The one and only. It was the game of me and my brother. He played the game and i watched it and commented it. Sooo...he was the first "Let's Player" for me ;)
For me it was my little bro. He introduced this game back in 2012. Not long after that, there are flying anthromorphic cat above Vivec cantons in my laptop screen hahaha. Good times
Mine was when my mom was buying my dad the original Xbox for Christmas way back in 2003 and told me to pick out a game for myself. I picked this one out and same - life forever changed!
Say what you will about Bethesda themselves, Jeremy Soul is a musical genius, and orchestral mastermind. In all my years of gaming, I have not YET found an OST that made me feel the same way all of Soul's TES music makes me feel. Just roaming through The Grazelands while Nerevar Rising plays, or traversing Highland Colovia while Glory of Cyrodiil lightly trills in your ear as you take it all in. Sovengarde plays as you trek onwards toward your final goal, and Ambush blares as you strike the Heart of Lorkhan once then five more. I fucking adore Jeremy Soul's music, couldn't you tell? And sure, Bethesda fucked up with 76, but because of how amazing the Elder Scrolls series is, even Skyrim st points, I'm fully willing to give them a chance for TES VI, if it's a flop then I trust them no more, but my love and adoration for the TES franchise as a whole will not allow me to turn my back on TES VI. TL;DR: Jeremy Soul is a fucking genius and I'd TOTALLY suck him off if I could. No homo.
Actually, the vestige defeats Molag bal. And canonically, nocturnal. Meridia also is fond of the vestige. Despite being in the opposite side, the Daedra DO respect the vestige.
@aaradhya mamgain There's no hell in TES. Oblivion is a collection of realms that include the realms of the Deadric Princes. The closest thing to hell in TES is the Deadlands, which is the deadric realm of Mehrunes Dagon.
@sarcastic minecrafter Redoran, Telvani, Hlaalu ( Revoked), Dres, Indoril. But there are others. House Dagoth, the 6th house, no longer existed even at the era of ESO, long before Morrowind. It disappeared after the battle of Red Mountain. In Morrowind House Indoril Is only represented by the player (as Lord Nerevar), the ordinators in Vivec and Mehra Drora in Gnisis temple. House Dres is only mentionned. In ESO you have the 6 houses, House Dagoth is simply called the 6th house. You have a nice quest in Kogoruhn to fight it but Dagoth Ur is not mentionned and Neramo explains that the heart of Lorkhan is a legend ( Obviously he is wrong). Later, in Skyrim age, Morrowind no longer exists after the explosion of the red mountain and the destruction of Vivec city and the dunmers seek refuge where they can.
@@sigertjohansen Little correction: in Skyrim's times Morrowind still exist, but the isle and district of Vvardenfell (the playable area of the Morrowind game, apart from expansion) and other areas on the inland province are uninhabitables (due to the ash poisoning the air). Also part of the reason many dark elves went away even from the inland area and the partial collapse of other cities (including the capital Mournhold) was the Argonian invasion (to revenge the slaves and the oppression of the past and taking advantage of the natural disaster that left the dark elves weaker). But the province partialy recover (even if far from its ancient glory)
@The Ostrich Since it was used as base for Oblivion, Skyrim and ESO too, one can always feel nostalgic without even having played Morrowind, just any of the first tree at all
@@salvatiothemusical8582 Good music is good music. That's why Star Wars was great, Jurassic Park, Interstellar, Lord of the Rings, It matters. It matters just as much if not even more than the visuals and lore. That's why they used it in Oblivion, they can't beat this tune. Would it feel like less if this tune was left out? Probably.
Man this theme really hits me in the nostalgia. I really wish this had been remade in the Skyrim engine rather than the endless ports we've been getting.
Nah man TES needs its own MCC and daggerfall and morrowind both need remasters... Not in the dumbed down creation engine though... Skyrims engine is literally just Morrowinds engine but worse, it's missing the soul. But I'm going to be really know that how strong hold that you get during the great house questline I would love to be able to use the settlement system from fallout 4 to decorate that shit and actually build up extensions to it.
Skyrim's theme is crap compared to this one and Oblivion. They tried too much with Skyrim's and it just doesn't have the epic feel they were trying for to me.
Absolute masterpiece. I'm actually learning this on guitar by ear and it's making me appreciate it more and more, and it's already my favorite theme of all time so it just goes to show how amazing and musically ascending it is
When you finally awake but it's actually in a ship that just arrived in Morrowind so you don't have to listen to Ralof talk about Juniper berries for half an hour and can just go and get shanked by an old lady for accidentaly stealing 1 piece of bread, while having the guards stand and watch her run after you with the knife to the edge of town and laugh at your fate.
