I see a lot of people commenting about how I shouldn't spam attacks and charge them for more damage and while yes that's true if you want to deal max damage but it makes you level the skill slower as you gain skill exp on a successful strike not by how much damage you deal. As I mentioned in the video, leveling was my focus here.

wealth beyond measure outlander

Stand up... there you go. You were dreaming. What's your name? Well, not even last night's storm could wake you. I heard them say we've reached Morrowind, I'm sure they'll let us go. Quiet, here comes the guard...

Maybe it was just because it was unique at the time, but I recall Morrowind having a really immersive atmosphere that I have not felt in so many other games since.

No quest markers, no level scaling, no generic fantasy setting, house politics and intrigue. Really a shame that Bethesda abandoned these strong points.

Dropping an impressions video for a game that came out in 2002 is exactly why this is one of my favourite channels

I'll never forget that mage falling out of the sky and then using his scroll to leap across the map and dying repeatedly. The poor OG Xbox struggled when doing that.

That Cliff Racer fight at 0:58 is the authentic Morrowind experience 😂 I've always liked the levitate spell/potion in that game though. It's very fun to feel like you're breaking a lot of the quests. I remember there was an assassin's guild quest where you were supposed to fight/sneak your way to a target on their roof, but you could just pop levitate potion and skip the whole dungeon to get to him.

Greatest game of all time for me, it was such a massive part of my early teen years. I'd never experienced that kind of freedom before in a game and it's still such an incredible experience even 20 years later. I've sunk over 1000 hours into this game over the years, it's endlessly replayable.

Still the best TES game and one of the best games of all time. The world building is still unparalleled, every single thing in the world has a lore reason for being there, it's incredible. As for the combat, think of Morrowind as having "real time" turn based combat, it's all based on stats, skills and dice rolls, the view just happens to be first person and it's presented in real time.

0:58 CLIFF RACERS! *incomprehensible scream of rage*

Mortismal: May you wonder in wisdom. Morrowind: N'wah.

I clicked so fast lol Morrowind is one of my all time favorite games and IMO the best TES game. Been playing it for almost 20 years now.

This is my favorite rpg ever. This is what started it all.

As someone who was an adult when it came out, I would recommend you touch on how unique the world space was. When this came out we had never seen anything like this. The other worldly landscapes and wildly imaginative setting was simply jaw dropping. I was completely mesmerized by this game! We've had some pretty imaginative games since then, but at the time, this was breathtaking.

Morrowind is a mount rushmore single player RPG for sure

The best Elder Scrolls game. I remember getting the computer to play it and then talking about it with my friends non-stop.

The Tribunal DLC is a must for a satisfying ending.

What a grand and intoxicating innocence

As someone who has played Morrowind from start to finish 5+ times over the years all I can say is enjoy the ride. My all-time favorite game.

Hey me too! Looks like we both finally beat Morrowind this year! It took me 3 proper tries, and the third one stuck. Congrats man!

You sort of echoed my thoughts (and experiences) from when I played it. I look forward to re-living it vicariously through you.

That damn cave outside Seyda Neen! I think everyone who's played Morrowwind shudders when they remember that particular noob trap!

Back in the day, actually in 2002, I remember dreaming about the world in the game. Such an experience it was.

Elder scrolls games from Arena to Skyrim, and really all modern bethesda games, fallout included, are at their core open world dungeon crawlers, except morrowind, morrowind is a true rpg and i think thats why i stands out so much from the rest and why it has a such a dedicated following even after all these years. Cant wait for the full review, you never have enough morrowind content

Congratulations on taking the next step in your KZfaqr video essayist evolution by making a Morrowind retrospective. Jokes aside, I'm looking forward to the full video. 😊

Still one of my all time faves. There's really nothing out there that comes close to giving you a similar experiences as this one IMO. A very rare examples of a game where the lore and storytelling, though constrained in how it is delivered to you, is really great and has stuck with me since I was a kid. I still have the paper map close to my desk til this very day. I do play on OpenMW these days.

