When I saw skyblivion, I was just 30 hours into oblivion and my only problem was the combat and graphics, the strengths of skyrim. Sat for a second with my mouth open seeing how great it looked
Morrowind did what no Bethesda game since has done and that is not put a sense of urgency to the MQ,you drop off the package and Caius tells you to piss off and play the game before doing the MQ, no urgent drama right out of the gate where you have to ignore a Daedric Prince or world eater. Then there are the level requirements before advancing,it gave me a real sense of progression for my character.
Yeah, I ruled Morrowind, in the beginning, grab the scrolls off the guy who fell from the sky, then find your self an amulet of slow fall, then head to red mountain, use one of the scrolls, hop over the barrier, continue along till you find dagoth ur, fucken kill him while he's weak, Morrowinds main plot is done.
I remember when I was young, we got our first computer, we got Serious Sam and Duke Nukem and this blank CD case with the morrowind CD. I honestly thought it was a CD for the graphics card for a year or so, so I never put it in. Then one afternoon I was bored, chucked it in and oh man oh man, I ran to my sister and made her watch, and she watched me play for a few hours then she played. It was so exciting! Fast forward a few months and it was all I was talking about in grade 5, This weird game that no one knew about that i thought was the greatest thing on earth. I went to a school friends birthday party and bought a copy for him as a present, he didn't play it for a while but I pressured him and after he started playing that was it, we hung out and talked about it constantly. Thanks Bethesda, you made my childhood amazing.
Man oh man, I remember playing this in grade 2 at a friends house and we would sneak to each others house in the middle of the night to literally play this game, This game molded us ;)
@@viveka2994 Very big undertaking... Lots of reading haha, I moved from Hungary to Canada when I was 6 so I got lucky learning English early :) Best of wishes to you neighbour! Viszlat!
@@nachfullbarertrank5230 no im not sure u understand. If u enchant clothes and armour w constant effect 2 max then u can jump from balmora to caldera maybe further in 1 jump
-No hand holding -No level/scaling -No saturation of the screen with UI -No distant land textures (barring mods) that keep the land hidden and mysterious Morrowind was a masterpiece.
-Character moves slow as ass -Hard to navigate, making you spend way too much time looking for some obscure cave for a quest -Goddamned cliff racers everywhere, making you have to stop every ten seconds while looking for that cave -Weapon hits, spell casting etc has random success chance -Spell deflection randomly kills your character if you're trying to rely on destruction spells -Unimaginable amounts of glitches -Crashes every 15 minutes Yeah, I'll stick to Oblivion, thank you
@@exantiuse497 u my sir are a casual🤭 hits arent random if u build ur character right u will hit almost every time. If ur pc really crashes every 15 mins then it probably sucks🤔 idk i cant really understand why a modern pc would have issues with morrowind😅 hard time finding caves? Well i guess thats some normal and realistic behavior if ure not familiar with the land and have to explore and follow the directions given to u and not following some shitty questmarkers, floating in the game breaking ur immersion.
Morrowind is my third TES and my favourite also ive played them before (mostly skyrim at the time) but last month i downloaded Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim and i have played 2 days to Skyrim, 5 days to Oblivion and im like 3 weeks now on Morrowind (with the overhaul patch on, thats what made me feel comfortable with the graphics and i love how it looks now) and i dont think ill stop playing it for a while because it got me hooked like i havent been in years with a game the only thing that i regret is the lack of physics because placing objects and droping them as in oblivion would make it perfect
D Johnson I also played Skyrim before Morrowind, and Skyrim is better. The main reason is that the dungeons in Morrowind are 5 times more samey than Skyrim, way shorter, and too close quarters to sneak around much. Since these games are dungeon crawlers for the most part, this makes Skyrim better.
Trying to find a specific quest across the world based solely on a morrowind NCP's directions- Turn left after hook rock, strait for 1000 paces then circle around north high mountain pass (not south high mountain or center high mountain) and then stop by the cliff that looks like a big penis. Thats the spot, do a rain dance and the entrance is under the blood moon at high tide. Bring me the ash fire.
Just like asking for directions from folk in in real life - the residents of Vvardenfell often gave terrible directions. That's realism right there for ya!
Ye, I was pissed in Oblivion when they added the quest map marker telling you exactly where to go. It made the game stupidly easy with no challenge or depth. If you removed it, it was still possible to find the location by reading your Journal. Skyrim got lazy and just removed the journal and designed all quests around the marker.
@@Wurmo Or you can, you know, not use the marker? Just follow something without quest markers like the nirnroot quest and complete the quests you want to without using their markers. I can't understand why people never seem to realise you *don't have to use every tool the game gives you.* If you want extra challenge, don't use things that remove challenge from the game. I do agree about Skyrim, but that game is dumbed down from Oblivion in more ways than one anyways
Actual Sorcerer(heavy armor mages) fashion. Robes with pauldrons. PAULDRONS AND ROBES. Mixing clothing styles with armor. Argonians with Unarmored bonus got less gimped by The Fashionable Scrolls III, except the old beast race feet and open helms issue. ( Why no beast race specific armor??) Still, so cool
In my opinion, morrowind is the best game, because the developers didn't give a shit, they made the world the way they wanted. None of this bullshit about catering to the player. I hate it when the world in video games is specially made for the player. Can't really get immersed. Video game developers should just do their own thing.
Yup. Gaming was a way more niche activity back in the day, so there was a great deal more scope for creativity. Maybe we’ll come full-circle, eh? Here’s hoping :)
Actually Morrowind was Bethesdas last chance to survive after their last couple of games kinda flopped. So they put EVERYTHING in Morrowind what they thought will make it a very cool and outstanding game. They tryed so extremely hard with Morrowind the tryharding vikingcrap of Skyrim is simply looking like pink pussyhsit next to it XD Morrowind was kind of a sucsess and therefor the studio was saved by Zenimax. Nowadays they just do what they can marketing to the new overhyped generation bred on youtube -_-
I feel like the reason it was such a good game is because it wouldn't hold your hand. The game encourages you to go out, explore and be your own person. instead of just going from one map marker to another
Thats actually one the reasons why morrowind isnt that good actuall since you can just turn off the map marker in everyother elder scrolls and explore anyways. I do it all the time in oblivion and Skyrim.
@@maximusatlas9377 Morrowind wasn't designed with map markers in mind which is why it works so well without them. Oblivion and Skyrim were which is why it's very autistic to turn it off because of radiant quests.
@@kapoka5058 Wow its been a looooong time since I posted that comment. Personally some of my opinions have change since I last posted but some have remained. So bare with me. First I love Morrowind, I just think its way overated and its far from the "immersive" gem some claim it to be and quite a wreck in many aspects. However it has by far the best main questline in my opinion. However I still dislike the map/ Journal aspect of the game. Its a smaller game which is why it has no markers and why you talk to people to travel. I just find that personally annoying since it does delay some choices to make in a player position. I also disliked the DLC but I respect anyone who differed in my taste. Its just a game so im not against that. Lastly, while I do admit radiant quest get annoying in Oblivion and Skyrim, I was able to enjoy those games slightly more than Morrowind. Again its just personal taste. I just dislike a lot of things morrowind and lore wise while its great, from a mechanical view I just find it quite low spectrum and dull. But I respect other peoples position on the matter. So im not going to act like an elitist and try to change someones taste on the matter. Anyways thanks for the reply even though its waaaay old on my part.
I played Skyrim for over 500 hours before finally doing a full playthrough of Morrowind which took me roughly 120 hrs. Currently I'm playing Skyrim again and am shocked on how much I plainly forgot whilst still remembering so much more of Morrowind. The atmosphere, story, character progression, etc are so much more enjoyable to me in Morrowind.
Magic is more satisfying in Morrowind, more freedom, more possibilities...if you have mana at least. Also, I think Skyrim being newer is much more casualized, less intricate, less "lorey, bookey", less intellectual for sure. But I still really love the world of Skyrim. It introduced me to Morrowind, like what happened for you.
I played Morrowind back in 2003 and it became *the* game for me and a pal. We'd talk about our discoveries on the phone almost daily. Amazing experience. Nothing afterwards managed to capture this same feeling, and I thought I was just old and jaded and nothing could replicate the feelings of awe I got as a teen. But then I replayed it in 2017. At one point, I was exploring northwest of Caldera, trying to reach the western shore, but I didn't find a way across the mountains. Then I decided to turn back but didn't find my way back. I walked through the wilderness at the ass end of nowhere, only barren hills around me with the occasional cliffracer squeak breaking the silence, and I realized that I was lost. And the game allowed it. There was no quest marker to lead me back to the right path. No compass indicators to show me the nearest point of interest. Just me standing there, in the middle of nowhere, having lost my way. And at that precise moment, I felt at home. I had returned to that beautiful captivating world that allowed me to get lost in it. Thank you, Morrowind. You will always have a special place in my heart for this.
We don't need a remake of Morrowind. We need a game that the developers have given the same amount of thought into building the world and the characters, not another lazy attempt at copying some real life culture like the Roman Empire or the Vikings.
I wouldn’t mind a full remake exact copy with updated graphics and controls... that’s it.. no changes to the game and story itself other than the controls and graphics.
Play as breton, get boots of blinding speed, turn up your brightness. only way to play. (breton resistance to magic 50% therefore your only half blind and you can run super fast)
make a spell which gives 50% magic resistance or resist magic scroll cast it as breton than wear the boots and you will see quite good also buy resist magicka potion it all stacks!
Just go Dunmer and wear either the Cuirass of the Savior's Hide or the Ebony Mail, and you're cool too. Or if you're awesome (or a console user (meaning the cheat thing on pc)), kill Helseth, or do player->additem "Helseth's Ring" 1, and have no worries about the downsides of the Boots! :D
I nearly shed a tear after watching this video. Seeing my home Balmora intact, you know, after the Red Year nothing is the same :( Living here in Skyrim definitely is not my cup of Sujamma.
