The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - Third time the charm? 

What a grand and intoxicating innocence

A few notes that I'm sure others have addressed: 1. Really painful watching you swing your axes as fast as possible, not always at great fatigue. I hope you wouldn't do that with warhammers! 2. Trainers can only train you up to their level in the skill. You have to find the extremely rare and well hidden master trainers to get to 100. 3. Like Daggerfall Unity, Morrowind has OpenMW. A modern open source engine reimplementation. It runs way better, and it looks gorgeous. Turn the distant land up, the water shader with refraction on, the linear lighting and bloom, and install some volumetric clouds shaders, and boom! Gorgeous. Ground cover goes a long way too. 4. OpenMW has multiplayer. Start a server! Play with your friends. It works great.

After 20+ years the Morrowind modding community is probably more active than ever. The Script Extender was upgraded a few years ago to incorporate lua, and it can do things that were impossible in the original game.

I've been enjoying the memes that have popped up recently involving this game. Nice to see that it's fanbase is still going strong.

You are a good brother. If my brother stole 50 bucks from me I would have shoved him down the stairs.

Honesty I only played before as advice of dear friend of mine years ago , because I was in both rage and depression because thing I have to go through of world of darkness anyways , I had struggled with it really but I was horrified of silt strider , therefore I had to travel off foots and it was a nightmare, and when I finally get my hands and understand of game, silt strider ? I remember it in Skyrim even though I never fully understood it , but when I heard the rider said “isn’t it beautiful? The last living silt strider” and in my way in vivic city (while using a mod of course to let me sees the wonderful land) I cry . And I have go through this beautiful world, I felt bit more of inner peace. Truly wonderful game.

That comment about fixing the combat, the best I can come up with is having a visible dodge animation play on dice roll with a cooldown (higher agi stat - lower cooldown, faster animation and higher dodge chance + higher dex stat to reduce the enemy dodge chance), a gradient blend between 2 different animations 1st being a sloppy and unprofessional style at 0 skill and 2nd being at 100 with a faster, tighter and much more refined animation. Use that instead of character skill & perk-based dmg stats and leave dmg stat entirely to weapons (material, refinement and enchantment). Then having flinch and stumble animations play based on body part hit and the severity based on Endurance stat

Your suggestion for the second way to fix the combat is basically how Gothic 1 & 2 did it, and it worked really well at showing your character’s skill without having that frustration of missing because of a dice roll.

Becoming god like is lore accurate lol

I forget what Morrowind looks like without graphics mods and being on the Openmw Engine.

Great content

I love the end of this, it made me subscribe and Ik im gonna watch your other stuff later. I can’t think of anything else to improve other than *maybe* pacing but that’s debatable. Also most logical thing to do after fallout games is elder scrolls games

Morrowind was my first ever elder scrolls game. Played it around summer 2021 lmao

