Morrowind

Fleshreaper

ZOS, I hope you know what you are doing. You are taking a huge risk with Morrowind. This is the proverbial make or break. This is your 5th symphony, your Mona Lisa, your Shelby Cobra, if you mess this up, people will never forget it. A lot of players love The Elders Scrolls because of Morrowind. I hope you are not taking the approach of it being just another expansion. Please! do Morrowind, justice.

Cadbury

I'm cautiously optimistic. J.J. Abrams had alot of pressure on him with the Star Trek reboot and look how that turned out.

Morgha_Kul

Quite so.

For my part, I'm just looking forward to going back to Sadrith Mora... perhaps visiting some of the places I saw before, like Balmora, Gnisis and such.

I'll point this out too... something I really wanted to do in ESO was visit some of the iconic locations from the earlier games. Even if I couldn't go IN, I would love to have seen Fang Lair, for instance. Also, pay attention to the way the towns are laid out, too. I realize ESO is set long before Morrowind, but the cities should be somewhat like they were in the original game (notably, cities in ESO that also appeared in previous games, like Mournhold or Daggerfall, are NOT laid out as they were in the original games...).

It's a minor thing, I know.

esotoon

Cadbury wrote: »

I'm cautiously optimistic. J.J. Abrams had alot of pressure on him with the Star Trek reboot and look how that turned out.

Terrible?

Ah well, at least the lense flares should look pretty.

In all seriousness, it worries me that they have potentially made a huge rod for their own backs by naming it Morrowind and tying it to the 15th Anniversary.

At launch because the game was released in a pretty bad state, it didn't offer a good enough experience to get passed the "but this isn't the multiplayer Skyrim i was expecting" attitude of many. They have done a good job improving the game and finally establishing a better reputation amongst gamers and the gaming press, especially with the launch of 1T, but they cant afford to make the same mistake. i just hope that whilst riding the coat tales of Morrowind nostalgia, they do a better job of communicating to players that this is still an MMO, so they dont expect Morrowind Remastered, and that the quality of the content lives up to the hype.

Jennifur_Vultee

Cadbury wrote: »

I'm cautiously optimistic. J.J. Abrams had alot of pressure on him with the Star Trek reboot and look how that turned out.

The Star Trek reboot is awful...I'm not sure how the comparison makes you optimistic.

SnuggleMePlease

I actually started my journey into the ES Universe in Morrowind, so it is definitely a place of prominence in my mind. I'm excited to be a Bosmer stranded in a foreign land once again!

Lord_Eomer

Fleshreaper wrote: »

ZOS, I hope you know what you are doing. You are taking a huge risk with Morrowind. This is the proverbial make or break. This is your 5th symphony, your Mona Lisa, your Shelby Cobra, if you mess this up, people will never forget it. A lot of players love The Elders Scrolls because of Morrowind. I hope you are not taking the approach of it being just another expansion. Please! do Morrowind, justice.

What are you doing in ESO forum? If you do not like see ESO expanding then u shld not be wasting time here..

ESO is a beautiful MMO with great PVE contents. A step towards Morrowind will be a great success!

SuperLarrio

Couldnt agree more. When they named it elder scrolls online-morrowind instead of vvardenfell they put alot of pressure on themselves in my opinion. But at the same time, from a financial side, the name morrowind sells itself...

Browiseth

I really disagree with the sentiment of "Morrowind is the most important RPG ever" that so much of this fanbase seems to harbour

it's really not that important (or good) of a game. The expansion will be a pleasant dose of fanservice, and should be treated as such

JD2013

Wasn't housing make or break?

And the patch before that? And the one before that and .... Well, you get the picture.

Fleshreaper

Browiseth wrote: »

I really disagree with the sentiment of "Morrowind is the most important RPG ever" that so much of this fanbase seems to harbour

it's really not that important (or good) of a game. The expansion will be a pleasant dose of fanservice, and should be treated as such

I guess for the younger crowd that didn't play Morrowind when it first came out, it wasn't that great when you have other options. But yes, at it's time, it was. And that's the point, there are a lot of people that fell in love with The Elder Scrolls because of Morrowind.

