Elder Scrolls Why Morrowind is a bad RPG

[HappyDaddyWow!]

morrowind is the easiest elder scrolls game by far

It is but that's not really a bad thing

Morrowind let's you experiment with its mechanics and absolutely break the game in the best ways possible. There's tons of weird and fun character builds, like being a levitating magic archer, or playing a pure summoning mage that just let's his minions do the fighting for him.

Compare that to Oblivion/Skyrim, where your build options are basically just Mage, Warrior, or Rogue. Maybe a mix of two.

 

[NecroLord]

morrowind is the easiest elder scrolls game by far

It is but that's not really a bad thing

Morrowind let's you experiment with its mechanics and absolutely break the game in the best ways possible. There's tons of weird and fun character builds, like being a levitating magic archer, or playing a pure summoning mage that just let's his minions do the fighting for him.

Compare that to Oblivion/Skyrim, where your build options are basically just Mage, Warrior, or Rogue. Maybe a mix of two.

They tried to justify the lack of Levitation and Jump/Flight spells by making it an in-lore decision by the Empire to ban these spells altogether...

 

[Igge]

break the game in the best ways possible

being a levitating magic archer

The problem is, NPCs can't levitate. You are the only being in the world that can do it. Thus, it feels alien and unnatural within the game, almost like a mod.

 

[ds]

They tried to justify the lack of Levitation and Jump/Flight spells by making it an in-lore decision by the Empire to ban these spells altogether...

Then the mages guild quests should have at least had us fighting awesome evil lawless space wizards instead of lame necromancers.

Of course they already started that lame excuse with Mournhold.

 

[Saldrone]

morrowind is the easiest elder scrolls game by far

It is but that's not really a bad thing

Morrowind let's you experiment with its mechanics and absolutely break the game in the best ways possible. There's tons of weird and fun character builds, like being a levitating magic archer, or playing a pure summoning mage that just let's his minions do the fighting for him.

Compare that to Oblivion/Skyrim, where your build options are basically just Mage, Warrior, or Rogue. Maybe a mix of two.

They tried to justify the lack of Levitation and Jump/Flight spells by making it an in-lore decision by the Empire to ban these spells altogether...

It's amusing how Bethesda actively promotes mechanics that causes cognitive auto-piloting (Fast Travel, Quest Markers) by getting rid of those that lets players to think for themselves. It's like they deliberately want their audience to have short attention spans so they gradually are more conformist with the junk they produce

 

[mediocrepoet]

morrowind is the easiest elder scrolls game by far

It is but that's not really a bad thing

Morrowind let's you experiment with its mechanics and absolutely break the game in the best ways possible. There's tons of weird and fun character builds, like being a levitating magic archer, or playing a pure summoning mage that just let's his minions do the fighting for him.

Compare that to Oblivion/Skyrim, where your build options are basically just Mage, Warrior, or Rogue. Maybe a mix of two.

They tried to justify the lack of Levitation and Jump/Flight spells by making it an in-lore decision by the Empire to ban these spells altogether...

It's amusing how Bethesda actively promotes mechanics that causes cognitive auto-piloting (Fast Travel, Quest Markers) by getting rid of those that lets players to think for themselves. It's like they deliberately want their audience to have short attention spans so they gradually are more conformist with the junk they produce

You're overthinking this. Adding that stuff means it doesn't matter where you place it or if you move things around a bit, you don't have to have a well written quest or clues that are consistent with the game world, etc.

It's a design shortcut, not some sort of "next phase of the manifesto" diabolical plot.

 

[Broseph]

morrowind is the easiest elder scrolls game by far

It is but that's not really a bad thing

Morrowind let's you experiment with its mechanics and absolutely break the game in the best ways possible. There's tons of weird and fun character builds, like being a levitating magic archer, or playing a pure summoning mage that just let's his minions do the fighting for him.

Compare that to Oblivion/Skyrim, where your build options are basically just Mage, Warrior, or Rogue. Maybe a mix of two.