Morrowind and Oblivion

**ReluctantSamurai** · 07-07-2010, 13:33

I can sympathize with the traveling drudgery of Morrowind.

and again there were these sudden surprises that made up for the hours of dull trudging

I never felt that way while playing. I used the Propylon Index plug-in to get around....saved a lot of time. Plus I enchanted a cloak with a permanent 1pt of levitation (along with whatever I could squeeze in for chameleon) so rather than having to walk/run/jump around it was "glider city".

irritating combat and endless clicking through line after line of pointless dialogue just ruins it for me.

Now there's a couple of points I agree with. I've always wondered how those mage-types could run backwards so fast, casting spells, without tripping over anything

And speaking of mages....rather underpowered. They get about as far as "You will suffer grea..........".

but the appalling clunky controls

NWN's system of quick-slots was so much better. Accessing your inventory was easy and seamless when in the heat of battle, unlike Morrowind's awkward keyboard shortcuts.....................

And as Asai has pointed out, the dialogue could've used some help.............

I must have made at least 500 characters (where 400 of them might have been dunmer).

You really played through 500 times??? You must have the patience of Job.....or an addiction of epic proportions

**Scienter** · 07-07-2010, 18:36

I played Morrowind to death when it came out. I played it once through vanilla and then several times heavily modded. I don't think I would go back and play it again now because I'm sure the graphics won't hold up. But, it was my favorite game for a long time and I have fond memories of staying up all night playing it when I should have been studying.

I played Oblivion, but didn't enjoy it as much as Morrowind. I felt like the cities in Oblivion were all very similar, and it made me miss the diversity of the cities' architecture and culture in Morrowind. Though the assassin guild quest in Oblivion was awesome.

**lars573** · 07-09-2010, 00:23

When my 360 took a crap on me I went back to Morrowind. It reminded me of why I love Oblivion. There are VERY few times when between iterations in a series all of my problems get addressed. Oblivions fast travel system obliterated Morrowinds endless trudging. And I beat Morrowinds main quest, fighters guild, great house, Tribunal, and several parts of Bloodmoon. (I have the patience of the Tokugawa, the Kree supreme intelligence, or Vandal Savage (Job had nothing on those three). The full voices (even if there only were like 8 VA's), more life like AI. And if all that costs was the mushroom kingdom of north east Vvardenfel and the land crab houses of north west Vvardenfel, well I call that a bargain.

Plus the Dark brotherhood (there was an actual assassins guild in the ES world, they were outlawed and then the Dark Brotherhood killed them) quests, and the Daedric quests really went up a notch. When it rains flaming dogs you know your in for a treat. And then the unwilling nudists dinner party was a blast. Hoisting a dunmer lord on his own petard was lol too.

**rajpoot** · 07-09-2010, 04:06

Oblivion also had some funny quests....not very funny....but considering that the models didn't really have many expressions then....
One which I remember was about this paranoid dunmer from Skingard.

**lars573** · 07-09-2010, 16:36

Gwarhil was a Bosmer. And if you played that quest right, he'd go all spree killer on his "enemies."

**Fragony** · 07-09-2010, 19:18

Morrowind for the win by far. Just a much more interesting and diverse gameworld. Introduced it better as well, could have been a wow moment if the didn't let you start almost right into the city.

**rajpoot** · 07-09-2010, 19:19

Ahh yes, bosmer....dunmer are from Morrowind

I got confused.

But I almost never did the killing spree thing. Played the whole game as a paragon character (I have forgotten what we called the 'good' characters before ME was released).