Kirkbride thread - /v/ (#712684606) [Archived: 1192 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:48:10 AM No.712684606
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Let's discuss why Morrowind is the greatest game ever made and why Michael Kirkbride is the greatest video game writer ever born.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:52:42 AM No.712684902
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>video game
>writing
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:57:35 AM No.712685195
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>people who worked on Runescape products like Rolston crib notes off Greg Stafford for almost the entire setting
>Kirkbride steal some of his god stuff and add gay hermaphrodites on top and suddenly people act like he created the setting because he was the only one willing to roleplay on the TES forums and stroke the ego of the dweebs on TIL
And before you go and try to obsess over Glorantha it also sucks now because all the writers besides early Greg, who still played it as a game, are too busy shitting out write-only fictional anthropology and retconning groups to be browns and poos for in-clique points for getting rid of whites.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:57:37 AM No.712685198
His work on immortals of aveum and minecraft story mode really inspired me
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:58:41 AM No.712685272
>play alleged “video””game”
>i’m deadass supposed to read books to learn the lore behind already wall of text “dialoge”
i’m not reading allat :skull:
write an actual book at that point. at least then you’re not cucked by gamebryo engine to make capital cities the size of villages.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:02:38 AM No.712685532
>>712685272
Based and illiteratepilled. Morrowind is peak because it doesn't give a damn if you read or not—it's all there for the schizos who wanna peel back lore like an onion dipped in moon sugar. Everyone else can just swing a chitin club at naked Nords and call it a day. Gamebryo might chug harder than Dagoth Ur off moon sugar pipe hits, but it still lets you levitate like a wizard on crack. Find me another game that lets you break itself in half before you hit level 5.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:03:23 AM No.712685582
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>>712684606 (OP)
He’s awesome but honestly overrated. He gets all the credit for the good stuff regardless of who wrote it. Guys like Kurt Kuhlman and Julian LeFay were equally instrumental in making Eldars scrolls more complex and different than other fantasy settings.
And to go full on apologist, Todd Howard backed him when he was a nobody, encouraged and tempered his ideas, basically let him run wild with Redguard, and continued to hire him as a contractor after he left the company which is how we got Song of Pelinal in the Oblivion era.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:05:29 AM No.712685710
>>712685532
nahh unc had to bust out the chatgpt LMAOO
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:07:22 AM No.712685819
>>712685710
I wouldn't have bothered putting any effort into a reply to your post either.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:08:44 AM No.712685905
>>712684606 (OP)
Bethesda = Polk High School

Morrowind= 4 Touchdown game.

Kirkbride= Al Bundy.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:09:25 AM No.712685951
>>712685582
Todd Howard was based and Redguard is based doe
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:23:52 AM No.712686876
>>712684606 (OP)
Because he's not Emil
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:25:53 AM No.712687025
>>712685905
Fucking ouch.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:27:04 AM No.712687112
>>712686876
Six of one, half a dozen of another.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 3:41:42 AM No.712688125
>>712684606 (OP)
No disrespect for Kirkbride, but Rolston was the main leader behind Morrowind and the one responsable for all the politics in the game.
He also wrote the main campaign and the main campaign characters, the Vivec of Rolston is perfect.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 4:05:08 AM No.712689694
>>712688125
There were many people involved in creating TES. From the prior games to Skyrim it has been a collective effort.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 4:12:37 AM No.712690138
>>712685582
Todd Howard took credit for the work of a team much more talented than him, yes
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 4:14:39 AM No.712690246
Todd, Master Speechcraft Trainer
Todd, Master Speechcraft Trainer
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>>712685905
Holy shit, based and perfect analogy
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 4:31:36 AM No.712691245
>>712684606 (OP)
The interesting and original thing Kirkbride did was the Mythic Dawn Commentaries….let me add interesting to And original to me because of my background studying theology. The rest of his stuff is far higher bar than anything else you’d get in a video game.

What makes the commentaries unique is instead of a path upwards to heaven to reach enlightenment, or through balance, it’s a path downward each step being even more morally repugnant and destructive until eventually you destroy everything around you to break free from determinism and reach a higher existence. Sure other cultures theological works touch on destruction and rebirth but nothing quite like the commentaries.

The thought of breaking free from our deterministic reality itself is interesting.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 4:41:18 AM No.712691867
>>712691245
Literally just generic JRPG villain stuff.
>i'll destroy everything and become god!
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 5:17:49 AM No.712694286
>>712684606 (OP)
diogenes is that you