Yet Another Morrowind Thread

Indeed. Doing so is a clear sign of being a moron who didn't read the fucking manual or even has a single clue of what an "arr pee gee" entails. What makes the complaint even more silly is the fact that any way you play the game, you'll end up a god within hours.

Most quests aren't that captivating, no. But on the up side, like you say, they feel like normal tasks people would want done. Compared to the movie set pieces that make up the faction questlines in Skyrim, where you discover some earth-shattering secret and people keep telling you how cool you are as if the player were a child (guess what the game was designed for).

Oh yes, the world and atmosphere is fucking awesome. The artstyle, the music, the cultures, the religions, the lore, all amazing.
Combat is dull, quests are rather stale and any resemblence of balance or challenge is shot to hell after the first few hours. But the game is an exploration- and lorefag's dream.

 

Indeed, one of the parts that annoyed me about Skyrim was how ridiculously over-the-top the guild quest lines were. I mean, Winterhold College drops the ancient prophecy of the chosen one or something when? 2nd, 3rd quest? I immediately couldn't take it seriously whatsoever, and then it also puts the OBVIOUSLY EVIL DOOD as the Archmage's 2nd in command or something.

Oblivion already went with the plot-sidequests in the guilds that went through some kind of story arcs, although they seemed less jarring for the most part (except maybe the Mages' Guild where the first quest to get your staff already gets rudely interrupted by a necromancer attack, and the sole fact that the game just goes with making all necromancy evil even though it was supposed to only be illegal in Morrowind). But at least the Oblivion quest lines got you involved in the big missions after you've already proven yourself to be resourceful in smaller tasks for the most part, so you can at least see the logic in it.

Up till the expansions, anyway. I'm pretty sure random werewolves in Bloodmoon make even Dagoth Ur look like a joke by comparison.

The ESRB would like us to think otherwise

 

morrowind is fking boring man i got bored of it in like an hour

oblivion i think i at least lasted like 3 hours before i got bored

never played skyrim ^__^

 

It was a boring game for me until i installed this mod
http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/36945/

 

Philistine. Bitter Coast only lives up to it's desolate reality in Vanilla, with the graphic limitations ENHANCING the feel of the hardscrabble existence for the people that live there all the way up to Khull. The messy textures of the ground and lack of grass evoke a land of mosses and mud that even basic vegetation finds hard to exist in, the craggy, few branch trees with a handful of leaves reinforcing this.

In Overhaul, Bitter Coast looks like a lush temperate forest area!

 

Well, it is called the "Bitter Coast", after all. Not exactly a happy-sounding place to live. I think someone making the overhaul thought swamps were a pretty chill place.

Other than that, the overhaul is pretty nice though. However I'd disagree that Morrowind is boring without it, its gameplay changes are for the most part pretty minor, and I don't see how the graphics would make the game more interesting. Besides, that attitude is what causes many modern game companies to focus on form over substance (wink wink Bioware)

Sounds about right.

^__^

 

Way to dumbass it up. I swear, these ppl are on par with those who install the "Complete" overhaul for STALKER.

 

I got that from this playlist, which is pretty neat:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7En5ohTjD_X_1ry7kKoblLPDknNYlNEx

 

"Do you know, how would look Morrowind game, if it was made today?"

After seeing that, and someone getting shit done in an Elder Scrolls game made me suspect this was made by a Slav.

When I heard Caius talk it seems that my prediction was proven correct.

 

Probably Russian, love the voice acting .

Also, the Quest Marker is awful

 

Oh no, no, no.

From the moment I heard it I just knew it was polish. And checking the uploader's profile confirmed it.

 

Tbh Vivec cantons could've used quest arrow and fast travel given how they were identical copy pasted quadrants of mostly nothing. Navigating these to complete fetch quests were pain in the ass. Still funny and relevant, of course.

 

There's one suspiciously Codexian. Confess, who of you bunch of dirty pollack perverts made this?


One for Jasede:

 

Ebony Mail? Of course, it's just the cuirass and there's no set otherwise. And if you already know about it, it's unlikely the game will be challenging anyway.

 

Is it? I'm Polish, wouldn'thave though it's Ponglish.

EDIT: After watching it another time I do hear it.

Agree with adding a Quest Marker in Vivec being a good idea.

 

Liking Morrowind is a matter of taste, but anyone preferring Oblivion is obviously a subnormal.

 

Hi, my name is Drax and my first ES game was Oblivion and... I kinda liked it.

But then I saw the light!

And now I know the right path

 

Is it a matter of taste though? I love TES lore, I love the higher complexity of morrowind compared to oblivion and skyrim, I love the art, but the gameplay wasn't great for me and for the first 20 or so hours I wasn't having as much 'fun' as other games. But then suddenly it clicked for me and I'm clearing dungeons and quests like there's no tomorrow. Nearing 100 hours now.

If a game is a quality product, won't someone recognize it eventually as long as they don't give up?

Also a 15 year old friend of mine's computer went bust, now he only has one with an onboard graphics card and such. I advised him to try morrowind, without mods he runs it well enough. I half expected him to give up. A year ago he was still on his console playing Call of Duty, now he's switched to PC and playing this.

He was doing fighter's guild quests after like an hour. No trouble finding Cosades for him.

 

i hated morrowing IT HATED IT I HATED IT I FUCKING HATED IT


got bored and quit in under 2 hrs if i remember right

 

Was it fetal alcohol syndrome?

 

I do, because I play the vanilla Warrior class. Medium is not as good as heavy, but it lets you enough encumbrance to carry all your loot.

 

I'm using medium armor on this, my first character:

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Picked it because it seemed like a fitting middle ground for my mage warrior.

Any rookie mistakes in there?

Also can I rename my character with the console? I usually never use my online nickname, breaks immersion now when I see it.

 

Write EnableNameMenu in the console, it should work.

 

Try and find a place to dump your alchemy equipment, that shit's heavy. Also figure out which of you keys you're going to need in the long run, then put the others somewhere.

Find a magic belt and wear a magic amulet.

 

No, looks good for a custom-made spellsword class. There is such a huge gap in the light armor class between chitin and glass that medium seems a good choice to me. Plus the dreugh cuirass is so handsome.