Glad you are doing this! Your channel is awesome and Morrowind is a game I have played more or less every year from its release. As english isnt my first language (and me being 11 in 2002) I remember learning the word "peninsula" by looking it up in my english to swedish lexicon. Figuring out where to go when you didn't really know english that well was really hard with no quest marker! And btw, speaking to NPCs with your weapon drawn makes them like you less! :)

I literally just started another playthrough as a mage! Morrowind was my very first open world RPG back in the day, and my first CRPG, so it holds a very special place and remains my absolute favorite Bethesda game. It’s an amazing, unique experience that unfortunately never saw a true successor. Btw, the combat feels less weird when you think of it as a tabletop style RPG and not an action RPG, as all the action elements are mostly surface level.

Having tried playing Morrowind in all its variants (PC w/o mods, PC with mods, Xbox, 360, OpenMW), I think there's an air of mystery that disappears with the massively increased view distance in OpenMW and modded. The dismal fog always lurking in the distance not only adds a lot to the atmosphere but makes the world feel so much larger. I never would have guessed Oblivion's game world is significantly larger than Morrowind's before I played with increased view distance.

I wish you an amazing time with the game! I'm so excited to see your follow up video, whenever that may be.

My fondest memory of Morrowind is that when I first played it I didn't see the beginning cutscene with the narration, I just got dumped straight into the boat with Jiub. As a result, I had no idea about the prophesy and so it ended up being a crazy wild plot twist for me.

This is easily my favorite Elder Scrolls game. I will never forget my time playing this in the early 2000's. I get why newer players struggle getting into it, but I love how deep it is and it has the coolest world Elder Scrolls has had.

Omg! I have been streaming this game on twitch recently! It’s my first playthrough and i’m having such a fun time with it! I just finished the third trial (trial of wisdom) last night!! Im so excited you made this video!!!

Morrowind changed my life. My best moment in gaming is still the first time I stumbled into a dwemer rune. Hidden entrance, just wondering around, and the scale of it just blew my mind. Probably wouldn't be as impressive these days, but until that time, I'd never seen anything like it. I loved that game.

Morrowind is my favorite game of all time, I was lucky when as a child I picked the game of the year edition from walmart. Wish we got a remake of it with modern technology but thats never going to happen.

You'll have a great time exploring the world and finding all it's secrets. I remember being so drawn into the story that despite it's clunkiness it's one of the few games I've finished all the DLC on. The land of the Dunmer is fascinating and alien and I'm excited to see how you experience it!

Morrowind when it came out had tech you didn't see before. Bump mapping that made the water look really realistic if you had good enough graphic card. And i love to this day that joining and advancing in a faction requires certain stats. It gave you reason to play more than one way and it also showed what the faction missions could require of you. I really wish Bethesda would bring that back.

Awesome. Can't wait for your retrospective video bro. So cool :)

timing is impeccable, I just finished fixing up with some vanilla friendly mods to play this for the first time and your vid pops up!

Love the video can't wait to see the retrospective! This game always keeps me coming back for more! Also never have finished it lol. Will some day when I get more time

I also never finished this game despite playing for many many hours. In fact, I didn't even realize there was a main quest to finish. I just had fun with guilds, and interesting people, and all the stuff which apparently were side quests.

Congratulations on restarting it. I hope you're able to finish. I think the game was already 5 years old, when I finally got it. I completed (I think I had 1 mission left in 1 of these) the Mages Guild, House Telvanni, Tribunal Temple, as well as substantial progress in several other factions but only like a third of the main quests; then I learned a very important lesson about backing up save files to a separate HDD. I still haven't gone back but I imagine enough time has past that it won't feel like I'm having to start over. I had planned on modding the game for better melee and some survival aspects, to go with a non-magic, pro-Imperial playthrough but I never got around to it. Maybe one day but my backlog is, well, I've got a lot of games that I'll never play.

"I had 3 days free so i decided to do more work" lol my dude, love your work ethic but would have been ok to just relax if you wanted :) Thank you for the video and your thoughts as always

Can't wait for the full video!

I have been seeing more KZfaqrs play Morrowind and Daggerfall recently. I am actually old enough to have played them back in the day… but for whatever reason I didn’t. So… over the last few weeks have joined the fun… imo a lot of good fun with both games in 2024…. can see why they are loved… and still being played.