I dislike the combat changes that you suggest. Both Oblivion and Skyrim already has the "every swing hits and damage is modified by skill level" version. They even have unlockable perks (which are fun!). The question is - do I prefer these "modern" systems over Morrowinds combat? No, I don't! It is true, that combat in Morrowind is "dice based", but it is not to difficult to understand using common sense: - higher weapon skill => better chance to hit - higher agility attribute => better chance to hit - higher luck attribute => slightly better chance to hit - if your character is well rested (stamina bar is full), they have a significantly higher chance to hit - if your character is exhausted (stamina bar is low), they have a much harder time hitting stuff - there are also other modifiers, like the warrior sign that gives you a flat +10% chance to hit (which is not insignificant, but falls of when you max your skill, since getting above 100% to-Hit is meaningless) So, here are my 5 reasons, why I like this system better: 1) Your character class/race/skill choices matter - starting as a warrior makes you very proficient at combat 2) On paper skill progression seems to have little impact, the actual experience is different. Because of the miss mechanic - getting less misses when your skills improve feels much more impactful than getting +10% damage would in the later games 3) "Me" vs "My Character" argument - if my character is bad at combat, I would like to see it reflected in game - the dice based system is perfect for that 4) The feeling of using an amazing weapon while being bad at it. In Skyrim or Oblivion you hit each time dealing almost no damage vs in Morrowind you will miss most hits, but when your attack connects the enemy will sometimes lose half of their heath 5) In end game, when you have maxed your skill - you will always hit and you drop most enemies with one hit (using the amazing artifact weapons Morrowind has), which is much faster then Skyrim or Oblivion. There is also the argument that Oblivion and Skyrim are more player skill based, since you as a player decides how the combat goes. - just because you hit at every swing, does not mean the combat is player skill base - while sadly the to-hit combat modifiers you had in Daggerfall to directional attacks are gone, you still have option for directional attacks (if you turn always use best attack off). Since these are triggered my the movement key + attack combo you have a lot of influence how you attack. Note that most of this is just how much damage you deal, but for some weapons animation speeds might also be different. - There is also the weaving in and out of combat approach which works best with high speed attribute and enables you to move in quickly hit the enemy and move out before they can hit you. Since most weapons have different ranges, you can also exploit that - using a spear while moving back keeps the enemy at bay. - if you have high enough weapon skill and agility, you will not miss and hitting on every swing as a non-combat type character feels immersion breaking Finally I would like to suggest a third option, you missed: A lot of people dislike the combat because the information/feedback is not represented well enough visually: "This is bulls$@t! My weapon clearly connected, why did I deal no damage?!" If the game would have presented a better feedback on what is happening, players would have a much easier time immersing themselves in combat. What do we need? - add new animations to represent combat better - dodge, parry, glancing blow, various hit animations (hitting hand, legs, face, body..), critical hit animations - allow weapons to clash and have various outcomes - like feints or even grappling - if we want to also improve the hand-to-hand options most of this would obviously be skill based, but players should get some options similarly how the directional attack system works (or have a utilize best combo option for people who do not want to bother with combat, and let their characters and their skills do most of the fighting - the can still enjoy the nice animations) - have matching sounds and audio ques to support the system (parry sounds, glancing blow sounds, various hit sounds, shuffling and dodging sounds... etc) - upgrade the AI to utilize the system by using the animation and utilize moving in combat better Would this be easy to implement? Of course not. But it would keep the RPG system and offer a visualization that most people used to modern games could accept.

Those are the 3 best xbox games you had a good friend

Ah morrowind: Fantastic lore, character build, sense of wonder and the best main quest bethesda made (so far). The only three things i always criticized Morrowind is that it has some pretty weak character writing (it never was Bethesda strong point to say the truth), the thief skills were pretty underwhelming (and broken/useless in the case of trying to pickpocket someone or using speechcraft) and that the game could explain the mechanics and the math of it all a little better. Even the old OG manual barely explained how important fatigue was for all the things you did, today we have many wikis and a lot of resources in the internet at least. Hey man thanks for the cool videos, it's has been fun binging your content while doing chores. I want to say that you don't need to be so worried when giving your opnions, but i guess this is the internet so i understand lol. (is worried right? Maybe i should say defensive? Sorry english is not my first language)

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4k and 60 FPS at Series X .A good time to play it again,or first time.

Brilliant, yet another origin story for a Morrowind addict! 😁

If you ever have a lull and need to make another video, I wouldn't mind seeing your take on Tamriel Rebuilt.

Daggerfall insane how the 90ies were good to rpgs.

Wait so your brother stole $50 and you didn’t get his ass?

your doing great champ (dont reply to this please)

Holy crap whoever that friend was he gave you like the 3 best games around at the time... o ly 2 things that might have made it even cooler not that you would have been able to beat them all... would have been Halo 1 or 2 and Starwars battlefront 1 or 2. Hope you syill talk to that guy sounds like a true G.

Running was invented in 1612 when Thomas Running tried to walk twice at the same time.

I started with Skyrim, so Morrowind took a long time for me to get used to its mechanics, but it was so worth it. I have yet to find another game with such great role-playing elements.

