LGR - Elder Scrolls: Morrowind - PC Game Review
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- Celebrating the 15th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls III! It's considered by many to be the best in the franchise, but how well does Morrowind (and its expansions Tribunal and Bloodmoon) hold up fifteen years later?
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Background music is from the wonderful Morrowind OST. - เกม
Thanks for making me obsolete
You're welcome.
Seriously thanks, I can die in peace now
lmao! THAT'S how much we wanted the morrowind review, there was actually a you tube channel asking for it, friggin awesome! XD
that channel art
i used to watch my cousin +GeraldThacker play this when i was a little girl
Nah, to be fair, my favorite thing in morrowind is:
>Resist arrest
"Then pay with blood"
>Goodbye
Makes me chuckle everytime
Goodbye, bedroll.
You will suffer greatly
You n'wah was the best
If you're going to defy law, you might as well do it like a gentleman.
My favorite has to be "YOU'RE BEATEN" Sounds funny as hell when the dark elves say it, like the VA intentionally said it over the top and silly.
My dad got the game without knowing anything about TES, so in his first interaction with an npc, he accidentally stole a candlestick. Said NPC then chased him for miles and miles, setting guards out too, just to kill him for "lawbreaking"
Also, this was on XBox, so the load times and menu navigation were *atrocious*
He returned the game the next day...
Overlord I mean I would only return it cause of the bad loading times. First paragraph sounds fun as hell!
@@alfonsoabraham2370 small price to pay for morrowind on an xbox, still understandable
Overlord hey if he wants to play again tell him he can get it on pc and get Openmw to make it better openmw isn’t even hard to install he will have to provide a Morrowind file to it though but you can find that on steam,
We know this is a lie, because game refunds weren't a thing yet
@@silenthill4 Hey, do you know those things called shops? Well, before steam, people would go to a shop that sold games and buy a game from that shop. If they didn't like the game they would return it and get a different one. Crazy, right?
"Tired of having BDSM dudes beat you up when you're trying to sleep?"
Never.
roffels
Glad it's not just me.
Can't blame you. You're only human.
More like "Tired of getting OP-at-earlygame armor and free money?"
I remember my first successful character to this day. I adopted the name of the first character you talked to, Jiub, and promptly got into trouble with the law. instead of fleeing, I killer my pursuer, and added to my bounty. This continued til I hit 5k bounty, at which point they stop offering to let you go to jail or pay, every guard knows your name and will attack on sight.
So began my glorious quest to kill every living person in the game. Initially it was just the one town, but on striking down an essential npc I knew I'd gone too far and could never return.
Slowly every town was emptied. To mark where someone fell I would leave their armor or clothing (assuming I didn't pocket it to add to my massive hoard of wealth or personal museum) in a pile where they died, Once I'd emptied every house in every city (with few exceptions, just one spell crafter, enchanter, and smith, I think). I realized that these towns were getting too barren, and no amount of museums or piles of jewels would change that.
So I started hoarding ash statues and building miniature cities of tiny statues, building houses out of alchemical equipment, bottles, and books. When this failed to satisfy, I went bigger, using dwarves garbage, bottles, and swords, really whatever was around, to make piles into statues, literal trash statues, garbage golems, to make the graveyards that were once cities feel habitated.
tl;Dr, youth consumes excessive amounts of marijuana regularly, steals identity of first person he meets, goes on rampage emptying entire continent of life, becomes lonely, makes people out of garbage for company
oh, and this was all on the Xbox version
how long did this take you?
Nick Jenson 3 real life years
Nick Jenson something over a year, I wonder if I still have my old save kicking around
KOTYAR0 I understand there may be a way to transfer the Xbox save to the pc. I'm looking into it now.
Alexander Krueger Epic
I'll NEVER forget finishing the intro and realizing that I could walk in ANY DIRECTION!! After shooters like Quake 2, Max Payne and Unreal I was used to having a single direction to travel. And then Morrowind - for me the original Open World Game.
Yes. GTA 3 too!!!
It took me years to understand how to play this game.
I swear to gosh that it took me a week to leave seyda neen or w/e it's called xD
Don't forget shenmue guys
To be fair, Daggerfall did the massive open world first and it remains one of the largest game maps in the history of games.
I’m playing Morrowind for the first time in 2019, I love it
Did you get it on the Bethesda sale where it was free? Because I did
Wow, that's great. Between the expansions & mods, you will embark upon a remarkable journey... enjoy! 👍😎
P.S. I liked Orc with Agility & Intelligence as prime atts, along with skill set to match.
Nice! Hopefully you enjoy it. I played my first time when the GOTY edition came out, and I still play it today, and still find new things. Definitely one of, if not the best, Elder Scrolls game.
Also, try the MGSO mod. Improves the graphics, animations, patches a ton of stuff, and adds in a bunch of little immersion details. Really helps to bring the experience a bit further into the modern age, while keeping the core experience intact.
I actually found the conversation of Morrowind extremely fast and to the point. You get to ask what you want immediately without listening to any long-winded "Hello, since the ancient blaa blaa..."
@Daishin no Dōro You know what's funny? A friend of mine said he couldn't play games without voice acting anymore. Now here's the kicker: when that mofo plays for example Skyrim, he reads the damn subtitles and clicks trough the dialogue.
My problem is that every NPC has the same pre-built response for most topics, which kind of strips any sort of individuality from them
@@Agos226 There are a lot more NPCs around than in the later games tough. Same responses on the same general topics makes sense to me, even in real life people tend to give samish answers on certain topics. There's s mod around that strives to give every NPC in Morrowind unique dialogue, which to me highlights that this approach is even more unrealistic: Every rando you come across has something interesting to say, not to mention those that suddenly tell you their whole life story, which nobody really does. And not everyone always has something interesting to contribute, which is why I'm fine with Morrowind having just some background characters which you can still ask about general topics regarding the town they're in an at least in my opinion I prefer this approach to "activate-one-sentence-NPCs".
