I remember the little trap the developers set at the start of the game with looting the guy with the levitation jump. Players will dress up like a clown, get tossed high in the air, and die like a clown.
I used to only use the scroll for getting to the Telvanni guy with the 4 wives until I learned he had levitation potions right next to his entrance 🤦♀️ I've never died to that scroll and was kinda shocked to find so many people online who had
I remember trying out Skyrim for the first time, which was also my first experience with an elder scrolls game. I could see why many people loved it, but I lost interest halfway. I thought about it and came to the realisation that for me, it was the immersion breaking. I was the legendary dragon born, and everyone praised me from day 1, even though the only thing I could was push people lightly over with my voice. This in a world where mages also existed; it seemed unrealistic to me. I played as a redguard carrying a big axe around, bothering with neither finesse or stealth, but I could join the thieves guild regardless. This apparently is an ancient organisation consisting of only the most trusted thieves. Despite this, three missions later, I found myself being the thief king while not in any way having a thief profile or having a clear idea who any of the thieves were. I know what the design idea behind this decision was: dont punish players for creating their own playstyle and just give them access to everything. But I felt like the game was essentially throwing participation awards at me: I could be the leader of the mages despite not knowing how to cast magic. I wanted the game to tell me: "No, you can't do this quest yet. Come back when you have appropriate magic/stealth/whatever skill." Turns out the game that I wanted existed: morrowind. After googling the reason why I couldn't hit anything and how levelling worked, it sucked me straight in, and I kept playing weeks on end. I love the world, the story, the creatures, the villain, the quests, the politics, the politics in the quests. I like how powerless you are at the start, and that slowly starts changing with every level, I like how the main quest giver just gives you some pocket change at the start and tells you to start freelancing before he gives you the quest because you are in no way ready yet. I like the absence of questmarkers: I have to frequently check my journal and go explore to find places without mindlessly following an objective on the map. I have to actually engage and think. All in all it's a very unique experience, and it kind of makes me sad that a lot of games nowadays streamline a lot of this quest design because you don't get to feel this very often.
Totally agree with this comment, only game I have played in the past decade that feels like it has the same freedom and depth if you choose to look for it is kenshi
Yeah, I held off on Skyrim (my first playthrough was this year lol) but ended up uninstalling without finishing most of it for similar reasons. I'm not much of a role player but I still want the world to have consequences for player decisions. - Guild membership should lock you out of other guilds. - Being a thane should lock you out of being a thane in other holds. - If there was more factional tension like in Fallout New Vegas so that you had to manage just who you're doing what for so that you don't accidentally (or do intentionally) antagonise one faction or another, that would be cool. You can kinda go on and on with this stuff but as you say, Bethesda very clearly designed this to be extremely accessible. I just kinda wish they'd been brave enough to design in the opposite direction. I'll probably have a go with Morrowind at some point (if I can get over the dice roll mechanic).
I first played the game around 2003-04, when the GOTY Edition came out. I was absolutely blown away. Wandering into Balmora for the first time felt like nothing I had experienced in a game before. I have replayed it many times since, and still feel like I have barely scratched the surface.
Morrowind taught me English because with its 900.000 words of translation it took more than half a year before it was released in Germany in actual German. I was 15 and had a computer that would let me play it for about 20min before everything turned into a diashow or would just crash on exteriors which why I had to be a lot indoors for the first 1,5 years I play. Which led to the fact that I just read everything and tried every dialogue option. I played it until I was 20 years old. There is no other RPG and no other game but CIvilization that caught me as much as this game and it has become a part of my identity. Forever House Hlalu!
@@everettzarnick2323 his not alone, My English grade went up by 3 levels in the year i discovered Morrowind, and i give that improvement solely due to Morrowind.
kinda same. I was 14 when my older sister's bf showed me this game and played it for 2-ish years on sub 640 resolution, and then I moved on to manuals and howto's in linux for english. I did another play-through in 2016 and yet another one in 2019, lasting about 40 hours each. I name my computers after cities in that game :) Btw you're filthy politician, Telvanni is the true seat of power!
