Daggerfall: yes I felt Morrowind went the wrong direction. The "open play" was just wander off the road, over the hill, find another road, find a dungeon. Everything you "found" you would have ended up at anyway eventualy in the story. And their "random dungeons" even I could have improved on which is something I rarely say.
Tranquility: definetly worth looking at but its NOT like any other game you have seen. Its actually an effort to live up to its name. It makes you WANT to play it hard and fast but if you do you will lose. What it reminds me most of is the star trek where Ryker brings a game back from Ryssa IV which almost takes over the ship. "you know the secret dont you? Dont force it, it almost plays itself". (and just as addictive)
SEIV and Moo3? Hmmm yes I guess Moo3 did have one thing going for it as far as being fairly ultimate in good player interface for a complicated game. Id rather see SEIV and Dominions2. I love SEIV but if it could have the oh so difficult rock-paper-scissors balance done at national level then I almost feel as if I would never need another game.
Magic Realm: just to throw something else into the mix.
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This is a game on my "every developer should get this game and look at it" list. You can still sometimes find it on Ebay. An old game by Avalon Hill which I feel came out at the wrong time. Just as PCs were getting popular they created a FANTASIC board game whose only drawback was that it took hours to setup and an hour to put away. But that was done to achieve the maximum amount of random and even the person setting it up could play. It simply SCREAMED as a board game which should have been a computer program.