The first time I played Morrowind I dumped the documents you're supposed to give to Caius Cosades out in the wilderness in order to make place for a nice silver bowl I found.
Being able to dump quest items and kill quest important characters really made the prophecy of the Nerevarine all important. You could fuck up like every past potential Nerevarine and become another nobody in a long line of idiots. It really makes you careful.
@@jonathanwells223 Worse yet, I killed the Ashlander warriors and sold their equipment to random merchants. Later on, I had to give that equipment to the heir to the throne, and I couldn't find it, and I was not going to go looking for it.
@@jonathanwells223 The quest items thing is kinda dumb, though. I mean, if I kill a main quest character, I get the thread-of-prophecy message, but if I dump a main quest item, I get no warning at all. Of course, you can just use console commands and get the item back but, still, a warning would have been nice.
As a kid, I was always scared of the dreugh. Going out into deep water would get my heart rate going, because I knew horrible humanoid monsters would come up from the depths.
@@DarkScay I had the same problem at first but just dew it! It's a great game, if I can convince myself to keep playing through it you can too :) If it helps I felt much safer after I got the submersible.
I had something similar happen to me as well, except it was with crysis 1. In case you don't know crysis has this mechanic where if you swim out too far a shark will spawn and kill you. This traumatized me as a kid and to this day I still get anxious whenever a game makes me swim. this also means I will NEVER play Subnautica.
@@bicheiroparadoxo4894 It's not actually that difficult. I used the map only as a general help, but could've done it without using it, once I got my bearings. Vvardenfell isn't that big and there's a lot of geographical(and otherwise) landmarks that are easy to remember. Hell, I could probably still describe the route from Maar Gan to Urshilaku Camp and I haven't fired up Morrowind in like 5+ years! But then again, I was always good at navigation and geography, go figure.
I remember playing Oblivion for the first time when I was 9, I had watched my brother make his way through the beginning of the game until the Emperors death and then he decided he'd rather go outside and play soccer so he told me I could keep playing. I was left there with Baurus who was busy explaining how the sewers ahead were my only escape to get to Weynon Priory. I didn't know what the fuck was going on with the story and everything he was telling me, I was terrified at the thought of advancing further myself, especially when Baurus said "there are rats and goblins down there", that freaked me the fuck OUT. But soon he managed to calm my nerves slightly because he's a bro and after much panic and anxiety creeping through the sewers, trying to figure out the controls, I made it out. That first moment being outside the sewers, with the pier ahead and the ayleid ruin across the lake, that was pure bliss for me at 9. I felt like I had accomplished something great by surviving the dark sewers and had now stepped into a colossal world which felt very overwhelming but unbelievably exciting too. Never had a stronger moment for me as a gamer.
That’s an awesome story man. I felt the same way playing Oblivion for the first time. I don’t like the word epic, but the experience was freakin epic. My older brother also introduced me to the game too
The Cantina: “I’m going to disappear every few months and then make a top-tier quality video.” Jokes aside I love your channel and I’ve been a fan for a long time.
You know what traumatized me from morrowind? " *You have severed the thread of prophecy. You may reload your last save or continue on in the doomed world you've created.* "
@@elvenatheart982 Yup, no one in Morrowind is marked as essential, so you can just kill anyone at any time and break the game. But also you can walk up to the mountain where Dagoth Ur is and fight him at any time too. Cool thing about Morrowind is that there are few characters that legitimately break the game when they are killed. There's usually ways around it.
I started playing Morrowind when I was 11. I had no internet access and I had never played an RPG before. I am 27 now but still deeply affected by all the trauma. And it's my favorite game ever.
I grew up and use the wiki, but I also have a graphics extender that I use to increase the view distance (though not to ridiculous proportions) so you can actually see the Dwemer ruins on a hill from within Balmora. The sun rises from behind them, it's pretty epic.
Was that first rat in the basement that got my first pc. In Balmora, I think. I'd never been more offended to die in combat. This game damaged me man. I went on to play the Dark Souls series. I blame that rat for the refusal to give in to ridiculous deaths, required to continue playing those games.
I was always babied by Skyrim, Oblivion, and other, more modern games so when I started playing Morrowind I saw all of the cool weapon types and went with the throwing stars, near Fort Moonmoth, saw a cliff racer and attempted to kill it, I had no idea that there was a chance to hit so I got angry from my stars missing and after I died I threw my controller down and uninstalled the game. After a few months I re-installed the game and did a little research on it's mechanics. I created a few characters until I found one I liked. The character I ended up sticking with was a Redguard named "Ronald McDonald", I had a blast and spent hours, days, weeks, and even months exploring Vvardenfell, Solstheim, and Mournhold. I was mesmerized by the vast amount of content the game had to offer and even to this day I have yet to uncover all of the secrets and tricks of the game left my Bethesda and the players that explored this alien, unforgiving, and wonderful world before me. Morrowind changed me and my point of view, at first I was appalled by older and less graphical focused games, Morrowind is great.
Lol when i first played i was young i picked up everything i found and never made it out of the sewers because i didnt know what over encumbered ment lmfao
"I think you're a thief because you've stolen my heart". In all my hours of Morrowind (I even have a screenshot of MW in my TH-cam profile picture), I don't recall hearing a female Bosmer say that line at any point in the game.
Its an incredibly specific and the only way to achieve it to get her opinion meter to at least 90 and also I believe you need a certain reputation amount and also to be the same race and opposite gender. I might be wrong about the race.
@@TheCantinaChannel You are indeed wrong about the race. But opposite gender is a must and disposition must be high. I believe you also need to have some extra conditions like the character not being a vendor (These get vendor-specific lines about how hard they are going to help you) or guard (These get guard-specific lines) and that might contribute a lot to the result. There ain't a lot of female bossmers in the game that you have any reason to be a friend with and quite a few of them (Like Galdebir in Mage guild of Balmora) are vendors.
I got it yesterday from the owner of my target from a Thieves Guild quest. The RNG alignment of the stars was glorious and I laughed hard. The timing was just pure gold after as I was leaving the establishment after the deed was done.
The most helpless I have ever felt in my life was when I entered a tomb in Morrowind, a ghost was attacking me and I only had a physical attack sword. Still haunts me to this day.
When I was 10 years old and played Oblivion, one day I came to this Ayleid ruin, where there was a large room with many stone coffins. The room was empty, so I thought great, I can raid in peace. I went to the last chest and when I opened it the battle music started. When I turned around, there were many zombies by the coffins. The horror I felt was indescribable.