You are little harsh on combat. If you take skill u want to use ex. Long blade, have 50+ agility and dont spam attack button, you are gonna hit 70% your hits on lvl 1. Stamina is king i this game if u have full stamina u have +25% chance to do ANYTHING even speech or mercantile. If u have less than half you got -25% chance to hit or do anything. Also charge your attack you gonna hit really hard for less stamina :) nice video and great that you finally could play this game. Good luck ^^ Edit: also for convinient travel you also have spells/scrolls/enchaced items for almsivi/divine intervention and mark/recall. If u set mark for example in mages guild in balmora you can recall and take guild guide to other guilds or go to silt strider in few seconds. Be creative in morrowind u can go to amy place in 5 min if u master travel system. Also levitation, fortify atlethic, speed, jumps spell amd enhancments get the job done too :)

A little fun fact of Divayth Fyr he's basically a lich. The dude has been around since forever. He shows up in Elder Scrolls Online. And that game takes place a near 500 years before Morrowind.

Oh man! My first Elder Scrolls game! A fantastic way to see it again! Bring on Oblivion!! (And yes, I want to see both expansion sets!)

Actively doing my first playthrough of morrowind, and i will say that its mechanics are definitely janky by today’s standards but the LORE- the lore is amazing and so worth it, i swear every time i play i am in awe of the scenery. I've got about 210 hours so far and yeah the beginning of the game was a bit painful at times due to the fact you have to just pray to RNG, but once I got to level 10, that's when I genuinely started to fully enjoy the game and just could not stop playing it! I took a break for a few months and just started playing it again a couple days ago! Also I would never forgive my brother if he stole my 50 dollars worth of manual labor, that's straight up evil lmao

An Elder Scrolls game that wasn't just about ''follow the marker'' to solve quests you did not care about. Also, you don;t hear how awesome you are every 10 minutes. Morrowind is the best.

Morrowind is my n.1! I hope bethesda will go back and take deeply in consideration Morrowind and Daggerfall.

The nostalgia I got blasted with. And very well explained, thank you

Underrated channel, saw your Daggerfall video and now this one, I'll be there for the Oblivion video as well, great stuff.

When you have become godlike, go to Solstheim and get wreckd by Werewolves.

I beat the original Elder Scrolls Morrowind at least 20 times original Xbox it became an addiction and I bought the Game of the Year Edition beat that least 10 times and then when Oblivion came out I got the 360 the same day and I played that game for a weeks and weeks Beat It at least 20 times

Just beat Morrowind with graphic and camping overhaul. Top game of all time

I'm loving ur videos so far and I'm so excited for the oblivion video! I was really looking forward to this one and you did not disappoint and I can't wait to see more from you! Ps you should do the dark souls franchise

You probably could have convinced a jury to acquit you of fratricide in that case 😂 Edit: i love that your character got arrested for stealing pillows and upon release, promptly returns to stealing pillows 😂

I am playing Morrowind as of late, and I am having a BLAST. I started out trying to get into Skyrim since I never finished it, and to play through the Bethesda Fallout games (I completed 3 but not the other two.) I ended up ditching them to play Morrowind, again. It is simply superior.

100% would be hyped to hear your stories with the dlc, its pretty interesting stuff! As far as other franchises are concerned the 2 i play the most outside of TES are the Halo & Witcher series so my bias is to suggest those but quite frankly i've played over 300 games in my lifetime so chances are whatever ya pick ill vibe with to some extent

Real answer: No, Skywind should be done this year, just wait.

Yes! Please cover the expansions

A few years ago I found an unopened copy of Marrowwind on CD at a thrift store for $1

I started with Skyrim and then tried all the previous games. Morrowind is definitely a great game, feels more qualitative than Skyrim, but my all time favorite is Daggerfall. Both Daggerfall and Morrowind are very underrated games.

Caius Custodes? :thonk: Also, ngl I assumed from your accent you were British, so hearing "dollars" was a lil funky. Australian?

