Sure is a lot of rose-tinted glasses in here. I, for one, was scared away from Morrowind exactly because it was, as 4zb41 mentioned, a complex shitstorm of number crunching to determine variables beyond your actual control, and because i absolutely hate having a miss chance on a real-time game. If a sword courses through that guys head, i don't want it to miss because some bloody statistic says so, because that's just ridiculous. I can somewhat accept miss chances in turn-based games, but having your strike miss when you clearly saw it hit in real time is just taunting. Think you just scored a good hit? LET'S ROLL A DICE, NOW, SHALL WE? Oh no, it would appear that your hit did, in fact, suck ass and miss by a mile. Too bad.
That said though, it definitely had some things going, especially those crazy-ass acrobatics and athletics. No upper limits provide amusement. I was only like 10 years old at the time, which probably hampered the experience a bit, but i was still disheartened enough to not try again later. The memory of a complete lack of direction (and miss chances rargh) has burned into my poor hippocampus. And honestly? I don't think i'd enjoy playing it today either.
Oblivion held me better (all the way to the end, as a matter of fact), though i was still bummed by the lack of explanation regarding all those magicks and buffs and what not. Hence why i melee'd everything; didn't have to bother with them spells. The addition of a compass was a HUGE help in keeping me captivated, because my biggest beef with Morrowind was that you're basically dropped in the middle of nowhere with a toothbrush. I can see the appeal if you're into having to find things out yourself, but i don't want to concern myself with trivial things such as going in the right direction, especially with a world as huge as that of Morrowind (which could also count as a plus, because damn there was some exploring to be done).
And now we're at Skyrim. Quite frankly, i like it more than any of its predecessors. I'm a bit annoyed by the significantly slower swing speed of melee combat, but it's nothing game breaking. The not-class-based system works well for me, and likewise with the levelling that did its part against dud levels (except non-combat skills, which could feasibly be a problem, but since my version of speech is "hello there axe", that didn't become an issue). Plus, the whole game is just so much prettier. Sounds shallow? I'm an artist for a hobby, i care about pretty things. Not gonna spend more time praising it though, you know the rest.
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Commence flaming for the dislikage of Morrowind. That said though, that acrobatics scroll was A+.
That said though, it definitely had some things going, especially those crazy-ass acrobatics and athletics. No upper limits provide amusement. I was only like 10 years old at the time, which probably hampered the experience a bit, but i was still disheartened enough to not try again later. The memory of a complete lack of direction (and miss chances rargh) has burned into my poor hippocampus. And honestly? I don't think i'd enjoy playing it today either.
Oblivion held me better (all the way to the end, as a matter of fact), though i was still bummed by the lack of explanation regarding all those magicks and buffs and what not. Hence why i melee'd everything; didn't have to bother with them spells. The addition of a compass was a HUGE help in keeping me captivated, because my biggest beef with Morrowind was that you're basically dropped in the middle of nowhere with a toothbrush. I can see the appeal if you're into having to find things out yourself, but i don't want to concern myself with trivial things such as going in the right direction, especially with a world as huge as that of Morrowind (which could also count as a plus, because damn there was some exploring to be done).
And now we're at Skyrim. Quite frankly, i like it more than any of its predecessors. I'm a bit annoyed by the significantly slower swing speed of melee combat, but it's nothing game breaking. The not-class-based system works well for me, and likewise with the levelling that did its part against dud levels (except non-combat skills, which could feasibly be a problem, but since my version of speech is "hello there axe", that didn't become an issue). Plus, the whole game is just so much prettier. Sounds shallow? I'm an artist for a hobby, i care about pretty things. Not gonna spend more time praising it though, you know the rest.
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Commence flaming for the dislikage of Morrowind. That said though, that acrobatics scroll was A+.
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various places to find me lol
various places to find me lol
Well, just think of Morrowind as D&D, You missed because you rolled a 1 instead of a something higher so... You missed.
I also was quite young when I started playing morrowind, but it's complexity didn't deter me at all, it made me want to become better at it, but I get addicted to difficult strategic games.
I also was quite young when I started playing morrowind, but it's complexity didn't deter me at all, it made me want to become better at it, but I get addicted to difficult strategic games.
You should get it on PC, so you can mod it. Speaking of mods, here is my modded character for Skyrim.
Is yours cooler?
Is yours cooler?
Big pics
