I was wrong to say that acrobatics and athletics are bad to put into your major or minor skills. It actually can help with your governing attributes. For more info on leveling, there's a UA-camr named Lyle Shnub who explains how leveling works perfectly. ua-cam.com/video/c2GNNLz1pUU/v-deo.html Hope this helps! Tell him BUckENbooz sent ya! :D
I broke my game using Alchemy cause now I have 222000 strength and 4 500 000 Inteligent, Everyone gets one shot from me and I have no more fun from the game 😭😭😭
I have another tip to beginners: create a backstory for your character. Make him someone you truly care about. Then start exploring Morrowind as that character. Try to understand the world from his perspective and make decisions like he would based on what kind of character he is. Morrowind is one of those rare games that allows you to truly roleplay your character. Take advantage of this spectacular opportunity and experience an unforgettable adventure.
I did that recently and the game is becoming more enjoyable.I'm playing a dumb orc who only cares about freedom and punching with masses (cliche I know) but I'm having fun.
@@user-783hhss7w2oifhe Its only trash if you try to min max. Since Morrowind has no level scaling for enemies like Oblivion you don´t need to min max, you will still be the strong enough to beat the game if you just roleplay.
This isn't D&D. A backstory is useless when there's no way to act out on it nor does Morrowind offer many ways to roleplay. It's not Planescape Torment, Arcanum or Fallout 2, you're not gonna get dozens of different reactions or options based on your skills, attributes, class or race
This all made morrowind great, the fact that you felt like in an actual adventure, were if you took the wrong turn you would get lost, you had to ask for directions, look for the fastest way, pick your fights, it all combined to a great RPG
Getting lost was a much bigger deal in morrowind too, you couldnt just say oh well and fast travel somewhere, if you didnt have teleportation spells your ass was walking quite a bit and it made the game feel that much more immersed because you are always thinking about the best ways to get around the map
Honestly I think the journal and dialogue system in Morrowind is genius. I love the fact that you have to ask NPCs how to get to places. It makes the world seem like a real place.
THIS comment right here is exactly how you should treat the game as. Well said whowantsabighug. As many classic RPG's, this RPG goes off numbers. Block chance, damage, leveling, stats, everything is based off a value number.
I got Morrowind a couple of months ago and nearly gave up on it because of the combat early on being so shady and frustrating despite reading up on it and being warned about it. However, I stuck with it and once I got used to the fatigue factor and raised my attacking skills a bit, the combat did a complete 180. If the game frustrates you early on, be patient and bear with it because it's more than worth it once you get immersed into the game and your character is built up a little bit. looking back to where it started. watching my character develop in all the different skills and trades is one of the many incredible aspects of Morrowind.
Yeah it only takes common sense, really. With weapon skill at 50 and decent (50) agility you rarely miss even at low fatigue. Why would a scrub who holds bow for the first time in their life (let's say skill level 5) land at least 1 shot out of 10? That's what you have trainers for!
Samhain the best part of any game for me is,when my character is very low level,do i have fear for him or her when exploring? If the answer is yes,it's an awesome game. Bethesda games do that for me,and Morrowind is the game that 'hooked'me lol
That's the spirit. People also tend to forget that spending money on buying progress in certain skills (increase walking speed anyone?) at trainers or teachers is actually a valid option in the game. Instead of hoarding, and the economy system is of course broken as in any TES game, make USE of it.
People get pissed because they feel weak, and they usually play to get certain feeling of "Power". But here in MW you start as a common person with pretty basic skills, and then you have to get stronger during the journey, it's part of it. Players also stop playing other games for that same reason, like competitive games or hard games (just to put an example)
The thing is, around early mid-game, cliff racers become very handy. They are very common, pretty easy to kill and drop cliffracer plumes, which can be used to make levitation potions. Cliff racer plumes and Trama roots are extremely common, so if you invest a little bit of work into your alchemy skill, you have a sh*itload of levitation potions, which are very useful. So yeah, they are annoying, but very very helpful.
Nah, if those damned Daedra didn't use those silly magic floating arrows then our glorious saint would've been able to stealth past them those Oblivion-dwelling N'WAHS!
"Yes, you have to read in this game." **Drops to knees with fist in the air** NOOO! YOU MANIACS!! DAMN YOU!!! GODS DAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!
How to enjoy Morrowind via some more general advice, by someone who's played it plenty: Step 1: Please choose speed as a starting stat. Getting around slowly will frustrate anyone.. You could also take the steed as your sign and feel quite speedy right out of the gate, but your mileage may vary. Majoring in athletics is probably overkill. Step 2: Put at LEAST one armor skill as a primary, and block if you plan to use shields. You DON'T want to stand around getting hit to skill up your armor and you DON'T want to lose the leveling bonus for leaving it as a minor. Step 3: Learn the travel networks. It's fast travel that's actually part of the world. The mages' guild, both types of intervention, boats, silt striders and the mark and recall spells can really help you get around if you learn the locations the spells will warp you to from your current location. Making coherent use of the interlocking travel nets will speed your progress considerably, letting you jump all over VVardenfell without feeling like a total cheat. You'll find Skyrim's fast travel quite patronizing once you've mastered this skill. Step 4: PUT. YOUR WEAPON. AWAY. Being combat ready when you talk brings a penalty to social interactions. Step 5: if you're a multi-guild kinda guy, join the fighters' guild AFTER the thieves' guild.
Man, this makes me feel old. Morrowind was luxury compared to RPG's that came before it... I'm 35 and I can tell you now that quest objective markers ruin the mystery of the world and lessen the feeling of reward. I hope the next TES has a TRUE mode or GOLD mode, where there are none.
If you do still enjoy playing Skyrim there is a mod that you can get that makes your journal entries more detailed and takes away quest markers, e.g instead of needing to go to a particular cave and just having a quest marker on the map it will be removed and instead the players journal entry will have more information on the location saying something like 'I can find the cave North-West of Whiterun'.
I love Morrowind but quest markers are important. They compensate for the lack of natural sense of space that you would have if you really lived in the game world. You have a map, but neither you nor the quest givers think to put a dot on it? Also, if you take a long break it's an even worse feeling of "what was I doing?"
Problem is the new TES games as well as fallout games are build around these markers. If you turned them off you probably couldn't finish the game. So you would have to completely overhaul quests, dialogs, pacing, world building to really fix this. It's not simple "just turn the marker off". Accidentally another thing these markers do is that you don't really pay attention. You can just skip dialogue and go to the next breadcrumb, you don't look at world around you, nothing. I mean I enjoyed oblivion, skyrim and finished every fallout game too but now I look back at it last few installments is not YOU playing game, it's like you are just walking camera following trail from one point to other, without thinking.
@@waaaaaaah5135 The gameplay and the world were top-notch for me. Really enjoyed running around in there hacking away. I like how there are many people you can sell to in the guilds. I like the transportation between guilds. And I LOVE how you have to go *find* shit. You have to figure out where to go to accomplish a mission. However, I thought there was some terrible product design and disappointing game feature implementation, particularly the quests journal. There is no way they could not have programmed in there a way to track your quests. Either to create a page for completed quests and/or active quests. To highlight active quests, or even allow you to strikethrough completed quests. To me, there are sooo many ways to implement that in a game from that era, it made the game unplayable for me. I think it made the game feel entirely unrealistic. If you are a champion in a world like that, and you actually have a physical notebook in which you are documenting quests, 100 times out of 100, you are going to cross off a completed quest. Quite honestly, it turned me off. I have to say, ultimately Oblivion takes the Elder Scrolls cake. I think Oblivion would be a no-brainer-win if you were forced to hunt down quest locations.
@@gronksteady There is a way to highlight 'active' quests. It's explained in the video. You have to have the expansions (worth getting just for the 'fixed' quest journal). Hit 'Options' in the journal, then 'Quests'. At top is 'Show All'. Click to see the 'completed' quests (which are the grayed out ones).
it's a shame that video games these days do not teach the younger generations cerain skills In morrowind you need to: Read the jorunal. Check road signs Read the map Take clues from the jorunal/conversation and check the landscapes in the area Thats it, rest is game basics.
exaclty, i do love the old games because often back than they made me well getting lost, and by that i did find new towns and hidden places. that is a magical feeling. i know exaclty what you mean and that is what i did try to say too ^^
Are you sure you never got lost in Skyrim? There's a few caves and dragon peaks that are a bitch to get to without Clairvoyance. Even with a quest marker, climbing mountains is tough.
yes i never got lost in skyrim, its easy to get to those peaks, just scout and understand nature + detailed map that shows roads and lower territory. even at a distance you can see these natural paths. caves how ever if you know one you know them all ( to an extend ) and allways follow your inner compass and or remember the urns you make so you do not just walk around blindly.
PlayfulGames That's only true if you come at the mountain from the right angle. Otherwise it's just a big barrier you have to find your way around. The paths aren't always that clearly visible from afar. Or maybe I'm in need of mindless hand-holding. But I've never found mountain-climbing easy, and I don't think it's an enjoyable part of exploration.
In my opinion, the text dialogue is better, allowing for more in-depth and richer conversations, as well as saving space on disk, and it just gives you that nostalgia feel
This, sir. I'd rather have NPS blast walls of text at me and have only greetings and battle taunts voiced than have full VO but almost non-existent directions to objective apart from magic quest arrow.
"The dialogue is very important. Yes, you have to read in this game." Ah, I believe this comment is very important not just for video games but for life.
I quit because swinging at something point-blank with my sword and hearing nothing but misses drove me crazy. I don't care how great the game world and lore is, if the combat is that unfulfilling I refuse to play the game.
I think what Morrowind does more incredibly than anything else is A) represent the perfect balance between the tabletop-inspired rpg mechanics from Arena and Daggerfall with the beautiful world environments and visuals of later games and B) deliver lore
The Holy Trinity of Sujamma, Skooma, and YOUR BARE FUCKING HANDS You can seriously incapacitate at least 3 enemies before they lay a finger on you, trust me. My build is naked, fisty skooma-head and it's always a breeze :^)
How do you avoid missing so much? Both lower your agility badly making it hard to hit anything. For me, I tend to use booze to carry large loads from one place to another.
i think sujamma just lowers intelligence, with high weapon skill doesnt matter either way if you only have to get a couple hits in to kill something cause your strength is through the roof
The MGSO Graphics Overhual is VERY simple to install. One you download it just extract the downloaded folder in your GAME DIRECTORY. Then double click the EXE installer and it literally does the rest for you. Good luck and have fun!
