Check out skywind if u haven't already. They're adding fully voiced dialogue and recreating ALL of morrowind and it's dlcs.

The writing is just that good and still holds up. The quests are simple by modern standards and gameplay is dated, but the world, lore and story are timeless.

Couldn't agree more. Always watch them, always enjoy them.

Unlike Morrowind faction quests.

much like dark souls reviews

Hell yeah! Kajheet birthsign steed acrobatics athletics hand to hand unarmored sneak Security alchemy illusion soeechcraft mercsntile Joined thieves guild, hlaalu, imperial cult. Had a love for sujamma and moon sugar. Loved it so much she used her alchemical knowledge to make her own skooma and founded a criminal empire.

and teleportation/levitation spells :/ i always loot dung with 10x weight and tp in front of merchant xd

i frickin LOVED being a literal cat burglar :)

I liked the crazy beast feet. Who cares about shoes when you get to be digitigrade?

High acrobatics, a little slowfall, long sword in hand, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon OST in the ears, flying from roof to roof... Good times.

A physical manual, imagine that.

I loved that the game came with a physical map. I had the map up on my wall and put color coded pins in it. Blue pins were boats, yellow, silt striders, purple for polyon chambers. Then I had red, orange and black pins for various locations and sticky notes all over the place. It was quite enjoyable

That's actually a neat idea. Ugh I miss late 90' early 2000's era creativity.

Wow, that's cool!

Seyda Neen “Dank Little Squat” and “Beautiful Cities of Morrowind” are both essentials.

Thanks for the information ❤

You could technically be both

Judging by the fact that azura speaks to you and you have these dreams, I feel it confirms you are nerevarine

@@DavidTheBrain_ It’s implied that the failed incarnates were similarly called to fulfill the Nerevarine prophecies but - obviously - failed, so there may not be one single person who is actually Nerevar reborn. In other words, Azura’s a daedric prince, she could be playing her own game too.

I think you can also answer that you make your own fate, which Dagoth Ur actually respects.

​@@SgtWicketright, but I guess it proves that you're more than just an imperial agent

Combined with the two intervention spells, mark/recall and the Propylon teleportation (you did know about that right?) and you're really talking.

Yeah. I usually have my Mark at Creeper. Means I can quickly drop of some loot(or stash expensive stuff at his feet), run over to the mages guild and use either Propylons(master index) or the guild network. And if I need a strider, I can quickly use my Fortify Jump/Acrobatics/Feather 100 spell to bunny hop over to Balmora😂

Yep. That's my thing about open-world games. Getting around needs to be fun. Finding the Boots of Blinding Speed and learning how to cancel out their "permanent blindness" side effect (and how you need to make an extra effort to do so if you play as a High Elf, which I usually do) was immensely satisfying, and running around super-fast by default isn't something I had the opportunity to do in a lot of other open-world games until Saints Row IV.

​@@w00tz0rzZ also boat transport.

@@dracosummoner Even without cancelling those effects those boots were great and a lot of fun to use. Which is why I will forever look down upon Argonian and Kahjit players (also because they are scalies and furries but that is a different matter)

Bethesda made exploration right with Morrowind. It evokes a need for adventure like few games do.

Bang on. Dragons Dogma 2 has terrible loot balancing, luckily there’s a mod for that (wild loot).

I think it's similar to why i prefer Elden Ring to Bethesda's modern formula. I dont like people over-using the "it doesnt hold your hand" statement, but it holds so true here. There are no map markers telling me where to go to explore and partake in activities. I cant stand the idea of an open world where the game tells me where I need to go and what I need to do. Why make it an open world at that point? Exploring is at its best when it's spontaneous and natural.. discovery should be upon the player, not forced waypoints. Makes exploration feel like a task, rather than an adventure

it also helps prevent it feel like EVERYTHING revolves around the player, Clavicus has a champion already in the world, he's already given someone his masque. Someone who isn't the player. He isn't just waiting to hand it over to the player when they find his shrine, there's a story there and you aren't a central figure in it.

​@@captainslender12to piggyback off this, im not a big fan of chosen one narratives but I think morrowind does it right. You could be the chosen one, but you don't do all the things because you are the chosen one, you are the chosen one because you did all things.

Just the environmental storytelling too. I love me a good, desert, beach, volcano, tundra, and plains, but the alien and fantastical biomes of Morrowind are constantly amazing.

And when you ask the main quest giver what you’re supposed to do next, and his answer is something like “whatever you want-come back when you’ve seen the world a bit”.

What mods would you recommend out of interest?

