TES III: Morrowind is AMAZING 

I can agree. I also started recently, I thought I would hate not having waypoints, but now I think the game (or any game really) should definitely not have waypoints. It changes the experience dramatically for the better, encouraging actually using your brain.

I started with oblivion, then put 4,000+ hours into Skyrim, THEN finally played Morrowind… I hate myself for waiting so long to play this masterpiece. I play with open mw and the I heart vanilla mod list and I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into this game in the last few months. It’s completely taken over my life and ruined oblivion for me 😂

You mentioned that you can't join the Mage's Guild and House Telvanni at the same time, but that wasn't the case for me on my last playthrough. I was able to advance to the head of both factions, and aside from a small disposition hit with Mage's Guild members as I ranked up in Telvanni and occasionally being told off by NPCs for joining Telvanni I didn't have any issues. The main conflict is with the Fighter's and Thieves Guilds. Doing the Balmora Fighter's Guild quest to retrieve the code book will permanently lock you out of joining the Thieves Guild (the NPC won't hand it over if you're already a Guild member.) Since most of the higher ups in the Fighter's Guild are in the pocket of Vvardenfell's local crime syndicate the Camonna Tong which wants to drive out the imperial Thieves Guild there are actually two different ways of going through the Fighter's Guild quest line(s). You can follow orders, not questioning anything, and end up burning bridges with and eventually wiping out the Thieves Guild, or you could side with Percius Mercius in Ald Ruhn, getting his opinion on targets the other quest givers send you to kill and eventually rooting out the corruption within the Fighter's Guild while leaving the option to join the Thieves Guild open. It's a shame that there isn't anything like this in later TES games with conflict between and within factions that you can have any meaningful impact on with your choices.

I spend a lot of my time gaming with reviews and essays playing on my phone, so it's always nice to find a high quality one of a decent length. I appreciate it!

Still the best in the series. You literally have to mod Skyrim to hell to include enough mechanics to keep it interesting for more than a few hours.

25 million INT, enough damage to nuke whole Vvardenfell in one shot, potions that restore 75k HP per second for the duration of a real time week...Yep. Magic is truly magic in Morrowind 🙏

Elder scrolls III morrowind was my first open world game i ever played and that was back in 2008 when i was 8years old and had my first pc and i fuckin loved it. That game will always hold a special place in my heart

Played on release night and still playing it. No replacement for it.

Dungeons have no sense of good loot? What in the actual fuck? Are we talking about the same game, where you can find game breakingly powerful artifacts in half of them if you're just attentive enough to look out for items hidden in nooks or high-up shelves where you have to use levitation to get them? The whole point of Morrowind dungeons was to feel real, there's just trash scattered everywhere, leftover from ancient cultures, but if you're careful and thorough, every once in a while you come across a find that can be a turning point of your playthrough. I'd take it any day over the infinitely boring leveled loot of Skyrim and Oblivion, where you will always leave a dungeon with a bag of shitty loot that is never interesting, because going in you know exactly what it will be.

I know and understand the frustration people feel with TESIII but honestly I feel like it is the perfect RPG, and almost a perfect game entirely if you use OpenMW!

You can totally join the telvanni as a member of the mages guild. But you have to pick one or the other by the end of it.

yo, coming here from my bloodborne stream; this is a pretty cool video on morrowind, and i might try it out in my own time!

4:01 comment yeh!!-Ernie Moore Jr.

i think an underappreciated reason for the vibes morrowind has is ken rolston being an uber d&d nerd. also he is socucius ergalla.

I wish RPGs were still for thinking people as the RPGs today are so dumbed down that they’re hardly even RPGs anymore.. Looking at you Fallout 4.

Oblivion was my first ES game, then I played Skyrim, then Morrowind..... and Morrowind is the only one I have regularly come back to

OpenMW does have distant lands, you just need to change it in the OpenMW launcher under advanced - visuals - view distance

“yeah, no shit. - me, 22 years ago

Thanks for destroyign my speakers.

Commentary was excellent stuff.-Ernie Moore Jr.

It’s 22 years old now god!

