I've been craving some TES action for a while, and since Oblivion was the last TES game I played, I figured I'd return to Morrowind for some fun. I have to say, I was prepared for a let down, as I have no mods for it anymore, so it was just vanilla version, and I haven't played it in years, but once I got used to the outdated graphics, I am already hooked again. The funny thing is though, I have hundreds of hours invested in Morrowind, including a level 89 character that had over 150 hours of gameplay itself, yet somehow, I am still finding things that I've never seen before. For instance, today, I'm warping around on silt striders trying to find a place with a boat so I can get to Bal Fel(I think?) for a THF quest. I end up in Suran, and I'm walking around, and lo n behold, I spot a Dark Elf just standing in a river at the bottom of a hill. I go down to have a chat with the guy, and he tells me that his pants have been stolen. I was like "Ok...that svcks man, I'll try to find em for ya". I went and buttered up the guy who pranked him, got the pants back for him, and all I get out of it was a thank you and some Hackle Leafs. After that, I found an Ancestral Tomb that I'm pretty sure I've never found before, and it has a nice CE ring with 30% Fire, Shock and I"m thinking Ice resist(not 100% onthe third). I was like "Wow, years of playing this game, and I can still find new things in it. Amazing!"

Anyone else that has recently returned to morrowind and discovered something new, or realized that the game has aged pretty damn gracefully?

Are you sure that wasn't Gnisis?


Also, yeah I love that you can always find new things on morrowind. I still have so much to do and explore.

Actually, I think you're right, it was Gnisis, lol! Suran was the place I warped to right before it I believe. heheheh. What I get for making that post before bed(up now due to some nasty heart-burn).

Yeah that's Gnisis with the pants. I remember the first time I found that quest. I was like "WTF?" What an odd quest. I just restarted playing the game a month ago and came across a quest that appears after you find a bowl in a cave. You find a bowl that says something like "To (some name I don't recall atm) for excellent service to the Far East Comapany" or somethng like that. Now I am supposed to find the owner of it.

Buelle's (or something like that,I forget the name of the owner) Silver bowl in a cave near Pelagiad?

Ah, Hainab's little prank with the pants. Good thing there aren't any Slaughtefish in that part of the river, otherwise they'd be after some tender "bait".

I still run across places I haven't explored, despite playing almost continuously at least once a week since before OB was released, although I don't run across them as often as 3-4 years ago.

Yeah that's the one. Afetr I found it and my journal 'updated' I had to check to see if that was a real quest or one that was added by a mod. It's an original quest.

One could guess that I have never done much in Redoran area. Because, a few days back both IRL and gametime, I just found the bit loony slaughterfish guy (with whom I tried to go to a mine near Gnisis to free some slaves - to no avail, that Orc was even tougher than the Redguard). So reloaded and took the guy to the right place to complete the quest. I also did The Lady's Ring for the first time ever and received that ownage amulet just out of nowhere! Never knew there was that great a find in the open up north! Also perfectly suitable for my Thieves' Guild/Morag Tong/Twin Lamps guy. With its help, I finally was able to defeat the Orc in the mine and free those poor slaves. So, yeah, after many years owning the game, it is still offering something neverbeforeseen every now and then!

Now I wanna see an NPC Archer fight though. Oh, thought it was mentioned here, but guess not. Some other topic.

http://theminttu.deviantart.com/art/Hainab-Stole-My-Pants-115986529

I've played Morrowind on and off since it was released.....but more again lately.....so, I was in a certain Daedric Ruin where you can find some Daedric arrows.....and I was not really looking but I found 2 or 3 more in "another place" in the same room that I had never seen before. I was pretty shocked that I never saw them before now. The replay value of this game is tremendous.

I tend to ignore the dude in Gnisis....I've helped him once or twice.

Hainab is awesome. I wish I could team up with him to steal more pants.

I know it's exiting when you find something new. It can even be a rush when someone else makes a new find. Some months back a guy wrote in about a silver Flame Blade he'd found in that in 8 years of playing I had never heard about, much less found.

