What is the best RPG, and why is it Morrowind

What is the best RPG, and why is it Morrowind

Because it's a fantasy world that's actually fantastical.

This, I get to actual experience another fantasy race's culture instead of just hearing about it.

This. It was pretty damn nice seeing the various infrastructure of the different houses.

Its not morrowind, because aside from the damn good world, the actual roleplaying in morrowind was not all that good.
It suffers from the same problems that appear in later bethesda titles, only less galling because they did not cater to the OCD masses that strongly.
You are not playing a character, you are playing a solitary kid in a theme park that has a year free time and can ride everything as much as it wants for free, and everyone in the park only caters to your every whim, everything in the world just waiting for your do finally arrive and try it out.
You can do literally everything, roleplaying is as much about what your role prohibits you to do, as it is about what it enables you to.
Morrowind is glorious in the enabling part, but it is completely lacking in the characterizing limitations.

This. I liked the variety in architecture. Wasn't just square medieval houses all over.

i'd rather play skyrim

>anything but KoTOR II

>you are not playing a character
Bullshit. Which guilds you can join and advance in are all dependent on your skill levels. There was plenty of limitation, it just didn't prevent access from most of the game.

An interesting world not built around the player with total freedom from the beginning. Basically a sandbox RPG that maintains enough depth and complexity..

Reminder that Oblivion is the actual worst TES game

Pretty much this. I don't really like Bethesda games, but Morrowind manages to stand out because it's all quite weird and worth exploring.

I just realized something about TES lore. So often the Aedra and Daedra are described as the spokes and the gaps between the spokes of the wheel, respectively. But why are the Aedra also the planets? Well, from the hub of the wheel, we'd be viewing the spokes head on, as circles, and not the true cylinders that they are. I assume the moons are actually moons, though.

Yeah, fuck right off.

Where's that essential mod list?

This. I enjoyed the differing manners in which each home was constructed.

Might and Magic 6 was better.

No need for a reminder

What were the similarities and differences, user?

MM6 is like Daggerfall if it was stable, party based, and handcrafted.

Could you be a criminal?

Shame about Mind Magic being fucking useless, though.

Not to mention reputation with Native and Imperial factions have an inverse correlation

What do you mean by this?

Someone has to be in the wrong here from a certain point of view

You get a spell that lets you murder everyone in town.

>party based

Dropped

Not just in town, everywhere on the fucking map.

Please. Companions make RPGs. Any game where you spend the majority of the time alone, when loneliness isn't a major theme in the game is shite.

Companions are annoying to me. If I want one, I can just go hire one in Morrowind.

For every good thing that Morrowind does, another RPG does the same thing better.
Though it stands out compared to the other Elder Scrolls games, it is pretty generic in and of itself.

I think if Planetscape: Torment was more finished and the combat was better, it could be the best RPG.
I think if V:tMB was more finished, it could be the best RPG.
I think if Fallout: New Vegas was more finished, it could be the best RPG.

Come to think of it, most great RPGs are plagued by cuts and unfinished details.

Though few do all of those things at least decently well. And as far as being generic, you got any opinions or worthwhile comparisons to back that up, familam?

elves, dwarves, furries, giant mushrooms, guilds, gods, demi-gods, magic, elemental magic, medieval weaponry
all of these things aren't unique to RPGs, or even the fantasy genre as a whole.
Combat is just a hastily thrown together combination of DnD rolls and real-time combat.

Not to say Morrowind isn't unique in a lot of ways, just that it isn't mind-breakingly original.