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Maybe its my teenage nostalgia but Morrowind has one of the best settings I've seen. You got Ashlands yurts, Vivec city with its canals and ziggurats, a city in

Maybe its my teenage nostalgia but Morrowind has one of the best settings I've seen. You got Ashlands yurts, Vivec city with its canals and ziggurats, a city inside a crab mushroom towers, and other architectures. Medieval Europe is still there, but it looks intentionally out of place as required by the story. I feel only Dune and Star Wars have been so visually distinctive for me.

wsc981 4y ago
When I visited Morrowind in Elder Scrolls Online it just felt like a drab, sad place. Based on the screenshots in the article, it seems the original Morrowind game has a similar style for this area. However, I read many good thing on the original Morrowind game so I do intend to play it some time.
- dimitar 4y ago
  In the original game it is a peculiar nation that is occupied, colonised and their religion (called the Temple or the Tribunal) humiliated. The natives are in bad mood and hate the player for being an outlander (at least in the beginning). The country is ruled by a puppet king, kind of how Herod was a client of Rome and long for a messianic figure called the Nerevarine. So it was both pretty sad, but also quite diverse and exciting graphically. It is setup to start with a lot of hardship and an unfriendly population, which gradually changes as you learn more about them and establish your place in Dunmer society (if you choose to - you can become a vampire). Having played Skyrim and Oblivion, I don't think they come close to the deep lore there is Morrowind and they do seem to recycle the same books. Morrowind is much more about exploring the setting than an action RPG like the following titles.
EdwardDiego 4y ago
What I loved was when I was out thieving, found a Telvanni mage tower, which I was eager to plunder, but found out very quickly that wizards who can levitate don't need stairs, so I'd need to come back with some levitation potions to get up to where the good stealing was.

wsc981 4y ago

When I visited Morrowind in Elder Scrolls Online it just felt like a drab, sad place. Based on the screenshots in the article, it seems the original Morrowind game has a similar style for this area. However, I read many good thing on the original Morrowind game so I do intend to play it some time.

dimitar 4y ago
In the original game it is a peculiar nation that is occupied, colonised and their religion (called the Temple or the Tribunal) humiliated. The natives are in bad mood and hate the player for being an outlander (at least in the beginning). The country is ruled by a puppet king, kind of how Herod was a client of Rome and long for a messianic figure called the Nerevarine. So it was both pretty sad, but also quite diverse and exciting graphically. It is setup to start with a lot of hardship and an unfriendly population, which gradually changes as you learn more about them and establish your place in Dunmer society (if you choose to - you can become a vampire). Having played Skyrim and Oblivion, I don't think they come close to the deep lore there is Morrowind and they do seem to recycle the same books. Morrowind is much more about exploring the setting than an action RPG like the following titles.

EdwardDiego 4y ago

What I loved was when I was out thieving, found a Telvanni mage tower, which I was eager to plunder, but found out very quickly that wizards who can levitate don't need stairs, so I'd need to come back with some levitation potions to get up to where the good stealing was.