I prefer Flin. Finer flavor, more gentle on the palate, and less grating. It also has subtleties that you won't notice on the first sip. Sure, it is pricey, but I'd say it is worth it.
I first played Morrowind on Xbox, and LOVED it. Now I'm playing it on PC with mods. It's so much better with mods. Thank you to all the Morrowind modders. Love Morrowind!!!
I played it on Xbox for the first time too. I cheesed the hell out of that healing cheat code. Lol but it is so much better with mods. Do you know which graphic mod they used in this video? The one I put on is a couple of years old now, and the faces are not nearly as pretty as they are here.
this game is hands down my favorite video game of all time. i have replayed it at least 50 times throughout the past 6-7 years along with tribunal and bloodmoon and honest to god this game can never get old even when you know everything about it. i absolutely love this game
What I loved about Morrowind was the mixture of divine and mortal themes. Daedric Princes are real and they interfere in mortal affairs, but they do so by "blessing" mortals with minor trinkets. Mortals wield the tools of the divine and defy the gods. There are "living" gods who are somewhere inbetween gods and mortals, and the player character becomes a sort of "half-divine" with godlike tools, immortality and god-killing power. There are nutty magic phenomena like the Ghostfence, giant mushrooms, floating moons. Yet everything still feels so grounded - you can fly over the Ghostfence, check out every crater on that moon and fly circles around it. Everything has a mundane explanation. The final boss is literally building a new "God" out of brass and rocks. What is mundane, what is magical, and what is divine? Is there a difference? What is apotheosis? It's the perfect setting for the Dunmer, who are a people so stuck in their mythical past and their religious traditions that they can't see how materially poor and societally backwards they still are. Yet some of them are incredibly powerful and wise, the most transcendent people on Tamriel. What a game. Compare that to the cookie-cutter "demonic invasion" in Oblivion and the cookie-cutter "dragon invasion" in Skyrim. Those games still had their moments, but they didn't hit the same thematic sweet point. Awe is the right word for it.
4:59 Michael Kirkbride, literally the dude that wrote most of Morrowind, said that he wanted a game that was like the 3 movies Star Wars, Dune, and Dark Crystal. He also has his degrees in creative writing and theology.
Jesus this game is still so popular, people keep making videos about this game and they get plenty of videos. I started playing the game too again, it 's really my favorite RPG of all time, no other game makes me sink in the world like Morrowind does.
Silent Death They wouldn't be remastering these. It would be just like making a new game. With morrowind you can take some if not most of it and update but that would be expensive. And the other would just be 2 new games you could not anything from them because there so old. it would be Interesting but they'd rather make elder scrolls 7 because it's less of a head wreck
honestly though, i don't think bethesda are capable of making a game like morrowind anymore. they've lost something along the way. what? idk, but they definitely feel like a completely different company now.
Maybe its your nostolgia talking. Morrowind was great but Oblivion and Skyrim was better in all senses. However its all a matter of how you see videos games so I wont argue about that
Initially I thought that Bethesda's announcement about the Morrowind add-on for their mmo was actually announcing the remake. I was so happy....and then so disappointed when I realised my mistake :/
CircleOfSorrow If they did then the hardwork of the team at SkyWind will go to waste. Plus it'd be more profitable if they did a remake of Daggerfall or an entirely new Elder Scrolls.
I recently just got into morrowind and I have to say one of my favorite things is just being able to live in the world. In skyrim I feel like im being pushed by story and simple gameplay to go and do stuff and kill everything. But in morrowind I feel like I have true choice and can take things slow. Exploring is so much more rewarding and less linear too.
I cant believe he didnt mention house telvanni's totally unique set of rules X) one of my favorite factions for that reason "if you kill another member of the house, they deserved to die. If you steal from another member of the house you deserve that item" Them telvanni's dont like rules XD
shiron90 Lucky lol. I didn't play it til after Oblivion came out. Buddy showed me Oblivion and I had nothing to play it on but a cashier at eb games recommended Morrowind for og xbox. By the time I actually got Oblivion I was very unimpressed with it as a result
Ethan in Morrowind you had ton of spears And they were actual fucking useful unlike that short range arrow that you loot off Rieklings. *Edit forgot the word useful cuz I've been up quite a while.*
Finally someone who feels the same way! Spears are a costant in our history (from flint spears in the stone age to bayonets in WWII) because they were effective! I really don't know why they chose not to include them in later games
Dunmer are kinda like the Lannister. You know that they suck, and that you should hate them instead of loving them, but at the end of the day, they'll still be one of your favourites.
Morrowind is and has been my favorite game ever since I played it as a child. Though there is a nostalgic element there, I still do full playthroughs about every other year. I don't do that with other games and I still manage to learn unique and interesting new things about the game. It's great!
Morrowind was so scary as a kid, not just because of the horrific alien-like environments but the true sense that anything could happen. Playing it through again as a teenager, the feeling was still there, no game since has felt so open to player possibilities. In Oblivion and Skyrim, I was thankful for fast travel, but in Morrowind I wouldn't want to miss the journey, of stumbling on to something that could change the entire experience. The journal, the explorative dialogue trees, no quest markers, no hand-holding. So many good times.
Morrowind and its glorious expansion packs. So many fond memories. so many years of my life spent playing it, learning all its lore from the countless books. XD
It is based the idea of the mystical far east. The culture and society is so strange. RPG-wise it is the best game in terms of world-building. All the books, all the factions, all the politics - it is just so sophisticated as well. As in all of the Elder Scrolls games, you start as a prisoner, but you are brought to the far east. The game really makes you feel like a stranger, and then you grow into the role of the Nerevarine "chose one".
Scott I love how your an original outlander unlike most of the bandwagon content makers who only mostly played oblivion. #silthstridersforlife Morrowind made me want to be as powerful as the tribunal and I eventually got there. Skyrim didn't really have anyone of that stature, and the leveled items just killed exploration for me. Morrowind deserves this praise, and I couldn't agree with you more.
OBsurdityTV In skyrim, Eso and possibly Oblivion (been too long since I played it) the enemies and items were scaled to the same level as the player or within a range of them. In Morrowind you could screw yourself by taking a silt strider to a high level area right out of the gate and not have the money to port back and not be able to survive. Hell I went to the final dungeon as level 5. Was using a bunch of exploits to survive the way there but it was all endgame enemies instead of level 5 like it would be in the later games. Other difference is items. In skyrim you can only find items to steal that were at your level range. In Morrowind every placed weapon had its stats set in stone. So you could go find and steal glass and ebony stuff right at the start. If it was intended to be out of the hands of noobs it would require a really high sneak (steal? don't remember what it was back then) to pick the locks and get it. I used to murder a shopkeeper in Balmora right at the start of every playthrough for his ebony spear and shitty dagger that let you summon a bound dagger (on par with deadric back then) at will
OBsurdityTV There's mods that remove the level scaling from Skyrim and do a decent job of balance. Makes the world more interesting becayse you never know what you might find. Especially with Loot randomizers. The ones I use change the possible loot from each enemy type to be more fitting based on what they are. Say a wolf won't drop a weapon but might drop things like rings and jewels that a wolf could swallow. Randomizes the loot within the new set ups so they all have a fitting range of loot they can drop
Omg, the leveled item mechanics of oblivion and skyrim were infuriating. When playing ill literally have to look up every nook and cranny on Google to make sure I'm not going to pick up or get a leveled item when its weak because I'm not of ample level for the item to have max stats. Morrowind did it the way it was supposed to be.
I wouldn't mind if they brought back the text dialogue system for the next game. Morrowind is still the most immersive game for me. Little to no voice acting is better than repetitive, bland shit. Morrowind is more like reading a book while the later games try to be more like a movie. Books are usually better.
Okay, lets all be honest here. Coming from Morrowind's open structure (drop you in with very little guidence), and then adding map markers to Elder Scrolls future titles is like the equivalent of taking The Legend of Zelda from Zelda 1 of the open world, go anywhere do anything to Ocarina of Time's more linear structure in a sense. You lost something in the transition. Although not a one-to-one comparison, there is truth in the fact that the player experiences MUCH LESS personal will and immersion. I mean, why would you? Just follow the damn map marker. It brings you Exactly to where you need. It Nerfs the whole open world feeling of feeling all alone, without a North Star anywhere. Hand holding ruined Elder Scrolls.
Its not a matter of just turning it off. The game was designed with fast travel in mind, the world was designed around it. Thats why running from 1 place to another is super boring in skyrim, because on a micro level the game world is super boring, while on a macro level the world itself is still amazing.
You can still just not fast travel...and you can turn off markers completely. I don't see what the problem is, you're getting mad at something that is OPTIONAL for you...
Did you not read my what i wrote before you replied or what ? Why would i not fast travel, when the world is built with fast travelling in mind and therefor boring and bland. I am not a masochist. When i say i dont want fast travel, its because that means the developers need to put more effort into the world, which in turn means a better, more immersive world, with meaningful and memorable encounters that you will still remember in 5 years 10 years or 20 years in the future. Who in their right mind would put that effort into world creation, when they know that 90% of the people will just fast travel ? NO ONE because its a waste of resources. There are a few in skyrim, but thats not the case with like 90% of the encounters. As for quest markers.. well guess what the game is built around that too. There are no journal entries on the same level of detail as there were in Morrowind for example that literally served the sole purpose of guiding you to where you had to go, via common sense, landmarkers etc. The argument "Just dont or You can turn it off" is simply put idiotic. If ticking that option in the settings would suddenly add a similar journal system to the game.. sure i guess u could turn quest and map markers off.
