You inspired me to install Morrowind again, and boy, i have so much fun playing it again. Thanks.

So. MORE!

Where’s Day 10?! I’ve been waiting with baited breath!!

BAITED!

Regarding the books, I loved quite a few of them. Reading those books about Almsivi with their differing stories resembled unraveling a murder mystery. It also managed to make the final monster strangely human.

That said, my favorite books don’t have anything to do with the game at all. I think the most fascinating is the “A Dance in Fire” series. Who would have thought that those ridiculous Bosmer are murderous cannibals with a hivemind and the capability of starting the Wild Hunt? This is actually an example where the game itself somewhat fails: in its agenda to make everyone and everything more equal, it polishes off the rough edges. The conflicts that are clearly set up in the books are often not recognizable enough within the game itself.

Other stories, like “Palla” or “Surfeit of Thieves”, are outright creepy. I really like the books, and I wouldn’t want to miss them. Nevertheless, it would have been nice to let the contents of the Morrowind-relevant books better shine through into actual gameplay. Anyway, I love the game despite its warts.

That said, I do agree that more could have been incorporated into the gameplay. When I used to play Morrowing I was a book collector. My house – well, my Khajit girlfriend’s house – was strewn with high piles upon piles of books. I didn’t read them all, too many. The actual game got in the way, not to mention something called Real Life. But I felt bad for leaving them unread.

I think I’ll reinstall it. Those mods you mentioned sound promising. Anything that alleviates the unbearably stiff walking and jumping?

i have not played morrowind, where i just assume this is from, but couldn’t there be a preacher or what have you in a chapel reading these 36 sermons aloud? your character could enter from time to time and hear as much as they want. i mean, if it’s so important.

i think all people want is more of this stuff to be acted out in some way.

1) For those who complain about the presentation: Rumor has it there’s this thing called the INTERWEBTUBES where you can find all of the Elder Scrolls books in much nicer-to-read formats.

2) If it’s a sin to be mixing large blocks of text and gameplay, then we’re going to have to put a bunch of old classics out of their misery. Planescape: Torment, the Marathon series, Fallout 1 & 2, all interactive fiction everywhere… shoot ‘em in the head and sell the corpses to the knackers.

Fact is, there’s only so much detail that can be conveyed through the “game” part of the medium — what would be a good in-game presentation for the 36 Sermons of Vivec? Oy. And even if you’re not the sort of person who enjoys mixing their gaming and reading experiences — fair enough — you’ve got to admire the effort and craftsmanship that went into creating such a huge volume of interesting backstory to fill the bookshelves and nightstands of the world. That’s some serious attention to detail.

I agree there could have been some compelling short bits about the Fallout future, but I guess Beth figured “hell, they have a pretty solid set of canon events, we better not screw with it too much.” Or they just figured terminals were the best way to transfer any narrative they wanted. I had no trouble reading everything off of terminals, though to be honest, having working computer terminals for so long is as infeasible as having readable books after so long.