Elder Scrolls 6 will have 3 Skills "Boom Boom", "Swoosh Swoosh" and "Sparkle Sparkle". And it will have 2 Armor classes. "yes" and "not yes". 💪🏻😊

I think it is ironic how games are becoming more casual while gamers are becoming increasingly competitive

It is such a small thing. But it is so immersive to see a road sign, walk up to it, and read the city name you are traveling to, confirming you are still on the right path.

My Dad bought me this piece of perfection for $10 back in 2005. I still play this game 19 years later.

Morrowind has, without a doubt, one of the most interesting worlds in gaming.

One of the best takes on Morrowind I've seen. Yeah, the game is old, and it's a product of its time, but it's better at the things that matter for an RPG. Hell, for all the flack the dice-roll combat gets, there are still games that do that today, so all it _really_ needed was better feedback on what was happening.

Morrowing caused me and my real life friends to just walk around outside with sticks and story tell our own adventures and imagine we have armors and stuff for hours straight, all thanks to the things we saw in Morrowind

The lore in Morrowind is wild - You couldn't make this shit up. The story directors definitely smoked salvia.

Why did you attack the non-hostile scrib if you didn't like being paralyzed

They'll never reach these highs again without Kirkbride

i'm literally a zoomer. I started playing Morrowind not a month ago. I grew up with Skyrim, and I LOVE Morrowind so much.

I am finishing Morrowind for the first time this week and the first time I played it was 20 years ago when my brother moved in after spending some years in a different state. It was the first RPG I ever played. The one tip I always remembered from him was to jump to get your acrobatic skill up so you can actually jump. Every since I was a kid I would spam jump in Elder Scrolls games, except Skyrim I guess.

Great video man, you forgot to mention that you can pick up AND carry candles in Morrowind (peak gaming experience) but other than that, solid discussion

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Morrowind factions: they are heterogeneous groups of people, some have been infiltrated, some are corrupt, you can often choose different questgivers if you feel one of them is using you to do their dirty job or they are dangerous to the guild itself. Storylines are branched and feel like the job it is supposed to be. People complain about fetch quests... But you start out as a fetcher, do you expect to be called "the chosen one" out of the gate? Also, sometimes seemingly simple quests have more to them than it seems, as anything you fetch and any bribing/intimidating that you do undermines some other faction somehow (remember factions are friends or rivals of other factions) and rival faction members might refuse to talk to you, collaborate and will charge you more money for their services, that completely changes how you approach parts of the main quest. Skyrim (and Oblivion's) factions: Here's a nice little story. Self contained. It doesn't affect the world or any other factions, except these ones we made up only for the questline (Silver Hand, Blackwood Company) and you'll never see them again. It's linear, conveniently short and we will take control away from you for dramatic purposes so the story can happen.

The virgin stealth archer vs the chad levetating ninja star thrower.

I’m from brazil and my mom bought morrowind for me in 2012. I wasnt able to understand english, so I played 6 months morrowind without leave the census office building because, I managed to kill the npc with the butter knife that I found in the table. When I finnaly got out of the house, it was amazing kkk. I still remember. After that I start to use the translator to play the game and learned a lot. Im very grateful that my mother bought me this game.

The architecture in Morrowind is such an underrated but impactful factor. It in itself tells a story. You know if you are in telvanni, redoran, hlaalu or imperial territory just by the building around you. At first the idea of a xenophobic society with a superiority complex sounds inherently bad but when you play especially if you do the legion quests. The first being taking a land deed from a widow whose husband was killed by a legion member, you really understand why the dunmer don't want the legion meddling in local affairs.

I suppose I'm a morrowboomer (played daggerfall and got morrowind during release week) But the alien setting really did it for me, and it's the thing AI keep thinking about. The settings stuck with me all these years and I think about them surprisingly often. I also agree over casualization sucks.

Played Morrowind for the first time last month. The best part of morrowind was the fact that traveling to locations is engaging, I feel like a backpacker that has mastered a countries transit system. Maybe non-diegetic fast travel ruins some enjoyment, but in skyrim and other games like it, my eyes glaze over during travel and I basically go catatonic.

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Skyblivion and Skywind = The Creation engine's actual true purpose. Mod teams will be releasing the greatest, most immersive RPGs in 2025; not any AAA studio.

Skyrim: Here is the exact position and a a marker of what you need. Morrowind: @#$& you, go north find a ruin somewhere north and find the @#$&ing puzzle box.

Nowadays if Junior got lost in Vivec he would throw his PC through the window. Todd has thought of everything

Nice to hear you mention OpenMW... adding a few texture packs along with Tamriel Rebuilt to it is trivial and stable, which is more than anybody can say for Viking Circle Jerk.

