Skyrim! Because all the really good stuff never actually leaves.

[abates]

I've been watching one of my fav youtubers play through Morrowind, and judging from that, I'm not expecting a remaster, given there's very little voice acting and conversations are often dense paragraphs of text, so playing the original might be the only way to experience it for the foreseeable.

That said, it has a level up system similar to Oblivion's original one where you can easily end up with points where you don't want them, no quest markers, and the combat seems very unforgiving, especially near the start of the game.

 

[Caldwin]

I decided to buy it since it's only $15. The problem is, it seems like I have to resynch my controller every single time I want to play a game...which is a pain in the arse. But trying to play any thing with W,A,S,D controls is just...

But I did buy it, so I'll see just how far I wish to go with it.

 

[Pocket]

Oh yeah, also you're gonna want to look up how to run the game in a widescreen resolution—not, mind you, the native resolution of your screen; 720p is going to be about the limit if you want to be able to actually read the text, which cannot be rescaled. Ironically your UI is going to be buried in draggable interface boxes in short order if you use anything close to the intended resolution.

 

[wonko the sane?]

I've not done it myself, but there's probably all kinds of mods to attempt to drag morrowind into the contemporary.

 

[Caldwin]

Should we have a general Elder Scrolls thread or are we okay here?

 

[wonko the sane?]

I'm fine with it. Not like we were actively talking about skyrim recently.

 

[Caldwin]

I'm actually playing Oblivion more at the moment, trying to make my way through the mages guild.

It always tickled me that the theives guild has a quest to steal the Archmage's staff, but if you do the mages guild first, you are the Archmage...and the game totally anticipates this.

 

[abates]

I've been playing the Shivering Isles portion and the final fight was even harder than the original. Not because it was hard to beat, but because the game would crash without fail about 10 seconds after the battle started.

The solution, it turned out, was to wait for six hours in the throne room before starting the fight.

 

[wonko the sane?]

So despite the make up, still a bethesda game.

 

[Caldwin]

Could you imagine what it would be like if Bethesda made the exact same games they've already made, only without the bugs?

 

[wonko the sane?]

Either no one would notice, or they'd be richer than bezo overnight.

 

[Pocket]

Why? Everyone already buys the bug-ridden messes they do make, multiple times over.