[QUOTE="morrowindnic"]

Hahaha, are you freaking kidding me dude? Morrowind is by far the best game in the serise. And I doubt Skyrim will be better then it. Better then Oblivion? Probably, but not Morrowind.

Kids this days...

Darksonic666

Did you play Morrowind for all of five minutes? If you're speaking of the horrible combat system, it sounds like you didn't get any combat skill past ~50. It's pretty heavily based on DnD rules, so yeah, if your skills blows, you can miss even if you see the weapon connect with the enemy. Annoying? Maybe at times. Horrible? Not really. Oblivion on the other hand had the infamously horrible enemy level scaling, so I guess you enjoyed never being better than any enemy no matter how high you levelled or how good your gear was. Ah yes.. Oblivion. Getting two shotted by mountain lions at level 25 in full daedric. Now that's good design.

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[QUOTE="lawlessx"]

[QUOTE="KHAndAnime"] They aren't trying at all. One thing that made Morrowind fun for me was the gratuitous amount of skills, so you could really fine tune your character to be whatever you want in the ES universe. In Skyrim, from what I understand, one character is pretty much going to cover everything the game has to offer. And quick travel? Lame. Bring pack transports.morrowindnic

They did..traveling carts

It still has Quick tavel and quest markers. So it doesn't count at all.

I think you're being very naive here.

I'm not sure anyone gained "fun" from searching all over hell and back for the random ass dungeons in Morrowind. I had tons of fun with that game, but not with that part of it. It was EXTRAORDINARILY annoying to find random locations on random tiny-spec islands off in the middle of nowhere. You might have had fun when you got there, but seeing as how you could basically circle all over an area multiple times and still have to go to your local map to find the entrance... I'd say that a little help in Oblivion wasn't a bad thing.

Next, you're acting like every mission in the game was available to instant travel to, and be done in less than two minutes. That's just not how Oblivion went at all. Only major cities and their important landmarks were available from the start, and that's pretty freaking much how Morrowind worked too. They just had the added step of having to memorize which caravans linked up where.

Next, Daggerfall's travel system was even less restricted than TES III and IV, seeing as how you could fast travel anywhere in the game as soon as you got out of the starter dungeon, no map point discovery necessary. So I'm not sure where you're basing your pseudo-hardcore guidelines on, because on this particular issue, you don't have a case.

You guys can, and have, and will whine about things just to whine. But in the end:

-I'd rather have a solid game with solid skill and character development than to spend time worrying about the nitty gritty crap that you have brought up so far.

-The game is going to be what it's going to be, so all this endless debate is pure speculation at this point. There are tons of games with awesome sounding features that come out that end up being total crap, and still more that don't sound all that exciting at first, and then end up great. How about we just wait?

Consolization? It exists. It's valid.

Don't think so? Play Morrowind then Oblivion. Horrible dumbing down of just about every aspect of the game... for a multiplat release. Go figure.

Try the PC version of Star Wars: Force Unleashed. Has console written all over the damn thing. Never been in a PC game menu that had no mouse support... And before the first major patch came out the game's engine was optimized so horribly the damn thing barely ran.

So yeah, it's valid, and exists. And these were just two major examples off the top of my head.

[QUOTE="Remmib"]Consolization is a very valid term.Prexxus

Ignorance? Console gamer? You'd know.

Yeah, because we're all going to miss selling hundreds of crap items for that awesome mercantile skill...

And I KNOW we're all pissed about not running around to grind athletics...

And don't even get me started on Mysticism...

Seriously. Give the damn thing a chance or don't but it and quit whining.

Morrowind was awesome, but the few skills they took out for Oblivion didn't kill that system. Oblivion had enough of its own to kill it.

And besides, as I've already quoted, they are try to make it more like Morrowind than Oblivion.

But again... don't buy it if you don't want to.

Nope.

Only reason I use Impulse is that it carries a small sliver of games that Steam doesn't.

Otherwise I'm pure Steam:

-Best deals, and a lot of them.

-Great selection.

-Lack of bull **** when it comes to when, where, and how many times I can download. My first, last, and only experience with D2D involved me buying Titan Quest from them, having to reformat my hard drive a little later, and then them saying I'd have to rebuy it, because I'd already reached my download limit of one (1).

I don't think so D2D... You just lost a customer, forever.

Very rarely do those "golden oldies" fail to dissapoint when it comes to returning to an MMO...

Every once in a while i talk myself into giving SWG another month, only to remember why it blows now that they destroyed the game completely.

Speaking from that experience, I'd say find something else to do. WoW might not be the best option, but there are others that are undoubtedly better than returning to EQ.

Well Steam is killing most everyone on PC game sales right now, so it doesn't surprise me in the least that a Gamespot monkey would have been trained to do that.

Anyone who thinks PC gaming is dead... doesn't play PC games. End of story.

[QUOTE="snared04"]

[QUOTE="KHAndAnime"]Morrowind is my favorite RPG of all time. You should definitely play it. It scratches an itch that Oblivion nor will Skyrim be able to scratch. KHAndAnime

You work for the company?!?! WoW! Or send me a link to that pre-alpha you got that allows you such insight!

Speaking realistically though...

You don't need any special insight to figure out that Skyrim isn't going to provide the same type of experience as Morrowind does. Oblivion and Skyrim scratches a different itch altogether. :P

Hey serious man, don't play it, won't hurt my feelings. But I'm pretty sure the Bethesda developers have already said they're trying very hard to return to "what made Morrowind special", meaning they're modeling it after Morrowind, not Oblivion. Gl not buying it though. Let me know how that goes.