Morrowind is better than every game

One of my fondest memories of Morrowind was probably the first time I ever played it way back when on the original Xbox. Picked it up one day after school based on a recommendation from a friend. Made a Nord. Spent like the first 3 hours in both the character creation and first town Seyda Neen. Finally decided to make the trek from Seyda to Balmora. Saw a dungeon and figured I'd go into every one I saw along the way. Walked into one dungeon with what I'm assuming is a Necromancer. Beat the piss out of him and his minions. Looted the dudes corpse and went to leave only to realize I couldn't move. I dropped everything I had on and still couldn't move. Didn't know what the problem was. Realized my endurance and strength had both been reduced to 1 in the fight. I probably waited for a total of 3 days in-game to see if the debuff would wear off. Never did. Deleted that character figuring it was bricked and made an Argonian instead since they were immune to disease. Proceeded to make the most overpowered character I've ever had in a video-game. Enchanted my gear so much that one jump took me from Balmora all the way to the Ashlands. Then jumped to Red Mountain and 1 shot everything in it with my brokenly overpowered bound Daedric longsword.

Skyrim was my first and Morrowind is my favourite, I can't enjoy Oblivion or Skyrim the same after playing MW. Its the best Bethesda game and we'll never see another like it.

Late Morrowind player here too. The fact that you need to pay attention to the journal hints to get to places or complete quests blew my mind, it is satisfying to achieve objectives without quest marks.

Only thing holding morrowind back was the technology of the time this game is still leagues ahead of many modern games.

6:25 I think the problem with Vivec city is less that you can get lost in it and more that every canton feels the same. It's also feels so empty and unlived in on the outside because there are so few npcs walking around compared to the house capitals

To me.. the only thing missing to make the Morrowind Combat system perfect.. Is a dodge and Miss animation...

3:41 In fairness, Morrowind _alone_ was touted as being a hostile, alien land where you might think you stepped into another realm all the way back in Redguard.

After _Starfield,_ I have lost all of what little remained of my faith in Bethesda, and I have lost all hope that TES VI will be anything resembling a quality product. I will give it a wide berth and just content myself with the games I already own. And I look forward, instead, to _Skyblivion_ and _Skywind._ _Fallout: London_ also looks phenomenal!

Playing Morrowind right now. It was my first elderscrolls, but when i played it i was just a kid and didnt know wtf i was doing. going back now to replay it more seriously, i agree with all your points man. I love Oblivion and Skyrim, Morrowind is much more of an RPG. the Dialogue is much better even if it isnt voice acted. I haven't modded in better graphics yet, but i will at some point. you can fix a lot of the games age with mods. When i was a kid my brother modded in spells for me, Morrowind brings back great memories of being a kid and fucking around with broken spells.

The OpenMw engine made this game 10x more amazing than it already was

Solid content keep it coming man

i remember playing morrowind back in the day, it was so much harder than modern games. we didn't have internet guides to help you, no mini maps, no quest markers, vague directions to the objective, limited fast travel, and a strategy guide the size of a phonebook. such a great game.

i remember being pumped for oblivion thinking it was gonna be massive like morrowind and was so sad when it wasnt :(

Loved how you can wear different armour pieces

Nice vid, but for your information - you can join the Telvanni and mages guild in the same playthrough. Great Houses are the only excluvicve ones. Thieves Guild will ban you from joining if you complete a certain Fighters' Guild quest

The problem is tod howard vision, "keep it simple" but at the same time make it as big as possible at the expense of it being empty and dull

You truly honor the sixth house and the tribe unmourned.

No hand holding. Better designed world. Skill+stats system and so on. Reading actually keeps my attention higher because of my feelings. Impact of your actions and choices. Arrows have weight. Planing. Journal. Ingenuity. With this game you can learn foreign language if you install it into it.

Morrowinds replay ability is crazy for example I’m playing a mage right now and focusing on telvanni house but when I’m eventually done with my save I will want to try something different such as being a character that uses a melee weapon and when I’m done with that and want to try something else well then the cycles continues and each time I will learn more and more and be more immersed in the world

I got morrowind back in 06 and younger me could appreciate it. The game I've spent most time on is Oblivion and ESO but now that I'm older, Morrowind and Daggerfall are good. Skyrim is the one I least go back to.

Playing Morrowind was my best gaming experience ever. There were a few other games later on that came close, but nothing else was so memorable.

