Has Morrowind aged well?

[spartandude]

Graphically and gameplay wise it has aged horribly, however in terms of the world setting, story and writing it beats the vast majority of things on the market. If you ever though Skyrim or Oblivion were in depth then you havnt seen anything yet

I should also point out that i didnt play Morrowind til about 2008 or 9 and after i had played Oblivion so im not talking from nostalgia here

 

[OpticalJunction]

It has not. I can't go back to morrowind after playing oblivion and skyrim.

 

[Doom972]

Morrowind has not aged well. Certainly it was and is a good game but the modern newcomer will likely not be able to enjoy the game without heavily modding

Not really no. But you can download the Morrowind Overhaul mod to spruce it all up nicely

The vanilla version hasn't aged well, but due to modding, the PC version looks and sounds far better:

That doesn't count. For a game to "age well" it needs to be able to stand up on its own original mechanics and graphics. If you allow mods then you are giving an unfair advantage to more popular games.

Unfair advantage? If it's better, then it's better. I don't see what fairness has to do with it. Also, I said that the vanilla version hasn't aged well (it's even in the part you quoted).

Don't see how fairness comes into play? 2 games released in ten years ago. One has been modded to improve graphics, sound, writing, mechanics, etc. The other has had no work on it. It is unfair because one has been given more attention than the other. You cannot count mods because those are aftermarket alterations that not everyone will have access too. It's like saying the Prequels were great because some guy made a fan-edit.

It's not fair for the Xbox version? Is the Xbox version going to cry and lose its self esteem? You are referring to it as if it was a person. Is it your point? Because otherwise I'm missing something here.

Also, it's 2 versions of the same game, not 2 games.

I am counting mods and I don't we why I shouldn't. Anyone who has a PC to run it on and an Internet connection has access to it - that's pretty much everyone who has played and going to play the PC version of Morrowind .

I like how I immediately understood which prequels you were talking about . There's only so much a fan edit can do. Not nearly as much as modding for video games.
Films are not video games and fan edits aren't mods. There are too many differences to even go into detail, so I don't accept this analogy.

 

[Eddie the head]

No fast travel beyond silt striders, so you have to personally walk through mounds of endless cliff racers. They are more numerous and more annoying than bears , wolves, and dragons in skyrim combined and at the start it has the difficulty of a damn cazador. The fast travel system is highly limited.

I never found travel that hard all you needed was an amulet or ring that gave you slow fall 1pt consent effect, then a jump spell for like 40pts for one second. You could make it across the map in like 10 leaps. Of coarse that's assuming you are playing as a magic centered guy.

 

[OneCatch]

Morrowind has not aged well. Certainly it was and is a good game but the modern newcomer will likely not be able to enjoy the game without heavily modding

Not really no. But you can download the Morrowind Overhaul mod to spruce it all up nicely

The vanilla version hasn't aged well, but due to modding, the PC version looks and sounds far better:

That doesn't count. For a game to "age well" it needs to be able to stand up on its own original mechanics and graphics. If you allow mods then you are giving an unfair advantage to more popular games.

Unfair advantage? If it's better, then it's better. I don't see what fairness has to do with it. Also, I said that the vanilla version hasn't aged well (it's even in the part you quoted).

Don't see how fairness comes into play? 2 games released in ten years ago. One has been modded to improve graphics, sound, writing, mechanics, etc. The other has had no work on it. It is unfair because one has been given more attention than the other. You cannot count mods because those are aftermarket alterations that not everyone will have access too. It's like saying the Prequels were great because some guy made a fan-edit.

But... we're not comparing it to any other game. No one's saying "Morrowind is better than x just because of the mods". This isn't a poll to choose the best game from 2002 where we're all saying Morrowind is objectively the best because of the modding community.

Hell, the people you quoted specifically said "Not really no, but", and "The vanilla version hasn't aged well".

As far as I can tell all anyone is trying to do is give the OP suggestions on how best to enjoy it. I really don't see how that's controversial.