Isn't that on the road from Balmora to Caldera? I was NOT prepared to be jumped by three dinosaur looking mouths with feet, I ended up dropping all my gear just so I could run faster. The guards were also fucking useless
I clicked this video cause I too was traumatised by Morrowind. I would die from almost every fight... yes even the mudcrabs. When I got older and heard the classic oblivion line "I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than you!" I really felt that :')
I loved Morrowind. Alchemy was so OP. After several characters, I learned that you can leave Seyda Neen and head to Balmora where the alchemist had grandmaster alchemy equipment that could be easily swiped with a telekinesis potion. Make a potion to boost your intelligence to make stronger potions to boost your intelligence and make loads of money. Chameleon was a great spell/effect to use. From Balmora I'd head to Vivec and rob the vault. Oh, and the moon prison was mind-blowing the first time I saw it and floated up to explore around. Guards in that city were no joke to low-level characters. Coming back an unstoppable tank and slaughtering everyone in town was oddly satisfying. Never have I despised an enemy more than those cursed cliff racers. First time seeing this channel, by the way. I think I'll be subscribing now.
I still remember my first encounter with vampires. So I entered this random ancestral tombs, killed a bunch of vampires and relaxed thinking that the tomb is cleansed. But then I turn around and there's this one remainig vampire sprinting on me from the darkest corner screaming with the creepiest voice you've ever heard. It has been more than ten years now, but God that was some creepy shit, I was really close to heart attack
This is oddly similar to my experience with Oblivion. I was a lonely child. The NPCs supplemented socialization, but I was real scared of the outside/dungeons. What finally pushed me was that mage's guild recommendation quest where you save some dude from a zombie cave. I saved the game and told myself that it was okay to die in the game, but it was still pretty scary.
Does anyone else sometimes think back about this, and how the world was so mysterious, like you never got to the centre of it but were only scraping a surface. The memories I have of it are so vivid. The xbox version was absolutely the way to go back in 2002.
Yes, that’s exactly how I feel about morrowind. It was so mysterious and everything felt like an adventure. No game really has came close to it. Maybe oblivion a little bit, Skyrim definitely not
This game is a timeless classic. Love the realism and unforgiving nature of this game. Games need to bring back this type of directional system for quests.
Same, I much prefer the "go this direction for a bit and turn left at the forked tree, off you go." kind of quest that just gives you a bit of info and makes you think over the modern trend of simplified routes with quest markers and constant pop ups of "pick up the artefact", "go to the exit", "deliver the artefact". As much as I like Skyrim I could never get as immersed into it as I do even to this day with Morrowind.
Every time I play this game, I get lost in the wilderness and it freaks me out, even if my character is on a high level with strong equipment. This is why I love Morrowind!
I remember my first time playing Morrowind and I got lost and had to find my way to a village. Then I got lost again. I could not find my way around that place.
This happened to me when I played oblivion. Exiting the sewers to a peaceful land, making my way to Jauffre when the music freezes, camera spins & im confronted by a tiger-faced bandit (Khajiit) demanding me to pay-up or die.
Dude I was the same as a kid. I thought about Morrowind all the time. I really loved it. I stopped the main quest at the puzzle box quest as well. I actually started playing it again a couple years ago. Still really enjoy playing it. Just beat the game for the first time just a few month ago!
It sounds like you and I had very similar experiences with first jumping into Morrowind as kids. I started playing when I was in 5th grade and I became afraid of the wilderness immediately. The landscape was incredible, though, and I kept exploring all along the coast. I guess at the time I thought the coastline was safest since if I ran into a tough enemy I could just swim out a ways and escape? I don't know, but I definitely stumbled upon a number of places that I had no business being in at that current point in the game. Like finding that one tribesman with the magical orb shield around him. Confusing and intriguing for a young mind!
I wasn't traumatized when playing skyrim and the others at the time, though I was not prepared for Daggerfall and Arena, from suddenly skeleton screams, to random audio glitches. Arena sure had some creepy design choices for the monster as well, the atmosphere were 10x better than skyrim's attempts at a dark atmosphere
i remember everytime it rained i would run under a roof and stand there waiting till it ends, i knew i could just skip a few hours, but i didn't, i wanted to experience every single minute of that game without missing something, i wanted to stand there and wait, like i live there, i watched npcs go by... that game had a big impact on me as a kid lol, the memories of morrowind are still very vivid, it is the most atmospheric game i played.
It's like two or three rooms and only four types of traps. It gets tiring super fast, and they haven't really improved in the last games. Skyrim always feels like I'm gonna jump a few bandits, loot a urn, kill a rat, disable a lever trap, kill a bandit chief, get out via an alternate entrance
I remember the first time I played Morrowind was when I was visiting family in America. I didn't speak English barely at all but all I knew was it was a game, and had cat people in it, so it was good to me lol. I just kinda went around and killed people since I couldn't understand practically anything but I had fun anyway- I bought it off steam a while back since I don't have that old disk, and I can still say that just going around and killing people is still fun
Morrowind is my favorite game, when I play Skyrim I tried modding it to get rid of fast travel, and markers so it could resemble morrowind. I also got a reputation mod, but wasn’t really that Impressed. I started adding new lore book collections, and harder combat. Once I did this, I got an oblivion type hud, as well as Character Creation Overhaul (classic classes) and Ordinator (Better perks.) once I did this, I improved the looting system, and the leveled lists by grabbing morrowloot ultimate, and rebalanced leveled lists. After this was complete, I got JK’s Skyrim (which makes the cities have a bit more to them) as well as heavy armory, which added in dozens of new weapons for elven, daedric, steel, etc. Even after doing all of this, it wasn’t as great as morrowind was. (Edit: I forgot to add in beasts of Tamriel, and Diverse dragons. these mods sorta resemble the amount of unique creatures in morrowind. Still not as good as morrowind.)
I enjoy skyUI paper style by el sopa, as well as paper style map. I got a couple of mods that improve the college of winterhold. I usually go for Noble Skyrim Architecture, Chantry College of Winterhold (overwriting noble Skyrim) and skyland dungeons, imperial forts, and Nordic ruins. Also using skyland landscapes with slightly more blended roads. Enb wise, I like Taz Visual Overhaul since it looks the most next gen, but I’d be going for Rudy ENB, with obsidian weathers.
Damn, Morrowind was my childhood. Literally, had no fucking clue what I was doing, or what was going on, but I had some fun. Even today over a decade after I've played it I can tell you where each town is on the map.....That's actually kinda weird and sad...
Given how similar your childhood experiences with this game are to mine, I fully expected you to mention the CORPRUS STALKERS. My ultimate test of courage when I was a kid was to clear out that Corprus-infested spooky house in Ald Ruhn (I think).
When I played this I was so young I didnt know what leveling up was. So after years of struggling my dad told me to level up and i had a ridiculous amount of points saved up. I felt like a god
That's not even how leveling-up in Morrowind works. You don't have "points saved up" in Morrowind if you neglect to enter the level-up screen. Your skills are ALWAYS getting better, regardless of your level. I also find it VERY hard to believe you played for so long without ever "Resting", which would automatically prompt the Level-Up screen. The only thing you would miss out from not levelling-up is the x3 modifiers for your attributes. (Which also can't be "saved up" beyond a meager x5) Fake story is fake.
