Archim on 6/5/2002 at 07:57

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Been playing Morrowind, and I have to say it impresses the heck out of me. I don't think I've played an RPG that impressed me this much for years at the least, console or PC. It's like Omikron and Daggerfall mixed together and improved ten times over.

What I'd like to know, though, is if there's anything random in this game? Quests? Dungeons? Contents of dungeons? Anything?

I remember playing Daggerfall, and there was constantly new news in each city or a new event going on between one guild or another, even if the actual description of what was going on was on the starchy side. Does Morrowind have content like that, or is it more along the lines of, say, Baldur's Gate, where there are tons of quests, paths, and options, but it's all predetermined, just in tremendous amount?

Loving the game either way.

Painbringer on 6/5/2002 at 13:07

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Archim, after playing around with the Construction Set a bit, I can assure you that the contents of some chests is random. Some dungeons will also have a variable number of monsters (set by using a negative number in the plug-in), and there is a thing called "Levelled Item" and "Levelled Creature", which spawn in varying difficulties according to your character's level. The higher you are, the tougher the Levelled Creature is, and the better the Levelled Item will be.

Other than that, they hand-built everything in the game. Some spots can respawn (there's a setting for that, too), but the idea was to avoid the flat, colorless feel of all those random dungeons in Daggerfall.

I'd say they've succeeded marvelously. And if you want something a little more random, you can always build your own dungeons. The CS is not that hard to figure out -- just takes some patience and trial-and-error at first. Plug-ins are going to make this game the most extendable we've ever seen since Doom :cheeky:

Painbringer

Nomad on 23/5/2002 at 13:57

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In one of the houses in Gnisis (quest-related house), I wandered through the first time, killing rats and skeletons, happened upon a locked chest which had in it an ebony axe. I accidentally waxed a peaceful Daedroth, so I reloaded the game and went back in the house. This time I got a dwarven warhammer. Got caught stealing this time and reloaded again. Third time through, got myself a nice ebony longsword from the chest. I was happy with this, so I quicksaved, went back to the original save, and went in to randomize what I got in there. A couple dwarvens, a couple ebonys, I think an enchanted glass as well. All weapons, of varying types. Other than chest contents, the only other thing I have seen randomized is creatures. Going through the tomb in the foreign sector underworks two times - first time I met up with a half dozen skeletons and two bonelords. Second time I met two skeletons and six bonelords.