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Excellent game for the non-linear RPG comeback

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

WARNING: This game requires some pretty powerful hadware to run smoothly.

The first reason why I love this game is it's incredible flexibility. Be anyone. Do anything. Be the hero or the villan. Side with the corrupt imperial swine, or fight with the bloodthirsty resistance. The whole game is very open-ended. The random encounters with monsters while traveling moves up with your level, however many of the explorable interior areas are pre-set at a particular level, so you may have to hold back before wandering in there. Overall, the game is very detailed, down to the pots and pans in the pesants homes, with almost everything stealable. Each of the different races have their own accents, though I'm not sure why the bestiary races (Khajiit, Argonian) sound Eastern-European.

The game also comes with The Elder Scrolls Construction Set. The creators used this tool to make the entire game, and it's very flexible. This little puppy is the second reason why I won't be leaving the house for a while.

My only complaints are the lack of werewolves and werewolf curses (I certainly miss them from Daggerfall), but I'm sure a faithful end-user will code them in. Also whenever entering and exiting towns and buildings and parts of the landscape, the entire game freezes so it can catch up with you. This is merely due to my weak hardware, and the lower your system specs the worse it'll be.

imparcial review from a RPG lover

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

I have the game just instaled in my computer:
Gforce 4 Ti 4400,256 Mbytes, pentium 3 800, windows 2000.

**The game is the greatest atempt of RPG in last years***

You should spend a lot reading carefully and trying to figure out how to make a good(best) character.

I would like some hints in Bethesda Home Page( there arent, not even in the manual).

Best way by now seems to do a character more or less what you want, taking care of initial abilities numbers, then play five hours, and see, how your abilities has changed, the most increased abilities are the ones you should choose for major and minor ones, so you can level at a comfortable speed.

Although the samll information on manual, there is lot of information inside the game,(I think Bethesda wants you to get informed inside the game) .Information on the manual doesnt look very good and doesnt give you enough Hints. Indeed is the smallest guide I have ever seen for a game of this kind.

Bethesda must think We can travel with our computers evrywhere because there are not interesting stories to read in the manual, in the way BLIZZARD does.

Collectors Box figurine is a bit disappointed and small.
Also I wonder Why I can not have a cloth map?, like ultima, not just a paper one.

Now for the visuals they look very good but not awesome( if you have played Unreal). Water is pretty, you can see the waves of the rain falling in the water. But reflects to much light so sometimes is just a well iluminated surface, (in RL sometimes that happens, but not so often), makes me wonder if that was the best they could do or it was for hidding some underwater places, or for technical performance reasons.

Fire of tree logs is shamefull, looks awfull, but in candles looks great.

All other things in textures , sky, clouds, stars , and buildings looks better than ever. Especially the sky is magnificent. Must see to believe them. Where is my camera!!!!.

Fog is a major complaint, sometimes with maximum distance view in options menu, all you can see in the horizon are shades and shadows of mountains and trees. I have seen somedays with high air contamination when that happens in Mexico City, and Morrowind has a big Volcano spitting moxius gases, so maybe that not so unrealistic, HAHAHAH.

Character faces options for your Playing Character looks simplistic I would like more options.

About gameplay the best I have seen in years, but characters Who like to jump around here and there can get easily stuck, becuase of technical problems with clipping surfaces. Better to save the game frequently, but in a case of hurry you can use almisivi intervention or recall to get you out of the place you got stuck.

WOOOW, must things that you can see are usable and sell(able). There are to many items and armor, etc etc. But there are so many items that one would like more filters on inventory. Although managing inventory is better than other games.

3D sound does some wierd things, when moving around some times it give you very bad position of things creating the noises.

The gameplay looks very promissing as soon as Bethesda corrects the bugs.

The game is very HUGE, HUGE, HUGE, sometimes you stop playing, look the sky and wonder ,uff, I have not explored but the 0.5% or less, of the game and it looks complex and big, it should be so much bigger.

There was(is) to much hype on Morrowind Visuals and every one one to say that buying their gforce 4 Ti was worth. Well Yes and not, gameplay is smooth but visuals seems to lack from the high status of the hype. Nevertheless this wame is the better looking I have seen and is also the best RPG game around there.

The guide on Collectors package is more a spoiler book than a guide. Few pages are worth for one that want to be guided but not spoiled.

Although not even is this biblical tome are there all the places, inside the game. What is very fortunate.

This is the kind of game thats is so huge and carefully detailed. thats is going to be hated for people who just wants to hack and slash,( I can not say that is good hack and slash but there are better ones in that area), because they are not going to read all the information on the game, getting the subtle and comples story, that want it ot not is the best part of this game. Hack and slash people are going to complain about anything just to hide the fact that the world is so large that they felt lost.

I just hope Bethesda fix the clipping surfaces problems so people dont get stuck, though is very interesting to kill a flying netch and see him trapped inside a big rock.

I would really like to give them 6 stars but I cant, be warned that games that ask this much of computers ussually dislike bad configured computers so if you doesnt care about drivers, system updates, etc , you will crash a lot.

Final word graphics are incredible but this game is not about graphics is about story, and sometime in the future it will deserve a better graphics engine.