@@28Pluto lol bro I swear. I'm trying to remember exactly how I ended up that way. Keep in mind I was also a kid who left the main quest line, ran off into the middle of nowhere and got killed by a cliff racer then rage quit. Maybe it was the first time I actually used a bed to rest. Idk man I know there was a point where I suddenly got better at the game lol
Morrowind. Tarhiel. The Bosmer. THAT SCREAM!!!!!! I know you all remember that elf in a blue robe falling right outside of Seyda Neen...4:13 That was when I realized this game was cray cray!!! I loved Morrowind. Thank you for sharing your memories with us!!!!!!!
I got Morrowind the same way, lookin around, huh only costs 10€. Startes the game and 3 mins later my mom heard my yell in my room: "F*** this goddamn flying b**** Dinosaur!"
I don't remember how young I was, but what Kinda-Sorta (But Not Really) 'Traumatized' me... was my first experiences of the game involving talking to Seyda Neen NPCs, learning something about a recent murder in the area, and then wandering off bravely in the dead of night only to hear an ungodly but goofy screaming-like sound but having no idea where it came from... only to then later discover the dead body of Tarhiel and automatically assuming that a Murderer/Serial-Killer just recently killed the guy right nearby me and I might be next. I felt like a detective, but one in imminent danger. But a poor one, in retrospect. Although, in fairness, the journal & scrolls didn't even seem like an indication of death because not only did I Not See him falling to his death but I also had no idea about the extensive affects of overly-buffed acrobatics in the game... right up until I used one of the scrolls, lol.
1997 people be like when they find out that they can fast travel in oblivion 15 year old: finishes morrowind 15 year old: welp let’s go play that new elder scrolls game I bought 15 year old: makes it out of tutorial Also 15 year old: *looks at map* YOU CAN FAST TRAVEL?!?!
The wilderness becomes peaceful and serene only when you max-out Enchantment skill and make yourself a suit of clothes that gives you 100% Chameleon. Add to that the Boots of Blinding Speed, and you are all set to get anywhere at all within a few minutes with no fear of attacks. I love Morrowind.
Morrowind , Baldur's Gate , Planescape Torment. Traumatised me into expecting good RPG mechanics and storylines... Sadly my expectations were immediately ruined with Oblivion just a few years later. It traumatised me so much that i can count the good RPG's since those on my fucking fingers... If i'm lucky i might add a toe or two.
By the time I got the Dwemer cube quest, I'd long since cleared out the ruin and sold the cube. The merchant no longer had it, so I just couldn't complete it. Then my XBox 360 died, and I never played Morrowind again. Who wants to go back to walking everywhere at a handicapped snail's pace?
Just wait till you go to Mournhold and meet the Bosmer that got hands rated E for everyone. I dont think I have ever been so mad in a game before as when I had to fight that little m'fer. He beat the breaks off me with his bare hands...and I HAD ARMOR AND WEAPONS HE JUST HAD HANDSSS!!
My response to that lady...😂😂😂 Elf Lady: I think your a thief, because you stole my heart.... Me: So what else you want me to steal, and how many kids you want? Giggity, allll riiight.
Duuuuude same! I hated the wild! Every time i had to leave the city i would be terrified! Until i was around 14 i grew a pair of balls and went out to kill stuff and killed that dude in Tel Fyr with full Daedric Armor by using a shit ton of sujamma and a Dadric weapon i got at the Dren plantation. I used to explore from then on out as a level 9 Dark elf in full Daedric armor and weapons making me unstoppable! With that power i conquered that damn game, by doing a bunch of side quests, and slaying Dagoth Ur! Killing the guy in Tel Fyr said my game was doomed but i worked around that ;)
My 12 year old son and I love your channel and your videos. You got the CHARISMA, man! Keep putting out Oblivion and Skyrim videos and we'll keep liking them.
I did the same thing avoiding the wilderness because I built such a crap build i couldn't hit anything. I got to like level 25 with no combat skills. I just steal stuff and pick locks to discover locations. I remember my favourite discovery was the armories in vivec which had tons of end game loot. Eventually I traveled and explored the wilderness but only with invisibility active.
I still remember the first time I saw a VHS mailed to me that was a promo for the then upcoming N64 release. The shots of GoldenEye 64 made me trip something fierce as I'd never seen a game in 3D before that. I had no idea what a GoldenEye was or who James Bond was, as I think I was only 9, maybe 10? I mention that because I can only imagine what Morrowind must've been like to you as a kid. I'd never even heard of The Elder Scrolls until Oblivion, and I was already out of high school when the 360 came out. I think my first true RPG I ever played was KOTOR (one of the best RPGs ever made, if anyone reading this hasn't played it) or Fable (also an amazing game). I loved Oblivion so much I had to try Morrowind, but OMFG, the controls and animations were so clunky, and the whole game is just putrid ugly browns and bile yellows. I returned the game when it became apparent that to pick locks I had to actually equip the lock pick and "attack" the lock. The terrible interface and inventory art was already abysmal, and that lockpick thing was the last straw. People say Morrowind had better customization and whatnot, and that may be true, but the gameplay COMPARED TO OBLIVION is utter garbage. Makes me sad, as I feel like I've missed out on a game that at the time was good. I also like when you mention people assumed since you played so much, you knew all the secrets. Lol, such a Zoomer assumption! TH-cam didn't even exist back then, and if you wanted to know stuff, you had to buy actual paper books they called "strategy guides," usually made by a company named "Prima." Well, a strategy guide could easily run you $30 or more, so usually you just had to find stuff on your own. Imagine if a new game JUST CAME OUT, but the internet went down, and all you could do was place phone calls. Not video calls, just voice. The only people to play with you are friends you've made in person, or your siblings. Try to imagine that. That's basically the world before 2006 (when the first iPhone came to market). Oh, we had internet forums, but even then you had to be rich enough to have a computer. Our family didn't even get our first computer until 1999 when I started high school, and it only had a 10GB hard drive. Blu Ray didn't exist, and neither did BluTooth. Twitter? Facebook? If they existed, they were virtually unheard of. Google? What's that? Everyone had AOL or Comcast, and Yahoo! was the king of search engines, lol. A killer PC rig had a gnarly powerful 512MB GPU or 256MB GPU, and more common ones were either 64MB or 128MB. CPUs were 1 core, no hyper-threading, and if your CPU clocked over 1GHz, man, you were ballin'. That was the era of Morrowind. Imagine that, exploring a new RPG almost completely blind, and the help that was there either cost you money, or took damn near an hour to look up - if even available.
I have the same feeling I think it's cuz morrowind just yeets you to the wilderness with no quides what so ever while oblivion gives you tutorials and the first dungeon somewhat helps you face your fears idk but the day I first played morrowind I was scared of myself (dunmer with a really scary face)
First time I played Morrowind I got so frustrated because half of my hits did not actually damage the enemy (which is perfectly normal feature of the game but it is never really explained so I basically thought the game was bugged and it was very annoying).
