You will die. You will be frustrated.
You'll curse your inability to cope and deal with frustration borne out of a power-fantasy-saturated past gaming experience.

Then one day you'll succeed. You'll feel something you haven't felt before. Victory satisfaction beyond any tepid "pat in the back" given by most games. You'll get addicted to it. You'll be amazed at the design, the gameplay and the subtle storyline.

Then you'll die again.

This is Dark Souls. Prepare to die.

"Stand up... there you go. You were dreaming. What's your name?"

That was one of the first sentences I read when I played Morrowind for the first time several years ago. It was my first real exposure to the Elder Scrolls series (I had played the Daggerfall demo a long time ago but didn't have the chance to play the full version further at the time). I remember the feeling of awe, the sensation of freedom and perfect worldbuilding present in the game and the way its music, plot, characters and land hooked me in.

Morrowind is the third game in the main (numbered) series and in my opinion the best, but some of its gameplay aspects will be more difficult to be accepted by the modern audience of Skyrim and Witcher 3. Its combat is much closer to RPG rules, requiring die rolls to hit instead of always hitting - and the same for blocking. Magic is extremely slow but powerful if one has the time to prepare and the game can be easily broken if the player knows where to invest the character's build.

Whereas Oblivion had the standard fantasy land and Skyrim the nordic pastiche, Morrowind was something else entirely. Its peoples and cultures were and still are unique and none today have come close to building such an alien world in a mainstream open world RPG.

There are community-made add-ons called mods that greatly expand Morrowind for the returning player that wants something new or the new player that wants a more modernized experience (look it up) or play it vanilla as it should be, at least the first time around.

I played an enormous amount of games since finishing it a long time ago and have restarted it again and let me tell you, it still sits among the top pretty comfortably.

Interestingly, there is a reverse-engineered open-source port of the game done by fans that apply modern functionalities to the binary with minimal hassle (widescreen, filters, stability) called OpenMW. Be sure to check it out, but refer to its mod compatibility if you want to use any.

"Welcome, Moon-and-Star, to this place where destiny is made."