Skyrim: Home of the Nords Review (a Morrowind mod)
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2021
- Skyrim: Home of the Nords is an attempt to bring the lands of Skyrim to TES:3 Morrowind. And it absolutely owns. Support the channel: / warlockracy
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Both Skyrim and Cyrodiil sounded like far more interesting places in the old lore than what we eventually got.
Agreed, hope we see the Sky Whales one day from this mod...
Man old lore is insane yet awesome.
Dang that sucks
So, so true... real shame Bethesda fell off a cliff after Morrowind.
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I still doubt we'll ever get Beyond Morrowind, probably Cyrodiil and Atmora considering those leaks but otherwise...I can't say for certain.
If Bethesda ever decide to remaster the older games in some way I really would hope they don't change a lot of the really interesting stuff, lore or otherwise.
Skyrim is super small scale, I think it should’ve been way bigger and it seems like it might have been intended to be based on remenants of barely implement content.
But Bethesda aren’t like Obsidian when they were working on NV, so there isn’t a lot of Skyrim content that is leftover, Bethesda knew how much they could do in a given amount of time.
I hope TES6 will be on a much grander scale than previous instalments with all the 𝕊𝕙𝕚𝕥 Beth has received and all the time they’ve had I expect it to be something impressive.
Best not to get your hopes up though eh.
>Gets released from jail on the condition that you're basically house-arrested to Vvardenfell and you've gotta do community service
>As soon as youre out of the census office make some cash and escape to your homeland of Skyrim
L for the imperial system.
Even better, he basically broke god plauge Quarantine to go chill with his homies.
@@TheRedKnaveLP actually tamriel data has a book about how the quarantine on Vvanderfell was recently lifted due to political pressure from the great houses and the east empire trading company
@@libenhagos9335 It's quite funny that, Tamriel Rebuilt (the project that is building mainland morrowind) used to have a strict storyline that Vvardenfell was quarantined from the mainland, which excused all of the lack of integration of the mod :) These days it's been ditched, so that book is quite a funny thing referencing something that the project held for years and years :D
@@accountnamewithheld I thought it was Tribunal where they originally state that Vvanderfell was under quarantine.
"The first thing we should do is get a job"
That felt like a personal attack for some reason
Did you get a job yet?
@@Dogman262 I did for a while, got fired and might be starting a new one soon
I love how your character is getting mesmerized by normal mundane animals. A sucker punch to the gut compared to the usual Morrowind abomination wildlife.
Seeing normal animals in Morrowind is stranger than the creatures from Morrowind itself!
I love it, it's so random but hillarious 😂
>try to get a fast travel system established
>cause a political tea kettle to begin hissing because of it
Morrowboomer hands made this mod and I love it
Every time I rewatch this review I read this comment and start laughing like an idiot all over again.
@@HisRotundity So I'm not the only one rewatching this masterpiece of a review and enjoying it all over again? Good to know! :D
I'm a Morrowzoomer lol
@@cefirodewinter9086 same xd
Morrowdoomer here
Todd Howard: Ports skyrim to new console
Community: Fuck you, ports Skyrim to Morrowind
The Nerevarine has arrived!
Wait! Where are you going--
"The Vorndgad Forest is perhaps the largest forest in any of the Elder Scrolls games"
I would have given that title to the entirety of Oblivion's Cyrodiil
@mat_specular wasn't it that Tiber Septim or someone used their powers to change Cyrodiil from a forest to mere woods?
@@HipixOFFICIAL That's the explanation used in universe to retcon previous lore, when Bethesda just wanted to make a more generic RPG setting so that it was more marketable.
@@Personaless thank you
They could have even just said the forests were cleared/cut down during military development.
@@frankenstein6677 problem is they wanted a generic temperate forest and old lore depicted it as tropical.
This "Exploring the Medium of Morrowind" playlist is perhaps the most watchable few hours of video on RUclips. Calming, informative, witty, thought-provoking. All of Warlockracy's stuff is great, but Morrowind is in a league of its own for the type of storytelling he likes to do.
