Morrowind
 

Now I know this post is a couple years to late, but I was playing DAOC when this came out and everyone knows what a time sink that is. (And how sweet it is to quit with the idiocy that has become Mythic)

Anyways I was bored and picked up the 'game of the year' edition for $30.

Best $30 I've spent on a single player game ever. About the only flaw is that the NPC's are pretty dumb at times, but it has a great story line, tons of side quests, and the landscapes are amazing. If they ever make a morrowind MMPOG I'll be there.

Anyways if you are looking for a timekiller and like RPG"s this is worth the 30, as it comes with both expansions, and for a two year old game, the graphics are very up to date.

Morrowind is one of my favorite games. One of the best time wasters ever made. I LOVE the world they have created. The cities are so awesome too. Excellent graphics and excellent gameplay.

You know it's a good game when it's single-player exclusively but plays like an MMORPG.........and people STILL play it :) No one cares or can even see your character and how good it is, but you still play the game for hours. They have a nice system going on :)

Holy Smokes! I wasted sooo much of my life playing morrowind. Unfortunately, you get to a point where your character is, essentially, a god. I eventually stopped playing because i got bored trying to kill everybody on the island.

I love the game, I've played it 3 summers each with a different character.
Great worlds like you said, and each time I played a different way and discovered new things.

And the expansions just make it even better :crazy:

I <3 Morrowind Fear my Dunmar Samurai Werewolf

I like Morrowind, but I couldn't stick with it long enough to level up past, say, a level-25 character. I know it has so much to offer, but it all just started to blend together after that.

Now my brother, on the other hand, worships the game in all of its glory. I am literally amazed at how much he plays the game and how his passion for the game escelates each time he talks to me about it (and every time we talk, he brings it up).

I'll be honest, I didn't like the game much the first time I played it. I got into it reading about it and everything and just sort of expected too much out of it. I stopped playing soon after buying it and it sat in my collection for about a year. Then my friend got a new computer and was looking for a cool game to play, I thought Morrowind would be the perfect game to show him how well spent the money was on his graphics card. The more I saw him play it the more it made me want to play it, and so I got it back from him and made him buy his own copy ;). I played it pretty far and got towards the end, but, alas, I never beat it. Still thinking about finishing it someday.

The best part about Morrowind is that you can honest to God get lost :) Those "where in the fuck am I" moments happen like every two hours :)

Mark and Recall = life savers

I also bought the game and played for the first time in the last couple months. Seemed very open-ended, very Gothic1/2-like, and I found some amazing patches online made by users that make the game look 1000 times better.. I'll dig up the links and post them later. Great game, even if at times the freedom that makes it so great can make it a bit daunting, even bringing on an almost 'so much to do, will never finish' type attitude.

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Morrowind came with the computer I bought last year (among a few other free games), and I just started playing it a few days ago. I'd like to get into it (I need a new time-waster), but I'm having trouble killing things. It's like my weapons can't reach what I'm trying to hit -- I'm attacking some cave rats and I swing and swing and swing at them, but I just can't seem to hit them. What gives?

Oh, another problem -- the only sound I have is the music. No voices, no sound effects, nothing - just the music. Anyone know what the problem might be?

Yeah, that's one of the two flaws of the game. The first is the fact that it suffers from "this DEFINITELY needs a multiplayer version!" syndrome, and the second flaw being that it's almost too open-ended. Following the main plot is incredibly unnecessary, and the huge amount of sidequests take hundreds of hours to complete. The sidequests are fine, but I'd like a slightly more linear main-plot to follow!

-Lasereth

saut, do you have any 'energy' left in your fatigue bar (green bar in lower left of screen)? The more fatigued you are, the more difficult it is for players attacking with a low level attack skill (i.e. level 15 Long Sword) to land a hit. You can restore your energy by just resting for an hour as long as you are away from enemies or by just walking and not-jumping/ attacking and letting your energy regenerate itself slowly.

Yes, the fatigue bar is not empty. I have no idea what the hell is wrong. The lack of any sound but music is annoying as well. argh!

Your character may just suck with the weapon you're using! I started my guy as a warrior or whatever, and in the beginning, he was sucking it up pretty good. It took like 5-7 HITS to kill a rat. Keep in mind that if you do suck with the weapon, you won't actually hit the rat. You'll just miss. If you miss, there is no impact sound. You said your sound is messed up, so you probably can't hear it! When you hit, it sounds like a thud, or like a weapon hitting flesh. If you miss, nothing happens. My guy probably swung 10 times at a single rat, missing 5 times and hitting 5 times, and he was a warrior in the beginning.

