[Trull's son]

I really hope it isn't just an action game... I liked getting my skills up through use and (repetitive) casting. I could farm Blade skill by enchanting heal on hit on my weapong so that rat would never die, no matter how many times I struck. Those were the better days, and apparently there will not be a return to those glorious rat beating moments.
Sort of a sidenote. Nehrim has the greatest rat killing moment. I don't know if any of you have played it, but theres a quest where you have to kill thousands of little rats just to move a couple rocks. Just mounds of rat corpses was all that was left...

This post has been edited by Trull's son: 22 April 2011 - 01:52 PM

[Loki]

Okay, so my geek cred doesn't extend to PC games and I need help.

So, I've installed Morrowind and I choose my name and the pointy eared grey dude says something about a guard coming and I wait, and wait, and wait - no guard and I can't move. I'm a gonna go out on a limb here and say I need to update my game, yeah? How does one do that? I'm use to Xbox live doing it for me.....


EDIT: It does have four discs....maybe I need to install all of them....where's Silencer when you need him???

This post has been edited by Loki: 23 April 2011 - 10:53 AM

[POOPOO MCBUMFACE]

The guard doesn't come downstairs? Never heard of that happening... Morrowind is a strange beast, though. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Silt striders floating over the hills of Balmora... anyway.

I'm assuming the four discs are Morrowind, Tribunal, Bloodmoon and the Construction Set? If so, you can safely ignore the CS one. Install Morrowind, Tribunal and Bloodmoon in that order (T&B are the two expansions). I think the Game of the Year Edition comes pre-patched - the patch will install automatically alongside Bloodmoon - but someone who actually owns it will have to confirm; I'm an old horse that bought each expansion as it came out.

Do that and try again, it sounds like it might be a one-off bug. Maybe he walked into a pillar and got stuck or something.

This post has been edited by POOPOO MCBUMFACE: 23 April 2011 - 11:03 AM

[Silencer]

I'm here, Loki!

You should have a couple of pop-ups which tell you the controls, yeah? Then you should be able to WASD+mouse your way to the door (IIRC), open it, and go outside. Normally the guard can be heard walking above you then down the stairs, then he walks to the door and opens if. If that's not happening...something odd is going on. Though you might not get the movement pop-ups until the guard arrives. He does take like ten seconds to get there.

The game wouldn't run if you hadn't properly installed, so that's not an issue. As far as updates go...you can just install the expansions. But the base version works without them, obviously...but here is the link to the updates for you: click here. For some reason they removed them from the main site and stuffed them there, dunno why...but make sure you get the right one (if you haven't installed the expansions, it's the top one on that short list the link takes you to).

Hope that helps you, Loki!


But yeah, try quitting + restarting, and possibly try uninstall+reinstall too...that's a really odd bug.

[POOPOO MCBUMFACE]

Silencer, on 23 April 2011 - 11:03 AM, said:

Though you might not get the movement pop-ups until the guard arrives. He does take like ten seconds to get there.

Yeah, you can't move until he's told you to follow him, that's when the WASD popup appears.

This post has been edited by POOPOO MCBUMFACE: 23 April 2011 - 11:06 AM

[Loki]

Okay, I have uninstalled it and re-installed it along with the other discs. I shall try it again....if you don't hear from for several days you'll know it worked


Thanks for the help

[Silencer]

Loki, on 23 April 2011 - 11:11 AM, said:

Okay, I have uninstalled it and re-installed it along with the other discs. I shall try it again....if you don't hear from for several days you'll know it worked


Thanks for the help

Good luuuuuuck.

[Aptorian]

Skyrim's world is too big

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Bethesda Claims Skyrim's World is "Too Big"
Platforms : Xbox 360, PS3, PC
Published : 18th May, 2011
Bethesda says that the world its developing in Skyrim will be larger, more varied and more interesting than ever. / By Gameranx Staff

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Skyrim is larger, more grandiose and contains a lot more points of interest for players to visit than any previous Elder Scrolls game, according to its developers at Bethesda.

Speaking on behalf of his studio, game director Todd Howard told Norwegian gaming website Gamer.no that the developer counts "120 real caves, and more than 100 common points of interest outside."

"The game is actually too big," he said.

Howard says that "every tree, rock, cup and such" was placed individually by a designer, and he describes the world as "hand-crafted." Towns and dungeons are no longer prefabricated templates, as was the case with the cloned dungeons in the recent Bioware title Dragon Age II.

Skyrim's caves and dungeons are said to be diverse, ranging from vegetation-choked mines to a fortress hidden deep within a glacier.

