Yet Another Morrowind Thread

[Grimlorn]

I'm not saying Oblivion is the bestest game ever. Obviously that would be Dragon Age 2. I just thought it was more enjoyable to play, and the characters were more interesting.

Whose alt is this?

 

[Sceptic]

I bought Oblivion yesterday, because it was on sale and I haven't played it for years. I love Oblivion. It's the only game I have platinumed.

I'm sorry but modern medicine cannot help you.

Maybe prayer herbal medicine will?

 

[Nael]

I bought Oblivion yesterday, because it was on sale and I haven't played it for years. I love Oblivion. It's the only game I have platinumed.

I'm sorry but modern medicine cannot help you.

Maybe prayer herbal medicine will?

Weed and TES games leads straight into foil hats, yiffing, pseudoreligiosity, and really bad deviantART submissions. Bad idea.

 

[Caim]

I bought Oblivion yesterday, because it was on sale and I haven't played it for years. I love Oblivion. It's the only game I have platinumed.

I'm sorry but modern medicine cannot help you.

Maybe prayer herbal medicine will?

Weed and TES games leads straight into foil hats, yiffing, pseudoreligiosity, and really bad deviantART submissions. Bad idea.

But whisky, cigarettes and TES games will end in ALMSIVI.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

c0da makes it canon

 

[Linden]

That's a fun channel.

 

[DraQ]

I'm not saying Oblivion is the bestest game ever. Obviously that would be Dragon Age 2.

- too obvious.

Then again:

I just thought it was more enjoyable to play, and the characters were more interesting.

Duh.

 

[RK47]

But what if Sarah is telling the truth?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Then Thiaf is goty.

Also-
Spend all jewgold in enchanting Iron Claymore so you can hit spectres.
Find Dwemer Claymore in the very next chest.

 

[Dwemer Puzzle Box]

Obviously that would be Dragon Age 2.

You can't be more obvious, for making me reply.

c0da makes it canon

DAT ALMA. Would nerevarine with/10 after all these years

And I don't care if you are a violent psychopath.

 

[DalekFlay]

I wish all the hot redheads doing cosplay were doing porn instead.

 

[Dwemer Puzzle Box]

Use your imagination, it's actually a vital part of playing Morrowind

 

[Tribal Sarah]

Obviously that would be Dragon Age 2.

You can't be more obvious, for making me reply.

There is nothing wrong with Dragon Age 2 you dizzy retard

 

[DraQ]

you dizzy retard

Now, now. There's no reason to project.

 

[Drax]

I wish all the hot redheads doing cosplay were doing ME instead.

There ya go.

 

[abnaxus]

Where are her face markings?

Oh wait this is TES Online artwork. Carry on.

 

[Lemming42]

It's a shame you never see any fanart of Almalexia in that mask thing she wears during the battle. It's just hilariously weird, especially if you've got the fancy graphics mods and only catch glimpses of it in the darkness.

 

[Gozma]

Need a Morrowind nerd to curate a big drop-in mod compendium with all the dependencies managed for people that don't wanna fuck wit it

As far as picking the right ones I trust your taste a lot more than I trust my ability to give a shit while sifting through over a decade of mods

 

[Lemming42]

Need a Morrowind nerd to curate a big drop-in mod compendium with all the dependencies managed for people that don't wanna fuck wit it

As far as picking the right ones I trust your taste a lot more than I trust my ability to give a shit while sifting through over a decade of mods

Morrowind Graphics Sound Overhaul (MGSO), despite its name, includes a bunch of bugfixes and gameplay tweaks as well as just graphics.

Take care in picking the graphics options, though, because there's a 90% chance that it'll end up either looking like shit or looking good but running at about 10 FPS.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Need a Morrowind nerd to curate a big drop-in mod compendium with all the dependencies managed for people that don't wanna fuck wit it

As far as picking the right ones I trust your taste a lot more than I trust my ability to give a shit while sifting through over a decade of mods

Morrowind Graphics Sound Overhaul (MGSO), despite its name, includes a bunch of bugfixes and gameplay tweaks as well as just graphics.

Take care in picking the graphics options, though, because there's a 90% chance that it'll end up either looking like shit or looking good but running at about 10 FPS.

There's also this list.

http://btb2.free.fr/morrowind.html

Made with the intent of avoiding conflicts, it's basically a guide of how to install the guy's own HARDKORE mod + useful stuff + some graphical things, but you can skip what you aren't interested in and it'll still work.

 

[stabby]

Wow. Though I've had the pleasure of delving in such an install before, that is still an impressive list. *Whistles* Pity it's mostly graphical 'enhancements' though...

Gotta thank you though, as I've no doubt to be installing Morrowind again with my usual vanilla-esque combo of Bug fixes, 1st Person Armor (aka. No Motion sickness) mod, and whatever one it was that made nights dark and creepy. There's definitely a couple of gameplay mods in there that do look plenty interesting in there, so a good tip o' my hat goes to you sir.

 

[Owlish]

Obviously that would be Dragon Age 2.

You can't be more obvious, for making me reply.

There is nothing wrong with Dragon Age 2 you dizzy retard

 

[DalekFlay]

I'm a pretty big defender of the average around here but liking Dragon Age 2 is beyond the pale.

 

[roll-a-die]

I'm a pretty big defender of the average around here but liking Dragon Age 2 is beyond the pale.

I have to agree, DA2 was a horrible cashgrab at best, and incredibly extortionist in both its contents and its marketing. The use of constant repeat terrain, and the plot having basically no connection to an overarching storyline of the series, strikes me as an attempt to capture the audience that aSoF&I was building at the time. There are rampant disconnects between narrative(What is shown) and plot(What is implied) that are immediately obvious at the very start of the game. You fight dark spawn, you kill dark spawn, you flee the blight, you arrive in big ass city, and then it's years later, you are forced to basically accept that you have all these connections, these friends and these enemies, all while not really knowing what's going on.

This disconnect between plot and narrative is even more apparent when you consider that you can play as a mage, in this, the templar city. A city based around the oppression of magic. And you can just firebolt any old bum, and have basically no consequences, even from the get-go when you have virtually no reason to be allowed to do this. No connections that would warrant the not getting immediately rofl pwned by every templar in the city. I stopped playing about the time I used magic to murder my way through an entire templar regiment, and then had the leader of that regiment not realize I used magic to kill all of his/her men.

This was honestly done better in Morrowind. The story there had similar themes, a character forced into an area where they are a foreigner, where the locals are resisting the pull of foreign cultures. But even then in Morrowind, there were consequences inherent to nearly each major action your character takes. Certain quests become impossible, certain areas become locked for times. There's a narrative undertone that is consistent with what the plot overtly shows. And it leads to a much more consistent experience.


You could draw parallels with the more modern thief releases. Where the gameplay was technically, at least competant, but the story built up around it, the tension, the whole of the games stories, were ultimately compromised by the slipshod plots.


So yes, while to your perceptions of the game stated it wasn't flawed, there was an objective lack of effort, and speaking from both a closed system of just dark souls 2 and a comparison to some of it's peers. It was objectively flawed, and those flaws are immediately apparent if you have a single bone in your body that seeks to question what each character is doing at anyone time.