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Excellent game with a few drawbacks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: February 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My husband calls this game digital crack because once I start playing it, it is REALLY difficult to stop. The premise of it is AMAZING! Do anything, be anyone... It's the truest RPG I have ever come across besides sitting around a table and rolling dice.

Having said that, there are a few drawbacks. First, the game crashes. Alot. This would be understandable if I was on an older machine that couldn't handle the data, but I am playing on a brand new top of the line Alienware gaming machine. No excuse. I have had to develop the habit of saving ALOT!!!

The other drawback is that it takes so damn long to do anything. When it comes to first person stuff, I hearken back to half-life where you could run really fast! Okay, I guess that is just a pet peeve of mine, but I get sick of the traveling around bit. Yeah, yeah. More realistic. I know. :)

Anyway, if you love RPGs, and don't mind saving alot, GET THIS GAME. It takes a little patience and a lot of hard work, but it is just an incredible game. Thousands of mods out there to choose from, and endless ways to devolope your character. Actually one of my faves and I am REALLY picky.

Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Morrowind certainly makes a good first impression. The first few hours with this game were great fun as I set about exploring the world and discovering my options. But as time went on, I found at that Morrowind has a few fatal flaws that really detracted from the game's enjoyment.

One of the problems is that controlling your character is very awkward. I got really tired of having to hold down two separate keys just to be able to walk and sneak at the same time. There is no auto-walk or auto-run key, so you have to keep pressing a key the entire time you're moving. As you move between points A and B, there usually isn't much to do other than look at the scenery, so an auto-run option would have made things much less tedious. Inventory control is a nightmare. The game simply drops things into a small window and you're given no choice as to how it is organized. Sooner or later, you end up scrolling through hundreds of tiny icons, looking for one particular thing.

The combat system in Morrowind is one of the weakest I've ever seen. You're given no feedback as to how you're doing. You just keep whacking at creatures and hope that they eventually fall down dead. This isn't a huge problem though, because everything in Morrowind is easily defeated by the time you reach level 12-15. That's on your first character. Once you've figured out the game, a rerolled level 3 or 4 character can be god-like.

Morrowind's biggest failure though is that there is absolutely no game balance and it quickly becomes too easy. When you create a character, you're given choices as to major, minor, and misc. skills. It became obvious that it makes no difference what skills you choose because the options to use every skill are there in the game and well within the rules. It is possible, even easy, to raise ALL of your skills to the maximum. You can level endlessly and effortlessly simply by paying for training, which is inexpensive. Money in the game is easy enough to come by because you can take or steal practically anything in the game and sell it. Selling items can be time consuming and boring because the merchants don't have much available cash, but it's still easy to make a huge amount of money with almost no effort. Incredibly powerful and expensive items are strewn throughout the game and are often totally unguarded. If one of your skills is weak you can still make use of it by purchasing potions or scrolls, which give you the same effects as almost every skill and spell in the game. The overpowered "enchantment" (in which you need have no skill because it can be purchased) lets you craft powerful items that are way beyond your spellcasting abilities. As long as you've purchased the spell you want to use to enchant an item, it doesn't matter whether you can actually cast it or not. If this were a multiplayer game, mages might be throwing up their hands and wailing at the unfairness of it all, except that in Morrowind, even a mage can wear the heaviest armor and use the most powerful weapons with no problem.

There are lots of quests in Morrowind, but almost all of them are a variation of "Ask NPC for a quest, go to a particular area, get the item or kill the person, and return to the NPC". In most cases, I ended up feeling like an overdressed errand-boy or a thug.

Amazing Graphics, Massive World, Hardware Recommendations

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have read alot of reviews about video games on here but this is my first review. I have only played the game for a number of hours but I am already very impressed. The graphics in the newer games such as this one are such a technological leap over anything that has ever been seen before. Medal of Honor - Allied Assault is also in this catagory. You can spend hours just admiring the visual aspects of these games. This game is alot of fun and RPG'ers will be intrigued by it. I am holding off on that fifth star for now until the actual gameplay shows me the same level of advancement.