@@DesolatorStygian If not called by the Nerevar, Vivec is forced into hiding with a mortal lifespan. He cannot escape his fate. He has neither the heart nor the power of worship. The Tribunal is ended.
I never played this game as a kid. Growing up dirt poor in a third world country, I was first introduced to Oblivion in 2010. Still, I feel the nostalgia.
For anyone who's still interested, the names of all six Great Houses before the betrayal at Red Mountain are on that cover. Clockwise from the top: "DRES", "INDORIL", "TELVANI", "DAGOTH", "HLAALU", and "REDORAN".
I just realized that the Deadric on the triangle are A S V which are the first letters of the names Vivec, Almalexia, and Sotha Sil, for all who want to know
@@KingoKings365 Battlespire did have some great ideas however, being able to properly converse with your enemies n' stuff. I think it would've been better off if they made it a Daggerfall expansion like they originally planned, integrating those mechanics into the much larger world of that game.
That intro will stick with me for life, or until dementia sets in, lol. The nostalgia for this game always hits hard. My brain definitely associates this with happy moments. While there were some dreams of always running from cliff racers, I never held a grudge. :D
Who get’s still goosebumps in 2024… The absolute masterpiece of all times. For all you out there reading this… Raise your blade… stand your ground May you be all blessed… 🌿🕯️🌿
0:39 - 1:05 is also heard in Skyrim’s theme from around 2:17 - 2:30 (although it sounds faster there) which is probably why it sounds so nostalgic even for people who haven’t played Morrowind. If you can’t hear it go to 0:56 of this theme then bring up the Dragonborn lyrics and sing the part of Skyrim’s theme that says ‘Paaz Keizaal fen kos stin nol bein Alduin jot’ and it’s the exact same melody.
The media hitting us for being one of the violent beings in our society yet never admire one of the masterful and beautiful piece of music by one of the greatest composers out there.
This was it. Thousands of hours I have spent on this. I am now 25 but I discovered this magnificent game when I was 11. I will never forget it, ever. Also I hope Tathriel will land soon..
The first time i played Morrowind i was 12 years old, and still to this day nostalgia hits me like a sledgehammer whenever i hear those first notes from the main theme
I've played the three most recent Elder Scrolls games a fair amount of times, of the trio Morrowind is the one I have the least amount of experience and while I played it on the original xbox as a kid, it's only after playing Oblivion and Skyrim that I dedicated any real time Morrowind. If you grew up with this game and find yourself worried that you're looking at things through nostalgia goggles - rest assured you're not. Even though I have the least amount of time with it, no track from an Elder Scrolls game stirs me like this one with a sense of wonder and curiosity with a good dose of melancholy, and hearing the track again I find myself remembering the echoing whale song of that silt strider in Seeda Neen. Morrowind leaves you with a lasting impression that Oblivion and Skyrim fail to deliver in such an immediate way. Of the relatively brief time I've spent with the game I have more lasting memories of locations and of atmosphere than the other two, and that alone says something. For this I have reverence for the title if not nostalgia, I truly believe Elder Scrolls began to lose its way as soon as the art team and world designers began to leave Bethesda. What they created was a fantasy setting that seemed truly novel and unique, while Oblivion and Skyrim rest too heavily on preexisting mythology and fantasy staples that give them both a sense of derivative design that Morrowind manages to avoid while still employing a degree of fantasy call-backs and borrowings from real-world archaeology. Keep in mind I grew up with Oblivion and to this day very much enjoy Skyrim for what it is and feel that its visual style and art direction were a step back in the right direction despite its other failings. I don't mean to shit on them (I'll squat on Bethesda though), but it's like Morrowind is a completely different IP than the other two.
Never played it but you can’t still feel the Dragonborn song in it, to a point it really hits you with a severe sense of grandeur. Absolutely beautiful music.
Oh wow splicing the tracks together like that works surprisingly well. Even though they are kinda different styles the spliced on part feels like it's an "evolution" of the original. I often described the Morrowind theme feeling like a journey, the spliced on part still works in a way as that could be seen as when in the story you are declared the Nerevarine.
In 2006, I was in my early teens. My Grandfather came home with this game’s cd and a Dog (Husky). Both my Granddad and that Husky is no more in this world. But this game literally changed my life. I still have this game installed in EVERY PCs and Laptops that I have. Whenever I play this game, I think about my time with my granddad and my husky.