Yeah, just go Telvanni and be happy. The sooner you can mod over that shithole stronghold they give you, the sooner you have expanded quests and actually feel like you're interacting with a faction and then getting rewarded for it with an appropriate HQ with appropriate storage and appropriate convenience for having done all their crappy vanilla quests. Not really sure why they made them the "evil ones" when every house sucks in it's own way. Dunmer are more or less a trash race that brings about their own near extinction by the end of the game, so no one way of "doing business" is any more stupid than the last other than the first rule of Telvanni Club is "stay the fuck away from me, and I don't care who you are or what you do". They do have a lot of inept members with high eccentricity factor, making them highly useless such as the the all-female town that only exists as a boat ride destination to get to Ayron's tower. But for the most part their crazy is kept in bubbles without spreading, and the same can't be said for any other house that vies for power and expansion as the only way to do that is to efficiently abuse and take advantage of the weaknesses of other societies currently untouched by your stench.
My favorite game of all time. I got lost, in Morrowind, in a way I didn't know was possible. After several builds I was still discovering things. Looking back...each of my characters are distinct and memorable.
I bought this at a pawn shop around 2010. I remember the employee there telling me I was about to have one heck of an experience. Boy was that and understatement. This game changed my life and inspired me to become a digital illustrator. I've now been a career artist and worked on dozens of my own video games.
So true, the more you dive in is so rewarding. You'll find unbelievable surprises exploring. I went off once and got lost in a library and just picked out Dances In The Fire and ended up traveling across the whole map looking to finish reading a complete set. Then, robbed the Vaults in Vivec City Legit and locked all the Guards in the Vault 😂
Have played morrowind since it was released. Best game of any genre of all time. I'm still finding new mini quests and tie-ins. The story and world is the most immersive thing around.
@@Tokey_The_Bear If on your way to kill Dagoth Ur you decide to search Ghost Gate for any new NPCs (he'll disappear when you beat Dagoth) you can meet a friendly guy named Wulf who will give you a coin for luck. Then if you mention the coin to a specific priest in Ebonheart she'll say, "A weird tale. And you say you have been marked by good fortune -- by 'the luck of the emperor' -- since you received the coin from the old veteran? Tell me -- did the face of the old veteran resemble the face on the coin? Did anyone else ever see this old man? I hesitate to suggest it. But I think you have been visited by an aspect of Tiber Septim. Surely this is a sign of a great doom laid upon you by the gods."
I loved having no "X marks the spot", just some vague words describing the path to get there. The joy of exploring and get lost, to eventualy reach the destination.... Diving far from shore to get to the sunken Daedra shrine... And, of course, flying (levitating)!
I remember playing this back in 2003. To this day I have not experienced the joy and satisfaction that Morrowind provided. I loved leveling up the character and the story in this game is the best one of all the Elder Scroll games.
As an old timer, it is gratifying to know that people are still playing this game 22 years after its initial release. A colleague at work turned me on to this game, loaning me his XBox disc, which he had gotten from his older brother, along with a story worth telling. My colleague's brother had turned him on to the the game while still living at his parents' house, telling me he plugged the game in while lying in a hammock in the basement, and then did nothing for the next 12 hours except play Morrowind, only getting out of his hammock to urinate into a jar on the floor! Oh my God... I about bust a gut cracking up over this! My friend also loaned me his copy of Bloodrayne... great game. Morrowind is truly a work of art. I still have the XBox game booklet and map.
Morrowind is pretty much the only game that made me read its in-game books with excitement. I tried reading them in Oblivion and Skyrim afterwards, but there just wasn't much reason to. Playing Morrowind feels like uncovering an ancient conspiracy. You sneak around, talk to people and read ancient books. Not because the game told you to, but because you as a player invested in it.
12:36 that is how I like to play Skyrim. I play it basically like a walking simulator, where every quest is like a guided tour on my walk 😊 we go through a lot of haunted house theme parks 😅
All these years later, I'm still replaying it. My current character is an Alter historian who was studying the Velothi exodus, became enthralled by Velothi ideology, spurned Summerset, and renamed himself with a Chimeri variant of his birth name. He Champions Ashlander theology and is a reformer of the temple. Enjoying the Tamriel Rebuilt mod alongside it
I like to use the joy of painting mod and just go around painting landscapes and portraits to make money. My current character is a orc traveling artist and not the neverarine
@@DMIwriter if you complete your current character I highly recommend giving the code Patch/mgexe a shot. It has all game patches, comes with shaders and graphic enhancements like openmw and distant land generations I've never had a problem with it and I use an awful laptop lol
Wow, this was an amazing video. One of my favorite parts is how you described the growth a character can take in Morrowind by choosing to focus on new skills rather than grind the same skill tree like is necessary to keep up in Skyrim. I thought it was interesting and I feel like I haven't seen anyone mention it before.
