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Babe Magnet posted:I got into morrowind when I was 12 too. I think the Toonami ad sold me on it. Me and my brother sunk hundreds of hours into the xbox version before I moved onto PC. Same
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I'm gonna host a tes mp server this weekend I think.
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Jan 12, 2022 14:07
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I was 22 when the game came out and was playing while holding a baby boy on my lap. Stop making me feel old. Additionally, he also loves Morrowind and he’s 20 now.
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Jan 12, 2022 14:51
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ikanreed posted:And that's exactly the brilliance of the quest writing that hit me. There's subtle hints here and there that change how you interpret what you're doing. Funnily enough I think the thieves guild is the one guild that's pretty up front with you about their motives. If anything they're concealing their innate goodness until they figure out if you're a good fit for the Bal Molagmer
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Jan 12, 2022 15:04
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Babe Magnet posted:I got into morrowind when I was 12 too. I think the Toonami ad sold me on it. Me and my brother sunk hundreds of hours into the xbox version before I moved onto PC. That Toonami “review” might legit be the single most successful ad buy in videogame history. It’s probably the sole reason the Elder Scrolls is a household name, turned it from a niche PC game for the weirdo’s who play on PC to something dudebro’s play on their couch guzzling Mountain Dew.
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Jan 13, 2022 07:51
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galagazombie posted:That Toonami “review” might legit be the single most successful ad buy in videogame history. It’s probably the sole reason the Elder Scrolls is a household name, turned it from a niche PC game for the weirdo’s who play on PC to something dudebro’s play on their couch guzzling Mountain Dew. What was it?
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Jan 13, 2022 13:22
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Lawman 0 posted:What was it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGyK8MzaHEI
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Jan 13, 2022 13:34
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life changing is what it was
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Jan 13, 2022 13:46
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I don't get being convinced by that ad honestly, makes it look awful. I learnt about Morrowind the way any self-respecting person should, a controlling big brother that wouldn't let me play it because he was borrowing it from a friend, so I had to find where he was hiding the disc and sneak having a go at it before he got back from high school.
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Jan 13, 2022 13:53
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The add does a very good job of both anticipating and addressing what a lot of more casual newcomers might criticize as well as having Steve Blum be charming about his disinterest. It gives you a hook at the beginning (this is the biggest RPG ever!) and then sets up some of the honest shortcomings ( the combat is bad) as "the game caters to a more discerning audience, not like our foil Tom here". Also, those menus, the inventory, the world map, that poo poo was all mind blowing to people coming from console RPGs. I honestly can't recall where I first heard about Morrowind, but I know I'd already played it when this add ran because it was the first time I'd seen mainstream media engage in a discussion of a game I care about, and I remember the strong mixture of both feeling recognized but also wanting very badly to argue with Tom. Ditto for a video review of Morrowind that came on a demo disc and ended with "is this the right game for console players" (yes gently caress you yessss!"
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Jan 13, 2022 15:11
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The first time I played Morrowind I didn't understand what was going on because I just spoke English on a conversational level (English isn't my first language) and there are so, so many words in fantasy games that do not come up in regular conversation. Probably even more than you expect. My wife's a non native speaker too and her English is really great (we primarily communicate in English) but as soon as we watch a fantasy movie or play a game in a fantasy setting she really struggles. Anyway I just looked up the god mode cheat and killed everyone in Balmora and had a blast for a few hours. Then maybe a year later I picked it up again and put some effort into actually reading it and it blew me away. I remember asking my mom what "necromancy" was and it was the first time I asked her the meaning of an English word that she did not know. I ended up constantly alt-tabbing to look up words in an online dictionary while going through the game and it taught me a lot. A similar thing happened to a lesser degree with Deus Ex and some of the conspiracy theory jargon.
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Jan 13, 2022 16:44
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Nice, I had a similar experience when I played through it in French, lotta very specific nouns. eppe / sword , boulcier / shield, Lourde / heavy, all jump out at me as being hammered home. Also open, close, take, get, give, steal, kill, aid, ask. Oh, and since Morrowind involved lots of directions to places there was a lot of "go down the path then take the first left, you'll see the cave on the right".
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Happened as a native English speaking kid too. What the hell is a cuirass? What the gently caress is a foyada? E: In fact I just learner foyada isn't a real English word for a valley formed from a lava flow just now! lmfao. WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jan 13, 2022 |
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Jan 13, 2022 17:16
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I knew about Morrowind because I was a hard-core Daggerfall addict (I was 12 and the nymphs had their boobs out). Hilariously I remember being disappointed when I read it wasn't gonna have a bazillion and one randomly generated dungeons.
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Jan 13, 2022 17:19
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Skwirl posted:I knew about Morrowind because I was a hard-core Daggerfall addict (I was 12 and the nymphs had their boobs out). Hilariously I remember being disappointed when I read it wasn't gonna have a bazillion and one randomly generated dungeons. You were right to be
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Jan 13, 2022 17:34
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Babe Magnet posted:I got into morrowind when I was 12 too. I think the Toonami ad sold me on it. Me and my brother sunk hundreds of hours into the xbox version before I moved onto PC. Same. And huh, that Skink thing is awesome.
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Jan 13, 2022 17:40
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Happened as a native English speaking kid too. What the hell is a cuirass? What the gently caress is a foyada? Someday I'm going to use foyada when talking with a geologist. I just know it.
