My favourite Contrapuntal so far. "If you're not willing to spend hundreds of hours hacking repeatedly at cliff racers then you're a filthy casual and I won't interact..." Superb.
I always took the galaxy-brain approach and instead spent hours memorizing the dropoff for ranged weapons instead so I could snipe them from the very edge of the draw distance. >:D
You're among friends in bread tooby leftie lala happy land lol. Talk about what ailz ya. No alpha mayles here to tell ya to just pull yourself up by the boot straps... That you don't even own prolly because who the frig has boots and "boot straps" these days? Aside from naughty nat over here lolz. She's prolly got all kinds of... Anyways. Sorry. I know nothing about boots. I think some have straps. Others don't lol. Right? I dunno... I wear shoes that have the stringies you have to tie. It's kind of a pain in the ass sometimes lol. But I'm in the same boat as you Alex. Work all the time and you feel like that's all your life is. Working away getting nowhere. Such a annoying feeling. Which is why it's nice to get far away from all that with Natalie. She's too easy to get along with. Sorry I'm ranting because I'm also blayzed. Sorry I'm typing while watching and doing other stuff... Lol what's that? Nat is talkin about being blayzed too? LOL! While she murders the mages guild..... Sigh... I remember doing just that back in... what was it... 2003? All I know it I played the crap out of it right when it came out and did just about everything you could do in it on the xbox orig version... I was a poorboy at the time who couldn't play the better PC version because I didn't have a good enough PC : ( Musta gave this game like 500 hours of my life it feels. So seeing Nat enjoy the game warms my heart. Even if she is just killing all things cept the weird bug thingies that you ride on lololol.
She’s right about the game being beautiful! I used to love just wandering across the landscape, especially as an Argonian so I could go for a long underwater swim.
I've played Morrowind with both vanilla graphics and modded graphics. Each has it's charm. One of the most popular graphics mods a while back just upscaled some textures and made them look watercolor. That was such a fun and neat aesthetic.
@@hectorheckler6327 Yeah but oh well. Sadly it seems bethesda is no longer king of the open world genre when you got games like witcher 3 and breath of the wild which do it better over all. Heck... Even souls games and that last god of war title have their lil take on open world and do it without wallet raping the customer.
I'm so glad that Skyrim and ESO did variants of "The Road Most Traveled." It is still one of the best BGM pieces to this day, and I don't even have the 2002 nostalgia for it. I didn't play Morrowind until well into the 2010s.
"do you think I could kill everyone in this temple and then turn the desecrated murder temple into my lesbian nest?" you can just skip to a random part and Natalie will say something quotable within 10 seconds
She’s so right about the games visuals. I’m literally younger than this game and I can still appreciate the great art direction and environmental composition. That stuff doesn’t age.
I am probably a decade or so older than you I assume, and it's nice too see my own point of view validated by a younger generation (or a younger person of my generation, i dunno lol). The environments in this game have always stuck with me.
It's great Natalie has the freedom to do anything she feels at this point..you do you girl..always be yourself...in ways you helped alot of us to do the same..
How I'm feeling right now lol. And not to be a buzz kill but uhhh... The game's music. It's main creator is apparently a creep with over a dozen accusations of sexual abuse in the work place. So that's fun lol.
You should do it but be prepared for a large amount of frustration at first. The game def feels old and particularly the combat is clunky and sucks until you become OP but it is an experience unrivaled by pretty much any modern game for the flexibility and creativity it gives you in its systems if you give it some time
If you need help getting into it there's lots of communities and sites that have tips. Also take no shame in modding for quality of life if you need to.
As others have said, some parts are admittedly dated, but its worldbuilding is really fantastic. It's a game that doesn't really hold your hand or restrict you -- there aren't any floating "objective markers", just a map and whatever hints are given in dialogue, signs, and notes. You can literally kill any character. You can blunder into a spot with enemies that will absolutely destroy you. And that is all part of the fun.
Just remember that your chance to hit when you swing is based on your skill and fatigue (along with a bunch of other stuff). Make sure you have a weapon you are skilled in otherwise you won't hit much, and either don't run when you expect combat or carry restore fatigue potions because low fatigue seriously lowers hit chance. Oh, and the world doesn't scale to your level like Skyrim. If something is too hard, leave and come back with more skill/better equipment.
