Comments on: A Fool In Morrowind, Day 1 – Trousers

By: UK_John

UK_John — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:21:55 +0000

Nice read – smiling all the way through. I have about 100 Morrowind mods running in my current game, including having all the ‘expanded town mods’, My Seyda Neen is about 3 times larger, for example, with proper docks (it is a port town after all!) many more houses, two player houses and more shops, including armoury, spells and guild! It meant from the get-go I could steal from one armour shop and sell to another for a profit!

First time I heard that Wizard scream, I didn’t see the body fall, so it scared the hell out of me as I thought it was some terrible creature! As to animals, etc, they never bothered me, as the NPC’s were mostly human after all, with just pointy ears or some such, and clothing and armour was decidedly of human proportions!

With mods that add to and change the repetitive conversations, many new creatures, and playing the game without music but with various sound mods (town sounds, creature sounds, forest sounds, etc), it’s a much better game. Without these mods (especially MGE!), I doubt I would be playing Morrowind again. But then, without all the great mods for Oblivion (like MMM, Francesco’s, Lost Spires, etc), I doubt I would have put more than 50 hours into Oblivion instead of the 300 I have. When PC gamers talk about how great Oblivion is I somehow doubt they are talking about vanilla Oblivion….

By: droid

droid — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:12:10 +0000

First character in oblivion got thrown in jail while wearing only stolen clothing. So there I am at the imperial prison completely bare. Shuffling through my inventory, I realize I have no backup pants.

So yeah.

By: odeed

odeed — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:39:01 +0000

Hey, it’s Livin’ in…… Morrowind. Look, if Livingston is ok with you ripping off his ideas, then I am.

By: CHIP9

CHIP9 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:22:38 +0000

This is totally making me want to re-play the whole game. Actually, even I played it for several months I never finished it.

By: AyeKay

AyeKay — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:41:26 +0000

@Vinraith

brings back the feel of one of my all-time favorite games without my actually having to go back and figure out how to install a properly balanced 50-mod build of the damned thing.

You’ve nailed it sir. I’d like to be able to replace the CDs of my Bethesda games with RPS so next time I get an itch to waste a weekend on Fallout I can just scratch it with a podcast narration.

By: Xercies

Xercies — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:53:19 +0000

Great diary, I loved Morrowind though I do have to agree with that there was a bit to much walking and jumping between interesting things. Yes sometimes its god because you see different things(like the love story between a thief and a noble woman that you find randomly walking to a town) but most times its just very boring and very bland. And don’t talk to me about trying to find the things you were supposed to find around the Ashland Camp.

I look forward to more.

By: c-Row

c-Row — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:43:57 +0000

Accidental trouser loss? I mean, did you ever lose your trousers on purpose? Close man-to-woman combat doesn’t count.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:37:57 +0000

Enjoyed that Alec.

This should help fill the hole left by the Living In Oblivion guy never updating any more. :)

And provided you don’t end it as soon as you did The Worst Ninja.

By: GreatUncleBaal

GreatUncleBaal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:31:27 +0000

Love this game, and reading this makes me want to dig it out and lose even more hours of my life playing it. I remember agreeing to fetch a chalice from some island populated by undead, which I took on a little to early for my underpowered Khajiit Thief. Stumbled out of the tombs barely alive, then because I had dived off a mainland cliff to get there and couldn’t go back the way I came (unwisely had no levitate spells), had to slowly swim round the coast, being mauled by Dreugh and dragging myself onto tiny rocky beaches for respite. At no point did this ever not feel like an EPIC QUEST.

By: Hunty

Hunty — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:24:14 +0000

Accidental trouser-loss is just one of those things that tickles me.

And in the game.

Good stuff so far!

By: Mr.President

Mr.President — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:04:39 +0000

That was some great writing.
I’ll be following this closely.

By: roshan111

roshan111 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:55:28 +0000

I take it that last guy is fargoth?
In the vanilla version he is the most memorable character purely because of how annoying he is. Later you find out he’s a liar and a cheat.