Same for me.

I have probably finished the main quests of Morrowind and it's expansions about 4 times. All faction quests at least once except House Telvanni, 2 of 3 the vampire clans and the East Empire Company.

It took me forever to get started with it (as I made about 40 new characters before I even got to Balmora for the first time) but I managed to beat the main quest once but I never got far in either expansion. In fact I've never even set foot on Solstheim even though it's been floating off the coast of Vvardenfell for quite a while now. There's almost too much to do in morrowind. I've been playing for a while now and there are still factions that I've never even thought of signing up for. It's overwhelming. IT NEVER ENDS!!!

I've played through the Main Quest several times with several different characters. Same for Tribunal and Bloodmoon. However, that was mostly on Xbox. Once I moved to PC, I think I've only completed each of them once. There's just too much else to do with all those wonderful mods out there! Besides, nowadays, after devoting a week or so to playing as one type of character, I invariably decide to switch to something else. But it just doesn't get old.

I finished the Main quest line only once and that was years ago (2004 if I remember correctly), finished Bloodmoon shortly after, and never finished Tribunal. For some reason Tribunal just didn't interest me as much and I never had the urge to give it another whirl. Does anyone else feel the same way?

I do this with a lot of games. I finish it once then I play the heck out of it (1000s of hours) with different characters and play styles every time. Even games like Fallout, which I've been playing since 1998 I have only completed one time.

Does anyone else do this or is it just me?

No, I feel the same way. As I mentioned earlier I've never done Tribunal's main quest.

I'm a die-hard sandbox gamer. I do not like instances in online games and I do not like instances in single-player games. I don't like portaling to get from one landscape area to the next and that is exactly how you get to Mournhold. Mournhold was not a part of the gameworld that Vvardenfell and Solstheim were in and that ruined the expansion for me.

To me Mournhold was a beautiful prison. The place gave me the creeps, to be honest. I hated being surrounded by high walls everywhere I went. I spent about 20 minutes wandering around Mournhold on the afternoon the expansion was released and have never gone back since.

I don't really agree with that. Once you've completed every quest in the game as a Warrior, a Thief, and a Mage, you've beaten the game.
Arguing about doing it as certain races, sixes, etc, that's just semantics.

Never finished the main quest or any of the expansions. Usually a game-breaking bug comes along or I just never get around to it.

I suspect they would assassinate a man-kitty saying he's anyway. It's just too ironic.

Maybe on the console. But the replay possibilities on PC are infinite, thanks to mods.

But frankly I would argue they are infinite on consoles as well. Playing an Elder Scrolls game is not purely a matter of playing different races and classes. Norrowind is a roleplaying game. One can roleplay a different character and have a different experience each time one plays, even on a console.

I don't play quests much. I explore and get into my own adventures. Maybe you can "beat" your game of Morrowind but I can't. I will always find things to do.

As someone who has over 100 characters in my hulking Morrowind saves folder, I disagree that you can ever be done with this game. Sure, I too can grow bored with it from time to time, but I cannot (and would not) put it down for good.

Never done with it. No siree.

I agree with oldplayer that you can't really "beat" the game, mostly because I don't see how "beating" or "winning" even applies to Morrowind. I play Morrowind... I've been playing for years and years since it came out... but there's no end in sight. Why try to ruin playing with thoughts of "beating" the game? The road stretches on. Even if I completed every quest (which I have done many, but there are some that remain untouched) and explored every corner, Morrowind is an open world that need not end. With access to mods, this is especially true.

I think someone here tagged it best, that you don't really 'beat' Morrowind, you live it. Everyone has their respective gaming style, and from observation, I see a great many who still treat the open ended nature of the game as still a linear game, or even change it so that it is. The changes need not be mods, but in your thinking and gaming style, such as getting really hung up on the numerical skill values or seeking to balance what you create for yourself with your historical experiences from other fantasy rule based lore.

Me, and from what I read a few others here as well, just enjoy the game as an extension to our own reality. When we are dropped off that ship, there starts the world as we know it, with no thought whatsoever about whether we are at 50, or 24 in skills, or if our weapons are D20 rule specific for our characters. To me, I don't care if I make a person with Cleric leanings who prefers not to trust in skull cracking blunt weapons, but is more of a silver blade person. Or my rangers, who are far from hooded, cloaked fully versatile weapons masters, but rather men or women who just have a knack for their weapon sets, and prefer to sleep under the dangerous stars. There are always exceptions to the rules of creativity, and I find it kind of sad when folks hold to strict rules that an Elf "must do this!" and an orc "Would never do that!". I'm fairly sure the programmers at Bethesda when envisioning an open-ended game were more about a full on experience, than trying to pigeonhole a gamer to thinking only one way and that way alone.