I love it, Morrowind is one of my favorites. Great video 👍

28:05 I searched all around for a mod to remove the combat music and just keep the exploration music, and there were no mods or solutions. Any ideas anyone had didn't actually do it properly. So I replaced all the battle music mp3s with an mp3 of just silence, renamed the same as the morrowind music in the right folder. Easy, fixed, now there's no combat music. Don't know why the internet couldn't think of this

I remember when I first bought Morrowind; I sold a Team Fortress 2 weapon on the Steam community market, I bought a crate for about 2 ~ 3¢ then bought the key to open it for about 2 ~ 3$ roughly and I got a unique weapon with a kill counter stat worth about 20$; I sold that weapon; bought Morrowind and then I figured out how much I favored this game over Oblivion which was my first time ever playing an Elder Scrolls title. I spend so many hours on Morrowind on both the PC and the Xbox, I've played both versions and I just wish they at least rerelease to include some features, I wouldn't at all care if the general game stayed the same just as long they added the certain PC settings such as the screen size as well draw distance.

3:48 comment.-Ernie Moore Jr.

When bro said his mom was pregnant with him while playing this game I threw my phone into the wall.

I love that Dagoth's song at the end 💖

Bro doesn’t even know what weakness to Magicka actually is

For me my ranking the Elder scrolls games is (Modded) 1) Morrowind 2) Skyrim 3) Oblivion 4) Daggerfall unity Pure vanilla 1) Oblivion 2) Skyrim 3) Morrowind 4) Daggerfall Unity And yes Skyrim was my first RPG ever :D so I played the Elder scrolls game backwards haha but Morrowind is the best

Yo this is a really good vid man. I hope your channel blows up

my first rpg was iwd2 and then i baught morrowind right after. so after a completely linear experience of iwd game i came to morrowind with a somewhat completionist mentality, one aspect of which is taking "talk to everyone - talk is cheap" advice to heart. and boy did it pay off. i mean, judging by numerous modern blind lps people with oblivion and skyrim background often assume lack of depth and just do not explore and hence get only a very superficial and basically wrong impression of the game. sellus gravious explocitly tells to pay attention and yet 90% of new playes do not. but those who do get huge return on their investment.

um me in 2003 using Google and GameFAQs to play Morrowind..... XD

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The one mod I installed to take care of the reading "problem" in this game was Voices of Vvanderfell. 10/10 won't read again

Morrowind videos? time to go through a rabbit hole. see what he has to say about tes3 my fav. lol if its all good I'm here for the sub and likes also your young. lol because I played this as my 4th xbox game. it's definitely the best mechanic wise in my opinion.

Great video do one on Oblivion at least!

You swear too much in your video. Man,you find so many negative things you dont like. And yet you keep saying how much you like the game. And it 's Caius Cosades,pronounces like CosAdes. NOT a long e. The accent on Cosades is the a,not the o. (sorry,I get somewhat grousy about pronounciation of words. It shows whether someone paid attention in class.) Oh,..You can find a mod for decorating your home in the Nexus. Lets you hang stuff and put stuff on shelves,etc. Also,if you dont like the music go into your ini file and remove it or turn it down by changing the number next to the file. I've never gotten a game crash. We dont need to have Morrowind remastered. It's awesome as it is,..bones and all.

I play it on me phone hehe 🤭

Oblivion is great and we all know it. Just like Morrowind and Skyrim. I'll never understand idiots WANTING to hate one the TES games. They're all the best in different categories.

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Eyo

just how old are you lmao? xD

Another great underrated channel. Nice

I payed four bucks for my first copy of this.. best four bucks that was ever spent anywhere for all of time.

The thing about good loot in morrowind is that it's VERY well hidden in dungeons. Often requiring levitation to even get to. If you know where to look, there's some seriously OP weapons and artifacts dotted around the map. They didn't make it easy to find because THIS ISNT SKYRIM. It's a ROLE PLAYING game. Not an interactive movie over which you have almost no control of the outcomes.

As someone with a deep love for Morrowind (I was 13 playing original MW), I really enjoyed your video. There aren't very many games that are as immersive. Well done. You earned this sub.

A f**king Audio warning would have been nice.

Morrowind can be insanely easy or hard, all depends on how you play it.

Not only does corpus make you immortal, it makes you immune to all other diseases

Sorry that you had a crappy childhood. Me too. But before I'm even ten minutes in, you've blasted my eardrums out about eight times. Unforgivable. Learn how to edit your volume levels for fucks sake. And btw, both Oblivion and Skyrim are toilet water. If you want to play another genuine RPG, pick up the Gothic series. Skyrim isn't even an RPG, it's just an adventure game.

