So morrowind is kind of overrated I think

[booksarecool123]

It was really streamlined from daggerfall, the dungeons are way too small and have no gameplay variety. It's also really easy to exploit it by doing things like using bound spells to defeat end game enemies at level 1.

The map in it is way too small, the only reason fast travel doesn't exist is because if it didn't have mountains everywhere and it actually had fast travel than it would be way too easy to explore the entire map within a few hours.

The main quest is really very railroaded in it. You are always fighting for the sake of Azura and not for the Tirbunal or the imperials or you can't side with Dagoth Ur.

I believe the sidequests in morrowind are mostly a downgrade from daggerfall's. daggerfall's sidequests are mostly procedualy generated but they have a variety in the busywork you do and they have a sense of randomness that gives it dynamics and allows it to become more replayable. A lot of the sidequests in Morrowind are just press "W" across the map to kill a rat

A lot of people say the main draw to morrowind is the alien setting but it's still very tolkien in it. Giant mushrooms are everywhere in tolkien and the whole concept of dwarves fucking shit up (so in this case lorkhan's heart) is ripped right from tolkien of it.

so in conclusion while morrowind was a fun exploration game it was bad overall for the series and the ambition of it.

 

[Mech]

 

[Lilura]

Oblivion was the best Elder Scrolls because level scaling kept the challenge up.

 

[logan]

alot of people here agrees that morrowind is overrated ! and i am one of them.

check one of my old threads: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/morrowind-vs-gothic-2-poll.120206/

 

[buru5]

Daggerfall >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arena >> Morrowind >>> Skyrim > Oblivion

 

[TripJack]

yea but it's a great pamphlet reading simulator

 

[ColCol]

A post only once in a while and you use it to post this bullshit.

 

[Tiospo]

Morrowind is pretty great. The real time dice roll combat is weird at first, but you just have to work with it, not against it. So, while you're new at least, focus on one or two weapon skills and use them. Once you've built up enough money (which doesn't take long) you can just pay to train whatever skills you want.

 

[Citizen]

The best Crispy thread ever.

 

[RNGsus]

Almost made it three days without a reply.

 

[Raghar]

Who's alt is it?

 

[Fargus]

Who's alt is it?

Who cares? Some codexians are like broken records.

 

[Drax]

Giant mushrooms are everywhere in tolkien

 

[RNGsus]

I don't remember giant mushrooms let alone towers of them. I think someone else came up with those.

 

[Ranarama]

Farmer Maggot's field famously had mushrooms so large they attracted several Telvanni wizard-lords. Or something. It's been a while since I read his books.

 

[DalekFlay]

How many fucking threads have I seen the last 20 years with some thread title like this? Likely in the hundreds. And never did I give less fucks.

 

[Cael]

How many fucking threads have I seen the last 20 years with some thread title like this? Likely in the hundreds. And never did I give less fucks.

Shouldn't have given so much away on earlier threads, then :D

 

[Santander02]

Oblivion was the best Elder Scrolls because level scaling kept the challenge up.

Until you hit level 20 like 1//3 of the way in and the level scalling suddenly stops.

I fully recogonize there are much better RPGs than MW, but I am a huge exp-lorefag so I enjoyed it more than an anythingelsefag would have. It is also better than everything that came out of that franchise since then.

 

[hakuroshi]

O my... How nostalgic...

 

[steel legion]

Are not all overly popular games overrated?

 

[Sigourn]

Morrowind is overrated, but that doesn't mean it's mediocre, like many seem to think. It's great, but far from masterpiece status.

Morrowind crossbred with Gothic would be a thing to behold.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Who's alt is it?

rumpelstiltskin mxyzsptlk mthfkndggfl I think

 

[Okagron]

rumpelstiltskin mxyzsptlk mthfkndggfl I think

If it was mfkdggrfll, the first post would just be "Morrowind sucks because a npc told me i need to defend myself in the wilderness and that broke my immersion". Because he barely played the game or didn't even played it. Probably looked up that quote on a wiki.

 

[booksarecool123]

Morrowind is overrated, but that doesn't mean it's mediocre, like many seem to think. It's great, but far from masterpiece status.

Morrowind crossbred with Gothic would be a thing to behold.

So how is it a masterpiece at all? actually the combat withn morrowind is hideous and is barely playable. All of the locations are the same where you get bad loot like scrolls at the end of a small fortress or something.

 

[GuiltyofBeingTrite]

Morrowind has good exploration, the lore is worth reading for some extra worldbuilding flare - but thankfully generally not required, and the game actually requires you to read and follow instructions to figure out what to do next, sadly a lost quality in most RPGs these days. Combat is bad, conversations are like reading boring wikipedia articles, and there is little C&C. One would think it was the game that they could build up from, but I guess it was already a downward trend from single player MMO Daggerfall.