![]() There’s the mountain pass where I was dive-bombed by dozens of cliff racers. Here’s the mountain near Suran where I fought Umbra, the depressed orc who wished to die a warrior’s death but was too strong to be defeated by normal adventurers. ![]() The Elder Scrolls Online: MorrowindĪs I wander through the island of Vvardenfell I find myself stumbling on old memories. For a long time, Morrowind was the game I returned to when I had nothing else to play. I spent hundreds of hours playing the original Morrowind across something like five years. It feels weird to be nostalgic for a place that’s never existed, but I do. I’ve spent something like 35 hours in the Morrowind expansion so far and I haven’t cared a bit about the failings of Elder Scrolls Online itself. So no, this is not the point where The Elder Scrolls Online becomes a must-play game. The game doesn’t do anything to hide this fact, meaning you can walk into a tomb that’s been “abandoned for hundreds of years” and find six other people inside, flinging spells around and hunting for the same stupid MacGuffin as you are. Accustomed to being the hero of an Elder Scrolls games, in Elder Scrolls Online you’re just one more wannabe adventurer solving the same exact problems as dozens of other people. Here is what those temple stairs look like at any given moment: The Elder Scrolls Online: MorrowindĪh yes, the ol’ “lumbering bear leaving Vivec’s chambers.” And here’s what his actual throne room looks like every time you need to chat: The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind The Morrowind expansion’s main quest, for instance, has you trying to solve a mystery for notorious god-figure Vivec, who rules over the city that bears his name from the heights of a grand temple. The worst aspect is the World of Warcraft-style queuing in every quest. The Elder Scrolls Online has the look of an Elder Scrolls game, but it’s thin skin stretched across MMO bones.
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