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I bought the game earlier today and have been playing it for a few hours. First I must say I am incredibly happy that I played both Oblivion and Skyrim before Morrowind. Playing Skyrim after Morrowind would have ruined Skyrim completely.

Yes, that is because Morrowind is fantastic. It has nothing to do with nostalgia, I have never played it before. It is just fantastic. I play it vanilla and I love the graphics (a bit dated, but still great).

Just a few hours in I already know, this is how a TES game should be.

Glad to see another new "Morrowinder" here! Good luck on your adventures!

Thank You!

I have to go to bed now, but I have a week off from work = Morrowind week. =)

welcome to the greatness of morrowind. a true rpg with amazing depth and content. i've been playing it at least once a year on my old xbox and love it everytime i pick up the controller. except, the freakin load times, lol.

you're in for an amazing and loooong ride. the guild and faction lines are long and interwoven.

the character development is unmatched by any game in the xbox line.

as you found out, it doesn't take long to see why many of us don't like the direction that rpg's are heading.

enjoy

It's that very first cave, by the Seyda Neen strider, that can give new players a bad first impression.
If you go in there "right off the boat" it can be frustrating...
The key is to walk to Balmora, along the coastline to the west (avoiding the cave and the strider).

Almost forgot:
Those Cliff Racers and other Morrowind animals can be annoying at times, everyone agrees.
One of the only mods I ever used is called "Passive Healthy Wildlife" which changes their behavior to not always attack you, if they are not diseased.
Diseased wildlife, however, will ALWAYS attack you, plus passive creatures will still attack if you bother them (for balance).
Works with my playstyle - I don't like attacking the animals; if they ignore me I ignore them, as it should be.
(I always took that perk in Fallout, "Animal Friend", to achieve much the same thing...)

Anyway, glad to hear you're enjoying playing!
Sooner or later you are going to begin flying around everywhere, and will need to use the MCP and MGE in order to see the ground.
Hey I think Beth should re-release Morrowind as "Tenth Anniversary" or "Morrowind: Redux" or something...
The exact same game, simply updated with modern graphics (like they did with Halo: Combat Evolved) would be fantastic.
They'd sell a million copies!
Regards

I love how there are so many small villages in this game. And most cities have the same amount of houses as the typical Oblivion town. The fact that items are actually worth something and that there so many private homes makes me want to play a thief that steals stuff and uses the money to raise skills/train and bribe people. =)

I find it difficult to find quests easy enough to finish and there seem to be fewer dungeons than in Skyblivion, but just slowly exploring the countryside is really nice.

I just read your question and I have two words for you.... HELL YES! Best game ever.

Morrowind does seem to have fewer dungeons than Sky/blivion, but each one is harder to find because the compass doesn't lead you around by the nose. Finding dungeons to explore in Morrowind actually requires a bit of effort, and thus feels like an accomplishment when you do it.

Based on the trend of Oblivion and Skyrim, I suspect that TES VI won't even have a world map, but will just teleport you to whatever location you are supposed to be in for the next quest objective.

That's

I'm still finding dungeons I didn't spot before, 6 or 7 years of frequent playing later, since some of them are hidden on the reverse sides of hills, or partially obscured from certain angles. With MGE and a longer view distance, I immediately noticed a few that I had overlooked, because they faced in a direction that I had no reason to pass near enough to accidentally spot them. There are plenty of caves and ruins though, maybe not quite as many as in OB or SR, but a lot of them have unique items of loot, unique named enemies, or unusual occupants, even if they're not quest related, so there's actually a point to exploring most of them.

At Level 1-3, you're probably too "squishy" to deal with most of them (the cave outside of Seyda Neen is a good "test" for a starting character; most places will be considerably tougher). As you start heading into the "upper single digits", you'll find that some places are actually quite easy, while others will still hand you your posterior on a platter. By the mid-teens, you should be able to go almost anywhere, even Daedric Ruins, although there will still be the occasional rude awakening when you find yourself a bit further down the food chain than you thought you were....and then you can try the extra Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansions, designed for higher level characters.

MW has both levelled and unlevelled content, so at low levels the unlevelled content will generally be really brutal, but most of it gets a lot easier as you improve.

