By: derek

derek — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:43:36 +0000

I remember when I first played Morrowind. I was about 8 and my family had just moved to the other side of town, and out of my former school district. Back then I didn't even know the genre "RPG." My dad told me about Morrowind, he knew people at his job that played and he told me that one of them knew about a game which "gives you even more freedom than Grand Theft Auto 3. If you see something lying on a table, anything, you can just pick it up, if you wanted." I found the concept completely mind-blowing. (HOW DID MY PARENTS LET ME PLAY GTA3 WHEN I WAS 7 OH GOD). I played for such long stretches that the Xbox would start overheating.
I didn't understand the combat very well at first, but I quickly found that the only way I knew how to make money was to steal. By just roaming the countryside and stealing from the occasional hut I was able to fund my adventures all around Morrowind. Eventually, my young self came up with a combat strategy for survival, and, I can't believe that 8-year-old me actually figured this out. Sujamma was an ale that temporarily gave you +Strength and reduced your Intellegence. I figured out that the effect stacks with each Sujamma you drink. Like some kind of Drunken Master of kung-fu, I was a vagrant whole stole enough to buy more Sujamma and continues my wandering adventures. Near the end of my journeys I found Umbra, an NPC who told me a tale about his sword of the same name, which had been passed from warrior to warrior for generations, and he longed to be killed by a suitable warrior. I took several swigs of the ol' Sujamma and killed him in one hit, claiming his legendary sword.
WHAT A FUCKING GAME

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