Best Game Ever; Until Oblivion comes...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be the best game ever in my opinion. As was Arena and Daggerfall when they came out. (For people not in the know, those were parts 1 and 2 in the Elder Scrolls) This game has an unlimited amount of fun playing hours. I've put in as many as 40 hours a week on this game. I've had it for almost 2 years and still play it about 8 hours a week. I've beat the main quest (Tribunal and Bloodmoon as well) yet its always fun to get side-tracked in the hudreds and hudreds of other quests. BEST GAME EVER!!! But of course I'll be saying the same thing when Oblivion hits! (Elder Scrolls Part 4 for the uninformed) This game is a definite buy as are the 2 expansion sets!

Excellent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This Game is extremely excellent, due to the fact that it is so open ended. You can do pretty much whatever you feel like doing, you don't have to do any of the main quest if you really don't feel like it. Their arent' too many games like that, and that, i think, is why it is so damn addictive. I would reccomend you buy this game. It is well worth it, especially if you have an XBOX. If you have a PC, make sure you have a pretty good one with at least 256 MB's of ram. Get it now. Ton of armors.

Great Game, but Hoping For Patch Soon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Probably the best computer role-playing game ever. Everything about the world is interesting. All the cities are wonderfully diverse. The people are diverse, and the react to you according to how you treat them, how you look, etc... The only problem: I have a newer system (2.2 GHZ Norwood Proccessor, 528 RAMBUS Ram, IBM 7200 RPM Deskstar Hard Drive, and a GForce3 Ti 128MB). Even with this system I am experiencing chopiness when I move between sections. I hope that the patch will decrease load time (I may just overclock the Video Card and see if that works). Overall great game.

[junk]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

1. You can make a character who can immediately walk into a store, buy items from a merchant, and sell them back to him at higher prices. This makes money essentially irrelevant. Haggling is made tedious by the terrible interface (you change the price by clicking on an arrow and wait while it increments by one several hundred times, for example), and by the fact that the amount of gold on a merchant gets reset to a specific amount (say, 300) every 24 hours, which also works to destroy role-playing.

2. You can easily find people in the first two towns to train all your skills to 50+, since money is not an issue, which makes skills and leveling irrelevant. You can get up to and beyond level 28 without ever having done anything but talk to people. The leveling system is horrid, making it so that if you don't plan which skills (longsword, restoration, etc.) you increase when, you can't max your attributes (intelligence, strength, etc.). It's just a chore.

3. The moment you join a guild, you have access to all the important guild functions, which means there's no point to advancing in a guild--you just get increased reputation and can eventually become guild leader. This last would be cool, if not for point 4.

4. The world is depressing in a number of ways. Everyone gives you immoral quests, and the way they have people say random things to you when you walk close to them makes everyone seem two dimensional and boring, since they can only say so many things. Hearing twenty different guards tell me "move along" in an identical way while I'm running past them at top speed actually gets to the point of being infuriating. It takes a very short time to completely lose interest in the other people in the world. They're also either rude to you or fall at your feet whenever you walk past them, making them appear even more soulless and Lemming-like.

5. Travel is obnoxiously slow and when walking you're constantly attacked by boring enemies you can't run away from (the cliff racer). Further, the effectiveness of your attacks is based on your stamina which gets drained as you run.

6. While I've heard that it's possible to see this sort of landscape in nature, it nonetheless looks terribly artificial in the game. It consists of tiny winding paths going through insurmountable mountains. The paths are supposedly lava channels, as the island is volcanic. It just makes the world smaller.

The only cool thing is the water. It leaves ripples when you walk through it! The game is pretty.

They basically broke everything Daggerfall had right, added some incomprehensibly stupid things, and made it all pretty.

Big disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've been an avid gamer since the 70's. Starting with the original box sets, and happily embracing CRPG's as soon as they emerged.

I was intensely excited, awaiting the arrival of Morrowind in my local retail store, and quickly bought my reserved copy as soon as it arrived.

Imagine my great disappointment when I discovered the game was all hype - and no substance.

First; awkward two-handed character control (one on the mouse for steering, and the other tied up on the keyboard to supply forward - or backward motion) BUMMER!!!

Second; clunky, ram eating, gameplay. Some folks may not mind waiting while scenery changes freeze, then take forever to load, but I'm not one of them.

I was really counting on Morrowind to feed my habit until Neverwinter Nights arrives, but no such luck.

Oh well, back to Diablo.

Like running through Jello

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 19
Date: May 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I like this series so much I still play the old Daggerfall on my p2 450, but Bethesda seems to have dropped the ball on the latest installment for the Elder Scrolls.

Running this on my fastest computer (which is well above specs for this game), anything other than the absolute lowest resolution is so frame-rate poor it is impossible to even navigate the user interface. At this resolution, the interface does not scale, so the GUI becomes very hard to use.

They also took it upon themselves to neuter my favorite class, the monk, by making them do fatigue damage now instead of physical damage.

Solid Expansion

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Tribunal is a very good expansion with many hours of gameplay in it. I played for about a month just in Mournhold, completing every last quest I could get my greedy hands on. Then I went back to a save game and killed Almalexia! My favorite quest is when the little wood elf asks you to help him beat up a Nord. I did beat up the Nord, but then I killed him, so everyone else attacked me. Thankfully, I saved previously, so I killed both the wood elf and the innkeeper and took their money. Then I went back to a save game.

Very Nice Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is an excellent Role Playing game. The graphics and script are excellent. The AI is very good, although the pathing doesn't work occasionally.

But the game is still extremely buggy - locks up or kicks to desktop. Save early and often.

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