That ESO trailer did its job, suggesting that the devs are at least aware of the special place Morrowind holds in gamers’ hearts.
Now that my lengthy love affairs with Oblivion and Skyrim are over and my mind has cleared, I’m ready to declare that the topography and narratives of Morrowind were far more fascinating than those of its successors. I recently spent hours modding the game to kingdom come, and what started out as a ‘modding for modding’s sake’ type project led to me being pulled into its world of towering fungi, dust storms, slavery, over-persistent cliff racers, and hypnotic, harsh landscapes. The bastard MMO got its hooks into me.Īs you can tell, I’m fond of Morrowind. For me, the trailer was a heavy nostalgia trip, capped off by a teasing few seconds of that blissful Morrowind theme tune. I’m barely looking at the PvE MMO action taking place in the foreground, or the new Warden class strutting around with his bear, which is supposed to be a big deal. Then it sweeps through gloriously remodelled versions of stunning in-game locations – a bustling Balmora, the strange carapace-township of Gnisis, giant mushrooms aplenty, and a partially built Vivec City (hopefully it won’t be such a nightmare to navigate this time). It starts with the camera slowly moving forward along that little pier in Seyda Neen, where so many of us took our first tentative steps in Elder Scrolls III all those years ago. Not only do I find them egregiously unrepresentative of the actual games, but there’s something about the ease with which the omnipotent on-screen characters kick ass and cast magic that seems a little adolescent, a little unmagical, as if casting spells were as simple as pulling the trigger on a paintball gun.īut the gameplay trailer I saw at an event for ESO: Morrowind was another story. I generally take a critical distance from trailers, and have an explicit aversion to those battle-focused CGI ones that always seem to accompany high-fantasy RPGs like Dragon Age: Origins, Skyrim, and, a couple of weeks ago, Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind.
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