Should I play Morrowind?

ShiunTraze

I know this is not necessarily related to TESO but I was wondering if I should play Morrowind. I've got Oblivion and Skyrim on PS3 with all the DLC (maybe not in Oblivion - 'PC master race' got 'em all , I think Xbox did as well ) and I adore both of them. I spoke about some of my Oblivion experiences in this post: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-GB/discussion/146703/this-is-what-a-creepy-dungeon-should-look-like-zos#latest
It is thanks to them that I am playing ESO!

However, I have heard that Morrowind is a great game; some say it's the most memorable and even the best! So I was wondering if I should give it a go? Bear in mind that I focus on enjoying the story as much as anything else. I don't care about the graphics, nor the combat which I enjoyed thoroughly in Oblivion & Skyrim. I'm not necessarily interested in addons for single-player games.

So should I pass out some ESO time to give to enjoy some Morrowind? What are your thoughts and opinions on Morrowind?

I'll see you in Tamriel.

Ahzek

@ShiunTraze Definetly !

I played morrowind After i palyed skyrim and oblivion and i guess i had similar expectations like you do now.
The game is definetly worth it and i would advise to get a couple of mods right of the start just to polish it up a bit (there is a awesome mod package called morrowind remastered or smth. Similar.)
Mail story and many side quests are real gold and the world has many hidden bits of awesomeness like every elder scrolls game.
However i find some of the guild quests rather lacking. for example the mages guild one which basically consists of (spoiler)
- go in that cave
- kill 1 guy
- loot staff of magnus
- Come back and show me staff
- profit ...

Overall the game gives a great experience and especially the bloodmoon expansion comes with amazing new story on the island of solsteim (wink wink skyrim).
The "failure system" of magic and missing your attacks take some getting used to but dont take away of the great experiece, while character customization with a multitude of enchanting options and spellcrafting really shines.

Saddiq

Yes.

Longer answer: Morrowind has a fantastic main storyline, and fantastic side-storylines. It is great storytelling. A lot of us see it through rose-colored glasses, so truth be told a lot of the dialogue is painful--specifically, everyone in the same town has practically exactly the same thing to say about everything, which is quite immersion-breaking. But if you forgive that, it's one of the best games many of us have ever played.

Obviously graphics, including updated ones, will be dated. That doesn't bug me at all. But I played Arena and Daggerfall in the last 5 years, so graphics don't matter to me.

And get ready for a very, very long build to survivability. Morrowind is very difficult until you're level 15 or so. You have to build all your stats from 0 to 100, including 'chance to hit'. That means that at the beginning, you're fighting mud crabs and can go 20-40 times easy of attacking with your sword and not once hitting the mud crab. Then when you do, you hit for next to no damage. In other words, it was built for a much more patient, much more resilient generation of gamers than we have now.

God-eater

Morrowind was awesome, but every iteration of TES since has improved upon the last, so my advice is if you haven't played it yet, don't bother - I found Morrowind unplayable as soon as I'd laid eyes on Oblivion, and the same thing happened to Oblivion upon Skyrim's release.

ESO offers the best Morrowind experience you're going to get, except maybe Solsthiem in Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC.

Don't get me wrong - there is something to be said for taking the old roadster out of the garage for a spin - it ain't no Zonda, tho, so don't expect to have your mind blown.

pcar944

Morrowind s still the best, tons of things to do, very impressive

Rosveen

God-eater wrote: »

Morrowind was awesome, but every iteration of TES since has improved upon the last, so my advice is if you haven't played it yet, don't bother - I found Morrowind unplayable as soon as I'd laid eyes on Oblivion, and the same thing happened to Oblivion upon Skyrim's release.

ESO offers the best Morrowind experience you're going to get, except maybe Solsthiem in Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC.

Don't get me wrong - there is something to be said for taking the old roadster out of the garage for a spin - it ain't no Zonda, tho, so don't expect to have your mind blown.

I couldn't disagree more.

Everyone should play Morrowind, or at least try - because it may prove too outdated for you, this is true. But this is mostly due to mechanics, the miss chance, the game's slow start etc. Graphics can still look beautiful if you mod them. In my opinion modded Morrowind looks better than Oblivion because it has a unique, aesthetically pleasing art style. The main story is brilliant and the lore deep and interesting. If you're a fan of Elder Scrolls games, you should definitely take a look at Morrowind.

