Board Thread:Morrowind/@comment-12277465-20150219060203/@comment-6881629-20150219130025

Not all Morrowind is ash theres the area you start in called the Bitter Coast which is swamp and marshes mostly then theres the more fertile land of the Ascadian Isles and Azura's Coast a lot of Vvardenfell looks like a mix of those two areas with slightly diffrent vegetation and balances of green and brown, the area around Red Mountain though called the Ashlands do get more and more red and ashy the closer you get to the volcano. With the DLC you also get the Skyrim island of Solstheim (which back then was still snow covered). Like 70.170 said the graphics were fine when the game was made. I don't think fans like ugliness they like the alienness of the land.

Compaired to the colourfulness and the many trees and flowers Oblivion Morrowind does look a bit drab (so does Skyrim really) but the tech wasn't up to it in 2002, Oblivion was actually one of the first games to use the SpeedTree software to make all those thing possable. Now though we have mods like Morrowind Reborn.