I'm just imagining Aria turning up to the mages guild, being asked to demonstrate her magical ability in a practice duel, only to then bludgeon her opponent to death with her spellbook.
Give the orc a break, they don't know how ancestry works. They probably think physical distance affects your ancestral distance. So if your grandfather moves to a neighboring town, he's your great-grandfather, after all, he's a great distance away. Now imagine what your aunt becomes if she moves from Cyrodiil to Morrowind...
Just FYI from the beginning of Arena to the end of Oblivion covers 34 years and then Skyrim takes place 200 years later. So I'm sad to say Jon is not the dapper orcs ancestor, he's just a adoring fan who got thrown in jail.
I didn't know it was that short of time between Morrowind and Oblivion crisis. I've tried playing Morrowind like 4 or 5 times, but end up rage quitting from not being able to hit anything, and that damn assassin killing me like 30 minutes in xD I think my last attempt was about 2 hours before I quit because I got tired of reading (quite dyslexic, so for me its a pain to read)
Fun fact about Jiub - you met him in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC, as a wandering spirit within the Soul Cairn, and collected the scattered pages of his Opus. He's also voiced by the same guy in both games, and also provided the voice of Desmond Lockhart in Fallout 3's Point Lookout.
@@Mistwolfss Yes, by the Daedra invading Kvatch. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Presumably that's how he ended up in the Soul Cairn.
@@Mistwolfss In Skyrim's Dawnguard expansion his ghost says he was there when a group of dremora soul trapped him, but he didnt say how he died, he thought he got thrown in some weird prison until you tell him he got made ded ( cant sy k word here it seems) centuries ago, but yeah he got choppa'd. His head even has the scar so you know it's him. Body's gone, most likely eaten by whatever critter daedra were there. I wonder why we never got to find and wield daedric crescents in that game. Ah well.
There is some comfort in knowing that Jiub would take up the cup in the timelines where you fail, and become the Nerevarine himself. There's no pressure to succeed in Morrowind if you think about it.
"Orcs are versatile, useful characters to play, and even if you choose not to use axes, their other skills will come in handy throughout the game. Unless you want to be an orc mage, which is a sad creature indeed." -Dao_Jones, gamefaqs
Nah, female orcs make fine mages. As Jon rightly pointed out, female characters often get bonuses to Int and Will, and so a female Orc is only a few 10 points behind a female Breton in Intelligence (though a Breton gets additional magicka racially), and only 5 points behind in Willpower. The only real downside is that Orcs have no racial bonus to magical skills. Berserk, on the other hand, is one of the best racial abilities in the game, alongside Redguard's Adrenaline Rush (Though Redguards sadly make terrible mages, with both male and female Redguards having 30 in both Int and Will, and no racial bonus to magic skills.) Orcs make great starting characters in general, since Berserk means that for 60 seconds you will not miss any attacks, and your odds of blocking, casting spells, and taking any other action that relies on fatigue a greatly increased.
@@Nightweaver1 Oh there most certainly is. This is the only game, ive ever played where you need to do literal homework, before you get back into it. However watching someone else, someone "fresh" sure is fun. Muahahahahahahaha... Edit: Though, hes is going to be cheating by way of comment section. Boooo!
So glad you started playing this magnificent game, let me guve you a few words of advice (and I guess to everybody who would want to pick this one up after seeing the series) 1. Yes Fatigue influences everything, like everything everything including your prices at shops. Resting is your friend 2. Enchanted items do recharge over time 3. No you didn't want to play a stealth game. Stealth in Morrowind is notoriously hard, playing straight up stealth build is a sign of experience with the game. It's best to start with either magic or combat class 4. It's not impossible to hit while your agility is 0, attack attribute influences hit chance independently and that's why you were able to hit every attack while you were using Berserk 5. Stealing is also a bit tricky in this one as stolen items are not distinguished in any way by the game and they will be seized if any guard catches you 6. Training is uncapped, if you want to use speechcraft, train it 7. Skooma, moon sugar and few other bits and pieces are considered contraband, most traders will refuse to trade with you if you have some in your eq, best way to deal with it is to just drop it before you trade and pick it up after you finish it There are also many ways to cheese the game, but if anyone wants to know them just write an answer to that comment and I'll describe them best I can
We might have to inform you that Morrowind takes place only six years before Oblivion, so you might not be as distant an ancestor of that Orc as you planned to be.
@@o-mangaming5042 Blackmarsh is far too wet and jungle-y, given the MesoAmerican inspiration I'd say that's more like the Amazon with hints of Yucatan/Central America. Vvardenfell is somewhat Australia-like, though it's more volcanic than a lot of Australia is. It definitely is valid for memes of Australia though given the outback kinda feel, remoteness of some of the areas, and constant beasties who aren't all that friendly though.
