I have never played Morrowind but I'd really like to

I have never played Morrowind but I'd really like to.
As I understand it, playing it vanilla is a bit unstable and there have been fan-made improvements over the years but the torrential amount of mods has me confused on where to start.
What should I know before playing? What are Yea Forums's recommended mods to improve the experience?

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>What are Yea Forums's recommended mods to improve the experience?

>A levelling mod (like MADD) to fix the bizarre levelling system
>A state-based HP mod (makes your HP boost from endurance retroactive, in the base game you have to max endurance as quickly as possible to maximise HP)
>A passive magicka regen mod is nice if you're used to the newer games. Not enough to unbalance combat but just enough so you can use spells without having to rest every 10 seconds.
>A companion teleporting mod just to make the handful of escort quests less suicide-inducing
>Graphic Herbalism, just so you don't have to open a menu every time you harvest ingredients
>Expansion Delay to stop you getting attacked by DLC assassins from day 1
That alongside the Code Patch should give you a mostly vanilla experience with a few improvements

Hey thanks that's a pretty good place to start

>openMW
>expansion delay
>patch for purists
All you need

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The only mod you need to fix all of Morrowinds flaws is called Skyrim.
You are welcome.

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This is horrible advice OP.

I want to play this again for the first time in 15 years but my pc is so advanced now the fps is 400+ and it's just cooking my gpu and there seems to be no way to cap fps.

look I loved morrowind as a child, it was literally the first game I purchased with my own money (it was christmas/birthday money but whatever)

but it is 100% unplayable today to anyone but nostalgia fags. It's just a massive exercise in tedium. yeah the music is nice, the world is cool looking (not that cool to explore) but you just spend hours walking as slowly as the engine allows, reading terrible dialogue/story, and engaging in some of the blandest combat ever made.

What benefits does openMW offer over a modded steam version?

very believable, but not inflammatory enough. 6/10, try harder.

You're just describing bethesda games.

I played morrowind religiously as a 10 year old and Id say is pretty good.
tl:dr you are a faggot

>tl:dr (sic) on a one line post
This is your brain on reddit.

I back this. This all you need if you want something that feels close to the original. Expansion delay and patch for purists feel like things that should of just been patched in. Not sure on openMW, but I think the other two are the only things you really need.

I'm watching a video on openMW right now and it looks pretty slick, never actually heard of this until now.

>everything I disagree with is bait
in what universe does that pass for bait? I literally even said 2 things I still love about the game.

I'm a zoom who started with Skyrim when I was a kid, I beat Morrowind a few months ago and its one of my favorite games of all time, cope nigger

There is only adulation for Morrowind or hate for Morrowind in Morrowindfans minds. Nuance is not welcome.

if you really read every post on Yea Forums I feel bad for you. I normally make it about 3 words in before I reply and call him a faggot or look for the next post with a chad or a frog in it.

why would anyone believe you?
>why yes in this thread with 11 people I just happen to fit the exact criteria to prove you wrong how could you tell?

What a novel post.I had never seen someone make that claim in any Morrowind thread before. I guess all claims of nostalgia are now invalid

I play it straight vanilla. Only downside is you have to play full screen or the gamma is too fucking dark everywhere. So I usually play full screen until I can make an enchanted item with 100 night eye.

Why would I lie?

What is it with Morrowind and nostalgia. I've been hearing, "You just like it because of nostalgia" since like 2004 and I'm not exaggerating. Legitimately a year after I started playing the game, people were saying this shit to me.

I can play the same save between PC and my phone.

They are obviously invalid. People like the new TES games and it's literally the same thing.

it's not exclusive to TES, nostalgia is the default buzzword for anything you don't like and need to justify how everyone who does like it must have some kind of ulterior motive

because the game is shit man.
why wouldn't you?

Dunno. Perhaps you want to give the impression that your facvorite game of all time that is being ridiculed as it slips into the Daggerfall Arena zone of forgotten TES games is actually alive and well and thriving.

