Comments on: A Fool In Morrowind: Précis

By: Liz aka Arnie McFigface

Liz aka Arnie McFigface — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:06:48 +0000

I have Windows 7 and am level 65 in Morrowind. I just smashed the heart and am ready to start playing Tribunal. However, I cannot get an assassin to appear. I’ve slept around a lot but cannot get him to appear. I’ve gotten tons of scribs to appear, enough to start a scrib zoo with, but no assassins. I’m wondering if there is a glitch with Windows 7 that is stopping me from getting an assassin to appear. (There was another glitch that kept causing the alchemy process not to work and my AldRuhn silt strider host vanished about 10 levels ago, so wondering if this is another glitch.) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

By: Wildstar

Wildstar — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:53:25 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve been playing Fallout 3 this year. I played Oblivion during 2006. I haven’t played Morrowind since 2003…I’ve been curious to try it again, so I installed the game along with your suggested mods. It’s a completely better game from what I remember, which is quite a feat. Bethesda and people who play the games have much to thank for the modding community.

By: Steam_Rules

Steam_Rules — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:39:56 +0000

Fuck. Yes. I must have GOTY.

By: Gus, the lovable chimney-sweep

Gus, the lovable chimney-sweep — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:13:39 +0000

“So yeah, deactivate Tribunal and Bloodmoon until you actually want to play them.”

Do you need either of those enabled to run Morrowind Graphics Extender?

By: Jujo

Jujo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:34:19 +0000

http://www.hiredgoons.net/MWFiles/IlluminatedOrder/index2.htm

Is one of my personal favorite mods: They do a great job of adding to the lore, the quests are fun (though the rewards can be a bit overbalanced) and there’s some fun tricks they do that I’d prefer to see again.

Plus, you know, you can become a lich.

By: Kinsley

Kinsley — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:00:39 +0000

“Kinsley, that’s a great point about the missions getting dorked at the beginning of the game. It’s a good word of warning to people starting the GOTY edition: just follow the basic game path for a few hours, until you meet your contact Caius. If you go exploring too far you’ll trigger events that you can’t handle. I somehow triggered the Assassin attack right at the start of the game, when I had no health or skill.”

The assassin attacking you in the night is the introduction to the Tribunal expansion. What sucks way more than getting killed is the way those guys completely break the game balance. When you reload and kill the guy, you discover he’s wearing a lot of expensive armour that’s better than anything else you can find early in the game.

The next time an assassin turns up, you’ll greet him with open arms, like a sudden windfall in the night. Pretty soon, you’ll be a low level character with 10s of thousands of gold pieces, and all the merchants in Vvardenfell kind of look a bit like assassins. That’s the point where you say, “this blows donkeys” and delete your save game.

So yeah, deactivate Tribunal and Bloodmoon until you actually want to play them.

By: Demon Beaver

Demon Beaver — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:07:48 +0000

Hey Alec,
IIRC you’re running Windows 7. Are you playing Morrowind on it? Cause for me it started hitching like mad ever since installing it on that OS…
Looking forward to the gaming diary, I think I know this game by heart, enjoyment is assured!

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:58:26 +0000

It’s probably been said, but really,
“Why walk when you can ride, outlander?”

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:29:31 +0000

I’m sure mods can enhance the Morrowind experience immeasurably, and yet I for one don’t love it because of the mods – I never used any when I played the game – I love it because it’s an awesome feat of world construction.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:11:49 +0000

Looking forward to this! But please go easy on the mods. Monster mods are unnecessary, and they’re generally intended for high-level characters who won’t find the vanilla monsters challenging. However, if you’re playing a magic user or other unarmoured character, you might want some of these:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dleijen/morrowind.html

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:33:27 +0000

Oh wow, this brings me back to the days of the dreaded Fargoth, heh, heh. I have wanted to go back and play Morrowind for a while with all the visual enhancing mods and Combat Enhanced. A mod that introduces bloody combat and combos that I “remember” being superior to Oblivion’s combat. I’m definitely going to check in later and see how this goes Alec!

By: RobertM80

RobertM80 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:09:01 +0000

I think Morrowind is a bit of a puzzler, if you pick the game up now knowing what to expect and don’t have the patience to figure it out, you might throw the game down in defiance and say “No! Bad game! Bad!”. But spend some time in it and peel back the layers and you see despite the tragic combat in the game, its got a lot going for it and the mods just add to it. I recently found a mod that made the second city you visit, Balmora, into a HUGE city rather than the small city your used to. Whilst not adding anything plotwise, it just makes the city seem more important and more alive.
I think the reason people love Morrowind so much is that modding behind it, people take what Bethesda created and expand on it, correct what they feel are errors and make the whole greater than the sum of it parts.