Everytime you hear this song, it makes a connection within your life. Every time you go back to it after that point, you will remember every connection it has made. A lot of musical pieces are like that. This one just... may have been the first one you encountered that had that effect. It's why you're nostalgic.
you managed to mix this in a way that it perfectly blends to the point where it feels like you're single-handedly becoming the saviour of all dunmer everywhere.
This song is so fire. My homie burned the CD back in the day and I played the hell out of this game, went on to buy it and all the expansions for my PC and Xbox
Always love this song. Every time I hear it I picture a black screen then slowly the text appears: The Elder Scrolls III then 10 seconds later the slow fade in of M O R R O W I N D with that same background
I recommend it; really. The stories / quest/ lore and even the spells.... I truly do miss it. What I wouldn't do to "rediscover" for the 1st time. The game can easily immerse you and it's an amazing rpg.
This game was a Christmas gift from my dad when I was a kid because "it looked like something you'd like." What an understatement as I still play it as a fully grown man! Lol
This one is actually pretty subtle and melancholic, over the following TES versions they made it more... hollywood blockbuster ish. More is not necessarily better, and they sure added vocals and instruments to it. To me, nothing in these variants has yet to evoke the feeling those solo drums and early violins evoke, like a RISING SUN, WHICH IS THE FREAKING POINT.
@@vba2469 they fit the games. Do you think this song fits oblivion or Skyrim? NO! The chanting in dovahzuul fits Skyrim and is just as good. But you don’t care about that.
Ah, yes, we've been expecting you. You'll have to be recorded before you're officially released. There are a few ways we can do this, and the choice. is. yours.
Somehow I think this is the most boss elder scrolls OST however I never played Morrowind. I always look back to old PC games proudly. Even for C64 games with nice music.
Morrowind has superior story and worldbuilding, however it is almost better as a collection of lore videos than to acctually play it. Skyrims mainquest isn't really that interesting but it has vastly better gameplay. Really liked the story with Miraak though.
@@ltloxa1159 Well I would say it has more stable gameplay and properly also far better combat but there is so much crazy stuff you can do in Morrowind like the levitation spell alone that I'm not sure if its right to say the whole gameplay is better.
@@rynobehnke8289 It has been argued to death that Morrowind's combat was more akin to classic RPG in that your character's prowess was dependant on their attributes and skill levels. In Skyrim you can use anything competently from the get-go.
@@enrique6335 still more realistic than hitting someone with a sword and it doing literally nothing. Even with the worst possible edge alignment you’re still gonna knock out or kill the person you’re hitting. Getting hit in the head with a big iron bar (a sword) is not good for one’s health.
"dad why is my sister named rose?" "because your mom loves roses" "thanks dad" "no problem Morrowind Soundtrack: Extended Theme (Nerevar Rising + Reprise)"
Played this when it came out original Xbox back in the day as a kid and I fell in love with it. I got lucky enough to find it at my local gamecrazy that was connected to a hollywood video when that was still a thing.
the elders scroll saga is a masterpiece than lots of next genarations will continue playing... i feel fortunate to played this when they was released like the prime night of a movie.when you play you are not a player you are inside the game and your toon is yourself.. this is the magic of this masterpiece Saga.
To think it's been 20 years since the game first released. Looking back Morrowind was probably the game I went back to the most over the years having played it on and off from the 7th grade all the way to my senior year of high school.
2003, in middle school, my dad comes home with this game "huh the cover looks cool, try it out". From then on my life changed...
It's the game of my life also. The best.
The one and only. It was the game of me and my brother. He played the game and i watched it and commented it. Sooo...he was the first "Let's Player" for me ;)
@@Scaya117 thats the best type of lets play
For me it was my little bro. He introduced this game back in 2012. Not long after that, there are flying anthromorphic cat above Vivec cantons in my laptop screen hahaha. Good times
Mine was when my mom was buying my dad the original Xbox for Christmas way back in 2003 and told me to pick out a game for myself. I picked this one out and same - life forever changed!
I just now realized that the drumming is the heart of lorkhan beating under red mountain
Love this
Cool!
Oh you fucking genius, you live up to your namesake. Very cool beans of you.
Holy shit
Yep, and that's how we know that despite its physical non-presence, it continues to beat ever on post-Morrowind.
I am such a sucker for orchestral music. While the skyrim theme packs a punch, this is much calmer. I like this a lot.
This theme is the embodiment of the word "Adventure" in music form.
The Skyrim theme is good too.
It also has a sense of wonder which skyrims soundtrack lacked a lot.