Of course, when you get to level 25-35, your character becomes a fucking demi-god and can destroy entire cities. I got bored one day and went and killed the city of Caldera including all of the guards. It's weird...in the beginning your character sucks really bad, and then towards the end you're a powerhouse.

As for the sound issue, you either need to configure the settings in Morrowind (turn down music and turn up sound effects) or change your sound drivers. There is a different .exe that you can run to change the settings in Morrowind; you might wanna give that a shot.

-Lasereth

morrowind was a real good game
the only one i ever bought...
the game gets bit boring tho after the main quest is complete...

u need to get better with the weapon to improve your chances of hitting and damage/hit
more u use it...higher the %rating will go....after getting 100%, the rating will increase by 1....then u gotta rest for the effect to take place.

Well I figured out my weapon problems - you guys were right - I just sucked with the weapon I was using.

Anyway, my sound is still all confuckulated (I get a sound effect or two very seldomly -- I almost shit my pants when I turned a crank and it made a loud sound). I'll try what you suggested, Lasereth. Hopefully that'll do the trick.

Morrowind is one of my all time fav computer RPG's ever.

I have all 3 sets of the game, (game and 2 addons) and have beat the entire thing 3 times so far, and the main quest many many more.

I love just collecting stuff like a pack rat and building a house to store it in to show off. :)

And my opinion stands strong that morrowind DOES NOT need multiplayer, I've always hated multiplayer rpg's.

Must....stop....starting....over.....

I play a character for a while and after I figure out a few things I wonder, 'what if I had picked that race, with that sign, and those skills'.

Heh...

I have been enjoying it so much recently simply doing the side quests and careful levelling up. I don't cheat at all but I do know a fair few "exploits" (the awesome scroll seller in Caldera, the alchemy intelligence boosting thing). I sometimes load up a game, character strips down to his trousers, swallows some powerful homebrew health restore and strength potions and does ten rounds of bareknuckle boxing against that punk bitch Vivec (Ali boma-ye indeed).

Enchanting is fantastic - there's nothing like coming up to some stupid Kagouti and whipping out my "Sacred Warhammer of 'I'm going to cave your nads in Beavis'"(demoralize creature) or "The Thermonuclear Amulet" (fire damage 100 points 40 feet on target) against a pack of cliff racers or the good people of Balmora.:D

It's not about becoming a God but rather becoming a superhero. Scroll of Windform and you're Superman, Fix the Boots of blinding speed and you're The Flash, Constant effect telekenesis amulet and you're Jean Gray, Constant effect water breathing helmet and you're Aquaman, Constant effect water walking shoes and you're Jesus. :p

Hehe

Most amusing is the scrolls of icarian flight.

You know what going to happen when you use one, but you just HAVE to use one :)

About the only thing I don't like is you can level 'wrong' and miss a lot of stat points.

I played the crap out of it--so much, in fact, that by the time I got around to finishing the main quest, it was a cakewalk because I'd wandered for days, leveling up and stealing crazy armor. It's too bad that those main quest characters didn't auto-adjust, at least to a certain extent, to match my level. So you end up with a great world to explore, but with a minimal plot to lessen the possible impact of the player sailing through the final battle. In retrospect, I actually wish the game had been somewhat linear. As it stands, a lot of people had the impression that the main quest was too easy, but I think the problem was that it was too easy to become very powerful outside of the quest.

I just ordered this from Amazon yesterday. After reading so much I had to buy it now that I have a computer with a good vid card. I'm really looking forward to wasting a lot of time.

Well I still don't have any sound... I gues I'm going to have to find some new sound drives... which is a problem at the moment, as the computer I play Morrowind on isn't connected to the internet right now. Bah!

I used to play Ultima Online a lot. The concept was great but I got sick of assholes who run around PKing me all the time and stealing my shit.

If you were having problems with people PKing you, then you should've moved to another portion of the shard until you were grandmaster, that would've made it harder for others to do that to you.

It didn't seem to matter where I went, the shard I was on was totally infected by PK fuckers. I actually was like 98% with swordsmanship and 94% in magery. I had high resist too and an awesome "Corp Por" The problem was that most of them traveled in groups of 3-6 and I was usually alone. I could hold my own in almost any 1-on-1 fight, but against a group, you're screwed. Usually I'd keep my pack open and had recall macroed, but it didn't always work in time.

I have a quick question.
Is there a quest attached to the loose pages from "A Brief History of the Empire" that you find lying on the ground in the Molag Mar region? I have found 18 of them and while they seem to make a trail, I can't ever figure out where it leads. Any help would be appreciated.

