I just bought my first...

[Dis]

Originally posted by Traianvs
I have this movie of some dude who finished Morrowind in 16 minutes, mm lol
it's amazing really

link please.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear


Wow. Is that even possible?

I'd like to know how. First of all, you'd have to kill Vivec to get those 2 items you need. Only one item must be identified or something by another person before it shows up as wraithguard.

Killing Vivec is no easy task. Though maybe if you put the difficulty down to the lowest setting you could do it at a low level. But you'd still need a good weapon to do it with.

[Skanky Burns]

Jumping so he can't hit you also helps a bit. At lower levels you can't really jump much though. Hmmm.

[ravagon]

How do you even get from Seyda Neen to Vivec though?
You have to run unless you use one of the scrolls of Icarian flight and land in the water, hopefully within reasonable swimming distance.
Ditto for the journey to 'the island' to fix wraithguard.

Then getting to ghostgate and through whichever of those Dwemer installations has 'sunder' and on through to Dagoth Ur ...

I don't think it's possible unless its been rigged somehow ...

[Dis]

getting to Vivec isn't that dangerous (not nearly as dangerous killing the god). And really easy if you take fast travel

not sure about the island (can't remember which one it is). But if you can kill slaughterfish (which ain't easy at level 1), then you can do it. But you have to go accross land as much as possible to do it in under 16 minutes.

The journey to ghostgate isn't too bad. I've done it at level 10. Yeah I was cheesy and stole the glass armour. I was tired of being poor. I spent it all on training and got up to level 30. I wish I wouldn't do things like that. but I hate being weak.

[Skanky Burns]

I've played the entire game without training at all. I'm the leader of almost all guilds too, so many of my skills have gotten quite high. But I'm insane like that.

[ravagon]

Originally posted by Dis
getting to Vivec isn't that dangerous (not nearly as dangerous killing the god). And really easy if you take fast travel

not sure about the island (can't remember which one it is). But if you can kill slaughterfish (which ain't easy at level 1), then you can do it. But you have to go accross land as much as possible to do it in under 16 minutes.

The journey to ghostgate isn't too bad. I've done it at level 10. Yeah I was cheesy and stole the glass armour. I was tired of being poor. I spent it all on training and got up to level 30. I wish I wouldn't do things like that. but I hate being weak.

I'd forgotten about the strider to Vivec.

It isn't so much the difficulty of the other journeys involved though. it's the time required to make them.
There's no fast transport from Vivec to anywhere near the Sanitarium and nothing from there to anywhere near Ghostgate.
It's a miiighty big map without the speedy boots, unless one takes a Mage Guild transporter from Vivec to Caldera first.
Even that'd be a bit dicey timewise.

[Carolus Rex]

[Extreme rookie mode]

This thing with levels in RPGs... Is that about how good a certain characteristic is?

Suppose you're a wizard in some game and some abilities come with that character... You start with certain levels of those abilities and gain more via successful gameplay, is that how it works?

A cousine of mine showed me Everquest one Christmas... He was something or other in a group of players... It was both mesmerising to watch them play, but it also seemed a bit mechanic...

Before going on to another map (world?) he battled with tons of monsters (I think), while the whole group took shelter behind him and basically just waited... He said they would do that for hours...

I think that was about gaining levels to be well prepared for the next mission, right?

[/Extreme rookie mode]

Carolus

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by Traianvs

I have this movie of some dude who finished Morrowind in 16 minutes, mm lol

I've heard that Guild Wars is also finished off rather quickly...

Carolus

[child of Thor]

In morrowind, you use your skills to improve them. Some people like it, some people prefer the traditional rpg experience points+level up approach. You can find lots of info in some of the links that people have posted or go to the elderscrolls website to find such info.

For me i liked being left in the dark - it enabled me to role-play my morrowind char rather than work out which setup/trick works best to get maximum effect. Morrowind isn't a hard game, so you can play it without needing to power-play(in fact its best to anti-powerplay it as you'll probably find out).

Morrowind is a fine sp rpg.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Carolus Rex


I've heard that Guild Wars is also finished off rather quickly...

Carolus

GW is very replayable, and the campaign should take you around 80 hours first time unless you skip a lot.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Carolus Rex
[Extreme rookie mode]

[/Extreme rookie mode]

Carolus

Wow, you really are an extreme rookie, aren't you?

Everything you assumed there is correct. How it usually works is (taking a random example) you'll start the game as a level 1 mage with a Fire magic spell at level 1. By killing monsters or completing missions you'll gain experience points. After you've accumulated enough experience points you'll advance to be a level 2 mage. This will give you the choice to increase some of your skills, so you might choose to improve your fire magic spell to level 2 (making it do more damage or something). You might alternatively choose to learn a new skill instead (like Ice magic for example).

Obviously different RPG games will work that system in different ways, but that's the general principle that drives the whole thing.

Sorry if that description was a bit too basic or sounded patronising. You said you were an extreme rookie so I went straight back to first principles.

As you may have guessed, those people hiding behind your cousin in Everquest and not doing anything were essentially cheating. At any rate they weren't playing the game the way it was meant to be played, which amounts to the same thing IMHO.

[Carolus Rex]

Ok, I've installed it and played my first (extremely short) session.

I like it, but I must admit it feels overwhelming... All those races, classes, birth signs, characteristics, spells and potions (spelling?)... Phew!

I chose a Dark Elf as that's the character's race at the back cover of the box (that I liked)... I chose to answer questions to determine my class (I think?); turns out I'm "barbarian"...

Birth sign: the Lady...

I started well, I think. Found a magic ring that I returned to its lawful owner... That popped up my "charm" with that particular person and he would speak well of me with the tavern's owner...

Didn't help; I was killed when I searched a couple of baskets in there... They took me for a thief, while I was only trying to get to know the game mechanics...

Some embarrasing simple questions:

i) My hands popped out in front of me; is there a way I can "lower" them out of sight? I look like Mike Tyson running around town... Plus I would like to see the entire screen without them...

ii) I think I bought a shield in the tavern (before they killed me); how do I "wear" it? It's in the inventory, but when I click it and drop it on my character's image nothing happens...

iii) The mouse pointer moves too slow (when engaged in dialogue for example); where can I increase its speed? The only options I found in "controls" were to increase/decrease scrolling speed (ie when you take the cursor to the end of the screen and "move" your field of vision)...

Carolus

[FrustratedPoet]

edit: Solver answered them far better than me. No need for this post. Move along please.

[Solver]

i) My hands popped out in front of me; is there a way I can "lower" them out of sight? I look like Mike Tyson running around town... Plus I would like to see the entire screen without them...

Either F or R.

ii) I think I bought a shield in the tavern (before they killed me); how do I "wear" it? It's in the inventory, but when I click it and drop it on my character's image nothing happens...

Click and drop on your character so that the character has it on him. It will automatically have a chance of blocking hits then.

iii) The mouse pointer moves too slow (when engaged in dialogue for example); where can I increase its speed? The only options I found in "controls" were to increase/decrease scrolling speed (ie when you take the cursor to the end of the screen and "move" your field of vision)...

I can't remember whether this game had this option or not. Check if you've got the latest patches, if not, install them anyway.



Your character isn't a great one for stats, but that's actually good. Morrowind is very easy if you play it with the "get strong" mentality. You will either way notice that around level 10 you start being quite powerful, and you'll likely feel like a god before getting to level 20. That's why I use some difficulty plugins that make me killable my random critters at level 40.