Read the hardware recommendations very carefully! Download the patch from the web site right after installing the game from the CDROM. Update your video card drivers to the latest. Use a newer NVIDIA GeForce or ATI RADEON video card, most other cards are not fully supported. I used an Athlon 1900+, MSI KT3-Ultra mboard, onboard sound, 7200rpm(U133)MaxtorHD, ATI Radeon8500 w/64 MB, WinXP OS.

At first I consistantly had random lockups after only a few minutes of playing the game and tried everything to figure out why. READ THE GAME SETTINGS RECOMMENDATIONS from the Game menu and on the internet site. Go to your sound board settings in Windows and set your sound card to "Direct Sound" compatability. Under this Game's Options set the sound settings to "Software" instead of "Hardware Acceleration". Turn the game's Real Time "SHADOWS OFF" under the game options video settings menu. If the above doesn't work, incrementally try tunning down the "Direct 3D" video hardware settings under your video card's "Windows Display Menu" to more conservative settings. Doing the above should cause the lockups disappear. I have not had a single lockup since I did the above. The sound card's settings in the game and under Windows are critical solutions. Its an amazing game. Enjoy it !

SWEEEEETTTTT......

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

WOW, a game that lets you do anything that you want. You have probably heard this before but this game is HUGE, with fabulous graphics. It does have some problems though I'll get them out of the way first.
1. Now you probably thing that I am going to complain about the system requirements, but im not. That is because I have a 2 gigahert p4 computer with a 64 ram geforce 2 Mx video card and the game runs fine, it doesnt slow down at all. What is does do is crash about every 5 hours, but im patient enough to just start it back up again. I'm sure this will be fixed in a patch in the future
2.This game has bugs, you might want to wait until the game gets more stable before you buy it. While most bugs are mild, some are medium to spicy. The worst one involved the game not responding when I clicked on any inventory items to use them, but restarting the game fixed it.
3.Maybe a bit too unlinear for some, for those that like to be guided in a game you might find yourselve lost. Some people have to have a answer to the question "What do I do in this game"?

I got over those problems the minute I fell into the world of Vvardenfell. There is a main quest in this game and I encourage you to follow it, but take a break from it and do one of the hundreds of side quest to get some good money. You can kill anyone you want but if a guard sees you kill a innocent. You will be under arrest, at which you can either pay a fee, go to jail, or resist arrest and start killing everybody. The choosing is up to you. Sorry, im going back to playing the game. Bye everybody

Excelent expansion, too short though

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Tribunal is an excelent expansion to the already gorgeous Morrowind. Mournhold is truly a sight to see, and the new quests and items are reason enough to buy this expansion.

What really turns me off is the length. I don't know if it's because my char was already uber-high-level when i installed tribunal, but altough the enemies were harder, it wasn't that difficult to pass. If bethesda would have made the quests harder to beat OR the entire new plot longer it would have been better.

What it does add is a new dimension to the replayability. My first char was a combat oriented adventurer, so i could train whatever skill i desired. Now I'm replaying it with a Stealth-oriented char, and I'm still discovering new things I never knew with my first char. If you add to that that there are new items, armor types and quests, the fun is still there even when you play it a second time.

All that said, this expansion is worth the money, period.

The Game Designer Must've Quit Halfway Into the Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: May 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are beautiful. The early game is challenging to frustrating. The world is huge and they've got a lot of story behind the game.

Unfortunately, things get ugly. The combat system is really messed up. Messed up to the point where one asks "What were they thinking?" There's a paucity of monsters higher than level 20 in the land. Most monsters are geared toward early level characters. There's wonderful equipment left unguarded or lightly guarded all over the place. You can become invincible with little effort. Characters also level FASTER as they get higher as opposed to the inverse.

