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Lose yourself in this brilliant game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is definitely the best RPG game around, taking over the mantle from Baldur's Gate II. It will seriously suck large chunks of your life away (prepare to lose friends, miss deadlines etc)...believe.

Anyway, I'm quite sure that the average person will be BLOWN AWAY by this intense expereience. Best value purchase you could possibly make.

Beautiful

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The specification debate is probably true. Although the issue on what is acceptable graphically and frame rate wise is a personal one. I'll get it over with. My system is a 1.8 AMD Athlon processor with 512DDR ram and a Geforce 2 card running the game at 800x600 res on medium detail. It looks stunning and runs fine. There's not much noticable difference between medium and high detail to be honest. The scenery has a haze to it anyway which can be increased or decreased to help your processor but this 'fogging' really adds depth and atmosphere to everything.

Now to the game...
Morrowind is a true rpg that requires time and patients. It's like a good book. There are moments when you can't put it down and there are times when you just want to finish the chapter.
A detailed map of the 'world' comes with the game (like all true fantasy books)and this really helps in immersing the player into a believable fantasy world. You can pour over the map and look at all the different areas and places that you'd like to go to. To get anywhere you can walk (yes, there are no boundaries!) or, more sensibly you can magically transport ther with the help of various mystics or you can pay to ride the 'silt strider' which is a massive insect type thing. The further the distance , the more you pay.
Wherever you go there are people to meet. stories to hear, money to be made. There are so many different tasks to complete and things to do for others that at times you forget what it is you originally set out to do!! It's a good idea to complete certain quests in an order and not get side tracked!
The graphics really are gorgeous. And the way the sun sets and night time slowly evelopes the sky is quite breathtaking. Some nights there can be a light cloud cover and others the sky is crystal clear with nebula clouds and outlines of strange moons.
There are area where dust storms suddenly spring up, amazing to behold!
Morrowind is for true rpg gamers. The game world is completely open to exploration and there are no invisible barriers. You can be who you want and join any guilds to receive training and so increase your level and experience. You decide what you want to do, not the game! You can sit under a bridge and eat frogs all day, or dwell deep in a forest with the trees as your friends or join the Legion at a Fort and train to be a Captain of some army, the list is endless. All this freedom can be overwhelming at times so it's important to have some focus on what you want to do or achieve. Beautiful graphics aside, Morrowind is NOT for casual gamers and doesn't pretend to be. But, like a great novel, it's something you will go back to again and again.

A great expansion to Vvardenfell

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I found this to be a lot more fun than the Tribunal expansion for Morrowind. You get a new continenent (smallish) to explore that's a refreshing change for the sometimes gloomy Vvardenfell -- there's snowy weather and a Nordic theme to everything. Also, there are tons of places to explore, some great new weapons and armor, and I felt the side quests were a lot more engaging than Tribunal's. You can play the Bloodmoon main quest parallel to the Nerevarine main quest or afterward since the plot lines are completely independent. Finally, I found the game to be more stable (the core version changes to 1.5.1629) than the patched version of original Morrowind, and if you are nevertheless having crash-to-desktop problems you should check some of the many Morrowind sites out there for some tweaks to the game that may help. Altogether a good buy and plenty of fun :)

Wait at least a month to purchase

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: May 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I agree with everyone with 1-2 stars....this game was not ready to be released.

It runs slow on 80% of all the game systems out there..no matter how powerful. It's a code issue that Bethesda is working on, in the form of a patch due about 3 weeks from today (5/20/02).

The tough thing is that this game has some great potential- but even with a 1.7 Ghz processor, 20 GB of hard drive, 256 Ram, and a 64 MB video card the game is unplayable as is.

Be aware of this if you decide to purchase!

A pretty waste of time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 20
Date: December 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Firstly, Morrowind's visuals should be addressed. They're gorgeous and well planned. The water effects will make you drool and the environments are lovely also; some building complexes are stunning from a distance.

And thats it.

Once the visuals wear off, you are left with a poorly designed, over-ambitious, and aimless game that leaves you with nothing but wasted time trying to make the game interesting for yourself.

Combat is flat-out boring and pointless. Dont even bother with magic. Save it for healing yourself afterwards, but the myriad of buffs and attack spells are worthless in battle. Buff spells have little noticable effect and attack spells are dicey at best, assuming you can even pull the spell off.