@@MrVertigoStudios Fair enough on the landscape. I was more thinking of the role it played to the Empire. People aren't getting dumped in Morrowind as a prison.
For your own sanity consider the essential 'UI Expansion'-a simple script extender mod (no esp) which provides some important QoL features to menus, like search bars (the spell list gets _really_ long after awhile), better tooltips, character profile save manager and most importantly, visually shows already selected topics in the dialogue window when there's nothing new to read. You can enable 'Ownership Tooltip' in the Code Patch under _Interface Changes_ to know when stealing.
Seriously Jon, do this. I've done countless playthroughs of Morrowind over the last 20+ years. This UI mod will make the whole experience not only much better for you, but for us watching.
@@Valkbg Correct me if I'm wrong, it has been many years since trying OpenMW, but isn't it incompatible with MGE-XE? That's why I never really went that route, as I've been using MGE-XE for so many years.
@@Valkbg OpenMW is a terrific emulation of vanilla Morrowind, and a wonderful project. The Code Patch and MGE-XE combo does essentially the same thing (patching the engine and providing a new rendering pipeline). Drop UI Expansion into Data Files and you have parity with OpenMW for an annoyance-lite vanilla playthrough, without any stability issues. The cool extended stuff in OpenMW like navmeshing and new animations, as well as different ways some mechanics are handled behind the scenes do affect the experience in some subtle and some obvious ways. I believe there's room for both.
The Limeware Platter heist is a classic. Fun fact, if you'd IMMEDIATELY opened your inventory and dropped it, they wouldn't have confiscated it from the floor, and you can pick it up for a consequence-free 650g
You gotta appreciate the game design though. They put it the papers down in such a way that you will notice the platter and want to click on it, then they teach you about crime and theft mechanics organically, no pop-up, no breaking immersion. Bethesda, what has happened to you?
So glad you're finally here. Also fun note: Jiub is the guy whose ghost you find in the Soul Cairn in skyrim, the one who was sainted and then soul trapped. Had the really annoying quest to find all his missing letters.
He also canonically died during the crisis in Kvatch during oblivion because he says he was killed during it in Skyrim. There’s a severed bald dunmer head with an eye scar in one of the houses in Kvatch, so even though it was a generic model it may have been planned since then
So incredibly true. Daggerfall was my first, and although Morrowind is my favorite, Daggerfall is a close second. I understand why people find it incredibly frustrating, but my rose tinted glasses cannot be taken off for Daggerfall. I'm quite sure it was my first 1000 hour game (either that or Civ 2).
@@captbloodbeard I understand completely. After I finished Morrowind (finally), Daggerfall was my next stop. That game is massive, so I'm sure I put in similar time.
Morrowind is the first (maybe only) game that had me sitting on the title screen just listening to the music for an extended period of time. That theme is just captivating.
I relate to this so much, but also I've done this with Oblivion and Skyrim as well, and Civilization 4 (listen to Baba Yetu if you haven't played Civ 4 and you'll understand, it was the first video game to ever win a Grammy Award).
6:36 Jon, it’s called a Spellsword. Blade in one hand, ball of fire in the other; maybe not literally, but even beyond the term expanding into wider media, it began here.
@@taekinuru2Fun fact, the Orcs berzerk positively effects the chances of everything linked to stamina, including magic, Jon has unironically made one of the better Gish builds in this game, without understanding why yet.
A battlemage and spellsword are different things. Not only that, the magic-enhanced warrior gimmick was a thing in the '80s, with DnD. Likely even back to the '70s, though my research couldn't find conclusive proof.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 further back than that if you look to Fantasy Novels. Or even further if you look to mythology (At least as far back as ancient Greece, with Achilles, a warrior enhanced with magic that made him immortal, even if said magic wasn't from his own craft)
I know they are unpopular, but if he wants to play an orc that wants to be a wealthy aristocrat, Hlaalu could work too. His character would have more trouble advancing in Hlaalu though.
Oh lord, can’t wait to see this, anyone else remember the disaster that was his couple episodes of daggerfall? Also anyone else remember playing this on the original Xbox?
and girls :D! I played Morrowind when I was a little girl, told my mom it was to improve my English and I feel it actually did. I learned some fancy words related to volcanoes and rocks like caldera or cairn.
52:40 that light green bottle in the box was telvanni bug musk. It's a perfume that temporarily boosts personality by 40 points. That might be quite useful for a 25 personality character.
I've binged Justbackgroundnoise's Morrowind videos over the last month and here comes Jon and his advanced lack of mechanical knowledge to double down on the TES3 nostalgia right at the best possible time. Well done Jon, now overlook 15 crucial items in the tutorial and somehow still beat the game without issues!
this game was the first elder scrolls for me. I’ve played this sooooo much more then the others. I love so much about this game. I always had a fully worked routine to set me up for the game. An example would be to steal the key to the watchtower out side of the government building in which you start. (Key can be found on the “book case” you need to grab it and quickly drop it and anything else you grabbed like a bowl worth 200 gold, otherwise you lose it all. With the key back in hand you can go outside and steal full steal armour and other stuff to sell or use. Used to do other stuff to change up a couple quests like the women with rats infested. Could find a sunk boat with cushions and a receipt that she’s after. Used to try to join every faction, house, guild, temple etc. getting the warp spell and levitation made things so much fun.