Tyvm
@@Warlockracy Thank you, man! It's a stressful time and your vids are helping me through it.
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Sometimes we get gems like this. Sometimes we get "Fallout: New Vegas The Frontier".
lmao
Well, every horrible experiment gives us plusses. The old ages of dissections gave us human anatomy knowledge. That 'mod' gave us amazing vehicles.
@@supergoodadvice853 Why 'mod' instead of just mod?
Honestly, it's impressive how this is a sliver of what is planned for PT and it has as much content as some games. I feel like Morrowind will still be going strong 20 years from now because of mods like this.
Can you suggest some big world mods that works well with Open Morrowind? Thanks!
That's what you get with a good game which facilitates modding, just look at Doom, almost 30 years now and it's still lively, productive, and imaginative.
Moddable games have virtually infinite shelf life.
PT?
@@darkcheaker Project Tamriel (and TR) work just fine with open mw.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarinethe semirecent popularity of myhouse.wad goes to show how relevant these old games can be. You think it's old and dead, then something cool comes out and catches everyone's attention yet again.
I'm here for that Rare Shadowkey Lore. Fantastic overview of the mod.
Azra Nightwielder is findable in game as is... good luck finding him...
I love how for guard armor they didn’t do any dumb looking fantasy shit (I’m not saying all fantasy armor looks dumb) they just gave them conventional medieval armor which is cool I love the look of lamellar
This is exactly why I have so many armor replacer mods in Skyrim lol (Sons of Skyrim and New Legion are the best ones imo)
@@billybonk7673take a look at Immersive Armors, that adds a lot that also is indeed quite immersive.
I wouldn't call this conventional, this armor is very Rus which is an interesting choice.
Great review! I love how you reviewed it almost in a roleplay aspect, following your Nords adventures as a way to explain the mod! I'm excited to try this myself!
Me too, I kind of hope he would review most of mainland Morrowind content this way.
Awesome review, I'd love a Morrowind playthrough in this style. Also huge kudos to the SHotN team, the level of writing and design seems on par with Morrowind, it feels just like a part of the game. I used to be a part of their team 11 years ago, didn't know they kept working on it. Great to see this come to life, and in such quality too!
I really do wish the reachmen were more expanded on in Skyrim, feels like we missed out on vanilla
I recommend the Beyond reach mod.
I don't know why I keep coming back to this video. The footage is nice, his voice is calming and I really like the look of this version of Skyrim.
I can't get over how beautiful those Direnni windows are
Yeah, prior to visiting the ruins HR seemed very bland aesthetically. A nice surprise.
So even the modding community is re-releasing Skyrim!
stealing this joke for a re-review a year from now
Quality review, hope to see more in the future
Definitely agree, I wish he played the Thieves Guild :)
Amazing how the modding community consistently produces better content than Bethesda
That's because they care.... modders, I mean.
Bethesda can release whatever, tech- and content-wise, and it would sell a lot, so why bother? Their games were released at bad state but even FO76 sold a lot. Same customers made DLCs a thing because they bought horse armor instead of ridiculing that idea.
HAHAHAHHAHAH READY FOR THE BAGILLIONTH RELEASE OF SKYRIM?! HERE YA GO! kek
@@SpecShadow I mean it sorta just pragmatism, no investor or company can sustain itself with one game in development for 20+ years. They are a company and need to make money. Modders are free of those constraints and have a virtual infinite time to tweak and improve everything. There's also the fact that massive project of this quality are rear it's mostly small mods of widely varying quality, while Bethesda is consistently average.
Because modders aren't concerned about selling enough copies to stay afloat at the least and have no overlords demanding they do it this way, that way, and crunch forever.
@@questioningespecialy9107 Oh my god how I crunch.
Entertaining and extensive review, really liked it. It would be cool to have more Morrowind mod reviews in this style.
This is a better Skyrim than Toddland. The attention to detail for the lore is fucking tasty. Really curious to see how far this mod expands over time.
