Thread 713661814

Videogames peaked here

You know those mountains look like giant globs of diarrhea. Is the lava meant to represent blood?

I love that shithole

>>713661814 (OP)
Yeah. Even looking at the map I remember the feeling of travelling up lava flow valleys for the first time.

>>713661814 (OP)
hell yea

this game fucking sucked and anyone who says it’s better than skyrim has a terminal case of contrarianism.

>>713661814 (OP)
WHERE WE DROPPIN BOYS

>>713662136
Sadrith Mora and wolverine hall

I thought that was Black and White for a second.

>>713661962
why is your shit grey and bloody? are you fucking indian?

>>713662085
I see you in that other thread

>>713661814 (OP)
>smaller than skyrim
>feels way bigger
how?

>>713661814 (OP)
Nope sorry, this was the peak

>>713664301
No sprint, no waypoints and just fucking walking quickly drains your stamina

>>713662136
Tel Fyr so I can pop in real quick and take Volendrung from the Coprusarium before anyone else can get it

>>713664429
Without mexico it's go nowhere near as much soul

Was so fucking close

>>713661814 (OP)
Man, what a game. Seeing the entire map like that hits different.

>>713664521
On Vivec bruh this scrib jelly bussin' frfr

>>713664512
>empty desert
>soul
go refry your beans, jose.

>>713664596
There are cactus and nun titties down there

this part is the part i remember most

>>713665201
You gotta kiss there ass and backtrack there a lot as part of the main quest.

>>713664521
Wait till you see it with TR

>>713661814 (OP)
Every time I try to pick up Morrowind I do get to that first town (Telmura or some shit?) and turn around and go to the big city in the south. Then my eyes glaze over from all the dialogue and shitty side quests in that floating piece of shit and drop it.

Should I give it another shot and just avoid that place like that plague? Maybe treat it like New Vegas and go around the whole island so getting to the big city is kinda like a reward?

>>713666402
Yeah don’t get hung up with Vivec city. Join some guilds and let their quests take you out to the country dungeon-diving

>>713664772
*cacti

>>713664445
skill issue, I can leap over the entire island in like 5 seconds

>soul trap on target 1 second
>fortify jump 100 for 1 second
>fortify speed 100 for 1 second
>cast 10 times
>jump all the way to Akavir with Sunder in your hand

>>713666402
Either try to not bog yourself down with picking up a million quests and stick to trying to do one at a time OR pick them all up but just wander around and do whatever the fuck you want.

>>713668374
Spellmaking was a mistake and Todd did right in removing it. It kills any and all need for the flavor put into the dozens if not hundreds of handplaced spells throughout the entire game. The joy of finding a neat new spell or them being rewards at the end of dungeons or quests don't matter because you will always be able to create far superior ones that break the game in two

>>713668772
>t. mages guild apprentice

>>713661814 (OP)
What do they eat?

>>713668772
oh no the flavor of my handplaced drain fatigue for 5 pts which will surely give me the combat advantage over the enemy
at which fucking dungeon were spells ever a reward in vanilla
and in quests, sans the "not a necromancer" quest, spells are only ever a reward in telvanni questlines and even then they're still neat in spite of spellmaking because of the ridiculous enchants/magicka cost to effect. admit it, you still use Aryon's Helper, and he made that enchant at like age 12 canonically.
and don't act like shit like hearth heal isnt a good enough spell on its own that it carries you until like 60 restoration which is pretty late game if its at least a minor skill
unironically, you control the spells you make; so have some fucking restraint with your roleplaying. i'm already starting an ooga booga barbarian Nord right now where i forsake efficient leveling and i actually play the game, also trying out Ashfall for the first time

>>713668772
getting the spell gets you the effect which you can then use for your own spellmaking, what's the issue here exactly?

>>713669181
Eggs.

>>713668772
>Spellmaking was a mistake
Yeah you say that but then skyrim has like 6 destruction spells in 3 flavors.
And that's the only good spell tree.
Thank fucking god for mods.