Tip - when finances allow, take a boat or silt strider to a few other towns, tour the island a bit, and introduce yourself to the different regions and factions, even if you don't actually do anything there. Knowing more about the places and people helps you to understand the dialog and story, it also helps fill in the huge blank spots on the map, and gives you another possible direction to head in case you get lost somewhere.

Ok, so the factions seem to be where the quests are, rather than being evenly distributed like in Skyrim. I clearly can finish quests without actually taking the quest, by stumbling on them on accident (like the Redoran guy). This is way better than the Skyrim fake "accidental" stuff/quests.

I also like how so many enemies are named, this makes such a huge psychological difference!

Also, I LOVE how some of the difficulty in the quests is actually getting to where the quest is, and that some quests are so vague, like "go find out what happened to him, he was last seen in city x".

And I am constantly thinking about restarting to try different things. What if I didn't join Redoran? What can I do with illusion magic? What if... ?!

It will be hard to go back to Skyrim after this. =/

I know. Not that Skyrim's bad or anything; I spent about 400 hours on it and had some fun but it just doesn't compare to MW when it comes to quest design. After finishing a quick Gothic2 game, I'll be back to Morrowind.

You really can take your sweet time with this game. There is so much to do, so many paths to take. My latest Breton female hasn't even scratched the surface and I've been playing her for about 6-7 months I think. I also stumble upon items, people, quests and places I never saw before during my years if regular play. I was on a 2 year hiatus in oblivion though. I have no intention to try Skyrim from what I've read. Reinstalling Morrowind has been the best thing I ever did gaming wise

Dont get me wrong, skyrim is fun and itz pretty....

But no dosent compare to morrowind. Morrowind excells it in everyway.

If Skyrim is your first foray into RPG's and TES, then I would approach Morrowind with a grain of salt. Younger gamers (or older games who never tackled something like this until now) will almost certainly struggle with the graphics, animations, dice rolls, text-based dialog, lack of compass, journal, and overall "alien" feel.

But guess what? You get rewarded with an experience far deeper than anything Oblivion or Skyrim could ever afford. The game world, the characters, the lore, the art direction, it's unparalleled. The main quest is somewhat weak, but the story and lore behind it are not. If you are the type that is willing to invest some time reading and understanding all of the backstory, it will be 100x more interesting.

And you absolutely have to get the GOTY edition of Morrowind. Tribunal is essentially Morrowind's version of FO3's Broken Steel, in that it feeds off of the main questline both plot and lore-wise. Bloodmoon is the other expansion that comes with the GOTY edition. Also excellent, and is considered by many to be the better of the two.

As someone who only briefly played the xbox version and recently downloaded the goty edition for PC I have to say, hell yes it's worth buying. I liked oblivion and really like skyrim but this is just a game like no other. Yes the graphics svck by todays standards but so do the graphics from old school nes games but ya know what? I still love me some Zelda!

You can get so much play out of morrowind. I've been playing on/off for 8 years, so the proof is right there. However, I think it's an acquired taste and took me a long time to figure everything out (there are still some things now I don't understand). It may be difficult to get into since it's different from the newer elder scrolls.

The GOTY version adds in Bloodmoon and Tribunal too, which again add in hours and hours of gameplay. Not to mention the thousands of mods. All in all, I'd say go for it. It's an awesome gaming experience!

To answer questions like this, it's always good to know your preferences when it comes to RPGs. Morrowind is the best game i've ever played. Oblivion was was impressive at first, but got really boring later without mods. Skyrim is definitely a step in the right direction....but it's still not Morrowind. Morrowind's game mechanics are/can be atrocious. Oblivion made it very hard for me to go back to Morrowind at first. But, for overall game story/writing/atmosphere, or simply a world worth traveling, Morrowind has it in spades.

If you don't like the combat (or sword animation?) then roll a mage (magic is awesome with easily accessible spell creation and enchanting) and just go for it. The atmosphere in morrowind is unparalleled imo. As is the fleshed out world.

You may just want to pick up a sword and go battlemage though for a more easy playthrough.

If you want it cheaper you could wait for the steam summer sales..