Listen up here, I've had Morrowind on my damn wishlist for a while now. Stop trying to convince me to get it. I'm waiting for a sale because i'm a filthy jobless person.
@@freckles182 This is so cool I'm glad more people are trying this game, it's currently the top seller on Steam. They didn't discount Skyrim's dlcs tho, I never played Dragonborn.
I'd also add the fact that the game doesn't treat you like an idiot, no quest markers, no invincible NPC's, no holding hands. I love the fact that you can kill Vivek, and still find a way to complete a game for example.
I never really had too much trouble with the combat, I just used weapons my class specialized in and made sure my fatigue was high during battle. Then BAM I never missed
Morrowind is amaizing. i bought it a week ago and fell in love with it. i must say, before i played morrowind, i hated dunmer so much... because they enslave my favorite (argonian) race and worship daedra(i played oblivion and skyrim at that time),but now they seem to be a proud, with rich history, nation. Personally, i think Vivec is an asshole and killed Nerevar. but really. buy this game or you wont have the true elder scrolls experience. i am currently roleplaying a shadowscale that betrayed his King of Black Marsh because his political views and fled to cyrodil where he was was attacked by argonian agents of the king of bkack marsh. He kills the agents but gets captured later by a group of ,paid by the argonian king, bounty hunters. he is then brought to prison to be executed, but gets released by the Emperor. so far this build is great. he is a night blade. Scot, thanks for the video) i also had some amaizing flash backs from solstheim. brilliant idea for a dlc. it does feed your nostalgia no matter what you played first, skyrim or morrowind.
This is why I love the Elder Scrolls, each entry in the series has a different theme making them each unique in their own right, but also making me feel the same great feeling when playing them all (yes even eso).
Zach Link Yeah alot of people disregard eso, but i think they did a good job making the questlines feel more like a single player experience while still being mmo. And the character models look amazing compared.
I went into eso expecting an mmo, but what i got was a game like skyrim where i end up enjoying the story and do the main/side quest and explore the world, while meeting other people on the way and teaming up with them sometimes to achieve our common goal, its awesome
Zach Link yeah so "Unique" as after finishing them all multiple times, I still get confused when trying to remember "was that thing in skyrim or in oblivion?" then again who cares, as they both are piles of repetitive copy-pasted andomly-generated lifeless shit compared to morrowind.
For the next province we explore in TES, I want that alien feel that Morrowind had. That DOESN'T mean that I want huge mushrooms growing all over the place, or scribs, kwama, netches or anything like that. I want Bethesda to use the lore of the province to their advantage, rather than see it as a a crutch. For Valenwood, lets see these giant moving trees that house cities! For Elsweyr, lets see all the different Khajiit breeds! For Black Marsh, lets experience a deadly swamp that could kill you unless you're damn well prepared! For the Summerset Isles, lets see that glass city of Alinor, and the coral ruins of Cloudrest! Don't just replace all these with an in game explanation of authors exaggerating stuff, or a notable historical figure magically changing something. I HOPE that this is the reason for Bethesda waiting for technology that isn't here yet, to fully realize a province's cultural identity without rewriting it with a medieval fantasy setting
Skullcrusher430 It's mostly technology. Bethesda do care about their atmosphere as of it's their own child so if a new ES game comes out, hopefully with a new engine, we'd see some cool shit like that.
The thing that surprised me the most about Morrowind as a kid was how scared I was to explore Morrowind in addition to it being really alien. The loading screen pictures were really terrifying with the Hungers and Ogrims - the thought of running into them inside the first family tomb I found (which by themselves were creepy). The shambling of the corprus monsters, and of course I treated the water like lava because the dreugh zooming by scared me shitless as a kid.
I couldn't get into morrowind in the past because I just felt like the game ran like crap but after playing it threw open mw I'm hooked on it like skooma 😆
yeah openmw is basically required to run morrowind on modern systems, love those guys for making the best elder scrolls game accessible to even more people
I've lost count on how many hours I've accumulated playing Morrowind. I have to say it's the best Elder Scrolls game out there. When I get bored playing Skyrim SE, I always turn to Morrowind. I'm pretty sure I've completed the game over 500 times now.
Morrowind was and is the best RPG ever made. Oblivion and Skyrim are more simulaters than RPG compared to Morrowind, whcih is in itself fine, but God, we need a new Morrowind.
Its other way around. Morrowind was too restrictived and the main point of RPG is to be anyone and Oblivion and skyrim naild that part. I bet if skyrim came first and morrowind last everyone would go nostolgic on skyrim or oblivion
Text based narrative is the only way to get deep narrative in games. If they have to do voice over for everything that will cost a shit load of money and most studios won't do it. So I think it actually helps Morrowind a lot that they went for text only in many of the interactions. The thing is, to attract a wide audience they need to dumb down mechanics, and that is what happened in the following iterations. Less dialog, less RPG, less of everything really with a focus on combat
If they remaster Morrowind they should add the mainland. According to modders they were working on mainland but cut it and released the game without it, modders were able to finish it but I would like to see bethesda's take on it.
Let them remaster it as a new standalone game. it cant hurt to have that opportunity, we still have the orginal and with MGSO, MR and TR its optimal. I love medium armor and i always break in to the headquarters of Ordinators in ghostgate to steal some of their pauldrons and gauntlets. In MR it has been moded so i had to kill 1 ordinator to get his suit =D
i only watched a friend play back in the day and my roommate pointed out there is graphics mods for it and i should try it, so i bought it on steam, got the mods and damn. starting the game is like getting ready to go on a hike through a different world and it has been since gothic 1 and 2 that i have been so drawn into a game's world. Especially because there arent map markers and all that. When returning to your guild after you completed a mission and some sidequests along the way and empty your inventory / sort things out / sell them off it just feels like you have been on a real walk and you are happy to be home and need some time to recharge to get out there again because there is so much to explore and find out, it's just stunning to me and i love every second of it.
Morrowind is the best game I've ever played on any system. It really left a huge impression on me to this day. For text-based dialogue, I remember characters in Morrowind to this day, whereas I struggle to recall standout characters in Oblivion/Skyrim. Who could forget "Uncle" Crassius Curio? The lore and world of Morrowind has not been bettered. I literally remember trying to be a book collector in this game and creating my own library at Tel Uvirith. I remember joining the Tribunal Temple and just being given a book to take the pilgrimages at different sacred locations - learning about the humility of Lord Vivec when he toiled on the Fields of Kummu or wandering inside Ghostgate (scary stuff at first). Such an incredible game.
My first Morrowind playthrough was as a Nord. I had no idea the player would be a Dunmer messiah. An odd choice, but it led to some interesting gameplay. House Redoran seemed the best fit. I agree Morrowind spoiled me with its political complexity, but I think Bethesda was reading it's playerbase. People didn't want to have to do separate games in separate factions. They want to be able to get to the top of every faction in one game, and move on to the next. The same thing can be said for map markers. People don't want to explore; most find it tedious. They prefer to play fetch, unlock their achievements, and move on.
People don't want to explore a landscape and dungeons that are literally copy-paste, that's true. Only dungeons I like in Skyrim are the Dwemer ones. People say Vvardenfell was small but at least it has interesting stuff to fill that smaller worldspace
yea it's sad that players want those things... because it undermines the idea of an RPG game.. it stops being an RPG when there are no consequences for your actions, and when exploration is just completely removed.
SkyWind. Its a huge mod that recreates morrowind on skyrim engine. So the modders have to recreate textures, armor, environment etc. Its been in development for a long time, thats why people say its never going to be released lol
In Morrowind you could really create your own stories through game play. I remember when i first found the Morag Tong. No wikis or guides, just in game reading books, asking local rumors and bribing inn keepers until i found it. Thats a reward in itself. I think written instructions to "quests" is almost essential to the Elder Scrolls experience. It makes you immerse to the world to the fullest.
Who else tried to find the dwemer puzzle box and end up clearing all of Arkngthand only to realize that the room with the box was just below the staircase of rocks you walk down in the beginning of the dungeon
My personal reason why Morrowind is the best, we have enough voice acting to spark our imagination and use their voices while we read various texts in books, scrolls and dialogue. This not only improves your ability to read but, read difficult words both imaginary and real. This game has brought my imagination to life and I personally favor it. I did still 100% the GotY versions of Tes4&5 so, I'm not denying their capabilities at increasing ones faculties. Morrowind also MADE me look for things during quests with no markers, which has helped me in other endeavors when searching for things that either have or do not have some kind of guiding marker telling you exactly where something is.
Such a fantastic game,it's probably my favorite game of all time,the story is immersive as hell,you can do whatever the fuck you want,the towns and surrounding areas are beautiful,God i hope they remake it so the newer generations can see why we love it so much,since they don't appreciate old school RPGs cause of graphics
This game had a steep learning curve.. I enjoyed it for that reason.. It felt like an RPG and the world was rich.. I realized I could spend hours exploring.. then I realized there were quest I didn't even know were quests... Morrowind still has a lot going for it.
I took me aaaaal these years to play a ES game. I finally am playing Skyrim right now. Had a guy back in the early 2000s who was obssessed with this game and I only saw bits of footage and was never drawn to it, even though I do like RPGs in general. I'm checking comparison videows between Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim and I can definately feel, now that I have a bit of a taste of a Elder Scrolls game, that Morrowind feels more special than Skyrim. Just judging by footage.
It was so immersive! Same with games like M&M 6: Mandate of Heaven, it just had a certain aspect that was enticing. I wish they would remaster morrowing and give the guy his own letch or horse.
You should do a video discussing whether the an Imperial (Both race and side in civil war) Dragonborn would have claim to the throne were the Emperor to die. I think it'd be really cool.
I remember finding that jump scroll and trying to jump to the next town over. I kept reloading, recalibrating my trajectory a few meters at a time, until finally I loaded the save and jumped into the river near the next town and survived.
