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.

 

[Caldwin]

Man! I think the Whodunit? quest is my favorite Brotherhood quest in Elderscrolls. Beats out anything in Skyrim to be honest.

 

[Caldwin]

And I got Shadowmere in Oblivion...the best part of any Dark Brotherhood run.

 

[abates]

Finished the main questline in the most Bethesda of ways

Spoiler

Once the end cutscene ended, Ocato burst into the Temple of the One with Jauffre and Baurus right behind him. Clearly he'd accidentally hit one or the other of them during the battle, as they were both aggroed onto him. Sadly for them, he was still marked essential and they weren't. Following their deaths, he expressed sorrow that Martin had died.

And following that conversation, Hieronymus Lex burst in to have a word with Ocato about the murder he'd just done. The fighting therefore resumed.

Just normal Bethesda things.

 

[Caldwin]

Oh wow!

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

I guess the answer is we wouldn't get funny jive like this.

 

[Caldwin]

Wow! Chameleon is broken in the best kind of way. Like, it's even more broken than stealth-archery in Skyrim, and I sure as hell didn't think that was possible.

I didn't see how good it was the first time I played Oblivion because I was new to the whole Elder Scrolls/Open World thing. First time I played, I enchanted a piece of armor with Chameleon and every enemy seemed to see right through it. So I thought it was useless. Actual invisibility was also pretty useless because you couldn't use it as an enchantment and it immediately stopped working if you attacked or interacted with anything.

But I did not understand the concept of stacking at the time. Turns out if you enchant several pieces of clothing and the amount of Chameleon effect stacks up to 100%, you can steal things right in front of people. Characters will think they're imagining things while you're pummeling them. Like, it's not just you shoot someone with an arrow and the partner thinks it was the wind. I mean the very same guy you are in the process of pummeling will think he's imagining things.

Combine this with the Skeleton Key and some water-breathing, I'm freaking unstoppable!

 

[Dekafox]

It also works in Morrowind, though Morrowind also has the old Sanctuary effect that you can stack instead to just not ever get hit.

 

[wonko the sane?]

And you can skip water breathing entirely by playing argonian.

 

[Caldwin]

Eh, I could. But on the other paw...Khajiit!