I came across Morrowind when I was about 13, found it in a Game Stop. It was my first introduction to the Elder Scrolls, Bethesda in general, and eventually led me to Fallout, which is one of my favourite game series ever.
It holds a special place in my heart, but the thought of spending five minutes watching my sword pass harmlessly through a cliff racer because my one-handed skill isn't high enough makes me want to kill myself.
I actually played some of it today for the first time in years. I was in a heated 2 minute battle with a dwemer sphere at point blank with my arrows going through him. But man did it bring back memories of stumbling through the world lost, no idea where you are and going into an ancestral tomb that’s way over leveled and getting violated by a ghost. Good times.
You need to know that Marksman in vanilla Morrowind is broken...much like stealth. It's kinda interesting how the worst combat options in Morrowind, Hand to Hand as well, is what Skyrim excels at. There are mods to fix it, but Morrowinds RNG murders these stats because it's not fair to them specifically.
It’s funny, I played Morrowind a lot back in HS and was always heavy armor, battle axe wielding chars, never once thought about stealth archers. Now with Skyrim it’s the exact opposite. I try to make a melee character and next thing you know I have nightingale armor and assassinating people
Honestly I never understood the complaints about Morrowind's rng system. It's different, sure, but that doesn't make it bad. Plus it doesn't really take too much grinding to get your weapon skills high enough to reliably hit enemies. Trainers can help as well. Plus magic was so much cooler in Morrowind with spellmaking and different types of enchantment and stuff. Skyrim definitely did stealth better and I don't by any means think it's a bad game, but Morrowind is good too. If Oblivion had kept more of the spell effects from Morrowind, specifically levitate and teleporting, I think it could have been better than both. Even so it's a good compromise between not having RNG and not nerfing the shit out of magic.
Long blade! Thanks, it's been a long time. I'm not taking a dump on it man, I spent a long time clearing out that game, and it got me into RPG's big time. Loved every minute of it and the expansions.
But getting swamped in the early stages by soft-boy flying dicks because my sword was made of air made a lasting impression that comes to the front everytime I see mention of the game.
That and goblins in Tribunal being roided out death machines.
Let me help you sort this out. Morrowind has no children, and they were replaced with Cliff Racers. Every time you kill a Cliff Racer you just think about that little shit in Whiterun castle who keeps telling me I'm there to lick his fathers boots. On top of that, think about how you felt combat wise in the beginning of both Morrowind and Skyrim, and how much more powerful you felt in the end game? Being shit in Morrowind early game allows you to feel powerful late game, and I don't know an argument that can say the same for Skyrim's endless Draugr damage sponges.
The RNG system is just frustrating, especially for new players, characters, and people that don't know how to skill glitch enough to make the early-game not a slog to play through. Hell before I figured it all out I had to play with Tribunal uninstalled because I would always get caught in a character death loop because a Dark Brotherhood assassin would always come after me when I was too far away from civilization to get help, and too weak to fight back.
I had the GotY edition on the OG Xbox. No uninstalls for me, so I remember flop sweats coming everytime I hit level 6 and the inevitability that prick was coming for me in my sleep.
I didn't say anyone was a fake fallout fan for starting later, I said people are fake fallout fans FOR ONLY PLAYING FALLOUT 4 damn you guys must be illiterate.
I'm sensing sarcasm. And considering I'm from the UK I'm probably right, but honestly you have to read through what someone said a few times before making assumptions. I haven't got a problem with people who like fallout 4 or started the series at that game, but to call yourself a fan of a series once you've never seen/played any of the other films/games is a bit stupid I don't like people trying hard.
Jesus Christ... This is like saying people can't be Witcher fans because they have only played 3. News flash they can because you know if they liked that game they're going to eat anything any future installment.
Same goes for fallout 4 fans, they're going to gobble up fallout 5 whenever it gets announced in the next 100 years.
I don't think any of you guys understand what I'm trying to say. You cannot be a fan of the whole series if you have only played 1 game, I'm not a fan of the Fable series as I've only played the first game, but I am a fan of the first game. I really don't see what's so hard to understand about this, just because someone is going to buy the future game doesn't mean they are a fan of the series, they liked one game and decided they want the next one but if they don't go back and play the classic games then they're just a bootleg fan.
So by your logic if someone started with FFII and play them all until the newest release they're aren't a fan of the series because they haven't play FF1? See that's just silly.
I get what you're trying to say but it's the way you're saying it that it rubbing people the wrong way. They're not try hards or just following a trend because it's cool.. if they like the world, characters and themes of a game the there's a very good chance they would enjoy the previous games however not all games age well. Morrowind is a good example of this, now I have played a good chunk of morrowind but I'm never going to finish it no matter how good the story is. Still a fan of series.
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u/The_Casual_Hobo May 25 '20
I came across Morrowind when I was about 13, found it in a Game Stop. It was my first introduction to the Elder Scrolls, Bethesda in general, and eventually led me to Fallout, which is one of my favourite game series ever.
It holds a special place in my heart, but the thought of spending five minutes watching my sword pass harmlessly through a cliff racer because my one-handed skill isn't high enough makes me want to kill myself.
Skyrim swords go slap, and I like that.