@@rickymartin4457 I can understand that, but it kind of breaks the immersion when a Khajiit greets me in their heavy dialect, but when I ask them about "Morrowind Lore" they answer me in plain English. PS: Morrowind is my favorite TES I just feel like this aspect is lacking
@@Agos226 The Khajiit case you mentioned I fully agree with, it's where I think a mod changing those resposes for beast races would make a lot of sense.
It's mentioned in the lore somewhere, (Oblivion I think) that Juib, the other guy on the prison boat you start on, went on to wipe out all the cliff-racers. In my book that makes him a much bigger hero than the PC will ever be. Pretty sure he got sainthood for it too.
Joe McClinton Skyrim actually, (Spoiler: you can find, and speak to him in the soul cairn. Where he gives you a quest to find the lost pages of his Opus)
The most bizarre easter egg in Oblivion is Jiub's severed head in Kvatch. He was killed in his house just after the start of daedra attack, and he actually talks about it in Skyrim. There was no clues that head belongs to him before the Dawnguard, making that easter egg one of the oldest legacy easter eggs in all TES series.
May he be remembered as a true legend among men.
Joe McClinton Most well deserved sainthood in the history of man (?).
It's like a mixture between the fans' intense hatred for cliff racers and the real-world story of Saint Patrick, who purged snakes from Ireland.
we appreciate all the hard work you do to preserve gaming history clint. thank you for the amazing reviews of games.
You're quite welcome, thanks!
i love you clint
I'd like to second that. So great! And I have so many videos left to watch
h3ndrix xirdn3h oo
@@c0mmanderKeen I find his voice great to listen to when practicing and learning computer programming and game development!😁
Every village is full of people to talk to! *Stab* *Stab* *Stab* *Stab*
"I need to AXE you a question"
wolfrig2000 *Talk To*
"Hello there, sir. Looking sharp today aren't we? Anyhow, I just wanted to axe you a question. Can you point me to the nearest blacksmith? I'm a bit on edge knowing my blade isn't in good condition. Poor quality just won't cut it for me, ya know? And don't worry, I'll make sure to thrust myself patiently in line in case of other customers. Anyhow, you have a banging day now!" - A Conversation Overheard Between The Nerevarine And a Townsman, Shortly Before An Unprecedented Massacre
@@bobbygeiser8478 Knife to meet you.
lol best bit of vid
play it slow and add that ber ber ber sad music dont ask whats that like if u get it
My favorite part of this game, compared to the newer ones, is the fact difficulty varied by location, not level. This always felt "right" to me.
It definitely made exploration much more exciting when you don't know what's lurking around the corner... Then when you find out, you have to ask yourself if it's worth trying to sneak by or fight your way past for some hopefully high level loot.
Later games just didn't have that risk vs reward aspect to them which made exploration fun.
Exactly this. I get very annoyed with the new Beth games that level scale like that. Nothing quite like dying to a really powerful creature you tried to sneak/run around then come back a dozen levels later to reap your sweet revenge. The wilds are wild and dangerous for a reason. It makes more sense that the further away from civilization the more dangerous vs suddenly every bandit and his brother is in glass armor and you’re flooded in daedric gear after walking 300m from home
@Kyakou im sort of in the middle honestly. I much prefer the way fallout 4 does it. It does have level scaling, but it also has the location thing where the further away from the vault you get the more dangerous stuff is.
Skyrim wasn't like oblivion where everything leveled with you though?? Definitely had hard encounters as I went further in game
@Kyakou Don't know if that statement was in relation to Morrowind, but if you can get past enemies 10 levels higher than you in Morrowind, you definitely get awesome loot, since there was also hand placed, high end loot to find most of the time in those areas. That's what the top commenter meant with "risk vs reward" and it definitely holds true with Morrowind.
I will add tough, that Skyrim definitely had some high level enemies early on who could whack yo ass, but sadly at the same time had the bane of my existence "leveled loot". Now that I think about it, are you sure you're not talking about Skyrim in your second and third phrase?
Khronokai well, The witcher 3 does play like that.
Easy way to kill cliff racers, make a cheap 1 point levitate spell, make its range on target and have the area at 100
You will cast it, every bird in the area gets hit and crashes to Nirn, taking fall damage and usually dying.
artcrime2999 I have to try that out. Thanks!
Holy shit I never thought of that and I've been playing this game for aged :O
Bless you.
I do what I can
I just enchanted something with invisibility and never got bothered
Why walk when you can ride.
why ride when you can FLY.
We'll make a special trip just for you, same low price.
You can take the train or ride the donkey, it is the same price.
"Seen any Elves? ha-ha, ha-ha."
Blue Striped My time is precious, so make it quick.
The dark elf who wakes you might be my favorite npc ever. What a memorable moment of gaming that was
Jiub? Yeah man. You gotta love him, true bro.
Also see later lore on Jiub, he becomes a saint after exterminating every single cliff racer on Vvardenfell, with bethesda confirming that he died in Kvatch while fending off the oblivion invasion.
...and then ended up in the Soul Carin and offers one of the worst quests in Skyrim
That's _Saint_ Jiub to you. He was an extinction event for the cliff racers.
True
I remember that time when i killed and soultraped a god so I could enchant ebony tower shield with the spell that helps me to cross the Morrowind in two jumps
Oh man, that's awesome! :D
I would set up a Levitate spell, with a Soultrap attached to the same spell. So, it would give me unending levitation. Then use a 6x Speed 100 spell, to traverse the land.
To cancel the levitation, if you wanted to. All you would need to do is sleep in a bed.
The Soultrap spell was so broken in that game.
kitty space mission
Here's a way to get rich: keep the dark brotherhood armor that's on the assassins that come to kill you and sell it to the weapons and armor guy in the fighters guild. It's about 1250 gold per assassin.
Or rob that one plantation outside of Vivic with a *metric fuckton* of Ebony and glass weapons and armor. >__>
Or better yet. Create potions, and sell them. There are vendors that respawn their inventory each time you close the conversation window. You will get rich in like 10 ingame days. It kind of breaks the game for me. Other than that I love it.
