What the topic title says!

Morrowind was released 20 years ago today in the US. I was a high school senior at the time, and didn't really have any way of playing it, but I did remember being impressed with the otherworldly quality of the screenshots and from flipping through the art book that a friend owned. The world just didn't look like any other gameworld I'd seen, and I appreciated that.

Didn't end up playing it until 2009, but I fell in love with it then. Morrowind was my introduction to The Elder Scrolls in general, and since then I've had fun with Skyrim and Oblivion as well. Morrowind still has a pretty lively community, probably thanks in part to the setting having a very distinct look and feel.

And, of course, it led me here! So kudos all around!

And in large measure, because of Morrowind, we have this wonderful home on the web. My intro to the Elder Scrolls was Daggerfall, which was huge and addictive and ... buggy. But it showed me what was POSSIBLE for a CRPG. And then came Morrowind, and I fell in love with it in a way I never had before with a game.

Open-world, follow the main quest or don't, some really inspired writing (including humor---- just how many "Naked Nords" ARE there on that island, anyway?)

And it was Morrowind that finally allowed me to do what I had wanted to do since childhood- begin writing long-form fiction.

Salute.

Very awesome!

*throws chopped kwama*

I remember reading a review on Morrowind in PC Gamer about a month or so before it came out. But I think I was still busy playing Mechwarrior 2 at the time, so never got into it. Or maybe it was the Hexen games. My first Elder Scrolls game was Oblivion. I remember briefly trying Daggerfall about a decade before that, but I gave up after just a few minutes. So that doesn't count.

Morrowind was my first TES game. I played it on the original XBox. Preordered it based purely on the recommendation of the manager of the Electronics Boutique in our mall. When I was finally able to play it, I was not disappointed! I sank so many hours into it. Definitely in my top 3 games of all time.

It is hard to believe that this game is 20-years old. Thanks to a devoted modding community the Morrowind looks as fresh as the day it was born. Morrowind ranks as number 3 in my top ten list of games.

My first impression was mixed. I enjoyed walking around the flora and fauna of the fantasy island meeting. It was all so alien. Then of all things, a wizard falls out of the sky. That event sent me off exploring, searching for the next unexpected happening and there have been many.

On the other hand, how could the world art be so imaginative while the character bodies were so hideous? Thank goodness that I play primarily 1st-person.

While playing Morrowind off and on since the 2002 I have to admit that I didn’t complete the main quest until early 2015. Why did it take so long? I didn’t like the poster boy Vivec. Once I did finally completed Morrowind I found out about the backdoor. Ah ha, I went back and did it all again to my liking. Vivec dead, Almalexia dead, the Tribunal is no more and I feel fine.

Now maybe it's time to do it again.

I never could stand Vivec either. Just reading the books about him left me thinking he was a vain, egotistical, narcisstic, bag of dicks. That's not even counting the whole betrayal and murder of Nerevar that I found out about later.

My characters have always killed him. Even January, who is essentially a paladin.

I almost played Morrowind first. In reality, it was last, for various reasons. I was looking for a game where I could make my own mods, as Dungeon Siege had just been sold off. Morrowind had been recommended, but the timing of my migration meant that Oblivion was new, and so my mods would not be competing with established ones, if I started there.

Then I played some Arena, but gave up trying to mod that. On to Daggerfall, where there were some tools I could use. I played as an Orc.

Morrowind should have been next, but you couldn’t find it for sale any more, so I bought the anthology, when that came out, and tried to play it. No cursor, completely unplayable. I installed Skyrim, despite Steam, and created a lot more mods.

Finally Windows 8 on my laptop would run Morrowind, and so I added a few essential mods to it - better bodies was first. After a run through the main quest, during which I made a whole bunch of clothing, hair, and other cosmetic mods, I made a Morrowind version of my Angeline and Diablita, which would have come out on the Nexus if they hadn’t tried to seize control of all the mods.

I’m not sure if I can still run it properly. My current machine has no CD/DVD drive, but I got past that. The next one is support for the 5129x1440 monitor, which I’m working on now.

“I’ll be back!”

Sweet! Glad you noticed this Clavier. I played some Morrowind yesterday after hemming and hawing a bit, makes me glad I caught a couple hours of MW gameplay.

Pretty sure Oblivion's release date is March 20, and Skyrim's is obvious & catchy. Elder Scrolls Online was April 4, 2014, which was the same day I bought my gaming computer at Micro Center, which is the only reason I remember, because the clerk at the store was asking if I was getting ESO as well.





Wow, this is great to hear. I would have been just over 30 myself.

My first memory of Morrowind: I was at a party, and one of folks who lived there was playing a brand-new game on the brand-new Xbox. The game had a lot of fog in it. I was blown away because in many (console) games at the time, they were very linear. You do X and Y and Z and then you're ready for the next level, usually with a cut-scene and an onscreen message congratulating the player. Usually there would be a limited world to explore, or even a path to walk upon, a very linear path. Like literally, the only choice you had would be to walk on this path. Trying to explore the bushes was *BONK* not allowed.

Well in this game, there was no cut-scene. No level-up message. The character on the screen kept going and going, in any direction. I would have asked the guy what the name of this game is, and his answer (The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind) would've been too complicated to remember. If I wrote the name down, I lost that slip. I really wanted to find this game, but at the time I was on Playstation.

I assumed I'd be able to find Morrowind for Playstation, but it was PC and Xbox-only at the time. I literally spent the next several years searching PS and PS2 games until 2008 when I read a review about Oblivion. So OB was my first TES, but it would've been MW, had I known better.

The first time I played, Vivec didn't really register that much with me. Like I got he was there, but I didn't see how important he was within the setting. Then I kind of absorbed the memes and chatter around him and thought he was a funny god.

Then I actually paid attention and yeah, he's a bad dude. Nearly all the terrible things that happened in Morrowind can be traced to him in some way.

Same here. Well, with the exception that I did actually play Morrowind first in the Elder Scrolls series, but only for a very brief moment at a friend's house. I didn't know what the game was about, didn't know what I was supposed to do so I just ran around for a short while in the fog before I quit and we switched to Halo instead. I didn't even know the name of the game because I didn't care.


Many years later, having played Deus Ex, Doom 3 and Oblivion for a few years, only then did I look back to Morrowind and decide to give it a proper go. It was fun, but I was spoiled by the voice acting in Oblivion so the amount of text and lack of voices was a bit off-putting to me. Still ended up playing for many hours with my character eventually retiring on the island of Solstheim, a place I enjoyed much, much better than Vvardenfell with all its sand, ash and politics which I could not care less about if I tried.


A classic for sure, and I do have fond memories of the Silt Striders and the atmosphere in the early part of my game time.

For me Morrowind came after Oblivion. It was an impressive game, but the walls of text killed it for me, as well as constantly getting lost in Vivec. I think the graphics were just not good enough to be able to tell one canton from another... Anyway, that's my excuse. So I went back to Oblivion. And now Morrowind is here again! All hail Morroblivion! (Although I shall probably still get lost in Vivec. )

For all its reputation, Morrowind does not, and never has, topped my Elder Scrolls ranking list. I certainly enjoyed it. But not nearly as much as either Daggerfall or Oblivion. As for order played, all received their initial play-throughs in order of publication. All but one was acquired on release. That one excepition was Oblivion. I didn't buy it until 2009. It's the game that cured me of my MMORPG addiction, which began with the 1997 launch of Meridian59. (Ironically, I abandoned Daggerfall for Meridian.)

Be that as it may, happy twentieth Morrowind!