Same thing happens to me even on my 4th serious attempt at replaying the game. I only fully went through the mainquest once though. Factions I once thought were useless to join have artifacts at the end of their questlines. NPC's and even little towns I've never seen before. An Ebony Sword laying around in plain sight in a certain tower that's easy to nab at the start of the game. I noticed all those on my most recent playthrough a couple years ago. Gonna try the game again and see what Julan the Ashlander has to offer me for the mainquest someday. And maybe check out the progress on Tamriel Rebuilt. No doubt I'll still find new things that were in the vanilla game as well. I don't think I've ever fully completed or explored the map before yet.

I just started my first-ever thief character. I'm still in Seyda Neen and already I'm seeing things I've never seen before. I picked the lock of the Census warehouse and - lo and behold! - I discover two NPCs walking around in there that I never knew existed. After that I broke into Fargoth's house. I've never seen the interior of his house either. It amazes me that these things have been in the game all this time and I've never seen them. It feels as though the game has suddenly gotten much larger.

I can't wait to break into all the buildings in the game now and see all the interiors I've missed all these years.

I have revisited many times, I just can't think of Morrowind as over

ya awhile ago i had come back to playing and i was searching a certain cave where i found a ring that was very powerful for my character XD

That is exactly why I create a thief type---to see what was in all of those locked houses, vaults and chests. That character never joined any guilds or houses. Her only mission was to loot everything possible. The only places I wouldn't loot would be a select few shops in Balmora so I could sell the goods. Eh, she also assassinated most of the people in MW as well. :ninja:

Hmm, I'm starting to think that I must never have really xplored around the smaller towns. I keep finding new thing after new thing around the smaller towns! Also, to the person who said they just started up with a thief type, me too! I've never played a Thief or a Priest type in Morrowind, so I decided to go with the thief this time around, it's a blast, picking all the locks and exploring new places I had never been in before. Bit harder in combat, but not to terrible thus far.

I'm starting to think I'll one day end up with over 1k hours invested in morrowind and still not have seen everything in it!

For sure. I've played the game way more than is even remotely healthy and I still find new stuff*, and that's not even counting things from mods. MW's attention to detail is really something else. Not just hidden goodies but all the little details touches in all the areas, especially homes. Between that and the exotic game world, that's why it still rocks even though it's dated.

*Most recently,

Yeah, it's just so amazing to find that I can play the game in a slightly different way, and it's almost an entirely new experience.

If the mods don't mind, I'm going to be posting in this thread with the neat new stuff I find, just to share. I"ll make sure to put it all in spoiler tags. I hope others will do the same as well, it's fun to read about all the new stuff people find ^^

Spoilers!

OH MY GOD! I'm installing Morrowind now and the opening music is making my heart skip too many beats. I might just pass ougzdehsdfghs;/hm

Yeah I haven't played a thief in a long time, but it's really interesting to see all those locked houses and other places that you've never considered entering as a mage/warrior before.Over all the years I've only been into the Census warehouse once, and there are tons of houses I've never entered.

The same goes for houses in Oblivion, but in Oblivion most NPCs come out of their houses at some point in the day, and there's rarely anything interesting to find inside.

yep, after a good couple of years not playing (my last mod-heavy save became totally corrupted after a good 100 hours play time -_-), and since all this skyrim furore, I've been contemplating having another go at morrowind. Can you believe I've never finished the main quest, even though I have played the game for well over 500 hours with dozens of different characters?!
The thing thats really got me interested in playing again is the less generic npc mod, which I can see making the game a heck load more fun.

"Hainab stole my pants!"

One of the greatest moments in gaming history...

Exactly. It is just fun to see what is in there (any locked place you law-abiding people would not go). And to see how much you can steal while the person is in the same room (not using cameleon). Well that's how I do it---using my own skills vs spells to avoid detection. But I use spells sometimes when there seems to be no other way.

Regarding finding new stuff, I recently started playing again after about 4-5 years. While I still remember a lot about where things are, every now and then I come across something I have totally forgotten about. Like last night I was in Vos and I didn't remember an imperial style fort there before but there it was. It even had a couple of big vines going through it. Actually I didn't seem to remember the farmer's houses either :blush:

I believe i will be playing Morrowind after ElderScrolls VI and VII hit the shelves..if they hit.

I mean, after 7 or was it 8 years of playing i STILL didn't finished Temple quests and didn't even begun Morag Tong and haven't explored Solstheim "properly", because i didn't had "suitable" characters for these factories..


Ah SO much to do, so little time