Say goodbye to family and friends, take the trip to morrowind and enjoy the ride...
Like it's worth sparring partners, Baldur's Gate and Ultima 7, you embark gingerly on your travels with little but the pack on your back and the world at your feet...
And like these other two titles, the world that you enter isn't tainted with levelled areas, and it doesn't lead you in any particular direction. Instead, you have the entire world at your feet and what you do in it is totally up to you.
The freedom to explore and discover is the very essence of these games, and any game of this genre which imposes limitations as to where a player can explore, flies in the face of why we embark on our adventures to begin with.
Morrowind is a very special game, and it boasts a world that you can truly live in and shape depending on the choices you make.
It also has that very special quality (that we all love, i think), the one that allows it's players to sit back and soak in the surroundings and take a mental snapshot of the picture postcard view before us.
I'm looking forward to getting engulfed in dust storms and snow storms, seeing picturesque villages for the first time as i negotiate unfriendly swampland, and uncovering hidden lairs that i have never stumbled on before.
And that's all before breakfast....