The best part about Morrowind is the setting! I love this game but it was my first Elder Scrolls game, so I have a bias. The lore is AMAZING. The cultural detail is AMAZING. The feeling of walking the path to discover if you are truly “the one” is done SO WELL. This game is MY SHIIIIIIIIIIII (explodes into pure magicka)

Morrowind LOOKS more like Skyrim than Oblivion.

When Skyrim released, i played it once.. called my older brother and said: this was fun, but not that special... i dont understand what the fuzz was about with the elder scrolls games. He was like: oh.. uhmm, but uhm.. can you levitate? Levitate? how do you mean? In Morrowind you can levitate he said.. Just for that reason alone i picked up that game and never played skyrim again. If i play an elder scrolls game, it will be morrowind.

This was really good I subscribe

Nicely put together and good argument, thank you

I miss the political complexity in Skyrim. In Morrowind for example the brother of the Duke of Vvanderfel(from Hlaalu, best buddies of the Empire) is a leader of racist criminal gang and possibly the biggest slave owner in the game and has half of fighting guild in his pocket.

i hate modern gaming so much, its like mcdonnalds or something. not fast, not cheap, but everywhere, and you can always "upgrade" for extra money. "but now they have salads" ... smh

I like being able to wear clothes and robes over armor. Also the more mainstream it became it lost some of its focus on adventuring. Morrowind is a true adventure game.

The dawnguard quest line has choices that affect the outcome of the game like joining the dawnguard rather than the vampire lords. In a way it's the same as the civil war quest line where you choose a side and then gain benefits completely independent from either side.

Daddy knows best!

I'm a Morrowboomer. I played Morrowind as a 13-14 year old and it's still my favourite game of all time. That said, while Skyrim has been the most commercially successful of TES games (and is my second favourite game) I feel it has done irreparable damage *BECAUSE* of its success. Todd Howard comes across as a dude that just wants to make all the fans happy and that's noble. But the bigger the fan base gets, the more mixed the fan base gets (people whos favourite game is the Witcher or Elden Ring or Dragon Age but play because it's in the genre) the harder it is to please them all. I haven't played Starfield but I read a comment that said it's "the oldest new game I've ever played". Has that dude played anything other than Skyrim? That's Bethesda's MO. Make a game that's rough around the edges but then makes a playground where you're free to be what you want. I'm sure Starfield would have been great if Bethesda stopped trying to please everyone and just made a playground for the old-school RPG fan

Dagoth Ur is even more terrifying when you realize his end goal. Become the Godhead to try and right the "wrongs of the past". Uniting everything under him. Everyone would be him and he would be everyone. The thing is, what we know is CHIM, the end result would most likely be everyone zero summing out of existence.

This was an excellent take on the comparison between Morrowind and Skyrim in particular and older versus newer open world rpgs in general. I too only played Morrowind in the last few years and it really impressed me with its setting, story, and options.

From the top of my head, I can remember some quests that you have choices in skyrim: - Hircine: Kill or side with the werewolf, it defines if you get the ring of hircine or the savior's hide; - The one with the bandit leader ex-husband: you can choose if you kill her and if you tell the truth or lie to the husband; - Azura: choose to side with azura or go for the Black Star; - Vaermina: choose if you kill Erandur or destroy the Staff, your choice defines if you get him as a follower or get the staff as a weapon; - choose if you side with the rieklings or the nord camp in solstheim; I do agree with you that it would be a lot better if we had more choices and consequences, but we do have a feel

To expand on your point about "Bethesda doing everything on one character": not only does it kill replay ability, but it makes the game incentivize doing EVERYTHING regardless of what kind of character you're playing. I like to play the good guy imperial knight, but there are so few places where that's feasible and even the imperial legion is so shallow that I still have to go do EVERYTHING ELSE just to get the most out of my gameplay. General Tullius doesn't even reward you with imperial gear when you advance (though the lack of unique items in Skyrim is something I could go on about all day). With your dark brotherhood example, I choose to destroy the dark brotherhood and always feel jipped because because it's such a shallow experience. It feels like I am being punished because I didn't play Bethesda's way. The companions? Well I hope you're cool with being a werewolf - which I'm absolutely not okay with. The blades? Kill the coolest, most helpful dragon you meet in game. The only faction that seemed to make the good guy roleplay feel worth it was the Dawnguard, and I actually did quite like that expansion... Even though the Dawnguard didn't even have their own swords but I'll let that one slide I guess. All that to say Skyrim was a garbage RPG at best, and simply not an RPG at worst.

Morrowind was the first RPG I played in 2003. 21 years later and it’s still stuck with me. I’ll never again experience that feeling with any other game.

You have captured exactly how I've felt forever! Skyrim being an "Action adventure game" and not an RPG was always my main argument, it's good to see that others can also acknowledge this.

