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BUYER BEWARE!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 30
Date: May 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have to rate this game one star based on the fact that is keeps crashing on me. As I write this, I've just spent over 2 hours trying to play it. The game starts fine, but always crashes before I can finish the lengthy introduction/training part of the game (at least it seems lengthy after doing it a dozen times!!). And, of course, you can't save the game during this period, so every time it crashes, I have to start all over again. This last time I got as far as the Captain welcoming me to Morrowind and giving me my first quest, but as I tried to open the door to officially start the game... you guessed it: CRASH!

Now, keep in mind that I am running this game on a Pentium 4, 256 mbs of RAM and a 64 mb graphics card... and I have have no problems with other games of this type on my computer.

I also lowered the rez setting and turned off all the special effects... I even re-installed the game... still crashes.

It's midnight now, so I cannot call tech support, and their website section dealing with troubleshooting is "down temporarily".

I bought this game through Amazon based on the reviews I read here... and everyone else seems to love it (assumming they don't all work for Bethesda Softworks)... so my complaint could be an isolated incident. Or, they put out a game that still needs alot of work.

You've been warned.

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.

Morrowind doesn't run, don't buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 27
Date: May 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Not only does the game not run, but Bethesda's tech support offers only the opinion that my video card might not be correct (all my hardware meets or exceeds the specifications on the box, incluidng my NVIDIA video card), or the notion that I should reinstall Direct X 8.1. I have reinstalled Direct X, both from the Morrowind CD and from Microsoft's site; the game still doesn't run. When asked to either offer a repair that will make the current game function, replace the defective game with a functioning one, or refund my money, tech support doesn't even respond. This is not a game or a company that you want to do business with.

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.

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...

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.

Frustrating!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: June 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are really impressive when it works. Three words of advice for those of you who haven't bought it yet: Crash, Crash, Crash. When you pick up certain Items; A message appears and states "Your game will Crash Now" click OK and the game crashes. I don't find the humor in scamming people out of hard earned money.

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

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.

Morrowind-A Code that should never have left the factory

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: June 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My family has installed many games on our computer. It is a relatively fast one with 1000MHz processor 32 MB of video memory and 512 MB of main memory. All games have worked perfectly out of the box- we have installed updates with no trouble. UNTIL NOW. MORROWIND NEVER WORKED. No matter what patches we downloaded, what tweaks we made to WindowsXP, it NEVER worked past the first 75 seconds of the game. A look at their website will show you that we are not alone. THIS IS A BUGGY CODE and should not have been released until it worked on any computer they could try- from super fast to just ordinary...

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