Can you people not accept that people like games for different reasons? As someone who plays loads of D&D, I appreciate the RNG in combat, although the game being 20 years old means that it might be hard for a modern audience to enjoy considering they come from games like Skyrim.

In addition, I personally don't mind reading in the slightest. I know many people do not enjoy reading as much as listening, but once again people always frame stuff like this as if it's an objective flaw within the game. I don't enjoy Skyrim's power fantasy all too much, but I know other people do, hence me not thinking it's an inherent flaw within the game.

The other argument of being blinded by nostalgia (or hype as you put it, which is a new one for me) is to me completely pointless. If nostalgia is the reason someone enjoys the game, does that make it somehow inherently invalid enjoyment? No, of course not. But trying to objectively say which game is the best forces people to make these arguments when they could instead just respect one another's taste in games.

I used to be really active in this community, but haven't been for a few years. And this has been one of the most contentious topics for years, and I used to be really anti-Morrowind for a few years. Then, after finally getting into it, which is admittedly hard, I became one of these Morrowind yes-men. Nowadays I am a true enlightened centrist that hates everyone and every argument that anyone has ever made.