I had the opposite experience that the OP had, as soon as I started playing the game (PC) I was hooked, I probably put 80+ hours into it before I decided my skin was becoming too pale and my eyes were completely bloodshot all day, also the shaking from all the caffein wasn't a big help, I had to put the game down. I have cravings to play it sometimes still but it really is too time consuming for me. I loved it and I will be getting Oblivion but I'm going to try being a little more casual this time around

My little cousin is playing it now and he's loving it. Definately one of those games you have to devote yourself too.

Yeah, it's strange. I'm a HUGE Morrowind fan, but I actually had a similar experience to the OP. I had a hard time getting into it at first--it was a bit overwhelming and uncompelling, lots of boring wandering around, and worst of all--I couldn't fucking hit anything!

So I dropped the game for a few months, but once I started playing it again, I got really hooked. I found the lore really interesting, once I started reading some of those books that you find lying around, and the world can be incredibly immersive if you let it. The combat didn't bother me once I started understanding the mechanics of how it worked, and I loved all the different things you could do--creating potions, having my equipment enchanted with all these different spell effects.

It also helps to have some imagination and role-playing your character, like coming up with a backstory for them, thinking how they would react in certain situations, etc.

And like someone else said, it does help to have the PC version, because all the different mods out there--they add a lot of new life to the game.

got the game, played it for an hour and never touched it again. im always playing a couple games at the same time and don't want to devote so much time into one game.