Morrowind 20 Year Anniversary

[Johnny B. Decent]

On May 1st, 2002, Bethesda released onto the PC a game that would change Western RPG's forever. You are a seemingly mundane prisoner sent to the east, to the Isle of Vvardenfell, a strange land filled with giant mushroom towers, huge bugs and lizards, lava flows, ruins of a super-advanced magitek civilization and ruled by a trio of God-Kings, and so much more.

Share your favorite moments of this game, plz.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Never actually played it, but I am looking forward to the Morrowind expansion mod for Skyrim.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Ah, you’re awake. Not even last nights storm could wake you.

[Johnny B. Decent]

May 1, 2022 14:12:36 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

Ah, you’re awake. Not even last nights storm could wake you.

Since every race only has 1 voice for male and females, all male Dunmer sound like they smoke 2 packs of cigs per day.

Which is a bit...jarring when most of them now sound like they come from Bristol in Skyrim.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Oblivion was the first Elder Scrolls I played, can’t say I have much attachment to Morrowind

[Cyno]

May 1, 2022 14:12:36 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

Ah, you’re awake. Not even last nights storm could wake you.

All glory to St. Jiub, eradicator of the cliff racer menace

[The Dark Order Inferno]

I saw the thread title and thought for one horrible moment yet another disastrous remaster was on the way, hot on the heels of Sonic and GTA.

The werewolves from the Morrowind Bloodmoon expansion were adorable.

[prettynami]

I don't know if it is a false memory... But the thing I remember the most about this game was jumping endlessly so that your jumps would become so POWER you could practically fly. I remember that being amazing.

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May 1, 2022 17:59:02 GMT -5 prettynami said:

I don't know if it is a false memory... But the thing I remember the most about this game was jumping endlessly so that your jumps would become so POWER you could practically fly. I remember that being amazing.

Acrobatics, was the same in Oblivion, just bouncing around the map endlessly.

[Hurbster]

20 years ago? Bloody hell. I remember when I got a new graphics card that could handle water shaders a year after it came out and I just stared at the water droplets making patterns on the water just off Seyda Neen for ages.

[Johnny B. Decent]

May 1, 2022 17:59:02 GMT -5 prettynami said:

I don't know if it is a false memory... But the thing I remember the most about this game was jumping endlessly so that your jumps would become so POWER you could practically fly. I remember that being amazing.

At the starting village, there was a chance to get a certain notorious item: The Scrolls of Icarian Flight, which, if used properly, could get you halfway across the map in a single bound.

[Rave]

Morrowind is home.

[Heeltown, USA]

This game. Man I was never intimidated by a video game before. Ninja Gaiden and Contra and other 8bits were brutally hard as a kid but I never lamented playing them.

Morrowind, there was just so much game going on I felt like I had no idea what I was doing. Reading the Prima strategy guide was like reading a college textbook. I literally gave up and let the disc collect dust. A roomate asked if he could check it out and thank god. He was unemployed and dumped a week straight into it and made it all make sense to me. I still remember buying him a case of beer for smarting me up to a loophole once we had leveled in alchemy enough that could let us temporarily drain an attribute to zero, train it to a 1 for free at various guilds, and repeat until we had the stat as high as we wanted. I had a high elf that I would just summon demons to fight for me while I levitated with a force field around me and threw fireballs from my hands.

Such good times. Can’t believe its been twenty years. f*** me I am getting long in the tooth

[Cyno]

Morrowind was one of those formative games for me. Which is a weird thing to say about a game that came out when I was 17, but it just shaped so much of my tastes in terms of games. I loved how open and alien the whole world was. It wasn't just your standard fantasy rpg tropes. There were giant bugs that acted as a taxi service. The biggest city had a meteorite perilously hovering over it. There was so much great world-building.

Oblivion and Skyrim never captured my imagination the way Morrowind did.

[Phosphor Glow]

someday i will actually get into this game

i've started it and bounced off at least 10 times

as someone who was a console gamer who wasn't really exposed to WRPGs until Oblivion came out (when i was 21), it's always been very impenetrable to me, even with mods to help "modernize" the experience

but i wanna like it so bad

[Hurbster]

It's combat, especially early, on is not good.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

One of my first goals was always to get the boots of blinding speed, create a 100% absorb magic spell that lasted for 1 second as soon as I could, and then hit that spell and put on the boots.

BLAM fast boots, no blindness

Joining the mages guild was a must for the teleporters

Sold so much stuff to the talking mudcrab, I'd almost always use Mark and Recall to set up a quick loop to him



I mean now that I have less free time I appreciate Skyrim's fast travel system a lot, but there was something magic about having to really figure out how to get to places. You can do that in Skyrim too with the carriages and boats, but you had no choice in Morrowind.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Once you have the boots if blinding speed and a constant effect artefact to counteract the blinding, you barely need to teleport, you can just zip everywhere.