Go to the fine alchemist in balmora straight from the start make sure alchemy is a minor or major jump on top of the crates near the shelf and get into the corner as high as possible then crouch til you’re hidden and you can easily steal master alchemy instruments even with 15 sneak then buy the cheapest 2 ingredients with the same type of effects as many as you can buy then turn them into potions and sell them back to the alchemist who has 3k gold per 24 hours sell till she is out of gold then rest for 24 hours rinse and repeat.
I just learn how to summon winged twilights, and then summon them, soul trap them, and kill them to fill a grand soul gem. The things sell for 60k a pop.
Kill assassin's, but sell the armor to Scamp in Kaldera. He buys it for nominal price (about 4500 for the set if I remember it right)
Vampire: the masquerade - bloodlines review!
EDIT: please.
And/or Arcanum of Steamworks & Magick Obscura! aaaah Troika
Yeah I have been recommended lots of older games. Most of the time I can't get into them but that game is amazing. Can't believe it didn't become a big franchise.
Jav253, it had quite a few technical problems when it was released. Lots of bugs and half implemented content. While I do remember many praised it as a RPG, it's hard to pay full price for a game when you know it's gonna bring you a headache with the issues it has. Even today, playing it without the community patch is quite an experience... one you don't want to have.
I actually remember Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption better because of its "storyteller" mode in multiplayer.
Dorkazoid HELL YEAH
This game was the first I played till sunrise. I rented it from a video store for the OG Xbox after hearing about it on Toonami. Once I wrapped my head around it I couldn’t put it down. I played all Friday night from maybe 8pm till 7am straight. When I realized the sun was up I was too tried to go to my bedroom and just clunked out in the game room to some Spider-Man cartoons.
This began my love of Bethesda. This may also be the most “early 2000s” story of mine.
Korean parents have a rehab/boot camp to fix you.
@@LilStoops LMAOOO
Sounds like a brilliant time
My favorite memory of this game is when a magic-user falls from the sky after the "flight" spell wore off.
I still remember the first time I encountered that guy. At first it's all "wtf just happened", then you read his journal and foolishly try it for yourself and it's the funniest thing ever. :D And it's right next to Sayda Neen so you can find him early. Every character I ever made after than wore that robe of his.
YAHOOOYEEEHEEEEHEEEEEEE!
Plus he had a pretty good starter sword too!
If you cast a levitation spell on him when he is about to reach the ground then you can save him. Although he doesnt have anything to tell or give you.
@@GasanGus I enchanted an expensive ring with "Levitate 1pt in 13 ft" constant effect so I could affect NPCs for fun and circumvent difficult geography more easily. I did rescue that dude in one playthrough. I think he ended up dying somehow anyway, or the game killed him off at some point.
Talk about bad luck.
This game got me off moon sugar
tf?? this game got me ON moon sugar
Fuck that I’ll crush 20 skooma right now!!
... and on to skooma
😂😂 @ above comments 👍
Moon sugar is the gateway drug to skooma, any n'wah knows that.
If there's one thing I want to see return it's that custom magic system. You can mod whatever you want into Oblivion or Skyrim but that just isn't the same as designing spells for absurdly specific purposes in-game.
CYBURGeris
or the uncapped ability to make them whatever level you want using the construsction set?
I want my boots of levitation damn it.
*Horse armor of levitation on the unicorn... :)
ya i remember using a floating spell and a run real fast spell to get to places fast, it was nice as hell lol
Oblivion has a spell making system.
Skyrim isn't a true Elder Scrolls game; please don't compare it to Oblivion and Morrowind.
"It doesn't matter what kind of grandiose plans I make for myself, or what kind of totally new character I generate, I always end up becoming a sneaky, murderous cleptomaniac" should be the tagline for the entire Elder Scrolls franchise! It's like GTA with magic set 500 years ago.
14:26
"What makes this smell?"
"I shouldn't have pushed so hard"
huh
Smell no evil
Bruh
RPG game confirming that women fart XD
@just a channelwho told you that
"And then, there I was. Alone. Naked."
Wizards in Morrowind feel like the most Dungeon and Dragon-esque wizards I've ever seen. Destruction spells are cool, and straight to the point, but why not blind the opponent? Why not send them levitating them thus make them helpless? Why not unlock that chest, or spring that trap with telekinesis?
Wizards in later TES games evolve to walking harbingers of destruction, which is cool in it's own right, but in Morrowind they just seem much more practical. Destruction isn't the end all be all, and is actually quite inefficient if you adhere strictly to that. You're like a D&D wizard who has spells for everything and can assess the situation, and despite how cool being a death machine it is, there's nothing like being wizard who can use magic for not only killing, but everything in between.
Telekinetically stealing things while levitating over a city was always a lot of fun...
When it comes to action RPGs, Morrowind really does have one of the most interesting D&Desque magic systems.
Oblivion still had practical and interesting spells but not in the same scope that MW had.
Skyrim is just fireball spam.... and maybe ward once in a while.
@@tatuira93 Who bothers to ward in Skyrim? I've never once used it in a combat situation. Yeah, I've heard you can completely block the strongest dragon's breath attack with the lowest-rank ward spell if you have ward absorb, but I've never really felt inclined to try it, and besides I only heard about that recently. And on top of all that, let's be honest, dragon fights suck, both for how tedious and repetitive it is, and how effortless they become, rather quickly.
I remember using various jump spells to get around. One for continuous fast bounding, and one for multi mile leaping, with a 3 second slowfall spell for when I came down. So much fun travelingbthat way. Also levitate in combat with bound bow and summoned creatures :)
If you're going by pure fantasy standards, a master wizard is probably the scariest person you could encounter. They're basically scientists with even less of moral compass. He could turn your skin into paper if he wanted to and he might if you don't help him figure out what potions could be made with nimroot
_15 Years Old!!??_ *God, I feel old*
greenbanana311
This video triggered some very ancient memories of me installing the game on my then girlfriend's PC
Next year we got married and divorced 5 years ago.
We are old
You feel old? I remember when bloody Pac-Man came out LOL
greenbanana311 Yeah it surprised me aswell. Time does fly! The music from Morrowind still gets to me now so many years later..
greenbanana311 I was a first grader going to a friend's house to play Mario Sunshine and Melee on GameCube back then! How do you think I feel?
