MORROWIND NECROMANCY ONLY CHALLENGE IS BROKEN - Morrowind Is A Perfectly Balanced Game

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  • @thespiffingbrit
    @thespiffingbrit  11 місяців тому +1982

    *Fun fact it is entirely possible you were born after this game released in 2002...*
    This game is also old enough to drink in America

    • @AndrewD8Red
      @AndrewD8Red 11 місяців тому +191

      Depressing fact: I was old enough to drink when this game came out because I am as old as the very land beneath your feet.

    • @vice857
      @vice857 11 місяців тому +30

      This game can buy a gunn Todd!

    • @richardfarrer5616
      @richardfarrer5616 11 місяців тому +21

      Sadly, I played it back then, and it wasn't even my first (or second) Elder Scrolls game - though I gave up on Arena when I kept falling through dungeon floors and dying.

    • @Kite403
      @Kite403 11 місяців тому +14

      Spiff, I was 12 yo when this game came out. And I loved it then lol

    • @bar_jumper1312
      @bar_jumper1312 11 місяців тому

      TTW 3 Nurgel :V
      pls Captain King Spiff, it needs to be broken

  • @Alexander-Valera
    @Alexander-Valera 11 місяців тому +2518

    Thal lvl 1 Scrib thing is not an enemy. It's just a peaceful lil guy, he doesn't attack you unless you hit him first. So his ability to paralize you forever if you attack a seemingly harmless creature is pretty funny.

    • @toolittletoolate
      @toolittletoolate 11 місяців тому +177

      I imagine most murder hobo brains would look at that insect like creature and assume the worst and attack it outright.

    • @tyrongkojy
      @tyrongkojy 11 місяців тому +200

      What's more, it emphasizes this is a world, not just a game designed for you to beat. Not everything is easy just because you're starting.

    • @mogim815
      @mogim815 11 місяців тому +281

      @@tyrongkojy it's sad seeing modern games slowly forget the time honored tradition of, "fuck around and find out"

    • @tyrongkojy
      @tyrongkojy 11 місяців тому +53

      @@mogim815 there are some, but not many. Elex instantly comes to mind. You relied on combat drugs, a power suit, and IAI for everything your whole life, and just lost all that. You start sucking. You're lucky you know how to READ.

    • @Iavasechui
      @Iavasechui 11 місяців тому +30

      @@mogim815I always loved ff12 having a random T-Rex in the first combat area XD it won’t attack you unless you attack it first at least

  • @thejunkdog5344
    @thejunkdog5344 11 місяців тому +1583

    "Drain Personality on Self. It's like owning an NFT." I fucking spat out my tea in laughter.

    • @sloggiz
      @sloggiz 11 місяців тому +44

      That is a criminal offence on this channel

    • @yveshalimi5984
      @yveshalimi5984 11 місяців тому +1

      could you please explain what it means?

    • @jordanronayne7867
      @jordanronayne7867 11 місяців тому +8

      You'd better have lapped that tea of the floor Mister or soo help me!

    • @IstasPumaNevada
      @IstasPumaNevada 11 місяців тому +3

      That was hilarious, yes. :)

    • @lisasteel6817
      @lisasteel6817 11 місяців тому +3

      Believe it or not, jail.

  • @fredcole6844
    @fredcole6844 11 місяців тому +508

    Honestly it's impressive to see what 20 years has done to modern graphics. This game was massive. It was ONE whole gigabyte!

    • @DingaLingu
      @DingaLingu 10 місяців тому +37

      Yeah, and then you have games like cod warzone that look basic and are half a terabyte

    • @girththeogre
      @girththeogre 10 місяців тому +3

      Right? Mind-blowing!!

    • @slothonastick32
      @slothonastick32 9 місяців тому +11

      ​@DingaLingu I mean modern COD looks incredible. If you showed it to someone when morrowind came out they wouldn't beleive it was a real time game. Also its like 150GB so thats a slight exaggeration lmao.

    • @DingaLingu
      @DingaLingu 9 місяців тому +2

      @@slothonastick32 hahahahahaha

    • @alexarnold6773
      @alexarnold6773 9 місяців тому +10

      It also restarted the entire Xbox during loading screens to help with memory load

  • @JAY-gl5xd
    @JAY-gl5xd 11 місяців тому +725

    SOOO many fond memories of Morrowind. SOOO many broken save files.
    You really can do whatever you want in the game. I've jumped clear across the continent in one leap. Killed Vivic with a steel rod, in 1 hit. Created pieces of armor that could cast spells so often and fast it was like using a MK19. Good times.

    • @TheVacationist
      @TheVacationist 11 місяців тому +30

      Daedric tower shield of *pew pew pew*

    • @molassesman4066
      @molassesman4066 11 місяців тому +28

      The only game where the status of mage more meant you had heavily enchanted heavy armor warrior build with any amount of magicka you wajted between negatvie 2 and 100

    • @ANunes06
      @ANunes06 11 місяців тому +67

      I refused to actually kill any "important" enemies I wasn't required to kill, and instead trapped them in soul gems. Not to use in enchantments, no. Just to have a collection of literal *GODS* clinking around in my pockets.
      What a game.

    • @rockbandandghmaster
      @rockbandandghmaster 5 місяців тому +2

      @@JAY-gl5xd its worth a replay with mods, especially the mainland mods and stuff that add all of morrowwind not just the island in the vanilla game. OpenMW also makes the game more stable, and better graphics.

  • @contortionyx
    @contortionyx 11 місяців тому +393

    Several commenters have mentioned things about Morrowind that later got removed from Elder Scrolls games that they loved and one of mine is cursed items - not weapons & armor, actual items, like valuables being cursed. They were mostly found in daedric shrines and dwemer ruins which is what happened to Spiff at around 13:00 - he picked up a cursed item on the shrine and that will trigger a tough aggro'd summon on you (in Spiff's case, a dremora spawned with a daedric weapon, which can injure ghosts). In dwemer ruins, it will spawn an ancient dwemer spirit. You also can't normally get rid of the curse either, so if you drop the cursed item & pick it up again, it will summon another aggro'd summon on you. It's a good way to naturally level up combat & healing skills. It's such a small thing but adds a lot of depth to the world building to me and I find later games lost something with their absence.

    • @EvilDoresh
      @EvilDoresh 11 місяців тому +67

      Sometimes, there is a reason why an expensive-looking item collecting dust in a dungeon hasn't already been grabbed by someone else...

