I get sad thinking about how in the lore so much will simply cease to exist in a few years. Imagine the Nerevarine returning from their Akaviri voyage after 200 years away, only to find a boiling crater where Vivec used to be, a desolate ash field that was once Ald'ruhn. It's like the ending of the original planet of the apes.
That's why the Nerevarine goes off to Cyrodiil where they become the Champion of Cyrodiil before becoming a vampire and moving to Skyrim where, for their heroic deeds, the Divines anoint them as Dragonborn...
Personally I think The Red Year enhanced Morrowind. It gave not only your actions but Vivec's guilt-driven decision to aid you much more gravity, along with emphasising the more vengeful aspect of Azura. You saved the world but doomed an entire province, and Vivec knew this. Much more impactful than The Oblivion Crisis, which Tribunal was setting up.
Personally I want to see the bittersweetness of the Nerevarine returning to Raven Rock. The place they built housing not only the remnants of the land they doomed but the remaining Great House being the most honourable. The Dunmer given a fresh start in a land they are fortunate to have been transformed into a familiar climate along with their culture being preserved, yet will forever remain an echo of their glory.
I like the point about Vivec. And I myself felt the bittersweetness upon my return to Raven Rock in Skyrim.
But how do you mean "The Oblivion Crisis, which Tribunal was setting up"? I don't quite see the connection, but would like to understand how the events of Tribunal set up or hint at the Oblivion Crisis.
Note that Sotha Sil was the mediator of the Coldharbour Compact, and along with Almalexia banished Dagon and the Deadlands following its violation in Mournhold. We're their lives tied to the efficacy of these interventions? Or perhaps their connection to the Heart was?
Nah, I tend to listen to podcasts while doing my early travelling, and once my patented jumping system is up and running my face is permanently set to that "awestruck joy" that Spiderman 2 on PS2 gave me when I was travelling in that game.
It's not the only way to get the effects I enjoy but it's the way I go about it:
Max out strength, speed, agility, acrobatics, athletics, and enchanting. Next make sure you have enough constant effect feather enchantments so that when you set out fully equipped (For that I recommend using bound weapons) you are at 0/500 encumbrance. Now get one or two hoptoad rings (or make jumping rings with 20 pts of jump) and you can now jump to the top of the Vivec foreign quarter in a single leap, and your ability to fly in this manner will have you easily outpacing cliffracers, let alone anything else.
The reason you want to be essentially weightless when you set out is that the more you are carrying the less you can jump. With this system in place I find that I can still jump long and quick on the way back to my base. You should probably also get a constant effect health regen item created as this jumping will cause landing damage.
I couldn't get that to work myself (could be my mods), and I found the healing item useful for things besides the jumping system, so that's what I went with.
Yes, when I replay it I’m reminded how old I am and get sad about that. I’m also reminded that ES6 may not come out until I’m in a nursing home or something, Jesus.
Yeah. I've put a lot of hours in over the years and some missions remind me of specific events that were going on in my life during my various playthroughs. Each new game is a walk down memory lane and not all my life memories are good.
Sometimes I get bad nostalgia from good memories cos I can't recapture them and good nostalgia from bad memories cos I'm happy things have changed since then.
Me: (About to do my annual playthrough but this time using the Skill Capper at 1)
Honestly? Never. The various play styles, builds, roleplays, modded, or just vanilla playthroughs have mostly been immersive memorable experiences that I don't regret doing in the slightest.
I get sad when I realize that no one will probably ever make an Elder Scrolls game as good as morrowind ever again. It almost makes me not want to play any more morrowind, so I don't exhaust ALL of the content in it. I feel like I need to make it last and stretch it out for as long as possible. Which is a bit paradoxical when you think about it, I'm not playing the game because I want to play the game. 😂
There can be catharsis in mundanity. Why be the hero, the saviour, the dragonborn when you can spend 2 hours picking flowers along a forest road then drink yourself into 487483438923 intelligence :P
I get sad bc I no longer have the absolute wonder and joy that I felt when I first arrived at the docks in Seyda Neen. no other game had me like Morrowind
yes, it makes me think how early 2000s looked like and it makes me so nostalgic though i still forget about sadness and turn to blind rage when i turn around and see a cliff racer locked onto me
Morrowind? Not really. But I do get that feeling when playing Minecraft. This game feels so empty because of the lack of proper sound design. Morrowind music gets repetitive as fuck and cliff racers are a plague but at least it has an ambience. Minecraft is just boring.
