Morrowind :D

Picked up my copy of Morrowind from the Post Office Depot earlier.. Can't wait to get home from work and lay into it.

Seyda Neen is the start if I remember correctly? Must have put 600+ hours into it before I lost my save file years ago..

Nevyn

That boat docked at Seyda Neen is that starting point, playing it again myself atm and so is my 11 for the first time. It's great to see him enjoying his first proper first person rpg rather then a fps or a strat game.

I still remember so much of it.. Silt rider up to Balmora, Mages Guild over to Vivec.. Then all the way over to the Telvanni city. Oblivion was good but not a patch on it.

You've an 11 year old playin it aswell?

Nevyn

Yup I installed it for him on his pc about 2 weeks ago, took him about a week to stop bunny hopping all over the place and stop treating it like gary's mod but he's gotten cuaght up in the story and find out what happens next, the fact there was so much info in the books about the place had him spend his gaming time yesterday just wandering around in game reading what ever ones he could get his hands on.

The only flaw in the game that I can think of is that it isn't multiplayer and I don't mean MMO but local network game enabled.

Always thought it would be have great to have been multi-player aswell..

If you're playing on PC, you can get alot of mods for the game.. add new islands/houses etc and make the graphics better. I'll be playing on the 360 this time round tho so cant change anything.

L31mr0d

lol, I honestly checked the post date as soon as I clicked on this thread

Morrowind was my first attempt at playing a wRPG. Dumped about 100 hours into it before realizing I had accomplished nothing. I think the last thing I accomplished was getting some actor a part in a play in Telvanni city.

Just quit outright, it was seriously ruining my ability to study and concentrate in college. It was actually the main reason I never even sniffed around WoW. I'd be on the dole right now if I'd even given it a chance or accepted one of my afflicted friends invites: "they give you the first month free man... just come on, give it a go... everyones doing it"

Never went near WoW either because I didn't want to be as addicted to anything else like I was to Morrowind. But then Halo 3 came along and ruled my life for a year during college.

I finished pretty much everything in Morrowind first time round, was the only one out of my friends who went all the way and killed Dagoth Ur

Sarky

Comparing Morrowind to WoW? Is NOTHING sacred?

Beautiful game, far superior to Oblivion, that piece of bland hackeyed trash. One look at the silt striders had me hooked. I always wanted to find one in the wild to tame and ride about. So deep, otherworldly and enthralling. The Dwemer ruins and Daedric temples were brilliant. And unless you were powerful enough, bloody scary. Slow burning plot that became really, really epic. The NPS didn't look like bug-eyed freaks, unless they were genuine bug-eyes monsters.

Suffers from its size though. I put hundreds of hours into it, then left it for a while when I was changing computers and such. Jumping back in is difficult because there's so much going on in the later stages of the game. Also the journal doesn't do a great job of tracking quests.

Oh well. I shall now reinstall, transfer my save games off the memory stick, and get lost all over again. Maybe I'll even find the time to visit the Nord country this time around!

I remember when I lost my save games.. god it was painful. I didn't even re-install because going back to scratch after being so leveled up would have been rotten.

I said back then that I'd play it again some day and I finally went looking on adverts there last week and got a copy of Captain Slow IRL.. Gonna buy pringles, a pizza and some monkey nuts and chill out for the night

Sarky

Do be careful. I found "chilling out for the night" usually meant going to bed around 10am when Morrowind was involved.

Sierra Oscar

Ah Morrowind . . . most certainly one of my favorite games of all time. I put hours and hours into the game!

Dont get me wrong, Oblivion was awesome - but in twenty years Morrowind is the game that will stand out in my mind.;)

Kiith

I absolutly loved Morrowind. I had never played anything like it when it came out, and i put so much time into it. Was a truly fantastic game. Loads of bits still stick out in my mind, and the game world was spectacular. I loved Oblivion, but it wasnt anywhere near as good as Morrowind. Give me Morrowind, with Oblivions combat and engine, and i'd be a happy, happy man.

L31mr0d wrote: »

lol, I honestly checked the post date as soon as I clicked on this thread

Same here

Ohh, think i might be giving it a try again soon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN0vYp9nabQ

Useful.Idiot

fantastic game, Oblivion is very good but I think Morrowind just nicks it.

I always remember after going up a few levels I would walk to the Dren Plantation near the center of the continent and kill the guys in the house there because they all have awesome glass armor/swords etc.

Sephiroth_dude

Hmm......Im tempted to try this now myself,does it work ok on vista 32?

