your prev post didn't offend me.i started this thread to get opinion of others and i appreciate your participation.

ah yes, daggerfall. i used to curse the length of a dungeon back in the days. i was mere a child and often got frustrated by it.
came the morrowind, and it such a bliss to me that i dont care how deep any dungeons are.
well i actually come to crash several times, but that's more of an issue caused by my low end pc.
so, lucky me too..

This expresses my attitude perfectly.

As I have said more than once, I think it comes down to whether we want to be told a story or whether we want to tell our own stories. Some players want the developers to tell them a story. These players are more likely to want to "experience the game as the developers intended" and, as a result, are less likely to want to use mods. Other players want to tell their own stories. These players are more likely to see the Elder Scrolls games as fresh, white paper onto which they can write their own plots, blank canvasses on which they can paint their own pictures. These players are more likely to use mods.

Neither way of thinking about games is "better," they are just different.

yes.
different strokes for different artist on the same canvas
each have their own way of playing the game and im good with that

edit: how the hell i type "different" when i should type "same"

Vanilla. It's good enough for me.

This. The developers make the game, and ensure it's suitable for a wide range of people. Modders then take the game, and tweak it to different tastes.

OP, I certainly respect your decision to play mod-free. But myself, I'll use whichever mods take my fancy - they tailor the game so that I can enjoy it more, and can provide even more opportunities for different characters.

Still playing vanilla. Why? Because I don't play MW to often anymore so I've never bothered to spend five minutes looking for a mod that I would like.

With the amount of mods that serve to make the game better-looking, more balanced, covering aspects that developers didn't think out properly or at all, and simply adding something good, I see absolutely no reason to play without them. Of course, not all mods are worth playing, but the choice is so immense that everyone can find something to their liking.

I primarily play Vanilla, just because I primarily play on console. I like being able to lounge on my bed with the XBox controller and play.

I do also have Morrowind for PC and I have some mods on it, most of them are just graphics stuff, though. The couple of non-graphical ones I have are mostly just little annoyance fixes, like I have one that makes it so that you can pick up plain paper without having to read it first.

Saw some posts mentioning Daggerfall. Ahh yes, Daggerfall's dungeons. Nothing quite like it. Too bad you can't dig your way out of Daggerfall's dungeons like you can Minecraft's endless underworld, eh? At least Daggerfall had it's teleport spell. I wound up using the bread crumb method and never got lost in Daggerfall's dungeons.

Anyway, this is about Morrowind. I do Morrowind vanilla. Only mods I have ever used were ones that just added a dungeon here or there. Not interested in any game play changes, because I like Morrowind's gameplay system. For example, I don't mind the lockpicking system in other games. But, I'm just not patent enough to take them seriously. I greatly prefer Morrowind's simpler "just use a lockpick" method. I did use the Privateer's Hold mod, though.

Although I'm guilty of using graphics mods, I agree with this. I will never, ever use a mod that alters gameplay mechanics, whether it's for the better or not. Content I have no issue with. Armor, weapons, dungeons, blah blah..

This is where I am at. I own it for the PC but I have never bothered to install it. I don't have much use for computers and apart from playing Morrowind, I am not sure what I would do with one.

I play vanilla Morrowind on my Xbox on a big screen TV lying down on the couch on a stack of pillows. When you are in that much comfort, the long loading screens are a breeze and you get to see some nice artwork while you relax an think about your game as it is loading.

If I ever started using my PC version of Morrowind,I can't see myself using too many mods beyond the unofficial patches. I like the graphics and gameplay just the way they are. I suppose at some point I might want to add new content, but the world is so big it is going to take years to see all of it.

A lot of what I would say has been said, but here are the big three reasons I always use some degree of modding (in any TES game I have played on PC, but I'll limit this to TES3):

1) Playthroughs in vanilla are too short. I want mods that slow progression (or even stop it for Misc skills), ensuring that I can play with one Player Character for a very long time, and still have fun.

2) Playthroughs in vanilla are too easy. By the time I hit level 20, I have surpassed most challenges. By 40, there are none at all. I want mods that make everything a little (or a lot) harder. It should not be so easy to become a Guildmaster, for example.

3) Too many things are broken in vanilla. Honestly, I respect not using mods, but I don't get not using the MCP and MPP. These "mods" actually fix a lot of the stuff the devs overlooked, ran out of time for, rushed through, or simply forgot. With some exceptions (enchanting projectiles for example), a game patched with MPP and MCP should be about as close to what was intended to be released as you can get. I always recommend those two, at the very least.

That's my $0.02. YMMV, and I'm sure it will!

PS: Nice topic, OP!

been away for a while for my wedding (i am married now !!) and see the responses.
thank you guys.

seeing your posts, actually now i consider to try some mods again. i did that in the past, but mainly just for a recreation reason. now i guess i can put it for some serious playthrough.
still, nothing like the first time playing it. the pure, v.1.0.0 vanilla.. hehh..hehh..

drink up!!

Congratulations!

I voted nope, and I'm not planning to.

I've played Morrowind since 2004-ish. For about two years of that, I had no idea what mods were so it was completely vanilla. Once I discovered my first mod (Suran's Archery Tradehouse, if I remember right), I added more. I've since reinstalled Morrowind and I don't have too many mods active (MGSO, Acheron's Camping Gear, Great House Dagoth, Starfire's NPC Additions, LGNPC, one or two others I think) and I wouldn't have it any other way.

thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you..


funny what happened to me. i know what mod is, but no desire to install it. i m weird..

I have only ever played Morrowind as the vanilla version, which I take to mean without any modifications added. The idea of playing with mods for some reason, does not feel "real," as though it takes away from the game creators' intended vision for the game in the first place.

Technically I have both versions, one is on my desktop and the other on my laptop from like 2002.

I had just gotten MW and had installed it on my laptop when the ethernet port decided to fry itself, so no patches and no expansions because I have never bothered to fix it.

I bought MW GOTY in '05 and installed it on my shiny new desktop PC, because my laptop had become obsolete except for MW and a few other games. I was able to get patches and all the goodies, as well as now MGE XE on my newer PC which hurt my wallet(lots)

Most days I play on the new one, but some mornings I wake up and have a nostalgic feel to me, so I pull the ol laptop out, boot Morrowind up, and just enjoy, bugs and all.

i understand that feeling. i'm a purist.
i have this music album by a gothic band. if i listen to it at any given time, i remember the early days playing mw.
good old days..

The early days of MW is like the beginning of the Empire, first there was quiet peace with a few problems, now there's a full blown revolution...

revolution always spawn another problems. that i try to avoid. im good with the present state and live with it.

Indeed, that's what those days of nostalgia are for....

The answer is a simple one for me. I played Vanilla Morrowind on the Original Xbox to death for years. I even have a Vampire that completed the MQ and became the Nerevarine. She couldn't do Tribunal or Bloodmoon because she refuses to be cured but she did get her Factor's Estate built.

When I got the pc version I modded the heck out of it to suit my tastes.

mw now sits at the top list of my best game of all time..
how did you do that?