When people would say how good this game was, I always thought there was remnants of nostalgia influencing a slight bias, but. Absolutely. Not. Its like if you gave passionate indie devs, a triple A budget and as much time as they would like to make a game, its Morrowind. imo, Its pretty perfect.

I recently got Morrowind again on gog, just to play it again. Used the Tamriel Rebuilt mod, and I pretty much went through the whole game before doing the modded areas, but it is just as good as I remembered it being. I don't really care if looks are crap by current gen standards, cause the game itself is just amazing, and really exemplifies the exploration, and discovery aspect of open world rpgs, and with no fast travel you are pretty much forced to explore.

Nice video to lay down to....wait....WHERES MY PILLOWS?????

My favorite game of all time. I played it alone and without a leader.

Thumbs up cus I support small growing channels

The game actually has aged very well, considering the fundamental gameplay is the same as Skyrim’s. Because of its age, it asks more from the player and their imagination (think: Morrowind slow travel speed, no fast travel, no quest waypoint and static NPC’s VS Oblivion/Skyrim fast travel + NPC dynamic lives). Morrowind asks the player to imagine the lives of the NPC’s whereas Skyrim doesn’t. Morrowind asks the player to imagine the woes and whims, up’s and down’s - the drama - of dice-roll combat. What it lacks, it makes up for in engrossing the player in a world they are forced to engage in to progress the story. Such as readable dialogue which is more in-depth than the voice acting of future games. These trade-offs are why people look at Morrowind as the ultimate role-playing TES. At the core of the three modern games is the same experience. Barring some quality of life and changes to combat, etc. Morrowind really is just a barebones Skyrim (not in lore, or storytelling, etc. but in general gameplay experience). By the way, bravo on the videos. I’ve been eating them up!

Great Video! I had the same Experience back in the day.

The music are great!

Ironically, I got Morrowind for free, without knowing anything about it whatsoever, as part of a package of random games included with my purchase, when I bought my first PC in 2003. By the way, my personal take on the Nerevarine Prophecies is that Azura made the whole thing up. She needed a competent hero, to do her dirty work, defeat Dagoth Ur, expose the Tribunal, and destroy the Heart of Lorkan - so she made a prophecy describing the kind of hero she would need, what challenges that hero would have to overcome to prove their competence, and the stipulation that the person needed to be recognized as the Nerevarine to unite the Dunmer houses and Ashlander clans. Then she passed those prophecies to her loyal followers, knowing they would eagerly kill themselves in their desperate attempt to fulfill those prophecies, until one hero emerged capable of doing the tasks she required. In short, Azura's "prophecy" of the Nerevarine, was basically just a job description. Your character isn't really the reincarnation of Lord Nerevar - you were just the person who happened to meet the requirements to complete Azura's job.

Actually, if you user magic it does not have a chance to miss. Instead, it has a chance of the spell failing to cast in the first place (which avoids the problem that what you see visually doesn't reflect what is happening). Also, you can use spellmaking to mitigate this problem by making a weaker spell that is more reliable. My first full playthrough was as a pure mage and I found that way more fun than warrior style.

To be obnoxiously padantic, "radiant questing" is random quest generation with a particular (rudimentary) AI spin. It's so named because it ties into the Radiant AI system that Bethesda developed to handle NPC behavior patterns (before promptly minimizing it to almost-insignificance because the AI patterns led to far too much random madness over the course of a playthrough). Radiant questing is INTENDED to direct you specifically to locations you've never been to, on top of providing some repeatable things to do so that you're not limited to just mindlessly grinding dungeons for loot or some such. That, in itself, is fine. The issue is that Bethesda never seems to have the time during development to really expand on the idea, so the Radiant Quests in Skyrim end up feeling a lot like the ones in Daggerfall. It's far more interesting in, say, Skyrim's "Missives," mod, which is transparently just a randomly-generated job-board system that re-integrates Daggerfall's time limits for jobs. But even that is a minor fix. If more time were put in, it would be possible to make radiant quests that are much more complex and reactive (indeed, Daggerfall did try to do something like that with certain quests, though they tended to be the buggy ones in the OG game) and a re-implementation of the old faction-system idea would make it much more interesting to puzzle your way through. *sigh* A guy can dream...