Burning Eclipse

Head straight to Ghostgate and steal some glass armour!

Pyr0

Very tempted to try this out. will report back !

Overheal

Morrowind could stand to be updated with some nicer models and textures, and is badly in need of a Journal improvement, but damned if it wasnt one of the greatest games ever made.

it can be updated with better textures etc. on the PC version!

Overheal

And a journal upgrade/add on??? want.

Wossack

remember spending hours arranging all my loot in one of the big manor houses in balmora - hundreds of the high end weapons I'd pinched from round the place all nicely layed out on the tables - ye took ~20fps hit just walking through it

Quigs Snr

Ah, diving for treasure in wrecks, finding underwater cities, varied landscapes, becoming head of the fighters and mages guilds and completing the main story. Making an amulet that could make me fly everywhere too (but still taking an hour to get across the map !).. Many fond memories of that game. I got it at launch played about halfway through and abandoned it for 5 years, blasting through it all a couple of years ago when the better half went home to the folks for christmas.

super_furry

Morrowind is still my favourite game of all time. I played through it twice on the original Xbox, sinking hundreds of hours into it and its two expansion packs.

Oblivion and Fallout 3 just never caught my imagination in the same way, although Dragon Age is the first game in years to catch my attention the way Morrowind did.

I keep hearing about Dragon Age.. Must look it up. I've been pretty much only playin FPS for the last 3 years so missed everything else that was happening.

Lovin having Morrowind again but it doesn't run perfect on the 360.. Gonna be gettin an original xbox soon for xbmc and morrowind

Jerichoholic

I've just started Morrowind myself, would love some pointers in how to make it look all purty like.

Shiminay

I too just started Morrowind! lol, there's clearly something in the air

Just completed some tasks and I've dinged to level three. My first time playing a game anything like this, it's pretty damn awesome and the fact that it runs my netbook means I'm able to play it whilst on the move

Jerichoholic

I've just been sent off to get some sort of a cube for the fighters guild, but I keep dying in that particular dungeon.

anonymous_joe

So many memories.

I was so much younger and a more innocent gamer when I was playing Morrowind.

Can anyone else remember that astonishingly overpowered stealth amulet?

Overheal

no but i remember the boots of blinding speed and basically hacking your way to 100% blindness immunity by picking the right race, birthsign, and then creating a very expensive spell that lasted for 1 second. good times.

The only problem morrowind suffered from was there was easilly too much you were able to do. I'd get myself completely lost wandering off on a whim for a few days and when I tried to go backtracking through the quest log I got very quickly confused about "Who is Francis and where do I bring him his Skooma?!?" As I said, that Journal system really irritated me. Whomever wrote the quest entries left too much vagueness to chance. Wouldnt kill you to say Francis in the Mages Guild in Balmora needs his Skooma Juice!

Jerichoholic

Frank is a hoor for the Skooma.

Cravez

Reading this thread makes me want to play it again

First time starting the game up and leaving the ship to the registration office, my jaw literally dropped at the time from the graphics and water effects. Although i preferred Oblivion's combat engine, pretty much everything else in Morrowind was much better, especially loved how the entire world was created like finding abandoned mines that are now sub-merged underwater etc.

I do also agree though that the journal could be quite hard to manage at times

uglyjohn

at the risk of sounding shallow.....does it hold up well these days? is it good enough in itself that one can look past the dated visauals? i played oblivion when it came out and really enjoyed it, my first rpg ever and i gave it so many hours i've been avoiding rpgs ever since. i loved how big it seemed, being able to just wander in the forest and find old mines and houses/castles to expore.

Nevyn

Have you looked at what the mods for improving the graphics have done?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN0vYp9nabQ

super_furry

Damn, I really wish I hadn't watched that video - especially now that I have a laptop capable of running Morrowind with ease. I don't have enough time to get sucked back into it, but I think I'm gonna have to give it a go with those improved graphics mods.

Malice

I loved Morrowind when it came out as well. The feeling of vastness when you went for a walk in the countryside was amazing. I can't remember how many hours I put into it but I know it was a long time and I don't think I was anywhere near finishing it.

Here's someone completing it in 6 mins 49 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpsy__V8YHU

Agricola

Great memories. Got it back in the summer of 03 i think. Really got sucked into it. Had the most fun modding it though. It was the first game i did any real modding on. It was jawdropping to put a door into the gameworld and create a little room of your own! I remember editing the book files to say whatever I wanted and really impressing a mate of mine when he tried out the mod by picking up a book from a shelf which refered to him by name!

