Elder Scrolls: 7 Reasons Morrowind Is BETTER Than Skyrim

As I mentioned in the previous entry, both Oblivion and Skyrim start you off with hugely important people in the world of Tamriel.

In Morrowind, you're dumped at a backwater port there's little reason to return to, meet low-level bureaucrats who won't play any sort of role in the quests to come, given a vague sense of direction and mostly set on your way. You don't get to meet the true power brokers on the island (Vivec, Dagoth Ur, the Dissident Priests, or the Archcannon) until much, much later in the plot.

And that makes perfect sense - this isn't your land so there's not this driving sense of purpose to unravel the purpose of your presence there. If you become the Neravarine, it's because you sought it out, fought through the roadblocks, and truly learned the land.

By the time you face down Dagoth Ur underneath Red Mountain, you've become a political force to be reckoned with, rather than being anointed. It's just a fundamentally more satisfying arc - a sense only amplified by...