Say what you will about Bethesda themselves, Jeremy Soul is a musical genius, and orchestral mastermind. In all my years of gaming, I have not YET found an OST that made me feel the same way all of Soul's TES music makes me feel. Just roaming through The Grazelands while Nerevar Rising plays, or traversing Highland Colovia while Glory of Cyrodiil lightly trills in your ear as you take it all in. Sovengarde plays as you trek onwards toward your final goal, and Ambush blares as you strike the Heart of Lorkhan once then five more.
I fucking adore Jeremy Soul's music, couldn't you tell? And sure, Bethesda fucked up with 76, but because of how amazing the Elder Scrolls series is, even Skyrim st points, I'm fully willing to give them a chance for TES VI, if it's a flop then I trust them no more, but my love and adoration for the TES franchise as a whole will not allow me to turn my back on TES VI.
TL;DR: Jeremy Soul is a fucking genius and I'd TOTALLY suck him off if I could. No homo.
Skyrim is good, but Morrowind soundtrack >>>> Skyrim soundtrack
*Nerevar: A godkiller*
*hero of kvatch: a god*
*dragonborn: a demigod*
*vestiege: a regular guy who has a magical loophole*
*demigod killer
@aaradhya mamgain Nazeem, God of the clout district
Actually, the vestige defeats Molag bal. And canonically, nocturnal. Meridia also is fond of the vestige. Despite being in the opposite side, the Daedra DO respect the vestige.
@aaradhya mamgain he is god of cheddar cheese
@aaradhya mamgain There's no hell in TES. Oblivion is a collection of realms that include the realms of the Deadric Princes. The closest thing to hell in TES is the Deadlands, which is the deadric realm of Mehrunes Dagon.
Fun fact: The words in daedric on the sides, top and bottom of the logo spell the names of the 6 houses of Morrowind in daedric.
i love how the elder scrolls has these small secrets in and outside there games
The six houses, not only the three you are allowed to join.
This game is so perfect.
Fun fact: The Steel Plate armor in Skyrim has deadric text on it's helm that reads :"NORD PLATE NORD PLATE"
@sarcastic minecrafter Redoran, Telvani, Hlaalu ( Revoked), Dres, Indoril. But there are others. House Dagoth, the 6th house, no longer existed even at the era of ESO, long before Morrowind. It disappeared after the battle of Red Mountain. In Morrowind House Indoril Is only represented by the player (as Lord Nerevar), the ordinators in Vivec and Mehra Drora in Gnisis temple. House Dres is only mentionned. In ESO you have the 6 houses, House Dagoth is simply called the 6th house. You have a nice quest in Kogoruhn to fight it but Dagoth Ur is not mentionned and Neramo explains that the heart of Lorkhan is a legend ( Obviously he is wrong). Later, in Skyrim age, Morrowind no longer exists after the explosion of the red mountain and the destruction of Vivec city and the dunmers seek refuge where they can.
@@sigertjohansen Little correction: in Skyrim's times Morrowind still exist, but the isle and district of Vvardenfell (the playable area of the Morrowind game, apart from expansion) and other areas on the inland province are uninhabitables (due to the ash poisoning the air).
Also part of the reason many dark elves went away even from the inland area and the partial collapse of other cities (including the capital Mournhold) was the Argonian invasion (to revenge the slaves and the oppression of the past and taking advantage of the natural disaster that left the dark elves weaker).
But the province partialy recover (even if far from its ancient glory)
For me this song will always mean 'Welcome home...'
@The Gucci Banana Are you okay?
@The Gucci Banana Oh. That might be a problem.
Welcome outlander
You nailed it.
Exactly, this makes me miss something that I never had.
When a theme hits with nostalgia when you never even played the damn game.
@The Ostrich Since it was used as base for Oblivion, Skyrim and ESO too, one can always feel nostalgic without even having played Morrowind, just any of the first tree at all
had that with oblivion the first time I played it.
You should play it. It is honestly the best game in the series. I am not saying this out of nostalgia. I played Skyrim and Oblivion first.
Only played it through once. However this theme gives goosebumps even now, almost two decades later.
@@salvatiothemusical8582 Good music is good music. That's why Star Wars was great, Jurassic Park, Interstellar, Lord of the Rings, It matters. It matters just as much if not even more than the visuals and lore. That's why they used it in Oblivion, they can't beat this tune. Would it feel like less if this tune was left out? Probably.
These 3 dislikes are the tribunal
Almalexia and sotha sil paid the price of their insolance
@@jackaholic6050 Veloth
@@mashenone7922 Now it's 7.....guess Alduin and The Mystic Dawn aren't fans as well.