@@ironyage the master roshi method

@@TheBiomedZed it's been a few years, so I can't recommend specific mods, especially since I haven't played with OpenMW (and I would likely do that today), but here's what my essential mods did. Note that I don't know OpenMW, it may provide options covered by these mods, making them superfluous: (1) Change level progression so that you don't have to care about attribute multipliers any more. There have been several very good continuous-progression mods of that kind over the years. (2) Make all locations that you have already found visible on the map. (3) Change item weights somewhat so that weak characters like my magic-and-stealth centered characters don't have to return to a merchant after having picked up one daedric item or two. (4) Change money available to merchants, and make some or all merchants accept any kind of item, albeit perhaps at lower prices. Not that lower prices matter a great deal, since weight and merchant money are the primary limiting factors when making money, but it's a little nod to balance. I've also played with more comprehensive economy mods, but a simple 'have merchants have more money and accept more items' mod is already a great QoL feature that removes a great deal of annoyance. Edit: When I played MW last, Wrye Mash was still the best mod manager IMO. I don't know if that has changed. It requires you to know what you're doing, but Morrowind mod management has ever been a science of its own, and it appears that hasn't changed since 2017. There appears to be a version for OpenMW.

I was so excited when I heard they were working on Oblivion. Then I played it...😑. It's an objectively impressive game, but I thought they would be improving in the same formula. It's just way too different. Same with Skyrim.

All of the above

One of my favorite memories is stepping off the boat at seyda neen for the first time back on the original Xbox. It blew my mind seeing how good a video game could get

@@dylanevartt3219Man, Morrowind completely opened my eyes at what a video game could be. It gave me so much hope and hype for the future. Once Oblivion came out and I got to play it it contributed a lot to a sense of disillusionment with the gaming industry in my later teen years. Things were simply trending in a way that downplayed the things I had learned to love about video games and invested in and doubled down on trends that I was less enthused about... It's what it is. I will say that today there are so many great options in gaming historically and within the modern indie sphere that anyone can find something to be happy with, imo. Even if some franchises or studios with names we used to admire have fallen from our esteem. - Funny anecdote about when I first played Morrowind: It took me a couple weeks to even realize how to level up. I was very confused before I realized that you needed to rest in a bed. I think I was level 15 or 16 by the time I figured that out!

Could be worst...You could be Argonian

@@longboy5639 And wear a colovian fur hat !

@@jacobbronsky464 and use the amulet of Van Halen!

When I got a Clavicus vile's mask, I've didn't even know abut that Daedra. Morrowind just don't throw everything in your face like Skyrim does, you need to explore game to learn the lore to get into.

There's many factions who conflict with others and three main styles of combat to play. Replayability is definitely a plus.

It also make’s artifacts and enchantments and alchemy even more essential for those characters. As long as you have one or more of those things, you can absolutely still get those attributes, and by the time you can do that, its not unbalanced to do so.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, people are usually complaining about how I pronounce things lol

@@MortismalGaming Haha true! But I've noticed 90% of morrowind reviews get this one wrong :D

I don't find employees like that today lol

Same. Same.

Same, 100%

Did you watch Patrician's?

This is actually something I think Skyrim nails, a lot of the daedric quests don't see you going to a shrine you just stumble into them and then get the artifact more naturally which keeps you from chasing shrines like in Oblivion and adding more flavor than just finding it on a random guy.

I think a system to randomize or procedurally determine the locations of such artifacts would greatly improve replay value. Maybe it's a mod already. Probably.

@@Ezullof Morrowind and Planescape Torment are literally in a league of their own and nothing else even comes close. Oddworld is neat but is *vastly* smaller, simpler, and sillier than either of those. He's not overestimating it's uniqueness.

@@Ezullof Are you talking about Woodruff and the Schnizzle? That game's really awesome and out there!

Agreed. It's not just a Morrowind thing, it's that whole era of games. Graphics were high quality enough to register as "real" in our brains (unlike, say, Doom) but low quality enough to be highly stylised and atmospheric without losing that sense of reality. Modern high fidelity games leave little to the imagination and can't get too out there without looking silly. And there are still plenty of stylised games but they tend towards being overtly abstract and representational and don't really register as literal. But imo the specific technology (and expectations) of the early 2000s allowed us to have both.

I personally can't wait till skywind

​@@codyvandal2860 You've completely misunderstood his post

very good retrospective and very fair positives/negatives

Being a wizard and having the ability to summon multiple creatures by your side is another very satisfying ability that I sorely miss

I noticed he didn't mention Mark and Recall either and it kind of surprised me.

Making a ton of characters to try out new things *is* the game, bro. (That, and modding.) You were doing it correctly. You know what happens when you finish the main quest? You make a new character. You know what you do when you've made every character you can think of? You install a new mod.

Yeah wait until you have a character that you really like. The main quest and the dlc are too much of commitment if you don’t understand how to build a solid character yet. So play around with a bunch of new builds, and wait until you get a good flow for each build. Then go all the way through the main quest, and the dlc once you have that foundation.

My PC at the time couldn't even run it , never ended up playing it because of it.

W made me squeeze

Literally the top two games of all time.

Acrobatics helped me in Vivec city so much, being able to just jump off the cantons and across the gaps while taking next to zero damage really speeds things up

For me it was the night sky and the soundtrack. And the swamps and wilderness. Just wandering around picking plants and wandering in the forests and coastlines.