Morrowind is filled to the brim with a mind-boggling number of secrets, nooks and crannies to explore, legendary artifacts to unearth, secret tombs hidden deep within undersea caverns, and mad hermits sequestered at the tip-tops of dangerous, abandoned ruins. But why bother with that when, if you have the knowledge, you can simply buff your athleticism until you can cross half the continent in a single leap? Once you reach your destination, you can pick the locks, kill the guards and take their keys, or simply levitate to the top of the tower and confront whatever awaits you there. Keep your stupid horses - in Morrowind, silt striders (giant fleas, basically) wait for hire at the gates to many towns.
Maybe the island itself its swampy coastlines (you can practically smell the tepid waters), craggy mountains, lush meadows, and, at the center, the deadly Ashlands and Red Mountain, where a fallen god constructs a monster and waits for your arrival. Maybe with the sprawling cities, each unique one built within the shell of a gargantuan crab, another out of clusters of magically grown fungi. To me, the land of Morrowind begs to be explored more than any other game world ever conceived.
Simply finding these items should be special what's the fun if every enemy you encounter has your same powerful equipment? Morrowind has two full sets of glass armor in the entire game (both worn by fairly high-level NPCs in an obscure guardhouse in the middle of the Ashlands). And as soon as you hit level 20 every roving troupe of bandits comes equipped with matching sets of glass or Daedric armor. Oblivion has a well-known and fundamental flaw: Because the world levels up with the player, you can never, ever be more or less powerful than the enemies in the game (well, at least not without some seriously tedious min/maxing). I enjoyed Oblivion while I played, but my memory of it has since soured. I played Oblivion for just shy of 100 hours, starting on the day it came out - I had been frothing at the mouth to get my hands on it, since Morrowind was, and still remains, my favorite game of all time. With the announcement of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and some gentle prodding from Bitmob staffer Jeff Grubb, I decided now was a good time to put down in words something that I've felt strongly about for a number of years.
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