you would have done it too

[balimuzz]

Never make a rash decision without SAVING it!

never make ANY descision in a bethesda game without saving![

I must agree. I have a friend who played Fallout without doing manual saves (which I do quite frequently), and he just relied on autosaves. He's paying for it now, as he had been waiting until he beat the game once to do a lot of the side quests.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Never make a rash decision without SAVING it!

never make ANY descision in a bethesda game without saving![

I must agree. I have a friend who played Fallout without doing manual saves (which I do quite frequently), and he just relied on autosaves. He's paying for it now, as he had been waiting until he beat the game once to do a lot of the side quests.

Ouch... the worst one for me was a game crash after I had forgotten to save for an hour. Soon learned my lesson...

...until 3 days later when I got stuck betwen a rock and a subway platform.

 

[AetherGryphon]

i hear all of these great things about morrowind, but i was unfortunate enough to miss it when it came out, despite having an xbox (i'm sorry i was loving Halo too much), and now i have a copy, i played it and i can't stand it, so it's one experience i'll never be able to have, because i can't stand the game itself

It's not that great. It's really pretty lackluster and mediocre... A game with pretty sad combat, combined with sad animations and really, REALLY grind-y gameplay.

If you've ever played an MMO, imagine that, but slightly more like an FPS and with no players to group or talk with.

my biggest problem with it was that your player ran like an utter gimp. he hardly looked like he was moving any faster that he was when he was walking

and melee combat was horrible. i could see me hitting him, but doing no damage at all wtf?

I know. Only 3 attack animations, and miss/hit pretty much only depends on the level of your weapon skill. Which you have to grind forever.

now i counter your valid argument with the shear amount of content in morrowind, and a reminder that for its time morrowind was possibly the single largest game ever. the lack of character animation was made up in near countless hours of gameplay and secrets to find.

 

[New Troll]

Never save. That's true RPGing.

That's true lunacy, especially when you have 40 mods and will be lucky if you can play for more than 30 minutes without crashing.

Never reloading however..

The only thing that kept me from wasting my life on Morrowind were all the damn crashing bugs. Even on Xbox the bugs killed it for me.

This reminds me of another game story though. I was playing Diablo 2 on Hardcore and my game semi-lagged, that is my level 70+ Barbarian froze while the world around him, including the mobs, remained active. I was franticly hitting every key on my keyboard while watching my poor character's life slowly diminish away.

 

[balimuzz]

Never make a rash decision without SAVING it!

never make ANY descision in a bethesda game without saving![

I must agree. I have a friend who played Fallout without doing manual saves (which I do quite frequently), and he just relied on autosaves. He's paying for it now, as he had been waiting until he beat the game once to do a lot of the side quests.

Ouch... the worst one for me was a game crash after I had forgotten to save for an hour. Soon learned my lesson...

...until 3 days later when I got stuck between a rock and a subway platform.

That happened to me a surprising amount as well. I would often jump up somewhere, and then fall through things. My chief example was in the bridge of Rivet City, one of my legs fall through the hole between stairs, and one fell through the other. So, I ended up getting stuck and having to reload my autosave.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Never make a rash decision without SAVING it!

never make ANY descision in a bethesda game without saving![

I must agree. I have a friend who played Fallout without doing manual saves (which I do quite frequently), and he just relied on autosaves. He's paying for it now, as he had been waiting until he beat the game once to do a lot of the side quests.

Ouch... the worst one for me was a game crash after I had forgotten to save for an hour. Soon learned my lesson...

...until 3 days later when I got stuck between a rock and a subway platform.

That happened to me a surprising amount as well. I would often jump up somewhere, and then fall through things. My chief example was in the bridge of Rivet City, one of my legs fall through the hole between stairs, and one fell through the other. So, I ended up getting stuck and having to reload my autosave.

Haha that's annoying... man that game is so full of bugs but I love it.

I'm currently dealing with one where items disappear into the floor in my megaton house when I drop them.

It's a home decorator's nightmare.

 

[WeedWorm]

Never make a rash decision without SAVING it!

never make ANY descision in a bethesda game without saving![

Bah, wheres your sense of adventure. Its like when youre playing an FPS and your team is all cautious and playing to win, wheres the fun? Grab and shotgun and go for it. Much more fun. Same in an RPG, cant finish the game? Go do everything else there is to do. Start a new game and take a different path, different race and class. Really experience the entire game.

 

[antipunt]

That's why I always save before I decide to kill something, that way I get the best of both worlds.

^This

 

[SimuLord]

I quicksave before the "I wonder what would happen if..." moments, but if I fuck up in the normal course of gameplay, I live with it and move on. It's not like you HAVE to "beat" Morrowind's main quest. Once you get immunity to disease from the second trial, you can safely ignore the rest of the game. You can even still get Wraithguard (I'm not going to spoil it here---look it up on UESP.net if it bugs you that much) and beat the game through what's known as the "back path".

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Never make a rash decision without SAVING it!

never make ANY descision in a bethesda game without saving![

Bah, wheres your sense of adventure. Its like when youre playing an FPS and your team is all cautious and playing to win, wheres the fun? Grab and shotgun and go for it. Much more fun. Same in an RPG, cant finish the game? Go do everything else there is to do. Start a new game and take a different path, different race and class. Really experience the entire game.

What in the name of the Nine Divines are you on about?

The reason I save all the time in bethesda games is because they crash and you lose progress unless you save often.

I think it's safe to say with 3 level 20 characters and every location and quest found and finished, (with every skill maxed in my main character except barter and unarmed) that I have 'really experienced' the game.

However... I agree with you that runnning around like a demented fool with a shotgun in FPS is awesome fun, if not very good for my kill ratios