Hyyyype. I could never get into Morrowind because of the outdated mechanics, but I loved Oblivion and your playthrough of it. Can't wait to see you delve into Morrowind.
Morroblion, people. It is a total conversion mod of Morrowind in Oblivion engine. Full completed overhaul. It is in Nexus. So if you can play oblivion you can play Morrowind.
I appreciate that while the game tells you that you are the chosen one, nobody in the game believes you until you prove it. For Elder Scrolls 6, I will guess that you are literally brought back from the dead.
Be careful with fortify health Jon, just like fatigue did when beserk ran out, it takes off all your bonus when the effect wears off. Beserk running out while you're at low health will kill you.
Not even a Morrowind player just a lore and watcher of others who've played and even I had the urge despite never feeling that about any other playthrough on UA-cam lol but I love John's just blind going into this so much lol it's so funny. He's really got the full handle on his delivery that's just always got that "feel good" content. 😁
Well, in The Elder Scrolls Online, you started off... dead. So they're gonna have to top that somehow. They've made some revisions to the tutorial since then, but in the next update, they're putting death back in the forefront for sure. That's never really left.
Game: "This is the prophecy about the reincarnation of the ancient dark elf warrior-saint-hero who will avenge an ancient evil and punish the hubris of those who proclaim themselves to be gods" Jon: "I'm going to be an orc lady mage who loves hitting things with big sticks and is afflicted with chronic malapropisms" Not even ten minutes in and he already understands exactly who the Nerevarine is. This series is going to be glorious.
This was not just my first Elder Scrolls, but my first proper adventure RPG. It remains my favorite game still to this day, and Jon's dawning realization that multiple identical potions and effects stack in this game has me almost disturbingly excited for the long and determined descent into madness to come!
I remember playing Morrowind on my Xbox and genuinely got lost in the woods. I never carried on that save so my character is still in those same woods about 20 years later. They are either Yoda or their dead lol😂
The beginning: In which our heroine bumbles about Seyda-Neen, unleashing her worst and ugliest toothy grinned compliments at all the locals until they all despise her!
Haven’t watched this yet but I can’t wait to count how many times he misses melee attacks in this episode. Morrowind is definitely an experience. Looking forward to watching this series
Continuing the escalation of prison escapes, the Elder Scrolls Online, which came after Skyrim, has you as a prisoner of Molag Bhal in a plane of Oblivion and you spend the tutorial escaping. So, they escalated from chopping block while a dragon kickstarts the apocalypse to escaping Elder Scrolls hell while Satan hunts you down.
Cannot express how happy i am to see someone else trying Morrowind. Plus Jon is really good at finding thew gold among the silt. This game has so much gold, hidden by so much jank. Wondering if we should warn him about the quest with the incorrect directions.
Jiub sadly doesn't appear anywhere in Morrowind again but he's in Oblivion and Skyrim. Well... he's kind of in Oblivion. At least what might be his head can be found in Kvatch.
Already head over heels in love with this series. Already reminds me of my 1st playthroughs. Jumping across the map is how I got anywhere, deadra bless the feather fall spell lol
Getting in on this one at the START! I've tried this and didn't love the early game but am willing to give it a try if John likes it. I usually agree with him in taste of games.
I love that this is finally here. A few vanilla-friendly mod recommendations (all available on Nexus): Pluginless and Adjustable Lower First Person Sneak (self-explanatory), Better Bodies (also self-explanatory), and QuickLoot (adds a Fallout 4-style loot menu) No shade if you don't want to use any of those mods, but they're ones I like and don't think diverge from the vanilla experience in significant ways. Oh, and one more that does make a significant change to one of the game systems: Speechcraft Rebalance - I personally don't find the vanilla Speechcraft system to be fun or interesting and I find that mod to be more enjoyable. That said, I completely understand if you don't want to use it for a first play-through.
Limeware Platter stolen unsuccessfully
Oh hey, it's MickyD! Makes sense you'd be here.
The one and only!
Vortex crashes giving your pc that weird drive smell? Same. My potato is a wuss to modded farming quests.
Hope you're doing alright basement brother!
Oh my god, you're alive
Jon immediately gets in trouble with the law for stealing a serving tray he thinks is a shield. We’re in for a classic Jon adventure folks!
"If not shield then why shield shaped"
-- Lady Aria gro-Shurgak, probably
"But it was red! Shouldn't it be marked red if its stealing!?"
