This time, your cell-dwelling is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of the Emperor, Uriel Septim (who sounds a lot like Patrick Stewart), who is on the run from assassins and urgently needs to get through to the secret passageway in your cell. (This is not to say that there aren’t any glitches, or to denigrate the efforts of the dedicated and hardcore enthusiasts, without whose help in putting together detailed FAQs on the game I would certainly have come unstuck at certain points.)Īs in Morrowind, you begin the game as a prisoner. My own slightly naive position on such statements is usually to take them with a pinch of salt, reasoning that any game that receives such widespread acclaim and continues to have a significant following must be largely ok in its vanilla state, with any serious or major bugs ironed out by official patches in the interim. Still, I had been aware of off-putting statements that are often thrown around when large and complex games are discussed by enthusiastic and well-meaning fans, like “this game is completely unplayable without mods” and “the levelling system is totally broken”. It seemed like a decent opportunity for me to make another attempt to get into this kind of thing, especially as I had already acquired the game in a Steam sale via the mobile app in a fit of drunken Christmas enthusiasm.Įven if I was prompted to do so by the moderately unenthusiastic evaluations of cynical and battle-hardened RPGers and my own slightly contrary nature (and I was), there’s always a danger in knowing too much in advance, so I was keen to avoid reading detailed critiques before I was able to draw my own conclusions. Recent 10-year anniversary retrospectives settled on a consensus that it wasn’t, perhaps, the most fondly remembered of the series, a position that my good friend and colleague largely went along with, while confirming that he was unlikely to revisit the game any time soon. Any gamer overburdened with big piles of unplayed games will be able to guess whether that happened or not.Īnd so, to the sequel, Oblivion. To be frank, I made a surface-level assessment that it probably wasn’t for me, but resolved to maybe give it another try some other day. In the end, I played it for, ooh, about seven minutes, long enough to admire some of the scenery and become overwhelmed by the stats, the big chunks of text, and the choices ahead. During his write-up, he was moved to remark that even I had bought a copy, which left open the possibility that I would one day come to recognise its charms. The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind is one of Stoo’s all-time favourite games. Having a bit of a swim near an Oblivion gate.
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