Hey people, I am Carlos and this is my blog. Or to be more accurate Blind Ninja Studio’s blog which is now my responsibility because of my overwhelming competence at blog writing and most definitely not because no one else wanted this duty. And so to start out this blog on a high note I am going to talk about Elder scrolls 3: Morrowind.

Morrowind was a game that sucked up a lot of my time back in the day, and there is a reason for that. Morrowind was set on the titular volcanic island. The island was full of mountains, ancient ruins, bizarre cities, interesting characters, and screeching cliff-racers. Most games I had played would keep you from going off the rails of the story, often with the use of invisible walls to keep you from leaving where the designers wanted you to be. In Morrowind it seemed like the opposite, there was just so much to do that it was quite easy to lose track of the main story. In fact I am embarrassed to admit that I had the game for two years before I got around to finishing the main quest.

One of the reasons I got this game back then was that it let actually create a character from the ground up to play through as. I suppose now that is a pretty easy thing to find, what with the rise of the mmorpg, but for me playing a character I made instead of a pre-generated character was a new experience. And I made characters. A lot of them. I may have been a little obsessive compulsive about it actually. Getting a couple hours in and then deciding I did not like to miniscule stat decision I had made at character creation and restarting from scratch. I did it so much that I knew every secret of the first town by heart, not due to reading about it in a guide but do to having explored every inch of it so many times. This was the main reason it took me so long to finish the game actually.

Another great point of the game was the music. I loved the music in that game. There have been a lot of people on the internet who have gushed about the music in the game. Guess I make one more then. In fact I am writing this whole thing with the soundtrack from that game going on in the background. In particular the opening theme for the main menu is the one that really sticks with me the most.

I suppose in closing I have to say that this is one of my favorite games of all time, a game where from the second to stepped off the prison ship you decided what path you would take. What can I say, I like a game that gives me that kind of freedom.