Still have more affection for it than Oblivion.

Malice_

Malice_ wrote: »

I loved Morrowind when it came out as well. The feeling of vastness when you went for a walk in the countryside was amazing. I can't remember how many hours I put into it but I know it was a long time and I don't think I was anywhere near finishing it.

Here's someone completing it in 6 mins 49 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpsy__V8YHU

:eek: 6 months i spent at it before I got that far!

Cravez

Thaedydal wrote: »

Have you looked at what the mods for improving the graphics have done?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN0vYp9nabQ

Im really considering reinstalling this again....

*looks on his shelf to see Morrowind, Tribunal and Blood moon*

ghouldaddy07

One of my favorite games of all time, The soundtrack is class.

Gonzovision

Thaedydal wrote: »

Have you looked at what the mods for improving the graphics have done?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN0vYp9nabQ

Wow any links for this mod?

Nevyn

Morrowind Graphics Extender.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/morrgraphext/

Funglegunk

Malice_ wrote: »

Here's someone completing it in 6 mins 49 seconds:

All that and not a single cliffracer, fair play.

And as said the above, the soundtrack to Morrowind is absolutely gorgeous. Much more so than Oblivion.

c - 13

Finally caved and bought a copy of this GOTY Edition of ebay as my xmas gift to myself, for the xbox. Loved oblivion, can't wait to get stuck into this one.

c-13.. Darkplace and Morrowind. We should definately be friends. lol

Lands Leaving

I wish I'd played oblivion BEFORE this, such a huge let down really. Too easy, too short, too little to do. And it was bigger than most games. But compared to morrowind, nothing comes close. I'm getting this back out ASAP now. Hope I can find my copy...

Can't really blame bethesda for wanting to make money out of the amount of work these games take, but I'd have loved if they'd added a hard mode or something like that to oblivion so the enemies don't level with you. I hate that system, although it worked ok in fallout 3 I'll admit, that seemed like a nice balance between the two extremes.

Kiith

Lands Leaving wrote: »

Can't really blame bethesda for wanting to make money out of the amount of work these games take, but I'd have loved if they'd added a hard mode or something like that to oblivion so the enemies don't level with you.

They (and by they i mean the community, and this is assuming its on the pc ) did, and its fan-****ing -tastic.
http://jorgeoscuro.googlepages.com/oscuro%27soblivionoverloaddownloads

Lands Leaving wrote: »

although it worked ok in fallout 3 I'll admit, that seemed like a nice balance between the two extremes.

Ah but enemies didnt level with you in Fallout 3. Or at least the enemies in an area you previously visited dont level up with you. The level of the area is set when you enter it for the 1st time, and stays at that level for the rest of the game, iirc.

Bought Fallout 3 and hated it.. Loved the Elder Scrolls series but it was too depressing a landscape in Fallout for me to keep playing.

Wossack

alot of decent mods for oblivion, oscuro's oblivion overhaul for example

Is that a PC mod or an official release? Havn't played my Oblivion in a right while but would go back if there was a good 360 update.

Lands Leaving

Kiith wrote: »

They (and by they i mean the community, and this is assuming its on the pc ) did, and its fan-****ing -tastic.
http://jorgeoscuro.googlepages.com/oscuro%27soblivionoverloaddownloads


Ah but enemies didnt level with you in Fallout 3. Or at least the enemies in an area you previously visited dont level up with you. The level of the area is set when you enter it for the 1st time, and stays at that level for the rest of the game, iirc.

I bought oblivion for the 360 thanks to my move to a horrible horrible laptop for college. Back on the proper desktop bandwagon now and staying there!

And that fallout system makes perfect sense, how I didn't cop it I'll never know! Far better idea than oblivions system, though I still prefer morrowind.

At least now I know why, after I skipped the main story for ages, there was a super mutant the size of king kong outside the radio station!

Kiith

Lands Leaving wrote: »

At least now I know why, after I skipped the main story for ages, there was a super mutant the size of king kong outside the radio station!

Oh he'll be there regardless of when you go there

I started playing Morrowing earlier, and i just dont know. It still feels like it used to, and thanks to some modding, still looks pretty decent. Music is fantastic, and i was really looking forward to it. Then i got in a fight, and remembered just how bad the combat was. I know it does get better once you level up a bit, but swinging at a Mudcrab 15 times and only hitting him once is just annoying.

Lands Leaving

Mudcrabs are known for their agility though. Don't mess with a mudcrab, it's got sll the power of a crab, only muddier.