I remember being so excited to review The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for the Xbox (I didn’t have a decent gaming PC at the time) that I bought a copy of the game as soon as the shop I was working at got it, not knowing my request for a review copy from Bethesda had gone through or that I could have gotten the game cheaper with my employee discount. Of course, I ended up with two copies of the game, one of which I gave to a friend who was new to RPGs and wanted “something really good” to try out. At the time, nearly everything about the game thrilled me, from the lovely water effects, the sheer size of the game world, the fact that monsters could chase you into towns (where you could have thee guards dispatch them, provided they didn’t all die in the process) and so forth and so on… Continue reading →