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 11 місяців тому +17

      Now I love the idea of some ancient dwemer who died and cursed the dwarven beer that took him in. Only for some random adventurer to shop up thousands of years later, take the beer, summon the ghost of the dwemer and beat him up.
      On for the adventurer to throw the bottle away and pick it up again, summoning the ghost again. And again and again.
      And the dwemer cursing himself for cursing the beer, because now he will be in an endless cycle of death and undeath to satisfy the curiosity of some random nord who wants to have a laugh.

    • @cattsythekitty
      @cattsythekitty 11 місяців тому +16

      Also after winning this amazing battle he could just get rid of all the minion bodies to get to the dremora. Morrowind had this function for optimization, to reduce the strain that the bodies would put on the low-end PCs of that time.

    • @OhioWolf94
      @OhioWolf94 11 місяців тому +8

      I was so confused when that happened to me the first time! I knew there wasn't any enemies left and then some spirit thing attacked me! Killed me. I did it again, triple checked, no one around, then attacked! I think it is an awesome little detail in the game, but it can throw you for a whammy the first time when you don't expect it.

    • @Griggs58
      @Griggs58 10 місяців тому +6

      Oh they’re supposed to be cursed? I always thought they were offerings to whichever deity and you were attacked for stealing from the deity lol

  • @Zippsterman
    @Zippsterman 11 місяців тому +816

    I do miss how the Argonians and Khajiit had a different model with digitigrade legs, it make the 'beast' races seem so much more unique

    • @beckstheimpatient4135
      @beckstheimpatient4135 11 місяців тому +107

      Yes, and then you see them run, and remember they can't wear shoes, or half the helmets in the game.

    • @Raida7
      @Raida7 11 місяців тому +81

      Yeah, I preferred their Morrowind approach to the later designs which are more "human-cat" than "cat race"

    • @Facepalm9
      @Facepalm9 11 місяців тому +12

      Found the furry.

    • @sandronecromancer
      @sandronecromancer 11 місяців тому +43

      ​@@Facepalm9 the new khajits are more furry

    • @BalthazarB2
      @BalthazarB2 11 місяців тому +13

      ​@@Facepalm9Hope the furries don't find you.

  • @christophertorres114
    @christophertorres114 11 місяців тому +88

    Considering the plot of Morrowind, ascending to godhood is indeed the way the developers intend us to play this game.

  • @stalhein62
    @stalhein62 11 місяців тому +520

    Necromancy for Dummies. Chapter 1: Correct Use of Shovel.

    • @KeithElliott-zd8cx
      @KeithElliott-zd8cx 11 місяців тому +13

      if you just murder people and rez them, no need for all that digging.
      Even just, some enemy you were gonna kill anyway, slaver, assassin, etc.
      Use a corpse to do the work for you. That's, like, the point.
      Necromancy for dummies, indeed.

    • @captaindonut9243
      @captaindonut9243 11 місяців тому +9

      @@KeithElliott-zd8cx well you can always use the shovel to kill your enemies

    • @0zz1k5
      @0zz1k5 11 місяців тому +2

      The fresher the corpse the stronger the construct...

    • @KeithElliott-zd8cx
      @KeithElliott-zd8cx 11 місяців тому +2

      @@0zz1k5 dresden files, other way around, weirdly

    • @KeithElliott-zd8cx
      @KeithElliott-zd8cx 11 місяців тому +1

      @@captaindonut9243 fair. But not 'correct' use of a shovel.

  • @FrenchyMcToast
    @FrenchyMcToast 11 місяців тому +227

    This was back when games still had stuff in the box and Morrowind came with a paper map. I wore that map down so much navigating the island. The manual had a bunch of important stuff in there and I wore that down too.

    • @Dherkin_McGhurken
      @Dherkin_McGhurken 11 місяців тому +27

      And if you got the "GOTY" edition you got a disc with the game editor along with the expansion packs to create your own items, spells, etc. Good times until Oblivion and the horse armor dlc.

    • @JSheepherder
      @JSheepherder 11 місяців тому +19

      @@Dherkin_McGhurken Morrowind came with the construction set on release. In fact, the GOTY release had some bugs because it included the unpatched editor from the first release.

    • @Dherkin_McGhurken
      @Dherkin_McGhurken 11 місяців тому +11

      @@JSheepherder I did not know that, now I have a 3rd excuse to cope with all the re-installs I had to do to revert the modded files. Here I was blaming my "nuke" spells that if the game didn't insta crash took 30 minutes for the game to process all the of "threads of fate" messages of all the npcs killed and my Duron 950 simply just not handling it. 🤣

    • @calmauric8218
      @calmauric8218 11 місяців тому +1

      Dude you just gave me flashbacks of my map! Yes, so many notes and scribbles on it. So worn it looks like some sort of treasure map 😅

    • @ethan6322
      @ethan6322 10 місяців тому +2

      I've still got my map

  • @Vengix93
    @Vengix93 11 місяців тому +188

    "LISTEN TO THE CHOIR"
    *Breathy wails*
    That may have broke me 😅

  • @jacob6885
    @jacob6885 11 місяців тому +128

    The spell creation system was so awesome.
    I loved making spells that inflict 1 second of 100 vulnerability to both magic and the damage type the spell inflicts.

    • @EvilDoresh
      @EvilDoresh 11 місяців тому +7

      Pretty handy for the ubiquitous dark elves, as they have natural fire resistance.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 11 місяців тому +21

      "Oh no, he is resistant to magic"
      But he isn't resistant to weakness to magic"
      *proceeds to make a spell that combines 100 weakness to magic with a destruction spell.

    • @Gamer3427
      @Gamer3427 5 місяців тому +5

      While I never played Morrowind, (own it but never got around to it), the spell creation in Oblivion was something I messed around with a lot, and it's a downgrade compared to Morrowind, so I can only imagine. I do really wish Skyrim had something like that, because without mods, Skyrim's spells are super basic and rather boring for the most part.

    • @dmitriy9053
      @dmitriy9053 3 місяці тому +1

      It works in Oblivion (though only in a specific order: damage, -resist to type, - resist to magicka), however in Morra resist to magicka means only non-elemental effects, so it would not work on any elemental damage spells. Only on non-damage spells, damage health and absorb health spells.