I like to give every single character I make a backstory. Where they were born...if they even know where. If they are orphan, or have family. Everyone gets an extensive background, even the "for fun" characters. I never care about the numerical values of my skillsets, because as a real life archer and former hunter, I can tell you that such proficiency is not decided by the numbers, but by the true feel of the arts itself. I've known lifetime archers that can't hit the bullseye even with stabilizers, "peep" sites, or full on optics. Yet, there are some that get a traditional "Robin Hood" on their first times and thereafter.

I guess it depends on what you bring to Bethesda's games. Even with Oblivion, I spent hours getting the character to look like a fair mix of his Morrowind parents, which were a Nord chieftain and Imperial Shield Maiden.

When you've completed every quest in the game, and you've talked to every NPC, explored every area of land, and seen everything you can see, there is no more new content to you, how can you not consider that beating the game..? There isn't anything else to do but talk to NPC's that stand in the same place 24 hours a day, NPC's that you've already talked too. The game is done at that point, nothing you do will result in a new experience, therefore the game has been beaten.
Don't get me wrong, I love Morrowind, I feel it's the best TES game ever made. But it can be beaten..

I have some mods where enemies repopulate areas over time so there's always a thrill in visiting daedric ruins. Always a chance you'll meet your match, or lose a companion you've had. Heck I have a mod that puts enemies in cities and towns sometimes.
Or there's always a mod that adds another quest.
Look at the Skyrim mod, the Cyrodiil mod, or Tamriel Rebuilt that are being worked on.

Tamriel Rebuilt, the one that's like 1/3 done maybe, already surpasses one of the expansions in content and it's still going.

Try "completing" all of that. And when you are done and move on to something else, the game is so good you'll want to go back and do it all again some day.

New content is overrated. I can have just as much fun replaying old favorites as experiencing new games for the first time. And it is especially easy to get into replaying Morrowind for me, as this game has about as much content as 5 of your average CRPG's. And that's without mods.

However, I do understand that it's just my perspective and it all comes down to what kind of player you are.

Yes, i beat it. Along with 100 hours on it :foodndrink:

I respectfully and totally disagree.

Give me factual proof that you haven't indeed beaten the game at that point, oldplayer.
And I'm not talking about mods. I don't care about mods. I'm talking about the original GOTY edition, played the way Bethesda meant it to be played, as it was shipped. No mods. When you've done everything, how's that not "done"?
And "ohhhhh it still feels aliveeeee!!!" isn't the answer I'm looking for.

You're talking about "beating the game" because you see it as a challenge to be overcome. You approach a quest as a problem to be solved, a thing to be "gotten done." The reason that Roleplayers don't "beat the game" is that it isn't seen that way. A roleplayer uses the game as an open environment for creative adventure; each character is "new," and meets the challenges in the environment in new ways. The adventure is "now," not "when I have defeated this orc."

It's largely a matter of Immersion. You wouldn't say that "once you've eaten a bowl of corn flakes, you've beaten corn flakes." Would you?

To a true roleplayer, every time a new character walks down that gangplank, it's a new world. The character has never been there before. That's roleplaying.

Exactly and well articulated. If anyone doesn't understand this, then go read the entire TES library. :read:
Caution though, it may stimulate an RP idea.

It's funny you mention RP'ing as a crux for your argument, given the fact that I'm a huge roleplayer and have rolepayed 3 characters to level 60+ in Morrowind on the Xbox verison, putting over 1000 hours into the game. I have still beaten Morrowind, though.

:lol: That was the funniest thing I've heard or read all day. Thanks!


I think we can leave it at that. "Beating" Morrowind takes a mindset that some of us share, some of us don't. Luckily we're not all the same person. That would svck.

I've beaten the main quest once, Tribunal once and Bloodmoon thrice.

I've never beaten the main quest. Why? Because I fall into the lava every danged time, and I tend to play saving only when necessary, and reverting to after chargen saves for deaths.

I finished the main quest a few times with various characters many years ago. I finished the expansions a couple times after they came out. After that I just role-played characters through the game's open-ended sandbox, doing various quests as they fit. I haven't played in a couple of years or so but have been thinking about re-installing and doing some graphical upgrades since I have nice shiny new PC.

Back when I played on xbox, I've finished everything multiple times. BM, TR, MW mainquests and all factions, misc quests, vampire quests, etc. Now that I play on computer and mod, I think I've finished the main quest and a few factions once!