EVERYONE IS ASLEEP time to rant about video games
tonight's gonna be..... *spins wheel* MORROWIND
SO its a well-known fact that morrowind was, in its day, the PINNACLE of open-world rpg. why? lemme tell you: glitches.
there's an old joke that every time you mention deus ex (yes i know unrelated but trust me), someone immediately reinstalls deus ex.
morrowind is similar! except. there's extra steps. every time you mention morrowind, someone reinstalls it and then spends a week downloading 65 (precisely) and installing and configuring them and then boots it up, spends 20 minutes wandering around the swamps surrounding seyda neen, and then closes it and uninstalls three months later without ever playing again.
but it's such a shame! the game was SO GOOD bc it was Chock Full of Weird Glitches and exploitable speedrun-tier nonsense. There's actually a speedrun where they go from character creation to beating the game in 3 minutes and 14 seconds. it's a thing of beauty.
the magic system and spell creation tools were magnificent. you had supreme flexibility. and enchanting? you had like FIFTEEN equipment slots and you could absurdly power up EVERY ONE. god morrowind just handed you a License To Bullshit and told you to fuck off. lackadaisical ass design god bless.
plus the combat was SO goofy! you and your hapless opponents spent more than half of any given combat absurdly missing each other. this was the Old Times and lemme tell u if something hit u? trust me. you got PLENTY of time to use a potion b4 it hits u again. if you die its bc u dumb as hell. you could brew the stupidest fuckin potions no sweat. god i miss the cowboy coding of morrowind
MORROWIND WAS TRUE AND PROPERLY WEIRD FANTASY!!! holy fuck dude everywhere u go it's just Fantastic Europe but morrowind gave that the finger my dude!! there were a couple Imperial cities that looked typical but the majority were Weird As Shit bug carapaces and intentionally alien designs. and the flora!! god everything looked like a whole new fucking planet. there were Zero familiar animals and all the monsters were bizarre designs. morrowind fucking nailed the idea of True Fantasy.
anyways thats my rant. morrowind was Good As Hell and I would sincerely love to see a remake as long as they Kept The Faith and only updated the combat/visuals and kept everything else zany as shit.
@searchthenight Have you considered doing a YouTube or Twitch "Lucy Rants" thing? I imagine it'd be ossum!
@shivvi this is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me
i love you
@searchthenight awww, also... at least theoretically, there's "skywind" and "morroblivion" which I assume you can guess
dont take any of this as me saying the game is faultless though! there's HUGE ennui drain innit. skills were all usage-based and could be a tremendous drag to level, assuming you didnt abuse glitches/console commands to hyperpower your character. goofiness aside the combat engine really was frustrating. and also, fully half of the continent took this stunningly alien aesthetic and still managed to make it seem drab and colorless??? hang on i need a toot just for that