This is purely about vanilla gameplay here because honestly, graphics don't make the game (mods might but I'm not taking those into account here). Oblivion was a fantastic game that I invested 100+ hours in before even really starting the main quest. Morrowind on the other hand was a little bit harder for me to get into when I first played it but I just started playing again on Monday. When I first began my quest in Morrowind, I found that it was extremely difficult to do many things, I couldn't sneak, I couldn't jump I couldn't do much damage (when my attacks connected that is, which was about a 1 in 5 chance), I always failed at casting spells, and I ran at about 2 miles per hour. When I first played Oblivion it was a completely different story. You can sprint without wasting fatigue and jump high enough that you don't even need to focus on acrobatics at all, you can kill anything because enemies level with you (attacks always connect!), and your spells always cast. Now, this is where I differ from some people. I found that Morrowind's system was more enjoyable than Oblivion's. My reasoning behind this is because with Morrowind you feel a sense of accomplishment every time you do something right.

• You start out as a weak prisoner that can't do anything and work your way up to an actual warrior or a mage instead of in Oblivion where you start the game off as one or the other.
• Enemies don't level up with you in Morrowind, so you absolutely HAVE to start out small. You have to find some mudcrabs, or rats. (I have been killed by many a random enemy in Morrowind. Witches, bandits,... cliff racers.). In Oblivion, you start off fighting rats and goblins, but immediately after, you could go out and start killing any enemy you come across whether they are skeletons, ghosts, or even bandits, also, once you reached a high level, simple bandits ended up wearing glass armor and wielding daedric weaponry. Not cool.
• In Morrowind, most, if not nearly all, of the loot was hand placed. On one occasion, I was exploring a ruin, and I came across a dwarven crossbow. Mind you, I was still at level one and my strongest weapon at the time was the iron sparksword (the crossbow does 30 damage, the sword does 1-10 or something?). In Oblivion, I think only a small portion of the loot (disregarding quest items of course) was hand placed and your weapons would strengthen with your level.
• NO FAST TRAVEL OR COMPASS! I tried not fast traveling in Oblivion when I first started playing, but just the fact that I had the option made it nearly impossible. The ideas for the silt striders and transport boats in Morrowind were much better in my opinion. It meant that you HAD to explore the world to find what you were looking for and to do that, you HAD to listen to the directions that the NPC would give you. The compass thing I just feel makes the game too easy.
• Morrowind's cities are open (yes, I know that the Open Cities mod for Oblivion does the same thing) and connect directly to the wilderness which means no city gates, and no load screens just to enter the city.

• Horses were the greatest thing to happen to traveling since shoes.
• The combat system in Oblivion just completely destroyed the one in Morrowind. It felt much more polished and the animations were great. That said, it did have more modern technology and probably a lot of fan feedback and the combat system in Morrowind wasn't actually bad per se, it was just... impaired, if you will. It takes some getting used to.
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• The lock picking mechanic is much better.

• Oblivion had environmental traps (tripwires, pressure plates, ceiling spikes, spike pits, gas traps, and various swinging/falling obstacles) while Morrowind had magically trapped doors and chests which made the user carry probes in order to reach certain treasures and added a sense of strategy to conserving said probes. If both games' concepts were mixed together, it would make dungeons only that much more dangerous and fun.
  

Computer=fixed! This makes me happy. The site looks even better at 24" I didn't think that was possible. Anyway, I get to play all my games again, listen to my music again, and watch my movies again. In other news, my 360 is refusing to access the internet. I'll have to get on that pretty soon but that's ok because I just got Lost Odyssey and I'm having a great time with it so far. I love the CG and the story (not to mention it was the first game to almost make me cry in a while). So for now that's really all I have to say, not much new about the site besides the new moderators (welcome!) so, I'm off!

Apparently The Dark Night is extra popular in Ohio because I still couldn't get a ticket today. All was not lost though because I saw Hellboy 2 instead and I can say that it was really good. It was quite long too. I got into the theater around 9:45 and left at midnight. The humor was just as good as in the first one if not better and Hellboy is still Hellboy; he's still badass as hell. The story was really good and  we get to see a little bit more of the fantastic magical world that the first movie simply alluded to. So, Hellboy 2? Great movie, but not the Dark Night. Maybe tomorrow....

So. My good computer broke... Now I have to do everything with my 5 year old HP with a 12" monitor until I can get around to fixing it. LAME. Whatever. I'm glad that the Giant Bomb is much smoother now. It takes about a second to load up each page or post a comment. I'm really enjoying the forums. A lot of the time, I just find myself reading every post for 5 or so pages and notice I didn't bother leaving one myself. That said, the forums are moving much faster than I expected. There are plenty of topics constantly popping up everywhere that I hardly know where to start. I'm getting all giddy about everything on the site, I'm taking it in in unequal pieces... I need to get some "relationships" started. I also have to get around to watching The Dark Night. Busy, busy busy...

The site is looking great if not a little hectic at this moment. I know that nearly every issue that I've seen so far is already being addressed such as the speed issue. The homepage is always going to be the best though, just because of the cartoon Giant Bomb staff. I like the layout with the Giant Bombcast and the How to Build a Bomb videos. The database is already huge and still growing. and the forums! Finally! I haven't taken part in the forums very much yet, but I've looked through everything and it looks like this community is going to be a great one. All in all, this website was one hell of a task to start up, but it definitely did make a huge boom when it came looking this good. BRING ON TEH LULZ!

It just looks... wow... excuse me for a second... *sob*