Elder Scrolls Why Morrowind is a bad RPG

[HappyDaddyWow!]

morrowind is the easiest elder scrolls game by far

It is but that's not really a bad thing

Morrowind let's you experiment with its mechanics and absolutely break the game in the best ways possible. There's tons of weird and fun character builds, like being a levitating magic archer, or playing a pure summoning mage that just let's his minions do the fighting for him.

Compare that to Oblivion/Skyrim, where your build options are basically just Mage, Warrior, or Rogue. Maybe a mix of two.

 

[NecroLord]

morrowind is the easiest elder scrolls game by far

It is but that's not really a bad thing

Morrowind let's you experiment with its mechanics and absolutely break the game in the best ways possible. There's tons of weird and fun character builds, like being a levitating magic archer, or playing a pure summoning mage that just let's his minions do the fighting for him.

Compare that to Oblivion/Skyrim, where your build options are basically just Mage, Warrior, or Rogue. Maybe a mix of two.

They tried to justify the lack of Levitation and Jump/Flight spells by making it an in-lore decision by the Empire to ban these spells altogether...

 

[Igge]

break the game in the best ways possible

being a levitating magic archer

The problem is, NPCs can't levitate. You are the only being in the world that can do it. Thus, it feels alien and unnatural within the game, almost like a mod.

 

[ds]

They tried to justify the lack of Levitation and Jump/Flight spells by making it an in-lore decision by the Empire to ban these spells altogether...

Then the mages guild quests should have at least had us fighting awesome evil lawless space wizards instead of lame necromancers.

Of course they already started that lame excuse with Mournhold.

 

[Saldrone]

morrowind is the easiest elder scrolls game by far

It is but that's not really a bad thing

Morrowind let's you experiment with its mechanics and absolutely break the game in the best ways possible. There's tons of weird and fun character builds, like being a levitating magic archer, or playing a pure summoning mage that just let's his minions do the fighting for him.

Compare that to Oblivion/Skyrim, where your build options are basically just Mage, Warrior, or Rogue. Maybe a mix of two.

They tried to justify the lack of Levitation and Jump/Flight spells by making it an in-lore decision by the Empire to ban these spells altogether...

It's amusing how Bethesda actively promotes mechanics that causes cognitive auto-piloting (Fast Travel, Quest Markers) by getting rid of those that lets players to think for themselves. It's like they deliberately want their audience to have short attention spans so they gradually are more conformist with the junk they produce

 

[mediocrepoet]

morrowind is the easiest elder scrolls game by far

It is but that's not really a bad thing

Morrowind let's you experiment with its mechanics and absolutely break the game in the best ways possible. There's tons of weird and fun character builds, like being a levitating magic archer, or playing a pure summoning mage that just let's his minions do the fighting for him.

Compare that to Oblivion/Skyrim, where your build options are basically just Mage, Warrior, or Rogue. Maybe a mix of two.

They tried to justify the lack of Levitation and Jump/Flight spells by making it an in-lore decision by the Empire to ban these spells altogether...

It's amusing how Bethesda actively promotes mechanics that causes cognitive auto-piloting (Fast Travel, Quest Markers) by getting rid of those that lets players to think for themselves. It's like they deliberately want their audience to have short attention spans so they gradually are more conformist with the junk they produce

You're overthinking this. Adding that stuff means it doesn't matter where you place it or if you move things around a bit, you don't have to have a well written quest or clues that are consistent with the game world, etc.

It's a design shortcut, not some sort of "next phase of the manifesto" diabolical plot.

 

[Broseph]

morrowind is the easiest elder scrolls game by far

It is but that's not really a bad thing

Morrowind let's you experiment with its mechanics and absolutely break the game in the best ways possible. There's tons of weird and fun character builds, like being a levitating magic archer, or playing a pure summoning mage that just let's his minions do the fighting for him.

Compare that to Oblivion/Skyrim, where your build options are basically just Mage, Warrior, or Rogue. Maybe a mix of two.

 

[Justicar]

Trash game

 

[NecroLord]

Trash game

Stupid nigger.

 

[ind33d]

Trash game

a good soundtrack makes a bad game a good game

 

[Harthwain]

Trash game

a good soundtrack makes a bad game a good game

It can enhance a game, but you still need something good besides that for the game itself to be good.

 

[Ash]

Morrowind is the easiest what now? Sure, you can break it after some time, or even early on IF you know what you are doing (e.g a replay), but otherwise it's pretty much the polar opposite of Skyrim with its dice roll mechanics, no quest markers, no passive regen health & mana, enemies that can put you down in just a few hits, slow initial movement speed, micromanagement of numerous variables (e.g fatigue, weapon repairs, level up multipliers, ailments), limited draw distance adding navigation complexity. What alternate reality do some weird people even live in? Tiresome. Skyrim & Oblivion are literally braindead. You have to install handfuls of gameplay mods to get a challenge to any reasonable degree.

Also, the fact you can break the game isn't a good thing. It results in a shallow experience. So much so that after being fond of Morrowind since the mid 2000s and with 7 or so playthrough attempts, I've not even come close to beating it and probably never will. Action to nerf levitation and jump spell was needed, for example. The decision to remove them entirely was not. That was simplification of mechanics/game complexity for mass market appeal, just like everything else in the braindead worthless sequels. Many ways they could have gone about it. Limit levitate to grandmaster status/high alteration skill, at least then can only break the game late game not within 5 minutes. Maybe levitate is otherwise gimped, but a dragonborn rage mode available every 20 kills or some shit which boosts magic efficiency temporarily and allows you to be OP in sensible fashion. But no, there was no noble intent. All about the money. Lets make an RPG for the average joe.

 

[ind33d]

Trash game

a good soundtrack makes a bad game a good game

It can enhance a game, but you still need something good besides that for the game itself to be good.

 

[Justicar]

Cant wait to replay this masterpiece

 

[d1r]

Cant wait to replay this masterpiece

Why is my Short Sword 5, Long Blade 100 build not working??? Reeeeeeeeeeee

 

[CHEMS]

Trash game

a good soundtrack makes a bad game a good game

I play morrowind with the music off

 

[ind33d]

Trash game

a good soundtrack makes a bad game a good game

I play morrowind with the music off

Arrest this man!

 

[jackofshadows]

Morrowind OST is overrated as shit both by itself and by the fact it barely fits the game's pretty cool and actually unusual setting. TA DA DA, TA DA DA... Jesus. Remember, (man)kids, nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

The stereotypical string muzak does not fit the alien nature of the game. That's why you one up your art direction and hire an ambient musician to produce the ost for you retrofuturistic game.

 

[CHEMS]

Trash game

a good soundtrack makes a bad game a good game

I play morrowind with the music off

Arrest this man!

I don't mean by it that it's bad, it just get repetitive very fast

 

[ShiningSoldier]

I remember how I was adding music from Might & Magic 9 to Morrowind when I was a kid. Felt great at first, but they were repeating again and again. So at the end I only added battle music.