>>713661814 (OP)
no better feeling than jumping from Vivec to Solstheim

>>713670094
oh yeah, the spellmaking mod for skyrim never worked for me unfortunately

>>713668772
Agreed. There's pretty much zero incentive to ever settle with in-universe spells.

>>713668772
This is one of the people that comes in to shit TES threads up. Do not reply to this retard

>>713668772
I get what you mean, and agree to an extent. But even in modded Skyrim where you can mod in way more spells that do all feel perfectly balanced across mage, thief, warrior, etc. The main gameplay route you interact with new spells is:
>Hit a new level breakpoint of 0/25/50/75/100
>Go to the college
>Buy all the new spells you want
>Come back when you get to a new breakpoint
It just becomes a soft-gold dump. You never find any meaningful spells in dungeons unless it's a spell you specifically get from a modded dungeon which may be broken compared to the spell mod pack you have installed. I remember the modpack I had, had a fairly balanced blood cloak spell with moderate range and damage, but then I found a version from the Bruma mod that basically has 10x the range and 5x the damage for less cost.

The issue with Morrowind is challenge. There's nothing in the vanilla game that requires all the OP shit you can make via spellmaking and enchanting and the path to that power is fairly easy. that's where mods that add more endgame challenges and make leveling slower/less powerful come into play.

>>713668772
>>713670493
Faggots.
You could just tweak the cost of spellmaking.

>>713669331
>efficient leveling
I use the Madd Leveler mod and am enjoying it.

>>713668772
don't be a faggot and willingly break the game, then? you're like the idiots that complained about the enchantment > alchemy > smithing chain to make super OP weapons. just don't do it in your playthrough if you don't like it. some people enjoy becoming super OP and those options are there for them to enjoy the game, you don't have to partake in them.

>>713671091
to make super OP weapons in skyrim*

>>713664301
It doesn't especially when you get OP jump spells and fly all over the place.

>>713668772
Damn, you made nerds mad

>>713670942
*sells more potions*

>>713662085
you have to be older than 18 to post here

>>713671147
my skyrim bugged near launch I think because I didn't do any of the main quest and after a bit dragons just wouldn't stop spawning one after another and eventually they wouldn't land so I had 100 smithing and full dragon bone gear and lost all motivation to play the game

>elves in most games are alright, nothing special
>elves in elder scrolls are the most superficial depiction of elves despite the "deep lore" describing them as spirits bound in flesh and divided from Aetherius with a long history of being retarded assholes
And to top it all off, they're ugly. Not in a genuinely grotesque way, but just plain goofy with their bat ears, stretched skin, extreme brow geometry, and disgusting skin that comes in two shades (piss yellow/concrete). How did bethesda fuck up so hard? As if that weren't enough, they made dwarves a different flavor of retarded elf.

>>713671607
No faggot, in spellmaking there's a mana cost, just make it more expensive than regular spells.
>B-but magicka restore potions and items

Then it's alchemy and enchantment the issue no?

You know what you can do to fix them too?
Costs.

Fuck I hate you retarded subhumans so much. Why do I have to live in the same world as these retards?

>>713671837
>there's a mana cost
*drinks more int potions*

>>713667038
*cactae

>>713664429
new austin was extremely tacked on

>>713672092
Early in development the map used to end at the river that separates Great Plains from New Austin, so the Epilogue was only the Blackwater/Beecher's Hope piece of land. New Austin was quite literally added only for the Online, which is why it's half-assed, some of its content was half designed to work with Arthur and only one single mission leads you down there (one of the Sadie bounties which could've easily taken place somewhere else early on). It's all the more ironic given RDO utterly failed and was abandoned by R*.

>>713671927
fuck

>>713665201
Morrowind "clicked" for me multiple times for different reasons, but this was the first. That walk and the endgame level dungeons on the way were incredible.

>>713671783
Only Altmer are boring underdeveloped trash. Dunmer are hard carried by their detailed history but Bosmer are the most interesting Elf race. Also Orcs are the true Dwarves of the setting, not the Dwemer.