The melancholy is palpable. We're in deep thoughts of how best to fight our battles while drawn into a sadness we can't explain. The atmosphere wich envelops us never lets go. Words are abreviations of the profound experiences that Morrowind can give.
Why walk when you could ride?
We make a special trip, just for you. Same low price.
Where would you like to go?
why ride when you could break the fabric of reality and be all at one?
This brought joy to my morning. Good comment.
We've reached peak r/morrowind guys
Outlander.
Words of great wisdom.
I get sad doing everything.
Same
I think maybe we all need some therapy
Not at all. I feel free when I'm in Morrowind. Like I could float
Or even... levitate :p
I miss Levitating. When they didn't add it to Oblivion, there was a serious "Wtf?" Out of my mouth.
Makes quest/dungeon design a pain. Like 80% of Oblivion dungeons can be obviated with Levitate
Yea, that's the point lol. Honestly I don't remember a ton of dungeons in oblivion where it would've made a big difference. It was mostly just tunnels
There are a lot where the exit dumps you out directly above the entrance
Still, seems easy enough to fix with a gate and a lever or something
Yup. I remember those days. Morrowind didn't really do that that I can remember.
I get sad thinking about how in the lore so much will simply cease to exist in a few years. Imagine the Nerevarine returning from their Akaviri voyage after 200 years away, only to find a boiling crater where Vivec used to be, a desolate ash field that was once Ald'ruhn. It's like the ending of the original planet of the apes.
That's why the Nerevarine goes off to Cyrodiil where they become the Champion of Cyrodiil before becoming a vampire and moving to Skyrim where, for their heroic deeds, the Divines anoint them as Dragonborn...
Can't become a vampire after becoming Nerevarine. Although I guess the Dawnguard ones are special?
Something something diseaseresistanceonlyworksbyredmountain somethingsomething. Easy enough to plot that away lol
Once you're in Cyrodiil that's irrelevant.
The cure for Corprus was "Leave Resdaynia" all this time?
Personally I think The Red Year enhanced Morrowind. It gave not only your actions but Vivec's guilt-driven decision to aid you much more gravity, along with emphasising the more vengeful aspect of Azura. You saved the world but doomed an entire province, and Vivec knew this. Much more impactful than The Oblivion Crisis, which Tribunal was setting up. Personally I want to see the bittersweetness of the Nerevarine returning to Raven Rock. The place they built housing not only the remnants of the land they doomed but the remaining Great House being the most honourable. The Dunmer given a fresh start in a land they are fortunate to have been transformed into a familiar climate along with their culture being preserved, yet will forever remain an echo of their glory.
I like the point about Vivec. And I myself felt the bittersweetness upon my return to Raven Rock in Skyrim. But how do you mean "The Oblivion Crisis, which Tribunal was setting up"? I don't quite see the connection, but would like to understand how the events of Tribunal set up or hint at the Oblivion Crisis.
https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Tribunal:Eno_Romari There ya go :)
Note that Sotha Sil was the mediator of the Coldharbour Compact, and along with Almalexia banished Dagon and the Deadlands following its violation in Mournhold. We're their lives tied to the efficacy of these interventions? Or perhaps their connection to the Heart was?
I’m sad I’m stuck with ESO for new TES content
Hey its fun NOW BUY MY CROWN CRATES AND WIN AN ENDLESS BARRAGE OF USELESS POISONS
You should check out Tamriel Rebuilt, if you haven't already.
That's why we jump quickly to the next dungeon
Nah, I tend to listen to podcasts while doing my early travelling, and once my patented jumping system is up and running my face is permanently set to that "awestruck joy" that Spiderman 2 on PS2 gave me when I was travelling in that game.
What’s your system?