my gf is a big Elder Scrolls nerd, knows all the theories and lore and stuff. I had played skyrim on my ps3 back in the day and I think one of my brothers had Oblivion but I never beat it. she talked about Morrowind all the time and would make references that would go over my head. when i told her I wanted to play it to see what the big deal was, she had so many tips and things I should know going in like about agility making your attacks hit and you can totally fuck a save if you're not careful. When I DID finally start playing I really only stuck with it because A: it meant a lot to her, and B: she had given me enough info that I wouldn't fuck myself right out the gate, and by the time I got to Balmora I was actually getting the hang of things. beat the game a few weeks ago, and now on my replay of skyrim I literally did the fuckin Leo-pointing-at-the-screen meme when I went up north and that weird scroll wizard is TRYING TO GET INTO THE HEART CHAMBER AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE NEREVARINE, THAT'S ME WHAT THE HEELLLLLLL 10/10, play Morrowind N'wa
I gotta point out that the carriage and boat transports in Skyrim aren't superfluous, they're there for the players who don't want to fast travel. The whole game is designed to be walked around in. I blame modern gamers for fast travel having to be added at all.
They should have mass effect 3 like option for playthrough next elder scroll. Like play game as action-adventure, modern rpg and traditional rpg. The traditional rog being an experience like morrowind.
As good as an idea as this is, balancing the game around all three options would probably keep the game in development for another 2 years. Or and additional two years, I mean.
"Start off with questionable graphics?" Sorry, I don't agree at all. For 2002, after exiting the boat, you could breath Vvardenfell just looking at the (incredible for the time) water and the small settlement that was Seyda Neen. When I went out the boat, I was immediately captured by the atmospherical graphic of the game.
That comment is in regards to how people play NOW, not at all a comment on Bethesda's work for the time. I think the game is 8/10 if it was releases today, not just for the time.
Ehhh honestly morrowind was pretty behind in terms of graphics, in terms of 3d models & characters at least (no complaints on the world itself, looked great). They still built the characters with separated limbs which was kinda obsolete even at that point. Maybe they needed to for the armor customizability to work well. When considering games like Final Fantasy 10/11, MOH: Allied Assault, Mafia 1, Unreal Tournament 2003, BG Dark Alliance, and arguably Gothic 1-2 as well, it was pretty behind, in my eyes at least. Morrowinds art direction is incredible though. And the skyboxes. Damn, those skyboxes are better than most new AAA ones.
Really missing the interactions between the guilds in the newer games. Becoming leader of Fighters and Thieves is very hard, if not impossible as one hsa you kill the leader of the other. Also the different houses, so much depth, and you can only join one or the other (even if you become speaker of all during the main quest). I also really like the requirements to get higher levels in Morrowind, that makes it more believable to become a high rank, you gotta have the proper skills! Meanwhile in Skyrim you can become the Archmage by casting no spell whatsoever. But I don't like the actual game play of Morrowind, I much prefer the more streamlined play of Skyrim. Gimme Skyrim's gameplay and Morrowind's roleplay and world building, that'd be awesome!
Look... I know for a lot of you out there 20 years ago is well, your life time.. but i was 21 when I got this game on the Xbox in 2004. That seems like a long time ago, but it really isn't.... and if you live in Florida and the majority of people you interact with on a daily basis are 65+, 20 years is nothing... Once you're out of high school and have a steady job and steady relationship time speeds up drastically,. that being said... It was an amazing looking game, and a deep rpg that made you feel like you were truly exploring an alternate world. It will always have a special place in my heart and my memories.
Weird thing I liked, the movement in morrowind felt a lot less floaty than oblivion and skyrim. oblivion was particularly bad. it felt like you barely weighed anything, sent flying by running over a particularly protruding part of the terrain. and the corpse rag dolls... so immersion breaking
I think skyrim introduced deceleration into the mechanics and oblivion combat and movement in general felt like fights with paper swords / hikes in a dream. Morrowind has a dated movement system but it does appeal to player by avoiding the downsides of these two other systems, so it's give n' take imo
For me, Oblivion was the best stock game experience. I thought it was the best blend of story (IMHO better than Skyrim) and game mechanics (IMHO better than Morrowind). I hope the remastered Oblivion comes into being. I am still playing a heavily modded Skyrim today.
