I played Morrowind for the first time a LONG time ago. It was one of my first RPGs and one of the MOST nostalgic gaming memories I have, if not the MOST nostalgic one. I remember my first time vividly. My grandpa had bought it and brought it over to my house and installed it on my computer. We spent at least 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get OFF the ship. It was funny. I eventually figured it out after he left, the USE button was mapped to some crazy letters/numbers. I changed it to space, walked out, and the magic started. Now, 8ish years later, I bought iand I started playing it. I always thought I wouldn't have fun because of the outdated graphics but no, I had FUN.

I made my class, made a Dark Elf, and walked out into the town. I went to the trader and he told me about a smuggler cave. I ventured over there, slashed all the smugglers to death, released the slaves and got a magic mace that was worth 60 GP from a chest hidden underwater. And I had FUN. The sound effects are great to me, and I just want to pick up everything I can. I particularly like the magic sound effects. Today's goals : Join a guild, get the Lord's Mail.

I'd leave the piracy part out of that post, people don't like that. It isn't hard to track down a copy of the game, so that's no excuse. It's on http://store.steampowered.com/app/22320/ for example, but cheaper non digital copies should be around too somewhere.


Anyway good to hear you had fun!

Wasn't me that did it, and it was 8ish years ago. I thought it would be funny, my grandpa pirating and all. I don't even think stream was around back then.

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You've already had one thread closed today. I wouldn't push my luck.

Oh well, sorry. I thought it'd be in good fun but I guess not. I'll remove it from my post and leave.

Aw stick around....
We'll treat ye so many different kinds of ways....you bound to like some of 'em...............;o)-)

But there are rules.


I'll never forget the first time I stumbled on the Lord's Mail.....it was sheer accident....I was just adventuring.
I was geeked!
You do forget some things about the game after a long hiatus, but there are some things you never forget.

I think the word "outdated" is a matter of perpective. Sure the graphics are nowhere near as complex or indeed life-like as more modern games but I like the retro feel of oldschool graphics. My first RPG was still during the 8-bit era (Final Fantasy) so Morrowind looks pretty good to me. I don't really buy games for the graphics anyway. Content is more important that looks and Morrowind has more content than any game I've ever played (Other than MMOs.) I'm shocked that they managed to fit it all on one disc (CD mind you, not DVD.)

It's good to know you were pleased, Morrowind has great nostalgic value to me too, in part, I think because it greatly changed my perceptions of what the RPG genre can be. At the time I had played it, I had never seen a game quite like it before, the dated graphics probably would bother me, though not to the point that I wouldn't play the game, if it weren't for the fact that I have many graphics mods installed anyway. In any case, when the game was first released, the graphics were actually considered pretty impressive, but of course since technology kept advancing, it won't look as good as modern games, and in terms of graphic design, I'd actually say that Morrowind was pretty well done, superior, I'd say, to most fantasy RPGs I've played after it, it's just that the technical implementations of Bethesda's designs were limited by the graphical capabilities of the time.

So yeah, I think the fact that I'm playing the game now proves that I was quite pleased with it when I first played it. Admitably, the fact that I always play it with a large amount of mods installed now might have helped to keep me interested, but if I hadn't liked it when I first played it before I even knew of the existence of mods for the game, I would never have stuck around long enough to start using mods.

A lot of it still is, in my opinion. Morrowind's water, for instance, is much prettier than Oblivion's water. I also prefer Morrowind's skies to those found in Oblivion. And that's just the technical side of the graphics. The game's sense of style will live on forever, undiminished by advances in technology.

Your grandpa sounds like an awesome guy.

Morrowind is a good game , glad you had fun . Now buy GOTY version and go to town.

My thoughts exactly. I also find the water of Morrowind better then the swimming pool water in Oblivion. It looks more natural. And i have the idea that in Morrowind you have more different types of weather.
It doesn't matter if Morrowind have old graphics, as some say. It's about the gameplay, which it has. Planescape: Torment also has outdated graphics and more then Morrowind, but it has a great gameplay.
Good games don't lose their status because of the graphics.

im finally about to play tribunal.

(thats my contribution to this generic appreciation thread)

Sorry. Fun is strictly against the rules.

Punished by a fine of 1000 gold or 10 days in jail :foodndrink:

By the Nine Divines, there is a person having FUN on the loose!!!

Agreed to 100%. I started to play Morrowind about three years after I started to play Oblivion, and what you say is absolutely true. Oblivion′s skies just look like those damnable chemtrails :shakehead:

And no trying to get out of your punishment this time... We're watching you, scum.

The title of this topic just wreaks of Dwarf Fortress...

What if he Resists Arrest and, for example, teleports away from you? :ermm:

I fail to see what's wrong in this "Eventually I bought a pirated product [because it was so great]" thing though. But that's just me. I'm not going against the rules...

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You know what? Screw the rules! I can one-shot you with my Mace of Aevar Stone-Singer if I want to! :pinch:

Now, finally, I'm here to tell how I found Lord's Mail the first time very recently as well. I remember being in the-place-where-it-is and getting on its trail somewhere in 2004 probably, but didn't even get what Lord's Mail is so I let it be. I wasn't playing as deeply as I am today. Not deeply enough, even. Skipping a lot of dialogue, etc. Imagine my feelings when I finally found it somewhere in 2009-10...

I, too, prefer MW's skies and water to Oblivion. I even think Morrowind is shaded better, all in all. Its darkness really is dark, it has its ugly spots, etc. while Oblivion tends to be too candy-frosted and clean for me.

Also, I'm having A BLAST with the game again!

Vanilla Morrowind has much nicer graphics than Oblivion, if you ask me. Everything in Oblivion looks "inflated" (look at the armors) and lathered up in specular maps, making all of the dungeons and architecture look like they're made of cake frosting. The skies in Morrowind are truly spectacular, whereas Oblivion's are flat and low in contrast...but I digress.

I agree with the OP. Morrowind is fun.

All the more reason to play it all over again.
And again. ;]

I rolled a completely random class/race/birthsign recently for a challenge.


Orc Pilgrim, sign of the Mage. Female.

Challenging but fun. I'm already level 26 and advancing through high level missions in multiple guilds, and doing some of the MQ.

Awesome to hear!

i think it has more content than most MMOs. vanilla, mind you. counting user made content would push it to "far more content than any mmo"

MMO content is sketchy anyway. large areas with nothing to interact with, quests that come in three flavors - "kill x", "talk to y", or "go to z", and so on.