I was playing Morrowind when it came out - and back then we only had HDD and a voodoo 2 card or something like that. So the slow walking speed was actually essential to give the computer the time to build up the environment. My pc was quite fast for that time and Morrowind simply put every computer back then at the edge.
You can not just make people like real RPG's with the way games are today. Convenient and easy is the name of the game in our world today. The reward is really nothing but a fast paced experience.
I was introduced into TES series by Skyrim. I honestly want to play Oblivion and Morrowind even more so. I wish things had turned out differently, but there is not much I can do about it.
Absent quest marker made you appreciate the world! In Skyrim I can do the quest with one eye fixed on marker and the other one on twitter and I would be still able to complete the quest - that's not how games are supposed to be played. You are supposed to be invested, which also brings immersion and that makes it really fun and satisfying.
1 reason why morrorwind is not the greatest: Cliffracers: these beasts are the physical embodiment of anger, hatred, and torment. They thrive off of inflicting pain, and madness.
Wait, I can understand why some people dislike the combat, but tell me how it is "flawed". For what is it, it works perfectly. I find it more refined than Oblivion- that combat I would call flawed because the leveling system makes the battles unbalanced. But even that is more of a character advancement flaw.
honestly though once you get your main battle skill above like 60 you hardly ever "miss." at that point its basically the same as skyrim. strafe and attack. Plus I did'nt mind the "dice roll" if they could animate the bad rolls into visible dodges it'd be a welcome change.
You are completely right and I wish more ppl saw this and wish fudge didn't choose that specific word; morrowind was an RPG as advertised, not an ARPG advertised as an RPG.
N'gasta Kvakis glad to get a reply lol. I forgot about this post because it was so long ago. My favorite things about morrowind was the pure freedom of the world and the set loot. Do whatever you want and go wherever you want. One of my biggest gripes in oblivion was when I finished a bunch of quests and unlocked the blade of woe and chillrend I realized afterward and far too late that since I did these missions at a low level that these "unique" rewards are now forced to do terrible damage for the rest of the game. If I have the balls and skill to sneak or worm my way past all the high level enemies I deserve that daedric dai katana in morrowind. Not to mention the freedom in spell crafting, armor, and weapon choices. Instead of taking away features to appeal to a more broad audience they should have kept the features and made them more approachable and for goodness sake please, let graphics take a damn backseat for once over gameplay options and features. I'd take 3 more weapon types and 6 more different fighting styles plus a much bigger map over shinier graphics that no matter what will still be outdated within 2-3 years
An important part for me, that you didn't mention, was the lack of level and item scaling. Like I could start a new character and immediately go find myself some ebony and daedric stuff. At the same time I would get completely wrecked by the guys guarding that stuff if I didn't run/teleport away. If I was new to the game and didn't know what I was doing, I would probably wander into a shrine filled with high level npcs that would 1 shot me. That's great, and something I experienced numerous times playing this game. I prefer how the better gear in the game was rare and hand placed in sometimes really hidden spots. Maybe that item you want is guarded by an enemy that's level 20 and geared to the max, whether you're level 1 or level 20. You couldn't just smith thousands of iron daggers or have to wait until you were high enough level for npcs or chests to have the best items. You had to levitate to find a hidden door deep in a cave or swim through a grotto without drowning. That piece of daedric armor you just found in that dark corner? Well there's probably only 1 or 2 of those placed throughout the entire game. Some thought went into placing that item there. Seriously though, just give me levitate back, so dungeons actually have a vertical element to them again.
So a loooong time ago, for a Christmas present, I got an xbox 360 game called: The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. I just left it on my shelf for a while, while on one day, I was bored, with nothing to do. So I popped in the game and oh man. I have hundreds of hours on Oblivion now. So, then, when I finished all the guilds, the main quests, and some shrine missions, I got another Xbox game. Skyrim. It was awesome. I Thought it was just as good as Oblivion. So then I have maybe a hundred hours on Skyrim. So fast forward a bit, then I find this game: Morrowind for cheap on eBay. So, I thought that it was compatible on the Xbox One, so I might as well give it a shot. So then, I got Morrowind, and I have around 20-30 hours so far, and I’m trying to do the main quest. By far, it has the most immersive gameplay. You couldn’t just fast travel, you had to walk, or ride on a stilt strider. It actually convinced you to explore, find landmarks, old dwemer ruins, or some imperial n’wah fort. It also gives you choices, so you can roleplay as a character. You can be a greedy kajiit, a noble imperial legion officer, whatever you want to be. Morrowind is my favorite game in the series bu far.
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''A giant wank over Morrowind''
~Scott from FudgeMuppet
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When I saw skyblivion, I was just 30 hours into oblivion and my only problem was the combat and graphics, the strengths of skyrim. Sat for a second with my mouth open seeing how great it looked
Same. it's all I ever talk about.
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Morrowind did what no Bethesda game since has done and that is not put a sense of urgency to the MQ,you drop off the package and Caius tells you to piss off and play the game before doing the MQ, no urgent drama right out of the gate where you have to ignore a Daedric Prince or world eater. Then there are the level requirements before advancing,it gave me a real sense of progression for my character.
Exactly. Oblivion and Skyrim are such drama queens.
That sense of progression is completely missing in Skyrim.
Yeah, I ruled Morrowind, in the beginning, grab the scrolls off the guy who fell from the sky, then find your self an amulet of slow fall, then head to red mountain, use one of the scrolls, hop over the barrier, continue along till you find dagoth ur, fucken kill him while he's weak, Morrowinds main plot is done.
@@Dainith impossible, that is impossible/
@@Dainith nah, you destroy the heart with keening and sunder
I remember when I was young, we got our first computer, we got Serious Sam and Duke Nukem and this blank CD case with the morrowind CD. I honestly thought it was a CD for the graphics card for a year or so, so I never put it in. Then one afternoon I was bored, chucked it in and oh man oh man, I ran to my sister and made her watch, and she watched me play for a few hours then she played. It was so exciting!
Fast forward a few months and it was all I was talking about in grade 5, This weird game that no one knew about that i thought was the greatest thing on earth.
I went to a school friends birthday party and bought a copy for him as a present, he didn't play it for a while but I pressured him and after he started playing that was it, we hung out and talked about it constantly.
Thanks Bethesda, you made my childhood amazing.
Same thing happened to me internet went out I played the free disc that came with the graphic card it was the best
@White-Van Helsing USB wasn't very common back then.
Man oh man, I remember playing this in grade 2 at a friends house and we would sneak to each others house in the middle of the night to literally play this game, This game molded us ;)
@@foshezeefocker7707 nice, sadly Morrowind wasn't in Serbian so I couldn't play it until I learned English which was in secondary school
@@viveka2994 Very big undertaking... Lots of reading haha, I moved from Hungary to Canada when I was 6 so I got lucky learning English early :) Best of wishes to you neighbour! Viszlat!
You don't walk in this game, you jump!
andy werwert
Even more than in LoZelda:OoT
Der Transgender-Prophet Mohammed you don’t jump in OoT you roll
Edit: you stupid gay
...and thus run out of stamina, decreasing your hit success rate at anything by 25%.
@@nachfullbarertrank5230 no im not sure u understand. If u enchant clothes and armour w constant effect 2 max then u can jump from balmora to caldera maybe further in 1 jump
@@coletrimmer4824 I do know that, but early on, you walk.
-No hand holding
-No level/scaling
-No saturation of the screen with UI
-No distant land textures (barring mods) that keep the land hidden and mysterious
Morrowind was a masterpiece.
On par with Gothic.
-Character moves slow as ass
-Hard to navigate, making you spend way too much time looking for some obscure cave for a quest
-Goddamned cliff racers everywhere, making you have to stop every ten seconds while looking for that cave
-Weapon hits, spell casting etc has random success chance
-Spell deflection randomly kills your character if you're trying to rely on destruction spells
-Unimaginable amounts of glitches
-Crashes every 15 minutes
Yeah, I'll stick to Oblivion, thank you
@@exantiuse497 u my sir are a casual🤭 hits arent random if u build ur character right u will hit almost every time. If ur pc really crashes every 15 mins then it probably sucks🤔 idk i cant really understand why a modern pc would have issues with morrowind😅 hard time finding caves? Well i guess thats some normal and realistic behavior if ure not familiar with the land and have to explore and follow the directions given to u and not following some shitty questmarkers, floating in the game breaking ur immersion.
And what's wrong with hand holding? Some of us ain't fuckin experts at these kinda games
@@masterknife8423 that's why you gotta learn. Nobody started Morrowind as an expert
"It's just the most wonderful place..."
Showing enslaved npcs being sold. lol
Sounds wonderful to me?
It works just fine for the Merchants Guild.
haha, it was a simpler time...
Based house Dres and Telvani
Did he stutter
From a non nostalgic perspective, since I played skyrim before morrowind, Morrowind is in fact the greatest.
Morrowind was my fourth TES, but still my favorite
Morrowind is my third TES and my favourite also
ive played them before (mostly skyrim at the time) but last month i downloaded Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim and i have played 2 days to Skyrim, 5 days to Oblivion and im like 3 weeks now on Morrowind (with the overhaul patch on, thats what made me feel comfortable with the graphics and i love how it looks now)
and i dont think ill stop playing it for a while because it got me hooked like i havent been in years with a game
the only thing that i regret is the lack of physics because placing objects and droping them as in oblivion would make it perfect
you can place them btw
When I was a kid I didn't like the game cus it seemed old and slow and I still would probably feel that way. I only played eso and skyrim se
D Johnson I also played Skyrim before Morrowind, and Skyrim is better. The main reason is that the dungeons in Morrowind are 5 times more samey than Skyrim, way shorter, and too close quarters to sneak around much. Since these games are dungeon crawlers for the most part, this makes Skyrim better.
