I wouldnt argue w/ that grouchy old coot unless he insults your mother or something. Just agree to disagree and move on, trust me. If Ive seen it once, Ive seen in a million times. Your time is better spent exploring some Dwemer ruins or soemthing
I think Relayer summed it up quite well when he said:
Now I totally understand those who feel the game is "dead" because some would rather play than read in a game but you could still play the game and get the gist of the politics and social issues in the region and gameworld without reading the in-game books. The great thing about Morrowind IF YOU WERE PAYING ATTENTION is how lore is interwoven pretty solidly between sidequests, the main quest, dialogue, the books and the stuff in the expansion pack.
MW really was, to me, a game that ultimately gave back what I was willing to invest into it. Running around clicking past quest text will not cut it. I had to read the books, pay attention to dialogue instead of just clicking thru, check everything out in the game, getting into the politics, the religion, the culture itself as well as the physical world. I spent days of game time just exploring. I thought overall it was interesting, well written, and fun world to explore. That made any gameplay issues fade into obscurity for me. I played thru the game pretty much vanilla ( i tweaked some weak armor around a little becuase I liked the look) twice, and on my second run I was still uncovering lore, locations, NPCS, etc. I'm sorry, I cant look at a game that rich and think of it as anything but an RPG masterpiece.
Just loaded up the STEAM goty edition, installed the toolset off the disk, and am perusing which mods to install… i played the game thru twice vanilla, this time I'm going on a mod-fest. Thanks again for this great article Vox. This is definitely one of those games that needs to be revisted now and again.