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It is a great mod. I have to check out the other areas they completed but just going out and discovering stuff. I came across some random ruin I'm sure is part of something where I had to play riddles with a draugr head for example. Also doing the thieves guild stuff so far is interesting. The fact with the bounties ic could help a member escape rather than turn them in was a good choice. The fighters guild was also pretty good and I like the fact if you do something before a quest it lets you tell the quest giver you already did it. Like I found two orc outlaws killed them before I even went into karthwasten. And that's just in that city I haven't been to the other big centers much yet. I'm also really excited to check out the Cyrodiil mod and the mainland Morrowind areas I've seen in these videos. Morrowind is my favorite game and while I still enjoy vanilla it is amazing that people have made these huge new land mods full of new content and quests like brand new games set in Morrowind and lore friendly. I love it.
I always hated how TES 5 stepped away from Kirkbride's madness and turned Skyrim into "generic snowy land with vikings"
People hate on Skyrim too much and ignore the real loss. Oblivion’s presentation is total dogshit. Sure the cities look great, but Oblivion is the blandest generic fiery world setting, the internal cultural divides don’t even get lip service in game, the aesthetic is as generic fantasy as TES has been since 1996.
@@baronofbahlingen9662 with good reason, I prefer Morrowind being the odd one out and remaining unique, seeing how ESO is desperate to make every province "special" while glossing over everything as briefly as possible makes me wish that all of Tamriel would just be generic fantasy, with Morrowind being the one special and alien place
@@blueshit199 If you read the in-game books they are all weird. Elsewheyr where the Khajit come from has giant walking tree cities and other wild shit.
Cyrodil should have much more mixed in Japanese style architecture than it does. Weirdly, Sky Temple in Skyrim got this right. The akiviri work and Japanese roof tops.
@@Cajaquarius I thought the moving tree city was in Valenwood, there were also giant insects like in Morrowind
@@blueshit199 Oh sh you are right, I mixed them up.
This was a great overview and review. Thank you for all the time you spent to make this video for us.
I swear that this is another todd's plan to make us get skyrim again
This was cool. Hope to see a Tamriel rebuilt review one day
Man, that mod was in the works back when I was a kid, how's their progress now?
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarinereleasing updates every year
I have a Telvanni sorceress character ATM who could pop a couple of potions and be Karthwasten in an hour... alchemy connects you to the Earth Bones, comrades.
If only Tod didnt see the LOTR movie
New subscriber here. This is a great review series and and I look forward to more! As an avid modder of Bethesda games, this has series has inspired me to install Morrowind again and jump back into the rabbit hole.
Informative, funny, and I love the story based narrative of the review. This channel is already criminally underrated. Keep it up!
These guys are straight up making a better skyrim than Skyrim
Praise Ysmir ⚔️
A low bar for sure, but still very appreciated
@@horacegentleman3296 I actually enjoy modded Skyrim more than Morrowind/Modded Morrowind
@@cefirodewinter9086 you have bad taste
@@horacegentleman3296 What I coincidence, I feel the same about you!
First video of yours that I was suggested, it's been an excellent experience.
Brilliant. I haven't laughed this much in a mod review well, ever. TY so much!
Nice video! I loved how thorough you were with it.
Great video. Looks like the PT gang even showed up in the comments
Wow, these mod reviews are so good, I hope you will keep doing them.
Randomly stumbled on your Morrowind videos and boy are these great! Looking forward to watch more from you.
Absolutely love your style
holy fuck the guards armor doesnt look like poopy rags, guess metal is good for protection, who woulda thought?
To be fair to ToddRim, most poor civvies in the Reach are Bretons with Celt names - Reachmen.
Very interesting review, enjoyed it quite a lot.
That was an excellent review and a fitting closing montage. :)
Awesome video :) Loved the punching montages, and I'm really glad you had a great time exploring and doing quests.
