>>1035910 I like how grimy everything looks. >>1035912 Not yet, you can load cells but all of the game logic is absent. The OpenMW devs said they won't focus on Gamebryo compatibility until they're finished with Morrowind.

>>1036165 I wish there was a way to preserve it for offline play, I like playing the single player modes at work. Guess I won't be playing it much longer I suppose. I hate online-only games

>>1036165 I remember trying that once. I made some mistake or another early on and wanted to start over, but there wasn't any way to do that, so I just stopped playing.

>>1036165 well that suc- >its a card game and nothing of value was lost.

>>1036165 I forgot elder scrolls legends was a thing.

>>987779 That webcomic has almost been around as long as two kinds.

>>1036165 I used to really enjoy this but they kept introducing anti-fun fuck you cards that completely countered one of the builds they had as a core build so I gave up.

>>1036165 There was a TES card game? I had no idea.

>>1036903 picrel original is from it

>>1036905 What the fuck happened to the quality of that? I know the scroll is editted, but I see no reason for it to be so jaypeegged and be a PNG

>>1036905 I thought this was a Brandon meme.

>>1036923 Look up deep fried memes, that may have been memed through a deep frier.

>>1037556 Looks like add noise, sharpen, and edge detection shit.

Has there ever been a Skyrim quest mod centered around conflict between priests of Arkay and agents of the Thalmor? In vanilla Skyrim it's only vaguely hinted at with Runil preaching about Arkay having been mortal when you first enter Morthal and having written in his journal about trying to hide from the Thalmor. You mostly hear about them attacking the idea that Tiber Septim could have ascended to godhood, with their book "The Talos Mistake" even affirming Arkay's divinity despite his mortal origin. Nobody ever even questions it publicly. Kind of a deafening silence. I wonder if the church of Arkay cut a deal with the Thalmor; a truce in exchange for suppressing a few "antiquated ideas" about their theology...

>>1038750 >it's only vaguely hinted at with Runil preaching about Arkay having been mortal when you first enter Morthal and having written in his journal about trying to hide from the Thalmor. He's hiding from the Thalmor because he's a deserter, he felt bad about slaughtering Imperial soldiers during the battle of the Imperial City, so he ran away from the Dominion's army and settled in Skyrim. At least that's what I got from his journal.

>>1040528 Because it sucks almost as hard as Starfield

>>1038750 >Thal mor >Mor thal Is there more examples were they just go full creative like that?

>>1038750 Bruma briefly explores the idea of using Martin as a substitute for Tiber, keeping the letter but not spirit of the treaty, but it doesn't actually do anything with it besides a Thalmor rep being angry he can't shut it down.

>>1040574 How would that even work, though? Tiber had a very specific apotheosis, essentially mantling Lorkhan and the convention as a whole. Martin, on the other hand, was just basically used as an onahole by Akatosh when he broke the Red Diamond - turning him into an avatar of the god and then burning out, leaving behind a new dragon statue. They're not even remotely similar. It'd be like a Dork Elf cult trying to pretend that Jiub is really Vivec just to stop getting bullied by the Imperial Cult novices. Ultimately, I don't think the Thalmor would even care. Yeah, humans trying to claim one of their own could ascend to divinity is an affront to them - but it's meaningless. Tiber Septim actually DID achieve godhood though - and they know it - and it was Lorkhan who's seat Talos currently sits in - and THAT is why it is a blasphemy of the highest order. He actually IS Lorkhan reborn (in a sense) into the godhead and is a direct obstacle to the unmaking of Mundus and their return to the Et'ada. He's bascially Satan resurrected to the Elves. That's also the same kind of heresy that caused them to drive the Chimer and their prophet Veloth clear to the other side of the continent. Because the Chimer thought that life was a crucible to refine the spirit into a divinity - rather than a prison keeping you from returning to defacto to divinity. Kind of ironic, that, considering that the one group of Elves that is most like humanity in their metaphysical outlook, founded their kingdom in the same place that Lorkhan's heart rested. Even if the common man in Tamriel doesn't have a clue about any of this esoteric bullshit and is simply "luv me Talos, simple as" - the most learned scholars of the metaphysical know and THAT is what inspires the faith that is filtered down and simplified for the common stable hand. So I don't remember the lore on Arkay once being mortal, or how his apotheosis occurred - so maybe I'm missing something here, but yeah, Talos was a bit of a special case when it comes to the Elves. Martin simply could not fill that role - either in reality or in the deluded minds of men who are butthurt over Talos worship being banned.

I'm thinking about buying either Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim from GoG. Where do you think is the best place to start for a faggot who is probably going to run around the world and ignore the main quest? (Though, I have a feeling that all of these games aren't games that you ignore the main quest, they are games that you don't know where the fuck the main quest is most of the time.) I have Daggerfall, and the whole DCC funnel intro is annoying to me. I haven't gone a whole lot of places in that game. Is my lack of interest in Daggerfall an indication that I won't like any of these games?