The first time I ever ate psilocybin mushrooms, I fell into morrowind on my Xbox. Like, ALL the way in. Freed some slaves, felt like a superhero. Then I noticed that the TV was moving like liquid so much I couldn't read anything. All in all, a WONDERFUL experience.

I have a similar story, I borrowed a friends xbox 360 in high school for a weekend and played the fuck out of fable 3. I didn't have any console at the time because i was poor and wasn't used to modern video games so it blew my mind. haven't played it since though, never got around to it. Morrowind was my first elder scrolls game, I didn't play it until 2014 and it consumed me, just absolutely. I still play it pretty frequently, modded the ever loving fuck out of it too.

I feel like the point of Morrowind is discovering how to exploit the magic system. Hell I had my own little ideas 20 years ago on how to play the game. I look it up later and realized I was only scratching the surface. My go to move was to play an Imperial and use my daily voice of the Emperor.... to help me pick fist fights. Cause if you taunt someone you are free to punch them out and loot them. Hell that helps with some of the faction quests too. Like where the Warrior guild wants you to kill people in Thieves guild.. Well if instead of attacking the thieves you call them names you are free to murder them in self defense.

Oh this is cool

I had my first PC back then and I had Morrowind but it blew my schoolboy mind when I was near Balmora and I stopped playing.

Caius, would you please put on a shirt while you get high and watch me sleep? "No." O-Okay then...

I love your intro about finding this game. I used to sit at my older brothers computer desk with the guidebook on my lap trying to navigate this world with my limited reading skills. Amazing review! Keep it up!

Wonderful video! Morrowind came out when I was 1 years old and Skyrim was my first TES adventure. So I'm not nostalgia blinded when I say Morrowind is my favorite game of all time. Just wondering do you have any thoughts on Tamriel Rebuilt?

How dare you smear the good name of Divayth Fyr. He is truly a man of culture.

Subbed, enjoyed your Daggerfall video. Keep it up fella!

Yep as OLD as this is? FIRST "Free Roaming 3D RPG videogame" that looked Nice and played SIMILAR to the old D&D rules !!!!! Just get "OpenMW" and screw the wacko crazy loopy mods out there? It would be FUN to see some of those turned into TICK BOXES inside the OpenMW options however?

Brothers can be so evil. XD my brother used to make me cry playing the sims (the original) because he'd always do awful things to the sims and get the children taken away. My younger sibling is so lucky being significantly younger than me and my older brother. As a 24 year old it just feels embarrassing to have beef with a 16 year old XD. I remember saving up for games, im so spoilt these days. I used to wait years to play games because i had to wait for the price drop. Now i cant even convince myself to wait for payday.

Honestly Lycan, this was one of the shortest but yet accurate review/retrospective Morrowind videos i have seen. All points are spot on and and well explained. The game is "broken" and for that reason alone TES games are everyone's favorite because of all stories of things bugging out and glitching and God knows what else, sharing experiences and CH builds. How many Easter-eggs there is in this game, how many hidden things unexplored to this date??? If we had Morrowind convention for about 7 days we wouldn't finish talking about it and laugh about it! Sometimes i wonder, is it possible they were making these games buggy on purpose. I mean you can teach a monkey to write a novel but one company cant learn on their mistakes..? Highly unlikely...

A third option for combat that would be easier on the programmers but harder on the animators: Add a second attack animation. On rolled hit, it plays the normal animation. On rolled miss, the weapon goes off noticably to one side. Then, rather than the player seeing their weapon go through their target, they see the weapon go off course. Probably still just as frustrating, but at least there's visual feedback rather than just a sound cue.

