Why were RPGs/First person adventure games from this era obsessed with making the main character walk extremely slowly (at least before leveling/special items/spells)
Makes the world seem bigger if it takes an hour to walk what in a modern game would be 10 minutes, same reason they tended to have shitloads of fog to obscure render distance
Small map so slow speeds makes it feel bigger
If you remove fog you can see just how well designed the map was that made it feel 10x bigger than it was
Also
Me as Caius
If I made this thread I would post something like “they’re making a live action adaptation of morrowind” even if it’s not true because it could be true in the future. And I don’t care about actors
Morrowind
directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
written by Michael Kirkbride and Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ryan Gosling as Nerevarine
Elizabeth Debicki as Almalexia
Kevin Spacey as Caius Cosades
Kanye West as Vivec
Kevin Spacey as Caius Cosades
Nicolas Winding Refn as Falling Wizard
Christian Bale as Dagoth Ur
Todd Howard cameo as the Wood Elf that falls to his death with the Scroll of Icarian Flight. If you can't get Todd then make Tom Cruise actually bungee jump or jump out of a plane and use movie magic to fake his landing.
Ahnassi is sweet and devoted. Tayprostitute would play her as a feminist b***h.
Can you imagine current Taylor saying >"Ahnassi has just one care she wants to share. Ahnassi hopes her VERY special friend will stay close to Ahnassi and never go away. Ahnassi worries, because Ahnassi looks forward to seeing you so much.... But Ahnassi understands. And Ahnassi is very busy, too. So Ahnassi is happy when she is busy, and happy when she sees you, and that is enough happiness for anyone."
Didn't even know Ajira was a girl. >What Khajiit can see what she wants, and not take it? Could Ahnassi ask for gift? Don't say 'No' to Ahnassi. Must Ahnassi be the thief?. Must she steal this thing, this Anon fellow she wants? Or will he give himself as a gift?
>Warwick Davis or Elliot Page as Fargoth >Owen Wilson as Vivec >Jim Carrey as Caius Cosades >Keith David as Dagoth Ur >Paul Dano or Robert Pattinson as the Nerevarine >David Lynch as the leader of the Mage Guild >Keanu Reeves as the leader of the Dark Brotherhood >Mike Tyson, the Rock, Batista, and John Cena in the Fighter's Guild >Willem Dafoe as Hircine
That's exactly what made it appealing. The dice role battle system, the bizarre art design, the canned text responses from NPCs, etc. I can see why a normie just trying to play it from an OG Xbox might get turned off from it because of the technical problems, but you're just looking at it from the hindsight of having played Oblivion/Skyrim. Morrowind was fricking kino back in the day.
>don’t you see the unplayable dogshit mechanics are WHY it’s so great and it’s definitely not me remembering when I was a kid how cool it was
And you say I looked at oblivion with nostalgia, don’t care how “good” gen x boomers & millennials pretend it is Oblivion is objectively a better game
>Oblivion is objectively a better game
Sure, if you are a casual featherbrained or a woman >NOOO WHERE IS THE QUEST COMPASS? >WHERE ARE MY ESENCIAL QUESTS CHARACTERS!? >WHY IS THAT GUY KILLING ME? IS HE BAD?
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>don’t you see the unplayable dogshit mechanics are WHY it’s so great and it’s definitely not me remembering when I was a kid how cool it was
And you say I looked at oblivion with nostalgia, don’t care how “good” gen x boomers & millennials pretend it is Oblivion is objectively a better game
basically just saying >the game mechanics need to be as easy for me to understand as possible with zero learning curve required, and it needs to match the design sensibilities of an AAA release from the 2010s because I've never played an old video game before
Really you'd have to cut so much content it would become too generic. >chosen one unites the houses and tribes to defeat dagoth ur
So far very good but how much time can you spend on the temple? The 36 sermons? The Empire? The dwemer?
The corrupt infighting in the guilds?
How do you explain the boost in strength for the nerevarine that fcomes from leveling and trainingin game when he suddenly can best gods?
ok, 20 hour long episodes >So far very good but how much time can you spend on the temple?
an episode >The 36 sermons?
half an episode >The Empire?
half an episode at most, not that important to the story >The dwemer?
only dialogues with yagrum, vivec and such, much left uncertain, as was in the game >The corrupt infighting in the guilds?
maybe sprinked through episodes as mini side stories, i wouldnt want nerevarine in any guild in the series >How do you explain the boost in strength for the nerevarine that fcomes from leveling and trainingin game when he suddenly can best gods?
this one is difficult and i dont really have a good answer, but definitely wouldnt want him to be a mary sue, i guess smarter people than me can figure this one out
maybe have the story have a time skip near the beggining? or just have him discover alchemy lol
>How do you explain the boost in strength for the nerevarine that fcomes from leveling and trainingin game when he suddenly can best gods?
