The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind – Game of the Year Edition
2003 / PC game / 1 player
*****
Looking back to the formative and nostalgic games of my youth, Morrowind represented the end of the line. With its intricate character building, expansive map and seemingly endless things to do, it remains the most complex game I've ever played, or at least had a crack at before wandering off and doing my own thing before eventually getting bored. It was quite amazing, but just too much, and didn't make me enthusiastic to get into that sort of thing again, which is why I prefer small-box card games now.
But when I recently replaced my laptop with one that could handle early-21st century graphics, it seemed like something my daughter might enjoy messing around on during half-term break, and it only needs to be as complex as we want it to be. Discovering that the character speech is all stored in folders as replaceable files also introduced her to the joy of hacking.
