Remembering this game is reminiscing time spent living abroad in an exotic and magical place called Morrowind.
I feel more like I took a vacation there once, rather than played a game there. No, more like it was a country I studied abroad in while in college. I remember places like I was actually there. Everything and everywhere just had so much life to it. Popping this game back in is like visiting an old friend, or going back to you home country for Christmas or something.
The main things this game DIDN'T have going for it were lousy character animations, and it was too easy. The graphics were stunning. Everything was just beautiful. But movements were just so stiff. Faces looked all boxy and gross. I think this could have been better. It was the one thing that left me feeling like I was still playing a game and not totally immersed in one.
The other problem was addressed with a patch, but I thought it was a little lame. I don't want to have to "adjust" the difficult, that's just no fun. You become godly rather quickly. I was jumping from mountain peak to mountain peak smiting just about everything in one hit by the end. If you want a challenging RPG with intense fighting and strategy with great inventory and character advancement systems, this is not the game for you.
But that's not the point. The point is to explore this AMAZING world. There is nothing like digging deeper and deeper into some forgotten bottomless hellhole to find yourself in some bizarre alter with flames and ugly things trying to kill you and hammers floating above big anvils to find some crazy ancient relic and come out with this feeling of Indiana Jones meets Eaters of the Dead. It's priceless really. Exploring all the crazy things in this world is just amazing and addictive. I wouldn't trade the experience of living in this world for the short time I did for anything.