Add-ons really worth it?

[The Hierophant]

Heya.

I just bought the original Morrowind in a bargain bin for $10NZ (about $5 US). I'm also interested in buying the expansion packs, but unfortunately the only way to do so where I live is to buy the full 'game of the year' edition (which includes the orignal plus both add-on campaigns) for $70NZ. So, would this really be worth it? Do the expansions really add anything amazingly significant to the game? Or should I just stick with the original and save my incredibly minimal supply of money?

Cheers for your advice.

[Aelia Jusa]

I thought Tribunal sucked. Apparently Bloodmoon was much better, I dunno, don't have it. Morrowind is a really huge game, I think it's probably big enough on its own.

[The Hierophant]

Thanks AJ! I've heard many similar verdicts, but I was keen to get the more 'personalised' opinions of people I'm semi-familiar with on IW.

[Kakero]

Morrowind is good enough on it's on. The other 2 expansion don't add much to Morrowind in term of original storyline. So it's rather quite dissapointing ( to me ). Anyway, the 2 expansions does add up more gaming hours so that you won't uninstall your game after beating Morrowind.

[vesselle]

~the expansions add functionality to MW. most notably, the journal (highly unorganized and useless as is) and map system.
~the best gaming mods that improve MW are designed using the game with both XPs installed.
~the collection comes pre-patched.

for my experience, without the XPs, it's like playing bg2 unpatched w/o tob and baldurdash.

V***V

[armageddon272]

ive got to agree. plus, MW gets boring after a while once your character becomes OmniPowerful and Tribunal/Bloodmoon adds challenges that are more fun than jus changing the difficulty. id say its worth getting it.

[Irongrinder]

If you are interested in getting them, try getting them online. Lot of expansions are only available for a limited time, but I use online shopping if I still want them

[Melusine]

Aaron, one thing that I did find very useful was the fact that Tribunal parses quests. Your journal just gets out of control after a while, sooo annoying. I haven't tried Bloodmoon.
Y'know, I bought the Tribunal CD here for only about 5 euros, let's say we test if I ever actually get around to sending you those CDs (sorry sorry sorry, loaded with work, everybody demands my time and attention, poor me but all I need to do is buy a bubblewrap envelope so it WILL happen. Really.) and it works out and they arrive safely, then I could always send you Tribunal through mail.

[Seraph]

The Journal features added by tribunal or bloodmoon alone are probably worth an extra $10, unfortunatly that is about all tribuanal is worth. I would say that $35US would be pushing it, but if you could find bloodmoon by itself cheap ($15 US or less) somewhere then I would recomend you get it.

[TheGodThatFailed]

Hmm, this thread helped me also, i was interesting in getting the expansions, and possably might.