If you thought Skyrim was a blast, Morrowind is its granddaddy, and it promises a hootnanny of a good time.

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Skyrim takes place two hundred years after Oblivion, so Elder Scrolls Online probably takes place before Arena, Morrowind, and Oblivion by about eight hundred years.

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Before we saw the Skyrim or sought Oblivion, there was the 2002 game Morrowind, third in the Elder Scrolls series and an outstanding RPG in its own right.

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Morrowind was weird, diverse, fantastic, and epic.

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The parts you should pay closer attention to are the code patcher, which modifies the Morrowind game executable, and the selection of graphic options based on what your hardware can take, complete with previews (for example, water effects with OR without foam).

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