I’m a Morrowind elitist, and y’all n’wahs should play it.

I am a proud morrozoomer. Skill issue to anyone who can't play it.

you are so right. Thank you for this video!

I played Morrowind back in 2004. It's 20 years later and I'm still waiting to feel the same level of immersion I felt in Morrowind. Even when I go back to Morrowind, all the emotions of adventure are still there. Morrowind is a 9. Oblivion is a 6. Skyrim is a 7, maybe 8 with mods.

Morrowind - a game with deep RPG elements from leveling, skills, math behind it, fleshed out factions, requiring your attention to solve ingame Q and stuff but with completely unbalanced and unrestricted sandbox gameplay. Cheffs kiss

You are right Oblivion was really good, but I felt it was mechanically lacking, combat was simple, magic was simple, speech skill was simple, but it was there and i liked it and as i waited for elder scrolls 5, hoping it woukd be skyrim (icelandic so the northern theme speaks to me) it was skyrim! Happy i was, waited in line for my copy at the 11.11.11 i what wonderful times. I played it. Yea it looked okay, wait, the spells are even simpler then oblivion, were is a huge revamped speech skill, why is combat just as simple , where are the improvments!?!? Everyrhing is getting simpler and dumber

Great video. Thank you.

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Still never played Morrowind. But this video makes me want to.

Keep it up 👍

My favorite thing about Morrowind is that there are very very few instances of quest-locking items or events. Every single legendary item in Skyrim requires you to be on the quest to get it. It makes it feel like the only way to get cool things is to be the main character of the story. The world and the setting feel like the main character in Morrowind. The vast majority of legendary artifacts that I found in my first few play throughs were just stuff I found while out adventuring. I had no idea that there were quests associated with finding them. It made it feel like this was a living world that would continue existing in its own right, even if I wasn’t watching it unfold before me.

To me the thing that made Morrowind feel alive is the fact that you had to learn to live in its world, and that the world gave the impression of existing independently from you through clever placement of NPC's, locations, and items. From the moment you get fresh off the boat you're learning about the geography, the culture, and the game mechanics at the same time. The game is filled with stuff you will only find if you go looking for it. I took a random quest in a small fishing village to escort a slave to a new owner, didn't even bother to talk to the slave, and was surprised when the new owner stabbed her to death in front of me. Turns out she was a drug mule. Well, I did reload and save the slave, killing the other dude in the process. And he's actually Caius Cosades neighbor. So... that's how I was now a proud home owner in Balmora! I camped out in his little house for the rest of my playthrough, gradually filling the shelves (and floors) with my literally millions worth of loot. I didn't buy that house, I didn't go through some designated quest to obtain it, and the game mechanics never got in my way for taking it. It was just mine, because I decided it was. I also hear about people never encountering a certain NPC, because she hangs out in a tavern in a town not connected to the fast travel network. But I decided to walk, and stopped there for the night, so I ran into her very early. And one of the most sought after weapons was in the hands of some random dude, and you have to go out of your way to even find it.

What blows my mind is oblivion came out just 3 years after the Morrowind dlcs. And in that time, yes they casualized alot of things, but they also added alot of ambitious things to the game that did improve the overall world building and rpg feel, such as almost all npcs having complex schedules like moving around the city, going to sleep, closing their shops etc. The cities also feel a bit more lively hearing NPCs talk more, even conversing with each other. Even if it was mostly nonsensical babble, atleast it was something to make the cities feel alive. Obviously the physics engine added alot to the realism and they overhauled the combat system (for better or worse, but it was atleast trying something a little different.) Im sure there is even more stuff i cant think of atm, but atleast Oblivion had enough changes to justify its creation as a main title in the franchise Say what you will about the jump from Morrowind to oblivion but in just 3 years they made a new game that definitely took some steps forward, even if It took some steps back as well. But then i think about the jump from oblivion to skyrim and i seriously cant think of anything significant that was added, and yet they spent more time on it. If anything it seems like they only removed things. Only took steps back. Like seriously, the only things i can think of that Skyrim brought to the table was improved graphics. I'm not trying to be a hater, i love skyrim, but seriously someone help me out here. Surely skyrim added something to rhe formula i am overlooking. Right?

I was a Skyrim player for the last 10 years. Loved the universe and read about all other games, but never played them. Recently i tried Morrowind and hell, i was barely in and felt so immersed. It has to be one of the best rpgs ever. And now i can't even think of going back to Skyrim, even though i put thousand of hours in that game. Skyrim is great and all, but it really is not a role playing game and you need A LOT of mods to keep it interesting or for remaking what the crap some skill trees are. TL:DR: Go play Morrowind.