>>713661814 (OP)
wow sucks though

>>713664301
Fog and slower movement, paired with absolutely masterful world design. The way the map subtly switchbacks, especially on the foyadas makes the most of small space, as well as key placement of points of interest. On top of that, no instant fast travel makes a huge difference.

>>713668772
I get your point but that’s not just an issue with spellmaking, but an issue of Morrowind putting very little thought into powerscaling in general

>>713673408
>no instant fast travel
mark & recall
interventions
boats
silt striders
git gud n00b

>>713674432
you obviously know what I meant.

>>713662718
Time to replay it.

>>713674629
Newfag anon only wanted to "own you" with his bad faith faggotry.

>>713662073
greatest game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkyPnpW7eQ8

>>713662080
>cast slowfall on tarhiel
>initiate conversation
>I'd really not like to talk about it
What did he mean by this?

>>713675810
I am a god, how can you kill a god?

explain vamprisim to me? I dont get it. I get necromancy but not vampirism.
I read somewhere that vampirism has to do with binding your soul to a lesser daedra in oblivion or some crap.
also explain to me how that cure in morthal of skyrim works? I am still befuddled to this day.
>necromancy
>neck romancey
kek
>>713677482
he used his single braincell to brainstorm the spell. the braincell needs REST to recharge. just bring him to a bed and he should be able to converse with you in pillow talk.
>>713671783
elves are supposed to look like they have weirdly colored human skin stretched over a bug's skull. they are not the same as you. the uncanny valley is intentional.

>>713678331
vampirism was created when Molag Bal raped a nedic virgin into a coma and left a drop of his blood on her forehead
it is implied he did the same to the other direct vampires like the Harkons
vampirism spreads and dilutes from that point as diseases that are spread by being bitten or clawed by an existing vampire
vampire's souls belong to Molag and go to Coldharbour when they die

>>713678660
so it has nothing to do with putting a parasitic daedra's spirit in your body or necromancy in general?
I know that zombie necromancy is forcing a dreaming dead soul awake against its wishes by using conjuration magic.

>>713679125
might be confusing it with Morrowinds "Ash Vampires" which aren't actual vampires, but are technically blighted undead resurrected and empowered by Dagoth Ur

>>713679330
no I get how ash vampires and zombies/skeletons/bonelords and whatnot work. these two groups I get. I just have comepletely forgotten the lore behind vampires. I know the lamae bal thing. but I swear to Alma-chan that I read somewhere vampirism is just being bound to some lesser daedra who will parasitically consume whatever you send its way from magic, your sanity and other people's vitality. in return keeping you alive and awake in the mortal nirn. I swear I read this somewhere. I just cant remember what was the process of "curing" vampirism and what was done to the lesser daedra and your soul during this process. I just cant remember it. I know that it had a theme of both the daedra and the vampire being pathetic in this relationship as its molag bal's domain and everyone is to be humiliated.

>>713678331
>they are not the same as you.
But Men and Mer practically are the same thing. The difference between them isn't like different species, more like the same species with different tribes who split off. The word "human" in TES means both Man and Mer and they can interbreed meanwhile the beast races can't.

>>713681957
pretty sure the ehlnofey were two groups
one was on nirn and one arrived a long time later and the fight between them caused the continents.
thats why they used to have mechs and shieet. but now dont.
I know one continent has tsaeci, one got redguards and one got giant nords. have no idea where bretons and imperials come from though. but the rest of the land was altmer, with dunmer and orsimer coming from them, one through azura and the other through trinimac/malacath.
khajiit is also a mystery. is it mer? is it like argonians who are just animals forcefully evolved? (argonians relate to hist trees which are ancient race like elhnofey but they were neutral to the ehlnofey civil war)
wood elves are literal carnivorous beasts who got glamor magic to mingle with other cultures. literal elf niggers. and the glamor magic only bothered to make their females gorgeos.
thats why the bosmer are always so goofy. like adoring fan in oblivion and the bosmer mages in morrowind being dressed like this.
I swear they made exquisite clothing just to make the bosmer wear goofy clothes. thats why they didnt even bother to make exquisite gloves. wasnt even addressed by expansions. no mod that fixes it either.