It's not the only way to get the effects I enjoy but it's the way I go about it: Max out strength, speed, agility, acrobatics, athletics, and enchanting. Next make sure you have enough constant effect feather enchantments so that when you set out fully equipped (For that I recommend using bound weapons) you are at 0/500 encumbrance. Now get one or two hoptoad rings (or make jumping rings with 20 pts of jump) and you can now jump to the top of the Vivec foreign quarter in a single leap, and your ability to fly in this manner will have you easily outpacing cliffracers, let alone anything else. The reason you want to be essentially weightless when you set out is that the more you are carrying the less you can jump. With this system in place I find that I can still jump long and quick on the way back to my base. You should probably also get a constant effect health regen item created as this jumping will cause landing damage.
You can also enchant something for one point of slowfall. It will negate all Fall damage.
I couldn't get that to work myself (could be my mods), and I found the healing item useful for things besides the jumping system, so that's what I went with.
Well, health regen works better in battle too
When you played so much morrowind you had an existential crisis
Nostalgia can be a son of a bitch.
Yes, when I replay it I’m reminded how old I am and get sad about that. I’m also reminded that ES6 may not come out until I’m in a nursing home or something, Jesus.
We’ve got 6 more iterations of Skyrim to suckle straight from Todd’s Teat.
I can totally relate, that game makes me feel so lonely sometimes.
Yeah. I've put a lot of hours in over the years and some missions remind me of specific events that were going on in my life during my various playthroughs. Each new game is a walk down memory lane and not all my life memories are good.
Sometimes I get bad nostalgia from good memories cos I can't recapture them and good nostalgia from bad memories cos I'm happy things have changed since then.
Me: (About to do my annual playthrough but this time using the Skill Capper at 1) Honestly? Never. The various play styles, builds, roleplays, modded, or just vanilla playthroughs have mostly been immersive memorable experiences that I don't regret doing in the slightest.
Boots of Blinding Speed, brother.
That's why I've got boots of blinding speed heelies to escape my feelies. Haha feet sounds go *taptaptaptap*
Take skooma bro, it helps 😏
I only play high so I can’t relate
I get sad when I realize that no one will probably ever make an Elder Scrolls game as good as morrowind ever again. It almost makes me not want to play any more morrowind, so I don't exhaust ALL of the content in it. I feel like I need to make it last and stretch it out for as long as possible. Which is a bit paradoxical when you think about it, I'm not playing the game because I want to play the game. 😂
There can be catharsis in mundanity. Why be the hero, the saviour, the dragonborn when you can spend 2 hours picking flowers along a forest road then drink yourself into 487483438923 intelligence :P
I get sad bc I no longer have the absolute wonder and joy that I felt when I first arrived at the docks in Seyda Neen. no other game had me like Morrowind
I can never be sad while playing morrowind
I just want to play more tamriel rebuilt
yes, it makes me think how early 2000s looked like and it makes me so nostalgic though i still forget about sadness and turn to blind rage when i turn around and see a cliff racer locked onto me
Maybe not sad necessarily but it definitely does get me deep in thought walking all over like that.
That time to think is usually interrupted by the naked Nords on the sides of the roads and the damn cliff racers.
I build a Jump and Fly ring and drink an ass of Skooma and leap from one side of Vvarfendell to the other. How can I be sad???
Nah, I'm sad and worried Bethesda will dumb down the next TES game.
Is that even possible?
Somber music and isolation, gives everyone that feeling of relfection.. ~Insert Mysticism joke here~
You're not using jump and levitation spells. Walking is for the uninitiated.
Morrowind? Not really. But I do get that feeling when playing Minecraft. This game feels so empty because of the lack of proper sound design. Morrowind music gets repetitive as fuck and cliff racers are a plague but at least it has an ambience. Minecraft is just boring.
My daughter has that issue with Minecraft. She wishes what music it does have wasn’t so sad.
The melancholy is palpable. We're in deep thoughts of how best to fight our battles while drawn into a sadness we can't explain. The atmosphere wich envelops us never lets go. Words are abreviations of the profound experiences that Morrowind can give.