I will say -- you look to have found some of the cooler caves and dungeons, there are definitely some that top those even more though ;)
This was very interesting to watch. Love your review!!
Looks absolutely incredible, great overview, thanks.
Just discovered your channel yesterday, mate! Love the way you storytell your adventures!
Thank you!
I'd pay good money for this as a completed game/mod.
It seems so geniune and respectful towards the lore and it's own contents.
Maybe we'll get a whole Morrorwind-game-style Tamriel someday if all these modders continue their blessed work.
Amazing review, you've done a great work here!
Thank u
@@Warlockracy you're welcome :D
Your videos are my current favorites to sleep to
Thanks Warlock! (also my favorite 3.5e dnd class)
Great review style, I subscribed.
I never get tired of your videos, they are really well made
This is a really fun video series and has helped my friends get into the spirit of the game. Great job!
It is amazing just how shallow Oblivion and Skyrims worldbuilding is compared to Morrowind. In TES III Tamriel really felt like a vast and unique fantasy land, ruled by a multinational empire populated with many different peoples and cultures. Then Oblivion comes out and you get monocultural Cyrodiil with its boring, uniform terrains. Cyrodiil is supposed to be huge, with latitudes differing drastically from the very south to north. And in TES 5 Skyrim feels like mountainous Cyrodiil. The culture is pretty much the same but the names and accents are different. It doesn't feel like the Nords really have that many cultural differences from Imperials. The biggest surprise was the entire Nordic pantheon was reduced to curses uttered by bandits in combat. No honor duels or shamans fighting with enchanted weapons. The Reach is incredibly bland, with Reachmen only existing as Bretons with Gaelic sounding names and the Forsworn...who are reduced to bandits. I played the games backwards and enjoyed them all, but I never got that impression of a vast and detailed world like I did in Morrowind.
I can put some of that down to the 200 year timeskip, but not all can be explained that way.
But Skyrim has at least some veriety in it's landscape. From snowy mountains to tundra plains to swamps to colorful forests.
@@HappyBeezerStudios The whole "200 years" excuse always sounded like a cop-out to me. Especially since there is no corresponding lore to elaborate. Like, perhaps they could have included some books that detailed how the Imperial Cult ramped up missionary activity in Skyrim or something like that. At the end of the day, I think everyone knows that the differing presentations of Cyrodiil and Skyrim from the lore in Morrowind was due to Bethesda pursuing a different creative direction, much like Fallout 3 and 4.
I did enjoy Skyrim a lot more than Oblivion, and thought the world was a lot more interesting. Though when I encountered Nords and descriptions of Skyrim in Morrowind I found them to be much more intriguing then those depicted in Skyrim.
The Nords feel weirdly incoherent in Skyrim. Like most of the explicit text of the game is telling us that they're basically vikings but if you actually stop to look for a second they resemble the Anglo-Saxons much more, but the game doesn't exactly commit to that even though it'd be interesting. I think the central conflict in the game would have been a lot more interesting if they commited to that because like as it is there isn't really much at stake because the Imperials are just objectively correct.
@@hedgehog3180 The Imperials in TES V are emasculated bureaucrats. Rooting for them is like going to bat for Vichy France.
This was great.. Looking forward to more!
These videos are great. I would be very interested in seeing a playthrough/review of Morrowind's main game content in this style.
The plan is to do TR -> more TR -> possibly more TR -> Bloodmoon -> Morrowind -> Tribunal. All with the same character as a continuous story.
@@Warlockracy Sounds great!
nice, i love oblivion and like skyrims lore but nothing beat the shear autism and depth of morrowind. might have to try these mods out once i find my missing cd to reinstall it.
Funny that you keep calling Skyrim "Todd's Skyrim" but he was the lead dev on morrowind too.
