Hidden Gem

If you happened to look in a specialty-game store, such as GameStop or such (or maybe even a generalized store like Wal-Mart), five years ago, you might have noticed a small game in a cute little CD case with the title "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind." And you would've taken one look at the $15 price tag and thought, "Well, it must be no good if it's that cheap," and you go on to buy Battlefront or some other game that comes in a big, shiny box for $40 or $50. And you might have been attracted by the tan and brown cover or the low price to pick up the case and check out the back. Noticing that it's a supposedly massive and engrossing RPG, you might decide to pay the 15 bucks, pass up SWBF for now, and see how it plays. Then you get home, pop the CD into your computer, and realize an important fact:

Buying Morrowind was the best choice you have ever made.

The beautiful, integrated scenery; the complicated, in-depth and very important character choices; the full skill lists; the free-roam style gameplay, with thousands of possible storylines along with the main quest; a huge, interactive world with many different cultures to meet and befriend...the list goes on, and on, and on. The game is undoubtedly the best computer game, heck, the best game, that I've ever played. It never gets old, and I find myself always coming back for more, trying to play the game a different way. The only game that could possibly be better would be The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the sequel to Morrowind. I have never played it (Parental Reasons... :P ) but I hear it's even better.

The thing that makes this game so awesome is not just all the stuff mentioned above, but that it was all for so little money (soon, customers discovered the greatness of the game, and the price skyrocketed to $50). A hidden gem like this is very rare, and it was and still is the best fun one can have on a computer. The game is a must-have for all gamers.

The following pictures are all from ESIII: Morrowind, and they are, of course, not mine. Google Images, people. Try it!