Super looking forward to the full retrospective! Morrowind is my favourite game of all time, and holds a special place in my heart

One of my favorite games ever! It blew my mind seeing this at my cousins on his Xbox back in the day.

Under sun and sky, outlander, we greet this video warmly! ☀

Thanks for the video. This is one that I'm really excited for your 100%. One of the most remarkable aspects of it is that it gave the players true freedom, to include the ability to screw up. Your actions only have meaning when they have consequences. Onward to 300k. All glory to the algorithm.

I always liked the block system. When you do actually make a block it's so satisfying.

You need to find the "Boots of Blinding Speed" outside of Caldera before you do anything. 300 points to Speed pasive as you wear them, downside they turn you blind, but you can cancel the blindness chugging a few resist magic potions. It's the reason I never played as Kajit/Argonian.

Just a note that there IS level scaling in the game, it's just not as egregious as later games. Most dungeon enemies are a set level, but a lot of wilderness mob spawners are scaled to your level and based on location.

Oh hell yeah! This game was my favorite game of all time for decades only swapping places with my second place game due to the fact that that game (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night) has aged better. Even still, I'm really looking forward to the 100% review for this one!

A stone cold classic. Having been there to watch the birth of the full 3D era, this game blew my mind at launch and I put hundreds of hours into it. Looking forward to hearing about your adventures.

Glad to see you enjoying Morrowind! It's my partner's all-time favorite game, and my favorite Elder Scrolls :D The immersion in Morrowind is really something else - I love exploring and interacting with the world.

You are planning on 100% this? Good luck... That will be impressive

I haven’t played any TES titles outside of Skyrim. Videos likes these make me want to play them, until I remember I have at least 20 - 30 titles ahead of them in my queue. I’ll definitely get to these when I’m retired. Until then, I’ll experience them vicariously through your videos.

Bought Morrowind in 2010, and took notes when playing. I found the notes a few months ago and gave the game and the notes to my son. He was hesitant to play at first, but after 5 or 6 hours of playing, he was hooked.

Just started a new play through on my steam deck. One of the GOATs

1. Morrowind, in my opinion, was confusing for some people because, as said in the video, Agility (Dexterity) applied to your to hit (THAC0) for melee weapons instead of Strenght. 2. That is why I love Pool of Radiance II: Ruins of Myth Drannor in wich a +7 two handed sword you find in the end game does not inflict much more damage than a +2 double damage club you find earlier in the game. 3. Let me explain. Elves need +7 weapons in battle. For Orcs and Orogs a piece of wood barely enchanted will do the trick since they are stronger.

Morrowind is the game I'll always come back to, I fell in love with that game the first time I played it on my brother's OG Xbox. What amazes me is that every single time I play there's always something I've yet to discover. Last time I discovered there was a whole little questline related to a female khajiit in Pelagiad that ends up as a romance option and player house (maybe for khajiit characters only?). The attention to detail in this game is just mindboggling, it's a world full of discoveries.

Looking foward to the next rendition of the Path of the Incarnate modlist/overhaul so much.

in morrowind you really do not need to carry about efficient level at all, as long as you manage to get some fair stream of monetary income. The reason for this is quite simple: Training is not limited by level, only by your wallet. Also finding a trainer of course, but there's a lot more than oblivion so that's not hard at all. This results in loot also never being useless as valuable pieces can be sold and any excess money has value for your training sessions.

I played this game many years ago and never finished it, I remember almost nothing of it. The things you said about awkward systems made me more interested in playing this game again. Thank you for bringing this back to me, pure nostalgia.

Awesome work! I'd love to hear your impressions on Enderal if you haven't reviewed it yet.

I got my Steam Deck back in November 2022. The very first game I played was Morrowind. It's a very nostalgic game for me, and I haven't played it since I was a kiddo. Despite its age, It runs really well on the deck and I've already put roughly 100 hours into it on multiple characters already. Fallout New Vegas Has been the other use of my deck and it runs great too! Though it does crash on occasion.

This is one of those older games I've always wanted to eventually play. Excited to get to it after DD2.

