I started playing morrowind some seven years ago and I truly enjoyed it, when oblivion and skyrim came out I played those too. But I always felt that Morrowind was, accounting for the technology avaible at the time, the best game. Hence my name, velothi being another name for morrowind as you probably know. Now, after that brief introduction I will share with thee my thoughts on how I think the series are going the wrong way, especially with ESO, and what I think elder scrolls could learn from other games, and just things I think would improve it.
Assassins creed style cities: vivec, whiterun, and the imperial city are supposed to be metropolies yet there are more people combined in the little hamlet I live in. I know ES tries to go for detail, each character being unique with a purpose and a name, but I think they should have it more like in AC. Just lot's of people walking around in winding narrow streets, non essential people you can't talk to nor do they have names. I mean look at any city in the series; small villages at most, almost devoid of people! we might have a city of we combined all buildings and people in all three games, might.
Racism: yes, morrowind had a good shot at it. Remeber that EVERYONE would call you outlander?
while I obviously don't like racism it does undoubtedly give that harsher, unfriendlier atmosphere that I think should be there. Now, morrowind had limited technology but imagine that instead of the camonna tong just standing around in their clubs all they, they would actually go around the streets harrassing non-dunmers? Imagine more racial slurs, like the ones heard in combat in oblivion, but comming from people that are just general racist a**holes. Something like that anyways. The idea could certiainly use more thoughts, but it's a start. Crime: You should get mugged, assaulted, and theived from. as in AC, random thug attacks in the cities would be cool. Pickpockets hiding in the crowd also.
Also, in combination of the above, ghettos. Imagine khajiit and argonian ghettos, like the dunmer one but better. there should be places that are just crime ridden and dangerous, that people simply do not want to go to. THIS is were theives guilds should be discreetly located! Not in the only sewer in town, not in a residencial area.
corrupt guards: I liked the shakedown when first comming to riften, but there should be more of that. There should be racist guards that just push you into a wall or something just because, or they just want some money or they'll beat you. Know how the guard in the beginning of half life 2 react if you come close to them? They beat you. that's how I want it, if you look poor that is. If you look rich they should be pushing other people away for you.
What made me like morrowind so much was the detail the put into making a whole new world, unique nature, new culture etc. sujamma, sera, flin, gah-julan, chuzei, telvanni, hlaalu.. The names! there are soo many wierd liqours, armors and stuff that you truly don't recognise because there's not even a paralell on earth, it feels strange and unique. Not like in oblivion where they just have a typical boring western knightly fantasy setting with boring familiar names. I want giant mushrooms, wierd animals like kaghouti, and odd local names for everything. see what I'm getting at here?
One thing I think they should do away with, and they have to some extent, is the left overs from arena. The names of cities for example: solitude, whiterun, dawnstar, winterhold? those names, quite frankly, suck. Names like sadrith mora, balmora, gnisis etc are much better because you don't know what they mean, 'til you learn dunmeris. It gives soo much more immersion. vvardenfell had the luxury of only having one city with such a name, ebonheart, so they could just add new ones with better names. But I think they should either just say to the fans that these names are bad and they're going to change them into something better and we'll pretend that they've always been named so, OR claim that whiterun is the imperial name of the city whilst the nords call it [something that sounds nordic] in nordic and henceforth refer to it by that name. In a way, we're lucky morrowind didn't include the whole province because then we'd had to deal with firewatch and fear (mournhold also, what a name..).
the above applies to many other things, like the provinces. morrowind is such a name, should be swapped with velothi or resdayn imho. But as said they're going in the right direction somewhat, changing dark elf to dunmer etc.
well.. There's probably more but this will suffice for now. Feedback would be appriciated.