  • @whitehawk4099
    @whitehawk4099 11 місяців тому +810

    23:05 Turns out Spiff has the opinion of an average Dunmer about Argonians.

    • @josiahtasich6073
      @josiahtasich6073 11 місяців тому +93

      He knows how to honor the Six House and the Tribe Unmourned.

    • @dylanvolckaert404
      @dylanvolckaert404 11 місяців тому +18

      Honestly, if Argonia was a place on Earth rather than Nirn we know what the English Empire would have done to it :p

    • @MartinFinnerup
      @MartinFinnerup 11 місяців тому +20

      ​@@dylanvolckaert404Nah. The Black Marsh is impenetrable by those who do not belong.
      Not even Tiber Septim himself could overcome the might of the Hist!

    • @dylanvolckaert404
      @dylanvolckaert404 11 місяців тому +26

      @@MartinFinnerup Dang, you're right.
      I think one of my favourite lore tidbits is where during the Oblivion Crisis at the end of the Third Era, every corner of Tamriel was getting invaded. Every corner except the Marsh where the Argonians were counterinvading the Deadlands instead xD

    • @IveBeenWithBruma
      @IveBeenWithBruma 11 місяців тому +6

      ​@@MartinFinnerupNeither could the legions of a deadric prince. They learned the hard way to never invade the Argonian homeland.

  • @TheRewasder97
    @TheRewasder97 11 місяців тому +216

    Fun fact: the argonians haven't changed, we were just seeing them from the dark elf perspective.

    • @passingrando6457
      @passingrando6457 10 місяців тому +17

      I know you're joking, but the Hist canonically changed the Argonian adult form to be something more draconic, intimidating, and dangerous in combat after the Oblivion Crisis.

    • @Hellimatrix
      @Hellimatrix 10 місяців тому +6

      @@passingrando6457 now we just need to know what lore reason they came up with to explain how the resolution and animations of reality itself got un-janked from era to era.

    • @passingrando6457
      @passingrando6457 10 місяців тому +7

      @@Hellimatrix already do. Khajiit take one of 17 different forms based on the phase of the moons at the time of their birth. Not genetic, any type can give birth to any type. Each game only represents one subtype of khajiit, though.
      TES1 uses the Ohmes, TES2 the Ohmes-raht, TES3 used the Suthay-raht, and Cathay for TES4 and 5.
      _Most_ of the khajiit types are humanoid, but the largest and smallest types are just cat shaped, with the Senche-raht being sentient tigers larger than a horse, and the Alfiq being impossible to tell from a housecat until they start talking or cast a fireball or something at you.

    • @passingrando6457
      @passingrando6457 10 місяців тому +1

      @@Hellimatrix pardon me, I thought you said Khajiit. Actually, did you before the edit to your comment?
      Leaving it up just in case anyone was curious.

    • @Hellimatrix
      @Hellimatrix 10 місяців тому +2

      @@passingrando6457 I did, but then I remembered they explained the Khajiit's changing forms via the phases of the moons.

  • @AliasEliahus
    @AliasEliahus 11 місяців тому +305

    "and would you like to donate your body to science?"
    me:"oh no sorry, i've already decided to donate my body to barry boneraiser"

  • @riffzifnab9254
    @riffzifnab9254 11 місяців тому +168

    18:20 "Drain personality on self, it's like owning an NFT" 💀

  • @ivo215
    @ivo215 11 місяців тому +96

    Ghosty boi : "The dead do no suffer the living to pass."
    Spiff : "You will suffer me!"

  • @nb_nb
    @nb_nb 11 місяців тому +27

    Sooo glad to see you playing some older games again, i really missed this sort of content!
    Anyway, the most insane thing I've ever done in an elder scrolls game is make a spell in morrrowind called "EVERYBODY CHILL OUT" which was a HUGE area of effect calming spell. I used to walk into a dungeon, pop that, then just walk past everyone who now grasped the meaning of peace. I also had a trick where I had like 5 different spells I'd stack all at once, one being a basic levitate and the rest all buffing my speed which basically let me fly across the whole map within like, 5 minutes without costing that much. I'd just pop them and fling myself from one place to the next.

    • @slovakian_danko
      @slovakian_danko 11 місяців тому +2

      his not, his just re- edited it an old video or posted an old one that wasn’t posted. his voice/ tone is different here compared to more recent vids
      watch vids from couple years ago compared to more recent

  • @Wigalot
    @Wigalot 11 місяців тому +947

    I am a simple human. I see SpiffingBrit. I make tea. I click. I enjoy.

    • @yaboi279
      @yaboi279 11 місяців тому +11

      Indulge even

    • @hunterrhoades1813
      @hunterrhoades1813 11 місяців тому +8

      I don’t drink tea, but I still enjoy the video.

    • @TheHalofan3
      @TheHalofan3 11 місяців тому +27

      I am a simple human. I see SpiffingBrit. I toss tea in the harbor. I click. I enjoy.

    • @Loosgoo
      @Loosgoo 11 місяців тому +2

      Womp womp

    • @TheZombikiller
      @TheZombikiller 11 місяців тому +1

      can´t like it needs to stay at 69 :( but i like the comment imaginery

  • @YouTube
    @YouTube 11 місяців тому +268

    9:34 heading downtown with my bone boys

    • @thespiffingbrit
      @thespiffingbrit  11 місяців тому +157

      Thank you UA-cam very cool

    • @dan_aca
      @dan_aca 11 місяців тому +23

      @@thespiffingbrit are you friends with someone in UA-cam? Or are you UA-cam?

    • @GoblinArmyInYourWalls
      @GoblinArmyInYourWalls 11 місяців тому

      Shat

    • @XENOWOLFI
      @XENOWOLFI 11 місяців тому +12

      hi youtube wanna hear about the time I ate glass

    • @ToXicKush420
      @ToXicKush420 11 місяців тому +5

      ​@@XENOWOLFI I do

  • @haseaopk
    @haseaopk 11 місяців тому +60

    My favorite break so far is a stealth build where I was invisible pretty much forever, completely silent, and my dagger would just explode people. They would see a man die, immediately have no clue what happened, then die themselves

  • @Ultima3755
    @Ultima3755 11 місяців тому +9

    I remember from back in the day there is a spot that you can cast a spell from and if the spell is strong enough eventually, since the spell travels until it hits something,it will hit and kill a quest character that will lock you out of the main quest.