"In Oblivion we let the visual designers take care of the caves, and we also had a couple of dedicated level designers who went over them afterwards. There was nothing wrong with them, but they could have been better," said Howard.

"We still stock them in kit form—it's something we've done since Terminator: Future Shock. The difference is that we're better at it."

Howard says that the map in Skyrim is as big as its predecessor, but that the game is different because of all the mountains that form the terrain's routes. The game will "seem bigger" than its predecessors as a result of the game's variety.

More than just a snowbound landscape, Howard says that Skyrim will "also have grassy tundra, volcanic tundra, and a forest with an autumnal theme and a glacier. There are about six or seven distinct types of environments."

This post has been edited by Battle Plaptypus: 18 May 2011 - 04:03 PM

[King Bear]

Battle Plaptypus, on 18 May 2011 - 04:02 PM, said:

Skyrim's world is too big

Not possible

[Slow Ben]

Quick Ben, on 18 May 2011 - 04:06 PM, said:

Battle Plaptypus, on 18 May 2011 - 04:02 PM, said:

Skyrim's world is too big

Not possible

Word.

[Gothos]

Battle Plaptypus, on 18 May 2011 - 04:02 PM, said:

Howard says that "every tree, rock, cup and such" was placed individually by a designer, and he describes the world as "hand-crafted." Towns and dungeons are no longer prefabricated templates, as was the case with the cloned dungeons in the recent Bioware title Dragon Age II.

looks like they looked at Piranha Bytes and took notes

[Silencer]

Slow Ben, on 18 May 2011 - 05:12 PM, said:

Quick Ben, on 18 May 2011 - 04:06 PM, said:

Battle Plaptypus, on 18 May 2011 - 04:02 PM, said:

Skyrim's world is too big

Not possible

Word.

QFT, if it needed any more affirmation.

[Sinisdar Toste]

now i just hope that some exec doesn't go all squirrelly and force them to squeeze it into something smaller. i am confident that my fears will prove unfounded though

[POOPOO MCBUMFACE]

Bethesda confirms that having dragons be unique, landmark battles with a finite amount of formidable and individual foes, it's far more epic and immersive to have dragons be generic endlessly respawning overgrown cliffracers:

http://www.rockpaper...limiteddragons/

[Aptorian]

Oblivion 5 year anniversary edition

[Gothos]

I've actually gone and installed the Morrowind GOTY edition I got on Steam. Installed this mod (I just couldn't stomach the fact there's no widescreen support in vanilla!) and started a new game. Damn, this game grips me by the throat with nostalgia and immersion! Still. After 9 years.
Made a bosmer female Leliana (yeah, I know, cheesy). Going for light armor, marksman and short blade, with some speechcraft, mercantile, mysticism and whatnot to help along. Hlaalu, naturally. I've been considering actually using some other armor than chitin so that I don't look ridiculous, but hell, it's just so much better than netch leather or nordic fur armors. Where's my glass armor I ask thee!

[Silencer]

Gothos, on 13 June 2011 - 10:01 AM, said:

I've actually gone and installed the Morrowind GOTY edition I got on Steam. Installed this mod (I just couldn't stomach the fact there's no widescreen support in vanilla!) and started a new game. Damn, this game grips me by the throat with nostalgia and immersion! Still. After 9 years.
Made a bosmer female Leliana (yeah, I know, cheesy). Going for light armor, marksman and short blade, with some speechcraft, mercantile, mysticism and whatnot to help along. Hlaalu, naturally. I've been considering actually using some other armor than chitin so that I don't look ridiculous, but hell, it's just so much better than netch leather or nordic fur armors. Where's my glass armor I ask thee!

I applaud thee good sir. I'm in a similar boat, every time I fire that damn thing up. *happy sigh*

Your glass armour, iirc, can be found in Molag Mar, in the Buoyant Armiger's barracks. Also some parts at Ghostgate in the Towers of Dawn/Dusk. (Memory potentially fuzzy...use UESP if desperate...)

[POOPOO MCBUMFACE]

You're not using the DB armour you get handed to you immediately?

One thing I do dislike in Morrowind is the lack of armour variety/progression for light armour characters. Why bother using fur and netch leather when chitin is available cheap in Seyda Neen and easily acquired for free elsewhere? And that's without the aforementioned Tribunal armour. After that, you're pretty much set until you start finding glass.

[Gothos]

Curious thing, the DB don't seem to want to attack me just yet. It's odd.

[Illuyankas]

At least they get more than one piece of top-end gear by the end game. YES I'M LOOKING AT YOU, MEDIUM ARMOUR. Adamantium doesn't count.