Yet Another Morrowind Thread

[Severian Silk]

Okay. Uninstall it is, then. Will Steam keep my save games?

 

[Drax]

idk, save them just to be safe.
I still have my Mass Effect 1 saves.

 

[Jaesun]

If you used STEAM cloud saves, yes they will still have them. FOREVER. You can't even get rid of them.

 

[Severian Silk]

Too late. I got rid of them.

 

[Space Insect]

If you lost your save eventually you will just get the urge to start over with a different build. Just like I did.

 

[Severian Silk]

Not likely. Playing this game was agony.

 

[Drax]

Having to start morrowing all over can only be an

 

[Jaesun]

I couldn't even finish Morrowind. I didn't like it.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

The only reason I was able to finish Morrowind (after like 3,000 tries) is just so I could add another notch to my list of codex top 70 RPGs played

and of course so I can trash talk about it in a more educated manner.

 

[Caim]

I couldn't even finish Morrowind. I didn't like it.

Ban Jaesun.

 

[Severian Silk]

"1 of 19 people (5%) found this review helpful"

 

[Space Insect]

The UI was actually pretty good, especially compared to later Bethesda console UI.

 

[Severian Silk]

I got used to the UI except for the journal which is tiny and hard to use.

But you still can't rebind the "Cancel" or "Close Window" commands to the ESC key AFAIK. You *have* to use the mouse.

 

[Sigourn]

Morrowind, with all its flaws, was fairly easy for me to get into and play. Its biggest problem is the fact that the world feels dead. No such thing in Gothic 1. In Morrowind NPCs literally walk from point A to point B, then from point B to point A, and repeat.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Morrowind, with all its flaws, was fairly easy for me to get into and play. Its biggest problem is the fact that the world feels dead. No such thing in Gothic 1. In Morrowind NPCs literally walk from point A to point B, then from point B to point A, and repeat.

Yeah, Morrowind, more than any other RPG and probably video game I've ever played, feels completely dead. It's not just a function of its clockwork NPCs (though that is a big part), but other things too, like the huge size of the world compared to the small amount of meaningful content, the massive cities (Balmora and Vivec in particular) populated by small numbers of NPCs, the even more braindead wildlife (cliff racers just floating everywhere, those insects robotically moving around), the silent (non-voiced-over) dialogue in a first person 3D game.

 

[Sigourn]

Yeah, Morrowind, more than any other RPG and probably video game I've ever played, feels completely dead. It's not just a function of its clockwork NPCs (though that is a big part), but other things too, like the huge size of the world compared to the small amount of meaningful content, the massive cities (Balmora and Vivec in particular) populated by small numbers of NPCs, the even more braindead wildlife (cliff racers just floating everywhere, those insects robotically moving around), the silent (non-voiced-over) dialogue in a first person 3D game.

It's a sad realization I discovered upon playing Gothic. The fact that NPCs actively talk to me was my "this world is dead as fuck" wake up call. But I had noticed that aspect long ago.

 

[janior]

Oh btw, there are no mods that add more npcs to the world? Right?

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Is there a mod to make it fun? And is it called Gothic?

 

[janior]

Who said that rpgs are about fun? Oblivion is pretty good mod to make morrowind fun i.e. removes all the boring tedious shit.

Spoiler

 

[Space Insect]

Oh btw, there are no mods that add more npcs to the world? Right?

Try the less generic npcs mod. It adds a bunch of new dialogue, particularly in the background sections of npcs. It isn't great, but it makes it less like reading the same thing over and over again.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Who said that rpgs are about fun? Oblivion is pretty good mod to make morrowind fun i.e. removes all the boring tedious shit.

But it doesn't replace it with anything. So if you take something that only has boring tedious shit, and remove said shit, you are left with an empty vacuum, which aptly describes Oblivion.

 

[Excidium II]

Oblivion is [...] boring tedious shit.

 

[janior]

Taking the bait so easily? You guys are like children sometimes.

 

[Sigourn]

New filters:

 

[Sceptic]

The first 2 make the earth look like an army camo pattern.