Morrowind is 20 Years Old Today Options

[WellTemperedClavier]

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!

[ghastley]

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!”

[mirocu]

I almost played Morrowind first.

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.