Morrowind instilled in me a love of stealing from rich and pretentious people and a fear of undead. The dungeons, sound effects, apocalyptic deserted landscape, and random nyxhounds creeped deep into my psyche. I still hate fighting draugur in skyrim or any undead and im 20 now and this vid made it click that its because it makes me feel like morrowind wilds did
Bruh, I had this exact same experience, but in fallout 3 I never left megaton, and I’d just hang out in there too scared to leave, can you blame me? As a 9 year old Ghouls, Supermutants and giant bugs are terrifying. Don’t even get me started on the deathclaws. It was neat seeing the BOS outcasts though, I used to think that they were these super brave guys wandering the wastes with their badass red and black armor, Robots and advanced weaponry Didn’t know anything about them because I didn’t do any quests obviously, they’d called me “local” and I thought they were calling me “loco” (crazy) Pretty funny to look back on
When I first rented the game I thought the entire game took place in Balmora. it took me like a couple weeks to a month to figure out I could leave the town. Probably because those were the days when people could rent video games circa like 2002
I'm the exact opposite, in that I hate cities (even IRL), and LOVE the wilderness. Maybe because I grew up near Chicago (and unfortunately lived there for 30 years), and that place is a shit hole. Chiraq, is what we called it. Now I live out in the country near mountains that put Skyrim's beauty to shame, and if I never have to set foot in another city ever again, it'll be too soon. I do enjoy city based games like the Deus Ex series, and the upcoming Cyber Punk game looks super dope.
Man when I played morrowind as a kid I didn't speak English yet. So I mainly just wandered around in towns picking up all the items in the crates and barrels outside, and selling them.
Just in minute 1 but the exactly same thing happened to me all the time in Skyrim with chauruses and mudcrabs till I replaced them with skeevers and Zoidbergs.
PLS PLS upload more i absolutely love your vids they are fantastic i started watching for some oblivion guides now i love it oblivion content is brill but so is the other stuff pls upload more at this point im begging
I loved NV but to me the outer worlds sucked so bad I stopped playing after the second quest on the first world. Don't think Obsidian is capable of doing TES justice tbh
The first time I played Morrowind I dumped the documents you're supposed to give to Caius Cosades out in the wilderness in order to make place for a nice silver bowl I found.
Being able to dump quest items and kill quest important characters really made the prophecy of the Nerevarine all important. You could fuck up like every past potential Nerevarine and become another nobody in a long line of idiots. It really makes you careful.
@@jonathanwells223 Worse yet, I killed the Ashlander warriors and sold their equipment to random merchants. Later on, I had to give that equipment to the heir to the throne, and I couldn't find it, and I was not going to go looking for it.
Jonathan Wells Azura: “Hmm, mayhaps I should select somebody with an intelligence stat above 10 for the next incarnate.”
Games are too easy today you should pay for you stupidity and incompetent
@@jonathanwells223
The quest items thing is kinda dumb, though.
I mean, if I kill a main quest character, I get the thread-of-prophecy message, but if I dump a main quest item, I get no warning at all.
Of course, you can just use console commands and get the item back but, still, a warning would have been nice.
How Oblivion scares me to this day:
The jumpscare dialogue interactions, especially when you don't know an NPC is coming towards you
𝕊𝕋𝕆ℙ!!! 𝕐𝕆𝕌 𝕍𝕀𝕆𝕃𝔸𝕋𝔼𝔻 𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝕃𝔸𝕎 !!!!!
You sleep rather soundly for a murderer
YOU! I'VE SEEN YOU!
Especially when it's Kalthar. I hate that guy.
Take this. It’s from a friend. Biggest jumpscare of my life
"I thought I was in for a peaceful and serene adventure"
Narrator: *Little did he know, Morrowind was one of the most brutal provinces*
Isn't Morrowind is the worst province to live in?
Nikolo Kavacio only if you’re a weak pathetic outlander.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 y'all just filthy n'wah, like this Servitor of...Meers...says.
People keep calling me an N'wah.
@@jordanrock3494 because you're a filthy n'wah, fetcher.
Shout out to the guy who falls from the sky in the starting swamp that made me feel like a 9 year old wizard
His name is Tarhiel :D
First time I saw Tarhiel I made the mistake of trying out his scrolls.
You can successfully land a jump from the scroll you just have to aim for water
David Slaughter those scrolls helped so much just quicksave and aim for water lmao
@@davidslaughter8806 use one scroll to jump, another to land
As a kid, I was always scared of the dreugh. Going out into deep water would get my heart rate going, because I knew horrible humanoid monsters would come up from the depths.
I still get a heart attack when games make me swim. Perhaps it's dreugh PTSD.
thats noting compared to subnautica i stoped to play is to much for me i cant do it lol
@@Ryan_JD Post-traumatic stress dreugh.
@@DarkScay I had the same problem at first but just dew it! It's a great game, if I can convince myself to keep playing through it you can too :)
If it helps I felt much safer after I got the submersible.
I had something similar happen to me as well, except it was with crysis 1.
In case you don't know crysis has this mechanic where if you swim out too far a shark will spawn and kill you.
This traumatized me as a kid and to this day I still get anxious whenever a game makes me swim.
this also means I will NEVER play Subnautica.
i somehow beat morrowind twice before I found out there was a world map
Wow
My game actually came with a real physical map and every location is the physical map
Is it possible to learn this power?
@@bicheiroparadoxo4894 It's not actually that difficult. I used the map only as a general help, but could've done it without using it, once I got my bearings. Vvardenfell isn't that big and there's a lot of geographical(and otherwise) landmarks that are easy to remember. Hell, I could probably still describe the route from Maar Gan to Urshilaku Camp and I haven't fired up Morrowind in like 5+ years!
But then again, I was always good at navigation and geography, go figure.
You n'wa
I remember playing Oblivion for the first time when I was 9, I had watched my brother make his way through the beginning of the game until the Emperors death and then he decided he'd rather go outside and play soccer so he told me I could keep playing. I was left there with Baurus who was busy explaining how the sewers ahead were my only escape to get to Weynon Priory. I didn't know what the fuck was going on with the story and everything he was telling me, I was terrified at the thought of advancing further myself, especially when Baurus said "there are rats and goblins down there", that freaked me the fuck OUT. But soon he managed to calm my nerves slightly because he's a bro and after much panic and anxiety creeping through the sewers, trying to figure out the controls, I made it out. That first moment being outside the sewers, with the pier ahead and the ayleid ruin across the lake, that was pure bliss for me at 9. I felt like I had accomplished something great by surviving the dark sewers and had now stepped into a colossal world which felt very overwhelming but unbelievably exciting too. Never had a stronger moment for me as a gamer.
The zombie freaked me out when I was young
@@rsullivan6738 the one chasing the rats? Yeah that guy was freaky
That’s an awesome story man. I felt the same way playing Oblivion for the first time. I don’t like the word epic, but the experience was freakin epic. My older brother also introduced me to the game too
Why did reading this feel like a decent let's play?
i relate to this so much. for me, the game that did this was Fallout 3.