  • @psychlycan
    @psychlycan 11 місяців тому +53

    One of my favorite (small) exploits was free murder. If you joined the Morag Tong (Morrowind Dark Brotherhood) you'd get Writs of assassination. However, if you insulted the target enough for them to attack you first you wouldn't use the writ. You could then kill another random NPC and if you had a writ on you the guards would accept it

    • @Altair1243WAR
      @Altair1243WAR 10 місяців тому

      Turns out legal assassination has loopholes. Who would have thought?

    • @scuffy3468
      @scuffy3468 10 місяців тому +6

      You insult anyway and kill people for free that way, it also works if you have a frenzy 100 for 1 second spell. I use to do that so much to kill ordinators and sell their armor and weapons to the mudcrab merchant for a ton of septims, since their gear was worth like 30,000

  • @Orthane
    @Orthane 11 місяців тому +26

    I recently picked up Morrowind about 2 weeks ago and now I'm seeing Morrowind everywhere. With a few mods (Graphic Herbalism and Morrowind Code Patch are musts) the game is genuinely one of the most enjoyable games out there even today. It's just so damn fun, there's something about it that I can't even explain but it's just incredible. And it always shocks me that the Magic system didn't go into Oblivion and Skyrim. I know Oblivion has it, but it takes a long time to get to it and you have to do the Mages Guild. In Morrowind you can just straight up go to someone who does Spellmaking and make a Fireball that does 100 damage at level 1. Sure you won't be able to cast it yet, but you can do it. The game is just so damn fun, there's so much freedom to how you approach it.

    • @snowblood74
      @snowblood74 11 місяців тому +1

      Yes! I always found Oblivion too restrictive in what spells I'm _allowed_ to even cast. MW just gives me a chance of success and I'm allowed to try to cast any spell there is.

    • @Shmandalf
      @Shmandalf 10 місяців тому +2

      You can do spellcrafting without joining the mages guild in Oblivion if you have a few thousand gold and the Frostcrag Spire house DLC. Just buy the candles and you're good to go. Rewards from the Arena questline are usually enough.
      Still though it sucks they took it out. They also took levitate and jump out entirely because they switched to cities being cells themselves, and they didn't want people hopping over the walls -.-

  • @morgulorc
    @morgulorc 11 місяців тому +96

    I remember doing this when I was a kid, I would summon an army of skeletons and attack Balmora; the canals and bridges would be clogged with dead skeletons and NPCs. You can also summon creatures a lot faster if you make it an enchant, since those cast instantly.

    • @IveBeenWithBruma
      @IveBeenWithBruma 11 місяців тому +13

      Do the summon exploit with golden saints. Bloody hilarious.

    • @SotiCoto
      @SotiCoto 11 місяців тому +3

      The enchants worked, but casting instantly isn't necessarily a boon, since it is the timing gap between the On Self effect and the On Target effect triggering that makes the glitch work.

    • @LtCommanderTato
      @LtCommanderTato 11 місяців тому +4

      Enchant is much better since its instant, make 20 rings with summon skeleton for 185 seconds one named skeleton01 up to skeleton20, you can quickly cast them with the hotkey buttons the one who cycle spells alphabetically.
      Summon Skeleton Servant 01 ...
      Summon Skeleton Servant 20
      why 20? is just because its a good enough number to storm places and you can still move around.
      I have found a fix for the slowness of skeletons, you can boost them temporarily with that specific spell:
      fortify speed 50 for 40 seconds in 50 foot on touch.
      Make 2 of these like that:
      Fortify SPEED 50 48 sec 01
      Fortify SPEED 50 48 sec 02
      or if you want a bit more duration make 3:
      Fortify SPEED 40 60 sec 01
      Fortify SPEED 40 60 sec 02
      Fortify SPEED 40 60 sec 03
      But if you really want fast buff to minions make rings instead with:
      Fortify SPEED 50 48 sec 01
      Fortify SPEED 50 48 sec 02
      or
      Fortify SPEED 20 119 sec 01
      Fortify SPEED 20 119 sec 02
      Fortify SPEED 20 119 sec 03
      Fortify SPEED 20 119 sec 04
      Fortify SPEED 20 119 sec 05
      if you dont wanna pay 100k to make a ring you can use alchemy to boost temporarily your intelligence to around 3k to make the enchants yourself.
      For a necro the typical game hotkeys should be like that:
      1. a cheap soultrap 19 sec and paralysis 1 sec mace.
      2. 10 sec paralysis spell
      3. Summon Skeleton Servant 01 (cycle up to 20)
      4. Summon Dremora 01 (cycle just up to 02, i treat them as elite units so they should be rarer and used in specific scenarios)
      5. Fortify SPEED 50 48 sec 01 (cycle up to 02) spell or magic rings, recommended the latter.
      6. Typical made health potion
      7. Typical made magicka potion
      8. Typical made stamina potion
      9. Ring of Restore Faigue 2 pts and constant effect invisibility (used to run away if things get nasty)
      For roleplay i console command my endurance down to 10 at start of game so when i reach max level i just end up like with 105 health on my high elf.
      earlygame is the hardest, you rely a lot in potions specially magic ones and spells. Mid game lategame you move to enchants, they are much more efficient and faster to cast. Hoard as much as possible exquisite rings in your adventures, you will need them all.
      I never recommend doing the method of brit video, it breaks the game. It gets overpopulated with skeletons who cant keep up with you in speed. They bloat the savegame since they are permanent.

    • @frezomereseraphim9164
      @frezomereseraphim9164 11 місяців тому +2

      @@LtCommanderTato replying here so I don't forget about this information when I play morrowind later

  • @EvilDoresh
    @EvilDoresh 11 місяців тому +9

    Proof that the greatest power on Tamriel is the power of _family_ (dead ancestors totally count)
    2:03 - I've completely forgotten the epic _strides_ people take in this game. Truly the greatest walking animations ever coded by human hands.
    13:31 - I love how the two skeletons are just staring at each other all like "Man, that was _weird_ "

  • @Daeltha
    @Daeltha 11 місяців тому +22

    an earlier, simpler, and yet somehow a lot more complex time of the elderscrolls.
    thanks for showing off what we love about the old games

  • @grumpyoldwizard
    @grumpyoldwizard 11 місяців тому +15

    I Elder Scrolls: Arena they had a special spell I loved. I don't remember the name, but it let you remove almost any wall. Stuck in a dungeon? No problem. You can make your own route. Don't want to fight a monster? Make a route around it. This spell really made the game fun.