What exactly with directX are you having trouble with? Maybe I can help. As far as when I installed MGSO, it was a series of "next, next, next, *program takes over*, next next next". There is a very important choice you make when it asks how "fast" your computer is. Unfortunately, MGSO takes a very high end rig mainly because of how its optimized with a game that's no longer in development let a lone updates.
can I have some help :/ , I completed everything in the installer and when I finish it and run morrowind.exe it goes to the startup screen and then stops responding when I click play. I have reinstalled it 3 times thus far and I would really like to have the improved graphics ):
its hard because it could be several things. Try running mgso options again and re run code patcher. Also sometimes in the beginning it ask for a basic speed setting for your computer. Try the lowest setting. If none of that works sometimes it can just be your hardware
I have no idea why people don't like putting acrobatics in their major or minor skills. Only major and minor skills being increased affect your progress to the next level and acrobatics is easy to increase. Plus being a strength attribute it helps you maximize your strength per level.
A kid randomly gave me this game for Xbox while on the way to school shortly after it came out. Shamefully I barely played it. 15 years later and I bought it on Steam. I will play it now.
Man, I dunno why you all are hating on bows so much. I always main'd a bow on my playthroughs with a stealth build. Until my latest playthroughs which I still main'd a bow, but with a summoner build. I used to collect all the summoning items I could and used like, 20-30 of them at a time to create an army of skeletons/bonewalkers to kill bosses with the difficulty all the way up. Kind of tedious to use all the items but totally satisfying to see an army of minions wreck hiricine.
You could always enchant arrows, but you had to do it manually for every single one of them. Great for training purposes (collect tiny souls > turn into magic arrow), but too tedious and expensive otherwise. Then again... mods. Also, why doesn't anyone mention CROSSbows? The high damage would often knock enemies down and allow you to hit them hard for a short period of time. You could also enchant bolts btw. ;)
If you have the GOTY edition Plugins (they come with the GOG edition) they come with fletcher shops that sell enchanted arrows. They have a lot of different effects including AOE spells.
I’m a VERY new player and I’ve discovered bows are particularly useful if you can outrun your pursuer but can’t fight them directly; run away, shoot arrows until they die.
This game has a huge nostalgia value for me, it's the first game that I got competely sucked in to. Still I have never actually completed it, didn't understand English good enough as a child and got stuck a in the main quest because I couldn't find the character I was supposed to, so I simply continued doing side quests. Will try again, and hopefully complete it this time haha
Yeah... the same... just got game like month ago and completed most of it... finally. I have only Bloodmoon to complete. As Oblivion and Skyrim veteran... I enjoyed it and had a lot of WTF moments during story.
I put over 500 hours into this game as a kid and looking back putting time into this game made me the patient person I am now This was my first RPG and got me into gaming in general. Was very satisfying starting out overwhelmed and coming out experienced. For example you had a mostly blacked out map that filled out as you travel. I had to reference the paper map this game came with so much that by the end it was taped and torn from overuse. Different times. Top 5 favorite game for sure.
You should be a motivational speaker. With your attitude, approach and your tone you could convince cancer patients to have hope. Cheers from Istanbul mate
unless there is no option to ask where someone is. A couple times this happened to me and so all I had was "they're somewhere in this massive city. Have fun going up to every single NPC trying to figure out which one it is."
The way I got into Morrowind was to type tgm into the console for my first couple of playthroughs, which toggles god mode. This means all spells will work no matter what, all attacks will hit no matter what, and your health, magicka and fatigue will never go down. I only ever lvled up to around 18-20 or so, but it helped me get a feel for the game while understanding how the combat worked, the journal worked etc. Now i'm on my 4th playthrough i think, and i havent toggled god mode once
Ever since I graduated high school 4 years ago I have rarely been reading at all, and I could tell my reading skills weren’t as good as they used to be. But when I’m 90 hours in this game, on my first playthrough, I can tell my reading skills is getting way better. And I love that, I also love not having way points, way points ruin the emersion a tremendous amount, and before I started playing I thought it would be annoying, but I now know it’s essential to have the player use their brain.
Some other notes about the major/minor skills is that only skills leveling in major and minor advance will advance your leveling, having acrobatics and athletics in them will have you end up leveling faster then your ready for (e.g. combat skills not high enough to deal with mobs at those levels). As I recall in addition to skills in major and minor starting at higher levels, skills that match one of your two main attributes also start with +5 to that skill. When leveling, the skills that are leveled determine the bonus availability to an attribute (skills not major or minor affect this the same way as well). So if you leveled armorer sololy o reach the next level you'll just be able to increase strength by 5, but you can increase non major/minor skills to get other bonuses, e.g. increasing speech and medium armor by like 5 or perhaps 10, when you level with armorer your will have the ability to increase endurance and personality by 5 as well. So leveling well can require a strategy from chargen.
Note this guys. I completely forgot to explain governing attributes. Depending on the skills you have in your major or minor section will depend on its leveling governing attributes.
I recommend mods to do away with the attribute maxing. Madd Leveler is the simplest I've found, staying true to the original intent and balance: you only get to raise attributes with x1 multiplier at level-up, but every 3 ranks in a skill give you a point in the governing attribute.
"When leveling, the skills that are leveled determine the bonus availability to an attribute (skills not major or minor affect this the same way as well)." I usually wore medium armor early game just to get that endurance up. Just stood infront of a Scrib or Kwama Forager and let them hit it enough to get the 5+ end each level. Its very min-max, but it really gives you the edge you need to play it casually (which is an oxymoron if ive ever heard one)
+Skadi Kind of sort of correction: NPC's don't scale with level, but random encounters do. If you come across a bandit that's level 3, he'll always be level 3. You might also come across a rat in the wilderness when YOU'RE level 3, but if you're level 17, that same spawn zone in the wilderness might spawn a Golden Saint (each spawn zone has it's own level listings.) Don't believe me? run around the Grazelands at level 5 for a while, then run around again at level 25. Scamps, Winged Twilights, and Ogrims EVERYWHERE! (There's even more of them then there are Cliff Racers! :o) So no, properly leveling your combat and armor skills of choice is EXTREMELY important, especially once you hit levels 15+. Is min/maxing necessary? No.In fact you should be fine so long as you keep the attribute increases above 1 (although, I personally do min/max for the first handful of levels, but that's more so for the early game boost than a necessary evil.) But is ignoring your combat skills outside of roleplaying smart? No, because you will die..... A lot.
I have just finished Morrowind today for the first time. The first step is indeed confusing and hard as balls, but it does feel very rewarding in the long run when you get used to things. I thought that without markers I was going to lose track of what I was doing and basically screw myself over having to redo all my steps. But it went smoother than I initially expected. Unlike in Skyrim, where you pick up 10 different quests and play em like a shopping list (got nothing against that. It's fun to me in its own way) in Morrowind I always had 1 or 2 quests / factions I was working on and you don't really lose track then. The quests also tend to be shorter than quests in later games, making them more manageable. Once you're in the flow, reading the quests becomes natural. And if you do wish to proceed with a quest you quit a while back, as shown in the video there IS a quest list that should help you find it back and notes of what the last thing was you did for it. Just drop the mindset of "getting all quests of the town and do 'em whenever you feel like it." And I can understand the spite now of how unrewarding discovering you're the Dragonborn was. In Morrowind I felt like some sort of Moses trying to prove to the province and myself that I may or may not be the man of legend by doing several trials, rather than getting a title for killing my first giant lizard. For all I know, it could turn out to be somebody else that I'd have to end up assisting, or I'd become the man of legend because of my actions and determination, not because of destiny. Comparing it with Skyrim, the dragonborn stuff does feel lacking storywise. (Going to play Oblivion for the first time next. See what that is all about.) The combat system feels wonky, especially at the start. And to be honest, Personally I think that's a thing that hasn't passed the test of time quite as well. I figure it's a D&D thing, with calculating hit or miss, but when you swing a sword or shoot and arrow and it doesn't visibly miss or hit, it betrays your senses and feels like it's cheating you then. But you can start with hit & runs to get a weapon skill up so you'll miss less. It will become quite doable eventually. Also, a good tip is saying that in the first town, after you exit the ship at the start,there's a vendor in the town that sells spells. (you don't purchase spellbooks; in this game there's a seperate vendor option to buy spells directly). You can purchase at least a heal spell and destruction spell from it, for those that wish to make a mage. Might make things go a little smoother at the beginning. It sounds obvious, but it wasn't obvious to me. Worst come to worst, you can always find plenty of videos regarding the alchemy and spellmaker exploits and have a grand old time with nuking the province~ All in all, Morrowind has aged well and I found it still fun to play.
I'm actually really glad to have read this. Just today, I'm starting my first playthrough of Morrowind. Oblivion will be next. I got both with a bundle when I bought Skyrim and never bothered trying the older ones. Good luck on your Oblivion playthrough!
@@sikarios02 Thanks! So far Oblivion definitely different from Morrowind in several ways, but also more similar to Morrowind compared to Skyrim. It definitely feels like it's inbetween the two. X) Have fun with Morrowind! Once you get the hang of it and get invested with the story, it's exciting to play it through all the way!
Haha it's a staple really. Never missed it on any of my characters, also you can grab the warehouse key on the shelves in the last room before going out, that will yield you some starting gear without having to pay for it.
it removes main combat system out of morrowind. it becomes another game if you struggle with morrowind start just pick a redguard with long blade in major skill and you will hit everything everytime if you have fatigue in your bar and you actually use long blade that plus racial spell adrenaline rush will make you kill anything while being underleveld
I just run around, loot plants, fight enemies, etc. I keep doing this until a strong enemy kills me, then I go back to the previous save and go in a different direction.
WAY to complex for me. Morrowind is the perfect balance of dumbed down-ness and complexity for me. Everything after morrowind (oblivion, skyrim) was to dumbed down, specially skyrim.
Brand of Death played it and damn that game is way too hard and complex cant use heavy armor because i have a archer class :/ . Its fun though and really good if you want to roleplay
...I legit did not know the Journal could extrapolate on previously discussed points of interest. That's been one of the biggest turn offs of the game for me. I feel like a moron.
I have a notebook full of bullet points for, like, thirty quests because I didn't want to have to keep going back to the NPCs and get the info again. I took notes! *NOTES!*
that's awesome man your the only one who actually says they took proper notes. I did as well, I had a notebook I would write on to remind me what i had to do and points of interest I needed to revise. Its a great game man, enjoy it :)
I know about points of interest, but take notes from time to time...I never played TES game, and started in 2019 in december or so, and it was quite hard to understand the way game works, but currently i have a problem of nit knowing what to do with trials, its a confusing part to be fair i just got to Dagoth Ur place in Red Mountain without doing what trials are saying to...