Protip: taking damage from a fall increases acrobatics faster
I would roll a joint and get baked then id find the highest place to fall from without killing myself and literally spend an hour just breaking my legs and healing, next thing you know your jumping on top of houses lol, i would do this once or twice a day... God i love this game.
oh boy does it
yesss
go to Vivic, hug a wall on the stairs and spam spacebar
The spell creation was the thing that felt was missing when I played Skyrim. I remember playing Morrowind again and again, ignoring the main quest, just going for guilds and side quests.
Right when he said "You're about to have an eargasm" and the Morrowind theme started playing, chills ran down my entire body.
Definitely my favorite arrangement of that theme. Now I like what they did for skyrim but nothing will get my pumped as fast as the original.
I'm currently learning it on my violin. It's going to replace my pornhup fapping sessions for relief
same here man :/
Me too. Good god was the nostalgia intense. I had original box he talked about. I miss having games come with books and maps.
Yep. Still does it for me.
"Are you still with me? Good. Because you're about to have an eargasm courtesy of Jeremy Soule..."
Ah yes. The reason I consider Jeremy Soule a great composer is this game right here. Hell, even while playing Elder Scrolls Online (which I only recently got into), I hear snippets of music that came from this game. Such a great soundtrack, and by far my favorite game of the Elder Scrolls series (though admittedly ESO is quickly rising through the ranks because of the worldbuilding). :)
EDIT: Also, you attacked Caius Cosades!? Now you'll never be a Blade!... oh wait...
I think Soule is as average as game musicians get, but this theme is one of his best, even if it loans heavily from Holst's Jupiter.
Average? Have you even heard Oblivion's Soundtrack?
Yes.
You would love the morrowind expansion if you don't have it now.
Dragon Age soundtracks are better
You've Finally Arrived...But Our Records Don't Show From Where...
Great. I'm sure you'll fit right in
@@sugaryhull9688 Ahh yes, we've been expecting you. You'll have to be recorded before you're officially released. There are a few ways we can do this, and the choice is yours....
@@MegaRazorback Sounds like something you would say before putting a video on PH.
Weird. I always thought that UI was great. You have everything one one screen - your skills, inventory, spells etc. Moving and resizing windows felt really natural for someone who was used to Windows operating system (thats pretty much everyone). And you could click on little square in upper right corner to make single window persist on screen even if you quit the menu. I've used it to have larger mini map. It was sooooooo much better than Skyrim UI.
I loved not having quest markers, asking people for directions, getting lost, not having fast travel.
Best game ever.
I agree with everything you said. How sad is it now that games are no longer like this?!
Imo not the best game ever.
@@aninditapaul9291 You're probably too young to understand. Which is fine. But with that said I still wouldnt play it again after all the time I spent back in the day. Waiting for Skywind.
@@dubselectorr345 There is nothing here pointing to me being "too young to understand". It is a matter of personal opinion. I played Morrowind, and I played other games, and I liked those other games more, and I think that my favourite game is better than Morrowind. What is wrong with that?
@@aninditapaul9291 you are not allowed to have opinions on video games. I’m calling the police on you right now.
You really know how to review, I love watching your videos, remembering (and also discovering) those classic games and how they worked and how they failed to work. Thank you for the high quality of your chanel.
I appreciate it, and am glad you're enjoying!
Seconded. You make me feel nostalgic about games that I have never even played before and tech that I've never seen before in my life. :#
I guess you could say Jeremy put his Soule into the music. :)
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Just, show yourself out...
Take your jokes Elsweyr.
Morrowind is still my home , fantastic game
Friend : is morrowind good?
Me: *talks about dagot ur and the nerrevar and almalexia and that the last living dwemmer is in the game and other shit for 7 hours*
cornelius van boven did your friend end up playing?
@@Val.Kyrie. Prolly not, since cornelius here told him everything that happens in the game in 7 hours...
Omg! Yes!! Thank you Clint, sir!
*drops everything*
*drops limeware platter*
Andy Andy crikey
HaHaHa👏
what does this game have in common with ocarina of time?
travelling across the map is like this;
jumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjump....
Never did this in OoT but it annoyed me like fleas when i saw this in various vids.
I just rolled when I played that game... probably because I finished Wind Waker first so when I then returned to OOT to finish it, it became my habit for the majority of the game.
Backwalking man, fastest non-glitched form of travel!
difference being that hoping sideways actually made you go faster in OOT, whereas in morrowind all it did was level up acrobatics.
a much more efficient technique to get arround faster in morrowind is to exploit the games outdated movement physics.
you see in morrowind pressing W, A, S, or D simply adds a certain velocity to the corresponding direction, so strafing, while walking forward adds both velocities together, making you go faster than just walking forwards, it also increses your jump distance.
another good way to travel vast distances fairly quickly is to offer any rising force potion to the shrine beneath the ministry of truth, doing so casts a level 100 levitation spell which lasts an absurd ammount of time.
I just started playing this in 2021 for the first time. I'm on the first quest and I'm already overwhelmed with the content. Games nowadays hold your hand all the way to the end, but here, a text window tells you what to do where, and that's it. The rest is up to you. I love that.
"I always become a sneaky murderus kleptomaniac" 😂😂
Yeah, same here, guaranteed, no matter what my original intent for a character is. Like he said, there's just so much stuff to steal LOL
There's just so much shiny stuff just laying around, who can resist?
Hey Clint!
Nice Video, thanks for uploading and covering older and awesome games.
But:
Congratulations for 600.000 Subs!
You're awesome, keep it up!
Thank you!
Had this game since launch, finally completed the main story last year.
Alphadrop Does it actually take 14 years to complete or do you not play it often?
I'm not the original commentor but it may be a combo of factors. Not playing often, getting sidetracked with quests. Modding the game to add more stuff to do. After so long you lose track of the main quest, at least to me.
+Ashwath Toontown I recommend you play the pc version the game can run on pretty much any pc plus you can get the benefit of mods.
