Another Newbie

[WiseWoman]

Hi There! :D

 

I just found GamingSource and I am so excited to explore it more. Great site!

 

I'm not at all new to computer gaming. I'm an old (read ancient) gamer ::giggle:: Lessee...first computer game I played was Questron....... ;D Geezz that was a long time ago...about 1982 it was written for the Commodore 64 computer. Any of you remember that far back?

 

Anyway, my darling hubby got me Oblivion and I was hooked once again. Then he got me Morrowind, because I had to have the precurser to Oblivion. I'm having such a great time with this! I would love to hear from any of you about the characters you have created and the adventures. 8)

[Malchik]

Hello and welcome. There are quite a few threads about what our characters are if you have a look around the site. I'm interested in what those who start with Oblivion think of Morrowind - we've seen lots of opinions the other way about. So let us know!

[Switch]

Welcome to the forums, have fun and don't spam. ^^

 

Indeed, do let us know which you think is better, or if you like them equally. A lot of us who've played Morrowind first seem to like it better.

[WiseWoman]

Welcome to the forums, have fun and don't spam. ^^

 

Indeed, do let us know which you think is better, or if you like them equally. A lot of us who've played Morrowind first seem to like it better.

 

Hmmm, I guess I do have a kinda backwards viewpoint on this. This is probably not the best place to put such a discussion, but I'm not sure where to put it. I'll leave that to the people who move things around and moderate :P

 

Ok, here are my thoughts. I was absolutely blown away by Oblivion when I started it up. It was a little ironic that out of six computers in our little household, mine was the only one that could actually play the game without major hardware modification ;D Anyway, Oblivion is gorgeous, there's no two ways about it. However, with a few exceptions I think Morrowind is a bit more playable. Coming from the generation that had to use imagination as opposed to hardware in gaming, I find it easy to suspend my imagination to smooth out those rough pixels and polish up the look in my mind. Oblivion seems to almost guide you by the hand a bit too much with the way the journaling works. I love the way you can focus on a single quest and each one is moved to the finished folder though. I HATE the journaling in Morrowind...granted it is the more traditional way of doing it, but so cumbersome after using Oblivion. In comparing the two, it saddens me that they have seen fit to cut down on the number of classes...I think that's a great loss. Oblivion does the travelling thing a LOT better though. Morrowind is so tediously slow to travel from one point to another aside from the obvious paid for travel methods. When you're a level 1 or two, those 11 septims to travel by siltslider is horribly expensive. However, what is exactly the purpose of the horses in Oblivion?? How more useless could a creature be? sheesh....now aren't you sorry you asked? ::giggle::

 

Bye for now,

 

Wise Woman aka Denise

[Mercbird]

Hi and welcome,

Yep I remember the Commodores, we had those at school when I was about ten, and its where I learned to be really scared of the 'Enter'and 'Esc' buttons. Took the entire network down a couple times with that...

 

Of course we weren't allowed to do stuff such as play games on them but it was a step up from the Spectravideo we had at home to play with :D 'c:\load\tetris' comes to mind.

 

Apart from work I left computer stuff mostly to my two brothers, that is untill one off them introduced me to Morrowind a couple years back, and I turned into a insatiable game-ing monster, and now I get to join them in LAN games.

 

So very glad to meet you, from one ancient to another!

[WiseWoman]

Hi and welcome,

Yep I remember the Commodores, we had those at school when I was about ten, and its where I learned to be really scared of the 'Enter'and 'Esc' buttons. Took the entire network down a couple times with that...

 

Of course we weren't allowed to do stuff such as play games on them but it was a step up from the Spectravideo we had at home to play with :D 'c:\load\tetris' comes to mind.

 

Apart from work I left computer stuff mostly to my two brothers, that is untill one off them introduced me to Morrowind a couple years back, and I turned into a insatiable game-ing monster, and now I get to join them in LAN games.

 

So very glad to meet you, from one ancient to another!