This is also why I like shivering isles so much. It's also very unique compared to the rest of oblivion.
If not for Shivering Isles, Oblivion would never have become one of my favourites!
Yeah that was imo the best dlc for any game ever
James Sarvan I’ll have to play that DLC again at some point. Kind of rushed through it the first time.
Isn't it funny that a game with one of the worst dlcs (horse armor pack) also has one of the best
Shivering Isles could've been a full game by itself, it was so good.
Morrowind, for me, is a true escape from reality.
Facts Pet Mez, facts.
For me too!
Trying to find a specific quest across the world based solely on a morrowind NCP's directions-
Turn left after hook rock, strait for 1000 paces then circle around north high mountain pass (not south high mountain or center high mountain) and then stop by the cliff that looks like a big penis. Thats the spot, do a rain dance and the entrance is under the blood moon at high tide. Bring me the ash fire.
Really though this is one of the best immersive games of all time.
Just like asking for directions from folk in in real life - the residents of Vvardenfell often gave terrible directions.
That's realism right there for ya!
Joshua lol truu
Ye, I was pissed in Oblivion when they added the quest map marker telling you exactly where to go. It made the game stupidly easy with no challenge or depth. If you removed it, it was still possible to find the location by reading your Journal. Skyrim got lazy and just removed the journal and designed all quests around the marker.
@@Wurmo Or you can, you know, not use the marker? Just follow something without quest markers like the nirnroot quest and complete the quests you want to without using their markers. I can't understand why people never seem to realise you *don't have to use every tool the game gives you.* If you want extra challenge, don't use things that remove challenge from the game. I do agree about Skyrim, but that game is dumbed down from Oblivion in more ways than one anyways
A twelve minute video... The answer is so simple: because i can wear a skirt over my armor!
Don't forget the Colovian fur helm! Fashion in TES went downhill after Morrowind. So sad.
Minka Lampinen
Inufan75 And jump over buildings like superman while doing it
Fashion Souls, long before Souls was a thing.
Actual Sorcerer(heavy armor mages) fashion. Robes with pauldrons. PAULDRONS AND ROBES.
Mixing clothing styles with armor. Argonians with Unarmored bonus got less gimped by The Fashionable Scrolls III, except the old beast race feet and open helms issue. ( Why no beast race specific armor??) Still, so cool
In my opinion, morrowind is the best game, because the developers didn't give a shit, they made the world the way they wanted. None of this bullshit about catering to the player. I hate it when the world in video games is specially made for the player. Can't really get immersed. Video game developers should just do their own thing.
Tell that to Bioware Fans >:(
Great point!
I feel like it's not a good thing, but whatever. :D Good looking, mate. :)
Yup.
Gaming was a way more niche activity back in the day, so there was a great deal more scope for creativity.
Maybe we’ll come full-circle, eh?
Here’s hoping :)
Actually Morrowind was Bethesdas last chance to survive after their last couple of games kinda flopped. So they put EVERYTHING in Morrowind what they thought will make it a very cool and outstanding game. They tryed so extremely hard with Morrowind the tryharding vikingcrap of Skyrim is simply looking like pink pussyhsit next to it XD Morrowind was kind of a sucsess and therefor the studio was saved by Zenimax. Nowadays they just do what they can marketing to the new overhyped generation bred on youtube -_-
I feel like the reason it was such a good game is because it wouldn't hold your hand. The game encourages you to go out, explore and be your own person. instead of just going from one map marker to another
Thats actually one the reasons why morrowind isnt that good actuall since you can just turn off the map marker in everyother elder scrolls and explore anyways. I do it all the time in oblivion and Skyrim.
Drake Jetstream
Try one radiant quest without map marker. Thats part of the problem.
@@maximusatlas9377 Morrowind wasn't designed with map markers in mind which is why it works so well without them. Oblivion and Skyrim were which is why it's very autistic to turn it off because of radiant quests.
@@kapoka5058 Wow its been a looooong time since I posted that comment. Personally some of my opinions have change since I last posted but some have remained. So bare with me. First I love Morrowind, I just think its way overated and its far from the "immersive" gem some claim it to be and quite a wreck in many aspects. However it has by far the best main questline in my opinion. However I still dislike the map/ Journal aspect of the game. Its a smaller game which is why it has no markers and why you talk to people to travel. I just find that personally annoying since it does delay some choices to make in a player position. I also disliked the DLC but I respect anyone who differed in my taste. Its just a game so im not against that. Lastly, while I do admit radiant quest get annoying in Oblivion and Skyrim, I was able to enjoy those games slightly more than Morrowind. Again its just personal taste. I just dislike a lot of things morrowind and lore wise while its great, from a mechanical view I just find it quite low spectrum and dull. But I respect other peoples position on the matter. So im not going to act like an elitist and try to change someones taste on the matter. Anyways thanks for the reply even though its waaaay old on my part.
@@maximusatlas9377 different strokes for different folks ig
"You need potions of levitation if you can't levitate like a normal person." -Sseth.
I played Skyrim for over 500 hours before finally doing a full playthrough of Morrowind which took me roughly 120 hrs.
Currently I'm playing Skyrim again and am shocked on how much I plainly forgot whilst still remembering so much more of Morrowind.
The atmosphere, story, character progression, etc are so much more enjoyable to me in Morrowind.
Magic is more satisfying in Morrowind, more freedom, more possibilities...if you have mana at least. Also, I think Skyrim being newer is much more casualized, less intricate, less "lorey, bookey", less intellectual for sure. But I still really love the world of Skyrim. It introduced me to Morrowind, like what happened for you.
I'm 2 in gane days into trying to 100% morrowind, will do the same for Oblivion and Skyrim since i never got into those 3
Scott's 1 word description for Morrowind: *Alien*
Stone Bull 0728 he's not wrong though
Ridley Scott.
Michael Kirkbride listed The Dark Crystal as one of the inspirations for his Morrowind concept art so that says a lot I think
Simple reason morrowind is better than skyrim:
S H U R I K E N S
S P E A R S
F U C K I N G 5 0 0 A C R O B A T I C S
you can practically jump once from vivec to dagoth ur in an instant. and why you might ask? why the fuck not? now tell me what your dovahkin can do?
250+ speed is fricjen dope as well lol
I wasted my second year of college on this game. Yeah, it was worth it.
This game took my education, girlfriend, wife, kids, house, sanity and finally my virginity.
Yeah.
Yeah it was worth it!
I played Morrowind back in 2003 and it became *the* game for me and a pal. We'd talk about our discoveries on the phone almost daily. Amazing experience. Nothing afterwards managed to capture this same feeling, and I thought I was just old and jaded and nothing could replicate the feelings of awe I got as a teen.
But then I replayed it in 2017. At one point, I was exploring northwest of Caldera, trying to reach the western shore, but I didn't find a way across the mountains. Then I decided to turn back but didn't find my way back. I walked through the wilderness at the ass end of nowhere, only barren hills around me with the occasional cliffracer squeak breaking the silence, and I realized that I was lost.
And the game allowed it. There was no quest marker to lead me back to the right path. No compass indicators to show me the nearest point of interest. Just me standing there, in the middle of nowhere, having lost my way. And at that precise moment, I felt at home. I had returned to that beautiful captivating world that allowed me to get lost in it. Thank you, Morrowind. You will always have a special place in my heart for this.
I remember when i watched my brother play this game. He died when he jumped. He flew too high.
funny story, he picked scrolls up from a dead elf who died the exact same way.
He forgot to cast levitation before hitting the ground huh?
We don't need a remake of Morrowind. We need a game that the developers have given the same amount of thought into building the world and the characters, not another lazy attempt at copying some real life culture like the Roman Empire or the Vikings.
As much as I enjoy Skyrim and Oblivion, I completely agree. The world building in Morrowind is top notch.
I thought the whole Norse thing in Skyrim was alright but yeah morrowind is an amazing game
Maybe outward?
Sad thing is though that recently lore and world building have become like the n word to Bethesda
I wouldn’t mind a full remake exact copy with updated graphics and controls... that’s it.. no changes to the game and story itself other than the controls and graphics.
>Lists all the amazing things about Morrowind
>Didn't even mention a word about Vivec's Muatra.
You had one job.
Dat phallic spear lore doe...
KillingForVanity I think it's more in reference to the fact Muatra is a sex organ and the phrase "Dat Ass tho"
I'm so happy I get to see 0 32 ripped to shreds
The Phallovaginal Spear of Destiny
Ohhh he deleted his reply. What a dog
Play as breton, get boots of blinding speed, turn up your brightness. only way to play. (breton resistance to magic 50% therefore your only half blind and you can run super fast)
Don't forget to wear cuirass of savior's hide. Negates a lot more of the blindness + hella awesome armor rating for a light piece.
make a spell which gives 50% magic resistance or resist magic scroll cast it as breton than wear the boots and you will see quite good also buy resist magicka potion it all stacks!
Mark C. Yeah, racial equipment was a big deal haha
Just go Dunmer and wear either the Cuirass of the Savior's Hide or the Ebony Mail, and you're cool too. Or if you're awesome (or a console user (meaning the cheat thing on pc)), kill Helseth, or do player->additem "Helseth's Ring" 1, and have no worries about the downsides of the Boots! :D
I always do
I nearly shed a tear after watching this video. Seeing my home Balmora intact, you know, after the Red Year nothing is the same :( Living here in Skyrim definitely is not my cup of Sujamma.
I prefer Flin. Finer flavor, more gentle on the palate, and less grating. It also has subtleties that you won't notice on the first sip. Sure, it is pricey, but I'd say it is worth it.
I first played Morrowind on Xbox, and LOVED it. Now I'm playing it on PC with mods. It's so much better with mods. Thank you to all the Morrowind modders. Love Morrowind!!!
