Comments on: A Fool In Morrowind, Day 4 – Existential Crisis

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:22:29 +0000

I love the lone mage in the isolated tower type character. House Telvanni allowed me to play just that I wasted no time in getting Tel Uvirith grown and filled up with pretty little treasures, and does morrowin dever offer that in hordes, Dwemer, Daedric,Sixth House ect.

Yea I love the brilliant eccentric I’m kind of a collector and a thinker myself. I’m probably going to be one of those crazy old men in a huge house that all the neigborhood kids are afraid of xD

By: durog

durog — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:14:08 +0000

Thanks for the funny reads, when I’m at work. Keep it up!

By: Koldunas

Koldunas — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:52:52 +0000

no offense alec, I love your writing, but these diaries seem kinda bland. It might be the fact that I played Morrowind loads back in the day, but all that has happened so far seems a pretty standard exploration-inspired game. I was expecting more imagination, non-stereotypical character and more non-traditional approach.

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:25:27 +0000

On the matter of subtlety – this experience reminds me of the difference between Morrrowind and Oblivion’s entrance into the thieves guild. Morrowind handles it far too bluntly given the nature of the guild. I liked how Oblivion hinted at its presence first (NPC’s, wanted posters, and the newspaper mentioning the grey fox) and then you have to pass a speech check on a homeless person just to get a hint about where to go at what time to meet with someone who might get you in. Far more subtle and in character with the nature of thievery.

Of course after that it was still just steal this from there missions, but that’s another issue.

I tend to always play sniper / longbow types, because I enjoy the strategy (hopefully) of positioning myself for maximum effect and avoiding close-up confrontations. There for sure is a psycho-social equivalency for real life there, as I’ve always been the impersonal wall-flower type in social settings with a few close friends rather then a large contact list.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:56:20 +0000

If I have the choice, I’m a bard. I love bards. But in real life, I’m also quite talkative and well-liked. And I tend to talk myself into and out of trouble all the time.

I’ve spent several years playing Ultima Online on a semi-roleplaying freeshard server. In these years, I only had one character, Torm the Bard. And I never entered a single dungeon. And it was great.

By: Freudian Trip

Freudian Trip — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:01:57 +0000

I wasn’t much of a thief and then one day I decided to play a game of Oblivion as a Bowman and suddenly it all just clicked. Sitting in my dark room, the screen my only light with any footstep setting me off like a Gooseberried Grandma seeing a guy off in the distance. Click. Hold it. Hold it. Let go Sneak attack does 3x critical damage! Going up to the body pulling that arrow out of his carcus and moving on.

First time since the dogs in Resident Evil to make me jump everytime.

By: Adventurous Putty

Adventurous Putty — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:23:48 +0000

Alec, you should

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join both the Thieves Guild and the Fighters’ Guild because later in their questlines you discover that the latter has been almost completely bought out by the Comonna Tong, and it provides one of the finest factional conflicts in any video game ever — mostly because it feels so emergent and unplanned. One of Morrowind’s finer points, in my memory.

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By: Mr. Versipellis

Mr. Versipellis — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:53:13 +0000

These diaries are epic — I just caught up with them this morning. In most RPGs, I tend to learn the game as a fighter (easy), then move on to a mage. However, I think my favourite TES characters have been thieves — especially in oblivion, which has some brilliant thieve’s guild missions.

By: MC

MC — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:13:33 +0000

I lean towards magery and thievery in games, and I loved stealing stuff in Morrowind. Heheh, gotta love ‘liberating’ all the valuables from the treasuries in Vivec.

By: Tei

Tei — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:27:59 +0000

@MrPotato; I don’t know. But since things added by mods use ticks and a unoptimized way, maybe you are colliding with a bound here.. CPU bound? try to disable some of the mods. My GPU is godlike, but I was forced to disable a grass mod, because low framerate.
Probably you are asking too much to your comp.

By: Tei

Tei — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:20:25 +0000

I agree with the thief thing. It make soo *any* valuable item somewhere become at quest at itself.

There are like a million movies about bankrobbers, these movies sell the idea that everything can be stolen, with a good plan.

Theres also the thing you can do good things with the gold. You can train yourself something usefull, or buy new fun spells.

Is a collector thing too.
Also, the game help you on that, because the cursor shows the value of the item. You rollover all items on a table, and see how a spoon is made of gold and is value 4000g. For crist sake.. you MUST steal that spoon!.

(note: the “And in the game” comment made me laught loudly, thanks :-) )

By: pepper

pepper — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:03:38 +0000

Thief’s and Spy’s. My favorite class, nothing screams screw you as much as taking over sentry’s and backstabbing HWguy’s.