The Cantina: “I’m going to disappear every few months and then make a top-tier quality video.”
Jokes aside I love your channel and I’ve been a fan for a long time.
I'm glad you enjoy them dude!
@@TheCantinaChannel Your content is really refreshing in these troubled times.
@@TheCantinaChannel quality over quantity
Me: **starts crying in acceptance**
Wilburgur: *starts sweating profusely*
You know what traumatized me from morrowind?
" *You have severed the thread of prophecy. You may reload your last save or continue on in the doomed world you've created.* "
Indeed! I somehow felt so guilty and miserable)
Sometimes you just have to murder every single person in Balmora and pile the bodies in the middle of town
@@REPVILE ah, I see you are a man of culture as well
Does tgat mean you can fook up the main quest?
@@elvenatheart982 Yup, no one in Morrowind is marked as essential, so you can just kill anyone at any time and break the game.
But also you can walk up to the mountain where Dagoth Ur is and fight him at any time too. Cool thing about Morrowind is that there are few characters that legitimately break the game when they are killed. There's usually ways around it.
Don’t think I ever clicked so fast
Same
Agreed
@Harry Stotle I think it was because the title
emaS
Don't think i've ever agreed with a comment so much
5:55
The Nereverine: *approaches an innocent orc while wearing nothing*
The orc: Put "that" away!!!!
Don't forget the "Ha Ha hA"
But where would he put it away its joined with his body (only shitholes will understand)
@@JonatasMonteIt must be tiny
I started playing Morrowind when I was 11. I had no internet access and I had never played an RPG before. I am 27 now but still deeply affected by all the trauma. And it's my favorite game ever.
theres two kinds of kids, those that can find destinations in morrowind, and those that had to grow up to eventually find it on a wiki 😭💀
Feeling attacked 😅😅
I never bothered , just picked up any quest and exterminated any shrine , and dungeon ....
i had to git gud at morrowind as an adult because sucking at it as a kid messed up my self-worth.
I grew up and use the wiki, but I also have a graphics extender that I use to increase the view distance (though not to ridiculous proportions) so you can actually see the Dwemer ruins on a hill from within Balmora. The sun rises from behind them, it's pretty epic.
As a kid tgm and coc were my best friends.
Going out and being killed by a mudcrab really set the stage for development for my character
Was that first rat in the basement that got my first pc.
In Balmora, I think.
I'd never been more offended to die in combat.
This game damaged me man.
I went on to play the Dark Souls series.
I blame that rat for the refusal to give in to ridiculous deaths, required to continue playing those games.
I literally experienced TES the exact same way, holy crap I didn't understand a thing about RPGs
I was always babied by Skyrim, Oblivion, and other, more modern games so when I started playing Morrowind I saw all of the cool weapon types and went with the throwing stars, near Fort Moonmoth, saw a cliff racer and attempted to kill it, I had no idea that there was a chance to hit so I got angry from my stars missing and after I died I threw my controller down and uninstalled the game. After a few months I re-installed the game and did a little research on it's mechanics. I created a few characters until I found one I liked. The character I ended up sticking with was a Redguard named "Ronald McDonald", I had a blast and spent hours, days, weeks, and even months exploring Vvardenfell, Solstheim, and Mournhold. I was mesmerized by the vast amount of content the game had to offer and even to this day I have yet to uncover all of the secrets and tricks of the game left my Bethesda and the players that explored this alien, unforgiving, and wonderful world before me. Morrowind changed me and my point of view, at first I was appalled by older and less graphical focused games, Morrowind is great.
I literally experienced TES the exact same way in 2018 when i was in high school.
That feel when you get stabbed by some dude and his dark elf gf
The nord has a belt of Northern Knuck-Knuck which had a massive drain fatigue effect. 😜
I was traumatized by oblivion as a kid
But CHEESE made me MOVE
CHEESE FOR EVERYONE
Wait, scratch that, no cheese for you.
Well, maybe just a bit
*Proceeds to flood your inventory with 300 cheese wheels*
Depresso Espresso HOORAY FOR CHEESE
CHEESE!
Lol when i first played i was young i picked up everything i found and never made it out of the sewers because i didnt know what over encumbered ment lmfao
@@madgodsheogorath3982 LURKER FLESH no one? Oh ok
The rats in the Oblivion still scares the hell out of me till this day. The way they slowly approach to you and suddenly jump at you is horrible asf.
I started with Oblivion. Because I didn't know quests were a thing I was only doing dungeons...DUNGEONS!
"I think you're a thief because you've stolen my heart".
In all my hours of Morrowind (I even have a screenshot of MW in my TH-cam profile picture), I don't recall hearing a female Bosmer say that line at any point in the game.
Its an incredibly specific and the only way to achieve it to get her opinion meter to at least 90 and also I believe you need a certain reputation amount and also to be the same race and opposite gender. I might be wrong about the race.
@@TheCantinaChannel You are indeed wrong about the race. But opposite gender is a must and disposition must be high.
I believe you also need to have some extra conditions like the character not being a vendor (These get vendor-specific lines about how hard they are going to help you) or guard (These get guard-specific lines) and that might contribute a lot to the result. There ain't a lot of female bossmers in the game that you have any reason to be a friend with and quite a few of them (Like Galdebir in Mage guild of Balmora) are vendors.
I got it yesterday from the owner of my target from a Thieves Guild quest. The RNG alignment of the stars was glorious and I laughed hard. The timing was just pure gold after as I was leaving the establishment after the deed was done.
The most helpless I have ever felt in my life was when I entered a tomb in Morrowind, a ghost was attacking me and I only had a physical attack sword. Still haunts me to this day.
You didn't have any silver weapons?
😂 same! And then I had to run away like a coward.
When I was 10 years old and played Oblivion, one day I came to this Ayleid ruin, where there was a large room with many stone coffins. The room was empty, so I thought great, I can raid in peace. I went to the last chest and when I opened it the battle music started. When I turned around, there were many zombies by the coffins. The horror I felt was indescribable.
9yo me almost had a heart attack when suddenly 3 kagoutis attacked me in the middle of night.
Isn't that on the road from Balmora to Caldera? I was NOT prepared to be jumped by three dinosaur looking mouths with feet, I ended up dropping all my gear just so I could run faster. The guards were also fucking useless
I clicked this video cause I too was traumatised by Morrowind. I would die from almost every fight... yes even the mudcrabs. When I got older and heard the classic oblivion line "I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than you!" I really felt that :')
It was the daedra that threatened to gently “do things” to your corpse wasn’t it?
Yes! That shit traumatised 8 year old me!
Shrine guardian in the elder scrolls legends when he is played: "the things I'll do to their corpses"
Lmao
Question: The neighbor's child is so annoying what should I do
Answer: be naked with a woman and chase that child down
Haven’t heard from you in a while. How’s it going dude!!!!
