Is Morrowind Better than Skyrim?

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Published 2024-04-02
If you're reading this, the title and thumbnail are totally clickbait. This whole video is more about discussing the shortcomings and shortcuts of and made in Skyrim (and to a lesser extent, Oblivion) due to a trend of simplification and obsession with accessibility in the gaming industry, which Bethesda is not exempt from.

Sorry about the bit rate by the way, I think I just figured out how to fix that. Big thanks to a buddy of mine (whose channel I will link here if he ever uploads) for loaning me his microphone for this video while I've still got a headset mic and helping set me up on DaVinci Resolve when Vegas Pro died on me and made me restart this entire project.

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Setting
8:48 - The "RPG" Problem
15:27 - The Questlines
19:45 - It's not THAT bad
21:55 - Outro

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#morrowind #elderscrolls #theelderscrolls #skyrim #skyrimse #skyrimspecialedition #skyrimae #comparison #gamecomparison #gamecommentary #gaming #games #videogames #videoessay

All Comments (21)
  • @ArniesTech
    Elder Scrolls 6 will have 3 Skills "Boom Boom", "Swoosh Swoosh" and "Sparkle Sparkle". And it will have 2 Armor classes. "yes" and "not yes". 💪🏻😊
  • @chriswest4875
    I think it is ironic how games are becoming more casual while gamers are becoming increasingly competitive
  • @UncleBiccy
    My Dad bought me this piece of perfection for $10 back in 2005. I still play this game 19 years later.
  • @And-ur6ol
    It is such a small thing. But it is so immersive to see a road sign, walk up to it, and read the city name you are traveling to, confirming you are still on the right path.
  • @MatthewMcRowan
    Morrowing caused me and my real life friends to just walk around outside with sticks and story tell our own adventures and imagine we have armors and stuff for hours straight, all thanks to the things we saw in Morrowind
  • @franklydum5056
    The virgin stealth archer vs the chad levetating ninja star thrower.
  • @yellowfellow7246
    Morrowind has, without a doubt, one of the most interesting worlds in gaming.
  • @insensitive919
    Why did you attack the non-hostile scrib if you didn't like being paralyzed
  • @pkthunder416
    They'll never reach these highs again without Kirkbride
  • @KefkeWren
    One of the best takes on Morrowind I've seen. Yeah, the game is old, and it's a product of its time, but it's better at the things that matter for an RPG. Hell, for all the flack the dice-roll combat gets, there are still games that do that today, so all it really needed was better feedback on what was happening.
  • @UncleBiccy
    The lore in Morrowind is wild - You couldn't make this shit up. The story directors definitely smoked salvia.
  • @Angelikatosh
    Great video man, you forgot to mention that you can pick up AND carry candles in Morrowind (peak gaming experience) but other than that, solid discussion
  • @atumisrex5464
    No one ever even mentions that in morrowind you can join one of three vampire clans, based on which vampire infects you, and that they each give different skill boost and questlines.
  • I’m from brazil and my mom bought morrowind for me in 2012. I wasnt able to understand english, so I played 6 months morrowind without leave the census office building because, I managed to kill the npc with the butter knife that I found in the table. When I finnaly got out of the house, it was amazing kkk. I still remember. After that I start to use the translator to play the game and learned a lot. Im very grateful that my mother bought me this game.
  • @peyoteguy425
    I am finishing Morrowind for the first time this week and the first time I played it was 20 years ago when my brother moved in after spending some years in a different state. It was the first RPG I ever played. The one tip I always remembered from him was to jump to get your acrobatic skill up so you can actually jump. Every since I was a kid I would spam jump in Elder Scrolls games, except Skyrim I guess.
  • My favorite thing about Morrowind is that there are very very few instances of quest-locking items or events. Every single legendary item in Skyrim requires you to be on the quest to get it. It makes it feel like the only way to get cool things is to be the main character of the story. The world and the setting feel like the main character in Morrowind. The vast majority of legendary artifacts that I found in my first few play throughs were just stuff I found while out adventuring. I had no idea that there were quests associated with finding them. It made it feel like this was a living world that would continue existing in its own right, even if I wasn’t watching it unfold before me.
  • @MG-mh8xp
    i'm literally a zoomer. I started playing Morrowind not a month ago. I grew up with Skyrim, and I LOVE Morrowind so much.
  • @lamedrawings
    You know Skyrim's story is cooked when one of the most downloaded mod is to tell Delphine "Hey I'm the leader of the Blades now and I say we don't kill the dragon that has helped us w defeating Alduin" instead of bending over backwards to her demands like a low class soldier.
  • Played Morrowind for the first time last month. The best part of morrowind was the fact that traveling to locations is engaging, I feel like a backpacker that has mastered a countries transit system. Maybe non-diegetic fast travel ruins some enjoyment, but in skyrim and other games like it, my eyes glaze over during travel and I basically go catatonic.
  • @PaulKentSkates
    I suppose I'm a morrowboomer (played daggerfall and got morrowind during release week) But the alien setting really did it for me, and it's the thing AI keep thinking about. The settings stuck with me all these years and I think about them surprisingly often. I also agree over casualization sucks.