Morrowind in 7 minutes - no cheating

[Von Awesome]

Kinda takes the wind out of the sails... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_fFApDyki4

[HermitKing]

DAMN!

[Nuclear1980]

interesting...

[Von Awesome]

there is a similar video for Oblivion if you look for it. I don't know why devs make this possible, but you can finish Morrowind in 7 minutes if you know what you're doing.

[Von Awesome]

Just to add, Morrowind is indeed a pretty cool game, but if you can beat it in 7 minutes then maybe people might wanna look elsewhere. If you don't use that method though, there is a LOT of content to play through.

[Chilli Dog Dave]

yeah cause people totally know where everything is, all the paths to take shortcuts on, have a macro in place to spam switch keening and sunder and have fat loads of potions right away... and you didnt even do the main story you just butt rushed the story boss using a cheating way of surviving.

[Chilli Dog Dave]

you should really change the thread name to "morrowind speed run no cheats" or something, currently it makes me think "only 7mins to finish the game? must be easy

[Von Awesome]

Or how about I change the name to "DavidSalter showed up and got butthurt all over the place and didn't even read that I was actually objective in my posts, and he also didn't realize that I didn't make the video"? LOL

[monkeydave]

Just because you can beat it in 7 minutes doesn't take anything away from the game. You can beat Myst in a few minutes as well.

But the point of the game isn't to beat it, it's the journey. This isn't a sports game where the point is to beat your friend. This is a story, a world, and you are meant to experience that world. And if you take advantage ot exploits and loopholes to skip the whole game, that's cool but it says absolutely nothing bad about the game.

[Ddtrooper]

This video only proves how beautiful and creative that game is. You could spend countless days playing through or go online and somehow enjoy finding out how to beat it in 7 minutes. Its all your choice

[☮Morti]

Originally posted by Von Awesome:

Just to add, Morrowind is indeed a pretty cool game, but if you can beat it in 7 minutes then maybe people might wanna look elsewhere...

Yes indeed, one could speed run through Morrowind in 7 minutes...

Just like one could speed run through Fallout in 10 minutes.
Just like one could speed run through Fallout II in 20 minutes.
Just like one could speed run through Baldurs Gate in 35 minutes.
Just like one could speed run through Half-life in 30 minutes.
Just like one could speed run through Quake in 15 minutes.
Just like one could speed run through Dues Ex in 90 minutes.
Just like one could speed run through Icewind Dale in 50 minutes.

Speed running doesn't take any 'wind out of the sails', it's something people do so they could get a sense of achievement for finishing a game the quickest way possible. It's a competitive race that has been practiced by the gaming community for years.

In no way does a speed run resemble the actual time needed to finish a game.
These runs requires one to know a game inside out; they probably wrecked up 100th of hours to be able to make a run like this.

There is a clear difference between 'beating' a game and 'speed running' through it.

It's like comparing the experience of someone traveling around the world by foot with someone having done the same by plane;
The one travelling by foot witnesses nature, countries, cultures, traditions and his travels last for months whilst the only thing witnessed by the one travelling by plane is the free Jack Daniels thats handed out during the flight, his travel lasting less then a day.

[Von Awesome]

I also stated that if you DON'T speedrun through it, there is a lot of content there.

Some people might feel jaded at spending hours playing when the actual solution can be acheived in 7 minutes. Not all gamers are about "the journey".

I pointed out the ability to speedrun through it, but I also complimented the game.

Seems people that like to stop and smell the roses don't actually stop and see the details. Y'all speedran through my darn post! LOL

Morrowind is pretty cool. And brown. So very brown. Another good brown game? Quake 2. That game took brown to whole new levels.