Thanks for the video! Morrowind is the game that got me into the TOS in first place. And I remember how I was astonished when it was first released. I wanted to try again this great game and your video helped me a lot!
Yeah, I'm probably going to need to leave an annotation. We discussed this in another comment. I shouldn't have said it was pointless, it does have its uses, for example, its a good way to level up your governing attributes. I'll go ahead and put some annotations up. Sorry for the confusion.
Thank you. Morrowind was actually the first Elder Scrolls game I had, and I still haven't finished it. Hopefully this will help on my next play through.
When I started getting back into Morrowind before I made this video, I watched JustRed's Morrowind tip video and THIS video is heavily influenced by her tip video. A Link to her channel is in the description as well as her video! Please check out her content, it provides 10x the amount of Morrowind tips that this single video could!
I used to play it in my early teens on Xbox, I mostly wandered trying to figure out the inner mechanics of upgrading your character. But ultimately mostly ending up lost as I didn't like reading big chunks of dialog. Its actually a painful memory, as I was dealing with depression and spending too much time playing games like this and Warhammer 40k online multiplayer that led to a psychotic break with reality. I was treated for it eventually but suffered for over a year due to misdiagnosis. I know most people can easily get in and out of this type of game but when I would play it becomes everything in frame.
Another tip: Always talk to NPCs, they can give you good information about the game. The best things to talk about is a little advice, a secret, or Morrowind lore. Trust me, talk is cheap. Ask as much as you want.
"Yes, you have to read in this game." That sums up the problem a lot of new players have with older games. People act like having to do something as simple as _read_ is such a huge chore when it really isn't.
I needed this. I’m feeling a bit stuck but I really wanna give the game a chance and I love some aspects about it already so I think I just need some more time.
I'm glad man. its worth giving it a try. get that mgso it will modernize things for you. remember. take your time. there is no rush to "beat the game". have fun! explorer! Go on your own adventure! go find fortune in a random cave. Enjoy :)
I have played Bethesda games literaly my entire life like most of the elder scrolls games and most of the fallout games and I always thought oblivion was my favorite, but after recently playing morrowind I see why they say it's the best.
Gabriel Hernandez daggerfall isn't good, it was innovative for it's time, but that's about it. However, even though morrowind aged quite roughly, the game design stood the test of time.
I heard the character system was simplified for Morrowind and had even more depth to it. I need to get back to it one day and see whether that's actually true.
No kidding, the slow walking speed is really bad. I dumped points into speed thinking that it would help. 65 speed is bearable but I found I needed more after a couple days.
After getting the boots, I could never go back to normal xDD Luckily, the Morrowind overhaul mod contains a new character who sells another pair of those in the foreign quarter, so I can donate the original boots of blinding speed to the museum in Mournhold or smth
IMPORTANT: when building a character you should consider which factions you want to join. Factions in Morowind place both attribute and skill requirements on the player if they want to be promoted. I highly recommend looking up what favored attributes and skills the faction of your choice has asap so that you can focus on improving the relevant attributes as you level. ALSO: keep in mind that in order to maximize attributes gain it is important to level up as soon as you can! When you level, you have multipliers to your attribute increase options based on what 10 skills you increased. HOWEVER these multipliers do not carry over to the next level! Therefore, leveling fifteen skills before actually leveling the character means that your NEXT character level will have less multipliers and your attribute progression will be hindered!
all you have to do is press F5 every 5 minutes and you wont ragequit after losing hours of progress because morrowind (for some literally nonexistent reasons) doesnt have autosave
Biggest problem I have with Morrowind is every time I play it, I get lost in min-maxing the skill system for maximum attribute bonuses... and then I get bored
Ah, alright I think I understand what you mean. This might sound over the top but you could write notes or reminders. Honestly when I take a break from Morrowind for a long time and start playing it again I just start a new character and go on to a different path. Sometimes when it comes down to it Morrowind just isn't for everyone. best of luck to you.
BUckENbooz I'm tempted to reinstall and continue my character but I can't remember how I installed all the mods I was using! I might try it soon anyway, your video gave me the itch to try playing it again.
I reccomend as a long time player to put acrobatics in your major skills. You can level up quickly since you use it all the time and having a skill that helps you move quickly early on is important. Having 45 acrobatics right at the start is a great way to get to destinations quickly get out of tough spots and dodge attacks
i literally JUST bought Morrowind before work yesterday JUst because ive been watching the mods for it , i cant wait to play it. i never had a pc as a kid when it was out and i didnt even know about it till skyrim was out lol.
I worked out a system for my new characters that always worked flawlessly. Get gold, train like a beast. Gather Ajira's ingredients on the walk from Seyda Neen to Pelagiad so you can rob Galbedir in the mages guild of her soul gems. then go to the guard tower in Balmora and jack the sword of white woe. Go to Suran, steal another sword of white woe from that guard tower, go to the trader and kill him. you get a 40gp assault but no 1000gp murder. Take his ebony bracer, darts, and dagger. With all these goodies you can go and visit the scamp in caldera. Kill the lord of the manor for an ebony longsword and jack his orcish armor from a crate on the top level. From all this you should have almost 200k and you can go back to Balmora and train until you are broke. Congratulations you have reached level 20 something and haven't left a town (minus picking ingredients and walking to Balmora of course). This is my routine I developed after many years playing on the Xbox it is rather foolproof, but it takes time to sell all your loot to the scamp.
Very interesting and nostalgic video. I haven't be able to play Morrowind for years, because I don't game on PC. One thing I wish Bethesda would do is STOP scaling. One thing I loved about Morrowind (and there are many) was that you were either powerful, or not. The world didn't level with you, because that's not how the world works. Maybe in TES VI things will change. ESO is scaled beyond belief. Its a great game, but fighting a level 45 mud crab just seems a little well, strange.
I dunno if you ever tried MGSO Mikey but believe me when I say it feels different actually playing with the graphics mod than seeing it on screen, I think your nostalgia will overwhelm you if you try this on the PC :)
I like morrowind, but holy fuck I hate all the people who bash on oblivion and skyrim. If they kept the same mechanics as morrowind the elder scrolls series would've died A LONG time ago. Not everyone wants to read journals, miss half their sword swings, and deal with no quest markers. It's a good game but people need to stop fucking bitching. I loved the game. I'm not hating on it. Personally oblivion was my favorite, as it was my first TES game, morrowind being my second, skyrim being the third one I played, I play skyrim religiously (heavily modded of course)
I believe they all are great in there own way. Skyrim was awesome. Oblivion was awesome, and Morrowind was awesome. The most time I spent in any of the games was Oblivion myself.
BUckENbooz see I can understand how old fans wouldn't like skyrim, but I just hate how people bash on anyone who prefers skyrim over morrowind. I loved playing morrowind but it was very frustrating at times lol.
I think this was the first video I saw about Morrowind, I'm glad that for the past year I've gotten so much into this game that I'm constantly modding and replaying it now.
+Cliven Longsight How is the "to hit" system bad, but the "how much damage" one is not. And why is it bad for video games??? This system does not have to stay in tabletop games, it's FINE in video games. Is it bad because you see your sword hit but not register? Because if that's the reason then, that wasn't a choice. This game was made in 2002, by 6 people on a dying studio's budget; they couldn't make all these animations. I hate it when people say that "because it's a video games, I should hit everything!", which is STUPID. I like morrowind's combat because you can't just cheese every enemy by kiting them, you need your skills. And just because something is different, doesn't mean it should be left out of all video games.
Don't make it real time game. Hit percentages (when you clearly see that your action hit) have no place in real time game systems. Those are for turn based systems.
Refreshing simplicity? No, total dumbing down on every single level. Skyrim is for action oriented retards, Morrowind and older RPGs are for actual roleplayers, people that love to have choices followed by consequences. There is NOTHING of that in Skyrim because it has the depth of a puddle. The combat system in Morrowind is based on pen and paper roleplaying with the obligatory dice rolls, nothing wrong with that. Baldur's Gate had it, Drakensang had it and so many others as well. What is also annoying as fuck is that damage ranges were removed and you always do damage X or damage Y in case of a "strong attack", pathetic. While Dark Souls is amazing, a damage range could've given the combat even more excitement - and criticals, of course.
Cliven Longsight yea Skyrim was the best. So much fun. Can’t talk about the other games. I always say “when’s the next Skyrim coming out” since I never heard of TES before Skyrim. Bethesda did an amazing job with Skyrim and have no doubt they’ll release another masterpiece
It's so good! I hear people say they couldn't get into it, and I can understand, but they missed out on an amazing gaming experience, they literally don't make games like this anymore
For me, I really had to force myself to understand why it's so good. Once I got past that threshold I really started to enjoy it. MGSO really helped me a lot understand why it's such a beloved game. Thanks for your comment!
Here are a few tips I've come up with: 1. Alchemy. Learning alchemy and making potions is one of the most valuable skills you can have, because you can just take ingredients from wherever and make free potions for yourself. You can also sell whatever you don't need to make money, just make sure to invest some of that in alchemy training. 2. Join a faction. When you join a faction (mages guild, fighters guild) you get access to all sorts of freebies. You can sleep for free and take certain items, which are useful in your quests. You don't have to do ANYTHING to join other than ask, so you can just join, take your crap, and leave. Playing nice with a faction, though, does open up a lot more trainers and options. 3. Consider a great house. Joining a great house is also pretty simple, and many early quests in the houses tend to be fairly easy. The early Telvanni quests in particular are mostly fetch and return, or going to deliver/ask questions. You can also have a good relationship with that house and get cheaper items and spells. (Felen Maryon, the only guy who can teach you to summon a winged twilight, comes to mind) 4. Steal stuff. Yes, I know, not very honorable, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. There is a LOT to steal in Morrowind that can be resold. If you have a lot of money, you'll have access to a lot more options. 5. Train! Unlike Oblivion, you are not limited to training with someone a certain amount of times per day. You are only limited by the amount of money you have, and the skill of your trainer. 6. Lastly, turn off Tribunal until you're well prepared. This expansion is the reason why assassins come attack you when you sleep, and it can annoy first time players into quitting. Turn off this and Bloodmoon until you have established yourself in the main game.
The only thing you realy need are "Boots of Blinding Speed" Because the movement in the game is slow as fck. Especially if you've played Oblivion or Skyrim earlier.
