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Anyone ever played it? S'fun. What class? Also, anyone successfully made use of Morrowind's terribly mediocre stealth system?

Was the first RPG I really got into. Dated, but I am planning to play through it again as a telvanni mage. The class system was a pain, but I love the island of Morrowind, so I enjoy the game.

It was great. I'd love to play through it again but.... MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!!!

There's plenty of mods available to make the graphics at least a bit more bearable.

Agree, mod the graphics and it can look semi-modern at least. The main quest gets tedious at times eg.

Guy in Vivec (awful city to navigate) says go to the ashlands (centre-north of map, no flight path) to meet someone who sends you straight back! That happens a fair bit and there's no real fast travel so expect to kill A LOT of cliff racers while running back and forth.

I made a stealth toon it's nowhere near as fun to play as oblivion/skyrim though, lockpicking is rather stupid. No magika regen makes mage classes a tough choice, although mods will allow you to add regen if you like.

It was a great game for it's time but as with many nostalgic gaming episodes often the memory is a lot more rosey than the reality.

It does have its flaws but a good game overall. I'd love to see an anniversary edition of Morrowind similar to what they did with Halo: Combat Evolved with the option to play the game either as it was, or modernised.

 JohnnoM wrote:
It was great. I'd love to play through it again but.... MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!!!

Just get those boots that make you blind. Very interesting play through.

It's a pretty good game, the combat system works a little backwards plus too many weapon types to level up in. For example short swords, long swords and two handed swords are three seperate skills. Other than that the game is pretty fun.

This game got me into RPGs, it was amazing. Went back and tried it last year and was like holy gak how did I play sooo much of this. I've become spoiled by the nicities like fast travel without a silt strider and stuff. Although I love enchanting levitation stuff and gettting places faster that way. Also in Drens plantation walking towards balmora over to the right in the first guard tower in the right side theres a guy with a daedric diakatana. Always went and got that first and was basicly god from then on. Wether you want to kill the rest and have ebony armour pieces and stuff is up to you, it affects the future of the game but never crazy much. I kind of want to go back and download it now thinking about it now. Had several characters with 400+ play hours

Fond memories of that game. I remember when I first started my questan' and I lockpicked a weak lock and got myself into a room full of empty bottles worth like 2 gold each. However, selling all those 2 gold bottles would fetch about 50 gold, and I felt like quite the king. That feels like it was ages ago. To make it more appealing to the eyes, you really need to mod the crap out of it, which in itself isn't a bad thing, especially for an elder scrolls game these days.

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 Necroshea wrote:
Fond memories of that game. I remember when I first started my questan' and I lockpicked a weak lock and got myself into a room full of empty bottles worth like 2 gold each. However, selling all those 2 gold bottles would fetch about 50 gold, and I felt like quite the king. That feels like it was ages ago. To make it more appealing to the eyes, you really need to mod the crap out of it, which in itself isn't a bad thing, especially for an elder scrolls game these days.

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Oh cliff racers, How I hated you visciously then and I still do now. I liked playing the main quest to the point where you become immune to corpus, blight, and disease asap so you dont have to worry about it

I remember when I got arrested for accidentally stealing a bucket.

First RPG I ever played. Such a quirky, awesome, fun, weird, and broken game. While I haven't played TES I or II, I recommend to anyone who's played IV and or V to play Morrowind. Especially with the Dragonborn expansion out (still waiting for it on PC), the references back to Morrowind would be lost on players who haven't played Morrowind.

Still one of my favourite games, and a classic that's hard to beat.

 Blacksails wrote:
First RPG I ever played. Such a quirky, awesome, fun, weird, and broken game. While I haven't played TES I or II, I recommend to anyone who's played IV and or V to play Morrowind. Especially with the Dragonborn expansion out (still waiting for it on PC), the references back to Morrowind would be lost on players who haven't played Morrowind.

Still one of my favourite games, and a classic that's hard to beat.

I tried to play the game after I had played Oblivion.


I couldnt do it, I hated so much about it. It could have been a good game at the time but right now I just feel like any other game does everything it does and does it better. its the only game to date I could not bring myself to finish or even make it 1/4 of the way in.

Again, I dont actually think its a bad game, I just feel it aged poorly as hell. (I played on the xbox so mods couldnt help me)

Shame I missed it when it first came out

I would have a hard time going back to Morrowind after playing anything post-Oblivion, but it was a great game for its time. Need to love exploring with minimal guidance.

 Galdos wrote:

 Blacksails wrote:
First RPG I ever played. Such a quirky, awesome, fun, weird, and broken game. While I haven't played TES I or II, I recommend to anyone who's played IV and or V to play Morrowind. Especially with the Dragonborn expansion out (still waiting for it on PC), the references back to Morrowind would be lost on players who haven't played Morrowind.

Still one of my favourite games, and a classic that's hard to beat.

I tried to play the game after I had played Oblivion.


I couldnt do it, I hated so much about it. It could have been a good game at the time but right now I just feel like any other game does everything it does and does it better. its the only game to date I could not bring myself to finish or even make it 1/4 of the way in.

Again, I dont actually think its a bad game, I just feel it aged poorly as hell. (I played on the xbox so mods couldnt help me)

Shame I missed it when it first came out

What was awesome about morrowind was the truly limitless experience. Some if it was broken (fortify intelligence potions to exponentially increase your alchemy to make better fortify intelligence potions until you had 24000 int and made super levitation and health potions), but it was so open and offered you no help, just a cruel world and a letter telling you to travel to Balmora. It was amazing. I didn't even play the main quest for months, as my first mission was to get a cover story, so I had to do other work. I got so involved in the various guilds and factions that I even forgot about poor old Cassius waiting for my return.