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Jan 13, 2022 17:46
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Vavrek posted:Someday I'm going to use foyada when talking with a geologist. I just know it. Talk to an planetary scientist do you can get it as a name for a type of planetary feature on some exosolar hellhole.
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Jan 13, 2022 17:53
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First time I played Morrowind I was i think 13 . It was at a friend's house. I rolled a Nord Barbarian called Cuntboy. I bummed around the south of Vvardenfell stealing poo poo and getting into fights until I tried to rob a magic store in Vivec and got killed by the owner in one spell.
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Jan 13, 2022 18:43
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A friend of mine chose medium armor because he thought it was, like, an expression of interest, and used it all game because : shrug: he wasn't going to start over again! It really was the total opposite to altisis because he filled out that character sheet like a magazine questionnaire and then just ground inexorably towards the end of the game.
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Jan 13, 2022 19:08
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I don't remember who gave it to me, but I got the GOTY edition for Christmas, must've been 2003. I think i had read some preview before but didn't know much else. I remember being instantly appealed to by the aesthetics and the graphics on the back cover, reading the manual with all the skills and class descriptions.
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Jan 13, 2022 19:13
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lol skink is the master trainer for speechcraft
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Jan 13, 2022 19:27
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I was at a game shop and they had a bunch of Morrowind PC boxes on a shelf. I'd never seen a cover like it so I asked the guy working there what it was, and he raved about it so I bought it. Great decision.
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Jan 13, 2022 21:33
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A friend's older brother had it for xbox. The two of us watched him play it for hours. I immediately begged my parents to take me to the store and bought it for PC. I couldn't actually run it and never played it until a few years later when we upgraded. I gamed like a man possessed that summer
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cool weird tech updated from TR's dev Hemarisquote:late November was when a bug report from Kynesifnar about my coverage-preserving mipmap textures for SHotN led to AnyOldName3 identifying the hardcoded alpha threshold value in MGE XE's distant land shader, which in turn led to me, Remiros, and Greatness7 making some bulk edits to TD and MOP meshes, which will ultimately eliminate the problem of trees with leaves that disappear when seen from far away, for both OpenMW and MGE XE players, when the next versions of MOP and Tamriel_Data are released. here's what that looks like Current: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/566703593336340483/912421957469884526/90.mp4 notice the leaves on the trees shrink when they cross the distant land threshold New: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/566703593336340483/912421956253528154/133.mp4
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I bounced off of morrowind pretty hard when it first came out, I think I wasn't ready for that amount of complexity or the realities of lvl 1 morrowind combat. Then in college I briefly dated a guy whose love of morrowind got me into it. Thanks random business major guy, I may have forgotten your name, but I'll always remember hanging out and watching you steal that staff from the guy in Therana's tower and beating everyone to death with it. edit: And that time you startled yourself with your own snoring and punched yourself in the face, that was also pretty cool
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FactsAreUseless posted:I was at a game shop and they had a bunch of Morrowind PC boxes on a shelf. I'd never seen a cover like it so I asked the guy working there what it was, and he raved about it so I bought it. Great decision. I remember seeing the giant doorstopper of a strategy guide and thinking "drat I bet that game kicks rear end I gotta get that" and I was right
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Guildenstern Mother posted:edit: And that time you startled yourself with your own snoring and punched yourself in the face, that was also pretty cool Dudes rock
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Some forum I was on back in 02 was posting about it, and I was an impressionable kid and went "oh this is neat." My exposure to "open world" games so far had been the Ultimas, especially Ultima IV and IX, and everything else was jRPGs with lots of set paths. Going into a game where you just... exist, as a person, beebopping about, was so mind-boggling to me I became deeply obsessed with it. I would take the book to school and plan new characters during lunch. On my walks home from school I'd daydream about my character's adventures or think about the lore and the story's implications to it. I was like, deeply obsessed. That I've, compulsively modded like half the hostile NPCs in the game in a fugue state a year ago means I guess I am still obsessed with it. I was real hype for Oblivion and while it was fun it didn't have the soul Morrowind did, and Skyrim is just... eh? Ever since Morrowind I've been waiting for another game that hits what it hit for me. Kenshi and Caves of Qud have been the only things so far to have a really unique, interesting setting and relative freedom to just gently caress off and make up your own story parallel with the game's, but there's something Morrowind just accidentally did right that other games can't get to, for me?
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mbt posted:cool weird tech updated from TR's dev Hemaris I feel like an idiot because I don't see the leaves "getting smaller" in the first video. Just the fog suddenly being partially in front of the tree. Maybe I'll be able to tell better on a monitor rather than my phone?
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Jan 13, 2022 23:34
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Nah they look the same to me.
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The leaves become more see through due to messed up alpha channels
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:Nah they look the same to me.
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im glad im not the only one who cant tell a difference because id feel dumb
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I also cannot tell any difference in the videos tbh.
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look at the shadows. The second one is smoother in general in the same way imo
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SniperWoreConverse posted:look at the shadows. The second one is smoother in general in the same way imo this  peasents
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Gobblecoque posted:I remember seeing the giant doorstopper of a strategy guide and thinking "drat I bet that game kicks rear end I gotta get that" and I was right
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I also had the strategy guide and it was *thorough*. Whoever wrote it clearly loves the game.
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