Why don't developers make a game as good as Morrowind?

Question

I'm serious, I miss when they used to create games that didn't need online or dlc to be fun, back when MMO's weren't such a big deal. I remember playing Games like Morrowind as a kid and I remember putting around 400+ hours into it and getting my character over level 30, finding most of the unique items and cool decorations to place in my house and what-not, and the house I was using was a mansion full of monsters in a desert town and there was very little light so I had to set up candles in the dark corners and such.

I just miss the replayability of games like that, in fact I only played as one character the entire game which was a Khajiit Barbarian and never got bored of him, I ended up losing the game while moving to a new house with my family after a year or two sadly but guess what... I recently bought another copy of the GOTY edition of it and have been playing it for over a week straight on the exact same character, that's a quality game!

I know there are games like Fallout and Oblivion but none of them are nearly as complex as titles such as Morrowind, I tried Baldurs Gate but it didn't even come close and I hated the linearity of it. I know there are a lot of bugs in the original Morrowind but the GOTY has very little, I have had no freezing or corrupted saves at all and the file is basically a decade old with over 700 blocks of memory!

Also I know that Skyrim is coming out but I don't have high hopes for it, yes I will buy it but I highly doubt it will even come close to Morrowind, from what I have seen it has good graphics but lacks depth which is similar to Oblivion, I don't really care about graphics unless the game is actually interesting if you know what I mean...

On another note... why do people buy crap like WoW and Call Of Duty, they are just supporting the dumbing down of Video Games for profit. I mean yes I tried WoW back in 2005-2006 for almost a year, hit the level cap, did a few raids, etc... but it wasn't that much fun at all the only reason I even stayed for 7 months or so was because my friends played and kept begging me to play, it had no depth at all!

And for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2+Black Ops where do I begin... Well I got both from family/friends, one on Christmas the other for my birthday... I was excited at first but after playing through the short and uninspired campaign I decided to try online, well it was really ehh... boring? I would run around maps exchanging headshots with people, when I died I would magically come back to life again and get a kill then die again, I actually signed up for xbox live for a month to play them! Nevertheless I traded both of the games off and bought Fallout New Vegas for the money which was much better and I spent about 40 or so hours on it and was never bored until the end which is better than most games.

So all in all... who is sick of the same junk being developed over and over, and who wants an intellectually deep and long game to come out someday that lets you actually edit it?

Answer 1

It's all about the moeny now. Producers want to get the product out as soon as possible and make money. Morrowind is so good. I still play it every few years, aswell as Baldur's Gate.



Not sure how you didn;t like Baldur's Gate. These are my 2 favorite games and I understand why you said it was linear, but there are still a lot of options outside of the main quest that greatly affect the game.

Answer 2

I also enjoy some of the older games that require some real thinking.



I still occasionally play things like Railroad Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon.



And I have this old DOS game called "Uncharted Waters New Horizons" that was far far ahead of it's time as far as gameplay was concerned...graphics are horrible, but the game is fun to this day.



Maybe u are ready for the next step in gaming....creating your own content. I would have definitely gotten bored of Oblivion by now if it hadn't been for the modding aspect. I love creating things for the game. And u can do just about anything u want. (right now I'm working on a rollercoaster for the Nehrim game...which in itself is a mod for Oblivion.). U might enjoy this type of thing also.



Skyrim will also have modding capability....or I wouldn't have bought it. I am sure I will enjoy playing the game, but if it wasn't for the modding aspect, I might have actually passed on it.

Answer 3

I agree kind of with what you are saying but I didn't really like morrowind because my PC could hardly play it at the time and your character goes SOOOOOO slow it's annoying. Just pray things will be better in skyrim I'm sure that game will KICK ***

Answer 4

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