Might be late, but hopefully your doing well with the expa sio packs XD
I've had the game since not very long after launch and still haven't finished; There's just a lot to do, I eventually lose interest, and by the time I want to play again there's too much I don't remember about what I did and didn't do in the particular save to return to it.
What is great with Morrowind when you compare it to Oblivion, it's that every city, environment does feel different and not the same. It has that eerie feel unmatched by Elder's Scroll since.
Daggerfall was better about the eerie and creepy atmosphere, though.
@Emilia Barzini Go back to Skyrim so you can have your big titty anime girl mods then.
@Emilia Barzini Yeah right.
@Emilia Barzini Actually, you're objectively wrong because Morrowind set a historical precedence for modern open world games.
@Emilia Barzini i can't value your opinion if you think Morrowind is "garbage" lol
i've made morrowind perfect with mods! **morrowind has stopped responding** oh.
Mod it 'til it crashes
I played this game for three years, and I never completed the main quest. I never got around it. It was that HUGE!
Welcome in my world. I intend to finally finish the game properly soon-ish.
yes is huge but would recommended to you to do so. at least after all that time you owe it to it. no?
lol.. I never managed to fully explore the map! I started playing from the year it was out! Went back to this game countless times, over a number of different pcs/laptops just to finish exploration of all the hidden grottos and caves and find ALL the legendary items. However, I couldnt find the motivation to keep playing anymore! Despite all that, Morrowind will always be the BEST of elder scrolls to me :) Unless of course, the developers remake it with post Skyrim level graphics with exact number of npcs found in MW with full audio clips for all that wall of texts of information, overhauled combat system, full sized world of MW with all the goodies and secrets in it.
same here... Caius is still waiting for my report
LOL just installed it.
Ah the UI. From the early days to Skyrim Special Edition, Bethesda still seems blissfully unaware of how to make a useful UI.
Reaven Veaceslav Am I the only one who likes Morrowinds UI?
There's a lot that could have been done to improve its functionality.
Reaven Veaceslav As much as people bitch (rightfully) about the Morrowind UI, they only managed to get worse afterwards. Oblivion's UI was a total disaster on PC.
At least it's a solid base to start with, Morrowind's UI that is. All it really needs to a filtering system and search functionality.
Reaven Veaceslav at least we have skyui
I ended up being that friend that visited a friend only because they had this game. I was in middle school and he was just a grade below me in elementary school, but we were army brats living in a community of military families overseas. I would visit his apartment constantly just so that we could co-op Halo: Combat Evolved, and he showed me Morrowind one day and I was just absolutely mesmerized by it.
He and his parents were RPG fanatics, so they also had a PC which had Neverwinter Nights and a variety of other CRPGs installed. His dad also own all of the D&D 3rd Edition rulebooks that were released up to that point.
I remembered I would borrow this game constantly after I got my own Xbox for my birthday. He never really minded, though, because he stopped playing it after a while. Eventually I was able to convince my mom to buy a copy of the Xbox GOTY edition and Knights of the Old republic. That was a...busy week, for me.
Morrowind taught me English! I started learning it from the Books like the 36 Lessons of Vivec and Wolf Queen, Real Barenziah, Five Songs of King Wulfharth etc series.
That's a pretty HC way to start, ain't it?
The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) here ;-)
me too! gaming has been the best way to learn english for me
One of the most difficult games I have ever played. I never completed this as a 13 year old.
The skills system was hard as shit to master. A different skill for every weapon, and nearly impossible to hit something when you are low level. Also the journal and objectives system. No icons telling you where to go, no shitty hit markers, no x-ray vision. Just a mission in a journal entry - then you had to scroll through pages of notes to find the mission. From the era where games were truly good, didn't hold your hand, didn't have lootboxes, and didn't have to be patched within a week of release due to bugs.
I had a true feeling of helplessness the first time I played this and received that first objective. I walked outside and had no idea what to do. I was completely overwhelmed by the feeling of being lost and having no idea where I was or what to do or even how big the map was.
This game took over my life in a way modern games have never come close to.
Don't forget well designed quests, like the clues for the Imperial Cult investigation quest, the diary pages when tracking an NPC, etc. No underestimating the player via quick travel or quest markers, you needed to use common sense to figure things out. Pure immersion, open world design done right.
@Oh yeah yeah It all depends but it sure is tedious
The game is like playing a 80's adventure book and it's amazing. If you know how to set up your character right it's much easier and more enjoyable.
@A AYes it is, no one thinks you're a badass because you consider morrowind to be easy
@A A If you know what you're doing it's easy. But if you picked this game up 20 years ago you could brick yourself on character creation. And there was practically no help online when this game came out.
Dude, I can't believe how complete your collections are. I didn't know half of this existed.
I remember moving in to the Balmora house with the dead guy in it and filling the tables and floors with weapons and stuff, jewels filling all the bowls, barrels stuffed with potions and ingredients, books painstakingly stacked on the shelves, bug lamps lighting everything up and every one of those little red statue I found was locked away safely in the room with the servant.
I still have the GOTY edition box and cluebook both signed by the dev team that I got for running a chatroom for them during the Morrowind development. Those were some fun days, it was great talking to them while they were actually working on the game. =)
A major point of comparison between daggerfall and morrowind's combat is that in daggerfall each attack was a tradeoff- The accuracy was so good on stabs that even with shitty stats you could usually land a stab, while a downward smash might be inaccurate but had great damage, so naturally later on when you're landing almost every hit regardless that's what you want to do. And of course it's a lot more satisfying to have the angle of attack correlate to your mouse movement, instead of being unintuitively locked to footwork.
That opening music still gives me chills.
That opening music still gets me. Every damn time.
My teen years' soundtrack was that of Morrowind's... it is absolutely THE BEST TES game, with respects to the time each were released.
Killing Vivec and capturing his soul was my favorite. Loved collecting souls and having the soul's name in the gem.
Gotta do it aye. Heaps of sujamma haha.
Why kill King Vivec? He's good, isn't he?