I played it on Xbox for the first time too. I cheesed the hell out of that healing cheat code. Lol but it is so much better with mods. Do you know which graphic mod they used in this video? The one I put on is a couple of years old now, and the faces are not nearly as pretty as they are here.
I was looking for the same information.
I'm thinking of getting it on XBox One tomorrow, so how was it?
this game is hands down my favorite video game of all time. i have replayed it at least 50 times throughout the past 6-7 years along with tribunal and bloodmoon and honest to god this game can never get old even when you know everything about it. i absolutely love this game
What I loved about Morrowind was the mixture of divine and mortal themes. Daedric Princes are real and they interfere in mortal affairs, but they do so by "blessing" mortals with minor trinkets. Mortals wield the tools of the divine and defy the gods. There are "living" gods who are somewhere inbetween gods and mortals, and the player character becomes a sort of "half-divine" with godlike tools, immortality and god-killing power. There are nutty magic phenomena like the Ghostfence, giant mushrooms, floating moons. Yet everything still feels so grounded - you can fly over the Ghostfence, check out every crater on that moon and fly circles around it. Everything has a mundane explanation. The final boss is literally building a new "God" out of brass and rocks. What is mundane, what is magical, and what is divine? Is there a difference? What is apotheosis? It's the perfect setting for the Dunmer, who are a people so stuck in their mythical past and their religious traditions that they can't see how materially poor and societally backwards they still are. Yet some of them are incredibly powerful and wise, the most transcendent people on Tamriel. What a game. Compare that to the cookie-cutter "demonic invasion" in Oblivion and the cookie-cutter "dragon invasion" in Skyrim. Those games still had their moments, but they didn't hit the same thematic sweet point.
Awe is the right word for it.
4:59 Michael Kirkbride, literally the dude that wrote most of Morrowind, said that he wanted a game that was like the 3 movies Star Wars, Dune, and Dark Crystal. He also has his degrees in creative writing and theology.
Jesus this game is still so popular, people keep making videos about this game and they get plenty of videos. I started playing the game too again, it 's really my favorite RPG of all time, no other game makes me sink in the world like Morrowind does.
Not as big as about 10-15 years ago but there are still people creating mods for Morrowind.
I miss the older elder scrolls games like in the future they should completely remake or remaster Oblivion Morrowind and maybe arena and daggerfall
They have a modding community for that.
TheCNotes1 good point
***** Sadly I use console
Silent Death They wouldn't be remastering these. It would be just like making a new game. With morrowind you can take some if not most of it and update but that would be expensive. And the other would just be 2 new games you could not anything from them because there so old. it would be Interesting but they'd rather make elder scrolls 7 because it's less of a head wreck
Silent Death Arena and Daggerfall would be literally impossible to just do a remake of.
honestly though, i don't think bethesda are capable of making a game like morrowind anymore. they've lost something along the way. what? idk, but they definitely feel like a completely different company now.
OpposingForces After a decade or so game develepers do change...
Maybe its your nostolgia talking. Morrowind was great but Oblivion and Skyrim was better in all senses. However its all a matter of how you see videos games so I wont argue about that
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin took the words right out of my mouth
Drake Jetstream Oblivion and skyrim? The generic shit and Shitty story.......better, you are a bad person a walikg shame
idontgive mercesthethird PS it takes a shame to know shame. Although I dont waste time with useless coments without debates.
I wish they would remake Morrowind.
Thumbs up... to both of your statements.
Initially I thought that Bethesda's announcement about the Morrowind add-on for their mmo was actually announcing the remake. I was so happy....and then so disappointed when I realised my mistake :/
The people from Skywind are working on it.
Skyrim mod coming
CircleOfSorrow If they did then the hardwork of the team at SkyWind will go to waste. Plus it'd be more profitable if they did a remake of Daggerfall or an entirely new Elder Scrolls.
I recently just got into morrowind and I have to say one of my favorite things is just being able to live in the world. In skyrim I feel like im being pushed by story and simple gameplay to go and do stuff and kill everything. But in morrowind I feel like I have true choice and can take things slow. Exploring is so much more rewarding and less linear too.
I cant believe he didnt mention house telvanni's totally unique set of rules X) one of my favorite factions for that reason "if you kill another member of the house, they deserved to die. If you steal from another member of the house you deserve that item" Them telvanni's dont like rules XD
They're big fans of "Might Makes Right" philosophy lol
Neutral Evil faction.
Now I know why I loved Neloth in Dragonborn DLC so much
I was Lucky enough To play Morrowind when IT came out. Nothing more to say.
amen!
shiron90 Lucky lol. I didn't play it til after Oblivion came out. Buddy showed me Oblivion and I had nothing to play it on but a cashier at eb games recommended Morrowind for og xbox. By the time I actually got Oblivion I was very unimpressed with it as a result
Zero Attention Gaming I still haven't played it
the spear in morrowind was my favorite weapon
tfw we will never see spears again in TES
Cameron Larsen what do you mean? Riekling spears were in skyrim. They were shit but they are there via Dragonborn DLC
Ethan in Morrowind you had ton of spears And they were actual fucking useful unlike that short range arrow that you loot off Rieklings.
*Edit forgot the word useful cuz I've been up quite a while.*
There were spears?
Finally someone who feels the same way! Spears are a costant in our history (from flint spears in the stone age to bayonets in WWII) because they were effective! I really don't know why they chose not to include them in later games
Dunmer are kinda like the Lannister. You know that they suck, and that you should hate them instead of loving them, but at the end of the day, they'll still be one of your favourites.
Uh no. Fuck the Lannisters except for Tyrion
Morrowind is and has been my favorite game ever since I played it as a child. Though there is a nostalgic element there, I still do full playthroughs about every other year. I don't do that with other games and I still manage to learn unique and interesting new things about the game. It's great!
Morrowind was so scary as a kid, not just because of the horrific alien-like environments but the true sense that anything could happen.
Playing it through again as a teenager, the feeling was still there, no game since has felt so open to player possibilities.
In Oblivion and Skyrim, I was thankful for fast travel, but in Morrowind I wouldn't want to miss the journey, of stumbling on to something that could change the entire experience.
The journal, the explorative dialogue trees, no quest markers, no hand-holding. So many good times.
Unknown guy comes to you on the street and whispers: "The Sleeper has awaken"
I LOVE how excited you get about Morrowind, i felt i was the only other person who felt this way :D
This has made my day good sir.
Leigh Shaw i know your feels :')
Morrowind and its glorious expansion packs. So many fond memories. so many years of my life spent playing it, learning all its lore from the countless books. XD
When you've logged a good couple of thousand hours and still see things in a morrowind video you've never seen before.
fleas, not ticks.
Don't Care seems like you do
@@clitcrusader4897 haha
It is based the idea of the mystical far east. The culture and society is so strange. RPG-wise it is the best game in terms of world-building. All the books, all the factions, all the politics - it is just so sophisticated as well.
As in all of the Elder Scrolls games, you start as a prisoner, but you are brought to the far east. The game really makes you feel like a stranger, and then you grow into the role of the Nerevarine "chose one".
Scott I love how your an original outlander unlike most of the bandwagon content makers who only mostly played oblivion. #silthstridersforlife
Morrowind made me want to be as powerful as the tribunal and I eventually got there. Skyrim didn't really have anyone of that stature, and the leveled items just killed exploration for me.
Morrowind deserves this praise, and I couldn't agree with you more.
Brian T WYM by leveled Items I haven't played the other games so Idk what the Contrast is
OBsurdityTV In skyrim, Eso and possibly Oblivion (been too long since I played it) the enemies and items were scaled to the same level as the player or within a range of them. In Morrowind you could screw yourself by taking a silt strider to a high level area right out of the gate and not have the money to port back and not be able to survive. Hell I went to the final dungeon as level 5. Was using a bunch of exploits to survive the way there but it was all endgame enemies instead of level 5 like it would be in the later games.
Other difference is items. In skyrim you can only find items to steal that were at your level range. In Morrowind every placed weapon had its stats set in stone. So you could go find and steal glass and ebony stuff right at the start. If it was intended to be out of the hands of noobs it would require a really high sneak (steal? don't remember what it was back then) to pick the locks and get it. I used to murder a shopkeeper in Balmora right at the start of every playthrough for his ebony spear and shitty dagger that let you summon a bound dagger (on par with deadric back then) at will
Robert Evans ahh i see
OBsurdityTV There's mods that remove the level scaling from Skyrim and do a decent job of balance. Makes the world more interesting becayse you never know what you might find. Especially with Loot randomizers. The ones I use change the possible loot from each enemy type to be more fitting based on what they are. Say a wolf won't drop a weapon but might drop things like rings and jewels that a wolf could swallow. Randomizes the loot within the new set ups so they all have a fitting range of loot they can drop
Omg, the leveled item mechanics of oblivion and skyrim were infuriating. When playing ill literally have to look up every nook and cranny on Google to make sure I'm not going to pick up or get a leveled item when its weak because I'm not of ample level for the item to have max stats. Morrowind did it the way it was supposed to be.
9:44 one of my favourite daedra/mortal dialogues in all of the games.
We probably won't see such a dialogue in any Elder Scrolls title ever again...
There was another cocky dremora involved in pilgrimage quest, the one in Vivec's channels, I think
Because today's generation are as thin-skinned as Muslims are, taking offence at literally anything.
British Tutor And he's not even the daedric prince of lust.
I wouldn't mind if they brought back the text dialogue system for the next game. Morrowind is still the most immersive game for me. Little to no voice acting is better than repetitive, bland shit. Morrowind is more like reading a book while the later games try to be more like a movie. Books are usually better.
Once a dunmer, always a dunmer
When you see Vivec's muatra there's no turning back...
Once you go grey you never coming back.
mah n'wah
Don't you mean: "Once a Chimer, always a Dunmer."