@facepalm486 Redoran? Mor liek "me dumb warrior me smash stupid rock with fist"
this post was made by the Telvanni Gang
And Dagoth Ur
When you make a game music so good that you have to put it also in your two following games, four and nine years later.
And 20+
The drums in the beginning is Lorkhans heart beating for all of Nirn.
Man this theme really hits me in the nostalgia.
I really wish this had been remade in the Skyrim engine rather than the endless ports we've been getting.
I hope Skywind gets finished.
Nah man TES needs its own MCC and daggerfall and morrowind both need remasters... Not in the dumbed down creation engine though... Skyrims engine is literally just Morrowinds engine but worse, it's missing the soul.
But I'm going to be really know that how strong hold that you get during the great house questline I would love to be able to use the settlement system from fallout 4 to decorate that shit and actually build up extensions to it.
@@KitKatHexe You mean The Elder Scrolls Anthology?
Hits me in the nostalgia 😂😂😂
Skywind bro. Skywind.
It's insane how it went from this nice calm walk in a magical forest to testosterone level 9000 chanting in dragon language
Skyrim's theme is crap compared to this one and Oblivion. They tried too much with Skyrim's and it just doesn't have the epic feel they were trying for to me.
@@WellyBoote boo hoo skyrim bad
give likes
@@shadysam7161 Yeah, sure.
@Jobogriff Skyrim is absolutly epi, but Morrowind you can listen to on repeat, oblivion is kinda meh.
And then there is skywind...
Absolute masterpiece.
I'm actually learning this on guitar by ear and it's making me appreciate it more and more, and it's already my favorite theme of all time so it just goes to show how amazing and musically ascending it is
When you finally awake but it's actually in a ship that just arrived in Morrowind so you don't have to listen to Ralof talk about Juniper berries for half an hour and can just go and get shanked by an old lady for accidentaly stealing 1 piece of bread, while having the guards stand and watch her run after you with the knife to the edge of town and laugh at your fate.
Then be unable to hit anything because you forgot to make agility a major attribute
Emperor Todd Howard nice photo gentleman
"Die, fetcher!"
Very cool profile picture
If Morrowind had a movie, you would hear the first half at the beginning. And in the end credits, You would hear both of these just like this.
THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING
Damnit, a morrowind movie or fan series would be stunning
Eternal Glory to The Nerevarine.
do you know the date, of the day you posted this?
Take me back to Seyda Neen
timothy price aaaaaaaw yeah!
@Mitchell Adams r/commentsyoucanhear
'why walk when you can ride'
I want this to be played at my funeral!
great idea
@@DesolatorStygian If not called by the Nerevar, Vivec is forced into hiding with a mortal lifespan. He cannot escape his fate. He has neither the heart nor the power of worship.
The Tribunal is ended.
@@KuddlyKittyKat Vivec achieved CHIM, he's ascended to actual godhood now, doesn't need the heart or worship
@@georgethakur CHIM is a temporary state. He can't hold it for long. He needed Amaranth to really ascend to actual godhood.
@Juni Post Amaranth is a state of being, not an entity or group of entities.
I never played this game as a kid. Growing up dirt poor in a third world country, I was first introduced to Oblivion in 2010. Still, I feel the nostalgia.
I'm poor in a first world country and never got to play Oblivion
Same
An entire generation of gamers can be summed up with two soundtracks. Morrowind, and Ocarina.
Lol ran into this song a long time ago listening to TP, WW, and OOT music on Spotify. Never played any elder scrolls game but I still love the music
And halo
Madelynn Morgan play them NOWWWW
(with a couple of mods of course)
For me it was just Morrowind lol.
@@gentlemanchogath6755 I'm just waiting for skywind. I've spent too much time on my Skyrim load order to lose faith now lmao.
for anyone who's curious, that word in daedric on the bottom mean "dagoth" (someone replied the translation of the other daedric words)
For anyone who's still interested, the names of all six Great Houses before the betrayal at Red Mountain are on that cover.
Clockwise from the top: "DRES", "INDORIL", "TELVANI", "DAGOTH", "HLAALU", and "REDORAN".
@@davidgasiorek4134 lol didn't notice them. thanks for the info
I just realized that the Deadric on the triangle are A S V which are the first letters of the names Vivec, Almalexia, and Sotha Sil, for all who want to know
And the middle is acctually English for the games setting.
@@davidgasiorek4134 I think the bottom right one only says "Telvan"
All The Elder Scrolls Chapters are amazing. Rate: 10/10
*gasp* someone who likes all games?! The legends are true!
