infinity on 12/8/2007 at 13:53
I haven't played Morrowind in the past 2 years. But when I was playing Morrowind, I was playing a lot. I was even on the forums there when they announced Oblivion. For some reason though, I stopped playing TES:III
Later, I bought Oblivion the day it came out, and enjoyed it. I played it through and through. (As always: completing the Thieves Guild before anything else) I still play it from time to time but one thing was clear: It didn't capture my love like Morrowind did. Now, maybe that is because I am at a different point of my life, or maybe it's because I came in expecting not to like it as much, or maybe it isn't as good of a game. But last night, the Morrowind Main Title song came into my head, and I realized that I needed to play Morrowind again.
I have all the disks and everything, but I really really wanted my old savegame. (I remember it perfectly, I had a lvl 63 Nord Thief, who chose not to be a werewolf.) I went onto my old computer, and that had a savegame, but not the one I was looking for. It was on another computer, but that's at my mother's house, and I'm driving there next week to see her. The computer has been sitting in her garage for about 2 years, I hope it has the file!
Anyway, has this compulsion to play an old game ever happened to you? With Morrowind perhaps? The game was so well built and so thorough it is hard to forget.
Henri The Hammer on 13/8/2007 at 03:56
Of course. I sometimes go play old games like Civilization or X-Com , because I remember how awesome they are. :D
My little story:
I found Morrowind after playing Oblivion. My friend had it and let me play it a bit, I thought it was stupid and boring because the guy ran so slow and I couldn't hit anything. (I had bought the most expensive weapon in the first shop, but it was Long Blade and my skill was 5 :rolleyes:)
Later after playing Oblivion for... a *really* long time, finished it several characters.. I decided to try Morrowind again. Bought GOTY edition and I was immediately hooked. Morrowind is so much better game than Oblivion. :)
ercles on 13/8/2007 at 11:55
Yeah I played morrowind after oblivion. I thought it was much harder, partly because I thought it was poorly implemented after you get used to the convenience of Oblivion. I was always more of a fan of the adventure aspects of the games rather than the stats building. I thought that the huge amount of barren rock wastelands in the middle of morrowind was a bit of a cop-out, it failed to capture my imagination.
Trying to find places in missions in morrowind was horrible.
Henri The Hammer on 14/8/2007 at 04:38
Quote Posted by ercles
Trying to find places in missions in morrowind was horrible.
Very true, but it's better than Oblivion's automatically-point-at-any-place/character -compass arrows. It ruins the exploration part of it. :tsktsk:
37637598 on 14/8/2007 at 19:34
The problem with morrowind was that you really had to pay attention and have a great memory and excellent comprehension. If a guy tells you to go talk to ukalashraleki at the embrasium camp, look on your map and most likley it'll be marked there. There is a very large system behind morrowind too. For instance, every camp has an ashkhan, so when a guy tells me to speak to bla bla, the last place i'll look is in a yurt that belongs to some guy named ashkhan! little did I know Ashkhan wasn't the name, but the title, or RANK of the guy. If I would've payed REALLY close attention, I would've had a much better time.
I have the morrowind craving every year at the end of july when our FIRE season starts up. The smell of sulfer makes me want to play it really bad!
baeuchlein on 14/8/2007 at 19:39
I have replayed Morrowind as well, although I did not pause for much more than one or two months in between. However, I chose to play the second game with a character who turned into a vampire, which creates a lot of difficulties when trying to solve the main quest. I think I would probably not have completed it without some helpful texts on the internet. I have not replayed the Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansions, but already plan to do so in the future.
I have played Soul Reaver a second time, mainly because I found a lot of sound recordings in a file which were not used during the course of Soul Reaver. I hoped to find some game content which I missed before, but later on learned that most of what was missing had been removed by the game designers.
Soul Reaver 2 had been on my "To Replay" list for a while, and when I had to use an older computer for about two months, it had been one of the few games which were both interesting enough and still playable on the old machine, so I did it.
I have played Thief and Thief 2 on all three difficulty levels, just because I like them that much. Thief 3 still waits for it's second major play-through, but there have been frequent technical difficulties which did not permit that yet.
I have not completed Daggerfall, Morrowind's predecessor, yet, because I screwed up an important quest for my first character, and my second is near the end of the game, but it will still take some while before it's all done.
Hitman 2 got replayed immediately after I completed Hitman 3, and then I began a third Hitman 2 career, this time aiming for the silent assassin rank (a.k.a. the perfect kill).
I have played The Secret of Monkey Island two or three times with different sound cards. Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II needed to be played again once I acquired my first 3D capable video card, a Voodoo2. I had almost completed Tomb Raider III when I had no ammo left, but faced the big badass at the end of the game. Later on, I decided not to use one of my older saved games (I had already spit too much of that precious lead into targets that did not need it), but to start from the beginning again.
I am frequently playing some very old games, like Silent Service II (a submarine war game from 1990) or even NetHack (a.k.a. Hack; a very old adventure game), but can abandon them for months as well. When I play them again, it's usually for some days or even a week, but after that I may neglect them for ages again.
As you see, once I have a good reason (by my own definition) to replay an ancient game, I just do it. It's cheaper than buying a new one anyway... :cheeky:
Sulphur on 15/8/2007 at 18:09
Quote Posted by 37637598
I have the morrowind craving every year at the end of july when our FIRE season starts up. The smell of sulfer makes me want to play it really bad!
Really? Didn't know I could arouse that kind of feeling in ya. I feel so special now. <3
37637598 on 15/8/2007 at 19:33
ya sulphur, I smell ya buddy... In your sleep!
SHHH!!!... *smells*
AHHHHhhhhhmmmmm.....
whew!
Fredpeace on 17/8/2007 at 00:30
Oblivion was way too easy like most games nowaday.. I mean.. whats the point with exploring when it points you straight into direction.
I loved Morrowind and played it for one or two years.. when I started playing Oblivion I was like: Wow, this is amazing! Three or four hours later I was like.. this sucks.. feels like World of Warcraft or sumthing.. just running straight to the quest and then back. Fucking crap game... I hope Bethesda don't destroy Fallout 3 - I don't think they will..
Henri The Hammer on 17/8/2007 at 04:49
Quote Posted by Fredpeace
Oblivion was way too easy like most games nowaday.. I mean.. whats the point with exploring when it points you straight into direction.
I loved Morrowind and played it for one or two years.. when I started playing Oblivion I was like: Wow, this is amazing! Three or four hours later I was like.. this sucks.. feels like World of Warcraft or sumthing.. just running straight to the quest and then back. Fucking crap game... I hope Bethesda don't destroy Fallout 3 - I don't think they will..
My thoughts exactly. It sucks that Oblivion was dumbed down for console kiddies who want nothing but kill, kill, kill! as fast as possible. :nono:
