Sorry man, qualitywise the cutscenes ARE really bad. Unsharp, badly rendered just to mention the tip...
And for the overhead map. What use is such a map when you constantly look on it and wonder, how on earth you ended up somewhere you never headed to... Usually my sense of orientation is quite good but morrowind made me doubt...
And don't get me wrong the reading and talking part wasn't boring at all. It was the boring standard quest running between the locations you knew to NPCs which had no new stuff to tell...
