MOURNHOLD

>Jiub's Pub and Grub

Dunmer have objectively the most interesting culture out of all of the Elder Scrolls races.

They shit on argonians (:

You know why? Because of shroom eating Kirkbride, that's why.

>I do remember going, “Hey, does that mean Sermon Fourteen went through?” And Ken’s like, “Yeah, why?” I’m like, “OK, never mind.” He says, “No. Why?” I’m like, “You’ve read it.” And he goes, “Yeah, but should I read it closer?” Because it was like a holy treatise on blowjobs, heavily veiled in this made-up holy language. So it makes me laugh that, you know, 11-year-old Timmy’s like, “Hey, Mom. Check out this Xbox game!”

>I used to have this thing with Todd, because he was one of the ones that’s like, “Let’s not make it too weird.” So I’d bamboozle him. There was a period where I would actually draw two different versions of a monster — the one that was weird and that I wanted to be in the game, and then one that was fucking crazy. And so I’d go to Todd, and I’m like, “OK, I think I’ve got the mid-level creature set.” And I’d show him a picture. He’d be like, “Nah, dude, that’s crazy.” Then I’d go back to my office and I would act like I was drawing something new, and I’d just come back with the original drawing of what I really wanted to be in there. Like, “Hey, is this what you were thinking?” And he’d be all, “Oh, yeah, that’s much better. That’s great.”

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>It went 180 with Oblivion. Because Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings was coming out, and it was fucking great. And since technology had come so far, Todd was like, “We’re gonna make that. We’re gonna go back to traditional fantasy.”

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Chad Todd vs Virgin Kirkbride

This. They really should just approach the lore of every race in that way. Morrowind's world-building is unmatched.

Sermon fourteen
>Vivec lay with Molag Bal for eighty days and eight, though headless.
>The holy one returned at last, Vehk, golden with wisdom. His head found its body had been tenderly used.
>My love is accidentally shaped like a spear.'
>So Vivec, who had a grain of Ayem's mercy, set about to teach Molag Bal in the ways of belly-magic. They took their spears out and compared them. Vivec bit new words onto the King of Rape's so that it might give more than ruin to the uninitiated. This has since become a forbidden ritual, though people still practice it in secret.
>Here is why: The Velothi and demons and monsters that were watching all took out their own spears. There was much biting and the earth became wet.
>Vivec wept as he slew all those around him with his terrible new spear. He named it MUATRA, which is Milk Taker

>since technology had come so far
>We’re gonna go back
AAAAAAHHHHHH TODD WHAT THE FUCK

What the fuck?
Did Vivec fucking suck off Molag Bal?
What a flaming homo.

They had toilets in the indus river valley civilization

Ken Rolston
>I worked on things in the background; I worked on the non-quest dialogue so that it made the world more colorful. It’s the kind of thing that Todd knew that I could do and that I would enjoy. But I did not enjoy making the main quest for Oblivion. It wasn’t the kind of main quest I would want to do. Having done Moby Dick the first time, and then not being able to do Moby Dick again — in many ways, I think Morrowind is to Moby Dick as Oblivion is to the movie Titanic. It was a great spectacle, but very generic and very accessible to users.

Mark Nelson
>I’m proud of Morrowind. But you go back and play Morrowind now, and it’s hard. That’s a hard game to play. “Where’s my quest marker?” And, God, I fought against quest markers; I fought against fast travel. It was like, “No, we have to be RPG purists!” And Todd was right — Oblivion was better for it. It made it a lot better on console. But, my God, we were dumbing down RPGs. We were ruining RPGs forever.

>indus anything
>civilization

he's a hermie so it's not gay

Is Todd the cancer killing western RPGs?

oops ment for

Blame consoles

What he said:
Pete Hines
>It really laid the groundwork for Oblivion and what that was able to do, and then, subsequently, Skyrim. All of those things, collectively, had a role in changing how people viewed open worlds and player choice. Morrowind was the one that really started everything on that course, moving it from what Arena and Daggerfall had accomplished, which was cool and impressive — but, to be honest with you, just not on the same scale, and certainly not with the console aspect.