Not bad
@@TheCantinaChannel Story of my life
@@TheCantinaChannel I've heard others same the same.
I loved Morrowind. Alchemy was so OP. After several characters, I learned that you can leave Seyda Neen and head to Balmora where the alchemist had grandmaster alchemy equipment that could be easily swiped with a telekinesis potion. Make a potion to boost your intelligence to make stronger potions to boost your intelligence and make loads of money.
Chameleon was a great spell/effect to use. From Balmora I'd head to Vivec and rob the vault.
Oh, and the moon prison was mind-blowing the first time I saw it and floated up to explore around. Guards in that city were no joke to low-level characters. Coming back an unstoppable tank and slaughtering everyone in town was oddly satisfying.
Never have I despised an enemy more than those cursed cliff racers.
First time seeing this channel, by the way. I think I'll be subscribing now.
Cliffracers gave me ptsd
I remember being low level with an inventory full of loot getting ran down by cliff racers unable to rest because enemies are nearby lol
I started a new character yesterday, and got attacked by 4 cliff racers and a guar at level 3 and survived with only one health potion of my 7.
That feeling when the battle music starts and you look to the sky waiting an eternity, just to obliterate those damn things with a single swing.
I still remember my first encounter with vampires. So I entered this random ancestral tombs, killed a bunch of vampires and relaxed thinking that the tomb is cleansed. But then I turn around and there's this one remainig vampire sprinting on me from the darkest corner screaming with the creepiest voice you've ever heard. It has been more than ten years now, but God that was some creepy shit, I was really close to heart attack
2:27 TRAPPED MY SOUL! TRAPPED MY SOUL LIKE AZURA'S STAR!
This is oddly similar to my experience with Oblivion. I was a lonely child. The NPCs supplemented socialization, but I was real scared of the outside/dungeons. What finally pushed me was that mage's guild recommendation quest where you save some dude from a zombie cave. I saved the game and told myself that it was okay to die in the game, but it was still pretty scary.
Cantina: I kinda wish there was an elder scrolls just in a big city...
Todd Howard: *Furiously taking notes*
It would be nice if he cared enough about the quality of his games to look for fan sugestions...
If only.
Tribunal
Does anyone else sometimes think back about this, and how the world was so mysterious, like you never got to the centre of it but were only scraping a surface. The memories I have of it are so vivid. The xbox version was absolutely the way to go back in 2002.
Yes, that’s exactly how I feel about morrowind. It was so mysterious and everything felt like an adventure. No game really has came close to it. Maybe oblivion a little bit, Skyrim definitely not
Consoles are never the way to go especially with Bethesda games.
The close I found was playing Dark Souls without reading anything. It captured the same feeling of mystery
This game is a timeless classic. Love the realism and unforgiving nature of this game. Games need to bring back this type of directional system for quests.
Same, I much prefer the "go this direction for a bit and turn left at the forked tree, off you go." kind of quest that just gives you a bit of info and makes you think over the modern trend of simplified routes with quest markers and constant pop ups of "pick up the artefact", "go to the exit", "deliver the artefact". As much as I like Skyrim I could never get as immersed into it as I do even to this day with Morrowind.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is the closest, I think. Also Arx Fatalis and EyE Cybermancy.
No they don't. That's a thing of the past and we should leave it as it's part of these old games charm
@@blxckjxck47 so what you're saying is games shouldn't go back to being good because being good is only for old games? k
@@JarlFrank nope not what I said
The way she said “I think you’re a thief because you’ve stolen my heart...” had me dying for some reason 😂
The first time I heard that I though she caught me stealing....so I got ready to run.
I still haven’t gotten good at the game 😞😂
Play it on your smartphone. Look for open microwave on the playstore. Thank me later.
@Bill Dauterive its a pseudonym for open morrowind =open microwave. Trust me its great.
@Bill Dauterive yo i am playing the shite outof this app. It has full mod support
@Bill Dauterive I hacked morrowind so badly. I play it on a server with 64 players :)
@Bill Dauterive you can play fallout 3 or even skYrim wirh this app
Every time I play this game, I get lost in the wilderness and it freaks me out, even if my character is on a high level with strong equipment. This is why I love Morrowind!
I can't tell you how many memories I have with this game.....
“Peaceful, serene adventure..”
woah dude, don’t call my Skyrim modlist out. Lmao
You're really far from home, Clem.
Laura James *~chuckles~* I’m in danger lmao
I remember my first time playing Morrowind and I got lost and had to find my way to a village. Then I got lost again. I could not find my way around that place.
whats innopropriate about a bandit husband and bandit wife in their own personal cave
I was a about 30 years old when this game came out and it traimatized me as well LOL
This happened to me when I played oblivion. Exiting the sewers to a peaceful land, making my way to Jauffre when the music freezes, camera spins & im confronted by a tiger-faced bandit (Khajiit) demanding me to pay-up or die.
happened to me as well. got chased all the way to weynon priory needless to say i was mortified
Keep making videos, man! I really love your stuff!
Thanks dude!
Dude I was the same as a kid. I thought about Morrowind all the time. I really loved it. I stopped the main quest at the puzzle box quest as well. I actually started playing it again a couple years ago. Still really enjoy playing it. Just beat the game for the first time just a few month ago!
It sounds like you and I had very similar experiences with first jumping into Morrowind as kids. I started playing when I was in 5th grade and I became afraid of the wilderness immediately. The landscape was incredible, though, and I kept exploring all along the coast. I guess at the time I thought the coastline was safest since if I ran into a tough enemy I could just swim out a ways and escape? I don't know, but I definitely stumbled upon a number of places that I had no business being in at that current point in the game. Like finding that one tribesman with the magical orb shield around him. Confusing and intriguing for a young mind!
"It was a whole new life inside my computer."
In my case, it was my only life.
lol this game used to scare me too when i was a kid but mostly cause id always kill people and the guards scared me
I wasn't traumatized when playing skyrim and the others at the time, though I was not prepared for Daggerfall and Arena, from suddenly skeleton screams, to random audio glitches. Arena sure had some creepy design choices for the monster as well, the atmosphere were 10x better than skyrim's attempts at a dark atmosphere
You actually uploaded? Holy shit!
Ya haha
I'm glad I'm not the only one who loved this game, but was also terrified by it as a child lol
I completely feel the fear caused by the Kamas... I nearly pissed my pants every time I had to go into their egg mines for a quest 😂
Haha
0:22 Hahahaha my childhood.
Home: playing games
School: dreaming about playing games
Your childhood Cantina, was my childhood. I used to dream about Twisted Metal all the time in junior high on the walk home.