I am playing this on game pass and I am loving it. I love the fact that you need to actually figure things out, by talking to people, reading your journal, etc. Granted, I felt a bit lost in some places in my first few hours in, and I looked a few things up on google as well. But I eventually learned to get around the map and cities on my own and that was satisfying to me. And I still have most of the map to uncover, but I will get at that eventually. I also love the fact that the visuals are mostly clean, with no quest markers around, or a compass at the top of the screen, damage numbers, or these sort of things that modern games have. AC Odyssey comes to mind (which I love btw). There were question markers everywhere you looked, among other things as well. Eventually, they became so annoying to look at, that I just went into the HUD options and turned everything off aside from celebrations. The visuals became so much cleaner, and I played that way ever since :)
You're not wrong, but he is talking to Modern gamers. It's unrealistic to expect them to skip out on the limeware platter. They can barely be convinced to skip out on the Dark Brotherhood free armor.
If you're having a hard time getting into Morrowind do this: go to Balmora mages guild, buy cheapest heal spell, then with the mage create a heal spell that costs 1 magika, use that to level your skills some, buy a stamina restore enchanted.neckless, then make your own that restores fatigue over a longer period, it will keep your stamina recovering while you run
I love Morrowind. I have fun with Oblivion and Skyrim, yes, but it speaks volumes that Morrowind is the only TES game where I bothered finishing the main quest. I sometimes compare Morrowind to having a significant other that isn't conventionally attractive but you are attracted to them because they're smart and they challenge you, as compared to the brain-dead but occasionally fun beauties that are Oblivion and Skyrim.
Great video thank you! I just jumped back in this past weekend and I was pretty overwhelmed. Amazing how soft Oblivion and Skyrim has made us. I really laughed out loud at the "maybe it will take a little longer but... what's the hurry? You're playing Morrowind."
1:44 they might be new to Morrowind games? Don't you mean Elders Scrolls games? Or is every game past Morrowind just Morrowind 2, 3, and Online to you, you Morrowind ELITIST! XD JK
It is not actually absurd to call the mainline TES series "Morrowind games" rather than "Elder Scrolls games" even though they're obviously not actual Morrowind games, because Morrowind is the basic template for all of them. Arena and Daggerfall are completely different beasts and genres of games, and if you add to that the MMO and the spin offs, "Elder Scroll games" is vague. Maybe we can settle on "Morrowind sequels" ^^?
Been recently getting into elder scrolls games and I've been enjoying oblivion and skyrim but was very worried about morrowind but i really want it so this video definitely helped ease my worries. Very grateful for the tips.
Don't use Acrobatics and Athletics as minor/major? Why? Every single character I ever played had those tho as either minor or major. Warriors, mages, sneaky ones, they all had it. You're probably asking why... Did you knew that athletics allows you to run more without getting fatigued? It is also a skill that you level up all the time simply by getting around. As for the Acrobatics, it's more of a personal preference, I jump a lot and climb whatever I see so it's a must have for me. It also allows you to jump higher and fall from greater distances and (I think) does the same thing for jumps that Athletics does for running, which is decreased stamina consumption. So yeah, in my honest opinion those two are just as good picks as anything else.
geøstigma it's because you could grind them easily to level 100 without picking them. Yeah, there is really not much problem with having them, but they are not useful if you do a bit of power gaming
I guess you're right since I tend to re-play it really slowly and with a couple of mods that cripple economy and thus make things like training spamming not as possible as they are in the original game. Personally I pick them as major most of the time since only those skills are the ones that affect the level progress and I know that I will be running and jumping for the rest of the game while let's say, conjuration (just an example) might become obsolete at some point. But in my honest opinion, these different experiences that all of us had with Morrowind is what made this game so good in the first place. There's really no right or wrong way to play it although some things most definitely work better than the rest.
I actually DID play Morrowind a long time ago, but then got into Oblivion and Skyrim. At some point I wanted to get back into Morrowind but being so spoiled, I kinda got bored of the idea fast.. Thanks for this, not that I picked up a lot of new info, but the very attitude actually inspired me. :)Looks like you've got some graphical mods there too, another good idea for me.
Everyone who I've been linking that mod guide to, I don't think that modding it gives the "vanilla" experience. I do think, however, that it might help ease you into the vanilla game more. I stopped using combat mods for example after playing modded for a while. I honestly don't think the vanilla experience is better, just lots of Morrowind fans might disregard you for only playing modded. I've only played modded, as the only thing in Morrowind that bugged me was no magicka regen. It doesn't really matter that much imo, as long as you're having fun with this game. Hope you enjoy this game as much as I did!
Hmm... There's only two things I can think of. Either the original download was broken, or the game needs a simple reinstall (assuming you tried extracting the folder more than once). I know this sounds like a pain but do the fallowing. Uninstall Morrowind, and completely delete MGSO and re-download. Follow this with a simple PC restart and there should be no reason it won't install properly. Make sure to when downloading MGSO we install the most recent version of it. Let me know how it goes.
BUckENbooz I tried reinstalling the game because (I think even before trying this) the game reverts to the launcher After I hit the play button in the launcher so I can't play. Also when I reinstalled and looked in the morrowind file I still say mgso
I love the fact that you showcased a lot of the little tips and tricks that everyone forgot about. Morrowind is so much more detailed than Oblivion and Skyrim. Imo the fact that the game never holds your hand whatsoever gives you the true elder scrolls experience.
*Download* *The freaking* *Combat* *Mod* I'm serious there is a mod that makes morrowind have the same combat mechanic than oblivion so just go there and download it.
I was wrong to say that acrobatics and athletics are bad to put into your major or minor skills. It actually can help with your governing attributes. For more info on leveling, there's a UA-camr named Lyle Shnub who explains how leveling works perfectly.
ua-cam.com/video/c2GNNLz1pUU/v-deo.html
Hope this helps! Tell him BUckENbooz sent ya! :D
Wow thanks
Yeah Athletics are tied to Endurance :D Which is a great atribute if you want to *SURVIVE*
I broke my game using Alchemy cause now I have 222000 strength and 4 500 000 Inteligent, Everyone gets one shot from me and I have no more fun from the game 😭😭😭
@@Haxior5506 one punch man/women 😂
I have another tip to beginners: create a backstory for your character. Make him someone you truly care about. Then start exploring Morrowind as that character. Try to understand the world from his perspective and make decisions like he would based on what kind of character he is.
Morrowind is one of those rare games that allows you to truly roleplay your character. Take advantage of this spectacular opportunity and experience an unforgettable adventure.
I did that recently and the game is becoming more enjoyable.I'm playing a dumb orc who only cares about freedom and punching with masses (cliche I know) but I'm having fun.
Thats what i do in like every rpg game that gives me the choice to create my character
I always had a problem with role playing because the leveling system is straight trash. I know there's mods for that, but I'm not a huge fan of mods
@@user-783hhss7w2oifhe Its only trash if you try to min max. Since Morrowind has no level scaling for enemies like Oblivion you don´t need to min max, you will still be the strong enough to beat the game if you just roleplay.
This isn't D&D. A backstory is useless when there's no way to act out on it nor does Morrowind offer many ways to roleplay. It's not Planescape Torment, Arcanum or Fallout 2, you're not gonna get dozens of different reactions or options based on your skills, attributes, class or race
This all made morrowind great, the fact that you felt like in an actual adventure, were if you took the wrong turn you would get lost, you had to ask for directions, look for the fastest way, pick your fights, it all combined to a great RPG
Getting lost was a much bigger deal in morrowind too, you couldnt just say oh well and fast travel somewhere, if you didnt have teleportation spells your ass was walking quite a bit and it made the game feel that much more immersed because you are always thinking about the best ways to get around the map
+Person then dont play open world games?
Doctor Painis was my favorite game for at LEAST 3 yrs lol now it's Skyrim...bugs and all
Nothing says fun gameplay like going afk for a few hours while your character runs in a corner 🙄
Honestly, if you have to make a video on how to enjoy a game, simply means the game has failed and its stupidly boring.
Honestly I think the journal and dialogue system in Morrowind is genius. I love the fact that you have to ask NPCs how to get to places. It makes the world seem like a real place.
h3rn14 I agree
Treat it more like a tabletop RPG than another Skyrim.
THIS comment right here is exactly how you should treat the game as. Well said whowantsabighug. As many classic RPG's, this RPG goes off numbers. Block chance, damage, leveling, stats, everything is based off a value number.
I want a big hug
You get only scorn.
Then I'm keeping these cookies and pulling a guilting face
or treat it as another elder scrolls...as that is what it is.
I got Morrowind a couple of months ago and nearly gave up on it because of the combat early on being so shady and frustrating despite reading up on it and being warned about it. However, I stuck with it and once I got used to the fatigue factor and raised my attacking skills a bit, the combat did a complete 180. If the game frustrates you early on, be patient and bear with it because it's more than worth it once you get immersed into the game and your character is built up a little bit. looking back to where it started. watching my character develop in all the different skills and trades is one of the many incredible aspects of Morrowind.
Yeah it only takes common sense, really. With weapon skill at 50 and decent (50) agility you rarely miss even at low fatigue. Why would a scrub who holds bow for the first time in their life (let's say skill level 5) land at least 1 shot out of 10? That's what you have trainers for!
Samhain the best part of any game for me is,when my character is very low level,do i have fear for him or her when exploring? If the answer is yes,it's an awesome game. Bethesda games do that for me,and Morrowind is the game that 'hooked'me lol
For the ones who are impatient: take a redguard with long blade. He/she has a base longblade skill of 45 and thats enough for easy Combat
That's the spirit. People also tend to forget that spending money on buying progress in certain skills (increase walking speed anyone?) at trainers or teachers is actually a valid option in the game. Instead of hoarding, and the economy system is of course broken as in any TES game, make USE of it.
People get pissed because they feel weak, and they usually play to get certain feeling of "Power". But here in MW you start as a common person with pretty basic skills, and then you have to get stronger during the journey, it's part of it.
Players also stop playing other games for that same reason, like competitive games or hard games (just to put an example)
You didn't mention cliff racers. Smart man.
Thats how i died 60% of the time as a begginer.
Yeah, when he was on his way to Caldera I was like "wth how can you travel that far and not have a single cliff racer attack you???" 😂
The thing is, around early mid-game, cliff racers become very handy. They are very common, pretty easy to kill and drop cliffracer plumes, which can be used to make levitation potions. Cliff racer plumes and Trama roots are extremely common, so if you invest a little bit of work into your alchemy skill, you have a sh*itload of levitation potions, which are very useful.
So yeah, they are annoying, but very very helpful.
The true rats of Morrowind
Bloody flying Chicken... You kill one and appear another 3.
Don't forget: You can double-click on your map to make notes!
Quest markers are for n'wah
They could've saved you
Nah, if those damned Daedra didn't use those silly magic floating arrows then our glorious saint would've been able to stealth past them those Oblivion-dwelling N'WAHS!
colombogermano Eh, it makes things too easy.
