can read    If you would like for a game to make you feel depressed, confused, lost, bored and overwhelmed, this would be the one to get.

    You just get shat out into this MASSIVE, hostile world. There is no tutorial or direction whatsoever. Many people seem to enjoy this, but I don't. As someone else wrote, the presentation just does not seem thought out at all. Right from the start you can read dozes of books (which are WAY too long-winded), buy hundreds of spells and items, go anywhere you want, and talk to anyone you want (which doesn't matter that much because pretty much all the NPCs seem to hate you). Sounds like the ultimate freedom, right? But you are not being given any kind of reference system for what is important or beneficial, which just made me feel totally lost.

    The whole world is almost entirely grey and brown and filled with hostile characters and weird, disgusting bugs. How anyone could call this beautiful is completely beyond me. Just take the capital for example. It is impossible not to get lost here because everything just looks the same (and not very appealing at that).

    This game lacks character and soul. I'll still give it two points for its massive scope. But it is not fun and completely devoid of charm.    … Expand
  17. EptaEpt
    Sep 13, 2022
    1
    Sorry, but positive feedback is not available in your region. At least until your leadership changes the two-faced policy in their actions and statements.
  18. MillersWeeb
    Nov 16, 2018
    0
    Вы вообще серьезно? Это же пиздец какая параша, даже с модами играть в это невозможно.
  19. KrauserFear
    Jun 30, 2020
    0
    Im so sad I mean how this is the first time that I wanted a refund and what from bethesda I never expect that dude Im very serious sad this game is very old its 2002 game but doesn't feel like 2002 game felt like 10000000bc game who knows I am biggest bethesda fan bethesda life to me fallout life to me being a bethesda fan I show some respect
    The way this game should good in 2020
    1.The    Im so sad I mean how this is the first time that I wanted a refund and what from bethesda I never expect that dude Im very serious sad this game is very old its 2002 game but doesn't feel like 2002 game felt like 10000000bc game who knows I am biggest bethesda fan bethesda life to me fallout life to me being a bethesda fan I show some respect
    The way this game should good in 2020
    1.The theme is legendary no theme is better than this I guess when you walk in the morrowind world when the theme hit you feel emotional you feel stronger you feel like you can success your goal
    2.I think the story they didnt showed it in good visually but I can felt the story is legendary didnt finished the game bro played 11+ hours who know how big is this game
    3.The game have lots of cool sidequest and mission have variety of tomb have awesome ghost but the gfx :(

    The reason I am hating this game and the way why it should not recommended
    1.The game is freaking old
    2.The conversation system died no conversation just you have to read bunch of paragraph and essay finding the mission and paths and story :(
    3.there is no fast travel there is alien boat called strider who can passage or transport maybe don't wanna talk about that
    4.The movement system felt like 1 fps if the movement system was ok and full resoulation system was ok I could play the game half but they failed
    5.Gfx is sick I thought witcher 1 is way worse now I can tell witcher 1 is way next gen and fun I want to play witcher 1 again and having fun but this died on 2020 died rip

    there is a option in morrowind called "advice'' here is my advice

    My advice:- come on man don't be greedy make a remake and bring this game as a 2020 way people will love bethesda this legendary game should remove from steam like legendary game arnea and daggerfall this game should sealed as legend not bully by steam user in 2020 so if new user say what should we do there is a new version of morrowind in the elder scroll online you guyz should check it out its cool

