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Let's Play Morrowind with Tim Dedopulos

I'm so happy to have Tim, wizard extraordinaire, playing The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for our benefit. Here's Tim!

Morrowind was released in 2002, and it shattered a lot of moulds. It was alien and evocative, deeply atmospheric, and packed to the gills with things to explore, people to meet, factions to join, and more. So much so, quite a few players didn’t even notice that there was a main quest.

It was also, in a lot of important ways, hilariously janky. You want to get absolutely blasted out of your mind on cheap booze and punch God to death? No problem. You want to doom the entire reality by killing the wrong bozo? No problem. You want to piss a couple of shopkeepers off so much that they go murder Satan? No problem. You want to screw with magic so much that you give yourself effectively permanent infinite intelligence? No problem.

The end result is something truly captivating, so much so that hordes of fans have been modding, tweaking, and improving the game ever since it was released.

Over the next *mumble* months, I – Hi, I’m Ghostwoods / Tim, and I’m a mythoholic – am going to be playing through Morrowind on YouTube.

It’s not precisely the 2002 version, though. I want to see exactly how far the game has come in the last twenty years. So I’m playing on OpenMW, a fan-made rewrite of the main game engine, running the Total Overhaul mod list.

The Total Overhaul replaces every single graphical texture and object map in the game with a cleaner, higher-resolution version. It adds vast amounts of new, fully-developed territory through Tamriel Rebuilt. It enhances towns and important locations in lore-friendly ways. It does, basically, an entire ton of stuff.

I’ve never played this mod list before. Now – thanks to The Bored Horse – I can.

Set-up

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor
NVidia GeForce RTX 4070
32 GB RAM
2x WD SSD, 1x 1TB, 1x 2TB
LG HDR 4k Monitor

Windows 11 64-Bit
OpenMW
OBS
Audacity
Adobe Premiere

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Mod list

I’m not running the Total Overhaul exactly at default. That’s not even entirely possible – some mods have options you have to choose between on install – but there’s also some things I skipped over. This is partly because I have bad hands, so can’t play with things that make combat harder, and partly because they mod out a lot of the janky madness that I want to show off.

If you want to install the Total Overhaul or any other of modding-openmw.com’s excellent modlists, I strongly recommend you follow the straight-forward instructions – it will make the process much faster and smoother. It’s still not as easy as clicking a Wabbajack link, but it is also much more error-free and up to date.

My modlist, arranged by directory category, is:

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