>>1043983 The Todd Howard games are vastly different from Daggerfall. Morrowind is the only game out of the three where you really need to pay attention in order to navigate the main questline, let alone the sidequests and factions. And even then the world design is decent enough you can memorise where you need to go the more you explore the world. Oblivion and Skyrim rely so much on on-screen quest markers and instant fast travel, you might as well turn your brain off whenever you play. As for the intros: For what it's worth, Morrowind is the only game in the series where you aren't forced to sit through a tutorial dungeon and as such is the easiest to pick up and play. If you know how tabletop games like DCC work then you should easily make a character good enough to plow through the early game. Go for it mate. TL;DR you'll be fine with Morrowind I reckon.

>>1043983 >buying Just pirate them, what are you stupid? Don't reward these people for their laziness.

>>1043990 I hate how people call Morrowind "Todd Howard's game" when i clearly remember how he hated it, because his brainchild Redguard flopped hard. There is a reason why Morrowind is full with old forum inside jokes, and dev references. The same reasons why noone of them are related to Todd, or why Bloodmoon (despite being good) shit thanks to Todd sudden attention to the series. That nigger was was ready to jump ship with Beth dying.

>>1044027 There was a reference to Todd in Morrowind

>>1044057 Im listening. Where?

>>1044027 Todd didn't like Morrowind's development because it was a nightmare fucking disaster that almost killed the studio. He was also the project lead and director on Morrowind too so this line of reasoning makes no sense.

>>1044061 >Redguard and Morrowind was developed next to eachother in 1998. >Redguard was openly favored over Morrowind! >Redguard flopped so hard it put the studio in a near dead state. >Todd at this point didnt even cared about Morrowind, this is why we got the non-generic weird shit we loved >Todd didnt acknowledged Morrowind until late Tribunal/Blood Moon development Fucking young niggers dont rewritte history! I WAS THERE! Todd was a fucking NOBODY at the time! The marketinget himself during Oblivion development. Bethesda under Todd's leadership CONSTANTLY ignoring Morrowind and its anniversaries while sucking Skyrim tiny dick every fucking year! He is a bitter faggot about the game succes. >He was also the project lead and director Oh look the same nigger strategy which over used by redditors when comes to Star Wars! So we should you take the knee and suck up Kathleen Kennedy because she is on the end credits while did absolute nothing beside giving sloppy blowjobs. Shit like this killed the old Bethesda forum! When new niggers started to gang up on old fags for calling out Skyrim for its mediocracy and Todd for his lying and e-celeb status!

>>1044060 In the vampire testing room. I remember it because I was a kid and it was the first reference to Todd I ever saw.

>>1044074 >Shit like this killed the old Bethesda forum! When new niggers started to gang up on old fags for calling out Skyrim for its mediocracy The official forums were such a notorious hugbox they added the name of the lone website to give Oblivion a contemporary negative review (listing all the problems anyone would say about the game now) to the word filter. Unlike those forums however, said website is still alive and kicking.

>>1044074 >Todd was a fucking NOBODY at the time Wasn't he one of the main people who convinced the others to make Morrowind 100% handcrafted even if it was a "small" world, instead of a giant empty world with procedurally generated dungeons like Daggerfall?

>>1043990 Thanks. Sorry for posting a question and then going to sleep, and then going directly to work after waking up. >>1044016 Don't reward which people? Bethesda? GoG? I don't think I'm being rewarded for my laziness in buying something rather than pirating it.

>>1044093 >Wasn't he one of the main people who convinced the others to make Morrowind 100% handcrafted even if it was a "small" world, instead of a giant empty world with procedurally generated dungeons like Daggerfall? Then he putted back the whole thing in Oblivion, but dumbed it down significantly (see copy-and-paste dungeon system). Later he did the same with quests (see Skyrim1s radiant quests). Oh the irony... >>1044085 Not just not confirmed, but strongly suspected it was refering to Todd Vaughn and not Howard. >>1044092 Yeah, i know its started early with the popularity of Morrowind, but before the normal faggot menance it was a chill as fuck place. Pic related forum fag rant is more about Emile, but slightly touch on Todd to point out my distaste with him. The reason why im not consider Morrowind a Todd Howard's game is that he had little power (and interest) over it. More he got involved with games the shittier they got. See Starfiled which supposed to be his childhood dream game. His darling pet project. His new Redguard.

>>1044016 > Just pirate them I wasn't going to ... but my card provider doesn't want me giving money to GoG. Look: the Jews did some good today.

Project Cyrodiil: Abecean Shores (AKA Anvil, the city its based around) releases December 22, 2024. This new free, fanmade, expansion for Morrowind adds a massive chunk of Cyrodil over half the size of the base game, complete with quests. Unlike Tamriel Rebuilt and Home of the Nords, Abecean Shores has a main quest of sorts in the form of a questline for the Anvil government as a faction (future regions are planned to have their own, mutually exclusive, questlines for the local government) https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=STrVXHnIItA