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It breaks the flow of the experience more than a little bit, and damages the immersion by tearing down the idea that you’re in a seamless open world.Īnother oddity brought about by the structure is – perhaps ironically – the presence of other people. As little loading seems to be done, it’s either required for some sort of non-obvious gameplay / technical constraint, or simply because that’s how other Elder Scrolls games work.

One of these is the black “loading”-style screen that appears every time you enter or exit a building or dungeon. While that sounds good – and mostly is good – there are some apparent nods to those earlier games that just don’t feel great in 2017. That is, it’s packed full of fully-voiced branching dialogues, character templates are deeply customisable through choices made in gameplay (although not to the level seen in other Elder Scroll games), and quests are far more complex than the “kill x number of creature y” type you find pretty much everywhere else. If you’re unfamiliar with TESO, it generally favours offline Elder Scrolls gameplay structures and presentation over what is typical in most MMORPGs. There are plenty of nods to the first Morrowind, of course, but players who are unfamiliar with that game need not fret that TESO’s expansion will be impenetrable without having played the original.

As a result, it’ll be familiar to fans of the earlier stand-alone game and a brand new experience in its own right. Morrowind was also the subtitle of The Elder Scrolls III, the prequel to both Oblivion and now-being-ported-to-everything- Skyrim, and this expansion lets TESO players explore the island of Morrowind some 500 years before the events of The Elder Scrolls III.

The original game has undergone a series of major changes since it released, and TESO: Morrowind spawns into the new “buy to play” / Tamriel Unlimited (boxed product + microtransactions and DLC, basically) version of the game. The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind is the first expansion for Bethesda and Zenimax Online’s marquee 2014 MMORPG.