But great video anyways
Polygon has a cool article about how Morrowind came to be: www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2019/3/27/18281082/elder-scrolls-morrowind-oral-history-bethesda
Kirkbride had to use creative strategies to get some of his more esoteric stuff past Todd, it’s gr8
@@Warlockracy damn I'm no where near done reading but this is great, "Dark Crystal meets Star Wars" is a great way to describe morrowind and Kirk story about doing two types of design was funny.
this was extremely good content. subbed and hoping to see your channel grow in the future
extremely good format for this sort of thing, you better do more project tamriel & tamriel rebuilt videos
Entertaining and informative, subscribed.
Random Elder Scrolls/Morrowind content? Sure why not. I like the voice. Suits going around Skyrim.
This was really fun to watch. Cheers.
How did I miss the mages guild in Karthwasten? Through review of a large town. Thanks!
It only got added with the latest release. Formerly it was just a mage's house (now living in Dragonstar).
wait can you teleport to vvardenfell from there?
Your narration style makes me feel like I'm watching a nature documentary
I may never get around to actually playing this mod so I'm glad you made this to show us around, gave us an idea of what the people are like, and took the time to stop and look at the smaller details
Great review! This looks like an awesome mod.
12:30 This single city and it's complicated background is like, six times more interesting than any sidequest in Skyrim.
Great video, I really like your presenting style. I’ve been bingeing Micky D’s vídeos and it’s nice to find another channel with non-cringe Elder Scrolls content. Subscribed
you've betrayed the clan, watch your back
Very good review. You know if you ever considered doing playthroughs or walkthroughs I bet you'd be great. Because this was a very fun watch.
I love you, you morrowind preserver, you.
My local shop supplies milk from a Co-op called Norco. Now it's all I can think about after you said Nord Orc alliance.
Thanks for that.
Great video and a fantastic mod, thank you very much!
Awesome video dude!
STOP! I can go no further without saying this channel is my Champion. You have defeated all other TES game review channels. Your contributions are greatly appreciated. Shadow hides.
The first Skyrim related video I have enjoyed in years.
Amazing video, it must've taken ages!
Warlocracy? I click. I thumbs up. I comment.
Need more parts to this series ive watched it twice XD
Great mod reviews
Love your channel!
you deserve sooooooo many more views/subscribers
truly breathtaking
This mod looks amazing!
Just discovered that the mod community is still active for MW absolutely amazing. Home of the nords got an update just 9 days ago on the 10th of November 2023... WTF?
The last I saw of it was in 2020, but I'd still love to see if that Shadowkey remake in Morrowind ever went/is going anywhere, I'd love to experience that game in a more familiar engine and easier setup. Seeing these fan-expansions really makes me eager to see more, especially with OpenMW and the like. Love these deep-dives and overviews!
This series helped me through COVID.
I’m loving this series. Seriously might use it for a dnd campaign I’m building as ideas
This looks amazing
Will you do more of Morrowind fan expansions? It's really good!
Yeah, I’m gonna do a ton. The next video is about an Oblivion mod however.
@@Warlockracy Awesome! looking forward to it.
Good to get away from those damn long ears.
I like how the seen any elves line kinda works in a different way now too lol.
Loved your playthrough, narration and all, but I always liked imagining tamriel to be the size or mainland usa or india. A trip from Vvardenfell to the Reach taking at least a couple weeks. I always ignore the 'days passed' stat and imagine any high level character of mine to have been through at least a decade since their game start.
I think the severed Nord leg is a reference to the Blood Moon DLC. The Mead Hall Massacre quest has you hunting the Udyrfrykte in its cave, and it uses a severed Nord leg as its weapon of choice. You can loot it off of its corpse
I’m yet to play Bloodmoon believe it or not.
@@Warlockracy No way. That caught me by surprise, I'm not gonna lie
I love the travelogue style
My character is a unarmed unarmored kahjit survivalist, because I use ashfall
I usually go with an evil heavy armored spear-wielding Telvanni khajiit sorcerer.
EDIT: hopefully ashfall gets updated to include spells like Frostfall
3:43 Now I understand why Pelinal mistook them for Mer people, makes more sense now.
Goddamn superb video.
"acab thief character" LMAO
This is a very good video