Training montage. An honestly, the leveling messages do a pretty good job of explaining it themselves.
>You realize that all your life you have been coasting along as if you were in a dream. Suddenly, facing the trials of the last few days, you have come alive.
ok, 20 hour long episodes >So far very good but how much time can you spend on the temple?
an episode >The 36 sermons?
half an episode >The Empire?
half an episode at most, not that important to the story >The dwemer?
only dialogues with yagrum, vivec and such, much left uncertain, as was in the game >The corrupt infighting in the guilds?
maybe sprinked through episodes as mini side stories, i wouldnt want nerevarine in any guild in the series >How do you explain the boost in strength for the nerevarine that fcomes from leveling and trainingin game when he suddenly can best gods?
this one is difficult and i dont really have a good answer, but definitely wouldnt want him to be a mary sue, i guess smarter people than me can figure this one out
maybe have the story have a time skip near the beggining? or just have him discover alchemy lol
>How do you explain the boost in strength for the nerevarine that fcomes from leveling and trainingin game when he suddenly can best gods?
Training montage. An honestly, the leveling messages do a pretty good job of explaining it themselves.
>You realize that all your life you have been coasting along as if you were in a dream. Suddenly, facing the trials of the last few days, you have come alive.
>How do you explain the boost in strength for the nerevarine that fcomes from leveling and trainingin game when he suddenly can best gods?
He gets enlightened after a conversation with Vivec. Do a long and kino visual acid trip during which the Nerevarine walks the Oblivion, talks with Azura, understands Vivec's Sermons, remembers his past incarnations, and wakes up having achieved CHIM
The show should be mystical as frick anyways
The main quest of Morrowind provides an introduction to pretty much every faction in the game and most of the game's lore is intrinsically woven in.
you don't have to have an episode exploring the empire or the morag tong, you simply show throughout the story how these groups interact with each other, what they are about, and how they're goals may differ
Thhat makes the storytelling too linear imo. Game characters are written to be static and respond to the player. Aside from Aryon who really has his own motivations to appear as a side character with his own story and agency?
For a large drawn out tv show you would need 4 or 5 plot lines eventually intertwining with the nerevarine prophecy.
tbh you could pick any topic from Morrowind and spin a whole season around it. just the war of the council (which is nothing but backstory in the game) could offer something up there with Game of Thrones. me personally I'd try to make a series about the Alessian order
>main character breaks into someone's home to drink their whole liquor cabinet in 5 seconds and murders an entire police force for literally no reason >bribes a crooked bartender afterwards to clear his name
What the frick was the Nerevarine's problem?
>its a "nerevar runs through a cave naked on a bunch of skooma and fortify speed potions and steals everything of value and ignoring its inhabitants then uses recalls" episode
>a 3 episode arc where the mc is just getting attacked by swarms of cliffracers the whole time while desperately poking at them with a small dagger but never landing any hits
I imagine the story would be mostly deviod of action and be entirely an intrigue story if it was made into a movie or show.
I can see a fight or two happen, but it would be mostly investigating, convincing politicians and cheifs to follow the nereverene. Just thinking of the story mechanically, it has very little action within itself, the story can be done with violence and there are fights, but most of the action in the game happens in side missions, exploring and on the way to talk to people.
That's what I would do if I had to make it.
As for casting, I wouldn't mind to see Jeffery Donovan be the Nereverene, I get the sense it's a character he could add personality into. He isn't the world's best actor or anything, but he has a talent for making a character that is written or inherently boring interesting by how he plays it.
Burn notice guy as Nerevar? I don't see it, but I didn't really watch burn notice alot, he has a bit of range from what I can tell. Am I missing something about him?
Paul Giamatti as M'aiq the Liar
Dean Norris as some bigwig in the Imperial Legion
Mads Mikkelsen as the creepy Telvanni wizard with a bunch of waifu clones
Jack Nicholson as the Dwemer with robotic legs
Good version: It woukd be a Nord and all the leftists would seethe about white saviours
Kino version: Imperial who has to decide between his country and what is right
Cringe version: An argonian to pander to drooling redditors
Cope and cry about it. Argonian Nerevar is canon. If you don't like it you can go to the Khajit Imperial moon colony and cry about it, because both Tamriel and Akavir will get lizarded by him.