I didn't even finish watching and subbed cause not enough people talk about morrowind. Respect m8
Navigating around morrowind at 9 years old is genuinely terrifying
Honestly one of my favorite youtubers
i remember everytime it rained i would run under a roof and stand there waiting till it ends, i knew i could just skip a few hours, but i didn't, i wanted to experience every single minute of that game without missing something, i wanted to stand there and wait, like i live there, i watched npcs go by... that game had a big impact on me as a kid lol, the memories of morrowind are still very vivid, it is the most atmospheric game i played.
i love this new style of video
Thanks man glad to hear it!
@gavin r i love your profile pic
So you walked into a room with a naked dude and naked chic, stabbed them to death, and they are the bad guys?
I also think that dungeons are the weakest part of Elder Scrolls games.
It's like two or three rooms and only four types of traps. It gets tiring super fast, and they haven't really improved in the last games. Skyrim always feels like I'm gonna jump a few bandits, loot a urn, kill a rat, disable a lever trap, kill a bandit chief, get out via an alternate entrance
I remember the first time I played Morrowind was when I was visiting family in America. I didn't speak English barely at all but all I knew was it was a game, and had cat people in it, so it was good to me lol. I just kinda went around and killed people since I couldn't understand practically anything but I had fun anyway- I bought it off steam a while back since I don't have that old disk, and I can still say that just going around and killing people is still fun
I was upset by the "slug" too, till I learned I had a powerful Bound Dagger that killed various Nix-hounds and Kwama Foragers in the begining.
A morrowind game just within a city? That's literally the expansion morrowind tribunal lol.
didn't have to scroll far, I see.
Although Tribunal's idea of dungeons is "sewers" so that's not ideal.
VERY RELATABLE. It was definitely a “game changer” for me
Best game ever this was my childhood I don’t think there is a single thing in the game I haven’t done .
Morrowind is my favorite game, when I play Skyrim I tried modding it to get rid of fast travel, and markers so it could resemble morrowind. I also got a reputation mod, but wasn’t really that Impressed. I started adding new lore book collections, and harder combat. Once I did this, I got an oblivion type hud, as well as Character Creation Overhaul (classic classes) and Ordinator (Better perks.) once I did this, I improved the looting system, and the leveled lists by grabbing morrowloot ultimate, and rebalanced leveled lists. After this was complete, I got JK’s Skyrim (which makes the cities have a bit more to them) as well as heavy armory, which added in dozens of new weapons for elven, daedric, steel, etc. Even after doing all of this, it wasn’t as great as morrowind was.
(Edit: I forgot to add in beasts of Tamriel, and Diverse dragons. these mods sorta resemble the amount of unique creatures in morrowind. Still not as good as morrowind.)
Play it on your smartphone.
Enderal Forgotten Stories will make you happier)
I enjoy skyUI paper style by el sopa, as well as paper style map. I got a couple of mods that improve the college of winterhold. I usually go for Noble Skyrim Architecture, Chantry College of Winterhold (overwriting noble Skyrim) and skyland dungeons, imperial forts, and Nordic ruins. Also using skyland landscapes with slightly more blended roads. Enb wise, I like Taz Visual Overhaul since it looks the most next gen, but I’d be going for Rudy ENB, with obsidian weathers.
@@jherrn5056 im gay tho
Damn, Morrowind was my childhood.
Literally, had no fucking clue what I was doing, or what was going on, but I had some fun. Even today over a decade after I've played it I can tell you where each town is on the map.....That's actually kinda weird and sad...
80’s kids: this game is so cool!
90’s and 00’s: this game traumatized my childhood
Given how similar your childhood experiences with this game are to mine, I fully expected you to mention the CORPRUS STALKERS. My ultimate test of courage when I was a kid was to clear out that Corprus-infested spooky house in Ald Ruhn (I think).
When I played this I was so young I didnt know what leveling up was. So after years of struggling my dad told me to level up and i had a ridiculous amount of points saved up. I felt like a god
That's not even how leveling-up in Morrowind works.
You don't have "points saved up" in Morrowind if you neglect to enter the level-up screen. Your skills are ALWAYS getting better, regardless of your level.
I also find it VERY hard to believe you played for so long without ever "Resting", which would automatically prompt the Level-Up screen.
The only thing you would miss out from not levelling-up is the x3 modifiers for your attributes. (Which also can't be "saved up" beyond a meager x5)
Fake story is fake.
@@28Pluto lol bro I swear. I'm trying to remember exactly how I ended up that way. Keep in mind I was also a kid who left the main quest line, ran off into the middle of nowhere and got killed by a cliff racer then rage quit. Maybe it was the first time I actually used a bed to rest. Idk man I know there was a point where I suddenly got better at the game lol
Morrowind.
Tarhiel. The Bosmer.
THAT SCREAM!!!!!!
I know you all remember that elf in a blue robe falling right outside of Seyda Neen...4:13
That was when I realized this game was cray cray!!!
I loved Morrowind.
Thank you for sharing your memories with us!!!!!!!
I got Morrowind the same way, lookin around, huh only costs 10€. Startes the game and 3 mins later my mom heard my yell in my room: "F*** this goddamn flying b**** Dinosaur!"
Haha
I don't remember how young I was, but what Kinda-Sorta (But Not Really) 'Traumatized' me... was my first experiences of the game involving talking to Seyda Neen NPCs, learning something about a recent murder in the area, and then wandering off bravely in the dead of night only to hear an ungodly but goofy screaming-like sound but having no idea where it came from... only to then later discover the dead body of Tarhiel and automatically assuming that a Murderer/Serial-Killer just recently killed the guy right nearby me and I might be next. I felt like a detective, but one in imminent danger. But a poor one, in retrospect. Although, in fairness, the journal & scrolls didn't even seem like an indication of death because not only did I Not See him falling to his death but I also had no idea about the extensive affects of overly-buffed acrobatics in the game... right up until I used one of the scrolls, lol.
5:14 you just described cyberpunk 🤣
1997 people be like when they find out that they can fast travel in oblivion
15 year old: finishes morrowind
15 year old: welp let’s go play that new elder scrolls game I bought
15 year old: makes it out of tutorial
Also 15 year old: *looks at map* YOU CAN FAST TRAVEL?!?!
The wilderness becomes peaceful and serene only when you max-out Enchantment skill and make yourself a suit of clothes that gives you 100% Chameleon. Add to that the Boots of Blinding Speed, and you are all set to get anywhere at all within a few minutes with no fear of attacks. I love Morrowind.
Morrowind , Baldur's Gate , Planescape Torment. Traumatised me into expecting good RPG mechanics and storylines... Sadly my expectations were immediately ruined with Oblivion just a few years later. It traumatised me so much that i can count the good RPG's since those on my fucking fingers... If i'm lucky i might add a toe or two.
By the time I got the Dwemer cube quest, I'd long since cleared out the ruin and sold the cube. The merchant no longer had it, so I just couldn't complete it. Then my XBox 360 died, and I never played Morrowind again. Who wants to go back to walking everywhere at a handicapped snail's pace?