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 10 місяців тому +3

      I cast left click in creative mode!

  • @JoshGolus
    @JoshGolus 11 місяців тому +149

    I really like this new take on Nagash's backstory
    Such is the power of Nagash

    • @evinbraley
      @evinbraley 11 місяців тому +4

      If Spiff is the Nagash of Morrowind, then who is Setra the Imperishable?

    • @FreshBarn
      @FreshBarn 11 місяців тому +8

      Reanu keaves ​@@evinbraley

    • @acdhipnose1791
      @acdhipnose1791 11 місяців тому

      Nagash before he acquired the biggest popehat

    • @DurnehviirDromok
      @DurnehviirDromok 11 місяців тому

      'At turbonerd ain't nuffing a'ains' Gorkamorka!

    • @peterniles8984
      @peterniles8984 10 місяців тому

      @@acdhipnose1791 you mean his bone-enhanced colovian fur helm?

  • @eldibs
    @eldibs 11 місяців тому +6

    "Knowing their weakness, I sent waves upon waves of my own men at them..." Spiff is borrowing Zapp Brannigan's battle strategy.

    • @Shmandalf
      @Shmandalf 10 місяців тому +2

      "Stop dying you cowards!"

  • @TheZoenGaming
    @TheZoenGaming 11 місяців тому +214

    *_Sips Coffee Defiantly_*
    "Like all good -necromancers- Morrowind characters, we're pretty much just stealing anything that isn't nailed down to the ground..."
    FIFY
    My favorite Soul Trap cheese was Fire Shield + Drain Health

    • @thespiffingbrit
      @thespiffingbrit  11 місяців тому +114

      The SAS are on route to your location. I suggest you get your affairs in order

    • @jinnturtle
      @jinnturtle 11 місяців тому +11

      If it _is_ nailed down it's probably a puzzle :D

    • @TheZoenGaming
      @TheZoenGaming 11 місяців тому +8

      @@thespiffingbrit 😎

    • @TheZoenGaming
      @TheZoenGaming 11 місяців тому +10

      @@jinnturtle That just means there's loot to look forward to.🤣

  • @BR4IN1N4J4R
    @BR4IN1N4J4R 4 місяці тому +4

    And the fact he gimped the created spells is what tickles me most. Theoretically, Soul Trap+Ancestor+Skeleton+Bone Lord as a single spell could essentially summon an army in a can. Yes, it's more magicka, but with an Intelligence of "Yes," does that really matter?

  • @DatShadyGuy
    @DatShadyGuy 11 місяців тому +111

    I see Spiff has figured out the ultimate way to summon unpaid interns.

    • @elgatto3133
      @elgatto3133 8 місяців тому +1

      Don't need to pay a living wage if they're already desd

  • @nobodyimportant4778
    @nobodyimportant4778 5 місяців тому +3

    I never realized the spoon in caius's house implies you boil moon sugar like heroin

  • @whitehawk4099
    @whitehawk4099 11 місяців тому +91

    "Is some tactic in Morrowind overpowe-" yes, yes it is.

  • @SylviaRustyFae
    @SylviaRustyFae 11 місяців тому +6

    The fact Spiff goes thru this whole game with the tiniest sliver of health is honestly anxiety inducin xD

  • @joshm7335
    @joshm7335 11 місяців тому +13

    The time in Oblivion when I discovered if you use a shield at the same time as a spell, it makes the spell cast twice as fast was a fun moment for me. So was the moment in Skyrim when I found out I can sneak faster just by taking out my hands for a spell then putting them away over and over. Magic.

  • @acdhipnose1791
    @acdhipnose1791 11 місяців тому +4

    Spiff invades the city of Vivec with an army of bonelords, but fails to go after Vivec himself. That showdown would've been glorious

  • @Spacecoke
    @Spacecoke 7 місяців тому +9

    Ain't gonna lie. I prefer the old beast race legs. Animation was bad for all races in morrowind but I think Bethesda should have looked at how the draenei in wow were animated with beast legs instead of taking the easy option.

  • @ryanm2
    @ryanm2 11 місяців тому +5

    0:30 "And that means there's a certain janky charm..."
    *music swells, tears fall*

  • @AltreusGalvinam
    @AltreusGalvinam 11 місяців тому +11

    You finally posted my favorite game, no matter how broken it is! ❤❤❤
    Also crying at the easy gold missed at the start. Magic axe, taxes, golden platter!

  • @nicholaschisholm7018
    @nicholaschisholm7018 11 місяців тому +1

    you singlehandedly justified the ban on necromancy in oblivion with this video

  • @NAWWMANNN
    @NAWWMANNN 11 місяців тому +7

    My favorite part was when Spiff said "its ghosting time" and proceeded to ghost all over everyone

  • @DarthZ01
    @DarthZ01 10 місяців тому +19

    3:26
    i remember playing morrowind my first time, i headed out to balmora, got a bit distracted, and like 100 hours later i remembered there was a main quest so finally went to meet Caius.

    • @serotonin.scavenger
      @serotonin.scavenger 10 місяців тому +5

      And then the document you need is no longer in your inventory and you had to remember where you sold it.

  • @juangonzalez9848
    @juangonzalez9848 11 місяців тому +8

    The morrowind overhaul is pretty nice. It changes the cap on magic effects from 100-500

  • @justinhaes7065
    @justinhaes7065 11 місяців тому +9

    Best item in the game is an daedric tower shield. Boost your intelligence to 10 or 20k. Then enchant it with fireball with 2 meter range. Every time you block with it, your enemy melts.

  • @ZackRToler
    @ZackRToler 11 місяців тому +12

    In Morrowind, being able to hit something in combat was a bit of a dice roll. It was your opponents defense vs your skill and fatigue (green bar). That's a very simplistic way of describing it. The lower your fatigue, the less likely you are to hit. And the thing about Morrowind, anything faster than walking speed and jumping constantly drains your fatigue. So if you weren't aware of this, odds are you are running around with your fatigue at 0 and missing a lot.