 

Hi there Mercbird!! I'm so glad to meet you. :D

 

What I neglected to say was that I was a grown up adult person when I bought the Commodore for my husband for Christmas :P The two of us stayed up for almost 72 hours straight playing this silly game. The graphics were so primitive that it was basically a stick figure LOL but it thrilled and amazed us at the time. :rolleyes: Oh yeah, I remember Tetris and many other similar ones. Sooooo entertaining. :) I spent some time being a Moderator for Microsoft Gaming Zone and was an early Beta Tester for their first online game....the name of it is slipping my mind right now. But that was a blast.

 

For a while after Bard's Tale II I got a bit discouraged because game developers got too involved with all the technical progress and seemed to forget content for the game. The ultimate example of this was Myst. Gorgeous graphics, but there was basically no story line.

 

Needless to say I was blown away when I started to play Oblivion. It was so beautiful and it had a complete and involved story line. I was one happy puppy. Then I heard so much about Morrowind I had to get that. :)

 

Denise

[batesmotel34]

Welcome to the forums, have fun and don't spam. ^^

 

Indeed, do let us know which you think is better, or if you like them equally. A lot of us who've played Morrowind first seem to like it better.

 

Hmmm, I guess I do have a kinda backwards viewpoint on this. This is probably not the best place to put such a discussion, but I'm not sure where to put it. I'll leave that to the people who move things around and moderate :P

 

Ok, here are my thoughts. I was absolutely blown away by Oblivion when I started it up. It was a little ironic that out of six computers in our little household, mine was the only one that could actually play the game without major hardware modification ;D Anyway, Oblivion is gorgeous, there's no two ways about it. However, with a few exceptions I think Morrowind is a bit more playable. Coming from the generation that had to use imagination as opposed to hardware in gaming, I find it easy to suspend my imagination to smooth out those rough pixels and polish up the look in my mind. Oblivion seems to almost guide you by the hand a bit too much with the way the journaling works. I love the way you can focus on a single quest and each one is moved to the finished folder though. I HATE the journaling in Morrowind...granted it is the more traditional way of doing it, but so cumbersome after using Oblivion. In comparing the two, it saddens me that they have seen fit to cut down on the number of classes...I think that's a great loss. Oblivion does the travelling thing a LOT better though. Morrowind is so tediously slow to travel from one point to another aside from the obvious paid for travel methods. When you're a level 1 or two, those 11 septims to travel by siltslider is horribly expensive. However, what is exactly the purpose of the horses in Oblivion?? How more useless could a creature be? sheesh....now aren't you sorry you asked? ::giggle::

 

Bye for now,

 

Wise Woman aka Denise

 

My first computer game only goes back to an IBM PC/XT clone, no Commodore in there., although my pencil andpaper role playing goes back to when the first edition of D&D (not AD&D) was released.

 

As far as something more useless than an Oblivion horse, you could always have a real one that mostly seems to be good for consuming money and producing manure to clean up ( besides looking pretty ;-)). At least I don't have to clean stalls in Oblivion.

 

If you like Morrowind better than Oblivion and are happy to use imagination to smooth older graphics, you might want to try to find a copy of Daggerfall which was probably the game in the Elder Scrolls series that has the greatest flexibiity and open endedness. It's playable on a modern computer using DOSBox so it might be worth a try. I found it interesting to try it again after playing Morrowind to see how I thought it compared. At this point I think that Morrowind is my favorite game in the Elder Scroll series for the balance of background fullness and the degree of realization of that setting along with the amount of flexibility and options that it allows. One big advantage that Morrowind has over both Daggerfall and Oblivion is that it has a coherent and distinct fantasy setting as opposed to the much more generic medieval European feeling to the settings for Daggerfall and Oblivion (and Arena). That is probably the single biggest advantage that I find in Morrowind. (For what it's worth II played ES games in the order Daggerfall, Battlespire, Morrowind, Arena (when it was released free for the 10th anniversary) and most recently Oblivion.)

 

As far as Morrowind journaling, if you don't have the Game of the Year ediition that includes the Tribunal and Bloodmoon add ons, you should get Tribunal since it does significantly improve the journaling in the original version of Morrowind.