Noooo, 11/10
@@daumantasmockus1810 Only one can challenge that ranking, and it's Battlespire, the worst elder scrolls game
@@KingoKings365 and maybe Redguard
@@KingoKings365 Battlespire did have some great ideas however, being able to properly converse with your enemies n' stuff. I think it would've been better off if they made it a Daggerfall expansion like they originally planned, integrating those mechanics into the much larger world of that game.
That intro will stick with me for life, or until dementia sets in, lol. The nostalgia for this game always hits hard. My brain definitely associates this with happy moments. While there were some dreams of always running from cliff racers, I never held a grudge. :D
I'm guessing that even in your demented state you're still reliving the feelings you felt with that music back then. :-)
it's amazing how this song fits perfectly for both the beginning and the end of your journey.
That’s soo true. Wonder if all epic orchestral music is like this, or this one is specially fitting to both start and end of journeys
Who get’s still goosebumps in 2024…
The absolute masterpiece of all times. For all you out there reading this…
Raise your blade… stand your ground
May you be all blessed… 🌿🕯️🌿
Jeremy Soule's music just takes me to another world, and I feel like I just stepped foot in Vivec City for the first time again
0:39 - 1:05 is also heard in Skyrim’s theme from around 2:17 - 2:30 (although it sounds faster there) which is probably why it sounds so nostalgic even for people who haven’t played Morrowind. If you can’t hear it go to 0:56 of this theme then bring up the Dragonborn lyrics and sing the part of Skyrim’s theme that says ‘Paaz Keizaal fen kos stin nol bein Alduin jot’ and it’s the exact same melody.
The media hitting us for being one of the violent beings in our society yet never admire one of the masterful and beautiful piece of music by one of the greatest composers out there.
Gamers being violent is just a very loud minority. While they're out hurting people, the rest of us are just chilling and playing games
This was it. Thousands of hours I have spent on this. I am now 25 but I discovered this magnificent game when I was 11. I will never forget it, ever. Also I hope Tathriel will land soon..
The first time i played Morrowind i was 12 years old, and still to this day nostalgia hits me like a sledgehammer whenever i hear those first notes from the main theme
I've played the three most recent Elder Scrolls games a fair amount of times, of the trio Morrowind is the one I have the least amount of experience and while I played it on the original xbox as a kid, it's only after playing Oblivion and Skyrim that I dedicated any real time Morrowind.
If you grew up with this game and find yourself worried that you're looking at things through nostalgia goggles - rest assured you're not. Even though I have the least amount of time with it, no track from an Elder Scrolls game stirs me like this one with a sense of wonder and curiosity with a good dose of melancholy, and hearing the track again I find myself remembering the echoing whale song of that silt strider in Seeda Neen.
Morrowind leaves you with a lasting impression that Oblivion and Skyrim fail to deliver in such an immediate way. Of the relatively brief time I've spent with the game I have more lasting memories of locations and of atmosphere than the other two, and that alone says something.
For this I have reverence for the title if not nostalgia, I truly believe Elder Scrolls began to lose its way as soon as the art team and world designers began to leave Bethesda. What they created was a fantasy setting that seemed truly novel and unique, while Oblivion and Skyrim rest too heavily on preexisting mythology and fantasy staples that give them both a sense of derivative design that Morrowind manages to avoid while still employing a degree of fantasy call-backs and borrowings from real-world archaeology.
Keep in mind I grew up with Oblivion and to this day very much enjoy Skyrim for what it is and feel that its visual style and art direction were a step back in the right direction despite its other failings. I don't mean to shit on them (I'll squat on Bethesda though), but it's like Morrowind is a completely different IP than the other two.
Never played it but you can’t still feel the Dragonborn song in it, to a point it really hits you with a severe sense of grandeur. Absolutely beautiful music.
Oh wow splicing the tracks together like that works surprisingly well. Even though they are kinda different styles the spliced on part feels like it's an "evolution" of the original.
I often described the Morrowind theme feeling like a journey, the spliced on part still works in a way as that could be seen as when in the story you are declared the Nerevarine.
In 2006, I was in my early teens. My Grandfather came home with this game’s cd and a Dog (Husky).
Both my Granddad and that Husky is no more in this world. But this game literally changed my life.
I still have this game installed in EVERY PCs and Laptops that I have. Whenever I play this game, I think about my time with my granddad and my husky.
This is one of those themes that is chilling, and not in a horror sense.
I just noticed that the theme song of every game after this is just a remix of Nerevar's them...