Okay, the combat is weak but this is an RPG. People play Morrowind for the story. Things aren't much better here. You rise to the top of your guild and nobody cares. The only time you get any different interaction from NPCs for this is when talking to other guild members about your guild. Talk to anyone else or talk to guild members about anything else and you get the same tired lines you got before. Other NPCs are still rude to you. Rise to the top of a house and it's the same story. Finish the main quest and nothing changes here either. Morrowind's open-ended because nothing you do matters.

A colossal, horrific failure- DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: May 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I will echo the words of so many others who have made the mistake of purchasing this "game." My system exceeds the "recommended requirements" printed on the box, and yet the game, when it runs, runs horrificly.

for example:

1: every time you enter a new region in the game, gameplay stops for solid minutes while the new region loads.

2: Every time I approach an NPC to interact, the game locks up for at least 60 seconds, while it loads whatever snippet of info the NPC has associated with it.

3: The game will sporadically lock up for 2-3 minutes, for no apparent reason.

4: Loading a game takes around 5 minutes.

5: support is horrible. Beyond the standard, weak advice to "load the most recent graphic card drivers and re-install direct X 8.1", there is zero- I repeat- ZERO customer support available.

6: the ingame graphic engine causes my geforce 2 to lock up, even when the game is played at 640X480.

Geez- I could go on- but I think the above 6 examples (which- trust me- are the very tip of the iceberg of faults that this game comprises) are reason enough to avoid this. Playing this game is neither fun, enjoyable, or even tolerable.

Furthermore- after un-installing this game, my copy of CREATURE ISLE no longer plays properly. It's rare that a game comes along that actually does DAMAGE to your system...

Morrowind Master

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't mean to insult the other reviewers, as they seem to be experienced gamers, but I think I have the most experience with this game, and my review will be the most accurate. Let me start by saying I came across this game in 2004 (actually it might have been early 2005) when my friend bought it for $20 used, for the Xbox. (If you have an Xbox and a capable PC I reccomend this game for the PC, as the load times for the Xbox are very long, sometimes over a minute.) I played for a while and eventually bought the game for myself. I played nothing else (heck, I did nothing else) for the next 6 months. I'm talking 2 hours daily. And I still haven't beaten everything (mind you, I bought this game with the Tribunal expansion and the Bloodmoon expansion).
Not everyone will fall in love with this game the way I did. Morrowind is designed for hardcore gamers (and I mean HARDCORE) and if you do not consider yourself one, you will be overwhelmed with this game. For those who like video games but aren't willing to devote that much time to one game, I recomend the more "user-friendly" sequel, Oblivion. But if you are like me and consider video games your main or one of your main interests, this game should amaze you. Obviously not everything will be perfect and problem free, but keep in mind that this is an old game.

Some of the cons:
-Load times can be long (but only if you have a slow computer or an Xbox).
-The journal is untidy to say the least, it is difficult to see which quests you have and haven't finished.
-It is very hard, because if you are exploring and happen to stumble upon enemies that you aren't supposed to face until laterin the game you will get killed. No doubt. (I don't really consider this a con but it bothers my friends.)
-The beginning of the game is confusing and you will probably have to start over several times until you are satisfied with your character.
-The game's world is teeming with enemy creatures, most of which aren't dangerous but all of which are extremely annoying.
-It can take a good 20 minutes to travel from one place to another on foot.

I'm not going to bother to list all the pros because there are so many, but they include:
-An incredibly huge world, but not like the "huge world" of games like GTA or Spiderman. You can actually enter all of the buildings in cities and talk to all the people, most of whom are important in some quest and all of whom are unique.
-Incedible character customization which allows the game to be played from many different perspectives (I have a wizard charcter, an assassin character and a knight character).
-A rich plot and "history of the world". You can spend hours learning about the political systems, religions and histories that were create for this game.

There are so many more but it is late and this reviews is already way too long.

Overall I would recommend this game to anyone who loves video games (RPGs espescially) and has lots of time on their hands :).

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.

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