With every new Elder Scrolls game, the hit becomes diluted. Morrowind occupies the same landfill in my heart that one reserves for moments you spend the rest of your life fruitlessly trying to recreate. He's probably directly responsible for several thousand divorces.) (Braben is also to blame for my lifelong Grand Theft Auto fixation. The two games couldn't be more different on the surface, but they conjure much the same magic a portal to a different reality, a chance to live another life in another world. I already loved and craved it before it even existed, when as a strange 11-year-old boy I developed a comparable obsession with David Braben's Frontier: Elite II. The Morrowind that bestrides the BC to AD transition in my personal gaming history. What I'm obsessed with is the idea of Morrowind, as it exists in my head. Fifteen years on, it's very nearly impossible to recommend without also providing a long list of overhaul mods to install first, and definitely exactly impossible to convince anyone to go to that sort of trouble. In truth, the last time I played it properly we still had a Labour government. It's true that I'm obsessed with it - although not in the sense that I play it all the time.
There goes Jim Trinca, the Morrowind Liker. The handful of readers who recognise the by-line will know that my Morrowind obsession is the running joke of my career. Is it possible to enjoy The Elder Scrolls Online's Morrowind expansion if you're a fan of the original game who hates MMOs? Is it folly to even try? Either way, I loved Morrowind too much to ignore the arrival of its multiplayer-focused quasi-prequel.
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