NewBlacksmurf

So far they've done good on recreating places we've seen in the past.

The vids look good tho so I'm blindly faithful in it

srfrogg23

I'm predicting lots of glowing praise mixed in with bitter anger and accusations of "Zos ruined my childhood".

Faulgor

If Orsinium's anything to go by, I think we'll be fine.
Only thing that worries me is that they'll play the nostalgia card too hard. I don't want them recreating all the highlights of Morrowind, e.g. Wizards falling from the sky and naked Nords on every corner and whatnot.
Don't fanservice too hard, ZOS, it feels pushy.

Concenaros

One thing people should probably keep in mind is that this Morrowind should differ greatly from the original PC single player experience.

I know that, that sort've thing should be obvious, but I keep hearing people talking about how it's amazing they're 're-making' Morrowind. While they technically are, this is going to be Morrowind wayyy before the events of the single player game, Vivec is in construction and so are some of the other familiar cities no doubt.

I just have a feeling people are going to get way too hyped for this and in the end be disappointed because of their own crazy expectations.

So, stay humble with those crazy expectations people. I really do hope that they do ESO's version of Morrowind justice.

JakelDK

it will be great I'm sure! imagine when you take your fist step onto Vvardenfell and you hear that lonely soft cry of a silt-strider... we will come home

gbaker42

srfrogg23 wrote: »

I'm predicting lots of glowing praise mixed in with bitter anger and accusations of "Zos ruined my childhood".

And for choosing the correct answer you win this furry skeever

Acrolas

"Make or break" is an idiom, not a proverb.

And we're all going to be fine. The boxed edition was #1 on PC and Xbox and #3 on PS4 on Amazon its first day. It's still #1 on PC. That's just the $100 set.

Even if Morrowind is just more of the same, people do like more of the same. It's the only way to explain how anyone saw both Paul Blart movies...

Cadbury

Acrolas wrote: »

It's the only way to explain how anyone saw both Paul Blart movies...

Actually, the real explanation for that is black magic. And I say this as a person who payed to see Jack and Jill in the theater

kyle.wilson

Fleshreaper wrote: »

ZOS, I hope you know what you are doing. You are taking a huge risk with Morrowind. This is the proverbial make or break. This is your 5th symphony, your Mona Lisa, your Shelby Cobra, if you mess this up, people will never forget it. A lot of players love The Elders Scrolls because of Morrowind. I hope you are not taking the approach of it being just another expansion. Please! do Morrowind, justice.

Problem is some people will want it to be like ESO 3 and others will want a new experience.
Its like the prequels and sequels to star wars.
The prequels were new and entirely different style from 4,5,6. They are almost universally hated because of it.
The sequel, the force awakens, was more of cast reunion from the originals with a cheesy storyline. But, because of nostalgia vision, it is more liked.

MissBizz

Cadbury wrote: »

I'm cautiously optimistic. J.J. Abrams had alot of pressure on him with the Star Trek reboot and look how that turned out.

Whenever I hear "I'm cautiously optimistic" I flinch from my VMA trauma....

I hope it's done well too. It's actually quite a fortunate thing that Morrowind for me will be new, I don't be constantly comparing.

Browiseth

Fleshreaper wrote: »

Browiseth wrote: »

I really disagree with the sentiment of "Morrowind is the most important RPG ever" that so much of this fanbase seems to harbour

it's really not that important (or good) of a game. The expansion will be a pleasant dose of fanservice, and should be treated as such

I guess for the younger crowd that didn't play Morrowind when it first came out, it wasn't that great when you have other options. But yes, at it's time, it was. And that's the point, there are a lot of people that fell in love with The Elder Scrolls because of Morrowind.

exactly, it's only good because of nostalgia value, not because it's actually good