GamerGirl B Finish the game and judge for yourself :3
you forgot about the Morag Tong. Who doesn't love sanctioned legal assassinations in public view? when the guards run up you show them your writ of execution and they apologize for bothering you and go about their day leaving you in peace! Morrowind was my favorite, so many good memories playing that game.
one gripe i did have about it was you could actually fuck your game up in numerous ways. Killing main story quest npc's (which i loved and hated at the same time) also i ran into a few kinks like being a vampire stuck inside an ancestral tomb because it was morning outside (massive sun damage) and i couldn't pass time because there were powerful enemies close by and i was out of potions and spell points. Which isn't bad when it's said like that but when it takes 4 to 6 hours for a day cycle to pass by, you're stuck having to leave your game on for 6 hours while you go do something else.
That still was not enough to make me dislike the game. i loved the harshness of it all. no hand holding, hunting down quest areas (before google) felt so rewarding when figured out on your own.
Save your game more and in multiple slots!
Is it wrong I find that bloody HALLARIOUS XD
I screwed myself hard in the first 20 minutes of my 70+ hour playthrough. Had finally leveled all the requisite magic skills (legitimately i might add) to finish up the house telvani quest line. Too bad i murdered fast eddie and couldnt get my stronghold. Ugh.
Yeah, morrowind did almost no hand-holding. You could easily kill off primary quest NPCs and just get a warning that was something like: "you can continue on in this doomed world, or reload from a previous save". I remembered playing this on xbox trying fortify health potions and they work but I kept dying due to fortifying instead of healing which (when the potion ended) my health went to zero, or trying to sneak up on the frost giant in bloodmoon expansion and trying to kill it one hit with some arrow of slaying thingy (5000 damage on hit) only to drop dead due to its reflect ability.
Good times. Good times
The best part of Morrowind is the ability to kill important npc or otherwise fail and live in a doomed world (and than finding ways to still avoid the doom and do your main quest.)
Unlimited freedom with quests, talk (i liked one of the guard captains armor, so talked into attacking me and that way avoided conflict with the law since he attacked me), story, alchemy, spells and enchantments.
Came across this looking for a dose of nostalgia and it felt you were narrating my experience 15 years ago. Thank you 🙏
I really love the combat. IMO it's necessary to delve into magic to really enjoy it. The magic system is so damn robust that you can really do next to anything with it.
I dont get the hate people give the combat, it's similar to KOTOR, Baulders gate, never winter nights, and so-on. Just in a 1st person setting.
Had the combat played out more like Kotor (2 actors play a cooresponding animations that represents a hit, or a miss) I think people would have been far more receptive to it.
The journal sucks, and tracking down a tiny piece of information has screwed me over for hours in-game.
BUT
To me the game represents a long journey, you get lost, you get frustrated, but you keep delving deeper into the mystery and keep finding reasons to love the experience.
I've had countless discussions with fans about which TES land you'd want to make your home in if you had the chance....
And I'm still amazed every time I hear someone choose the god forsaken land of Morrowind. Admittedly, I played Oblivion first in 2006 and then went back to play Morrowind 2007, so my perspective is slightly skewed by the jarring experience of venturing from the relatively pleasant forests of Cyrodil into the nightmarish volcanic hellscape of giant mushrooms and screaming pterodactyl creatures that is Morrowind.
And when tiny leeches aren't kicking the crap out of you, you can venture into filthy swamp lands where you'll waste countless hours searching for a magical talking crab who will buy *anything* off you for up to 10,000 gold... because it was 2007, and there were plenty of online rumors about that crab, but not a single god damned map or video to guide your way.
Last, but not least, if the blighted disease storms and bizzare wildlife doesn't kill you, then the insane religious zealots in temples, egotistical slave traders near ebony mines, and idiotic crack-heads in the shoddy slums will give you endless reasons to simply slaughter everything you stumble across and ask questions later... lest you find yourself trapped in an endless tree of *30* dialogue topics for a single generic NPC.
Call me crazy, but I'd rather live in a dangerous city in Cyrodil where hell gates might randomly appear than in the safety of the floating city of Vivec... THAT YOU CAN EASILY FALL OFF THE SIDE OF AND WASTE A GOD DAMNED HOUR SWIMMING AROUND TO TRY AND FIND A WAY TO GET BACK ONTO. Seriously, how can those guards just casually go about their business patrolling the streets above me when I'm clearly sloshing around drowning beneath them.
Yet..... somehow, some way, the land of Morrwind has a special place in my heart as somewhere I would gladly visit. Although you're never gonna convince me to live there.
oh, about those hellgates
they have opened in morrowind, too
wealth beyond measure, outlander
The problem with Oblivion is that it's world is the same generic LOTR fantasy world from almost every other fantasy game/movie ever. This makes it kind of boring besides that mad prince realm. Morrowind's world is extremely unique.
Leivthious yes Morrowind made a genious move to look like a surreal art rather than to try to be super realistic which is why the game does not look outdated even 15 years later
Leivthious well, this was a great review in its own way
One of the most satisfying RPG's ever.
RPGs*
I remember taunting the guards until they would attack me so I could legally kill them and sell their stuff over and over again.
Dude your channel is so cool. Love watching your stuff while I have down time, thanks for all the hard work you've done!!
If Bethesda ever has anyone other then Jeremy Soule composing the music for The Elder Scrolls, I'm gonna riot.
If Soule suddenly kicks the bucket, then what?
Jeremy Soule already has a stick far up his ass. Don't make it worse. He also has a kickstarter that's 3 years old that he never updates
*hears the Morrowind theme*
I’m not crying, you’re crying!
I was raised on TES games. That theme brings back so many memories of arguing with my brother over lore!
Kira K I get an emotional gut kick too. I’ve put hundreds and hundreds of hours into this game through my teens and adult years. I’ve still booted it up on Xbox now and then.
lore is so vast
Mods really do make the game perfect. There is an expansion to get the rest of Tameriel. You never have to buy another elder scrolls game. ^_^
Unless you want to play a game that’s fun.