  • @XtremeMaran
    @XtremeMaran 11 місяців тому +9

    My favourite exploit in Morrowind is intelligence potion crafting. You go to Balmora and then teleport to Sadrith Mora. You go to Aunius Autrus. You buy ingredients from him to craft intelligence potions. You then drink them until you have ridiculous amount of intelligence which allows crafting even better potions. The NPC restocks every time you talk to him so you create more potions and sell them to buy more ingredients. After getting enough of them you go Scamp trader in Caldera and sell them to him for the full price. If he runs out of money you wait 24 hours for him to restock. Then use the money to train. Boom, high level character without killing a single enemy.

    • @Loganz0
      @Loganz0 8 місяців тому

      I kill the woman in caldera whose part of the blades and repurpose her home as mine. I do everything you said, but put a recall/mark spell at that home and I command creature the scamp inside the home. Super quick access to mages guild teleports and you get the 2nd best merchant in your home Everytime you port back.

  • @ImmortalSage69420
    @ImmortalSage69420 11 місяців тому +5

    Going from a dark, gray game to those bright white stock photos is actively giving me astigmatism.

  • @TelvanniWizardMoneyGang
    @TelvanniWizardMoneyGang 11 місяців тому +14

    16:17 Yes, in fact, becoming a god is the main thrust of the game as even save states are explained in-game as you achieving CHIM. This universe had giant robots with reality-erasing beam cannons and mortals mantling the essence of deities (Tiber Septim's ascension to Talos), time-traveling elf eradicating cyborgs and, of course, M'aiq the Liar.

  • @rubicc1920
    @rubicc1920 11 місяців тому +3

    i just started playing morrowind for the first time roughly a week ago despite it sitting in my library for YEARS. this video could NOT have been better timed

  • @alexandercato7400
    @alexandercato7400 11 місяців тому +12

    I remember playing this when it came out and it was absolutely revolutionary. I fell in love with the flexibility the developers gave you to achieve the task at hand. Before you knew it you were levitating over level 60 baddies to steal relics you had no right possessing.

  • @clericofchaos1
    @clericofchaos1 11 місяців тому +33

    Morrowind videos always bring back such wonderful memories. That game was the most broken thing i have ever played and it was glorious. My only regret is that it crashed a lot do to all the crazy, random, and overpowered stuff i was doing. Like this for instance. Morrowind hated hordes. Making one would make your game crash roughly every time the horde took one collective step, but if you could get it to keep running it was a simple matter to wipe all life off the map.

    • @clericofchaos1
      @clericofchaos1 11 місяців тому

      @@delayed_control Oh cool, i've always been worried to try mods because the game was too unstable.

    • @EvilDoresh
      @EvilDoresh 11 місяців тому +1

      @@delayed_control I also love the bug where the Unarmored skill doesn't actually _do_ anything unless you're wearing at least _one_ piece of _actual_ armor

  • @dragonboyjgh
    @dragonboyjgh 11 місяців тому +1

    19:30 I'm a god. How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innoc- OW! OW!! THE BONES! AH! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!

  • @Chazzy0x0
    @Chazzy0x0 11 місяців тому +5

    In Oblivion I used to make the "cast paralysis on self" spell and then throw myself off mountains, you wouldn't take fall damage if you were paralyzed. So yeah after the 100% chameleon I just did that for fun.
    God I loved that game.

  • @HappyBeezerStudios
    @HappyBeezerStudios 11 місяців тому +1

    Morrowind is truly open world. It lets you do almost everything you can think off and pulls no punches.
    The game doesn't hold back at being hard, so neither should you at cheesing.
    It doesn't hold back on being broken, so neither should you at breaking it.
    cast invisibility on self to steal everything - check
    create a drank attribute spell on self to get f(almost) free skill training - check
    buy common ingredients to destroy the economy with potions worth more than most vendors inventories - check
    cast a single point of levitation on enemies to make them get stuck in midair - check
    wearing Sunder and Keeing without Wraithguard despite them sapping your health by just switching on an off - check
    destroying the heart by having a vendor follow you and do the job - check
    ignore all that and buff yourself so far, you can defeat the heart in a single hit despite it being immortal without the tools - check
    wearing tuskan raider cosplay - check
    sujamma - check
    joining Daddy Dagoth ......
    Well I said almost everything.

  • @nessesaryschoolthing
    @nessesaryschoolthing 11 місяців тому +5

    8:40 "Someone at Bethesda decided that this level 1 enemy should be able to paralyze you... brilliant gameplay, Todd."
    That's because it's not a level 1 enemy, it's a level 1 harmless baby that would never attack you unprovoked and you're a monster. It's a tool to convey to the player that not everything in nature needs to/should be attacked.

  • @TheFixer710
    @TheFixer710 3 місяці тому +2

    Come Nerevar, come to me through fire and war. Moon and star together we shall speak for the law and the land and we shall drive the mongrel dogs of the empire from Morrowind. Bring the tools of kagrenek to the heart chamber, we must complete akulahkan.

  • @JonesCrimson
    @JonesCrimson 11 місяців тому +9

    Technically, Argonians take on nearly infinite forms because they're all mutated animals created by the Hist, or descendants thereof. The reason they all share a form in a title is due to development restraints. There are also different forms of Khajiit for every phase of the moon, but Skyrim only has two: Sentient Housecat and Regular Person.

  • @countluke2334
    @countluke2334 11 місяців тому +1

    You and what army?
    - The one somewhere outside busy with pathfinding.

  • @doublepinger
    @doublepinger 11 місяців тому +3

    As someone who needed to upgrade their GPU just to PLAY Morrowind, Oblivion was such a let-down, and anyone around that era knew the dark tide of Consolization that was washing over the land. Thanks for bringing back attention to it, even if most vtubers today are younger than it.

  • @winstonwho
    @winstonwho 8 місяців тому +2

    the soul trap on target to keep effects are actually hinted at in the books in morrowind and in necromancer writings in dungeons.
    there may even be a way to absorb the heart

  • @Ar8it3r
    @Ar8it3r 11 місяців тому +5

    Never is a cup of coffee more enjoyable than when watching a Spiff video!
    Another amazing cheesey vid!
    Cheers from Oz!

  • @twaniboy11
    @twaniboy11 10 місяців тому +2

    The more relaxed pace is definitely a plus in my opinion.
    Walking through your build process was very enjoyable.