What a grand and intoxicating innocence!
@@cleverman383 I'd ask how he could be so naive, but, well... we all know Jon.
I'm just imagining Aria turning up to the mages guild, being asked to demonstrate her magical ability in a practice duel, only to then bludgeon her opponent to death with her spellbook.
She'd fit right in at Raya Lucaria.
Canon
"distand ancestor of lord rugdumph gro-shurgak"
more like distant cousin considering the small time gap of 6 years
Maybe its actually his aunt? Those can sometimes be weirdly close in age to their nieces and nephews on occasion
Give the orc a break, they don't know how ancestry works. They probably think physical distance affects your ancestral distance. So if your grandfather moves to a neighboring town, he's your great-grandfather, after all, he's a great distance away. Now imagine what your aunt becomes if she moves from Cyrodiil to Morrowind...
Just FYI from the beginning of Arena to the end of Oblivion covers 34 years and then Skyrim takes place 200 years later.
So I'm sad to say Jon is not the dapper orcs ancestor, he's just a adoring fan who got thrown in jail.
I was thinking this too when Jon said this - though potentially more along the lines of sister than anything!
I didn't know it was that short of time between Morrowind and Oblivion crisis. I've tried playing Morrowind like 4 or 5 times, but end up rage quitting from not being able to hit anything, and that damn assassin killing me like 30 minutes in xD I think my last attempt was about 2 hours before I quit because I got tired of reading (quite dyslexic, so for me its a pain to read)
Fun fact about Jiub - you met him in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC, as a wandering spirit within the Soul Cairn, and collected the scattered pages of his Opus. He's also voiced by the same guy in both games, and also provided the voice of Desmond Lockhart in Fallout 3's Point Lookout.
Wait, it's literally just Desmond's voice. That's actually so obvious, I failed the perception check though.
His head can be seen in Kvatch in Oblivion as well. I love those little details.
@@spiffs2septims730was he beheaded?
@@Mistwolfss Yes, by the Daedra invading Kvatch. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Presumably that's how he ended up in the Soul Cairn.
@@Mistwolfss In Skyrim's Dawnguard expansion his ghost says he was there when a group of dremora soul trapped him, but he didnt say how he died, he thought he got thrown in some weird prison until you tell him he got made ded ( cant sy k word here it seems) centuries ago, but yeah he got choppa'd. His head even has the scar so you know it's him. Body's gone, most likely eaten by whatever critter daedra were there. I wonder why we never got to find and wield daedric crescents in that game. Ah well.
Orcs live short lives but dear lord a distant ancestor 6 years before oblivion
Maybe its actually his aunt? Those can sometimes be weirdly close in age to their nieces and nephews on occasion
Because of their misunderstanding of big word, maybe they mean they are relatives that live far away from each other.
@@Tsanito That's actually genius
"Parfait me good sir, I wanted to advocate you that he is actually my contemptuary, not a distaff ancestral!"
Elder Scrolls lore can be a bit wibbly wobby timey wimey
3:35 Jon showing the proper respect to the great Saint Jiub.
There is some comfort in knowing that Jiub would take up the cup in the timelines where you fail, and become the Nerevarine himself. There's no pressure to succeed in Morrowind if you think about it.
I think when you meet a dude with a gnarly scar they call "the eradicator" in prison you are supposed to show respect whether he's a saint or not.
Jon! Don't be afraid to run away and come back if there's a dungeon you can't do! Enemies don't scale so you can come back when you're stronger.
"Orcs are versatile, useful characters to play, and even if you choose not to use axes, their other skills will come in handy throughout the game. Unless you want to be an orc mage, which is a sad creature indeed."
-Dao_Jones, gamefaqs
Nah, female orcs make fine mages. As Jon rightly pointed out, female characters often get bonuses to Int and Will, and so a female Orc is only a few 10 points behind a female Breton in Intelligence (though a Breton gets additional magicka racially), and only 5 points behind in Willpower. The only real downside is that Orcs have no racial bonus to magical skills. Berserk, on the other hand, is one of the best racial abilities in the game, alongside Redguard's Adrenaline Rush (Though Redguards sadly make terrible mages, with both male and female Redguards having 30 in both Int and Will, and no racial bonus to magic skills.)
Orcs make great starting characters in general, since Berserk means that for 60 seconds you will not miss any attacks, and your odds of blocking, casting spells, and taking any other action that relies on fatigue a greatly increased.
@@maximilianv8813Female Orc is a Warmage, that checks out.
Just remember: There is no wrong way to play Morrowind. (Trust me, I'm going to have to keep telling myself that as he progresses in the game.)
"(Sad, and angry, and violent)"
@@Nightweaver1 Oh there most certainly is. This is the only game, ive ever played where you need to do literal homework, before you get back into it.
However watching someone else, someone "fresh" sure is fun. Muahahahahahahaha...
