mean you can literally go ANYWHERE ANYTIME and DO ANYTHING and follow
ANY path, WILD.
just too cool.
ive not played in about a year, too much work that pays, but when i
get lazy this winter, ill be back!
N'WAH!
tw
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:22:03 -0400, Angel Stewart
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> WOW!
>
> That's all that I said when I finished the main quest in Morrowind.
> Notice I didn't say finished morrowind, but just hte main quest. Simply
> because there are SOOO many subquests and your character never reaches a
> 'maximum' level.
>
> I was also extremly impressed by the several advancements that general
> users have made in the game. People have taken each texture in the game
> and changed it, using higher resolution images so that now whereas the
> world looked fairly bland and washed out before, it is bursting with
> color! Leaves and debris on the ground..sand that looks like real sand!
> Of course, in the two years since the game was created most midrange
> computers can handle these higher resolution textures with ease and
> still maintain a good framerate. They have also gone through the game
> and changed the faces of over 300 NPC characters! Yes! People went and
> added beautiful, realistic faces to all the shopkeepers, guardsmen,
> major and minor plot characters...1 in every 5 NPCs has a brand new
> face!
>
> THey've gone and changed the body geometries so they are more in keeping
> with the complexity that we get now in PC Games....they went ahead and
> used new 'heads' on the Player character models, that boast a lower
> polygon count, but because of the better texturing seem to have way more
> detail! It is amazing how you boost the longevity of a game by making it
> open and easy to modify! It probably takes developers longer to produce
> commercial level tools for editing stuff in the game, and to provide
> community support after it is released, but darn it's obviously worth
> it! :-)
>
> With all the Half Life 2s, Doom IIIs, Rome:TOTAL WAR, Dragon Lords..you
> name it with fancy DX9 stuff, I played Morrowind and THOROUGHLY enjoyed
> it, AND found it beautiful! I never felt myself thinking, well I'm
> playing this because of the game, not necessarily the graphics. It holds
> its own!
>
> I have now moved onto the First Expansion, Tribunal, and I have the
> second and final expansion Blood Moon to play after as well.
>
> If you like RPGs, you CANNOT go wrong with Morrowind, the hype was over
> the top when this came out, but after giving the game a chance, it lives
> up to it!
> Also, don't bother with the Xbox version unless you do not have a PC.
> The Xbox version doesn't have all these great modifications (though it
> is the same game as Morrowind).
> The PC version also alllowed me to 'cheat' and so enjoy the game better.
> What turned me off initially was the inordinate periods it took
> travelling from place to place, but I discovered a Console command that
> would take you immediately to any city, and then you could proceed from
> there. So with that impediment to enjoyment gone, I started experiencing
> the game..and it was worth it. THis game is so open, that you can play
> it basically any way you want to :-)
>
> Great stuff! Highly Recommended.
>
> -Gel
>
>
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