This song literally inspires awe in itself. Listening to this whilst playing skyrim, staring wistfully at Red Mountain, really is a vibe
You think you are over it, so you don't listen to it for two weeks, and then the shivers just have you on the floor as soon as you put it on.
One of the best pieces of music ever created.
Everytime you hear this song, it makes a connection within your life. Every time you go back to it after that point, you will remember every connection it has made. A lot of musical pieces are like that. This one just... may have been the first one you encountered that had that effect. It's why you're nostalgic.
No that overall is just called nostalgia
you managed to mix this in a way that it perfectly blends to the point where it feels like you're single-handedly becoming the saviour of all dunmer everywhere.
This song is so fire. My homie burned the CD back in the day and I played the hell out of this game, went on to buy it and all the expansions for my PC and Xbox
oh yeah the good old times when Bethesda was still the good guy.
Once upon a time, friend. A long time ago...
Mike Häusling well maybe I don’t want to be the bad guy anymore
@@dutchvanderlinde7729 if only this would be true *Sad Childhood Noise*
Honestly with avowed and outer worlds, maybe obsidian is???
@@danielwg514 Outerworlds sucks
There is more to this epic song? WOW! AWESOME! This is one of my favorite pieces of video game music ever made
only s'wit / n'wah disliked this
And fetchers, and someone who is "Stoopid!"
Think we're all N'wahs just by the definition.
@@ltloxa1159 N'wah means foreigner or slave, so technically if you're a Dunmer born in Morrowind then you're not a N'wah unless you're a slave
@@minhazul1000 Yeah, and we ain't from Morrowind.
Bro when Bethesda tries they make some of the most kick ass games ever
Always love this song. Every time I hear it I picture a black screen then slowly the text appears:
The Elder Scrolls III
then 10 seconds later the slow fade in of
M O R R O W I N D
with that same background
I have never played Morrowind before, so why i'm feeling that good old nostalgia?
I recommend it; really. The stories / quest/ lore and even the spells.... I truly do miss it. What I wouldn't do to "rediscover" for the 1st time. The game can easily immerse you and it's an amazing rpg.
Skywind is pretty close to completion
@@MitchellMcLean1992 That part about immersion.....so! damn! true! I literally LIVED on Vvardenfell for MONTHS.
@Bobby Pork Well in terms of graphics no, but the gameplay, soundtrack and the story is bloody amazing
because it has LOTR vibes
why the hell does this sound nostalgic, I only played Skyrim
Skyrim and Oblivions soundtracks were heavily inspired by Morrowinds
@@jupiterloverofrain8175 yeah, i thought so too. it seemed so familiar.
this feels nostalgic for me too, and i never played a single elder scrolls game
@@florin6628 man, you're missing out
Your question should've been "why the hell haven't I played Morrowind?"
I have never before or since heard a game theme that more clearly communicates "You are not a hero. But you will be"
This game was a Christmas gift from my dad when I was a kid because "it looked like something you'd like." What an understatement as I still play it as a fully grown man! Lol
Legend says that the Nerevar is still alive.
He most likely is, since the blight made him immune to aging. Last he was heard from, he was on an expedition to Akavir.
@@georgethakur You also have to consider hes a man who killed gods.
@Mister_Saur you mean the Nerevarine?
That would be me I am the Nerevarine
@@b03barranteskarlxyruschris84 Yes, *Saint Nerevar* or *Moon and Star* or *The Nerevarine* or *The chosen one*
This is just a masterpiece
How the same melody can be such different. Here is MUCH more magic and epic than in skyrim variant.
p.s.: God, that was fucking awesome!
This one is actually pretty subtle and melancholic, over the following TES versions they made it more... hollywood blockbuster ish. More is not necessarily better, and they sure added vocals and instruments to it. To me, nothing in these variants has yet to evoke the feeling those solo drums and early violins evoke, like a RISING SUN, WHICH IS THE FREAKING POINT.
I disagree, Skyrim’s theme is just as good
@@vba2469 they fit the games. Do you think this song fits oblivion or Skyrim? NO! The chanting in dovahzuul fits Skyrim and is just as good. But you don’t care about that.
Morrowind:The return of the Dunmers greatest hero
Oblivion:The End of the Septim Dynasty and the Beginning of a New Tamriel
Skyrim:Angry Nord Noises
"Wealth beyond measure, outlander!"
You know a song is perfect if you can hear it thousands of times and still get goosebumps.