Edit: Though, hes is going to be cheating by way of comment section. Boooo!
So glad you started playing this magnificent game, let me guve you a few words of advice (and I guess to everybody who would want to pick this one up after seeing the series)
1. Yes Fatigue influences everything, like everything everything including your prices at shops. Resting is your friend
2. Enchanted items do recharge over time
3. No you didn't want to play a stealth game. Stealth in Morrowind is notoriously hard, playing straight up stealth build is a sign of experience with the game. It's best to start with either magic or combat class
4. It's not impossible to hit while your agility is 0, attack attribute influences hit chance independently and that's why you were able to hit every attack while you were using Berserk
5. Stealing is also a bit tricky in this one as stolen items are not distinguished in any way by the game and they will be seized if any guard catches you
6. Training is uncapped, if you want to use speechcraft, train it
7. Skooma, moon sugar and few other bits and pieces are considered contraband, most traders will refuse to trade with you if you have some in your eq, best way to deal with it is to just drop it before you trade and pick it up after you finish it
There are also many ways to cheese the game, but if anyone wants to know them just write an answer to that comment and I'll describe them best I can
To make a long video short: Jon does a big jump, drinks some drugs and commits tax evasion!
Well, he wants to play as a posh orc, so it makes sense he would commit tax evasion, the poshest of crimes.
on this episode of top gear
Typical John stuff 😂.
@@monochrome_soft9472 beat me to it.
We might have to inform you that Morrowind takes place only six years before Oblivion, so you might not be as distant an ancestor of that Orc as you planned to be.
Distant meaning distance not time😂.
Had actual tears in my eyes as soon as the music hit in your teaser yesterday, this game makes me feel things. This is gonna be an amazing series!
The music is VERY special. I am in love with it.
"Hello there Fargoth! Lovely to meetcha! You are... Hideously ugly! But then again, so am I"
I am dying
Charisma 25 greeting!
you calling morrowind “tamriel Australia” is the funniest thing i’ve heard all day🤣
That would be closer to Blackmarsh, wouldn't it?
@@o-mangaming5042 Blackmarsh is far too wet and jungle-y, given the MesoAmerican inspiration I'd say that's more like the Amazon with hints of Yucatan/Central America.
Vvardenfell is somewhat Australia-like, though it's more volcanic than a lot of Australia is. It definitely is valid for memes of Australia though given the outback kinda feel, remoteness of some of the areas, and constant beasties who aren't all that friendly though.
@@o-mangaming5042 TBF, I think Black Marsh is more along the lines of being Tamriel's Vietnam.
@@MrVertigoStudios Fair enough on the landscape. I was more thinking of the role it played to the Empire. People aren't getting dumped in Morrowind as a prison.
I mean, it does have the giant insects and killer birds.
For your own sanity consider the essential 'UI Expansion'-a simple script extender mod (no esp) which provides some important QoL features to menus, like search bars (the spell list gets _really_ long after awhile), better tooltips, character profile save manager and most importantly, visually shows already selected topics in the dialogue window when there's nothing new to read. You can enable 'Ownership Tooltip' in the Code Patch under _Interface Changes_ to know when stealing.
Seriously Jon, do this. I've done countless playthroughs of Morrowind over the last 20+ years. This UI mod will make the whole experience not only much better for you, but for us watching.
Second this
OpenMW for a vanilla start is beter IMO since it offers QoL with a more stable game
@@Valkbg Correct me if I'm wrong, it has been many years since trying OpenMW, but isn't it incompatible with MGE-XE? That's why I never really went that route, as I've been using MGE-XE for so many years.
@@Valkbg OpenMW is a terrific emulation of vanilla Morrowind, and a wonderful project. The Code Patch and MGE-XE combo does essentially the same thing (patching the engine and providing a new rendering pipeline). Drop UI Expansion into Data Files and you have parity with OpenMW for an annoyance-lite vanilla playthrough, without any stability issues. The cool extended stuff in OpenMW like navmeshing and new animations, as well as different ways some mechanics are handled behind the scenes do affect the experience in some subtle and some obvious ways. I believe there's room for both.
It's going to be a fantastic five years
If only.
The Limeware Platter heist is a classic. Fun fact, if you'd IMMEDIATELY opened your inventory and dropped it, they wouldn't have confiscated it from the floor, and you can pick it up for a consequence-free 650g
You gotta appreciate the game design though. They put it the papers down in such a way that you will notice the platter and want to click on it, then they teach you about crime and theft mechanics organically, no pop-up, no breaking immersion. Bethesda, what has happened to you?
So glad you're finally here. Also fun note: Jiub is the guy whose ghost you find in the Soul Cairn in skyrim, the one who was sainted and then soul trapped. Had the really annoying quest to find all his missing letters.