  • @TechModProjects
    @TechModProjects 11 місяців тому +4

    I remember back in the day discovering something like this but could've sworn it involved casting the spell onto a grand charm you placed on the floor.
    We're talking original Xbox era and once past 15 skeletons, it wasn't a happy bunny

  • @VIadlV
    @VIadlV 10 місяців тому +1

    I remember doing this 20 years ago. 1st attempted with Dremora. After watching 5 of them destroy Balmora, switched to skele boys.

  • @treevis400
    @treevis400 11 місяців тому +11

    I've recently been watching a bunch of Morrowind content on a whim. But outta the blue yoi come and provide Morrowind content too?! What a wonderful sausage you are Spiff!

  • @bronyhub
    @bronyhub 11 місяців тому

    Doesn't steal the limeware platter, attacks an innocent scrib. Well I guess he was playing an _evil_ necromancer.

  • @nightwish233
    @nightwish233 11 місяців тому +9

    if my memory serves that exploit if you make it soul trap "on self" you get the same effect but you don't have to look at your feet. My favorite cheese spell was jump plus feather fall. about 10 to 20 points of jump plus feather fall 1 for 5 seconds let you traverse the map like the hulk. It was such a fast way to travel the xbox couldn't render the map sometimes. had to be real careful about the feather fall timing though if it ran out you died on landing.

    • @barrenwolfsbane
      @barrenwolfsbane 3 місяці тому

      The one reason why many didn't use the on self option was to prevent misfires from being permanent

  • @Proud-in-Ukrainian
    @Proud-in-Ukrainian 11 місяців тому +1

    RPG creators somehow still don't understand that THIS is the kind of gameplay every necro main is hoping to get one day.
    They try to make their necromancers look scary and strong, whilst in reality, an ever-fleeing glass cannon with no respect to honest 1v1 is the best kind of necromant player's experience.

  • @carlwolf5923
    @carlwolf5923 11 місяців тому +4

    My favorite part was when he said "It's ghosting time" and then he ghosted all over them.

  • @JoshSweetvale
    @JoshSweetvale 10 місяців тому +1

    Cheese level 1: Leveling efficiently (slowly), abusing spell crafting, and grabbing magic items early.
    Cheese level 2: Enchanting roulette
    Cheese level 3: Alchemy loop. Yes.

  • @jakubkucharczyk8929
    @jakubkucharczyk8929 11 місяців тому +7

    Excellent video...when last part of Skryim Legendary??? ❤

  • @Warp9pnt9
    @Warp9pnt9 11 місяців тому +1

    My favorite broken thing in Morrowind was to become both a vampire and a werewolf (normally mutually exclusive and deathly enemies, but a glitch allowed you to become both), then boost my strength, allowing me to jump over entire mountain ranges. With enough juicing, who needs levitation? It came in handy to cut down a 40 minute walk to about 4 seconds, and haul every last bit of loot to town. As a werewolf, you were immune to sunlight and healed fast IIRC. As a vampire, you had life leech or something. No need for weapons. You healed infinitely. The main risk of death was by launching yourself off the planet by accident and yeeting yourself into extra-dimensional space-time. It's been a while so details fuzzy, but that's how I remember it. No need for magic, intelligence, training, weapons, armor, healing, poison cures when you're a Werepire...Vampwolf... nightmare from a Romanian fairy tale.

  • @Cyndarion0ne
    @Cyndarion0ne 11 місяців тому +3

    15:14 video description for that segment says:
    Wven further!
    Love these typos, it doesnt even bother me, it fits for a morrowind video

  • @chaselowell4567
    @chaselowell4567 11 місяців тому

    I would love to see Brit try to break the latest Zelda game. It’s very interesting to me how the game simultaneously has almost no glitches I encountered on my first playthrough while those whom have gone out of their way have broken it into a cheesy shell of its former self.

  • @RikiRaccoon
    @RikiRaccoon 11 місяців тому +7

    OBLITERATION FROM TIME
    Years ago, in an age past, it was said a wizard learned of this fell weapon from a fellow student in algebra , 3rd period, it was a thursday. It must needs be enchanted unto an Ebony Staff, or Scimitar as those were the only 2 weapons that could withstand the magicks that will soon be placed upon them.
    As my failing memory struggled to recall, i remeber the basis of this enchantment, which i shall recall as best be could.
    Weakness to magicka 100-100 for 1 (maybe 2?) second on strike
    Absorb Health 100-100 for 1 second on strike
    Damage or Drain Health 100-100 for 1 second on strike (or what ever will fit, i forgot which it was)
    Frost shield 1 for 1 second on strike
    Fire shield 1 for 1 secondon strike
    Lightning Shield 1 for 1 second on strike
    Invisibility for 1 second on strike
    Soultrap 1 for 1 second on target
    If my memory serves, this VILE combination of ancient spells will perform the following...
    Constantly be draining their health and absorbing it into yourself, permanently, over charging your hp pool with every kill (it as in, 1337/69 is what your HP could look like)
    The
    Dealing damage to them so they die almost instantly after but a single strike
    The shield spells and invisibility are the sinister part. the shields create a conflagration of auras around the person , covering them in a flash of light. They will die almost instantly, in a flash of colors and energy, and due to soul trap and invisibility? they will become invisible.
    HOW EVER, due to the quirky ness of the engine, they will be invisible, BUT THEIR SHADOW WONT BE.
    This weapon when created correctly (and my above recipe is probably not correct), it will crate an abomination of an attack that will instantly obliterate people, give you their HP as bonus HP, and leave nothing but a BURNT SHADOW OF A CORPSE on the ground.
    I turned many a city into a cruel tomb of burnt shadows with this weapon.
    DISCLAIMER - my memory of what went into this is fuzzy, there might have been a damage spell like lightning or the drain may have been damage 50 or 1 second or something, but with soul trap permanency it becomes 50 damage a second. I remember it had the MAX amount of spell effects you could slap onto a weapon.
    Enjoy this blursed weapon, and be careful attacking -anything- with reflect magic. That will most assuredly end... VERY BADLY for you.
    EDIT : ALSO, I had a similar spell to your bone boys, but since you canth ave multiple similar effects on a single spell, I made a single spell that summoned literally one of nearly every undead enemy I could. Skeletons, Skeleton Lords, Ancestral Ghosts, Bonewalkers (least, normal, and greaters) and just cast that once for an instant squad of undead to charge in.
    Similarly had one for atranochs. "Ever-Flavortranoch" i think i called it

  • @Leto85
    @Leto85 11 місяців тому +20

    0:04 Hello, Morrowind!

