upcoming sequel to morrowind, oblivion

[lars573]

Point taken about the new gen X-Box.

Thanks Lars. Do you think that the Game-of-the-Year version adds a lot? I've only played the original, but I've played it til I'm blue in the face. Do you think the expansions are worth getting even though I've pretty much exhausted my interest in the original?

I'm an ancient D&D veteran and Dungeon Master and have been playing these kinds of games for about 30 years, so figuring out the Morrowind system and how to become superdude without cheating was pretty easy. I used enchanted items with Constant Effect powers a lot (I paid for the enchantments). With an 80% Constant Effect Chameleon active, you could basically go anywhere undetected, and still talk with folks (100% and you can't talk to people). A ring of Constant Effect Invisibility was handy early on too, as all you had to do was pop into your inventory and re-equip it to reactivate the invisibility if you opened a door or whatever. Constant Effect Levitation was really cool--I loved flyin' around invisible and just checking stuff out. Eventually I only used these superpowers/items in situations that were really hard, to make the game more challenging.

Heh, museum indeed. I'd usually take over Tel Naga in Sadrith Mora completely and turn it into a fabulous hangout. Had my audience room, lab, and most valudable treasure rooms up top (and turned the little room with the sleeping pad into my Skooma/moonsugar and liquor hang out, with candles and laterns galore). I spent a ridiculous amount of time just turning Tel Naga into the trickest pad. The Main Hall was filled with piles and piles of stuff, and lit up with hundreds of candles and laterns, etc. I had as much fun doing that as playing the game.

Anyway, I can't wait to see what they come up with. Hopefully the NPCs will interact better--approach you and initiate things, steal, interact with each other, etc. I think that was probably the weakest aspect of this incredibly good game. Having m8s to adventure with would be cool too (that silly steam robot just didn't cut it; I ended up killing it myself after about 5 minutes it was so annoying).

I can say that getting the GOTY edition of Morrowind for xbox is worth it, as when it came out it was 30% less than a new game and now it will be uber cheap. All of your characters from original Morrowind can be converted to GOTY edition (so you don't have to start over). Tribunal , the first x-pack has an ok mian quest. I'm not going to give it away or anything but basically you kill a mad god. No what Tribunal really has is swag, boat loads of swag. There are craftsmen in Mournhold (Morrowinds capital and where 95% of the story takes place) that can make Ebony and Glass armour from raw ebony and glass (for money of course). Tribunal adds adamantium armour. You can't buy very many pieces and you have to have the rest crafted from raw adamantium, there also isn't enough raw adamantium to make a full suit. In Mournhold you can also buy pack animals (rats) to store stuff in, you can have a conga line of like 4 rats holding your loot following you around. When you beat Tribunals main story you get a niffty suit of royal guard armour and 2 flaming swords, well fire and shock but the shock one has blue flame. Bloodmoon the 2nd x-pack adds a much larger new area called Soulstiem. An island full of Nords that is about 25% the size of Vaarfindel. This adds many new Nordish armour and weapons, bear-hide and wolf-hide armour (which needs to crafted) and ice armour (again crafted). You can also find a severed leg to use as a club. Bloodmoons main thing though is werewolfs. A little better than half way threw the mian quest you get infected with lycanthropy (part of the story you can't avoid it). Then the quest splits into evil werewolfs missions if you don't cure yourself and good missions if you do. Also when you beat the main quest, good or bad, you get a magic ring that turns you into a werewolf for a limited time (8-12 hours IIRC). Being a werewolf is tre cool. You can jump 50 feet straight up, have strength, speed, and agility of like 125. Your hand to hand skill is buffed to like 150 (claw strikes). And when you put away your "weapons" you run on all fours and can run 2 times faster than anything else in the game.

Cheats, you in put the cheats by going to your stats screen and inputting the button combo highlight health/magic/stamina then hold A.

Health: black, white, black, black, black
Magica: black, white, white, black, white
Stamina: black, black, white, white, black

I too am much looking forward to oblivion, unfortunatly I will have to shell out for a Xenon (xbox 2) first.