He also canonically died during the crisis in Kvatch during oblivion because he says he was killed during it in Skyrim. There’s a severed bald dunmer head with an eye scar in one of the houses in Kvatch, so even though it was a generic model it may have been planned since then
Gave you a damn good necklace for your trouble
Unfortunately I never got to play Morrowind, so I am excited for this one.
Tries to steal a serving platter thinking it’s a fancy shield. Thats classic Rugdumpf
Man. As soon as that Morrowind music kicks in my mood goes up. Morrowind was my first Elder Scrolls, and you always remember your first.
I still sometimes put the theme on just to listen to it.
@@user-Rhefeldt I've done the same. Helps me sleep sometimes.
I had so many issues trying to play this at 1st. Now i dominate poor Morrowind like nothing else
So incredibly true. Daggerfall was my first, and although Morrowind is my favorite, Daggerfall is a close second. I understand why people find it incredibly frustrating, but my rose tinted glasses cannot be taken off for Daggerfall. I'm quite sure it was my first 1000 hour game (either that or Civ 2).
@@captbloodbeard I understand completely. After I finished Morrowind (finally), Daggerfall was my next stop. That game is massive, so I'm sure I put in similar time.
Jon became a skooma addict in episode 1
This series is gonna be legendary
Jon: I'm all about blocking
Also Jon: confuses dinner platter with a tower shield.
With Aria being so overtly flirty, I'm looking forward to seeing her meet a certain Hlaalu councilor...
Morrowind is the first (maybe only) game that had me sitting on the title screen just listening to the music for an extended period of time. That theme is just captivating.
I relate to this so much, but also I've done this with Oblivion and Skyrim as well, and Civilization 4 (listen to Baba Yetu if you haven't played Civ 4 and you'll understand, it was the first video game to ever win a Grammy Award).
Aria hits town and IMMEDIATELY starts propositioning the townsfolk to the point of them almost pulling out knives. Girl is suuuuuper thirsty.
Can you imagine if Jon hand landed in the river at Balmora and he just gets there in episode 1
Jon: I'm good at speech.
*Morrowind veterans laughing in the background*
so, so glad jon found tarhiel in episode 1. maybe by the end of the series, he'll figure out the trick to using those scrolls.
Aria was born to be an Apprentice. She was even born under the Apprentice sign!
6:36 Jon, it’s called a Spellsword. Blade in one hand, ball of fire in the other; maybe not literally, but even beyond the term expanding into wider media, it began here.
It’s an orc, it’s the 2000s, it’s got magic
It’s a Rage Mage.
@@taekinuru2Fun fact, the Orcs berzerk positively effects the chances of everything linked to stamina, including magic, Jon has unironically made one of the better Gish builds in this game, without understanding why yet.
A battlemage and spellsword are different things. Not only that, the magic-enhanced warrior gimmick was a thing in the '80s, with DnD. Likely even back to the '70s, though my research couldn't find conclusive proof.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 further back than that if you look to Fantasy Novels. Or even further if you look to mythology (At least as far back as ancient Greece, with Achilles, a warrior enhanced with magic that made him immortal, even if said magic wasn't from his own craft)
Jon was already going to love the Telvanni. This character just cements it! chef kiss👌
Except the slavery probably
I feel like the Telvanni would be fun for about 10 minutes before they collectively all become unbearably insufferable to deal with.
I know they are unpopular, but if he wants to play an orc that wants to be a wealthy aristocrat, Hlaalu could work too. His character would have more trouble advancing in Hlaalu though.
Oh lord, can’t wait to see this, anyone else remember the disaster that was his couple episodes of daggerfall?
Also anyone else remember playing this on the original Xbox?
Kinda thou I mostly played on 360 and on Xbox one backwards compatible
I used to play this on Xbox. The gamecame with a large paper map to help you find your way.
OG Xbox here!
those cliffracers scared me as a child
@@joshuaobryan4896hail jiub
I've spent this entire episode giggling like a schoolchild, this is wonderful. Thank you Jon!
At last!!!!! My favourite game an my favourite content creator finally unite! This.... this is going to be something special 😊
The entire time I was watching the oblivion playthrough I just kept saying "man I hope he goes back to morrowind" and now we're here. We made it boys
and girls :D! I played Morrowind when I was a little girl, told my mom it was to improve my English and I feel it actually did. I learned some fancy words related to volcanoes and rocks like caldera or cairn.
We get to watch John grow as a gamer😂, this should bw good.
@@Lena_Hansen_Jonsson that's awesome. You love to hear it!
52:40 that light green bottle in the box was telvanni bug musk. It's a perfume that temporarily boosts personality by 40 points. That might be quite useful for a 25 personality character.
Currently 4am here, I have work starting in 2.5hrs and I'm choosing to watch this instead of sleep... Choice well made
Bruh.... hang in there...
Good luck with work in a hour
I couldn't approve more😂!