For Morrowind newbies that want an easy time I recommend a Redguard, custom class with combat specialization, preferred attributes being strength and endurance, long blade and heavy armor as major skills, and alchemy as at least a minor skill, and The Lady birthsign. You will start with 85 endurance giving you a decent amount of starting health and good health gains every time you level. A starting long blade skill of 50 means you won't miss nearly as much, and there's no shortage of good long blades and heavy armor. You need at least some alchemy skill to even see what potions will do which is why I recommend picking it up as at least a minor skill even if you don't plan on using it. For your other skills you can pick whatever you think would be fun to experiment with, but you should be decently competent in combat from level 1, and you can use the ability Adrenaline Rush once a day to make you much more powerful if an enemy is giving you trouble. Once you get the hang of how the game plays and become more familiar with the world, you can branch out and try stealth or magic focused characters. Or maybe a light-medium armored Argonian spear user since the extra range of spears makes how you approach combat feel very different than other weapon types. Depending on how you create and play your characters future playthroughs can feel like playing a totally different game. I just recommend the long blade Redguard of The Lady to those new to the game because it is extremely effective in combat right out of the gate, and the combat seems to be what turns off most people who are new to the game. Then the game has a chance to get its hooks in them and they can then go on to experiment with other playstyles.

What? I'll definitely never use my potion of feather that lasts weeks in game that gives me absolutely zero weight so I can carry everything and never have to worry about encumbrance

Morrowind's combat is Minecraft's mining. need the right tool and right skill for the job.

My poor ears...

Hi i just played morrowind and i enjoyed it although i encoutered many bugs and things that discouraged me to go on. Still i finished it. Do you think that most of the problems listed for morrowind are resolved in Oblivion? Is it more enjoyable than Morrowind? Because i would like to play it now that ive finished morrowind.

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE TERM ''SOUND NORMALIZATION'' ?????

i really like this video but youre so clearly influenced by civvie that its difficult to appreciate what's your style and what simply youre lifting from him

Nice video except all the "loud clipping audio = funny haha".

As someone who streamed a whole playthrough of Morrowind on XBox, it does wanna kill my itself most of the time. The smoothest place was Solstheim...

give my boi more subs youtube please

maybe balance the audio better next time.

Ah Morrowind while it might not be *P E R F E C T* it sure is perfect. Since it came out it set the standard for western RPGs for me and set the standard for me on game mods. I had always played very vanilla unless I find interesting mods that I would play separate saves on. I just recently jumped back in with OpenMW and their Expanded Vanilla mod list to experience it again in a new light. Also please God no Todd don't do Morrowind Remastered. They would make it Skyrim and it would be trash and a big cash cow like Skyrim.

I like the content of the video but your sound mixing is awful. I had to keep turning it up and down. A lot of people like to watch game retrospectives when falling asleep, you're alienating that audience with your random loud sound effects. Also contrary to what you younguns think, something being loud does not make it funny.

really liked the video untill you started yelling randomly or playing really loud noises when your video is over all chill and relaxing just kinda ruined it for me

Love this game so much, just have to clarify something about OpenMW. You absolutely can use graphical enhancement mods as well as shaders, I don't play without them now.

I don’t remember clicking a strat edgy video. Lol

this video was good, i love this game, but i also got the feeling video was pretentious as shit

The guild quests ARE well written, which makes them fun. Also you can be both Telvanni and Mages Guild. I am every single Guild at once, plus Telvanni. I just avoid missions that go against other guilds, which you can do by grabbing a mission from a different city's guild hall. For example "balmora fighters guild wants me to rob the thieves guild, I'll just take missions from ald-ruhn or vivec instead

One thing a lot of people seem to miss (lol) is that hit chance is a 2 way street. There is also an evasion chance for your target. Enemies with low agility are easier to hit. When I have a low weapon skill, I just use it on slow, weak enemies to train it on the go. For example, if I am primarily a long blade user, but I'm trying to train short blade, I will carry a few daggers on me and only use them on mudcrabs, rats, kwama foragers, etc.

Uhm, there is no problem with joining both Mages' Guild and House Telvani in the game. The only guild conflict might appear between certain parts of Fighters' and Thieves' Guilds if you follow the Camonna Tong quests in FG.

16:30 it may be unwarranted, but i love taking every opportunity to shit on tiktok

2 years later, almost everything you said about OpenMW is wrong, even 2 years ago the only thing you got right is its actually stable.

Not two minutes in, I realised I Liked this video. Todd, oh Todd... Why must thou be a Todd?

40:40 I was going to say.... And I'm saying qq thank you forvsharing.

Openmw is King :D

6:16 comment. Reasonable...Nice!!.-Ernie Moore Jr.

2:20 *Thank you.* Someone gets it.

Nothing gets my nostalgia going like morrowind music does

It's great young people are finding this game and spreading the word as you have. Hopefully some developer or exec somewhere will realise theres a reason this game is still finding new players to this day. Todd won't but maybe someone will. Have you played the Gothic games? Gothic 2 especially. It's roughly contemporary with Morrowind. There's a remake of Gothic 1 coming this year but I don't know how true to the original it will be.

