#39 - The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

The Elder Scrolls series knows what it means to be a true Dungeons And Dragons-esque experience. In Dungeons And Dragons, you start by creating a character, which consists of naming it, giving it a gender and race and rolling the dice to determine your stats. Then you go along on your merry adventure to slay the dragon or whatever. The Elder Scrolls series plays out like that, and due to this, it certainly grasps the whole role playing game thing to a *bleep*ing tee. Some would say that Daggerfall best represents the Elder Scrolls series, but I'm sorry, that game is WAY too glitchy for its own good and it gets pretty frustrating after a while. Morrowind may not be as good as Daggerfall gets on a good day, but at least you can play Morrowind without needing the planets to align to get it to work.

But yeah, I feel that Morrowind is a better representation. It has many cities to visit, many townsfolk to talk to who will give you quests, many guilds to join who will also give you quests, and dungeons which house monsters and treasure, like you'd expect any fantasy game to do. While there is plenty to do (and I do mean plenty), Morrowind finds itself at the #39 spot instead of the top ten for two reasons. 1, the combat blows. I shouldn't expect much out of a first person RPG, but it just doesn't sit all that well with me. 2, the story, while it has that "merry adventure to slay the dragon" thing going for it, just isn't all that captivating. Some would say that I should put up a different Elder Scrolls game, and while I could because they all had fast travel, I have to say, Arena didn't do much for me, Daggerfall was way too glitchy for my liking, Oblivion felt like a step back from this one in all but combat (and it still wasn't that good), and Skyrim... good game, but it was easily the weakest in the main series, with a less interesting world, less role playing, and let's not forget that painfully unfunny meme... *bleep* all of you, that meme was one of the worst I've heard in a long time.

Summary - A true Dungeons And Dragons experience, albeit with bad combat and mediocre storytelling.
Rating - 8/10

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