I've binged Justbackgroundnoise's Morrowind videos over the last month and here comes Jon and his advanced lack of mechanical knowledge to double down on the TES3 nostalgia right at the best possible time.
Well done Jon, now overlook 15 crucial items in the tutorial and somehow still beat the game without issues!
dude, I'm so dead after reading "his advanced lack of mechanical knowledge." 🤣🤣🤣
It's always a good time when Jon plays Elder Scrolls
You can enable 'Ownership Tooltip' in the Code Patch under the _Interface Changes_ section to know when you'll be stealing.
There's a mod that changes the color of the ui to show you when it's stealing and when it's okay to take objects
this game was the first elder scrolls for me. I’ve played this sooooo much more then the others.
I love so much about this game. I always had a fully worked routine to set me up for the game.
An example would be to steal the key to the watchtower out side of the government building in which you start. (Key can be found on the “book case” you need to grab it and quickly drop it and anything else you grabbed like a bowl worth 200 gold, otherwise you lose it all. With the key back in hand you can go outside and steal full steal armour and other stuff to sell or use.
Used to do other stuff to change up a couple quests like the women with rats infested. Could find a sunk boat with cushions and a receipt that she’s after.
Used to try to join every faction, house, guild, temple etc. getting the warp spell and levitation made things so much fun.
morrowind takes place like five years before oblivion so you're a distant ancestor of a person who is currently alive
I imagine Aria flirting is her pulling her fists back and thrusting while going "aaaye? aaaaaye!?"
Why does my mind instantly go to the "Stormtrooper in a car park" video from early UA-cam...
Hyyyype. I could never get into Morrowind because of the outdated mechanics, but I loved Oblivion and your playthrough of it. Can't wait to see you delve into Morrowind.
I played it at the time alot and only ever returned to play Morrowind with extensive overhaul mods... would have wished he had done that...
You had to be there when Morrowind came out to fully appreciate it. At the time, there was nothing like it in terms of depth.
@@crazyworld54321 Oh I'm sure. I got into Oblivion a bit late but loved every minute of it and tried morrowwind after but just couldn't quite do it.
Morroblion, people. It is a total conversion mod of Morrowind in Oblivion engine.
Full completed overhaul. It is in Nexus. So if you can play oblivion you can play Morrowind.
I appreciate that while the game tells you that you are the chosen one, nobody in the game believes you until you prove it.
For Elder Scrolls 6, I will guess that you are literally brought back from the dead.
One of my favorite games, in reality this game got me into RPGs, solo player games, man I love this game
Be careful with fortify health Jon, just like fatigue did when beserk ran out, it takes off all your bonus when the effect wears off. Beserk running out while you're at low health will kill you.
I hope Jon is ready for a legendary amount of backseat gaming from thousands of Morrowind fans, myself included.
He is gonna need it
All things Arya had left unstolen...
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It was painful to watch Jon leave the telvanni bug musk bottle behind even though personality is his biggest weakness.
Preposterous, I'll be able to restrain myse-.... THE PLATTER MAN, THE PLATTER!!!!!
Not even a Morrowind player just a lore and watcher of others who've played and even I had the urge despite never feeling that about any other playthrough on UA-cam lol but I love John's just blind going into this so much lol it's so funny. He's really got the full handle on his delivery that's just always got that "feel good" content. 😁
Well, in The Elder Scrolls Online, you started off... dead. So they're gonna have to top that somehow.
They've made some revisions to the tutorial since then, but in the next update, they're putting death back in the forefront for sure. That's never really left.
Game: "This is the prophecy about the reincarnation of the ancient dark elf warrior-saint-hero who will avenge an ancient evil and punish the hubris of those who proclaim themselves to be gods"
Jon: "I'm going to be an orc lady mage who loves hitting things with big sticks and is afflicted with chronic malapropisms"
Not even ten minutes in and he already understands exactly who the Nerevarine is. This series is going to be glorious.
ITS ACTUALLY HERE, FINALLY, THE MOMENT IS UPON US
I have been waiting 6 long years for you to do this series, Jon. Thank you for making it a reality.
"Limeware Platter"
Jon: Is this a shield?
This is gonna go great
I’m soo excited to see you go through this masterpiece!
This was not just my first Elder Scrolls, but my first proper adventure RPG. It remains my favorite game still to this day, and Jon's dawning realization that multiple identical potions and effects stack in this game has me almost disturbingly excited for the long and determined descent into madness to come!
So glad we made it here. I first started watching MATN during Jons oblivion series and here we are at the spiritual successor to that series
This is going to be entertaining knowing how Jon gets lost and sidetracked. Best of luck Jon.
I remember playing Morrowind on my Xbox and genuinely got lost in the woods. I never carried on that save so my character is still in those same woods about 20 years later. They are either Yoda or their dead lol😂
I can't even tell you how excited I am to see this, this was my first ever Elder Scrolls I played.