Big tip for Morrowind levelling: you can just pay trainers to level your skills with very few restrictions. It’s not only a few times per level like Oblivion or Skyrim. It’s a lot more fun (IMO) to go clear out a dungeon and use the loot to pay for x5 to 3 attributes at level up than to cast a spell hundreds of times or something.

Ulukai! The Dolotai guardians hope you do a review of Outcast at some point! The Yods would be proud!

Playing when I was a teen, I'd spend half an hour watching the sky each time I launched MW

There's such an incredible wealth of mods for Morrowind - Quest mods, companion mods that genuinely formed the base framework of Bethesda games going forward, incredible graphics mods, and the insanity that is the Tamriel Rebuilt project? Sweet lord!

It’s my 1st time playing MW and I really didn’t like it at first but I persevered and it’s really grown on me. I decided to go vanilla with openMW only and even the graphics have a certain charm

I had no idea you already tried and never finished it - would be interesting to see your 100% completion review, one of my favourite games. I don´t know what´s your stance on this, but if there are some unofficial patches (I am sure there are), use them, alongside with some graphic enhancements before playing.

I started playing a modded version of Morrowind about a month ago for the first time on my tablet. I am in the middle of a lengthy health recovery, so a lot of bed time for me. I got this and a bunch of my old playstation 2 games installed on my tablet. Running my blog site and playing games from mostly in bed has been interesting.

Here i was planning on playing morrowind myself and you uploaded a video on it

i have the majority of quest expansion mods that are finished unbroken, amounting 1500+ quests. the solution to leveling is Kirbs leveling only available on traditional Morrowind. the key strategy is to count all your quests, then use that total + location discovery, then reward exp on those amounting to 100% of required xp to reach max level., which once all quests and locations are done, you did the math right so that you reach "max" level which makes you nearly op. to ensure you have a better time, you want unnoticeable xp obtained from misc activity. this might be 10% of all xp you could earn( a bonus 40% exp to cover all quests you cant do because well you went redoran....). examples to earn 1 xp per (mods doesnt exist, make for open mw): reading any book first time, skill level up, free a slave, earn a reputation, training, buy a house, enter a guild, rank up from guild, collect an item for completionist museum (think skyrim dragonborn museum mod) Notice im saying to fix leveling, you must set exp limited to the span of your finite character progression in the game world, where exp is not infinite. where you cant sit in one place.. to 100. the reason to butcher out morrowind classic skill leveling from practicing skills (activity infinite) to objective limited progression is : Morrowind is not skyrim high tech combat moves, instead morrowinds strengths are in turn based text reading.. this also means converting the combat to modern from d&d is asking to destroy morrowinds fun in contrast to later titles.second, the most enjoyment is going to be exploring questing. the land mass mods exceed other titles. Morrowind is huge now with landmass. fallout 3 tale two wastelands comes in second place, then skyrim. skyrim mods spend more time using the same landmass. it might rise rank later when beyond skyrim launches more. for morrowind, we want openmw to integrate quest marker system tied to required items or npc in quests.(toggable).. when you have done 500 of 1500 quests... you realise that either we need markers, or every mod author needs to work on adding road signs, clearer instructions, etc on finding stuff. Secondly most of these quests need to be fixed to local and not dependent on the travel system(do all quests without leaving the region with few that lead out of region).. third, make all quests completable, even if its shorter less rewarding due to not faction. at least make sure quests don't break, (killed npc for quest, later on find out you softblocked another quests reward) so change npcs that share with another quest in main game. Congratulations, if you read all this.. in my game im not op. playing for a while with these mods is like .... travel to mars... your quest is to travel to earth to get a Piece of lint and go to titan, then go back to earth, .....when a lot of quest mods don't stay local, it makes questing scattered, excessive use of travel. for example, make the book nuchlech? you need to find for mages guild be in the same city as the quest giver....

Mortismal and Josh Strife Hayes playing Morrowind roughly around the same time is surreal and beautiful

I played Morrowind for the first time last year with a friend, also using OpenMW but we played TES3MP together and it was a great experience. Took us probably 60 hours just to beat the main campaign and we're gonna go back for the DLC sometime soon. It's definitely an older, janky game but it's worth playing through, definitely one of my favorites now.