>Vivec- David Bowie on acid ala The Man Who Fell To Earth >The Nerevarine- Kyle MacLachlan >Caius Cassodes- Clancy Brown >Yagrum Bagarn- Willem Dafoe >Divayth Fyr- Mads Mikkelsen >Dagoth Ur- Christian Bale >Miscellaneous Dunmer- Miguel Ferrer
>Vince McMahon as Caius >Donald Trump as Trebonius >Warwick Davis as Fargoth >Eric Roberts as literally every random person in the background including the women
>made a redguard in oblivion >spend a bunch of time in the character creation menu to make him look like a breton >acquire a white twink that makes angry black man noises when he attacks people
I played it when it came out 20 years ago or something and still revisit it once in while. I've played it for probably thousands of hours. I've made countless characters of every race, even downloaded other races.
Except Redguards. Not even once. And that also goes for Oblivion and Skyrim.
Why were RPGs/First person adventure games from this era obsessed with making the main character walk extremely slowly (at least before leveling/special items/spells)
Maybe they wanted you to look at the graphics
Makes the world seem bigger if it takes an hour to walk what in a modern game would be 10 minutes, same reason they tended to have shitloads of fog to obscure render distance
Small map so slow speeds makes it feel bigger
If you remove fog you can see just how well designed the map was that made it feel 10x bigger than it was
Also
Me as Caius
>Me as Caius
you'd be more suited to Yagrum
>morrowind walk slowly
you zip around at the speed of quake and fly/jump everywhere
If I made this thread I would post something like “they’re making a live action adaptation of morrowind” even if it’s not true because it could be true in the future. And I don’t care about actors
The guy who plays Feyd as Vivec
Lee Pace as Dagoth Ur
Matthew McConaughey as Caius Cossades
Brad Pitt as the Nerevarine (in full Argonian prosthetics)
Morrowind
directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
written by Michael Kirkbride and Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ryan Gosling as Nerevarine
Elizabeth Debicki as Almalexia
Kevin Spacey as Caius Cosades
Kanye West as Vivec
Kevin Spacey as Caius Cosades
Nicolas Winding Refn as Falling Wizard
Christian Bale as Dagoth Ur
Who should play Caius Cossades? And do you think there’s a role for Kevin Spacey in there somewhere?
line number six
moron
it flew right over my head
>Kevin Spacey
Crassius Curio
>Nicolas Winding Refn as Falling Wizard
KINO
Nerevarine
A bunch of unknown theater actors is the only cast that would capture the immersiveness.
Charlie sheen as any khajit
Todd Howard cameo as the Wood Elf that falls to his death with the Scroll of Icarian Flight. If you can't get Todd then make Tom Cruise actually bungee jump or jump out of a plane and use movie magic to fake his landing.
It should be Tom's last role, he will launch himself out of a plane and die on camera
It would be kino if he got terminally ill and did this for fun. It would be the reverse Baldwin.
Who would play the love interest Ahnassi?
This. (The butthole version)
Ahnassi is sweet and devoted. Tayprostitute would play her as a feminist b***h.
Can you imagine current Taylor saying
>"Ahnassi has just one care she wants to share. Ahnassi hopes her VERY special friend will stay close to Ahnassi and never go away. Ahnassi worries, because Ahnassi looks forward to seeing you so much.... But Ahnassi understands. And Ahnassi is very busy, too. So Ahnassi is happy when she is busy, and happy when she sees you, and that is enough happiness for anyone."
>Can you imagine current Taylor saying
>>"Ahnassi has just one care she wants to share. Ahnassi hopes her VERY special friend...
Keep going. I'm really close.
Anyway, Ajira was best girl.
Didn't even know Ajira was a girl.
>What Khajiit can see what she wants, and not take it? Could Ahnassi ask for gift? Don't say 'No' to Ahnassi. Must Ahnassi be the thief?. Must she steal this thing, this Anon fellow she wants? Or will he give himself as a gift?
>Warwick Davis or Elliot Page as Fargoth
>Owen Wilson as Vivec
>Jim Carrey as Caius Cosades
>Keith David as Dagoth Ur
>Paul Dano or Robert Pattinson as the Nerevarine
>David Lynch as the leader of the Mage Guild
>Keanu Reeves as the leader of the Dark Brotherhood
>Mike Tyson, the Rock, Batista, and John Cena in the Fighter's Guild
>Willem Dafoe as Hircine
Oblivion was better
Just because your millennial ass played it back in summer holiday sometime in 2006 doesn't mean it was a good game
I’m a zoomer but nice projection, morrowind is janky unplayable dogshit
more like janky dogshit kino
some of the most surreal and funny things happen in that game
That's exactly what made it appealing. The dice role battle system, the bizarre art design, the canned text responses from NPCs, etc. I can see why a normie just trying to play it from an OG Xbox might get turned off from it because of the technical problems, but you're just looking at it from the hindsight of having played Oblivion/Skyrim. Morrowind was fricking kino back in the day.
