anyone play morrowind yet?

**crzymt12** · May 2nd, 2002, 09:37 PM

can anyone tell me if this game is worth buying?

**Tekk** · May 2nd, 2002, 09:40 PM

well talk to me on saturday morning and I will be able to tell you first-hand

I have loved the Elder Scrolls games and let me tell you they spare no expense on the stories usually. The graphics of Morrowind alone look amazing and from previews I've seen it sounds like a very promising 80+ hour RPG. But if anyone HAS played it then maybe you guys can shed some light on it

**Pakaraatzi** · May 2nd, 2002, 09:47 PM

check out some of the 1st impressions in the morrowind forums on this site: http://www.rpgdot.com/phpBB2/index.php

Seems even people with low-end systems are finding it amazing, and most say it lives up to the hype of being the greatest RPG and more. I'd love to see it with a G4, but I only have a Radeon 64 ddr. I got a reserve on mine for Friday, so I can give some details then.

**EndobioticChaos** · May 2nd, 2002, 09:53 PM

Morrowind?! It's out already?!! Where do I find it?!?

**Tekk** · May 3rd, 2002, 04:10 AM

In Southern Cali its being put on the shelves tomorrow morning (called at specifically asked

) so I'll be there after work pickin up my copy!!!! Tomorrow will be a busy entertainment day for me....not only is Morrowind out but Spiderman (the greatest superhero) is comin out too!!!!

**Mike** · May 3rd, 2002, 09:23 AM

I saw something about this game on a TechTV show..Looks good, i'll have to see when it comes out in Michigan.

**Tekk** · May 3rd, 2002, 05:06 PM

DARN IT!!!!! My local game store doesn't have it yet

*sigh* guess I gotta wait

**shadows** · May 3rd, 2002, 06:51 PM

Hey Tekk, which stores are you trying to get it from? I know you probably just went to Best buy...but there are other stores

Let me know when you get it I wanna see it.

**Pakaraatzi** · May 3rd, 2002, 07:16 PM

I got my copy today, and its really great. Even with my aging Radeon 64mb ddr it runs nice with the settings pretty high, and looks amazing.

I can tell this ones gonna keep me interested for awhile.

The sounds is great, and the music is some of the best stuff out there. Graphics are great even on my computer, so I can imagine what its like with a geforce 3 and up, with pixel shading on for the water effects. Combat is nice, and the interface and what not works pretty good. Haven't got to far into the story, but so far with the interesting ways the NPCs react, I can see it being real good.

Amazing game so far, if you think your system can handle it, then its definatly worth the money

Works fine on my computer:
1.2ghz t-bird
768mb pc-133
Radeon 64mb ddr

**Mike** · May 3rd, 2002, 09:44 PM

Going to ask a friend if he can check it out this weekend from where he works..

I'll have to go over and help him play it.

**Tekk** · May 4th, 2002, 04:06 AM

Hmm...well hopefully my p3 800E will be able to handle it well. maybe it'll give me an excuse to bump up my ram again

And Shadows I searched around you butt....trying to be all sneaky. (dont worry everyone...I know him in RL)

**Pakaraatzi** · May 4th, 2002, 09:19 AM

It should run ok, theres people with pretty low-end systems who have got it to work good. If you run it right from your hard drive, then you will get a big increase in performence, cause it wont do all the safedisk stuff, so if you have problems with speed, try that.

I got 10-15 FPS increase, and load times are noticably faster.

**Tekk** · May 5th, 2002, 03:08 AM

how'd you do that?

oh and does anyone else have trouble connecting to www.elderscrolls.com ? Heck I can't even get to www.bethsoft.com.

Its like the site is incredibly busy cause it knows its there but it just says "Opening page........"

**shadows** · May 5th, 2002, 03:47 AM

I wouldn't be talking Tekk, did someone forget to do something today hmmmm..

**Pakaraatzi** · May 5th, 2002, 10:20 AM

Yes, they've been down for awhile, a lot of people are using the forums at RPGdot.

I'll have to PM you the link to the file you need to run it off your hard drive.

**Tekk** · May 5th, 2002, 05:09 PM

anyone else dieing alot? I keep getting my butt whooped on by cave rats and such (well it was 2 vs 1). And what characters did you guys choose? I chose a wood elf with Ranger type skills (ranged then long blade/ blunt weapons skills) with a little magic built in to beef my character up (mostly restoration school of magic).

**crzymt12** · May 5th, 2002, 07:26 PM

yeah the game sounds really good my brother says people are having it crash on them, is this true for you guys?

**prttybean** · May 5th, 2002, 08:32 PM

I have not had a single crash. It sounds like the ones with problems have Geforce 2's oddly enough. A driver update to a beta version has helped some of those users but not all.