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I am amazed at the longevity of the Morrowind IP. I still get occasional waves of nostalgia going back to playing the game when I was young. This was before the

I am amazed at the longevity of the Morrowind IP. I still get occasional waves of nostalgia going back to playing the game when I was young. This was before the internet made it trivial to find out everything there was to know about a game. Brb...installing...

mabbo 5y ago
I remember when my friend and I first installed it on the PC. We must have spent 20 minutes just admiring water that looked like water. Going back and seeing it now, it looks like nothing special at all, but for the time I remember it being a huge leap forward graphically.
- 0des 5y ago
  I went back recently to morrowind, I shouldn't have. It looked like someone threw mud in my eyes. I got sad about it and started to install the HD textures but it felt forced and I had this feeling like the time I opened my Christmas presents early and had to fake being surprised about all my new socks and sweaters.
  - crdrost 5y ago
    I fell so hard for Morrowind and then Oblivion just wasn't engaging at all, felt like I never got anywhere, I certainly didn't get into any of the main quest like I would have liked. But yeah the graphics are awful and enabling the expansions from day one causes you to suddenly be assassinated in the night when you are still a nobody. On a plus note if you survive and are determined you can use the paralytic effects of the assassin's daggers to win a really powerful sword from a depressed Orc, he wants to die a noble death in combat... Not sure getting paralyzed so that your opponent can drink gallons of Sujamma and smack you with Hulk strength into a wall counts as noble but hey we all have our quirks. The addictive thing about Morrowind was clearly the stories we told ourselves. You knew the people who would get really hooked because they spent hours on that “what’s your name?” screen.
  - pkorzeniewski 5y ago
    One of my favourite games of all time is Mafia 1 that was released the same year as Morrowind (2002) and similarly it has a big, lively open world and the 3D graphics were top-notch at that time. I revisit Mafia every few years and for some reason the graphics still amazes me - sure, the textures are low resolution and models are low poly, but the overall art direction is amazing, the colors, the city design, the lighting at night, everything just blends in perfectly and to me it's as immersive now as it was back then.
- johan_felisaz 5y ago
  I am too young to have played Morrowind at its release date, so I am not biased by nostalgia. Honestly, with a couple graphics enhancing mods, it can still look beautiful today. Of course not the NPCs, but the artistic direction for the landscapes give it a timeless feel. Wandering though the wilderness, seeing Vivec city for the first time with its meteor, with a bit of good faith on your part to not set expectations too high, and you can still be surprised by this game...

mabbo 5y ago

I remember when my friend and I first installed it on the PC. We must have spent 20 minutes just admiring water that looked like water. Going back and seeing it now, it looks like nothing special at all, but for the time I remember it being a huge leap forward graphically.

0des 5y ago
I went back recently to morrowind, I shouldn't have. It looked like someone threw mud in my eyes. I got sad about it and started to install the HD textures but it felt forced and I had this feeling like the time I opened my Christmas presents early and had to fake being surprised about all my new socks and sweaters.
- crdrost 5y ago
  I fell so hard for Morrowind and then Oblivion just wasn't engaging at all, felt like I never got anywhere, I certainly didn't get into any of the main quest like I would have liked. But yeah the graphics are awful and enabling the expansions from day one causes you to suddenly be assassinated in the night when you are still a nobody. On a plus note if you survive and are determined you can use the paralytic effects of the assassin's daggers to win a really powerful sword from a depressed Orc, he wants to die a noble death in combat... Not sure getting paralyzed so that your opponent can drink gallons of Sujamma and smack you with Hulk strength into a wall counts as noble but hey we all have our quirks. The addictive thing about Morrowind was clearly the stories we told ourselves. You knew the people who would get really hooked because they spent hours on that “what’s your name?” screen.
- pkorzeniewski 5y ago
  One of my favourite games of all time is Mafia 1 that was released the same year as Morrowind (2002) and similarly it has a big, lively open world and the 3D graphics were top-notch at that time. I revisit Mafia every few years and for some reason the graphics still amazes me - sure, the textures are low resolution and models are low poly, but the overall art direction is amazing, the colors, the city design, the lighting at night, everything just blends in perfectly and to me it's as immersive now as it was back then.
johan_felisaz 5y ago
I am too young to have played Morrowind at its release date, so I am not biased by nostalgia. Honestly, with a couple graphics enhancing mods, it can still look beautiful today. Of course not the NPCs, but the artistic direction for the landscapes give it a timeless feel. Wandering though the wilderness, seeing Vivec city for the first time with its meteor, with a bit of good faith on your part to not set expectations too high, and you can still be surprised by this game...