>don’t you see the unplayable dogshit mechanics are WHY it’s so great and it’s definitely not me remembering when I was a kid how cool it was
And you say I looked at oblivion with nostalgia, don’t care how “good” gen x boomers & millennials pretend it is Oblivion is objectively a better game
>Oblivion is objectively a better game
Sure, if you are a casual featherbrained or a woman
>NOOO WHERE IS THE QUEST COMPASS?
>WHERE ARE MY ESENCIAL QUESTS CHARACTERS!?
>WHY IS THAT GUY KILLING ME? IS HE BAD?
this
basically just saying
>the game mechanics need to be as easy for me to understand as possible with zero learning curve required, and it needs to match the design sensibilities of an AAA release from the 2010s because I've never played an old video game before
Filtered by fricking Morrowind. Can't wait for you morons to die in Ukraine.
Woah buddy, millennials played Morrowind. Zoomers are the gays who think Oblivion is better.
morrowind would be very kino for one 10-15 episode season
also, tarantino as jiub
Really you'd have to cut so much content it would become too generic.
>chosen one unites the houses and tribes to defeat dagoth ur
So far very good but how much time can you spend on the temple? The 36 sermons? The Empire? The dwemer?
The corrupt infighting in the guilds?
How do you explain the boost in strength for the nerevarine that fcomes from leveling and trainingin game when he suddenly can best gods?
ok, 20 hour long episodes
>So far very good but how much time can you spend on the temple?
an episode
>The 36 sermons?
half an episode
>The Empire?
half an episode at most, not that important to the story
>The dwemer?
only dialogues with yagrum, vivec and such, much left uncertain, as was in the game
>The corrupt infighting in the guilds?
maybe sprinked through episodes as mini side stories, i wouldnt want nerevarine in any guild in the series
>How do you explain the boost in strength for the nerevarine that fcomes from leveling and trainingin game when he suddenly can best gods?
this one is difficult and i dont really have a good answer, but definitely wouldnt want him to be a mary sue, i guess smarter people than me can figure this one out
maybe have the story have a time skip near the beggining? or just have him discover alchemy lol
>How do you explain the boost in strength for the nerevarine that fcomes from leveling and trainingin game when he suddenly can best gods?
Training montage. An honestly, the leveling messages do a pretty good job of explaining it themselves.
>You realize that all your life you have been coasting along as if you were in a dream. Suddenly, facing the trials of the last few days, you have come alive.
>How do you explain the boost in strength for the nerevarine that fcomes from leveling and trainingin game when he suddenly can best gods?
He gets enlightened after a conversation with Vivec. Do a long and kino visual acid trip during which the Nerevarine walks the Oblivion, talks with Azura, understands Vivec's Sermons, remembers his past incarnations, and wakes up having achieved CHIM
The show should be mystical as frick anyways
Getting super powered after an acid trip is cool idea
that's a long movie or at least three television episodes in itself
not sure if adapting Morrowind is possible
The main quest of Morrowind provides an introduction to pretty much every faction in the game and most of the game's lore is intrinsically woven in.
you don't have to have an episode exploring the empire or the morag tong, you simply show throughout the story how these groups interact with each other, what they are about, and how they're goals may differ
Thhat makes the storytelling too linear imo. Game characters are written to be static and respond to the player. Aside from Aryon who really has his own motivations to appear as a side character with his own story and agency?
For a large drawn out tv show you would need 4 or 5 plot lines eventually intertwining with the nerevarine prophecy.
tbh you could pick any topic from Morrowind and spin a whole season around it. just the war of the council (which is nothing but backstory in the game) could offer something up there with Game of Thrones. me personally I'd try to make a series about the Alessian order
>Alessian order
>morrowind
what?
I meant as in "if I was in a charge of a TES series" not just Morrowind. but yeah
i dont really know what to tell you. the story doesnt need to be static and it doesnt need to be large and drawn out either.
Tariq Nasheed is a Khajiit slave addicted to skooma that often gets butt raped by the plantation owner who is J.K. Simmons.
>its a main character steals all the silverware episode
This is getting old.
>it's a main character getting stuck in the side of a mountain and jumping 200 times episode
they really need better writers
>main character breaks into someone's home to drink their whole liquor cabinet in 5 seconds and murders an entire police force for literally no reason
>bribes a crooked bartender afterwards to clear his name
What the frick was the Nerevarine's problem?