BurtFreeman

ShiunTraze wrote: »

I know this is not necessarily related to TESO but I was wondering if I should play Morrowind. I've got Oblivion and Skyrim on PS3 with all the DLC (maybe not in Oblivion - 'PC master race' got 'em all , I think Xbox did as well ) and I adore both of them. I spoke about some of my Oblivion experiences in this post: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-GB/discussion/146703/this-is-what-a-creepy-dungeon-should-look-like-zos#latest
It is thanks to them that I am playing ESO!

However, I have heard that Morrowind is a great game; some say it's the most memorable and even the best! So I was wondering if I should give it a go? Bear in mind that I focus on enjoying the story as much as anything else. I don't care about the graphics, nor the combat which I enjoyed thoroughly in Oblivion & Skyrim. I'm not necessarily interested in addons for single-player games.

So should I pass out some ESO time to give to enjoy some Morrowind? What are your thoughts and opinions on Morrowind?

I'll see you in Tamriel.

any great game is related to his age.
playing morrowind in the 2015 will be frustrating, becouse is like to travel with a coffin instead of yachting.
but it may fashinating few tes lovers.

thought i hope for a remake sometime

leeux

Morrowind is one of the top ten games ever made, and rightfully so

(IMHO)

You can enhance graphics and gameplay (somewhat) using mods... the dialog issue mentioned above can be solved using the LGNPC set of mods, for example.

If you ever try it, my recommendation is to create a custom class (try to make sense...) and stick with your class skills. Try to aim for at least a starting combat skill that's greater than ~35. With certain class/sign/race combination you can push that to 50 even (Bosmer Archer comes to mind...)

Most people that hate the combat system, probably tried starting with an Orc Mage and use a Short Sword as a starting weapon

Good luck!

Trollwut

Do not start with Morrowind! I spent half of my teenage years in it.

Relothe42

Everyone should play Morrowind. Just get ready to read A LOT. And there's the issue with quest tracking (there isn't any.) By far the easiest game to blow through 80 hours without even noticing. You definitely need to make your character strategically to avoid the low chance-to-hit. Morrowind will give you the lore and story needed to be a real Elder Scrolls fan. Definitely worth at least trying it out.

ConvictedRambo

Rosveen wrote: »

God-eater wrote: »

Morrowind was awesome, but every iteration of TES since has improved upon the last, so my advice is if you haven't played it yet, don't bother - I found Morrowind unplayable as soon as I'd laid eyes on Oblivion, and the same thing happened to Oblivion upon Skyrim's release.

ESO offers the best Morrowind experience you're going to get, except maybe Solsthiem in Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC.

Don't get me wrong - there is something to be said for taking the old roadster out of the garage for a spin - it ain't no Zonda, tho, so don't expect to have your mind blown.

I couldn't disagree more.

Everyone should play Morrowind, or at least try - because it may prove too outdated for you, this is true. But this is mostly due to mechanics, the miss chance, the game's slow start etc. Graphics can still look beautiful if you mod them. In my opinion modded Morrowind looks better than Oblivion because it has a unique, aesthetically pleasing art style. The main story is brilliant and the lore deep and interesting. If you're a fan of Elder Scrolls games, you should definitely take a look at Morrowind.

Morrowind's a very good game. I miss having Michael Jordan's athletic jumping ability.

Trollwut

ConvictedRambo wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

God-eater wrote: »

Morrowind was awesome, but every iteration of TES since has improved upon the last, so my advice is if you haven't played it yet, don't bother - I found Morrowind unplayable as soon as I'd laid eyes on Oblivion, and the same thing happened to Oblivion upon Skyrim's release.

ESO offers the best Morrowind experience you're going to get, except maybe Solsthiem in Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC.

Don't get me wrong - there is something to be said for taking the old roadster out of the garage for a spin - it ain't no Zonda, tho, so don't expect to have your mind blown.

I couldn't disagree more.

Everyone should play Morrowind, or at least try - because it may prove too outdated for you, this is true. But this is mostly due to mechanics, the miss chance, the game's slow start etc. Graphics can still look beautiful if you mod them. In my opinion modded Morrowind looks better than Oblivion because it has a unique, aesthetically pleasing art style. The main story is brilliant and the lore deep and interesting. If you're a fan of Elder Scrolls games, you should definitely take a look at Morrowind.

Morrowind's a very good game. I miss having Michael Jordan's athletic jumping ability.

Maybe some random wizard will fall to death on Nirn in ESO with some scrolls in his bag.

Kazzy56

PS4 EU

Play it!! You know you want to!!

CapnPhoton

If you have the PC version, there are various projects out there that update the graphics. I think one uses the Skyrim engine.