The Morrowind theme with synth isn't charming

I do have to disagree with the assessment that Redguard is a "solid" title. Its horrible lmao. Just awful.

No no more on the lore of the land!

Rpg goat

Banger song.

Iit ended on a fat dislike at the 3 minute mark

The editing of this video is so annoying. -1

They need to stop bonuses from a single source from stacking, if you can't put +100 on every piece of clothing then they may be able to balance the game

Thanks for the video I was curious what kind of game Morrowind was since I have never played it. My only take away is why do you put these ear bleeding horrific sound effects into your video? It only retracts from the quality of your videos. At least put a warning before it will surprise attack anyone watching it with earphones on.

I'd love you to review the other Elder Scrolls games! (Daggerfall Unity exists thankfully)

u deserve more subscribers

Back in the day, (I was a Freshman in HS in 2003 when I started Morrowind on the SexBox), we really played this one into the ground. FWIW, the only content you cannot access on a single playthrough, factionwise, is two of the three Great House chains. With proper fenagling and progression, you can absolutely hit the top of every guild in a single playthrough, including the seemingly wholly at-odds Fighters and Thieves guild questlines. And, at any rate, missing out on two of the Great House chains is NBD anyway, because if you aren't choosing Telvanni, you should be. Short build guide to being God (how can you kill a god? Spoiler: You can't): Play as a Dunmer with focus on Strength and Intelligence. Major skills in Acrobatics, Illusion, Blunt, and Alteration. Minors can be whatever you'd like, but choosing a type of armor and sneak is a good way to go. First you get good enough to hit like half the time with a hammer, then you get the ability to cast a Chameleon 100 spell for 1 to 2 seconds. Following that, go to Vivec and grind Ordinators for that expensive ass gear-- this is done by using the Chameleon spell to get you that sweet bonus damage. If you fail and get caught, use the most overpowered ability the Elder Scrolls gives the player, even to this day: The ability to reverse time by reloading. With just a minimum of skill, you can one shot those bastards every time.. Pay for training. Repeat. Recommended weapon is Skullbash, which can be gotten from a Daedric Shrine under a tomb near Sadrith Mora. You will need a Locksplitter scroll or two to open the lock 100 chests/doors, and some form of levitation-- although there is a pair of levitation boots in the dungeon, IIRC. Doing this, and just jumping everywhere the whole time, you can have a hooked up character within a few hours of creation, ready to take on the whole rest of the game. Just make sure to level selectively and appropriately, only when you have 3 skills at the X5 bonus. The training you can pay for using the money you make off Ordinator gear is a great way to guarantee those stat bonuses. Of course, you could always just cheese potions, but I never bothered. This way isn't exactly the most "natural" either, but at least it feels better than outright exploiting the system. I eventually got it down to a science, and the friend I had who died to a scrib after hours of wandering marveled at how I reached level 20 in half the time it took him to get that far. Once you have the money, you can basically do anything by paying for enough training in that skill, so there are no limits. Things only get a little dicey there when you need to access some of the more obscure trainers that start hostile to you upon seeing you-- there is another reason for the illusion spell focus, because without the CALM spell you 100% miss content by killing everyone that is hostile. For instance, the master enchanting trainer is in an old Dunmer Stronghold near the edge of the Grazelands on the border of the Telvanni lands, south of Vos-- he spawns as hostile. Other tip is to just jump everywhere-- eventually you will get good at it, and with the aid of a Jump 100 spell, you can clear the map in a single bound. Most recent playthrough I added the mod that delimits your spell making ability and allows you to fortify over 100. Gotta say it was rather nice to be able to tweak my jump spell into 3 jump spells of varying strength based on how far I needed to go from my start point for any given objective. It never stops being satisfying when you fall from an absurd height and take no damage because of your insane Acro skill. The sickening CRUNCH noise it makes when you hit the ground makes my knees hurt IRL tho. I never used Alchemy in Morrowind... at all, and I probably won't in the future either.

Morrowind's combat, stealth, and pretty much anything around all of that sucks bro. But the world is fantastic as hell.

Lol saying that chugging fortify int potions to make stronger potions was not inteneded. It was because in the past they did not handhold you like your creepy uncle. Not intended was soultrap glitch that can fortify your skill permanently into the thousands (just don;t be a warewolf supposedly it breaks the glitch.)

Commenting to boost your algorithm. Good stuff!