    so that was my review I was listening to the morrowind theme :( I was feeling very emotional to writing this bad review ;(    … Expand
  20. zorPlAy
    Mar 11, 2020
    0
    This is the most awful game I've ever played. Dreary and depressing music and scenery. Crappy combat mechanics and all that reading. Jeez, what an incredible bore. All the positives must be from people high on drugs or booze or something. I played this wretched game over 10 years ago and I still can't get just how unpleasant this piece of garbage is out of my head.
  21. Deltphi
    Jul 15, 2020
    3
    Ugly piss color game. Bad combat. Bad AI. Bad open world. Compared to most games in the year, this is a sad excuse for a game. That be in sound, technical, and gameplay design. People who defend this game are blinded by nostalgia. Legit. Just because you can laugh at glitches, does not make it a good game. I understand having to find your way in the world for “immersion” but you just getUgly piss color game. Bad combat. Bad AI. Bad open world. Compared to most games in the year, this is a sad excuse for a game. That be in sound, technical, and gameplay design. People who defend this game are blinded by nostalgia. Legit. Just because you can laugh at glitches, does not make it a good game. I understand having to find your way in the world for “immersion” but you just get lost at the end of the day. To say that this game holds up is a massive understatement. It really holds up like my pocket **** Ugly and looks yellow as ****
    One thing going for it is the music, and for making it waste my time during this quarantine. I played it on the Xbox, and it is no different from the pc version.    … Expand
  22. Aizdahar
    Dec 12, 2020
    0
    The most underrated RPG in game history ! If it could remastered at the same time remade this piece of game could have 10 out 12 score. It is a masterpiece for ElderScrolls world.
  23. Zou00
    May 3, 2021
    2
    I have written an entire essay on all the ways in which this game is simply atrocious, but I will have to give a surface level summary here. It is a basically unplayable mess, you move so slowly that is totally shatters any immersion or fun. The writing, unironically, is some of the worst I have seen in a long time. It is just flat dialogue with no flavour, and reads more like wikipediaI have written an entire essay on all the ways in which this game is simply atrocious, but I will have to give a surface level summary here. It is a basically unplayable mess, you move so slowly that is totally shatters any immersion or fun. The writing, unironically, is some of the worst I have seen in a long time. It is just flat dialogue with no flavour, and reads more like wikipedia articles than actual human speech. This is very damaging to immersion in the world and care for the characters, which can be explained in this quote from Bahktin, "dialogue is the single adequate form for verbally expressing authentic human life, in it, a person participates wholly and throughout his whole life: with his eyes, lips, hands, soul, spirit, with his whole body and deeds. He invests into the dialogue fabric of human life, into the world symposium", this quote is very true, for dialogue is the ultimate in self-expression of one's identity, ideals, and convictions. Therefore, poorly written dialogue can be greatly damaging to the quality and relatability of the characters involved, and, as a result, the story as a whole. It is just bad and lack any sense of connection one can feel with the world. And the lore is made extremely dull for a lack of releveance, mixed in with it being poorly written to begin with. Gameplay is dull and boring, both having dull and immersion breaking movement speed, the UI being clunky, ugly, and hard to actually use. The graphics were dreadful even for its time. Looks like its from mid-Nineties. It is simply slashing and hoping you actually manage to hit. And dying many a time do to how the game is not based on skill, but pure luck, and nothing else. You win through being lucky and having good items, not through any form of skill or strategy like many I have seen claim it to be. It is also extremely unoriginal in its lore. With basically no original ideas at all. Not even an original way of implementing ideas, it is just, dull and lifeless. Taken from far better and more interesting works. Tonal Magic, Elves, Dwarves, the structure of Tamriel-Oblivion-Aetherius is just Ea-Void-Timeless Halls, from Tolkien. Dark Elves from DnD, it is just, every single feature of it, even those that seem unique, were directly ripped from somewhere else. Without even an attempt to make it new or unique. The lore also very rarely ties into the world you see, and it only does Telling, amd actively avoids Showing, when one should do more showing than telling, to paraphrase Anton Chekov, "don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light in broke glass", or as said by Ernest Hemingway, "If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows ans the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due ti only one-eighth of it being above water", that is to say, it is mot only unnecessary to explain everything, but it also is poor writing to do big swathes of exposition, instead of respecting the player/reader enough to *show* them that information through various aspects. And being able to see the effects of lore, tends to make it less of a bore, and also increases retention od the information shared. And it has no Osttaneiniye, it doesn't five you a different way to view the world you see. Nor does it give one a better understanding of the events. All it does it just say a random assortment of poorly thought out ideas which it gives us no reason to care about. It simply expects people to inherently care about distant, and irrelevant events or peoples that you do not ever see come to relevance or tie into the world you experience. It is also communicated in a way that purposely obsfucates what it is trying to say, attempting to mimick the poetic style of religious texts, without actually understanding the process behind said style, and the way in which it still manages to communicate information effectively. Those who talk about how good the writing is are speaking utter bushwah, and need to actually read novels to see how the writing is actually below average, and barely functions. But this is atound all I can say jn this post. I do not hate people for liking the game, I just hate the game and am annoyed at how it is praised as a masterpiece of writing, when the writing is deeply and fundamentally flawed and poorly done; and the gameplay and graphics are also atrocious, thus cannot save its bad writing.… Expand
  24. Grize
    Jun 22, 2022
    3
    Morrowind is a game. A game that for its time is really bad in mechanics, storytelling, combat all of it. physics, graphics and UI. Somehow it crashes for me a lot even tried to reinstall even tried on a new computer. In the end, I don't get what people see in Morrowind even though the story is mee at best the DLC wear you go to Solstheim is interesting and the Telvannis is an interestingMorrowind is a game. A game that for its time is really bad in mechanics, storytelling, combat all of it. physics, graphics and UI. Somehow it crashes for me a lot even tried to reinstall even tried on a new computer. In the end, I don't get what people see in Morrowind even though the story is mee at best the DLC wear you go to Solstheim is interesting and the Telvannis is an interesting group. Somehow Daggerfall is more interesting. Oblivion did a big step up… Expand
  25. profcamilotorre
    Jan 4, 2022
    1
    The game is ok, but I'm glad I bought it on sale. I was expecting more, considering all the hype. For me it felt flat and lacking, because the races and classes are a little too cosmetic. They are so "open" to crossover, that it doesn't feel there is much difference in choosing one or the other. And then there are so many tweaks you can buy, that characters have no distinctive flair. WhichThe game is ok, but I'm glad I bought it on sale. I was expecting more, considering all the hype. For me it felt flat and lacking, because the races and classes are a little too cosmetic. They are so "open" to crossover, that it doesn't feel there is much difference in choosing one or the other. And then there are so many tweaks you can buy, that characters have no distinctive flair. Which also makes this game a great money pit for players into building mega-characters.
    But the deal-breaker for me was that, something about the visuals caused me vertigo. No matter the adjustments I did. Tried switching perspective, reducing head-bob, and just about any other recommended tweak. I couldn't play for more than 45 minutes without getting nausea. The funny thing is that a friend also got vertigo from the game, but playing it in a console (PS). I looked around and vertigo seems to be an issue for some people.
    So, no, I wouldn't recommend this game.    … Expand
  26. horriblefanfare
    Nov 16, 2022
    4
    i have played this video game for so long that my ass hurts and i cant do anything about it, the doctor said i should really stop but its too much fun i cant stop AT ALL!

Awards & Rankings

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#11 Best PC Game of 2002
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#1 Most Discussed PC Game of 2002
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#2 Most Shared PC Game of 2002

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Metascore
89

Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Pregaming
    90
    One of those games that just visually takes your breath away. It has some of the most detailed, and well realistically rendered environments and characters ever seen in a computer game.
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  2. Game Revolution
    83
    The Elder Scrolls tech support forum is overflowing with user complaints about compatibility issues. At any rate, this is still the biggest, deepest, most detailed RPG to hit the PC since Daggerfall, and for that, earns high marks.
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  3. PC Gameworld
    91
    This is a game that can stay on your hard drive for six months, still offering new experiences.
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