I probably spent over 2000 hours of my life on this game. Seriously one of the best PC games ever made. The story is so well done. You can get lost in side missions for YEARS. ALSO the best part is that you HAVE TO ACTUALLY USE YOUR DAMN BRAIN AND FIGURE SHIT OUT!!. It doesn't guide you along like a child like all the new games do now days. I HATE THAT> Games are no longer challenging in that way
Have you played a FromSoft game?
@@deckulus3815 negative. Good?
@@dubselectorr345 very good. But it requires a great deal of patience. In terms of tutorial they go heres the controls now go play. In other words throwing you in deep end approach.
@@dubselectorr345 beyond good
It's safe to assume people clicked the thumbs down accidently
Thanks for the positive attitude.
They just thought that it's the "download video" button.
they are NWAHS!
I was a one of the poor bastards that only had for the Xbox back then. I still have nightmares of the loading times. If you die it basically well guess I am done for the day.
xbubbahotep What?! Awwww man. Are you serious? I was thinking about buying it for the Xbox the only computer i have is in my grandma's house (I suppose that makes it my grandmas)
Still didn't stop me from playing it for hundreds of hours
Still playing my Xbox copy on my Xbox One X today. Backwards compatibility is awesome.
@@estusflask982 how do you install mods on the xbone? og xbox is the only way anyone should play it on a console, almost every pc mod works on it.
I got to play Morrowind in xbox, also. I read in the internet that your save file size affected load times and if too big it could get corrupted. To keep it smaller, it was recommended to close every door you open and if you took one item from a dungeon take every item. I played the game like a some strange, polite, kleptomaniac with o.c.d.
I have played Morrowind religiously for 17 years now. I still get goosebumps every time the main theme plays.
I've watched multiple videos of this channel and discovered I some how missed to subscribe. Great videos tho and I am for sure subbed!
"eargasm" is too tame a word for this amazing games' soundtrack.
The goosebumps you get when you hear that theme again...
Jeremy Soule is something else!!! Love his work.
That opening theme gives me goosebumps EVERY. TIME.
Good job making 600k subs, Clint!
Thank you!
Finally 600K Congratulations...more videos like this n soon 1M
I will never forget being in high school and introducing my friend to this game. The look on her face when that wood elf mage plummeted to the sky was priceless.
8:50 lol, I remember when I figured this out. I rubber banded my Xbox controller so I would run in circles overnight. Easiest handful of levels I've ever done. I couldn't cheat jumping, so yep, I was jumping literally everywhere I went. Also, remember that first shop owner right when you enter Balmora? He is directly straight in front of you when you first enter the city, I think he sold clothes. Every game I played, I always killed this guy and looted everything he had. It was a nice little boost of gold at the beginning of the game. He didn't sell anything I wanted anyways. Ahh Morrowind, I have such fond memories of that amazing game.
P.S. FUCK YOU CLIFFRACERS!!!!!!! I'm so glad they are all dead now, and it's actually that first guy you meet in the game, the dark elf. He made it his personal mission to eliminate every last one of them from this world.
P.P.S You know that whistle sound that plays on a loop whenever your in that volcano area? That thing is almost like nails to a chalkboard to me now. And I swear I hear it everywhere, many games use that exact sound clip for some reason.
I killed him as well and claimed his shop to be my home. I'd keep all my valuables on display there.
"May you walk on warm sands."
I bought the Collector's Edition pretty much on a whim. I had seen screenshots and read preview(s), but it was still a very pleasant surprise.
It was great to use the Boots Of Blinding Speed. Luckily I was an orc and had a 25% resistance to their Blind spell. I don't remember how I eventually counter-acted the spell (probably a mix of Night Eye and Resist Magicka), but the boots stayed in my inventory for a long time. They were my horse.
AlienFourTwoSix combine with a powerful levitation spell/scroll and you've basically got fast travel, with out having to pay for Silt striders
You could actually get over the blindness really early in the game, you just had to make a Resist Magic spell and cast it on yourself before wearing the boots
Yes, Arille right there in Seyda Neen actually sells a resist magicka spell. You can then go to the mage's guild and make a stronger one that lasts only for a second or so. Enough time to put on the boots.
I personally play a Breton and wear the cuirass of the savior's hide, which combined gives me over 100% magicka resist, too :)
Breton is amazing for spellcasters. Additional mana plus protection from magicka. (High elf gives you more mana, but they actually have a lot of weaknesses)
I use drain health to attack enemies. If they reflect it - well, I'm immune :D
don't use levitation spells or scrolls.
just go to an alchemist, buy a rising force potion, travel to the vivec temple, offer a rising force potion to the shrine under the floating prison and you got yourself a level 100 levitation effect that lasts for an absurd ammount of time.
24 mins
I love how Dagoth Ur's tone pulls a 180 once he notices you know how to beat him.
"You can't kill me! I'm a god!"
"What are you doing? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? FOOL! STOP!"
On the cliff racers: Cliff racers were a serious problem to a lot of players because they'd attack you on the road where you've probably been running and using up all your stamina. Your total stamina in reserve is actually part of the to hit calculations, so cliff racers always seemed really evasive. When you fight them with a full stamina bar, it's almost a joke how much easier they are to fight.
This will be one of the first games I buy when I get a gaming PC. So glad I'll get to install mods.
You can play it on Android too
My father actually had the Collector's Edition. I still have the figure that comes with it. But as much as I tried, I never could get into the game itself, despite trying multiple times. And that was sad, because I loved Daggerfall (despite being loaded with issues) and a sequel (I didn't even expect to happen) was something I was really excited for. But several issues (particularly the combat system, "dice roll" combat in a full 3D game was quite an annoying dissonance that I found hard to tolerate) made it hard for me to enjoy it. Even though I really wanted to like it.
Well, until two years ago. I don't know quite why, but when I tried it in 2015 again, I finally managed to get into it. Even the combat stopped bothering me at some point (becoming good enough that not 80% of all my attacks miss surely helped. So did getting a great katana, that I used the entire main quest, early on, just by having security as a major skill and being a Redguard). And by now, even though I did little more than the main and some faction quests (although I probably would have done the expansion quests by now, if the Spriggans in Bloodmoon didn't piss me off so much), it's pretty much my favorite Elder Scrolls game too.