They were almost going bust so they had to put their all into what could've saved their company, a shame they seemed to have let that success get to their heads and have been making terrible decisions years afterwards.
This was and is still one of my favourite games of all time. I completely fell in love with this game and is a 'Must Play' for those that love D&D RPG's. I was a little sad when the Elder Scrolls broke away from this classic role playing style with Oblivion and Skyrim.
The thing was, during the release was considered a graphical masterpiece. The ability to walk across the map in the 1st person was very rare at that time. So if you add the strong points in the gameplay and lore in your video with the graphical masterpiece it was at the time, one starts to understand why this game was considered revolutionary in that era.
This might be a hyper specific point to make, but for its time, Morrowind's water was absolutely amazing. Oblivion released 4 years later and had worse water than Morrowind
I don't know really, other games around the time seemed to have overall better graphics, Morrowind didn't go for these best graphics available since its a large scale world and would've otherwise chugged, the water did look really good though with the early form of bump mapping.
For first time players nowadays, I'd recommend modding the game to remove the dice roll combat system. ONLY as a tool to help you get into the story on your first few hours of play time. Once you're invested, take off the mod, start a new character and play. You'll be much more likely to push through the difficult early game to get through the main quest once you know how interesting the lore and the story is. This is what I did and now I'm having a blast as a spellsword with no game play changing mods.
I wouldnt even recommend that. Just major skill what weapon youll use and pick the warrior stone and youll instantly have an easier time with hit chance. Luck also affects it so selecting that as a top 2 attribute for the plus 10 can be a crutch
you really gaslit the hell out of me. when you said dawnbreaker is leveled i thought "yeah that really is bummer... wait. no it isnt. am i crazy?" and yep, theres only one version of dawnbreaker. skyrim only has a handful of leveled rewards, and dawnbreaker's not one of them.
Holy fuck you're right. My point regarding leveled content as a whole still stands in reference to Dawnbreaker being out paced by leveled content, but I should have done better research there.
I finally took on Skyrim recently. I love it. But every now and then i'm like "damn, in Morrowind this was handled better". Like i entered Windhelm in imperial outfit and nobody batted an eye. It really annoyed me.
I’m surprised you didn’t like Cyberpunks writing- I actually think it has my favorite writing of any game. Some of the dialogues really do feel like you’re talking to real people.
This game is about the road and needs thousands of bugs to show the past and that feeling of lore and something ancient. The fact that a Bethesda game needs bugs to exist makes me hopeful that Starfield has thousands of them.
Back in a day where Bethesda was fighting for their lives. Back then, where even after they created a masterpiece, were on the way to building another 4 years later. I miss this kind of Bethesda I truly do.
I dont agree at all with the stealth comment. Just like you cant hit at the beginning you can't steal as easily at rhe beginning. If you use spells and get good enough it becomes easier and easier and equates to a more realistic experience as its not that easy to walk up to a fully armored peraon in real life and steal their shorts.
a levelled world sucks, but Morrowind isn’t levelled so you WILL actually feel like a badass as a melee brawler and won’t be forced to be a sneaky sniper like in Oblivion or Skyrim
Without doubt my favourite game of all time, and although without doubt its in some part nostalgia... But honestly, ever since it came out to this day, I just adore morrowind.. Only problem is ive played it endlessly with almost every mod (or more, hundreds) possibility v.v. just remake morrowind, without changing ANY gameplay.. add more of vvardenfell ala tamriel rebuilt, but with more polish. The feel and writing/tone would be hard to recreate though, nothing really has (Big new vegas fanboy too, but morrowind is actually god tier)
Morrowind was my very first TES experience, I never have played a game quite like it. This game is unique beyond any other game, for the simple fact that you can do whatever the hell you want to and in most cases get away with it. It is not, of course, a game that holds your hand by any means, but it is a rewarding experience the more play it. If most Skyrim fans truly understood just how much Morrowind had to offer in terms of variety, it would truly be worth their time. The game doesn't pull you in and force you down a linear path as the more modern TES games seem to do. It still amazes me, that a game that had such a short deadline to complete, could contain so much!!
Wish you'd have made more videos. Very engaging style, great passion, amusing. Also was nice to see someone rubbishing Elden Ring as a FromSoft-failure, not as a generic game-failure. I got Morrowind on sale in like 2014 and have never played it beyond that first "realise you can't hit a mudcrab" loop you talk about. Despite knowing it has the best immersive exploration and most complex plot of all TES games, I just found the % chance to hit as frustrating as Diablo II with 300 AR in Hell mode, and had no inclination to go through that hell again, so I stopped. This video has convinced me to try again.