The Spriggan When Azura turns your race black there's no going back
4:36 "Where else do you get that kind of thing in a world?"
In Dune, of course. Another great and very unique universe.
Okay, lets all be honest here. Coming from Morrowind's open structure (drop you in with very little guidence), and then adding map markers to Elder Scrolls future titles is like the equivalent of taking The Legend of Zelda from Zelda 1 of the open world, go anywhere do anything to Ocarina of Time's more linear structure in a sense. You lost something in the transition. Although not a one-to-one comparison, there is truth in the fact that the player experiences MUCH LESS personal will and immersion. I mean, why would you? Just follow the damn map marker. It brings you Exactly to where you need. It Nerfs the whole open world feeling of feeling all alone, without a North Star anywhere.
Hand holding ruined Elder Scrolls.
....just turn it off
Its not a matter of just turning it off. The game was designed with fast travel in mind, the world was designed around it. Thats why running from 1 place to another is super boring in skyrim, because on a micro level the game world is super boring, while on a macro level the world itself is still amazing.
You can still just not fast travel...and you can turn off markers completely. I don't see what the problem is, you're getting mad at something that is OPTIONAL for you...
Did you not read my what i wrote before you replied or what ? Why would i not fast travel, when the world is built with fast travelling in mind and therefor boring and bland. I am not a masochist. When i say i dont want fast travel, its because that means the developers need to put more effort into the world, which in turn means a better, more immersive world, with meaningful and memorable encounters that you will still remember in 5 years 10 years or 20 years in the future. Who in their right mind would put that effort into world creation, when they know that 90% of the people will just fast travel ? NO ONE because its a waste of resources. There are a few in skyrim, but thats not the case with like 90% of the encounters.
As for quest markers.. well guess what the game is built around that too. There are no journal entries on the same level of detail as there were in Morrowind for example that literally served the sole purpose of guiding you to where you had to go, via common sense, landmarkers etc.
The argument "Just dont or You can turn it off" is simply put idiotic. If ticking that option in the settings would suddenly add a similar journal system to the game.. sure i guess u could turn quest and map markers off.
Vipala I happen to not fast travel and the game is still extremely enjoyable regardless, even on the micro level I feel the game world is rich and fun
Listen up here, I've had Morrowind on my damn wishlist for a while now. Stop trying to convince me to get it. I'm waiting for a sale because i'm a filthy jobless person.
I hope you got it by now
Or now since its free lol
@@freckles182 How is it free?
@@bubz_bs their launcher check out twitter
@@freckles182 This is so cool I'm glad more people are trying this game, it's currently the top seller on Steam. They didn't discount Skyrim's dlcs tho, I never played Dragonborn.
I'd also add the fact that the game doesn't treat you like an idiot, no quest markers, no invincible NPC's, no holding hands.
I love the fact that you can kill Vivek, and still find a way to complete a game for example.
Morrowind is the game that I keep coming back to on a regular bases even after finishing the main quest 15 years ago
But good GOD those beast race walking cycles are atrocious.
You miss spelled fantastic.
@@alexanderchippel you misspelled misspelled
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I never really had too much trouble with the combat, I just used weapons my class specialized in and made sure my fatigue was high during battle. Then BAM I never missed
Morrowind is amaizing. i bought it a week ago and fell in love with it. i must say, before i played morrowind, i hated dunmer so much... because they enslave my favorite (argonian) race and worship daedra(i played oblivion and skyrim at that time),but now they seem to be a proud, with rich history, nation. Personally, i think Vivec is an asshole and killed Nerevar. but really. buy this game or you wont have the true elder scrolls experience. i am currently roleplaying a shadowscale that betrayed his King of Black Marsh because his political views and fled to cyrodil where he was was attacked by argonian agents of the king of bkack marsh. He kills the agents but gets captured later by a group of ,paid by the argonian king, bounty hunters. he is then brought to prison to be executed, but gets released by the Emperor. so far this build is great. he is a night blade. Scot, thanks for the video) i also had some amaizing flash backs from solstheim. brilliant idea for a dlc. it does feed your nostalgia no matter what you played first, skyrim or morrowind.
This is why I love the Elder Scrolls, each entry in the series has a different theme making them each unique in their own right, but also making me feel the same great feeling when playing them all (yes even eso).
I love eso
hell yea
Zach Link Yeah alot of people disregard eso, but i think they did a good job making the questlines feel more like a single player experience while still being mmo. And the character models look amazing compared.
I went into eso expecting an mmo, but what i got was a game like skyrim where i end up enjoying the story and do the main/side quest and explore the world, while meeting other people on the way and teaming up with them sometimes to achieve our common goal, its awesome
Zach Link yeah so "Unique" as after finishing them all multiple times, I still get confused when trying to remember "was that thing in skyrim or in oblivion?" then again who cares, as they both are piles of repetitive copy-pasted
andomly-generated lifeless shit compared to morrowind.
For the next province we explore in TES, I want that alien feel that Morrowind had. That DOESN'T mean that I want huge mushrooms growing all over the place, or scribs, kwama, netches or anything like that. I want Bethesda to use the lore of the province to their advantage, rather than see it as a a crutch. For Valenwood, lets see these giant moving trees that house cities! For Elsweyr, lets see all the different Khajiit breeds! For Black Marsh, lets experience a deadly swamp that could kill you unless you're damn well prepared! For the Summerset Isles, lets see that glass city of Alinor, and the coral ruins of Cloudrest! Don't just replace all these with an in game explanation of authors exaggerating stuff, or a notable historical figure magically changing something. I HOPE that this is the reason for Bethesda waiting for technology that isn't here yet, to fully realize a province's cultural identity without rewriting it with a medieval fantasy setting
Skullcrusher430 It's mostly technology. Bethesda do care about their atmosphere as of it's their own child so if a new ES game comes out, hopefully with a new engine, we'd see some cool shit like that.
DeathCookie one can dream eh :)
This game is very very rewarding. It starts slow but when things starts to make sense you will fall inside this game.
The thing that surprised me the most about Morrowind as a kid was how scared I was to explore Morrowind in addition to it being really alien. The loading screen pictures were really terrifying with the Hungers and Ogrims - the thought of running into them inside the first family tomb I found (which by themselves were creepy). The shambling of the corprus monsters, and of course I treated the water like lava because the dreugh zooming by scared me shitless as a kid.
I had those similar experiences
Cliff Racers are by far the most annoying thing at early levels. Thankfully they have low health.
I couldn't get into morrowind in the past because I just felt like the game ran like crap but after playing it threw open mw I'm hooked on it like skooma 😆
Sweet sweet moon sugar
yeah openmw is basically required to run morrowind on modern systems, love those guys for making the best elder scrolls game accessible to even more people
@@kingofsoup5279 OpenMW is awesome.
I've lost count on how many hours I've accumulated playing Morrowind. I have to say it's the best Elder Scrolls game out there. When I get bored playing Skyrim SE, I always turn to Morrowind. I'm pretty sure I've completed the game over 500 times now.
Thank you for doing this game justice!!! I have heard no other even come close and you AT LEAST came close so thank you!!!
Morrowind was and is the best RPG ever made. Oblivion and Skyrim are more simulaters than RPG compared to Morrowind, whcih is in itself fine, but God, we need a new Morrowind.
Its other way around. Morrowind was too restrictived and the main point of RPG is to be anyone and Oblivion and skyrim naild that part. I bet if skyrim came first and morrowind last everyone would go nostolgic on skyrim or oblivion
I crashed the economy of the great houses by raiding their vaults in Vivec
Text based narrative is the only way to get deep narrative in games. If they have to do voice over for everything that will cost a shit load of money and most studios won't do it. So I think it actually helps Morrowind a lot that they went for text only in many of the interactions. The thing is, to attract a wide audience they need to dumb down mechanics, and that is what happened in the following iterations. Less dialog, less RPG, less of everything really with a focus on combat
They really need to remaster Morrowind and Oblivion.
No. Leave Morrowind as the perfection as it is.
If they remaster Morrowind they should add the mainland. According to modders they were working on mainland but cut it and released the game without it, modders were able to finish it but I would like to see bethesda's take on it.
Symbion The Feared And better graphics, of course.
Xbox x enhanced is close enough for me and morrowind is x enhanced today : D
Let them remaster it as a new standalone game. it cant hurt to have that opportunity, we still have the orginal and with MGSO, MR and TR its optimal. I love medium armor and i always break in to the headquarters of Ordinators in ghostgate to steal some of their pauldrons and gauntlets. In MR it has been moded so i had to kill 1 ordinator to get his suit =D
i only watched a friend play back in the day and my roommate pointed out there is graphics mods for it and i should try it, so i bought it on steam, got the mods and damn. starting the game is like getting ready to go on a hike through a different world and it has been since gothic 1 and 2 that i have been so drawn into a game's world. Especially because there arent map markers and all that. When returning to your guild after you completed a mission and some sidequests along the way and empty your inventory / sort things out / sell them off it just feels like you have been on a real walk and you are happy to be home and need some time to recharge to get out there again because there is so much to explore and find out, it's just stunning to me and i love every second of it.
Morrowind is the best game I've ever played on any system. It really left a huge impression on me to this day.
For text-based dialogue, I remember characters in Morrowind to this day, whereas I struggle to recall standout characters in Oblivion/Skyrim. Who could forget "Uncle" Crassius Curio?
The lore and world of Morrowind has not been bettered. I literally remember trying to be a book collector in this game and creating my own library at Tel Uvirith. I remember joining the Tribunal Temple and just being given a book to take the pilgrimages at different sacred locations - learning about the humility of Lord Vivec when he toiled on the Fields of Kummu or wandering inside Ghostgate (scary stuff at first).
Such an incredible game.