As for combat there are mods. I recommend Better Balanced Combat. It turns the combat into an action based combat system instead of dice rolls. What's different about Better Balanced Combat is that it also makes many other changes under the hood to make the game more compatible with such a combat system. Many inferior mods just take away the dice roll and make it 100% to hit. But the game was not designed with this in mind so it in turn creates many problems. B.B.C. addressed these issues to the best of it's ability to make a more modern combat feel.

Ate a chicken caesar sandwich in one of the sitdowns on watchin' this vid. And indeed, Daggerfall to Morrowind does prove the difference between vast but randomly generated vs smaller but handcrafted. Sure, either may work in certain ways but I did say that from a more neutral standpoint than may seem.

666th like! And oh my, what a story for getting the game! And as short as the soundtrack is, Morrowind has some of the best game OST.

Just foundnyour channel last night. Watched your videos on Arena, Daggerfall and now this one. Awesome work, love the video format.

you misspelled or misremembered so many words I actually find the video better for it. and now I have to comment :D as a teen I always assumed the town is named SCYDA neen and my cousin thought the same

Honestly if you tried Daggerfall and enjoyed it, Morrowind has the strongest DNA shared between it. Going from Daggerfall to Morrowind, it was amazing.

ur xbox friend got some good taste damn

Gunmy bears for 50$ 😢 I have to collect myself for some time before I continue watching😤

As a member of the older brother community, I'd like to apologise for your stolen cash.

Great video I'm glad your channel was recommended to me, omw to check out the backlog

I did the same pillow thing in my first playthrough too! I put so much pillows in Hlaalo Manor that it turned into a lag fest whenever I entered the house.

I played a very tiny bit of Fable but completed the main quest in II and III many times.

At this point I'm convinced that your hair is red because of Dr. Pepper.

the strider sound its the best, they need to mod it and replace the original with yours

The very first thought of me before starting this video: "Please... Please don't start this... With cliffracers." Video: *First thing you see is a cliffracer* Me: *Slams fist on desk* "GOD DAMN IT!" Will still watch this video regardless. After all, i also got PTSD from Ralof and his first line of dialogue and still see his face all over the internet.

If you want to get back into gummy bears, try albanese gummy bears. They say world's best, and I think I agree with them. It'll be hard to accept any other brand after that moment.

Great Video with a great perspective on a legendary game!

This review truly honours the 6th House and The Tribe Unmourned. Also, I recommend that you play thru Morrowind with the mod Tamriel Rebuilt installed sometime. It aims to add in the mainland of Morrowind like the developers intended, before having to scale down to just the island of Vvardenfell due to time. Last I checked, they were about half way done with Morrowind, and have small side projects for Cyrodill and Skyrim set during the same time.

I hate Vivec as I have to navigate it, but I kinda love the concept of the Dark Elves building a city that is a horror to navigate as a reflection of their society.

You definitely earned a like buddy. This was a good length. I like 20min+ videos for unwinding at night so these have been cozy but also unique enough that i can tune in with it and really enjoy watching something thoughtful. I'm thinking I can run Morrowind with some mods if my laptop can play fnv modded very prettily. I think Morrowind deserves to be played on computer since i gave it maybe 20 hours on xbox

Did you do any time for what you did to your Brother after the 60 dollars or did the Jury understand?

I think the biggest problem with Morrowind's combat is the lack of feedback when you attack. But it's weird that other games like daggerfall didn't feel this way.

love the videos man keep it up

Great video, man! I'm glad I found your channel!

Great video

Morrowind is goated but I also despise vivec city

i like the south australia accent

Thank you for a brilliant video! I've literally been playing Morrowind since its original release, so for twenty years now and there is so much freedom and myriad ways of completing quests that I am still having a great time with it. I've started a new GOTY playthrough on my XBOX this winter and it's getting me through the cold and dreary days. I've subbed to you and would love to see you doing a playthrough series. I think you'd be funny to watch. Thanks Bro, great work ❤

Ah shoot!! I need to make a morrowind mug as well!!! As I said with my other account, amazing videos man. I am so happy being here at the beginning of your journey!!! ❤