hooo Morrowind, one of the best games ever (imo). I never encountered that shutdown bug until I added the Daedric floating cities mod (that was crazy). I definitly had to take a break from that game though, it can get way too involved staying up till odd hours in the morning then realizing that I *have* to go to work or school the next day. My only complaint about morrowind is how addicting it is, I lost too many hours playing that game when I should have been doing homework, then makin up BS calculus equations for my homework that was due in the next hour. Needless to say that was a great downfall of mine.
I think that because the game is pretty non-linear (I walked across most of the continent before I even bothered talking to my first NPC, minus the ones you had to in the first town) and so huge that many people may not like it for that fact alone. I found the scope of the game quite intimidating at first with all those NPC's. I was like oh, this is disappointing, its only an Island, how's that going to compare to the size of the land in Daggerfall. Stupid pre-judgement, my that one *little* island was huge. With the freeness (new word maybe?) of the construction set, I couldn't think of many other games that can or will best Morrowind just for the amount of replaybility (another new word?) that there is! Being the grandmaster of the assassin's guild is, after all, quite the accomplishment if you can achieve it (or find it for that matter without looking for spoilers). All in all, I still find it hard to understand how people don't like Morrowind, but I've been a loyal fan since Arena so I guess I'm really biased.
Dunyain