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Mark Nelson
>It was the most fun I’ve ever had working on anything. It was a lot of good people, and it was a lot of people’s first job in the industry. There’s no way that game probably should have gotten finished. It wasn’t an experienced team; it was just a really talented, passionate one.

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>just not on the same scale
i hope hines dies in an accident

Everyone was doing edgy grimdark takes on fantasy and Todd decides to go against the grain and go back to a more traditional take.
Does Todd have the best instincts or what?

NOPE. It's 100% Todd destroying RPGs.

Morrowind is on console and it's still good. Wasteland 2 is on console and plays great. Todd only went to ruin both Fallout and Elder Scrolls by going after that money and making shooters and hack and slash games.

The good thing about being vague and convoluted is you can get some shit past the boss.
The bad thing about being vague and convoluted is nobody knows you got some shit past the boss.

But Morrowind wasn't being made console gamers in mind. It was a miracle it worked so well on Xbox to begin with.

>bland as fuck medieval Europe setting was the right thing to do

No.

Don't blame the platform for what the developer does. Hardware is hardware. I doesn't matter if it's keyboard and mouse or a controller. The developer is the entity that will ruin a game.

God I just want to punch his smug fucking face
I'd post the gif of Pete anally raping the vault boy but you don't even need a gif to visualise that, Bethesda is ran by literal invalids

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Yes should have jumped on the morally gray train and made grimdark game #3781.
Seeing how it turned out Todd was proven correct.

Tay... the KINO age.

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Morrowind wasn't grimdark you retard, they could have just continued with the tone of Morrowind and kept making the worlds actually interesting and alien. Cyrodil being dominated by jungles and marshlands, ruled over by roman inspired Imperials would have been far more interesting than the bland shit we got in Oblivion.

Have you read the description of jungled Cyrodil?
It sounded like a shitty anime.They dodged a bullet.

I have and it sounded superior in every way to the shit we got in Oblivion.

Dodged a bullet? Oblivion was garbage lol

I think he meant that Oblivion became a financial success and highly acclaimed by both critics and players by being babby's first RPG. Little did we know how much more simple it could get with Skyrim.

>Morrowind
>grimdark

I am sure weeb shit has its fans. I am not one.

I was talking about the description not the gameplay.
The scaling was horrid but at least they fixed the combat.

>They took their spears out and compared them.

Wha...?

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They compared their dicks user. Like fags.

Only took user 25 years to realize MK slipped in gay porn in the game.
Don't feel bad nobody else noticed either.

What the fuck is belly magic?

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So did this actually happen or is Vivec writing gay fanfiction here? Does this passage detail an actual event that happened or is it something Vivec just fucking made up?

But... Molag Bal is bigger than Vivec.

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Molag Bal is a deadra, he can be whatever the fuck size he wants. Though given his nature as the Prince of Domination and Rape, he most likely was in fact, way bigger than Vivec, and knotted that gay little elf's boipussy hard.

If Vivec is involved always assume it is a lie.

And this right here is why letting MK go was the smart move.

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FACE HURT

Is MK a fag?

>immersion ruined

I don't think so. He just has two modes of writing
1) Vague and convoluted 2DEEP4U nonsense
2) Something weird fucks something weirder

All his writing falls into one or the other category.

I dunno man, his worldbuilding and artstyle were fucking stellar.

He married a Morrowind fangirl he groomed so presumably no.

Why can't I marry a Morrowind fangirl

Those giant ass pauldrons that belonged on a jumbo jet were a bit much.
There were many cases where just a little less odd for the sake of odd would have improved the art design.
There were also cases where a little more odd for the sake of odd could have added some personality to the game.Blandmora I am looking at you.
Not saying it was horrible just could have used a little fine tuning.

MK snatched up the only one.

You can find people who do worldbuilding and artstyle that don't attract degenerates.
The modding community is bad enough they don't need to put out the Welcome sign for more.