Make part 2 2 hours. The nostalgia from seeing the game how I remember it because of your mods. This is a series I’ll follow for sure
"Empire loves their damn lists." Some things change; some stay the same.
Time to begin another fantastic series. Thank you for making the text easier to read with some mods.
This was my first taste of Elder Scrolls more than 2 decades ago. Thank you for playing this!
So pumped to see this playthrough Jon, I just know you're gonna love it!
Best birthday present ever! Thanks Jon!
Thank you Jon, this is seriously the best birthday gift i could have recieved
The beginning: In which our heroine bumbles about Seyda-Neen, unleashing her worst and ugliest toothy grinned compliments at all the locals until they all despise her!
Haven’t watched this yet but I can’t wait to count how many times he misses melee attacks in this episode. Morrowind is definitely an experience. Looking forward to watching this series
Missing melee attacks? C'mon, he's going to go full stealth archer by episode three.
Jon: "Is that a shield"
Game UI: "Platter"
Object: *sits in a shelf full of kitchenwear*
Yep, -1 perception strikes once again.
Continuing the escalation of prison escapes, the Elder Scrolls Online, which came after Skyrim, has you as a prisoner of Molag Bhal in a plane of Oblivion and you spend the tutorial escaping. So, they escalated from chopping block while a dragon kickstarts the apocalypse to escaping Elder Scrolls hell while Satan hunts you down.
My eyes widened in shock when Jon pointed out Morrowind is over 20 years old, good god I remember 2002 like it was yesterday
Oh this will be a very comfy autumn series, looking forward to it boys
I am SO excited to watch this series OMG! This is the very first RPG game I ever played, and still to this day one of my all time favorites.
Cannot express how happy i am to see someone else trying Morrowind. Plus Jon is really good at finding thew gold among the silt. This game has so much gold, hidden by so much jank. Wondering if we should warn him about the quest with the incorrect directions.
Yeah once you get levitation you can find some fantastic stuff hidden around different dungeons etc. or sunk underwater in boats etc.
Got if you are talking about that farm then yes no one should suffer that stupidity
Jon playing morrowind "what a grand and intoxicating innocence "
This game activated the nostalgia organ in my head. I played it so much I remembered the voice lines and the map. Time well spent, I guess.
I have been looking forward to watching this
I watched your oblivion videos so many times. Thank you for starting a play through of this game.
Jiub sadly doesn't appear anywhere in Morrowind again but he's in Oblivion and Skyrim. Well... he's kind of in Oblivion. At least what might be his head can be found in Kvatch.
Doesn't he appear in Ebonheart next to Lord Dram I think?
Nevermind I was confused, thinking of something else
The soul cairn is indeed in obliviin
Looking very forward to the rest of this sure to be legendary series! Thankyou Jon
Already head over heels in love with this series. Already reminds me of my 1st playthroughs. Jumping across the map is how I got anywhere, deadra bless the feather fall spell lol
My first Elder Scrolls game. Absolute masterpiece. Been looking forward to this series.
Just from the title I can tell Jon's been taking tips from Wilburgur.
This really felt like a good ol' ManyATrueNerd video, reminding me of the classic greats of No guns or YOLO.
I am so happy. Been waiting for this, and full dark souls play through
The time has now come! Morrowind now here in this fabulous channel!🎉❤🎉❤
Been nothing but bad news after bad news after even more bad news. Thanks for giving me something to ease my time john.
Getting in on this one at the START! I've tried this and didn't love the early game but am willing to give it a try if John likes it. I usually agree with him in taste of games.
“Having no lawyer” you mean refusing a lawyer, which was available at no cost
A classic john adventure, I can't wait to see how this goes. Already great!
I have been waiting for this moment for so long! :) Morrowind with Jon will be such a great adventure! :)
To the East, to Morrowind. Fear not, for I am watchful. You have been Chosen.
As an australian, I absolutely love the description of Morrowind as ‘Tamriel Australia’ 😂
oh yeah, this is about to be my new favorite series
30:55 "You are hideously ugly but than again so am I" That's exactly the way I approach women at parties
Such a wonderful start for such a wonderful game, wealth beyond measure Jon
I love that this is finally here. A few vanilla-friendly mod recommendations (all available on Nexus): Pluginless and Adjustable Lower First Person Sneak (self-explanatory), Better Bodies (also self-explanatory), and QuickLoot (adds a Fallout 4-style loot menu)
No shade if you don't want to use any of those mods, but they're ones I like and don't think diverge from the vanilla experience in significant ways.
Oh, and one more that does make a significant change to one of the game systems: Speechcraft Rebalance - I personally don't find the vanilla Speechcraft system to be fun or interesting and I find that mod to be more enjoyable. That said, I completely understand if you don't want to use it for a first play-through.