Remove N'wah!
james hill Are you that fucking petty? I should have guessed
"Yes, you have to read in this game."
**Drops to knees with fist in the air**
NOOO! YOU MANIACS!! DAMN YOU!!! GODS DAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!
I was thinking of making a "How to Enjoy Fallout 4" but my only dilemma is I personally can't enjoy the game at all.
BUckENbooz Can you post your entire mod list aside from the MWGO? Looks great.
well. for me the first moments of fallout 4 grabbed me but morrowind didnt. still listening to the soundtrack though
BUckENbooz haha amen
Couldn't agree more.
I enjoyed the first 20 mins of skyrim more than half of fallout 4.
How to enjoy Morrowind via some more general advice, by someone who's played it plenty:
Step 1: Please choose speed as a starting stat. Getting around slowly will frustrate anyone.. You could also take the steed as your sign and feel quite speedy right out of the gate, but your mileage may vary. Majoring in athletics is probably overkill.
Step 2: Put at LEAST one armor skill as a primary, and block if you plan to use shields. You DON'T want to stand around getting hit to skill up your armor and you DON'T want to lose the leveling bonus for leaving it as a minor.
Step 3: Learn the travel networks. It's fast travel that's actually part of the world. The mages' guild, both types of intervention, boats, silt striders and the mark and recall spells can really help you get around if you learn the locations the spells will warp you to from your current location. Making coherent use of the interlocking travel nets will speed your progress considerably, letting you jump all over VVardenfell without feeling like a total cheat. You'll find Skyrim's fast travel quite patronizing once you've mastered this skill.
Step 4: PUT. YOUR WEAPON. AWAY. Being combat ready when you talk brings a penalty to social interactions.
Step 5: if you're a multi-guild kinda guy, join the fighters' guild AFTER the thieves' guild.
Step 6: Create a resist magical 100% spell and put on the Boots of Blinding Speed
How to enjoy Morrowind without giving up?
Save often, Vvardenfell is a very dangerous place...
"yes, you have to read in this game"
The hallmark of a great RPG.
straight Gulag
Man, this makes me feel old. Morrowind was luxury compared to RPG's that came before it... I'm 35 and I can tell you now that quest objective markers ruin the mystery of the world and lessen the feeling of reward.
I hope the next TES has a TRUE mode or GOLD mode, where there are none.
If you do still enjoy playing Skyrim there is a mod that you can get that makes your journal entries more detailed and takes away quest markers, e.g instead of needing to go to a particular cave and just having a quest marker on the map it will be removed and instead the players journal entry will have more information on the location saying something like 'I can find the cave North-West of Whiterun'.
might look into that thanks
I love Morrowind but quest markers are important. They compensate for the lack of natural sense of space that you would have if you really lived in the game world. You have a map, but neither you nor the quest givers think to put a dot on it? Also, if you take a long break it's an even worse feeling of "what was I doing?"
As long as the direction to the quest is thorough and accurate then you don't really need a marker.
Problem is the new TES games as well as fallout games are build around these markers. If you turned them off you probably couldn't finish the game. So you would have to completely overhaul quests, dialogs, pacing, world building to really fix this. It's not simple "just turn the marker off".
Accidentally another thing these markers do is that you don't really pay attention. You can just skip dialogue and go to the next breadcrumb, you don't look at world around you, nothing.
I mean I enjoyed oblivion, skyrim and finished every fallout game too but now I look back at it last few installments is not YOU playing game, it's like you are just walking camera following trail from one point to other, without thinking.
How to not quit:
1: Fly to final areas
2: Win
Disregard everything in this video and follow these two simple steps.
I did that once and i just glitched Dagoth Ur into a lava pit that he couldnt escape
This.
With the boots of blinding speed put on.
pin this
Bob Bobington NO RECALL OR INTERVENTION CAN WORK IN THIS PLACE.
"What's the hurry, you're playing Morrowind."
LOL. Just got this. Suuper excited to get into it.
8 months later, what do you think?
@@waaaaaaah5135 The gameplay and the world were top-notch for me. Really enjoyed running around in there hacking away. I like how there are many people you can sell to in the guilds. I like the transportation between guilds. And I LOVE how you have to go *find* shit. You have to figure out where to go to accomplish a mission.
However, I thought there was some terrible product design and disappointing game feature implementation, particularly the quests journal. There is no way they could not have programmed in there a way to track your quests. Either to create a page for completed quests and/or active quests. To highlight active quests, or even allow you to strikethrough completed quests.
To me, there are sooo many ways to implement that in a game from that era, it made the game unplayable for me. I think it made the game feel entirely unrealistic. If you are a champion in a world like that, and you actually have a physical notebook in which you are documenting quests, 100 times out of 100, you are going to cross off a completed quest. Quite honestly, it turned me off. I have to say, ultimately Oblivion takes the Elder Scrolls cake. I think Oblivion would be a no-brainer-win if you were forced to hunt down quest locations.
@@gronksteady Fair enough
@@gronksteady There is a way to highlight 'active' quests. It's explained in the video. You have to have the expansions (worth getting just for the 'fixed' quest journal). Hit 'Options' in the journal, then 'Quests'. At top is 'Show All'. Click to see the 'completed' quests (which are the grayed out ones).
Since 2002 Morrowind soundtrack is in my bones
Agreed. I have an office job, and have the Morrowind soundtrack on my ipod. Great relaxing background music to play when work gets me down.
same here guys
Oblivion sound track was better.
No it's not, the Morrowind soundtrack is so awesome Bethesda just had it remixed for Oblivion and Skyrim.
Morrowind soundtrack is still the best soundtrack of all TES and one of the best in the history of games...
Morrowind is honestly the kind of game that is very hard to get immersed in at first, but when you do you can't stop.
it's a shame that video games these days do not teach the younger generations cerain skills
In morrowind you need to:
Read the jorunal.
Check road signs
Read the map
Take clues from the jorunal/conversation and check the landscapes in the area
Thats it, rest is game basics.
PlayfulGames... or you need to think for yourself. Instead of the mindless hand-holding ppl need nowadays
exaclty, i do love the old games because often back than they made me well getting lost, and by that i did find new towns and hidden places. that is a magical feeling. i know exaclty what you mean and that is what i did try to say too ^^
Are you sure you never got lost in Skyrim? There's a few caves and dragon peaks that are a bitch to get to without Clairvoyance. Even with a quest marker, climbing mountains is tough.
yes i never got lost in skyrim, its easy to get to those peaks, just scout and understand nature + detailed map that shows roads and lower territory. even at a distance you can see these natural paths. caves how ever if you know one you know them all ( to an extend ) and allways follow your inner compass and or remember the urns you make so you do not just walk around blindly.
PlayfulGames That's only true if you come at the mountain from the right angle. Otherwise it's just a big barrier you have to find your way around. The paths aren't always that clearly visible from afar.
Or maybe I'm in need of mindless hand-holding. But I've never found mountain-climbing easy, and I don't think it's an enjoyable part of exploration.
In my opinion, the text dialogue is better, allowing for more in-depth and richer conversations, as well as saving space on disk, and it just gives you that nostalgia feel
This, sir. I'd rather have NPS blast walls of text at me and have only greetings and battle taunts voiced than have full VO but almost non-existent directions to objective apart from magic quest arrow.
having npcs copy paste responses isn't really in-depth
Copy-paste responses exist even in oblivion or skyrim. It's impossible to give exclusive dialogue to every single npc.
Copy paste *voiced* dialogue is harder to ignore. As are the greetings, since each NPC only has one.
Saving space on disk in 2018 lul
"The dialogue is very important. Yes, you have to read in this game."
Ah, I believe this comment is very important not just for video games but for life.
the number one reason people quit is because they don't like to read
Not a problem for me.... Here is the first game I played... :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork#/media/File:Zork_photo.jpg
I quit because swinging at something point-blank with my sword and hearing nothing but misses drove me crazy. I don't care how great the game world and lore is, if the combat is that unfulfilling I refuse to play the game.
you do realize that there's a mod for that? easy fix unacceptable!
Cyanakrli, do you know about the ways of teleportation in Morrowind? I guess not because you haven't really played it!
the directions are never wrong
I think what Morrowind does more incredibly than anything else is A) represent the perfect balance between the tabletop-inspired rpg mechanics from Arena and Daggerfall with the beautiful world environments and visuals of later games and B) deliver lore
How to do well in Morrowind: be drunk on a lot of Sujamma all the time.
The Holy Trinity of Sujamma, Skooma, and YOUR BARE FUCKING HANDS
You can seriously incapacitate at least 3 enemies before they lay a finger on you, trust me. My build is naked, fisty skooma-head and it's always a breeze :^)
You should do career day speeches at schools. :)
So you have to spend the whole game scrounging coin for heroi--err-- skooma?
How do you avoid missing so much? Both lower your agility badly making it hard to hit anything. For me, I tend to use booze to carry large loads from one place to another.
i think sujamma just lowers intelligence, with high weapon skill doesnt matter either way if you only have to get a couple hits in to kill something cause your strength is through the roof
The MGSO Graphics Overhual is VERY simple to install. One you download it just extract the downloaded folder in your GAME DIRECTORY. Then double click the EXE installer and it literally does the rest for you. Good luck and have fun!
well its not that easy. you have to get a certain version of directX and a few other things. I completely failed :/
What exactly with directX are you having trouble with? Maybe I can help. As far as when I installed MGSO, it was a series of "next, next, next, *program takes over*, next next next". There is a very important choice you make when it asks how "fast" your computer is. Unfortunately, MGSO takes a very high end rig mainly because of how its optimized with a game that's no longer in development let a lone updates.
can I have some help :/ , I completed everything in the installer and when I finish it and run morrowind.exe it goes to the startup screen and then stops responding when I click play. I have reinstalled it 3 times thus far and I would really like to have the improved graphics ):
its hard because it could be several things. Try running mgso options again and re run code patcher. Also sometimes in the beginning it ask for a basic speed setting for your computer. Try the lowest setting. If none of that works sometimes it can just be your hardware
You need to run the game once before installin the MGSO, yo generate the ini files.
Otherwise, your game will crash.
This game definitely gets more fun the more you play it. One of my favorite games of all time for sure.
I have no idea why people don't like putting acrobatics in their major or minor skills. Only major and minor skills being increased affect your progress to the next level and acrobatics is easy to increase. Plus being a strength attribute it helps you maximize your strength per level.
I know this is three years old, but the reason is simple: It levels you up too fast and pushes out a more useful skill for your skillset.