The journal system is abysmal and makes you crave the simplicity and ease of Baldur's Gate 2. Dialogue is uninteresting and forces you to rely on an awkward tree-system that sorely needs scrapping. The economy system is underdeveloped and quite useless. Money serves little purpose after a while because merchants dont carry anything interesting and hauling around expensive treasure wont do you any good because you'll find NOBODY who can give you a fraction of its value.

The world is genuinely massive and there isnt much that looks the same, but travelling isnt worth it unless you are sent on a "quest," if you can call being a virtual ... employee for hours upon end "questing." Worst of all, the story is a snooze and unoriginal. The BG series always kept me on my toes and most sidequests were at least partly related to what was going on around me. BG left me wanting more. Morrowind left me wanting BG.

Overall, I suggest you avoid this game and stick with BG or possibly NWN. There may be a grand vision behind this, but it was lost a very long time ago.

Wait for the patch!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game truly reminds me of Daggerfall, Bethesda does it again, they have created a game with enormous promise that is so buggy at release that it is unplayable. I have run this game on three machine that are all above minimum (one is above recommended) system requirements and this Bug ridden peace of filth has crashed them all. Bethesda's support site actually goes as far as to recommend disabling sound. Here's a recommendation Bethesda, release a game that actually works.
Perspective buyers, checked Beshsoft.com and see if they have a patch before you buy. I wish I could comment on the game itself, it looks cool, but I haven't gotten the game to run long enough to judge play

Disgraceful for this to have been released

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 20
Date: May 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Want to waste days trying to get the software to work. Reinstall several times, update drivers, replace boards, spend hours on hold - then this is the game for you.

This is one of the worst pieces of software I have owned. Was never able to get more than 5 minutes into the game without one type or crash or another. I tried three different graphics cards - all claimed as supported - a tnt2, a geforce4 mx, and a geforce3 ti 200 - all had _different_ but still terminal problems.

I am on a standard PIII configuration using run of the mill popular hardware and software. I've updated all the drivers, and played with the settings as suggested. It should have worked on my system, I have many other 3D accelerated games which run just fine on the same configurations. It didn't even come close. I'd have to say that it had never been tested on my config which says little for their testing process.

Take a look at the various message boards for this game before you buy it and you will see that _many_ people are having similar problems.

It is an absolute disgrace for this to have been released in the state it is in.

Fans of Morrowind must play this.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This expansion pack is better than Tribunal. It adds new areas on to the already huge environment. It requires Morrowind to play, but you should already own that. The graphics are bout the same, although really good. The music and sound effects are also high quality.

Morrowind allowed you to do things however you wanted. You could do literally thousands of side quests, or just go exploring. Tribunal (the first expansion pack)continuted that, and Bloodmoon does it even better. The story is easier to get into, and it is better written.

Combat in Bloodmoon is the same as it was before, although better magic and weapons become available. The enimies you face are harder, and more varied. Thankfully, Bloodmoon loads your save from Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, or the Tribunal expansion pack, so you can continue with your already leveled-up character. This is a single player RPG, but there is sometimes user content you can import into the game.

Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind was one of my favorite RPGs. Bloodmoon is a great expansion pack, and you should buy it if you own Morrowind and Tribunal. If you don't own any games in this series, or if you only own Morrowind, I would wait for the Game of the Year edition, coming this fall. It contains the original (Morrowind), both explansion packs (Tirbunal and Bloodmoon), plus bonus areas.

TOO MANY BUGS - Not worth the hassle!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: May 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Morrowind looks like a game with a lot of potential - unfortunately it is so buggy as to be unplayable. Unless you have a system with specs that exactly match the specs the software developers used, don't expect to be able to play this game. My machine meets all of the minimum and recommended requirements, and the game crashes immediately after character creation. Which, of course, makes it impossible to play.

My recommendation - don't bother buying this until the first 5 patches have come out. Until then, it's not worth the trouble.

Whoa...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the most imersive games I have ever played. There are near endless ways to make ends meet. There are custom class options as set template and a questionaire you can fill out. The enviroment is imense. The scale of somethings is amazoning. All in all a very tight and very good little game.

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