I love Morrowind.
It was one of those things that came into my life at just the right moment.
It is by far my favorite sandbox game.
I loved wandering around and having adventures that were a little bit script, and were at the same time very specific to my experience.
I chose to be Argonian, because come-on; giant reptile man.
I never finished this.
I got this when I was 12. was so excited
I walked into somebody’s house
I accidentally picked up their bowl
they killed me
was so sad
I remember giving Caius Cosades’ house a cellar accessed by a trap door, with some barrels and crates in it, to store my stuff. Later I installed some crazy big house mod that gave me a huge mansion. But it wasn’t as cozy. And it wasn’t really mine. I missed my cellar.
I always wanted to play this game on the original Xbox. Like, every winter I get this urge to vanish for a couple weeks and explore Bloodmoon, the part of my Morrowind experience I am still missing. I fantasize about that hulking beast of a console, feeling the weight of the unwieldy controller, staring at fuzzy CRT snow. One day.
omg yeah. got so sidetracked by side quests etc that Dagoth Ur never quite got got. never went to Solstheim either ( hi @bug )
the museum in Almalexia was good tho
Morrowind isn’t really meant to be finished as far as i can tell
the big bad is mostly there for that sense of tea-sipping, kitten-stroking dread
i do like how sleepers and other unmentionable things start showing up as you progress through the main quest to give some sense of progression even when you’re fucking around in nowheresville but that’s the most urgency the game ever tries for outside of, like, corprus
does corprus actually do anything to you again? also i guess if you wanna be a vampire or werewolf you gotta do that before you get the immunity eh
yeah but it’s also one of the most permanent ways to completely break your stats, and it’s seemingly by design which is one of my favorite anecdotes about the game’s whole design philosophy
I lucked out! I got morrowind for xbox because it came with Panzer dragoon Orta when i bought that online! I will have to bust out that old thing one of these days…
one thing to note is that there are two versions of MW on xbox. the first one is just the base game, and then there’s the GOTY edition that includes both expansions. the original has quite a few additional bugs, including the most dangerous one that continuously inflates your save file until it takes 5 or more minutes to save and load - however, you can import your base file into GOTY and it seems to mitigate the problem pretty well. you won’t really notice it until you’re dozens of hours in, but if you’ve got the GOTY edition you’re good
I think it is the GOTY edition, but I will have to double check when I am home.
If you remember, the xbox port being so good was a huge contributor to catapulting the fame of TES and the subsequent “consolification” that many PC gamers decried in Oblivion and Skyrim.
BTW I also play(ed) on PC with a minimum of mods. Better heads + better bodies is enough de-uglification for me, and that’s pretty much it. No high-res texture packs or other extraneous crap.
Yeah, Morrowind just is a foggy place.
Amazing
i am a snob and still like the morrowind overhauls a whole lot
scroll of icarian flight + unlimited draw distance is one of the most important things in vidgames
The only mod i really need is the one that lets you turn boots into leggings for beast races, so i can wear the Boots of Blinding Speed as an argonian.
non-foggy morrowind just isn’t right
it’s the game i think of when i think of wandering aimlessly in rainy foggy mushroom worlds which is a pretty perfect aesthetic
and then the cliff racers come
To be fair it’s kinda cool to be able to look anywhere on the horizon and see the Red Mountain there.
On the other hand, yes it kinda wrecks the atmosphere and makes the island feel tiny.
If I had to choose, I’d play with fog, but fogless unlimited draw distance is something that’s worth experiencing at least once.
Oh yeah also the mod that makes healthy creatures passive towards you so you’re not hounded by 20 of these jerks
i like how there’s Guar ans Tame Guar and like, Wild Guar? and only the latter are aggro but the first two have red eyes