The actual vanilla game has some really fucked up shit going on in the lore. There’s a book in the game that describes a female dunmer having sex with a khajit in excruciating detail about the barbs on the khajit penis tearing her vaginal walls. And that’s one of the more tame things I can think of.
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classic@fedia.io 6 months ago
I've never played this game. Is this stuff you're describing coming from mods or the original game??
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Kirkbride is a sick, demented man.
A beloved one at that. It’s a shame we don’t see games inspired by him anymore. Someone like Supergiant could’ve pulled it off.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
That’s all vanilla game, baby!
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You should play it. That’s vanilla, and the mods are amazing, even just the hd texture packs will make the game very playable today.
classic@fedia.io 6 months ago
I'm guessing there's a mod community somewhere to learn what mods to use? Like with Skyrim, I'd probably start with things that improve the overall look but sticks to vanilla for the story
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah I think if you go to the tomorrow and community here there’s even a sticky for them.
But I like to just go to Nexus mods and browse through what I think can add to the game without compromising the story.
The Morrowind community is very devoted to the world itself and is very good in that respect, so it isn’t a huge concern.
There are also several YouTube videos that will instruct you exactly how to install every configuration of mods in every way possible, but after you install one, you’ll see how simple it is to install any of the ones you want.
zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 6 months ago
I heart vanilla is a good modlist which has some basic bugfixes and minor but faithful graphical improvements. If you wanna make the game look even better, then Volumetric Clouds, Remiros Groundcover (or some other groundcover mod) and Normal Maps for Everything are some of my top recommendations.
OpenMW (or, alternatively MGE XE if you want to use the original engine for whatever reason) already have some nice graphical improvements baked into them though.
metaldream@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
The combat kills it for me unfortunately, even with mods. I thought I wouldn’t care but it just feels so bad. I couldn’t stick with it last time I tried.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’ve heard that before, but even vanilla combat doesn’t bother me.
Let’s playthrough. I did unarmed that was fun as hell, especially
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punching dagoth ur into the volcano.
I might add some combat mods next time I play, since I play through it every 2 or 3 years, but that world is so big and there’s so many different ways to interact with it that the combat is a non-issue for me.
Especially with monster mods, I feel like you can definitely set up a situation where you can’t just hack and slash, you actually have to use the game mechanics and Dodge monster attacks while you’re fighting, make sure your fatigue is full.
If a minivan sized mud crab attacks you moving faster than a cheetah, haha, you have to make sure you know exactly how to fight back.
I never even realized that people don’t like the combat until stumbling across some reviews years after I played.
Even if you never fight in the game, it’s worth it just to live inside it. Don’t complete the game but go live in Morrowind for a couple weeks and just ignore the combat.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
What if I told you that at some point in the game you are to kill a giant flying insect with a fork? Or to find a mass grave or those who thought they are worthy to follow the footsteps you’re yet to make? Or that you can kill two of three dunmeric self-entitled gods while you are at it? These are all in the vanilla GOTY game. It’s just that insane and profoundly hand-crafted by the trinity of the experienced in their field old guard, the new guys with a shine in their eyes and Michael Kirkbride who ate through another mile of acid-laced postmarks. If you are to leave the first tutorial village here, you’d never come back (:
classic@fedia.io 6 months ago
I'm sold
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If you’d ever get lost there or in the other TES games, UESP is an old-styled wiki resource not killed by Fandom and still going strong for decades: en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page
I’d suggest you to use OpenMW as an engine since it has, if I’m correct, many patches to games’ issues already under the hood. To use it, just install Morrowind+DLCs and then show OpenMW where it all landed. I believe, original english ISO files can be found even on the Internet Archive, but if they aren’t, I can send you a magnet link to a torrent. Lets incentivise Bethesda to make the TES6 already.
classic@fedia.io 6 months ago
Thanks! I'm happy to buy the game. Everyone here is typing me up on it lol
Can OpenMW be used alongside that, or is it a different route to the game?
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 6 months ago
Baseline. One of the houses you can side with sells slaves and has slaves in game.