Skyrim Will Be Weird Like Morrowind

[Burningsok]

I like this... a lot.

 

[DaHero]

While I loved Oblivion, I love that they're bringing in some of the wierd crap from Morrorwind. I never played Morrowind, but from what I've seen it gave me a slight touch of regret over going with a PS2 instead of an Xbox.

Most modern day PCs could play it easily. Take a look and you might see it on sale sometime.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

If I see ONE cliff racer Bethesda, someone over there is gonna be in for a world of hurt.

Dragons= cliff racers x 100

Yeah, but dragons don't appear out of nowhere and start pecking at your skull.

 

[Zero_ctrl]

I predict Giants and Jötunns

Spoiler: Giants are confirmed.

 

[TheVoodooFrog]

Bethesda are truly a company that can identify what worked and what didn't. This is one of the only games that I trust will be spectacular.

 

[Merkavar]

so can someone giv me an example of the bizare ness in morrowind? never played it

 

[Gingernerd]

Wonderful news. Fight the "standard fantasy" abomination. I'm hardly convinced that some WRPGS deserve the classification "High Fantasy" so i'm hoping for nutty impossible architecture and interesting enemies. Not just one or two dragons thrown in to make it fantasy!

 

[darkdraconus]

I want to get the expansions for Morrowind and play through it's entirety now...

Don't you think it's a little early to be making Japan jokes?

People have been making jokes like that about Japan for years. When people are doing it now, it's because they were doing it a long time before the earthquake and because they're not making a joke about it.

 

[latenightapplepie]

This deserves a Sue Sylvester thumbs-up.

Spoiler: Voila!

 

[Saelune]

Good. Not that this is news to me though, but anyways...in my early days of Morrowind, before I became the extreme, borderline fanatic fan I am now, I remebred being like "Wow...its like im in the medival age of an alien planet". Already gone through the Skyrim "demo" (Bloodmoon Expansion) though so I know of some bits to expect.

 

[GodofCider]

I still can't figure out how people are honestly interpreting that picture as a 'tentacle bear'. It's clearly a bear standing behind a fallen mammoth.

Though a tentacle bear would be interesting I suppose; kind of annoying I imagine.

 

[mooncalf]

50% Morrowind + 50% Oblivion = 100% Perfect.

"We'll take the Cliff Racers and Character Animations from Morrowind and combine them with the DLC and difficulty wall of Oblivion! It'll be PERFECT!"

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

50% Morrowind + 50% Oblivion = 100% Perfect.

"We'll take the Cliff Racers and Character Animations from Morrowind and combine them with the DLC and difficulty wall of Oblivion! It'll be PERFECT!"

And don't forget to add Morrowind's expansion Bloodmoon, that was the most epic experience I've ever had with a TES game

 

[Dr. Harvey C. Clay]

It?s funny, just yesterday I was saying to my friend that the major shortcoming of oblivion (other than the awful leveling system) was its departure from the ?Normal? oddity of the elder scrolls games.

 

[Imbechile]

Yes! This got me more excited than all the enhanced engine, dual welding, AI and such bullshit

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

This is definitely good news. The lack of variety in Oblivion's settings is one of the bigger reasons I never bought the game, but only played it on a friend's Xbox. After a game with such varying terrain and interesting places as Morrowind, it felt like Oblivion was a step backwards.

 

[stuhacking]

This news makes me real happy and excited! I'm actually playing Morrowind again (With plenty of texture/mesh enhancements!). It's actually interesting to see how many things are missing that were added in Oblivion. (Remember when shops stayed open all night? Remember when you could just loot any barrels?)

 

[GeorgW]

We've all played fantasy games, and we all know the Tropes. Any way to get away from that is great IMH!

 

[Eleima]

That "maybe Japan" comment might've been a little insensitive, I think.

Back on topic...
Not sure how "weird" Skyrim can be, really, since its concept is pretty much based on Nordic countries in Medieval Times (think vikings). And least that's what my knowledge of TES lore has led me to believe. Not sure it can be *as* weird as Morrowind, and we're not really asking for it to be that weird, I guess... Bethesda, if you're reading this, just *be* Skyrim, don't try to be like Morrowind, that's a pitfall which must be avoided.
(For clarification purposes, I loved Morrowind to bits, but I'm not convinced that you can take a recipe that applied to Morrowind and hope it'll work for Skyrim as well, the provinces are just too different)

 

[Slangeveld]

Admittedly the first time I saw a Silt Strider I went "AAH OMG NO HELP". :3 Granted, Morrowind was one of the first fantasy games I played but still. Love that game.