I appreciate this comment immensely. Currently have a video in the works, should be done soonish. Give Morrowind a go when you're ready to play a game without any background noise on, that's my advice. The more effort you put, the more it gives back. Glhf
Glad to have brought some happiness to your day. Your style deserves more attention. And yeah I'd never sully such an acknowledged classic with extraneous noise. It's one of those that I know is a great game but simply couldn't get into it. Thankfully I'm in a golden age (1993-2003) mood lately. Morrowind is a great way to cap that off.
I hope one day they will do some proper remaster of Morrowind.. The UI never bothered me and if i think about it i prefer it over any inventory/UI that other TES games had..
Morrowind is this game, wich i really love but i dont know if i could play it again nowadays because of how dated things feel. Yes it was awesome, and i love how morrowind actually created this strange world with all types of creatures and almost like as if you re on a different planet, while later elder scrolls games kind of lack that since they feel much more ''earthly'' and less bizarre. but sometimes its also best to just keep this old gem as a great memory to think about instead of going back playing it because theres allways a chance you might ruin it. In my 12? year old head i still have all those memories of morrowind and how awesome it was but as a 12 year old kid back then i also didnt care about bugs or technical flaws or all that, i was just playing games worryfree and enjoying it. Since i cannot play morrowind today the same way i was playing it as a 12 year old, it might just be better to leave it and keep the memory
You're forgetting that you can start with any given weapon style as a MAJOR skill; and at the beginning levels a scrib jelly or a nix hound WILL still kick your rear to Mournhold and back. The attributes do matter, to some extent - and greatly if you can manage to get to a set point in the MAIN QUEST. So long as you are patient and don't rage quit because of a very specific disease debuff. Once you get there; you can rest for infinity and beyond as far as the game is concerned and it will boost your combat stats by 1 each day (and nerf your willpower/personality - but that goes away if you continue on in the main quest) * Hitting a scrib jelly with 35 strength/30 agility/40 Endurance is not the same as MAKING one of the Vivec City Guards attack you with taunts, at 500+ Strength/500+ Agility/500+ Endurance. (They do have the ability to drain stats, so you have to watch that: but you get a crap ton of expensive loot, and a good weapon if you do Blunt) * Those ancestor ghosts in the starting village caves were a true pain in the rear. Also, do NOT use the Icarus scrolls. It will not end well... You saw what happened to that guy. Don't be that guy. ; ) Going to point out they also bemoaned it's gating in Oblivion. Nobody liked having to trek across the whole damned map just to get into the university, to get access to the spell creation system. : / For me in skyrim the only way stealth ever worked was enchanted boots with the Resto loop to make my fortify stealth ungodly high levels. I did try it with 100 to it and most perks taken... everything would still detect me no matter how careful I was being, or how dark it was. So yeah... Though one thing that cheesed me off was they took out Chameleon. It was how I had fun in Oblivion. You can get stealth to 100, get alchemy up to 100 for money - get merchantile to 100 also for money; get illusion up to 100 to get access to Chameleon + charm spells(it doesn't need to be 100 but I figure what the hell) and then buy I think it was 5 greater filled soul gems. Take them to the Uni, and forge an armor set that has +20% Chameleon as a permanent effect. Boom = you are effectively invisible BUT you can still attack. Have fun shooting people in the butt and watching them run around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to find you. Or take a page out of skyrim's book. Just shoot em in the knee... you know you want to get even with the guards who infinite spawn xD
Fuck yeah, Morrowind is awesome and way better than Oblivion and Skyrim, my only complaint is that the leveling system could have been done better (the current system rewards leveling crappy abilities instead of your class skills to max out ability points). But compared to the abomination character progression in Skyrim it is still infinitely better!
Nope! Vanilla is a great experience. I mentioned "OpenMW" in the video, I'd definitely recommend using that. You can find it at openmw.org/en/ OpenMW isn't a mod, but essentially takes the entire vanilla game and puts it on a different, much more stable engine. I played the game for months without it, and it definitely works, but once you play on OpenMW your game just crashes less + tedious bug fixes etc etc. There are plenty of guides on how to use it, but I'm pretty sure if you own Morrowind already, OpenMW is a simple one click to play launcher.