I think it all comes down to balance. Morrowind has the best balance between freedom and refinement (even if it's largely beloved because it's broken as hell) and story quality and presentation (Daggerfall had a more interesting story, but wasn't presented very well, while later games present them better, but the stories themselves are kinda crap). Also, the size of the game world is just right (apparently, a lot of the increased randomness in later games is due to worlds getting to big to place everything by hand. Also, the much-beloved, that is over-rated, quest marker-less target location searching is much more practical in smaller space).
And then, there's the music. Frankly, while I think he's good, I generally don't see what the big deal with Jeremy Soule is, however Morrowind is a big exception (and his magnum opus, in my opinion). The greatness of the music is particularly noticeable due to the way it's used. Playing the same tracks over and over and over again, with not even the slightest change depending on location and situation (with combat being the sole exception) is a good way to get fed up. Not so with Morrowind. Even after hearing them at least a hundred times (or at least what feels like it), I don't get tired of them (especially my favorite, "The Road Most Traveled").
Myro Kratios Daggerfall also had RNG combat.
Have you played Daggerfall? While it does have RNG combat, something about the implementation of it feels a lot more natural than in Morrowind. Actually, I felt Daggerfall had the most satisfying melee combat out of any TES game. That's probably due to subtleties like the visuals and sound effects, mainly, because Arena's combat is technically identical to Daggerfall's, and I hated it.
Orcsbreath I heard Daggerfall is the worst ES game. But then again, from what I seen I don't like to swing my mouse to swing my weapon.
Ashwath Toontown nah, Arena is the worst TES game. Daggerfall is just the buggiest. If you can put up with that, and arent put off by the graphics, its every bit as fun as Skyrim.
I'd agree it's the best combat. Morrowind is fine but the 2D.5 nature of Daggerfall makes it feel more natural. Taking out the RPG elements in later games make the combat even worse as it's just swing swing swing with no worries of character builds.
at last, the LGR Morrowind review! I haven't even watched it yet, but thank you!
I distinctly recall being able to write your own notes on the in-game map. Works great to keep track of things.
I first played Morrowind on the original xbox when I was a child! (I'm 21) What really drew me in was the map- I'd never seen a game with a huge poster map before, and so I instantly wanted to know more about the game. I would take out the map and just stare at it. It was one of my favorite games and it's so nostalgic. I would sit crosslegged on my dresser in front of my little chunky TV and just listen to the theme song on the opening screen. Because my xbox would take like five minutes on each loading screen, I had a lot of time to analyze the concept artwork in the game and I convinced myself that my biggest goal in the game was to get a green axe. I had absolutely no idea where to get the axe though, and being a child I could not fathom the combat system. I spent my entire time hopping from town to town and stealing from people. One day I finally managed to find that green axe and it was literally the greatest moment of my life. I found it in a town with mushroom trees and houses. But I remember all the sudden everyone hated me (it was probably one of my first times in a Telvani region of the game) and so I just assumed I stole too much stuff and everyone hated me. So I just.. quit playing the game. I really wish I would have stuck through it though because I didn't get to spend as much time with that glass axe. I recently bought it again on PC and it's been insane actually being able to KILL things and upgrade my character. It's a totally different experience and I do kind of miss the time where Morrowind was so mysterious. On the bright side, even with over 100 hours of gameplay I've still discovered less than half the map and haven't even touched the main quest! There's still a lot I haven't discovered and that's exciting.
I said "fuck yes" out loud when i saw this in my subbox.
I gasped very audibly.
for better or worse, there's NOTHING like Morrowind. It is indeed one of a kind and possibly last of a kind. Whenever i play it around friends, i get asked "wow, can you recommend it" and i always reply "yes but maybe play the newer ones first, as this one is quite demanding of a first time player". Yes, Morrowind is a demanding game early on and indeed forces you to look past a lot of things, but it is also absolutely transcendent. It is the best entry in the series, although i must say i love Oblivion and Skyrim a crazy amount too. Bethesda's RPGs are just exactly my cup of tea.
yeah that's the biggest thing i can absolutely say about it, even though i love skyrim way more, (morrowind is still top 20 fav games though) is that it's probably the most enjoyably unique game i've ever played, there's nothing in gaming i've ever loved so much that feels so different from everything else i've ever played.
I come back to this video once in awhile. Its just so good.
who came here to see the game after getting it free from bethesda
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me XD
Same
It's funny how over 15 years later the graphics are still quite good, the art style I believe is what keeps the game alive. In addition to the great soundtrack, and atmosphere!
What the heck? I think the graphics are the weakeat point of it. Also the colours. Everything is brown and grey.
It's a fantastic game but the graphics really aren't that great.
I agree. The graphics are so base. But beautiful. Not bad at all. The sky alone and lamps waving in the wind often gets missed by people
One of the better rpg's ever made! Morrowind did infect me with a desire to jump everywhere I go in video games.
I got that infection from Xenoblade X. And that game never punished you for jumping off huge cliffs, even encouraging you to do so.
I always find myself going back and looking at these old videosm
This is my all-time favorite game, nothing else even comes close. That intro music still gives me chills to this day.
In the span of this video i downloaded the game from steam, installed mods, found my old saves and accepted the fact that im gonna spend another 5 hours dicking around on vvardenfell
Sanic Da Hedhoog i gotta ask, is there anybody who doesn't install a mod to remove underwear?
500 ***
How do you lose a 10 pound black brick?
Samurai Shampoo well, some people do it for an aspect of immersion, also that underwear looked horrible even in oblivion.
if course, most did it because they are perverts who can make a naked catgirl run around
Sanic Da Hedhoog only 5?
I've been playing Morrowind for years and it will always be my favorite Elder Scrolls game and to those who've played it shall never forget the journey to the top of Red Mountain to face off with the maddened god Dagoth Ur.
I found the best way of dealing with cliff racers is to aim for the tail with an enchanted sword. Holding a shield and angling it forward to deflect swipes. Good archery skills with enchanted bow and shock arrows to take them out at a distance works too.
I keep coming back to watch this video over and over. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.