Comments on: A Fool In Morrowind, Day 6: Tweet

By: Wrigleyvillain

Wrigleyvillain — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:40:09 +0000

Yeah, but by the 50th time I’m like “Screw your damn boots and just kill the freaking Guar N’wah!” :D

I am using a mod that cuts down on NPC utterances but still…

By: DebiDalio

DebiDalio — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:46:41 +0000

I absolutely love the Dwemer ruins in Morrowind. They’re my favorite part of the game. I like using the robots for archery target practice.

As with everyone else, the cube room was the last one I went in. I was both annoyed and amused.

I generally prefer the combat system in Oblivion, but I think Morrowind is a much more interesting game. I prefer text over voice since it’s easier to add a lot of color and story in text. I think recorded voices are very limiting in general, though I do like the random phrases that come out of the characters in Morrowind. (”The blue plates are nice, but the brown ones seem to last longer.”)

By: Dcybele

Dcybele — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:51:18 +0000

I’m just so glad I’m not the only one who couldn’t find the frickin thing the first (few) times :-P

By: tugboats!

tugboats! — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:38:29 +0000

no edit :|
but I was convinced for hours the cube was behind that broken bridge over a lava pool and also wasted an icarian flight to hop two extra feet (and proceeded to stick to the ceiling for 30 sec :D)

By: tugboats!

tugboats! — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:36:06 +0000

Now it’s been a while since I played but I was under the impression that while the widget is indeed right up front, the key to the door it’s behind is way down in the bottom. Or did I misremember?

Regardless, I do like the way they did it – hated the green arrows, and the real fun is in exploring. After all if any old random passer by could walk in and steal it out from under a neon sign saying HEY GUYS TREASURE HERE do you think it’d still be there?

By: Trithemius

Trithemius — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:19:01 +0000

Play as a wizard with cheaty magical items and you can pretend it is a fairly wobbly FPS?

And I think that everyone missed that damn cube the first time around. I recall using a precious Icarian Flight scroll to navigate to the topmost tier at the very bottom of that damn dungeon and swearing blisteringly when the cube wasn’t there.

Had a bloody great time though.

By: autogunner

autogunner — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:23:03 +0000

I demand flowing prose! as for the dodgy combat, couldnt that be fixed by messing about in the game guts, changing all hits to automatic and assigning damage bonus for increased skill levels? Surely someone must have done that.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:09:49 +0000

See if that quest had been Oblivion the green arrow would have been pointing right at it and it would have lit up and floated in the air with a giant icon over it with a hand asking you to grab it and everyone would have said “What as shitty easy quest it is right there in the entrance!”

I think they way they did it tricks you into exploring more fully.

By: Aorawn

Aorawn — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:59:41 +0000

Everybody gets lost in Arkngthand the first time, and nobody finds the cube until their third time, even though subsequent times you will realise it was practically staring you in the face.

By: Sartoris

Sartoris — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:11:59 +0000

I don’t prefer the style of this diary post either. Give us more story, good sir.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:31:20 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JohnLocke.png

Uncanny!

By: Mighty Florist

Mighty Florist — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:24:28 +0000

There’s an agentloaf on twitter now, sans all of the updates from the article. Is that the real deal?