Just wait till you go to Mournhold and meet the Bosmer that got hands rated E for everyone. I dont think I have ever been so mad in a game before as when I had to fight that little m'fer. He beat the breaks off me with his bare hands...and I HAD ARMOR AND WEAPONS HE JUST HAD HANDSSS!!
My response to that lady...😂😂😂
Elf Lady: I think your a thief, because you stole my heart....
Me: So what else you want me to steal, and how many kids you want? Giggity, allll riiight.
Duuuuude same! I hated the wild! Every time i had to leave the city i would be terrified! Until i was around 14 i grew a pair of balls and went out to kill stuff and killed that dude in Tel Fyr with full Daedric Armor by using a shit ton of sujamma and a Dadric weapon i got at the Dren plantation. I used to explore from then on out as a level 9 Dark elf in full Daedric armor and weapons making me unstoppable! With that power i conquered that damn game, by doing a bunch of side quests, and slaying Dagoth Ur! Killing the guy in Tel Fyr said my game was doomed but i worked around that ;)
My 12 year old son and I love your channel and your videos. You got the CHARISMA, man! Keep putting out Oblivion and Skyrim videos and we'll keep liking them.
I did the same thing avoiding the wilderness because I built such a crap build i couldn't hit anything. I got to like level 25 with no combat skills. I just steal stuff and pick locks to discover locations. I remember my favourite discovery was the armories in vivec which had tons of end game loot. Eventually I traveled and explored the wilderness but only with invisibility active.
I only got the game recently.
Cliff Racers are already known as
"DICKS WITH WINGS"
Quick Edit: I also NEVER find the ruin.
I still remember the first time I saw a VHS mailed to me that was a promo for the then upcoming N64 release. The shots of GoldenEye 64 made me trip something fierce as I'd never seen a game in 3D before that. I had no idea what a GoldenEye was or who James Bond was, as I think I was only 9, maybe 10? I mention that because I can only imagine what Morrowind must've been like to you as a kid. I'd never even heard of The Elder Scrolls until Oblivion, and I was already out of high school when the 360 came out. I think my first true RPG I ever played was KOTOR (one of the best RPGs ever made, if anyone reading this hasn't played it) or Fable (also an amazing game).
I loved Oblivion so much I had to try Morrowind, but OMFG, the controls and animations were so clunky, and the whole game is just putrid ugly browns and bile yellows. I returned the game when it became apparent that to pick locks I had to actually equip the lock pick and "attack" the lock. The terrible interface and inventory art was already abysmal, and that lockpick thing was the last straw. People say Morrowind had better customization and whatnot, and that may be true, but the gameplay COMPARED TO OBLIVION is utter garbage. Makes me sad, as I feel like I've missed out on a game that at the time was good.
I also like when you mention people assumed since you played so much, you knew all the secrets. Lol, such a Zoomer assumption! TH-cam didn't even exist back then, and if you wanted to know stuff, you had to buy actual paper books they called "strategy guides," usually made by a company named "Prima." Well, a strategy guide could easily run you $30 or more, so usually you just had to find stuff on your own. Imagine if a new game JUST CAME OUT, but the internet went down, and all you could do was place phone calls. Not video calls, just voice. The only people to play with you are friends you've made in person, or your siblings. Try to imagine that. That's basically the world before 2006 (when the first iPhone came to market). Oh, we had internet forums, but even then you had to be rich enough to have a computer. Our family didn't even get our first computer until 1999 when I started high school, and it only had a 10GB hard drive. Blu Ray didn't exist, and neither did BluTooth. Twitter? Facebook? If they existed, they were virtually unheard of. Google? What's that? Everyone had AOL or Comcast, and Yahoo! was the king of search engines, lol. A killer PC rig had a gnarly powerful 512MB GPU or 256MB GPU, and more common ones were either 64MB or 128MB. CPUs were 1 core, no hyper-threading, and if your CPU clocked over 1GHz, man, you were ballin'.
That was the era of Morrowind. Imagine that, exploring a new RPG almost completely blind, and the help that was there either cost you money, or took damn near an hour to look up - if even available.
I have the same feeling I think it's cuz morrowind just yeets you to the wilderness with no quides what so ever while oblivion gives you tutorials and the first dungeon somewhat helps you face your fears idk but the day I first played morrowind I was scared of myself (dunmer with a really scary face)
First time I played Morrowind I got so frustrated because half of my hits did not actually damage the enemy (which is perfectly normal feature of the game but it is never really explained so I basically thought the game was bugged and it was very annoying).
Morrowind instilled in me a love of stealing from rich and pretentious people and a fear of undead. The dungeons, sound effects, apocalyptic deserted landscape, and random nyxhounds creeped deep into my psyche. I still hate fighting draugur in skyrim or any undead and im 20 now and this vid made it click that its because it makes me feel like morrowind wilds did
2:40 Wait do you mean that NOT everyone who played morrowind stole absolutely everything from the office in seyda Nyhin? I am honestly shocked
Bruh, I had this exact same experience, but in fallout 3
I never left megaton, and I’d just hang out in there too scared to leave, can you blame me? As a 9 year old Ghouls, Supermutants and giant bugs are terrifying. Don’t even get me started on the deathclaws.
It was neat seeing the BOS outcasts though, I used to think that they were these super brave guys wandering the wastes with their badass red and black armor, Robots and advanced weaponry
Didn’t know anything about them because I didn’t do any quests obviously, they’d called me “local” and I thought they were calling me “loco” (crazy) Pretty funny to look back on
When I first rented the game I thought the entire game took place in Balmora. it took me like a couple weeks to a month to figure out I could leave the town. Probably because those were the days when people could rent video games circa like 2002
I'm the exact opposite, in that I hate cities (even IRL), and LOVE the wilderness. Maybe because I grew up near Chicago (and unfortunately lived there for 30 years), and that place is a shit hole. Chiraq, is what we called it. Now I live out in the country near mountains that put Skyrim's beauty to shame, and if I never have to set foot in another city ever again, it'll be too soon.
I do enjoy city based games like the Deus Ex series, and the upcoming Cyber Punk game looks super dope.
Man when I played morrowind as a kid I didn't speak English yet. So I mainly just wandered around in towns picking up all the items in the crates and barrels outside, and selling them.
Just in minute 1 but the exactly same thing happened to me all the time in Skyrim with chauruses and mudcrabs till I replaced them with skeevers and Zoidbergs.
6th House caves are legit the scariest thing I have experience in video games. And I played Silent Hill, Manhunt, Condemned...
If you hate Morrowind's caves, you might prefer Daggerfall. A blind LP would be a good way to get into it.
PLS PLS upload more i absolutely love your vids they are fantastic i started watching for some oblivion guides now i love it oblivion content is brill but so is the other stuff pls upload more at this point im begging
So I once cleaned my inventory and threw out the ring of hircine ...I couldn't find it and always beat myself up still when I go back
I loved NV but to me the outer worlds sucked so bad I stopped playing after the second quest on the first world. Don't think Obsidian is capable of doing TES justice tbh