  • @plaguepenguin
    @plaguepenguin 11 місяців тому +1

    You can get the spell "jack of all trades" in the first town. Use that to create a spell to increase your luck to whatever number then everything will work for you every time and everything wise will miss. Then boost all other stats and boom. God hood at level one. If you travel to vivic and travel north, one is the larger houses at the town across the river from the slave farm, you can find an almost compete strongest armor suit. Get mark and recall to set up at the scamp trader and boom, you're rich at level one.

  • @cloudsora
    @cloudsora 11 місяців тому +3

    My shock and surprise when Spiff doesn't use OpenMW.
    It took me several minutes to realize before I'd figured out why you had the borders of the video like that since original MW is too old for widescreen support of course.

  • @Lambo962
    @Lambo962 11 місяців тому +1

    Ahh interesting. So this is why your morrowind videos from 3 years ago randomly popped up in my recommended feed yesterday 🙌🏼

  • @endoroboto
    @endoroboto 8 місяців тому +1

    9:46 this brings back Everquest memories more than anything heh

  • @paulzhuromskyy1228
    @paulzhuromskyy1228 11 місяців тому

    "We're pretty much stealing anything that isn't nailed to the ground."
    *Proceeds to ignore the Limeware Platter*

  • @tompatierno5606
    @tompatierno5606 11 місяців тому

    Best way to break oblivion: have restoration destruction and mysticism at 100. Summon a monster that can be paralyzed with a 10-second paralyze effect on target. Also on target reflect magica 100%. You now have a reflective friend who is paralyzed. Now create two spells that have enough destruction aspect to be considered destruction spells. Weakness to magica drain charisma drain blunt 10 seconds. Those destruction spells can also hold restoration effects. Fortify intelligence fortify magica 10 seconds.
    When you start casting these destruction spells at your reflective minion, you get weaker to magicka. That affect only applies to destruction spells, but since you put so many drain effects into it, the entire spell is affected by weakness to magica. 100% weak 200% weak 400% weak 800% weak. Go until you hit the integer overflow value. Go one step beyond the integer overflow value. You now have infinite mana for up to 2 minutes. But if you cast a destruction class spell that fortifies your endurance, your fatigue will be negative integer overflow value. Once that spell effect wears off, the game forgets how much mana you initially had and now you have easily hundreds of thousands of mana that will last until you either quick travel or load a save. You can do this with other stats too, but if you try it with speed you will phase through the entirety of Cyrodil with each step. Also if somebody sneezes while you are 10 million percent weak to magica, you will die. For some reason, during the last step where you fortify endurance, your character will frequently turn into a puddle of polygons which snap back together when the spell effect wears off.

  • @zerrierslizer1
    @zerrierslizer1 11 місяців тому

    fun fact! i was the one who discovered the very glitch you just used! i found it back in 2003, when i was 6 years old, doing exactly what the game did NOT intend for me to do lol.
    i made a video on it 2 years later showcasing my original savestate from 2003 to prove it at the time.
    i love this game to this day still. nothing quite like going back to Morrowind and completely destroying one, more than one or everything the game has to offer lol.

  • @Mahdcat
    @Mahdcat 11 місяців тому +1

    I spent 3 real time hours going into the sewers of Tribunal to beat up a goblin and steal their awesome 1 handed blunt weapon. It kept killing me before I could kill and loot it. It had incredible damage per attack but broke constantly. But it didn't matter because the more I pumped up my strength, the harder I hit, the more hammers I could hold to repair.

  • @jojomorgan8556
    @jojomorgan8556 11 місяців тому +1

    The answer to that first question is always an " Of Course " when it's a Spiff Vid.

  • @charlessimmons223
    @charlessimmons223 11 місяців тому

    The best part of Morrowind was collecting all the pillows and building a pillow fort.

  • @daedragroz8346
    @daedragroz8346 10 місяців тому

    Spiff shouting "ghosts! , ghosts!" i was expecting a "new dog model" to be mentioned at least once.

  • @ltloxa1159
    @ltloxa1159 11 місяців тому +1

    'Anything only' is always powerfull in Morrowind, it's when you try to do multiple things you become weak.

  • @madm4tty
    @madm4tty 11 місяців тому

    Can’t believe you missed the opportunity to call your char Barry Wight

  • @elmadicine
    @elmadicine 11 місяців тому

    fun fact: Morrowind's most significant moment is at the VERY beginning when you encounter a young Saint Jiub the Eradicator right as he's about to begin his fabled penance of ridding Vvardenfell of the invasive Cliff Racer menace

  • @annabellerice839
    @annabellerice839 11 місяців тому +2

    Bold of you to call a scrib an _"Enemy"_

  • @OldSlimJolo
    @OldSlimJolo 11 місяців тому +2

    when i first played Morrowind back in the day, I didn't realize there was a window to open a map, so I was doing my own cartography trying to map morrowind as I went. Lol I had from Seyda Neen to Balmora to Vivec and some other features etc, bits of ashland and so on before I realized there was a map.

  • @jaccokoet3888
    @jaccokoet3888 10 місяців тому

    Love that these videos always ascent into complete chaos at the end

  • @yveshalimi5984
    @yveshalimi5984 11 місяців тому +1

    I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! been waiting for a new video for 3 weeks. thank you for existing

  • @yoface2537
    @yoface2537 6 місяців тому +1

    "...become a god..."
    Dagoth ur enters the chat
    Alternatively
    "I'm a god, how can you kill a god, what s grand and intoxicating innocence"
    "No u"

  • @luna775
    @luna775 11 місяців тому +2

    OMG the Dagoth Ur NFT, of course he sells it to his "dreamers" XD lol that commentary got me hard not gonna lie

  • @Debatra.
    @Debatra. 11 місяців тому +1

    Some day you have to show off Spell Chaining in Oblivion. Fortify Magicka + Fortify Intelligence + other effects = A spell you can cast infinitely.
    And that's just the beginning. Combining this with a few other effects can greatly increase the amount of Magicka you get, which in turn lets you stack even more powerful effects onto it.

  • @OriginalVoiceBox
    @OriginalVoiceBox 11 місяців тому

    Glad to see you in my feed again and that the videos are back to being about breaking games. I was getting so tired of the "look how many views I can get on this video" stuff. Hope it keeps up.