Ah, yes, we've been expecting you. You'll have to be recorded before you're officially released. There are a few ways we can do this, and the choice. is. yours.
this is beautiful like seriously
Someone gave this a dislike.. meet me on the battlefield coward!! Lol
*Wild Dagoth Ur appears*
11 n'wahs!
filthy N'wahs
20 N'wahs now. Absolutely fucking disgusting pieces of filth they are.
25 people where upside-down while watching this. They thought they pressed the Like button
so beautiful and so sad music, great!
PoV:
You just got home on the weekend with no homework.
Somehow I think this is the most boss elder scrolls OST however I never played Morrowind.
I always look back to old PC games proudly.
Even for C64 games with nice music.
18 Ash Ghouls, (Including Ullapp Schuullannabbii) and Dagoth Ur disliked this.
_ptppptptppt-_ *clarinet noises*
The story about Dagoth Ur and the Sixth House is much better than the story about Alduin and dragonborn.
Morrowind has superior story and worldbuilding, however it is almost better as a collection of lore videos than to acctually play it.
Skyrims mainquest isn't really that interesting but it has vastly better gameplay. Really liked the story with Miraak though.
@@ltloxa1159 Well I would say it has more stable gameplay and properly also far better combat but there is so much crazy stuff you can do in Morrowind like the levitation spell alone that I'm not sure if its right to say the whole gameplay is better.
@@rynobehnke8289 It has been argued to death that Morrowind's combat was more akin to classic RPG in that your character's prowess was dependant on their attributes and skill levels. In Skyrim you can use anything competently from the get-go.
@@enrique6335 still more realistic than hitting someone with a sword and it doing literally nothing. Even with the worst possible edge alignment you’re still gonna knock out or kill the person you’re hitting. Getting hit in the head with a big iron bar (a sword) is not good for one’s health.
i like both, honestly. oblivion is cool too
Still a masterpiece after 20 years
Absolutely lovely
I love morrowind I remember years ago playing it for the first time blown away so Kool
this is the theme song that started the song we know today :''-)
You mean this is the theme that was already finished and perfected.
It's also very similar to GSNOW_B from the Daggerfall soundtrack, so perhaps that's where it truly started.
When you realise we're all n'wahs...
But hey, so was the Nereverine.
I swear: Every time i am listening to this, someone is cutting onions...
"dad why is my sister named rose?"
"because your mom loves roses"
"thanks dad"
"no problem Morrowind Soundtrack: Extended Theme (Nerevar Rising + Reprise)"
Morrowind Theme feels like Dunmer playing orchestra
Oblivion theme feels like Imperial Musical Theatre
Skyrim theme feels like Nordic Mead Hall Song
Everybody’s gangster until the battle music starts playing.
Gold Standard. Beautiful. Good tears for good old days
Before the nords conquering the land of dark elf and imperial
Played this when it came out original Xbox back in the day as a kid and I fell in love with it. I got lucky enough to find it at my local gamecrazy that was connected to a hollywood video when that was still a thing.
They should have make Nerevar Rising as you edited. This is beyond great.
It’s soo amazing 😢
Ecstasy of nerevar
Most people don't even know that "that elder scrolls theme they put in all their games" is actually called Nerevar Rising. Plebs.
But it kinda is the elder scrolls theme? I don't see your point, the nerevar rising melody is used in other songs in morrowind as well.
the elders scroll saga is a masterpiece than lots of next genarations will continue playing... i feel fortunate to played this when they was released like the prime night of a movie.when you play you are not a player you are inside the game and your toon is yourself.. this is the magic of this masterpiece Saga.
You finally arrived but our records don't show from where.
When I realized I could, just, "take" forks, I knew we were in a new world! 22yrs!
I want someone to erase my memory so that I can replay this game fresh or *MAKE THE MORROWIND REMASTERED ALREADY !*
I'm going to have this played at my wedding
And this is the moment I finally realize where I've heard Dovakin before. I must be brain dead.
It's not super obvious, just obvious.
"This heart is the heart of this world, for one was made to satisfy the other"
To think it's been 20 years since the game first released. Looking back Morrowind was probably the game I went back to the most over the years having played it on and off from the 7th grade all the way to my senior year of high school.
"No good deed goes unpunished Outlander."
Always hits that spot....
Morrowind:Best atmosphere
Oblivion:Best story
Skyrim:Best Bosses
The way the music sounds out at the end of the reprise that kind of reminds of oblivion style music because it is what comes after makes me bawl
happy birthday morrowind :)
Bedankt Olivier
My rington forever
Honestly I didn’t realise how much of the music in Skyrim is from morrowind until I played
still gives me chills
Hey you! You finally awake!
Ops, wrong game 😅
Pure Magic! I Love this .