What video games have you been playing III: You're gonna need a bigger boat.

The attraction of Morrowind for me is the details. There is no way to match the level of detail that can be included in those paragraph long descriptions in the modern world of "get a voice actor to say 'hur de hur' and the game sells better" marketing.
I still have fond memories of loading up Morrowind for the very first time in the distant past (2011*). I decided to be a member of the Imperial Legion and took a Silt Strider up to Gnisis and, while exploring the Temple, hear about "Soul Sickness". I had a suspicion it might be important to the plot. That line of thought was pushed out of my mind as I headed north and was promptly attacked and killed by a hungry Kagouti.
And then there was stumbling across the Shrine of Boethiath with my Argonian tribesman (spears, daggers, and throwing weapons) while hunting dreugh to get offerings for the Ruddy Man.
 
Oh dear. Nostalgia train is in the station, once more.

Nostalgia train from me:

I remember the first day I played Oblivion, and I was walking in Anvil in the evening after doing that first Fighter's Guild quest where you have to save the rats from the mountain lions. As I was walking around, with that light fog (that, in retrospect, might've just been the low quality graphics), NPCs going about their daily lives, and the peaceful, relaxing, pastoral music playing in the background, I suddenly realized, "DAMN, this is one beautiful, immersive game."

And then I noticed it was 5 in the evening which meant I was so engrossed in the game I even skipped my daily nap, which I never skip unless I had to.
 
Nostalgia train from me:

I remember the first day I played Oblivion, and I was walking in Anvil in the evening after doing that first Fighter's Guild quest where you have to save the rats from the mountain lions. As I was walking around, with that light fog (that, in retrospect, might've just been the low quality graphics), NPCs going about their daily lives, and the peaceful, relaxing, pastoral music playing in the background, I suddenly realized, "DAMN, this is one beautiful, immersive game."

And then I noticed it was 5 in the evening which meant I was so engrossed in the game I even skipped my daily nap, which I never skip unless I had to.

Ah the Oblivion nostalgia train. My son actually bought a new machine for the big event and we got it put together and loaded with the OS and ready a couple days before his preordered copy arrived. The installer was bugged, and crashed out, leaving a partial install and not setting up the uninstaller. After a manual deletion and some screwing around and contemplation of editing the registry we did a complete OS reinstall and started over. The second time I backed up the registry before the installer borked out again. Eventually we did get it installed.

All to get a bug ridden mess of a game on a machine that met its (at the time) inflated requirements. And then we noticed that an entire day had been wasted and it hadn't even been played yet.
 
My first Oblivion memory was learning that jumping improved a skill level as I screwed around in the prison and then just as you get out. My Call of Duty 2 days were worth it!
 
Sounds more like the game just isn't to your taste
I enjoyed it, actually. And I'd like to play another TES somewhere in the future. It got boring towards the end when I was Mr. Super Soldier and realized that most quests are so generic and when I finished the main quest I was underwhelmed with how easy it was. But I did enjoy the game. But because so many quests are generic, because walking long ways while those god-aweful flying things annoy the crap out of you looses its appeal to me once I feel I know the world and am saturated walking through it and also because the whole world feels stiff and static to me once I figured it out - I just can't imagine playing it any more after playing it through once. And yes I realize MW fanboys like to say that you can not play Morrowind through in one go, but that is not how it feels to me at all. I feel I have experienced everything worth experiencing, overall, and the bits I miss wouldn't be worth a whole new game by far.

But hey, I am happy for you if you get a lot more joy out of it :)
 
Stop picking holes in my drive-by amusement, you pedant!

Spoiler :
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I wasn't picking holes. I also could not begin to count the days lost to modding Oblivion. The really irritating part of that being that for a long time every time I got a new machine I would reinstall and remod Oblivion with all the latest versions of my favorites and add some new stuff and such...with every intention of playing it. But then I would be too burned out to play it, and by the time I thought about going back to it I was doing it again with yet another new machine.
 
That sounds familiar. Whilst modding can be fun, at some point you have to call time and actually play the damn thing.
 
I've never really seen the appeal of anime girl companions in ridiculous armour and with terrible voice acting, or a Skyrim full of palm trees and muskets. If you have to butcher a game to that degree in order to enjoy it then maybe it wasn't the game for you in the first place...
 
Maybe they simply enjoy the act of butchering the game.
 
I've never really seen the appeal of anime girl companions in ridiculous armour and with terrible voice acting, or a Skyrim full of palm trees and muskets. If you have to butcher a game to that degree in order to enjoy it then maybe it wasn't the game for you in the first place...

Oblivion requires (IMO) massive restructuring of the game mechanics. I'm not interested in palm trees or anime girls, but for me the actual play of the game as delivered put Oblivion on the shelf in a matter of days. Replacing the player leveling, world leveling, magic, stealth, and lighting seems to produce a game that does justice to the game world though.

Skyrim I use a UI mod. Morrowind I didn't mod at all until recently. Now I use a bunch of graphics upgrade mods.
 
Other than graphics upgrade mods and the UI, I don't use any other mods in Skyrim...I want to keep it as true to the original as possible.
 
While CFC was down, I've played a bit of a lot of things - Skyrim, Oblivion, Cities Skylines, Crusader Kings II, even Rome II Total War.
 
Not playing much lately, although I'm still playing L.A. Noire now and than. Man that game is pretty long.
 
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