In all honesty a coping mechanism.

Holy based

if someone said
>you only like super mario brothers because you're nostalgic!
that would obviously be trolling because SMB is a fun video game. Morrowind is not, it's objectively bad. Thus the only way someone could like it is through a subjective lense.

>why wouldn't you?
It's a video game nigga, what would I gain from pretending to like it?
All I'm saying is the idea that you have to play it as a kid to enjoy is BS. If you enjoy that style of game (most of my favs have similar elements to Morrowind), or just like the TES universe/lore in general (I was into TES lore for years before I ever got around to playing the games other than Skyrim), then there's plenty of enjoyment you can get out of the game

Not sure if serious.

You ever notice how it's never the Skyrimchads either. It's always the "Started the franchise with Oblivion" crowd. You get the same shit when it comes to Fallout as well, never the 4's always the 3's.

>it's objectively bad.
What does that even mean retard? You genuinely can't comprehend that Morrowind has aspects that people enjoy?

Morrowind > Skyrim > Oblivion

This is the objective truth, deal with it as best you can.

There's been no appreciable change in gameplay since Morrowind. All subsequent TES games have followed the Morrowind framework. Any changes are minor tweaks and have no meaningful impact on gameplay. You play Oblivion, you play Skyrim, all you're playing is Morrowind, but you don't miss and there's horses.

Because you think that pretending to like old games praised by elitist trannies on v elevates you above "normie plebs" who like newer and more popular titles. Many such cases.

Morrowindfags are different kind of cats They say stupid shit like "It spoke to me on a different level".
They used to be the dominant group in TES. they are now a niche and getting smaller as people start aging out of the system.
They are at the precipice of irrelevance are not happy.
20 years is a long fucking time to waste and that realization has to sting.

Now I know you are just being silly .
Ya got me. Well trolled.

now THIS is schizoposting

Fair Magic Regen is a good one, makes playing a mage less jank. If you become a high level one you'll actually feel powerful for more than a few seconds.

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>what would I gain from pretending to like it?
that's not what we're accusing you and you know it, you disingenuous faggot. don't reply to me again.
1. list them
2. if a team of scientists tried to create a bad video game in a lab it would be like 90% morrowind.

This desu. While is a decent setup for a first-timer, I strongly disagree with mods that effect leveling and stats because they upset the early game balance, and don't really matter late game because you'll be OP by then regardless.
OpenMW is recommended over Morrowind Code Patch, because you don't need a separate mod for view distance, FOV, etc if you use OpenMW, and MCP has a few questionable options enabled by default (such as run by default, which will likely get you killed early game).
While they aren't really mods, I'd go ahead and grab the official plugins if your copy doesn't come with them.

Or there are two anons.
Tell yourself what you have to to cope.

>45 posts
>17 ips
lol, lmao even.

One or two schizos really got up in arms about Morrowind for some reason. Probably an inferiority complex having started with Oblivion.

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Do you call everyone schizo because you think multiple anons are one person?

Two schizophrenics. Anti-morrowindfags tend to be completely insane and treat people liking a game they pathologically hate as evil, so it's not impossible.

>roughly three posts per IP
>this is somehow a problem

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Why are zoomers so fucking retarded?

>1. list them
Why though? If I talk about all the reasons I like the setting, the story and the gameplay you'll find some arbitrary reason to dismiss it and keep schizoposting

>you think multiple anons are one person?

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the anti-morrowind romanian schizo is more than likely ITT so that explains it

I use the last two in his list and can vouch for them.
OP, if you decide to be an Argonianchud I recommend Aquatic Argonians.

Kill yourself

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>Argonians
Oh yeah, OP, you probably shouldn't pick a beast race (furries or scalies) for your first playthrough, as they can't where boots or most helmets.

This is the correct answer
Cringe list, why recommend cheat mods for a first playthrough