The MW combat system is a literal visualization of how we used to do pen&paper roleplaying, back when the game systems were terribly primitive. Each time you hit - roll a die - check with your attack stat - hiss or mit. I mean miss or hit. Low level characters could swing huge battle axes at cows and miss 20 times in a row. A perfect system that should've never been changed.
I think the system in Gothic works better for an action video game. Low skill with swords means your swings are slow and clumsy but at higher skills you can chain your strikes, damage goes up noticeably and the animations change too. Classical dice roll systems work better in the already more abstracted traditional isometric crpg. Not in an action rpg.
ohhh my god rip me for missing this live but aaaah i love Morrowind so much and played it so much as a kid, so cool seeing u play it!! oof the music is so nostalgic ;_;
I grew up on Morrowind and also love Skyrim. Morrowind had some amazing features that are lacking in Skyrim. Like freaking spears Spears were amazing. I loved the pilgrim missions. Quests were more diverse in gameplay. Thanks for the nostalgia gorge. ❤❤
This stream fits perfectly with my morning routine. Redistributing wealth one food order at a time! But seriously, listening to Contra playing Morrowind is just so calmly amusing.
So, my music teacher asked us to suggest pieces to play in class and I think I'm going to suggest the Morrowind theme. You won over another zoomer, Natalie!
Having over-the-top graphics doesnt make for an amazing game. Stardew Valley and Undertale both have been highly rated in the last 5 years and they use ancient hieroglyphics we modern gamers call 8-bit. Color and style theme I think is also important to the many success of the aesthetic of these games, which I think is why people see Morrowind as ugly, but think of it this way: Vvardenfell (the map of Morrowind) is a very bizarre and unfamiliar place too. For an Outlander, and for the player, many of the creatures and landscapes would be strange and terrific or terrifying, and I think the creators did a good job of reflecting those feelings.
I just want you to know that I now exclusively listen to your gaming channel when I'm going to bed so that when I wake up at night I hear your voice and know I can go back to bed (i frequently wake up in the middle of the night ) . its become a routine, so thanks.
Also I get so caught up in the quests and treasure hunting that I forget how fun it is just to free roam and actually role play. My character's name in Skyrim is just G. 😂
One of my favorite RU-vidrs playing my all-time favorite game?! How and why did I miss this?! Well, looks like I'm going to be binging this for the next three hours, so much for the work I was going to do today!
Watching Natalie play Morrowind is like watching your high school social studies teacher play Fable. I am pleasantly surprised but I keep expecting an open minded but critical examination of the games effect on society.
I was just replaying this! Be careful of that scoundrel Cassius XD Looking straight up hitting a cliff racer. "This is what Morrowind is all about." I absolutely died!
Do it.. was some of the funnest time I had gaming. It's slow at the start, you just have to train your character to be better at things. Lol I remember putting my guy in a corner and putting a rubber band on my controller on Xbox so he would keep walking to get better stamina. And jumping around everywhere when I was playing.
@@jimmybalzac6021 umm do not apologize for the essay this is actually super helpful! i’m not a great gamer but love games anyway so any advice i can find from arbiters of any kind is very useful. tysm!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH That is all I have to say. Phenomenal game and wasn't aware that you were doing an lp of this. My favourite in the ES series, oblivion comes second, then daggerfall, then Skyrim. Yay for Nat playing one of my favourite games.
After playing daggerfall authentically through DOS, I am SO glad that the Daggerfall Unity project exists. I hope more people get in on it and give it the recognition it deserves.
It's so lovely to see a favourite video essayist and a comedian streaming video games : ) we stan versatility. Is it possible to do games like Portal (1 & 2), Hollow Knight and Skyrim?
If you're looking for a game that can literally be played mostly with one hand, and which is good: Pony Island. That was a Jim Sterling recommendation I tried that turned out to be pretty fun. It's a one-stream-and-done length of a game.
Lol I was playing ocarina the other day actually. Just now noticed that the fairy is kind of a dumb shit lol. The tree sends her out to find Link and she has a real hard time locating his house for some reason. And then bashes face first into a fence thingy... Great lol. Our wonderful and highly intelligent navigator... Oh boy I can't wait lololol. She also enters the kokori village by comically flying between that one dudes legs. If Nat was a fairy she would totally be doing that to people lol.
buying 12 tacos the night before a major snowstorm is actually a bigbrain move, bc now you have tacos for when all the delivery drivers bail and stop delivering bc of the freezing rain
omg she mentioned subnautica. DO IT, it's one of my all-time favorite games (so is morrowind btw). It's so good, it's amazing. I've replayed it so many times.
