Here’s a couple Morrowind pics of my game, and you can also go to PES, go to the Morrowind POTD and put ‘Jaffah’ in as author to get my other Morrowind pics. You may be surprised…!

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And, for the record, I never knew about or used any potion exploit or acrobatics or any of that. there were perfectly legitimate enchantment options that combined with artifacts were quite broken enough. The aforementioned Boots + (low power, constant effect) ring of levitate being my favorite way of getting around, and things like constant effect restore fatigue and health items mean most enemies are even less threat than they might otherwise be.

“I tried to play the game yesterday, for the first time, using the set of mods listed previously, really struggling to get into it.”

Morrowind is one of the toughest games to get into, because the initial trials are spaced so far apart and so dull. Give it 4-5 hours, and you’ll fall in love. Unfortunately there’s no fix for the obtuse shop menus.

Mr.President says:

“Never understood the Internet’s acute hatred for cliff racers. Never even thought there was anything special about them until I read a Morrowind discussion on some gaming forum months later.”

There’s something wrong with the hit detection with them. They can stab you with their tails from too far away, and very often dead-on strikes to their heads and bodies don’t register. Plus you’re always fighting them on unlevel ground, which makes it even more maddening. I more than once fell off a mountain or got stuck in a crack while looking up swinging at those damn things.

“If you look at the bigger picture, it’s got an udder and two horns, so I therefore pronounce it a cow. Good, let’s get the important questions out of the way first ;)”

You can milk goats, you know, so this fiery goat vs. cow debate is far from over.

Howard says:

“One question. The MGE seems pretty bloody useless to me apart from fixing wide-screen issues. ”

The long draw distance and increased detail in cells does it for me. And the full water reflections in the latest version looks gorgeous. Earlier versions of MGE water looked terrible.

I also don’t like the second picture. The trees are all wrong, and when does a dark elf have greasy hippie hair? Who decided that was better???

And the only result is a graphical representation of that adage pointing out the inverse correlation between number of chefs and quality of a soup, a game that’s still fundamentally broken as a game, and maybe 2-6 hours of “legit” playtime with a character whose movespeed makes Lieutenant Dan from Forest Gump look like a Kenyan in the Olympics before you either run off and do the potion exploit to have fun being a god for a couple hours, flying from one end of the whole world in five minutes or so, being able to cast spells with mana costs in the 1000s which one-shot anything in a 50ft radius, or paralyze everything in a 50-ft radius for 120 seconds, or cause entire cities to go mad with raging bloodlust, and then quit + uninstall because the game is designed solely around frustration and you just relieved it all and now you can see the whole thing is hollow, or you just plain quit+uninstall and realize the whole thing is founded on frustration because Lieutenant Dan is beating you in a footrace to Pelgaid and it takes ten swings before your weapon connects with a mudcrab despite the model passing smack through it and you’re chugging Restore Fatigue potions like a fat chick at a frat party hoping to get laid whether she’s conscious for it or not.

Fuck Morrowind; don’t waste your time; thanks for reading.

I actually don’t think Vality’s swamp mod makes it look all that different, just more swampy. The fucking cow-sheep is what irks me; creature mods (besides one that adds a rideable pack guar) WILL kill the mood.

And to the one guy who said the art direction doesn’t matter: seriously? Mushroom towers, megafauna bugs, ash storms and crabshell cities didn’t DEFINE your Morrowind? A sad person, one who can’t appreciate Morrowind’s one claim to genius.

@ Wulf – couldn’t agree more. Morrowind’s original content, it’s original aesthetic is precisely what makes it so compelling. Oak trees? In MY Morrowind? Eugh.

Still looking forward to the diary. I’ll just ignore the Middle Earth Generic Bore screenshots.

I’m surprised the mods that green up the desert areas and add trees haven’t been mentioned*, because wandering around a ruined landscape gets depressing about after 30 hours or so of trudging. Which is precisely why I didn’t like Fallout 3.

* Actually, so many mods have been mentioned I could easily have missed that.