Lunchmeat Larry posted:

They're both bad but Skyrim is trying to compete with other action games which gives it more direct and therefore embarrassing comparators

Guildenstern Mother posted:

At the very least I'm excited someone other than Bethesda is trying something in this genre. Competition is good, keeps devs from getting lazy. *Cough* the sims *cough*

SniperWoreConverse posted:

how does the skooma pipe work, you know hypothetically? It's just a bong, right? Or is it some kinda hooka system i'm squinting very hard at a very small inventory icon here

Skwirl posted:

Morrowind was the first RPG with a huge modding community (Doom was probably the first major modding game and Quake the first 3d one) and some people never left.

There are people making new mods for Doom today as well, but it's a lot more limited in what you can do.

Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:

Level up messages start getting sad

Level15=Today you suddenly realized the life you've been living, the punishment your body has taken -- there are limits to what the body can do, and perhaps you have reached them. You've wondered what it is like to grow old. Well, now you know.

Level16=You've been trying too hard, thinking too much. Relax. Trust your instincts. Just be yourself. Do the little things, and the big things take care of themselves.

Level17=Life isn't over. You can still get smarter, or cleverer, or more experienced, or meaner -- but your body and soul just aren't going to get any younger.

Level18=The challenge now is to stay at the peak as long as you can. You may be as strong today as any mortal who has ever walked the earth, but there's always someone younger, a new challenger.

Level19=You're really good. Maybe the best. And that's why it's so hard to get better. But you just keep trying, because that's the way you are.

Level20=You'll never be better than you are today. If you are lucky, by superhuman effort, you can avoid slipping backwards for a while. But sooner or later, you're going to lose a step, or drop a beat, or miss a detail -- and you'll be gone forever.

Farecoal posted:

Is this mod or this mod better if I want an expanded Twin Lamps?

Jazerus posted:

that's not true at all because part of vivec experiences time non-linearly. he changed the past by literally going back and doing all of those things (although not all of the things that he did are rendered literally in the sermons), not just snapping his fingers.

vivec is not a "false god" like the other people who tied themselves to lorkhan. he was for a while, but then he used his powers for mystic contemplation and stumbled onto CHIM, which essentially turned him into a real god, as it does for anybody who understands it. yes his most obvious powers like the ghostfence and holding that asteroid above the city are still lorkhan-fueled, he's not shy about using the "false" power because it lets him do things he couldn't otherwise accomplish, but it's CHIM that basically let him separate a part of himself into a "place outside of time", i.e. aetherius. that piece of vivec is truly immortal, and can affect any point in time past or future because it is external to time.

this is exactly the same method that tiber septim used to become talos, and he seems to have gotten to CHIM through using numidium's reality-warping abilities, which may or may not have also been powered by lorkhan depending on whether you believe the arcturian heresy.

vivec is a really, really well-written character because as you delve deeper and deeper you go from "oh huh a god" to "wow this guy sucks and is pathetic, he's just a charlatan" to "he really is a god even though the rest of the tribunal and dagoth ur aren't"

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

Imagine being a hosed up freak that imagines a world where bugs smell good. I couldnt come up withe it myself, but that's the kind of twisted genius that gives us Morrowind.

galagazombie posted:

I always imagined Vvardenfell as quite cool or even chilly. It’s one of the most northern parts of one of the most northern provinces. Sheogorad at the least is gonna be cold. Hell it’s even full of Nords! I figure that only the Ascadian Isles and Bitter Coast are really “warm” barring standing next to lava pits in Molag Mar.

Jay Rust posted:

drat, then how big is the tradehouse

Jack B Nimble posted:

Jack B Nimble posted:

If you really want to spend a lot of time do this:

Make a warrior that completes the fighters guild. Do it as low a level as you reasonably can, below level 20.

Do the same thing as a Mage and a Thief.

Then, mod all three into the games as followers; make a forth character, a cowardly merchant. THAT character is the Nerevarine but they're also a coward and worthless in a fight, so they have to bring the first three with them on the quest. Don't load if they die, see if you can finish the game before they're all dead.

mbt posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F40uKFdlrxI

Ashurbanipal posted:

I saw caves of qud come up in this thread, bought it, and immediately became enamored. also tried kenshi in the past and, while kinda weird, also an instant temporary addiction. anyone got any other banger recommendations?

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

Vivec city is something Vivec would have designed, as a joke.

FlocksOfMice posted:

Actually he hosed a mountain to death and scattered its bones/dicks while him and his 1000 boyfriends ran under it giggling and where it landed it became Vivec

Musical_Daredevil posted:

That's one of the amazing things about Morrowind's story. You have so many differing accounts about what actually happened (some of which are actively disputed by characters) that you have room to come up with your own truth. It also leaves a lot of room to build your own backstory for your character even though the main plot of the game with all its lore is right there. There have certainly been games since with complicated characters and heroes, but none with just the right amount of ambiguity in the lore to pull something like that off. Certainly not either of the next 2 games in the anthology.

Leal posted:

What if I got an F in English despite speaking it?