Wow, I did not expect that 😊

So many fond memories of playing Morrowind back when it was first released. Hunching over the paper map that came in the box, trying to figure out where quest locations could be based on the description given by the NPC's, is to this day one of my fondest gaming-related memories. The addition of quest markers, excessive level scaling, and the very generic fantasy world of Oblivion was such a letdown after having spent at least 200 hours in the wonderland of Morrowind. As a side note; I notice that many people playing the game these days tend to increase the view distance a lot. I personally much prefer the mood the original limited draw distance and in-game fog helped create. Sure, after completing the game I eventually tried modding/tweaking it away, but I found that increasing the view distance too much also removed some of the mystery and made the world feel smaller

I just finished this for the first time, and the only role the game let me play was "narcoleptic errand boy and part-time sherpa". Every quest and faction had one path.

the cliff racer screech still haunts me to this day

The unspoken best part is that the main quest and side content is so well integrated. In the next two ES there is imminent end of the world stuff you are meant to stop, but it will wait endlessly for you to do completely unrelated bimbling around looking for literally anything else to do.

This game and Star wars galaxies ate up so much of my time back then... No regrets, I still play through the GOTY edition once every couple years, such a great atmosphere. Same with Oblivion.

April 25th would be the ideal day for a Mortismal Morrowind video. (My birthday)

Looking forward to your future Morrowind content. As you already hinted at, it is one of relatively few games with a genuinely fantastic world, which is also well-built on top of it. Some of my most memorable moments in gaming are of Morrowind, and most of them exist because of the world, and because of the freedom you have in this game to make things work your way and go through the world your way, without necessarily losing contact with the main plot, which is substantial and engaging. All of that has been toned down in later TES games to an annoying degree. Given the things that haven't aged well, I would pay full price for a remake featuring the same world and story.

I am very happy for you. Morrowind still to today is one of my best gaming memories.

Favourite game of all time, it always tends to pull me back in from time to time. In morrowind you really feel powerful, not just because of the level and the skills, but the story, the faction climbing, and the world building etc. Factions will be the main way you will define who you are in this world, rather than branching choices, and Morrowind actually had the balls to not allow you to join all the factions in one playthrough, and demand certain skills and levels before rising in rank.

I remember playing this game at 11 years old (got it on my bday) all the way through 12 years old and never progressing past the third or fourth story quest 😂 i was so immersed in my own little life as a character, robbing shops city to city and training until i was god like. I loved the dlc's though I did finish each of them. Three years more or less of just hangin out 😅 i wish i could get that feeling again

Not the video I wanted but its a video I needed 🎉 this is exciting to watch

I played and completed TES3 and TES4 on xbox and back then had no idea about which skills you level affecting stat choices on level up. Once I learned that I replayed them and my older eyes saw plenty more that I missed, TES3 is such a good adventure with even the fast travel being diagetic.

Recently started first playthrough using the OpenMW version with some mods like texture packs, grass, rebirth, more people, settings.cfg modifications like extended view distance, shaders, animations etc. And gotta say, it really looks amazing for 2024 man. Took some time to understand how to get it all set up but worth it. Morrowind is the greatest TES title in terms of true RPG experience indeed.

Love that video, just to dive into nostalgia. I will probably not watch your full review since I plan to play that game again, hopefully, with Skywind some day, and I don't want to be spoiled (since it's been a long time since I haven't played Morrowind).

I replayed this so many times I forget the number. In every case I had a mod running to pacify those cliff racers.

Morrowind was designed at a time when games took investment, and so longterm enjoyability meant more than first impressions. The more you play Morrowind, the more fun it becomes.

I first played Morrowind around when it first came out. I haven't played it in a long time. I do want to go back to it. I intend to go back and play OpenMW + Tamriel Rebuilt. Of course, both of those are WIPs which kind of makes me just fine holding off. Every time they update, they get a lot of new things. Given that, the more I delay till I go back to it, the better honestly. So, I'll play other things for now, and go back to it at some point.

excited for this :3

This convinced me to try it again!

Morrowind is the GOAT. Still playing today and finding little bits I haven't experienced before.