>its a "nerevar runs through a cave naked on a bunch of skooma and fortify speed potions and steals everything of value and ignoring its inhabitants then uses recalls" episode
>breaks into someone's home to drink their whole liquor cabinet in 5 seconds and murders an entire police force for literally no reason
Redguard Nerevarine confirmed.
>Redguards have lower intelligence, personality, willpower, and their racial ability was Adrenaline Rush
What did they mean by this?
that you will always pick it because you just use your racial whever you get overburdened and rush to the nearest town to sell your stuff
Based, I loved how Morrowind had multiple solutions for carryweight.
based todd
mages get the blade
You DO know to levitate right?
>a 3 episode arc where the mc is just getting attacked by swarms of cliffracers the whole time while desperately poking at them with a small dagger but never landing any hits
I imagine the story would be mostly deviod of action and be entirely an intrigue story if it was made into a movie or show.
I can see a fight or two happen, but it would be mostly investigating, convincing politicians and cheifs to follow the nereverene. Just thinking of the story mechanically, it has very little action within itself, the story can be done with violence and there are fights, but most of the action in the game happens in side missions, exploring and on the way to talk to people.
That's what I would do if I had to make it.
As for casting, I wouldn't mind to see Jeffery Donovan be the Nereverene, I get the sense it's a character he could add personality into. He isn't the world's best actor or anything, but he has a talent for making a character that is written or inherently boring interesting by how he plays it.
Burn notice guy as Nerevar? I don't see it, but I didn't really watch burn notice alot, he has a bit of range from what I can tell. Am I missing something about him?
Paul Giamatti as M'aiq the Liar
Dean Norris as some bigwig in the Imperial Legion
Mads Mikkelsen as the creepy Telvanni wizard with a bunch of waifu clones
Jack Nicholson as the Dwemer with robotic legs
>Jack Nicholson as the Dwemer with robotic legs
No, Danny Devito
heard any news from the other boards?
Jonah Hill as the Adoring Fan?
based that's definitely an improvement
Vivec Danny DeVito
The combat sequences should be true to the game.
Yes it should be a comedy.
The Benny Hill song should play for every battle.
>it's a simulation and Bethesda glitches and AI are canon
Gothic II was better.
Ethan Hawke as Divayth Fyr
Maya Hawke as all four of his daughter-wives
John Malkovich as Snowy Granius
Hey guys, I've just found our Nerevar
>tfw he/she won't be an elf or beast race because they'd be too cheap to costume or CGI the main character
Good version: It woukd be a Nord and all the leftists would seethe about white saviours
Kino version: Imperial who has to decide between his country and what is right
Cringe version: An argonian to pander to drooling redditors
Cope and cry about it. Argonian Nerevar is canon. If you don't like it you can go to the Khajit Imperial moon colony and cry about it, because both Tamriel and Akavir will get lizarded by him.
>play Argonian or Khajiit
>can't wear Boots of Blinding Speed
>I love Morrowind. It's like Nausicaä but more accessible to normies.
>Vivec- David Bowie on acid ala The Man Who Fell To Earth
>The Nerevarine- Kyle MacLachlan
>Caius Cassodes- Clancy Brown
>Yagrum Bagarn- Willem Dafoe
>Divayth Fyr- Mads Mikkelsen
>Dagoth Ur- Christian Bale
>Miscellaneous Dunmer- Miguel Ferrer
>Vince McMahon as Caius
>Donald Trump as Trebonius
>Warwick Davis as Fargoth
>Eric Roberts as literally every random person in the background including the women
Dagoth Ur did nothing wrong
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Do you make the Nerevarine a Dunmer or different race?
Dunmer.
make it VERY experimental, never show the neveraine, make the neveraine stay just out of camera shot and people responding to something already said
whole show is first-person pov from nerevarine. problem solved.
can't speak or show body though
see Hardcore Henry, it can be done
this and you can conceal the sex and race by the character always wearing armor
james earl jones as the voice of dagoth ur
>made a redguard in oblivion
>spend a bunch of time in the character creation menu to make him look like a breton
>acquire a white twink that makes angry black man noises when he attacks people
I played it when it came out 20 years ago or something and still revisit it once in while. I've played it for probably thousands of hours. I've made countless characters of every race, even downloaded other races.
Except Redguards. Not even once. And that also goes for Oblivion and Skyrim.
Needs a cameo from the Goth Ordinators from Tamriel Rebuilt.
what the actual garbage
Morrowlyn Manson
muh n'wah
I'd go the unorthodox route of making the dunmer Latinx folx instead of Black folk. That way people's expectations will be subverted.