Tip #1: go full enchantment. You will be able to warp time and space 🙏
A kid randomly gave me this game for Xbox while on the way to school shortly after it came out. Shamefully I barely played it. 15 years later and I bought it on Steam. I will play it now.
Enjoy it my dude
Caius Cosades: I'm just an old man with the body of a 20-year-old body builder and a skooma problem.
Man, I dunno why you all are hating on bows so much. I always main'd a bow on my playthroughs with a stealth build. Until my latest playthroughs which I still main'd a bow, but with a summoner build.
I used to collect all the summoning items I could and used like, 20-30 of them at a time to create an army of skeletons/bonewalkers to kill bosses with the difficulty all the way up.
Kind of tedious to use all the items but totally satisfying to see an army of minions wreck hiricine.
I like bows. The mgso overhaul has a built in mod that lets you enchant arrows :)
You could always enchant arrows, but you had to do it manually for every single one of them. Great for training purposes (collect tiny souls > turn into magic arrow), but too tedious and expensive otherwise. Then again... mods.
Also, why doesn't anyone mention CROSSbows? The high damage would often knock enemies down and allow you to hit them hard for a short period of time. You could also enchant bolts btw. ;)
You can lower the difficulty???? Why is my perception so poor?!?!?!
If you have the GOTY edition Plugins (they come with the GOG edition) they come with fletcher shops that sell enchanted arrows. They have a lot of different effects including AOE spells.
I’m a VERY new player and I’ve discovered bows are particularly useful if you can outrun your pursuer but can’t fight them directly; run away, shoot arrows until they die.
my favorite game ever... fucked up my middle school years :)
Nostalgia blindness
FUITH J so what if it is.. Still opened up my eyes to whats possible in a video game.
Least you're honest about it
onecortex PREACH
lol yup, me too.
This game has a huge nostalgia value for me, it's the first game that I got competely sucked in to. Still I have never actually completed it, didn't understand English good enough as a child and got stuck a in the main quest because I couldn't find the character I was supposed to, so I simply continued doing side quests.
Will try again, and hopefully complete it this time haha
Yeah... the same... just got game like month ago and completed most of it... finally. I have only Bloodmoon to complete. As Oblivion and Skyrim veteran... I enjoyed it and had a lot of WTF moments during story.
1. Finish tutorial area.2. Use glitch to raise luck attribute to ridiculous levels.3. Be a badass.
GG #1 TUTORIAL FOR ALL RIGHT HERE!
I put over 500 hours into this game as a kid and looking back putting time into this game made me the patient person I am now
This was my first RPG and got me into gaming in general. Was very satisfying starting out overwhelmed and coming out experienced.
For example you had a mostly blacked out map that filled out as you travel. I had to reference the paper map this game came with so much that by the end it was taped and torn from overuse. Different times.
Top 5 favorite game for sure.
You should be a motivational speaker.
With your attitude, approach and your tone you could convince cancer patients to have hope.
Cheers from Istanbul mate
I really appreciated this comment, thank you!
0:10 can orcs fly?
I was waiting a long time for people to notice that. Shocked how long its taken.
there's levitation magic for anyone
Could it be lore?
SIX CINQ i noticed that XD
+Cliven Longsight It's not a glitch, the player enabled TCL in the console and when that happens it applies it to all characters not just the player.
Who the fuck needs quest markers? It's all in the journal. And you have a map. Use them. Or ask NPCs about it. Is like in real life ^^
Amonny My names buck and I approve of this message
BUckENbooz
We make special trip, just for you.
+Amonny Same low price.
Agreed- I like the journal system
unless there is no option to ask where someone is. A couple times this happened to me and so all I had was "they're somewhere in this massive city. Have fun going up to every single NPC trying to figure out which one it is."
Thank you for not basically suggesting "mod the game to the point where it's not the same game anymore".
The way I got into Morrowind was to type tgm into the console for my first couple of playthroughs, which toggles god mode. This means all spells will work no matter what, all attacks will hit no matter what, and your health, magicka and fatigue will never go down. I only ever lvled up to around 18-20 or so, but it helped me get a feel for the game while understanding how the combat worked, the journal worked etc. Now i'm on my 4th playthrough i think, and i havent toggled god mode once
whatever floats your boat as long as you're having fun that's all that matters hope you havent toggled god mode since
You need levitation, either the potion or in magic and then combine that with speed. Saves you a lot of time travelling
Ever since I graduated high school 4 years ago I have rarely been reading at all, and I could tell my reading skills weren’t as good as they used to be. But when I’m 90 hours in this game, on my first playthrough, I can tell my reading skills is getting way better. And I love that, I also love not having way points, way points ruin the emersion a tremendous amount, and before I started playing I thought it would be annoying, but I now know it’s essential to have the player use their brain.
Some other notes about the major/minor skills is that only skills leveling in major and minor advance will advance your leveling, having acrobatics and athletics in them will have you end up leveling faster then your ready for (e.g. combat skills not high enough to deal with mobs at those levels).
As I recall in addition to skills in major and minor starting at higher levels, skills that match one of your two main attributes also start with +5 to that skill.
When leveling, the skills that are leveled determine the bonus availability to an attribute (skills not major or minor affect this the same way as well). So if you leveled armorer sololy o reach the next level you'll just be able to increase strength by 5, but you can increase non major/minor skills to get other bonuses, e.g. increasing speech and medium armor by like 5 or perhaps 10, when you level with armorer your will have the ability to increase endurance and personality by 5 as well. So leveling well can require a strategy from chargen.
Note this guys. I completely forgot to explain governing attributes. Depending on the skills you have in your major or minor section will depend on its leveling governing attributes.
I recommend mods to do away with the attribute maxing. Madd Leveler is the simplest I've found, staying true to the original intent and balance: you only get to raise attributes with x1 multiplier at level-up, but every 3 ranks in a skill give you a point in the governing attribute.
Monsters don't scale with level though so it's irrelevant what level you are compared to your combat stats
"When leveling, the skills that are leveled determine the bonus availability to an attribute (skills not major or minor affect this the same way as well)." I usually wore medium armor early game just to get that endurance up. Just stood infront of a Scrib or Kwama Forager and let them hit it enough to get the 5+ end each level. Its very min-max, but it really gives you the edge you need to play it casually (which is an oxymoron if ive ever heard one)
+Skadi
Kind of sort of correction: NPC's don't scale with level, but random encounters do.
If you come across a bandit that's level 3, he'll always be level 3.
You might also come across a rat in the wilderness when YOU'RE level 3, but if you're level 17, that same spawn zone in the wilderness might spawn a Golden Saint (each spawn zone has it's own level listings.)
Don't believe me? run around the Grazelands at level 5 for a while, then run around again at level 25.
Scamps, Winged Twilights, and Ogrims EVERYWHERE! (There's even more of them then there are Cliff Racers! :o)
So no, properly leveling your combat and armor skills of choice is EXTREMELY important, especially once you hit levels 15+. Is min/maxing necessary? No.In fact you should be fine so long as you keep the attribute increases above 1 (although, I personally do min/max for the first handful of levels, but that's more so for the early game boost than a necessary evil.)
But is ignoring your combat skills outside of roleplaying smart? No, because you will die..... A lot.
I have just finished Morrowind today for the first time.
The first step is indeed confusing and hard as balls, but it does feel very rewarding in the long run when you get used to things.
I thought that without markers I was going to lose track of what I was doing and basically screw myself over having to redo all my steps. But it went smoother than I initially expected.
Unlike in Skyrim, where you pick up 10 different quests and play em like a shopping list (got nothing against that. It's fun to me in its own way) in Morrowind I always had 1 or 2 quests / factions I was working on and you don't really lose track then.
The quests also tend to be shorter than quests in later games, making them more manageable.
Once you're in the flow, reading the quests becomes natural.
And if you do wish to proceed with a quest you quit a while back, as shown in the video there IS a quest list that should help you find it back and notes of what the last thing was you did for it.
Just drop the mindset of "getting all quests of the town and do 'em whenever you feel like it."
And I can understand the spite now of how unrewarding discovering you're the Dragonborn was.
In Morrowind I felt like some sort of Moses trying to prove to the province and myself that I may or may not be the man of legend by doing several trials, rather than getting a title for killing my first giant lizard.
For all I know, it could turn out to be somebody else that I'd have to end up assisting, or I'd become the man of legend because of my actions and determination, not because of destiny.
Comparing it with Skyrim, the dragonborn stuff does feel lacking storywise. (Going to play Oblivion for the first time next. See what that is all about.)
The combat system feels wonky, especially at the start.
And to be honest, Personally I think that's a thing that hasn't passed the test of time quite as well.
I figure it's a D&D thing, with calculating hit or miss, but when you swing a sword or shoot and arrow and it doesn't visibly miss or hit, it betrays your senses and feels like it's cheating you then.
But you can start with hit & runs to get a weapon skill up so you'll miss less. It will become quite doable eventually.
Also, a good tip is saying that in the first town, after you exit the ship at the start,there's a vendor in the town that sells spells. (you don't purchase spellbooks; in this game there's a seperate vendor option to buy spells directly).
You can purchase at least a heal spell and destruction spell from it, for those that wish to make a mage. Might make things go a little smoother at the beginning.
It sounds obvious, but it wasn't obvious to me.
Worst come to worst, you can always find plenty of videos regarding the alchemy and spellmaker exploits and have a grand old time with nuking the province~
All in all, Morrowind has aged well and I found it still fun to play.
I'm actually really glad to have read this. Just today, I'm starting my first playthrough of Morrowind. Oblivion will be next. I got both with a bundle when I bought Skyrim and never bothered trying the older ones. Good luck on your Oblivion playthrough!
@@sikarios02 Thanks! So far Oblivion definitely different from Morrowind in several ways, but also more similar to Morrowind compared to Skyrim. It definitely feels like it's inbetween the two. X)
Have fun with Morrowind!
Once you get the hang of it and get invested with the story, it's exciting to play it through all the way!
fuck. im like 5 hours in and i didnt pick up the platter
10/10 made me laugh so hard hahahhaha!
I never knew about that platter until I have seen a speed run.
Haha it's a staple really. Never missed it on any of my characters, also you can grab the warehouse key on the shelves in the last room before going out, that will yield you some starting gear without having to pay for it.
Go back and get it?
I like this video. Quite enjoyable to watch :)
M'iaq what are you doing here? No uh dont eat that! Damn it m'iaq
where there's a mod that removes the dice roll mechanic and lets you just swac things with immediate satisfaction
it removes main combat system out of morrowind.
it becomes another game
if you struggle with morrowind start just pick a redguard with long blade in major skill and you will hit everything everytime if you have fatigue in your bar and you actually use long blade
that plus racial spell adrenaline rush will make you kill anything while being underleveld
I just run around, loot plants, fight enemies, etc. I keep doing this until a strong enemy kills me, then I go back to the previous save and go in a different direction.