I had an idea a few years ago on how to play Skyrim in a way to make it more interesting. I simply stopped using the fast travel via the map markers and when I noticed the game wasn't exactly build for that I installed some mods that greatly expanded upon the in universe fast travel system by connecting the important places up more thoroughly via carriage and boat and added divine intervention back in. The result was actually astonishing, especially when combined with survival mechanics, vanilla or modded. I saw so much more of the game world and getting to a place felt so much more fulfilling. Sure, completing objectives takes much longer but the real objective was the adventure along the way. Also, shoutout to one my favorite mod series in Skyrim, Cities of the North. Greatly helps enhancing the feeling of being a fantasy world by changing the hold capitals up while remaining very lore friendly and fitting right in.

Morrowing is god tier shit. One of the best gaming experiences in my life. Its a way of life

The only thing i needed more in Morrowind is more safehouses. Fixed it with some stealth killing but still, i need to satisfy my inner "mr richman estates". Also, fuck Cliffracers and Brotherhood jumpscare after rest. Love the game!

Morrowind is perfect in its dated jankiness. Still play it 100% vanilla all these years later!

Hey man just watch your video, an loved every minute, it was informative, funny, educational, just an all round good watch, keep up the good work will be subbing an following your work. GG

Morrowind makes boys to men.

On the other hand, MW has a very old, and very limited engine. If you play MW extensions like Tamriel Reborn, you will realize that no mater how creative the mod developers are, they are constrained by the venerable engine. All quests are basically: bring, deliver, defeat, escort.

I was a teen when i first played Morrowind at a friends house and I loved it. I would go visit my friend every day just to play Morrowind at his PC. When my mom told me we would get a pc I took a train (without telling my mom) and went and bought an original copy of Morrowind with my pocket money. First thing that i did when we got the pc was to install Morrowind. If you are thinking about playing Morrowind the advice I have is read the dialogues and maybe keep and a pen an paper handy although the "newer" journal is amazing and has all the info you will ever need. Its a beautiful piece of art.

I've never seen anyone say all the things I've been thinking all these years like you did. I've always loved the combat system BECAUSE of how it ties in with roll-playing; basically it is virtual 3D D&D but with a completely original plot and world. I've played this game since I was very little and now I want to start another playthrough

Without a doubt the trend is absolutely downwards. It's insane to have watched it happen from around this time (early 2000s) until now. The "shallowfication" of games. This isn't even a problem unique to elder scrolls. Devs got their heads up their rears

Is Skyrim a shit? Yes. It is.

You know Skyrim's story is cooked when one of the most downloaded mod is to tell Delphine "Hey I'm the leader of the Blades now and I say we don't kill the dragon that has helped us w defeating Alduin" instead of bending over backwards to her demands like a low class soldier.

I'm old and played this game when it first came out. It was the first Elder Scrolls game I ever played and it blew me away. I never finished it though. I might just have to go back to it.

"Skyrim is not an RPG" THANK YOU! If Morrowind is going into the wilderness, Skyrim is visiting a park. Morrowind is an RPG. Skyrim is a power fantasy.

Your summary of Morrowind five minutes in is pretty good.

15:00 so many examples of how NPCs have depth in morrowind. Racist pubs, slave freedom fighters, spies hiding in plain sight you can eventually have train you, a cult of daedra worshipers in a sewer, the last dwarf, a mad wizard who cloned himself into female sex slaves he calls his daughters, another mad wizard who has a serious fetish for furries, an enslaved and perpetually bored daedra serving as a tour guide for a rock, I can go on and on xD

I feel like a lot of game series are like this where there's a divide between the old school players and people who started with the modern games butting heads over which game is better. Like monster hunter has this same issue where the older players are blinded with nostalgia from the early generation games that look like doodoo and have really poor quality of life features but birthed a lot of the core mechanics and monsters while the modern games tone things down and have a ton of quality of life features but old school will say gen 5 games suck the same way old school elder scroll players say skyrim sucks

I am buying Morrowind. It is there on Steam!

I love oblivion and morrowind so much. But i truly dislike skyrim. It felt like they took all the things i love about rpgs and they gutted and removed them because they were afraid that i was too dumb to handle reading and 2nd grade maths. There was no depth and it was all dumbing down what i already cared about and took away all my stuff.

Great vid!

Morrowind was my first elder scrolls. My buddy let me borrow it when Skyrim was about to drop. I’ve never officially beaten Morrowind, but I have made a handful of very high level characters. Been quite a few years since I played it. The magic is my favorite part of the game, all the wacky custom spells you could make

You are correct, sir. I still love skyrim and Oblivion, but they just dont compare.