My first Morrowind playthrough was as a Nord. I had no idea the player would be a Dunmer messiah. An odd choice, but it led to some interesting gameplay. House Redoran seemed the best fit.
I agree Morrowind spoiled me with its political complexity, but I think Bethesda was reading it's playerbase. People didn't want to have to do separate games in separate factions. They want to be able to get to the top of every faction in one game, and move on to the next. The same thing can be said for map markers. People don't want to explore; most find it tedious. They prefer to play fetch, unlock their achievements, and move on.
People don't want to explore a landscape and dungeons that are literally copy-paste, that's true. Only dungeons I like in Skyrim are the Dwemer ones. People say Vvardenfell was small but at least it has interesting stuff to fill that smaller worldspace
yea it's sad that players want those things... because it undermines the idea of an RPG game.. it stops being an RPG when there are no consequences for your actions, and when exploration is just completely removed.
Morrowind is still unbeaten. 2018 and i still playing it.
2023 still playing it
@@cloudscapemysterio And So do I... :-)
cant fucking wait for skywind
calloomdotcom It'll never be released.
Nathan Wright you gotta have faith
calloomdotcom skyline? Never heard of it. Is it part of the elder scrolls?
SkyWind. Its a huge mod that recreates morrowind on skyrim engine. So the modders have to recreate textures, armor, environment etc. Its been in development for a long time, thats why people say its never going to be released lol
We'll those people aren't wrong. That and SkyBlivion are doomed to be in development hell for all eternity.
"When everything is bizarre, nothing is bizarre."
-Ssethtzeentach
The world building in Morrowind is only matched by the world size of Daggerfall, and remember that Morrowind does it in 3D in 2002.
Imagine if MorrowWind's release date was switched with that of Skyrim where the graphics and fighting system were more advanced
In Morrowind you could really create your own stories through game play. I remember when i first found the Morag Tong. No wikis or guides, just in game reading books, asking local rumors and bribing inn keepers until i found it. Thats a reward in itself. I think written instructions to "quests" is almost essential to the Elder Scrolls experience. It makes you immerse to the world to the fullest.
Mod List for Morrowind? pls? I think it`s very hard to find good ones.
Just download MGEXE, MCP and MCA all you need for a modded playthrough.
Csgoplayer32 yeah that would be cool
Csgoplayer32 i mean just graphic mods
Christopher Schmitt he is using morrowind graphic overhaul
cole senn where can i get that
Who else tried to find the dwemer puzzle box and end up clearing all of Arkngthand only to realize that the room with the box was just below the staircase of rocks you walk down in the beginning of the dungeon
I did on Tuesday night. Opened the wrong door , got scragged by the dweamer lefterovers a couple of times before I found it.
My personal reason why Morrowind is the best, we have enough voice acting to spark our imagination and use their voices while we read various texts in books, scrolls and dialogue. This not only improves your ability to read but, read difficult words both imaginary and real. This game has brought my imagination to life and I personally favor it. I did still 100% the GotY versions of Tes4&5 so, I'm not denying their capabilities at increasing ones faculties. Morrowind also MADE me look for things during quests with no markers, which has helped me in other endeavors when searching for things that either have or do not have some kind of guiding marker telling you exactly where something is.
I wish they'd remaster Morrowind, this game is my childhood.
I don't. It'd probably have the name Morrowind, but it'd play like Skyrim. Skyrim is good, but no thanks.
Remasters suck just leave it alone
Such a fantastic game,it's probably my favorite game of all time,the story is immersive as hell,you can do whatever the fuck you want,the towns and surrounding areas are beautiful,God i hope they remake it so the newer generations can see why we love it so much,since they don't appreciate old school RPGs cause of graphics
When explaining the greatness of Morrowind you forgot people falling out of the sky lol
This game had a steep learning curve.. I enjoyed it for that reason.. It felt like an RPG and the world was rich.. I realized I could spend hours exploring.. then I realized there were quest I didn't even know were quests... Morrowind still has a lot going for it.
I took me aaaaal these years to play a ES game. I finally am playing Skyrim right now. Had a guy back in the early 2000s who was obssessed with this game and I only saw bits of footage and was never drawn to it, even though I do like RPGs in general. I'm checking comparison videows between Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim and I can definately feel, now that I have a bit of a taste of a Elder Scrolls game, that Morrowind feels more special than Skyrim. Just judging by footage.
It was so immersive! Same with games like M&M 6: Mandate of Heaven, it just had a certain aspect that was enticing. I wish they would remaster morrowing and give the guy his own letch or horse.
This channel is extremely biased towards Morrowind and Dark Elves, but so I am so that's fine :D
Rowan Mayer green day
You should do a video discussing whether the an Imperial (Both race and side in civil war) Dragonborn would have claim to the throne were the Emperor to die. I think it'd be really cool.
I remember finding that jump scroll and trying to jump to the next town over. I kept reloading, recalibrating my trajectory a few meters at a time, until finally I loaded the save and jumped into the river near the next town and survived.
I was playing Morrowind when it came out - and back then we only had HDD and a voodoo 2 card or something like that. So the slow walking speed was actually essential to give the computer the time to build up the environment. My pc was quite fast for that time and Morrowind simply put every computer back then at the edge.
Oblivion was the one which started it all for me, but once I got a hold of Morrowind it was love at first sight.
Skyrim starter here, I got more favored with Oblivion, and even more so with Morrowind.
You can not just make people like real RPG's with the way games are today. Convenient and easy is the name of the game in our world today. The reward is really nothing but a fast paced experience.
I was introduced into TES series by Skyrim. I honestly want to play Oblivion and Morrowind even more so. I wish things had turned out differently, but there is not much I can do about it.
Absent quest marker made you appreciate the world! In Skyrim I can do the quest with one eye fixed on marker and the other one on twitter and I would be still able to complete the quest - that's not how games are supposed to be played. You are supposed to be invested, which also brings immersion and that makes it really fun and satisfying.
I just started it. And im addicted having to read where your going is something i missed about games. Brought me back to everquest lol
1 reason why morrorwind is not the greatest: Cliffracers: these beasts are the physical embodiment of anger, hatred, and torment. They thrive off of inflicting pain, and madness.
Wait, I can understand why some people dislike the combat, but tell me how it is "flawed". For what is it, it works perfectly. I find it more refined than Oblivion- that combat I would call flawed because the leveling system makes the battles unbalanced. But even that is more of a character advancement flaw.
poeple tend to forget that morrowind is more "pen-and-paper"-esque with invisible dice-rolls and all that
honestly though once you get your main battle skill above like 60 you hardly ever "miss." at that point its basically the same as skyrim. strafe and attack. Plus I did'nt mind the "dice roll" if they could animate the bad rolls into visible dodges it'd be a welcome change.
You are completely right and I wish more ppl saw this and wish fudge didn't choose that specific word; morrowind was an RPG as advertised, not an ARPG advertised as an RPG.
N'gasta Kvakis glad to get a reply lol. I forgot about this post because it was so long ago. My favorite things about morrowind was the pure freedom of the world and the set loot. Do whatever you want and go wherever you want. One of my biggest gripes in oblivion was when I finished a bunch of quests and unlocked the blade of woe and chillrend I realized afterward and far too late that since I did these missions at a low level that these "unique" rewards are now forced to do terrible damage for the rest of the game. If I have the balls and skill to sneak or worm my way past all the high level enemies I deserve that daedric dai katana in morrowind. Not to mention the freedom in spell crafting, armor, and weapon choices.
Instead of taking away features to appeal to a more broad audience they should have kept the features and made them more approachable and for goodness sake please, let graphics take a damn backseat for once over gameplay options and features. I'd take 3 more weapon types and 6 more different fighting styles plus a much bigger map over shinier graphics that no matter what will still be outdated within 2-3 years
Each game has its own strength
An important part for me, that you didn't mention, was the lack of level and item scaling. Like I could start a new character and immediately go find myself some ebony and daedric stuff. At the same time I would get completely wrecked by the guys guarding that stuff if I didn't run/teleport away. If I was new to the game and didn't know what I was doing, I would probably wander into a shrine filled with high level npcs that would 1 shot me. That's great, and something I experienced numerous times playing this game.
I prefer how the better gear in the game was rare and hand placed in sometimes really hidden spots. Maybe that item you want is guarded by an enemy that's level 20 and geared to the max, whether you're level 1 or level 20. You couldn't just smith thousands of iron daggers or have to wait until you were high enough level for npcs or chests to have the best items. You had to levitate to find a hidden door deep in a cave or swim through a grotto without drowning. That piece of daedric armor you just found in that dark corner? Well there's probably only 1 or 2 of those placed throughout the entire game. Some thought went into placing that item there.
Seriously though, just give me levitate back, so dungeons actually have a vertical element to them again.
So a loooong time ago, for a Christmas present, I got an xbox 360 game called: The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. I just left it on my shelf for a while, while on one day, I was bored, with nothing to do. So I popped in the game and oh man. I have hundreds of hours on Oblivion now. So, then, when I finished all the guilds, the main quests, and some shrine missions, I got another Xbox game. Skyrim. It was awesome. I Thought it was just as good as Oblivion. So then I have maybe a hundred hours on Skyrim. So fast forward a bit, then I find this game: Morrowind for cheap on eBay. So, I thought that it was compatible on the Xbox One, so I might as well give it a shot. So then, I got Morrowind, and I have around 20-30 hours so far, and I’m trying to do the main quest. By far, it has the most immersive gameplay. You couldn’t just fast travel, you had to walk, or ride on a stilt strider. It actually convinced you to explore, find landmarks, old dwemer ruins, or some imperial n’wah fort. It also gives you choices, so you can roleplay as a character. You can be a greedy kajiit, a noble imperial legion officer, whatever you want to be. Morrowind is my favorite game in the series bu far.