I played Morrowind maybe a couple of hours, total. I still have it, I just haven't gotten around to trying to get the thing to run again. It ran when I first got it, the learning curve was really steep and I felt like I was just bumbing around, so I set it aside for awhile. Last time I tried loading it, it was crashing all the time from the drivers, so I just haven't loaded it again.
Oblivion is fairly cool. It is a console game, but I thought it was a fairly decent port from console. The controls work for me, the graphics are just astounding, the world is very detailed, the music and atmosphere very rich, very good scripting for the "random" conversations that people have, probably 20,000+ lines of dialogue. It's multithreaded, and will take full advantage of SLI graphic card setups and twin displays. There has to be at least 500 "side quests", and then another 200 which are recurringly generated. I just picked up Shivering Isles as part of my going out (of PC gaming) splurge, and I haven't gotten around to actually getting into the damn thing. I just completed the Dark Brotherhood quests, and the Thieves' Guild stuff. There's just too much to do on the game. My windows machine will crash before I can complete half the side-quests.
I think it's a great game. It was made as well as Half-Life 2.
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