The worst parts of morrowind were that you had a REALLY slow walk/run speed, and that cliff racers were everywhere (and also the dreadful combat system). Even Natalie was forced to admit that the cliff racers pissed her off after about 5 minutes. There is a way to move faster though; you have to find the "boots of blinding speed" and play as a Breton, which reduces negative magic affects by 50%. That way you're not completely blinded and can navigate the world pretty quickly. Also it helps a lot to play as a mage. The mark and recall spell is extremely useful to teleport to recently visit places. Aside from that Morrowind was quite beautiful and did have some very interesting lore.
morriwind is beautiful and i never even played it. In fact my favorite thing in skyrim is the solstheim dlc, i love starting up the game just to roam around the island. It's a magical beauty
Recomendation: Install the following mods/patches that are a MUST: >> Morrowind Code Patch 2.4: It not only fixes a LOT of bugs that never got patched, but also gives you improovments on the gameplat, like a camera over the shoulder, proper item weight, etc. >> Darknut's 1st person perspective: Every 3rd person animation is seen in first person, also you can see your body when you look down (except your legs since those ain't included yet). Follow the instalation instruction, but at the end of them MAKE SURE to go to the DDA folder inside the mod and copy the ".nik" file inside it into the Meshes folder on Data Files. Also make sure that the FOV is set from the vanilla 75 to 100 in order to properly see your hands in first person. If you are using "MGE XE" or "FPS Optimizer 0.96" you can change this easily. Warning: In order for the "FPS Opt." to work alongside the Morrowind Code Patch (MCP) you must disable the "better hagling" option on MCP. >> Animation Compilation: Fixes some of the HORRIBLE walk, strife, sneak and run vanilla animations, also any one handed weapon (shield included) would be smooth and realistic. Please install the version 0.41 (no first person animation) AFTER Darknut's 1st person mod since it HAS to override some files to work. Warning: The following mods/patches require a complete RESTART of the game since the saves can get corrupted, but are completly worthy. PLEASE install them in the order they are presented: >> Morrowind Patch for purists: Hundreds of essential fixes for the game engine. >> Better UV Rocks: Fixes the textures on the rocks so they don't look stretched. >> Morrowind Optimization Patch: Solves a LOT of frame rate drop by changing the way the overall structures (houses, trees, etc) are generated. >> Morrowind ATLAS Project: Same as the above but it goes beyond. PLEASE install the files inside the "00 Core" folder, avoid the rest since those are for specific mods. >> Morrowind Acoustic Overhaul: An insane overhaul of the sounds and music for the game, it gives a LOT of life to the volcanic land and restores what was completly lost in the original release by Bethesda. However it has three problems: - The music can get cut mid way, but you can fix this by dissabling the "Music" pluggin by using the "MAO Configuration" paper in your inventory once you play the game. - In caverns the sound could get silenced, a restart fixes it for a while but a REAL solution is to download a lower quality sound pack (link aviable in the MAO's readme) and replace the specific folders located inside "Sound" at Data Files. - The 3D Sounds add an insane amount of detail to the land, for real, it is amazing, BUT it can eat FPS if your soundcard is cheap. Disabling it thu the "Morrowind Data Files" option at the launcher can solve the problem. Despite those shortcomings, make no mistake, MAO is so good that you can litteraly silence the music of the game and have a blast with the songs of the landscape. There are also the classic "Better Bodies/Robert Bodies", "Better Clothes Complete", "Better Armor" and "Westly's Head and Hair Replacer" mods that are an OBVIOUS must.
This livestream is like a balm for my mental ills 😌🤪 And, having been a Skyrim-only player for the past five years, I think you've convinced me to try Morrowind 🌋
[To the tune of Why We Build the Wall] why do we eat the rich, we eat the rich to take their axes, that's why we eat the rich we eat the rich to take their axes
Gotta side with Contra on this one. I think Morrowind is the over all king of elders scrolls games and possibly king of open world games... I mean... Her argument about how you get a house is honestly... Very good lol.