So I've been playing for a couple weeks now and I love this game. I don't get to play it nearly as much as I wish I could. I made a custom class Dark Elf under the Antonoch (sp) sign. He's got crazy magika. Although I didn't do it right at the start, I have been making sure all my multipliers are 5x when I level up. I'm at lvl 13 and my endurance should be at 100 soon. I haven't even started using enchanting yet but once I start getting some grand soul gems I'm going to make some bad assed equipment.

Because TV and all that shit, I have a really short attention span. I tried it, played it for 1 hour and hated it. Its strange, cause I love RPGs, and diablo-type games. But I just couldnt stand playing this game more than 1 hour. Maybe the game starts to pick up later, but I just didnt have the patience. I might give it another shot after all the praises it got from this thread.

Re: Morrowind
 

I bought the lol-expensive edition the day it came out. Pre-Order and all. I was drooling all over morrowind months before it came out.

And I was not dissapointed when I got it. Unlike half the people waiting for it. Morrowind isn't for everyone, but I loved it.

This is an old thread. But I'm glad to see it revived, as I am still in the midst of my Morrowind addition. I'm a level 24 imperial warrior with a nice mix of ebony and daedric armor and a badass daedric dai-katana.

A few questions: How do I enchant items? I know I need a soul gem, and a soul in the gem, but how on earth do I get a soul?


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Also, I'm about to confront Dagoth Ur (have all of the tools) but I can't open the door to his lair. How do I open it?

Buy a soultrap spell and cast it on a creature. You then have 60 seconds to kill the creature and then it will be in there. There was a side quest where an NPC gives you soul drinker for completing the quest. That casts soultrap on strike.

How does the quality of a soul gem effect things? I had a nice one worth 4000 drakes, but I was a dumbass and sold it. Now I'm carrying one around that's worth 40.

There really isn't 'quality' to them. They basically range in
different sizes, from something to Grand Gem.

The Grand Gem's can hold up to anything of 80,000 capacity,
which are your Golden Saints, and one or two other creatures
(I haven't played this since last June :P), or you can get a
special one that holds up to 4 million, I believe.

I don't believe I ever really used mine, I know I just sold them.

And for the person asking about Dagoth Ur, are you actually
in his keep, is so, I dunno what's wrong, but if
you're outside, in the mountain canyon lava-pit
thing, there should be a lever to the right of the
door (to the right when facing the door),
btw, if you see that guy walking around in
all Glass-Armor, kill him :)

(And if anyone has any really good soul-gem
enchanted weapon combos, PM me, I haven't
found anything better than Sunder.)

With enchanting, the only way you can get a constant effect enchanted item is to use a grand soul gem with either a golden saint or ascended sleeper.

The gems by themselves aren't worth a whole lot. The value comes from putting souls inside of them. All creatures have a value assigned to their souls. Each type of gem has a max value for what type of souls they can fit.

I haven't started enchanting things yet, but good enchantments to use for weapons are cast on strike things like elemental damage plus weakness to that element, paralyzation, attribute draining enchantments, health draining, and weapon/armor eating enchantments. You can even make them dish out damage over time...

For armor its good to have constant effect things that fortify attributes, resistance to fire, spell reflection/absorbtion, chameleon or security, water breathing, swift swim, water walking, or levitation.

It's also usefull to have an item with mark and divine or alsmavi intervention to get out of tight places. And another with recall and a high invisibility enchantment.

Keep in mind that like spellmaking, you have to have the spell in your spellbook in order to enchant an item with a specific spell. Also when making powerfull enchantments you need high enchant skills and high intelligence in order to be sucessfull. If you fail, I think you lose the gem. To get around this, many people gulp several fort intel potions to bump intel up to 500-1000. You can also go to an enchanter and they will never fail.

Be carefull with enchantments, from what I've read people can make themselves so powerfull that they are godlike. For this reason I haven't started playing with them yet.

Here are two FAQ's for enchantments:

http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox/...ent_points.txt
http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/dosw...nchantment.txt

best enchant for killing is put a 2 sec paralyze+anything more u can fit on it

Murder the merchant and take it back?

Money comes easily in MW. Do you sell items to the Creeper in Caldera? If so you shouldn' have to worry about money ever in the game with all the loot that gets picked up.

Oh no, money is no problem at all -- I downloaded a plugin that gives merchants more money, so that I could actually sell the glass armor and other expensive items that you come across for more than 2000 gold. I have about 70k right now.

That sounds like a convenient plugin. Its such a pain in the ass to have to buy a bunch of shit from a merch so that you can up their money before you can sell them shit.

I sell everything I can to the Creeper. It's more convenient and then I know where to look for stuff that I had previously sold.