@@everettzarnick2323 ya maybe but when you look at divinity original sin 1 and how is evolved to bg3, it's clear there's profit and growth to be made in more. Long term more is more.
@@jgn1977 I agree. Makes me a bit worried about TES6, though I always take solace in the fact that if Bethesda continue to drop the ball, competition will swoop in and give us something really worth playing.
@@everettzarnick2323it makes me sad that it has to be that way though. I love tamriel. I long for another game set in the tamriel described in morrowind. But every game it gets watered down and made more boring...skyrim nords are just angry imperials and that makes...sad, and a little bit bitter.
@@oathkeeperofoblivion972 I understand that. Every story has to end, though. TES6 will come eventually, and honestly the only way I see these games retaining their quality over the long term is with these very distant releases, so maybe there's hope there.
Man i remember playing this for the first time and it was so fukin good, if i found something i really disliked a mod would fix it like the dice roll accuracy, the magic system world building was so good, love the biomes morrowind has and the dunmer culture, the fact they still have slaves was cool since it gave you a moral dilemma of the world and it was all so alien, its why oblivion and skyrim to me has a underwhelming world since it was fair more basic, especially when you figure out the lore in ES is wacky af too
The quests were just better. Instead of some long drawn out quest they’re quick to the point. Dungeons aren’t pointlessly long and boring like newer Bethesda games.
Yeah, I went back to play it and the melee combat is sooo horrible, no difference in the animation between a hit and a miss. Boots of Blinding Speed, am I right? Turning the brightness up just to counter the effect!
Played marrowind back in the day, could not get into it, revisited it after skyrim... Its rough and grindy for players from skyrim... I went into consol and fixed that shat in the first hour.... went around and had a blast... I liked the custom spell and the item slots.... I thought that part was unique, I hated having to pick which house to help, cause as far as I was concerned a dark elf was a dark elf, and if they had tasks for me to do, for pay and accolades 👏 then im all in... If anything give me incentives, yeah Indril will pay me a flat rate, of 500 gold, but telvani will pay me 400 gold and open up more trade options... im going telvani..... I would even work with dagoth ur if he provided a middle man and was not so kill everyone.... I played like a magpie... just taking everything...... selling off the useless... walking around like mr moneybags....
Morrowind "in my opinion" is one of the best RPGs ever!!!!! It doesn't hold your hand and tell you where to go and exactly what to do thus making it great and punishing all at the same time. If you figure out what you are supposed to do you are greatly rewarded.
I'll never forget the feeling of being a kid and finding the Sword of White Woe and becoming instantly rich, or realizing Ra'viir's Katana casts bound weapon which chews through the early game, or that scrolls are a genuine get out of jail free card with the guaranteed damage they put out, not to mention stuff like the Boots of Blinding Speed and Creeper. It made you really feel like a resourceful adventurer, and everyone who played long enough got their wink from the designers of "I won't tell that this is totally overpowered if you won't". Any single player game with level-scaling or balance between playstyles is sucking a huge amount of joy out of their game, half the fun of RPGs is coming back and clobbering the bandits that kicked your ass 10 levels ago.
@@Kukaahi It's a shame that people write off the combat in Morrowind because you can beat people you're not really "supposed" to if you're clever. Stuff like getting Lord's Mail early, or fighting Gothren or Umbra at any point force you to prepare and strategize in a way that you really don't do in real time RPGs any more
I loved finding things in this game. The later games are kind of like, "Come over here to this map marker and you'll get the stuff." This game is like, "Who knows what you'll find?" Those speed boots were a godsend. I enchanted a shirt and pants with a permanent a night eye enchantment, so I get the speed with no drawback.
Honestly I liked the dice roll combat mechanic of Morrowind. That first hit to connect on an annoying cliff racer right out of Seyda Neen was always a dopamine hit, and each skill level you could feel in real time your character improving as the success % went up gradually and the game could avoid saturating every mob as an hp sponge.
It's pretty good I've owned it since the week it came out but I've never completed it. My issue is the interface sucks imo and I struggled to find a mod that makes it tolerable for me.
My best gaming experience so far. Probably played about 200 hours. I bounced of the game 2 or 3 times. That combat was horrible. But one day, I decided, I'm just going to break that 30-minute barrier and I got hooked. I think it was when I realized I could go anywhere and do anything.