"They might be new to Morrowind games"
Same energy as someone who says "The Skyrim Series" to troll people.
Nah you know what's hard daggerfall you can really do anything in that game
WAY to complex for me. Morrowind is the perfect balance of dumbed down-ness and complexity for me. Everything after morrowind (oblivion, skyrim) was to dumbed down, specially skyrim.
Brand of Death played it and damn that game is way too hard and complex cant use heavy armor because i have a archer class :/ . Its fun though and really good if you want to roleplay
nyesis same here, sometimes, the quests cannot get completed, cause the quest is bugged and this is what i hate. And the dungeons are way too big
Get teleportation spell.
Finished my first couple of hours. Having a great time so far!
...I legit did not know the Journal could extrapolate on previously discussed points of interest. That's been one of the biggest turn offs of the game for me. I feel like a moron.
Connor Tyler but at least you know now!
I have a notebook full of bullet points for, like, thirty quests because I didn't want to have to keep going back to the NPCs and get the info again. I took notes! *NOTES!*
that's awesome man your the only one who actually says they took proper notes. I did as well, I had a notebook I would write on to remind me what i had to do and points of interest I needed to revise. Its a great game man, enjoy it :)
Only in the GOTY edition, I believe. Or was it only the alphabetical register that was added in that version?
I know about points of interest, but take notes from time to time...I never played TES game, and started in 2019 in december or so, and it was quite hard to understand the way game works, but currently i have a problem of nit knowing what to do with trials, its a confusing part to be fair i just got to Dagoth Ur place in Red Mountain without doing what trials are saying to...
Thanks for the video! Morrowind is the game that got me into the TOS in first place. And I remember how I was astonished when it was first released. I wanted to try again this great game and your video helped me a lot!
Heh, the only reason I put Athletics and Acrobatics in the Misc skills is because it helps me level me up faster.
Yeah, I'm probably going to need to leave an annotation. We discussed this in another comment. I shouldn't have said it was pointless, it does have its uses, for example, its a good way to level up your governing attributes. I'll go ahead and put some annotations up. Sorry for the confusion.
Ye, but overall I thoroughly enjoyed the video and I hope for possibly more Morrowind content.
Appreciate your feedback. Annotation is added :)
Thank you. Morrowind was actually the first Elder Scrolls game I had, and I still haven't finished it. Hopefully this will help on my next play through.
When I started getting back into Morrowind before I made this video, I watched JustRed's Morrowind tip video and THIS video is heavily influenced by her tip video. A Link to her channel is in the description as well as her video! Please check out her content, it provides 10x the amount of Morrowind tips that this single video could!
I used to play it in my early teens on Xbox, I mostly wandered trying to figure out the inner mechanics of upgrading your character. But ultimately mostly ending up lost as I didn't like reading big chunks of dialog. Its actually a painful memory, as I was dealing with depression and spending too much time playing games like this and Warhammer 40k online multiplayer that led to a psychotic break with reality. I was treated for it eventually but suffered for over a year due to misdiagnosis. I know most people can easily get in and out of this type of game but when I would play it becomes everything in frame.
Another tip: Always talk to NPCs, they can give you good information about the game. The best things to talk about is a little advice, a secret, or Morrowind lore. Trust me, talk is cheap. Ask as much as you want.
Please, tell us which mods you were using. I LOVE those trees all over the place!
"Yes, you have to read in this game."
That sums up the problem a lot of new players have with older games. People act like having to do something as simple as _read_ is such a huge chore when it really isn't.
That's seriously a massive strawman. I haven't heard anybody complain about having to read.
Wrong.
I needed this. I’m feeling a bit stuck but I really wanna give the game a chance and I love some aspects about it already so I think I just need some more time.
I'm glad man. its worth giving it a try. get that mgso it will modernize things for you. remember. take your time. there is no rush to "beat the game". have fun! explorer! Go on your own adventure! go find fortune in a random cave. Enjoy :)
Still the best Bethesda game.
I approve of this message
I have played Bethesda games literaly my entire life like most of the elder scrolls games and most of the fallout games and I always thought oblivion was my favorite, but after recently playing morrowind I see why they say it's the best.
Have you played Daggerfall before?
Gabriel Hernandez daggerfall isn't good, it was innovative for it's time, but that's about it. However, even though morrowind aged quite roughly, the game design stood the test of time.
I heard the character system was simplified for Morrowind and had even more depth to it. I need to get back to it one day and see whether that's actually true.
That “hello there” at the beginning scared the shit out of me
How to enjoy Morrowind without giving up:
player -> setspeed 400
Or get the boots of blinding speed ^-^
Make use of the construction set and change the GMSTs to your liking. You can also change the stamina to be more like Oblivion's.
No kidding, the slow walking speed is really bad. I dumped points into speed thinking that it would help. 65 speed is bearable but I found I needed more after a couple days.
After getting the boots, I could never go back to normal xDD Luckily, the Morrowind overhaul mod contains a new character who sells another pair of those in the foreign quarter, so I can donate the original boots of blinding speed to the museum in Mournhold or smth
Thanks lol
Thanks for making this video. I was pleasantly surprised when I searched for exactly this search query. I'm ready to give Morrowind another crack now!
Hey no problem glad it helped you out, let me know if there's any other unanswered questions!
IMPORTANT: when building a character you should consider which factions you want to join. Factions in Morowind place both attribute and skill requirements on the player if they want to be promoted. I highly recommend looking up what favored attributes and skills the faction of your choice has asap so that you can focus on improving the relevant attributes as you level. ALSO: keep in mind that in order to maximize attributes gain it is important to level up as soon as you can! When you level, you have multipliers to your attribute increase options based on what 10 skills you increased. HOWEVER these multipliers do not carry over to the next level! Therefore, leveling fifteen skills before actually leveling the character means that your NEXT character level will have less multipliers and your attribute progression will be hindered!
My good man I was here just for the graphical overhaul and of course you left the link in the desc. Thank you.
all you have to do is press F5 every 5 minutes and you wont ragequit after losing hours of progress because morrowind (for some literally nonexistent reasons) doesnt have autosave
Man, I want to thank you for making this video because even 8+ years later it's helping me as a casual modern gamer get into this awesome game!
Biggest problem I have with Morrowind is every time I play it, I get lost in min-maxing the skill system for maximum attribute bonuses... and then I get bored
It's actually highly recommended you pay to level up some skills from the trainers. Prices for each level start low then slowly get higher
I didn't mean get lost as in not knowing what I'm doing.. I meant get lost as in I focus too much on it and lose track of playing the actual game
Ah, alright I think I understand what you mean. This might sound over the top but you could write notes or reminders. Honestly when I take a break from Morrowind for a long time and start playing it again I just start a new character and go on to a different path. Sometimes when it comes down to it Morrowind just isn't for everyone. best of luck to you.
BUckENbooz I'm tempted to reinstall and continue my character but I can't remember how I installed all the mods I was using!
I might try it soon anyway, your video gave me the itch to try playing it again.
If you decide to use MGSO it uses a simple step by step installer. makes it really easy to use.
I reccomend as a long time player to put acrobatics in your major skills. You can level up quickly since you use it all the time and having a skill that helps you move quickly early on is important. Having 45 acrobatics right at the start is a great way to get to destinations quickly get out of tough spots and dodge attacks
i literally JUST bought Morrowind before work yesterday JUst because ive been watching the mods for it , i cant wait to play it. i never had a pc as a kid when it was out and i didnt even know about it till skyrim was out lol.
adam lewis get ready Adam. Get ready....
In May 2002 I put this game in my computer and it quickly became the best game world I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing your love for Morrowind.
The best method that made me enjoy Morrowind: player-> setspeed 200
Seeker for Freedom Nah, set it to 10,000. Watch the magic unfold.
And acrobatics and jump from side of the map to the other......... the landing can be a tad tricky though.
200 is closer to modern firt person controls
I worked out a system for my new characters that always worked flawlessly. Get gold, train like a beast. Gather Ajira's ingredients on the walk from Seyda Neen to Pelagiad so you can rob Galbedir in the mages guild of her soul gems. then go to the guard tower in Balmora and jack the sword of white woe. Go to Suran, steal another sword of white woe from that guard tower, go to the trader and kill him. you get a 40gp assault but no 1000gp murder. Take his ebony bracer, darts, and dagger. With all these goodies you can go and visit the scamp in caldera. Kill the lord of the manor for an ebony longsword and jack his orcish armor from a crate on the top level. From all this you should have almost 200k and you can go back to Balmora and train until you are broke. Congratulations you have reached level 20 something and haven't left a town (minus picking ingredients and walking to Balmora of course). This is my routine I developed after many years playing on the Xbox it is rather foolproof, but it takes time to sell all your loot to the scamp.
Listen to your favorite montage songs for added pleasure!
I more or less do that every time too lol
I will try
Very interesting and nostalgic video. I haven't be able to play Morrowind for years, because I don't game on PC. One thing I wish Bethesda would do is STOP scaling. One thing I loved about Morrowind (and there are many) was that you were either powerful, or not. The world didn't level with you, because that's not how the world works. Maybe in TES VI things will change. ESO is scaled beyond belief. Its a great game, but fighting a level 45 mud crab just seems a little well, strange.
I dunno if you ever tried MGSO Mikey but believe me when I say it feels different actually playing with the graphics mod than seeing it on screen, I think your nostalgia will overwhelm you if you try this on the PC :)
Mikey tHIS^^
Well, Morrowind just became backwards compatible on Xbox one recently, pick it up my man
everyone in the comments saying to treat it as a ttrpg really made me rethink the approach. i'm going to try again (thank you).
I like morrowind, but holy fuck I hate all the people who bash on oblivion and skyrim. If they kept the same mechanics as morrowind the elder scrolls series would've died A LONG time ago. Not everyone wants to read journals, miss half their sword swings, and deal with no quest markers. It's a good game but people need to stop fucking bitching. I loved the game. I'm not hating on it.
Personally oblivion was my favorite, as it was my first TES game, morrowind being my second, skyrim being the third one I played, I play skyrim religiously (heavily modded of course)
I believe they all are great in there own way. Skyrim was awesome. Oblivion was awesome, and Morrowind was awesome. The most time I spent in any of the games was Oblivion myself.
BUckENbooz see I can understand how old fans wouldn't like skyrim, but I just hate how people bash on anyone who prefers skyrim over morrowind. I loved playing morrowind but it was very frustrating at times lol.
