User blog comment:Moogleknight24/About Morrowind?/@comment-3076045-20120410084504

Honest answer? The immersiveness of it. Unlike later games in the series, such as Oblivion and Skyrim, you can really feel like you ARE literally in a completely different universe. A universe where not only do fighting and magic exist, but the very planets themselves are different.

You AREN'T spoonfed directions to go to (Quest Arrows). You just wander around aimlessly until you find where you want to go.

Fast Travel doesnt exist either, and you have to be smart about how you get around (you can use the silt striders, or spells such as Almsivi Intervention, Divine Intervention and the Mark/Recall combo to get most places fairly rapidly). But you still have to travel to where you need to go, on foot. And then you experience the full environment first hand. If you can just fast travel there, you miss most of it :)

That's my reasoning for why I like the game.

If you would like two more massive reasons why the game is great:

1) They ACTUALLY EXPLAIN how the Dwemer/Dwarves disappear (its one of the Mages Guild quests)

2) You can actually kill the Gods in this game.