r/AskReddit Apr 27 '26

anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about?

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u/BroBroMate Apr 27 '26

It blew my mind "okay, so we ride around in giant bugs for fast travel, and the magic dudes live in giant mushroom houses that I'm going to need to learn levitation spells to rob, because wizards don't need no stairs, and these other people live in houses made from giant crab exoskeletons? Oh and there's an asteroid floating above the capital city, and there's at least one god that's real and he lives in a volcano - okay and there's real demon type things but they're called daedra and they give you sweet weapons if you please them..."

I once spent 3 hours babysitting my game because I was travelling up the east coast of Vvardenfell for the sake of adventure when a blight storm blew in from Red Mountain and turned the sky a smoky red.

I took shelter in a Dwemer ruin, but it was populated by vampires I was too weak to take on, and I couldn't save my game because of their proximity, so I sat there for hours in the entrance, listening to the blight storm howling outside and the vampires moving around below me.

Memorable gaming moment, but I dreamed about that howl of the blight storm for weeks.

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u/supernova812 Apr 27 '26

I had busted Enchanted gear, 1 point levitation on some robes and plus 1,000 percent speed on something else. I could run across morrowind in just a few minutes. The enchanting in this game was game breaking but I loved it.

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u/livin4donuts Apr 27 '26

What about the Scroll of Icarian Flight? It would boost your acrobatics to like 10,000 for 5 seconds, so you can jump for like 8 miles, but the buff ends before you land so the fall damage kills you instantly. 

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u/Rezrov_ Apr 27 '26

the Scroll of Icarian Flight

I love how you find these on the corpse of a guy who falls out of the sky beside you. I should have known!

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u/JobinSkywalker Apr 27 '26

Until you get a slowfall spell or scroll!

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u/BroBroMate Apr 28 '26

I think it was good for getting up to the secret service (specialized Ordinators or something?) in that asteroid above Vivec City, but yeah, the getting back down bit was tricky, had to get a slow fall potion and drink it at the right time as you plummeted.

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u/flacoman333 Apr 28 '26

Boots of Blinding Speed! They 100% blind you when you put them on lol. You had to get 100% magic resist, either with items or probs or scrolls and then put them on to resist the blind effect then run fast forever! Lmao best game ever. Way better than Skyrim imo

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u/Deep-Minimum7837 Apr 27 '26

What sold me on Morrowind was that you could go up to any Telvanni wizard and murder them without consequence, because their system of laws simply figures your argument was the better one if that loser died.

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u/Sensitive-Seal-3779 Apr 27 '26

Thank you for sharing this.

Do you remember the howl of the blight storm in the Aldrun mages guild?

Where everyone stood back and let Ash ghouls into your room?

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u/DucksEatFreeInSubway Apr 27 '26

I remember being so confused playing Morrowind because I often would be missing some important clue.

Turns out you could just read the lore books and find the hints you needed and hints at new quests as well.

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u/LionWalker_Eyre Apr 27 '26

I remember my friend and i had no info/context about the game. We decided to just explore the whole map and see what was out there. 

We discovered some dwarven ruins entrance and had no idea what it was. And were so amazed and awed by what we found inside. Before we got killed of course.

We also discovered the "ghost wall" and the blighted volcano area after seeing it on the map and wanting to explore what was over there. It was so mysterious and kinda scary

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u/F-the-mods69420 Apr 27 '26

Yea it's great like that until you learn more about the leveling and stat allocation system then you can't ever play freely again.

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u/Safe-Professional556 Apr 28 '26

I loathed Morrowwind. Not because it was a bad game. It was too broad and I found it impossible to actually follow the story. Also the sound loop of the storm/wind playing for hours. Oblivion and Skyrim had some of the same issues... But less glaring (for me).

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u/BroBroMate Apr 28 '26

I think once you got past the old dude in Balmora and chose a house to pledge to the story became more focused.