I think this was the first video I saw about Morrowind, I'm glad that for the past year I've gotten so much into this game that I'm constantly modding and replaying it now.
>hit thing
>miss
+Cliven Longsight
How is the "to hit" system bad, but the "how much damage" one is not. And why is it bad for video games??? This system does not have to stay in tabletop games, it's FINE in video games. Is it bad because you see your sword hit but not register? Because if that's the reason then, that wasn't a choice. This game was made in 2002, by 6 people on a dying studio's budget; they couldn't make all these animations.
I hate it when people say that "because it's a video games, I should hit everything!", which is STUPID. I like morrowind's combat because you can't just cheese every enemy by kiting them, you need your skills. And just because something is different, doesn't mean it should be left out of all video games.
Don't make it real time game. Hit percentages (when you clearly see that your action hit) have no place in real time game systems. Those are for turn based systems.
Thinking like this led to skyrim. Everything after morrowind is junk made for people who like to ruin things.
Refreshing simplicity? No, total dumbing down on every single level. Skyrim is for action oriented retards, Morrowind and older RPGs are for actual roleplayers, people that love to have choices followed by consequences. There is NOTHING of that in Skyrim because it has the depth of a puddle.
The combat system in Morrowind is based on pen and paper roleplaying with the obligatory dice rolls, nothing wrong with that. Baldur's Gate had it, Drakensang had it and so many others as well. What is also annoying as fuck is that damage ranges were removed and you always do damage X or damage Y in case of a "strong attack", pathetic. While Dark Souls is amazing, a damage range could've given the combat even more excitement - and criticals, of course.
Cliven Longsight yea Skyrim was the best. So much fun. Can’t talk about the other games. I always say “when’s the next Skyrim coming out” since I never heard of TES before Skyrim. Bethesda did an amazing job with Skyrim and have no doubt they’ll release another masterpiece
i know this video is 3 years old now but it helped be get started with this game and it turned out to be really great so thankyou very much
Hard to believe its been over 3 years... glad to help man!
Morrowind - How to enjoy it: Play it.
Ichigo Kitsune finally thank you ichigo it's about time people understand !
It's so good! I hear people say they couldn't get into it, and I can understand, but they missed out on an amazing gaming experience, they literally don't make games like this anymore
For me, I really had to force myself to understand why it's so good. Once I got past that threshold I really started to enjoy it. MGSO really helped me a lot understand why it's such a beloved game. Thanks for your comment!
This is on PC...
When its on console, shitts starts to really grind...
It hurts to be honest...
Here are a few tips I've come up with:
1. Alchemy. Learning alchemy and making potions is one of the most valuable skills you can have, because you can just take ingredients from wherever and make free potions for yourself. You can also sell whatever you don't need to make money, just make sure to invest some of that in alchemy training.
2. Join a faction. When you join a faction (mages guild, fighters guild) you get access to all sorts of freebies. You can sleep for free and take certain items, which are useful in your quests. You don't have to do ANYTHING to join other than ask, so you can just join, take your crap, and leave. Playing nice with a faction, though, does open up a lot more trainers and options.
3. Consider a great house. Joining a great house is also pretty simple, and many early quests in the houses tend to be fairly easy. The early Telvanni quests in particular are mostly fetch and return, or going to deliver/ask questions. You can also have a good relationship with that house and get cheaper items and spells. (Felen Maryon, the only guy who can teach you to summon a winged twilight, comes to mind)
4. Steal stuff. Yes, I know, not very honorable, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. There is a LOT to steal in Morrowind that can be resold. If you have a lot of money, you'll have access to a lot more options.
5. Train! Unlike Oblivion, you are not limited to training with someone a certain amount of times per day. You are only limited by the amount of money you have, and the skill of your trainer.
6. Lastly, turn off Tribunal until you're well prepared. This expansion is the reason why assassins come attack you when you sleep, and it can annoy first time players into quitting. Turn off this and Bloodmoon until you have established yourself in the main game.
The only thing you realy need are "Boots of Blinding Speed" Because the movement in the game is slow as fck.
Especially if you've played Oblivion or Skyrim earlier.
You're a doll, good recommendation
For added fun, don't use the resist magic exploit and try to play like that. ;)
I am playing this on game pass and I am loving it. I love the fact that you need to actually figure things out, by talking to people, reading your journal, etc. Granted, I felt a bit lost in some places in my first few hours in, and I looked a few things up on google as well. But I eventually learned to get around the map and cities on my own and that was satisfying to me. And I still have most of the map to uncover, but I will get at that eventually.
I also love the fact that the visuals are mostly clean, with no quest markers around, or a compass at the top of the screen, damage numbers, or these sort of things that modern games have. AC Odyssey comes to mind (which I love btw). There were question markers everywhere you looked, among other things as well. Eventually, they became so annoying to look at, that I just went into the HUD options and turned everything off aside from celebrations. The visuals became so much cleaner, and I played that way ever since :)
Did you seriously suggest to take the Limeware plate and to run against a wall, in a "How to enjoy Morrowind" video? Hahahahahahaha
Yes i did.
@@chimp_monke123 Player->setstrength 1000 👀
You're not wrong, but he is talking to Modern gamers. It's unrealistic to expect them to skip out on the limeware platter. They can barely be convinced to skip out on the Dark Brotherhood free armor.
If you're having a hard time getting into Morrowind do this: go to Balmora mages guild, buy cheapest heal spell, then with the mage create a heal spell that costs 1 magika, use that to level your skills some, buy a stamina restore enchanted.neckless, then make your own that restores fatigue over a longer period, it will keep your stamina recovering while you run
I love Morrowind. I have fun with Oblivion and Skyrim, yes, but it speaks volumes that Morrowind is the only TES game where I bothered finishing the main quest. I sometimes compare Morrowind to having a significant other that isn't conventionally attractive but you are attracted to them because they're smart and they challenge you, as compared to the brain-dead but occasionally fun beauties that are Oblivion and Skyrim.
Great video thank you! I just jumped back in this past weekend and I was pretty overwhelmed. Amazing how soft Oblivion and Skyrim has made us. I really laughed out loud at the "maybe it will take a little longer but... what's the hurry? You're playing Morrowind."
1:44 they might be new to Morrowind games? Don't you mean Elders Scrolls games? Or is every game past Morrowind just Morrowind 2, 3, and Online to you, you Morrowind ELITIST! XD JK
You were the first one to notice, nice :). I noticed it way early on and thought "eh fuck it no one will notice".
Wow really? That's surprising! I just noticed it and thought it would be funny to point out and make fun of! XD (but all in good fun of course.)
This is the greatest comment of all history
It is not actually absurd to call the mainline TES series "Morrowind games" rather than "Elder Scrolls games" even though they're obviously not actual Morrowind games, because Morrowind is the basic template for all of them. Arena and Daggerfall are completely different beasts and genres of games, and if you add to that the MMO and the spin offs, "Elder Scroll games" is vague. Maybe we can settle on "Morrowind sequels" ^^?
there actually is a morrowind online tho
Been recently getting into elder scrolls games and I've been enjoying oblivion and skyrim but was very worried about morrowind but i really want it so this video definitely helped ease my worries. Very grateful for the tips.
Don't use Acrobatics and Athletics as minor/major? Why? Every single character I ever played had those tho as either minor or major. Warriors, mages, sneaky ones, they all had it. You're probably asking why...
Did you knew that athletics allows you to run more without getting fatigued? It is also a skill that you level up all the time simply by getting around.
As for the Acrobatics, it's more of a personal preference, I jump a lot and climb whatever I see so it's a must have for me. It also allows you to jump higher and fall from greater distances and (I think) does the same thing for jumps that Athletics does for running, which is decreased stamina consumption.
So yeah, in my honest opinion those two are just as good picks as anything else.
geøstigma it's because you could grind them easily to level 100 without picking them. Yeah, there is really not much problem with having them, but they are not useful if you do a bit of power gaming
I guess you're right since I tend to re-play it really slowly and with a couple of mods that cripple economy and thus make things like training spamming not as possible as they are in the original game.
Personally I pick them as major most of the time since only those skills are the ones that affect the level progress and I know that I will be running and jumping for the rest of the game while let's say, conjuration (just an example) might become obsolete at some point.
But in my honest opinion, these different experiences that all of us had with Morrowind is what made this game so good in the first place. There's really no right or wrong way to play it although some things most definitely work better than the rest.
I actually DID play Morrowind a long time ago, but then got into Oblivion and Skyrim. At some point I wanted to get back into Morrowind but being so spoiled, I kinda got bored of the idea fast.. Thanks for this, not that I picked up a lot of new info, but the very attitude actually inspired me. :)Looks like you've got some graphical mods there too, another good idea for me.
such a shame they dumbed down next Elder scrolls. Morrowind is the best game of all time.
daggerfall is the best
that is exaggeration! I would still rank the likes of Fallout 1 and 2 higher...
Everyone who I've been linking that mod guide to, I don't think that modding it gives the "vanilla" experience. I do think, however, that it might help ease you into the vanilla game more. I stopped using combat mods for example after playing modded for a while. I honestly don't think the vanilla experience is better, just lots of Morrowind fans might disregard you for only playing modded. I've only played modded, as the only thing in Morrowind that bugged me was no magicka regen. It doesn't really matter that much imo, as long as you're having fun with this game. Hope you enjoy this game as much as I did!
Graphics mods being used? The game looks a bit different
It's a graphics overhaul called MGSO. The link for the download is in the description :).
BUckENbooz when I try to install it it gets stuck after extract files and please wait, I Waited an hour before killing the task. Any fix?
Hmm... There's only two things I can think of. Either the original download was broken, or the game needs a simple reinstall (assuming you tried extracting the folder more than once). I know this sounds like a pain but do the fallowing. Uninstall Morrowind, and completely delete MGSO and re-download. Follow this with a simple PC restart and there should be no reason it won't install properly. Make sure to when downloading MGSO we install the most recent version of it. Let me know how it goes.
BUckENbooz I tried reinstalling the game because (I think even before trying this) the game reverts to the launcher After I hit the play button in the launcher so I can't play. Also when I reinstalled and looked in the morrowind file I still say mgso
BUckENbooz fixed the problem of the mod staying by deleting the entire folder
I love the fact that you showcased a lot of the little tips and tricks that everyone forgot about. Morrowind is so much more detailed than Oblivion and Skyrim. Imo the fact that the game never holds your hand whatsoever gives you the true elder scrolls experience.
*Download*
*The freaking*
*Combat*
*Mod*
I'm serious there is a mod that makes morrowind have the same combat mechanic than oblivion so just go there and download it.
Callmebad Nosferaty I don't have pc