The world felt bigger, no fast travel to any point. You had to plan your route via boat, silt strider, and magic transport as well as plain old walking/exploring to get anywhere. Some of it was tedious, but it also gave the world a sense of vastness that Oblivion didn't have. The missions didn't consist of 'Go to this dungeon and kill the bandits/draugr/necromancers' like it does in Skyrim. You would fail missions in Morrowind for making certain mistakes written in your journal. Many missions had a few ways to go about completing them.

It was special back in the day, when it had excellent graphics comparatively. However, they are working on a project called Skywind, which essentially adds all the content of Morrowind into your Skyrim game.

Damn this thread, I'm going to have to download it now. Do they have a mod for manual blocking. I used to hate that playing morrowind before. if you didnt start with block as a skill you were screwed as it was such a low chance of randomly happening. I'd at high level go up to a mud crab, let it attack the hell outta me and walk away for a couple hours just to raise it as well as my non maxed inferior armours(light and heavy...nothing beat medium armour)

Its probably my favourite in the series just for how large it feels. Sure you can run across the island in a few minutes with the Boots of Blinding Speed (that is unless you get stuck in a tree), but because of its lack of things like a world map or Oblivion's fast travel system. You had to walk about the place, so that meant that you were given more of a reason to find random dungeons or naked Nords afflicted by witches.

That the game als gave you the opportunity to go out and kill the Big Bad, get the best the equiptment or go to any location from the outset was great. That you also had to have a large amount of luck and patience to survive such encounters also gives it one over more recent RPGs (sure you could go rob the Telvanni's, but are you willing to get chased out of Vivec by the entirity of the Ordinators and a few Atronachs? ^^

...Though as with all the games in the series I've found that after the initial playthrough mods are a requirement. Morrowind is a fantastic game when its fully modded, with ones such as Tamriel Rebuilt or Suran Underworld making an already huge game all the better. Its a pity though that I'm hesitant to reinstall any Bethesda games because of this reason though, as I have to sit for a few hours trawling through mods before I can get around to playing the damn things. =)

 Terentius wrote:
Anyone ever played it? S'fun. What class? Also, anyone successfully made use of Morrowind's terribly mediocre stealth system?

I used it to shoplift.


And I looted some of the best goodies from the Vivec vaults, full suit of ebony armour and heaps of cash. If you get arrested for anything after that though, they take it all away.

Oh the joys of being able to use the boots of blinding speed without being blinded. Made the game so much easier.

Turn off collisions and set player speed to 100000. Seyda Neen to World's End in two steps. XD

Get a mod to remove cliff racers or have less of them. Makes the game much more fun.

I played it on the Xbox when I was in high school, and I frigging loved every second of it. My personal favorite shenanigan was being unable to figure out how to buy a house early on, so I cleaned out a back room in a shop and started using it as a dumping ground for items. There's nothing quite like walking past oblivious shopkeepers to go access a storeroom full of goodies that was originally full of buckets and cups.

 grayshadow87 wrote:
I played it on the Xbox when I was in high school, and I frigging loved every second of it. My personal favorite shenanigan was being unable to figure out how to buy a house early on, so I cleaned out a back room in a shop and started using it as a dumping ground for items. There's nothing quite like walking past oblivious shopkeepers to go access a storeroom full of goodies that was originally full of buckets and cups.

There's a hovel in Seyda Neen that becomes vacant upon completing an early quest in a certain way, I always make it a priority upon starting a new game. I've heard that others simply prefer to pick an unguarded shopkeeper to murder and set up home!

I used to love making the boots that make you jump across the map Hulk style. Now thats my style of fast travel...just make sure you also enchant some gear that does feather 100% or you die.

 Necroshea wrote:
Fond memories of that game. I remember when I first started my questan' and I lockpicked a weak lock and got myself into a room full of empty bottles worth like 2 gold each. However, selling all those 2 gold bottles would fetch about 50 gold, and I felt like quite the king. That feels like it was ages ago. To make it more appealing to the eyes, you really need to mod the crap out of it, which in itself isn't a bad thing, especially for an elder scrolls game these days.

Also

Those cliff racers sum up my first time playing perfectly.

I played about a year ago and sunk tons and tons of time into it. It's a great game if you can stand the graphics.

Morrowind will forever be one of my favorite games ever.

The options available to each character and the open world from the start were mind blowing at the time and still charming now.

Despite the mountain of bugs and glitches present in the game IMO it still remains near perfect.

I love me some Hand To Hand and Unarmored.

 Wandre wrote:
I love me some Hand To Hand and Unarmored.

I can "deal" with them getting rid of spears. I can "deal" with them making axes and maces the same skill called blunt weapons. But I'll curse bethesda until the end days for removing HtH and Unarmed from the games.

 Necroshea wrote:

 Wandre wrote:
I love me some Hand To Hand and Unarmored.

I can "deal" with them getting rid of spears. I can "deal" with them making axes and maces the same skill called blunt weapons. But I'll curse bethesda until the end days for removing HtH and Unarmed from the games.

Yeah exactly.

I haven't played a single Elder Scrolls game since Morrowind because of that.

Weapons and armor break and need upgrading.

My body is a weapon that only gets stronger and never breaks.

^agreed, its fun to be a monk and you can look soooo much more! Also, this thread got me to redownload it onto this laptop, and I love OP for that. goodbye social life