>decided to pick it up after months of shilling (pic related)>voice acting runs out 2 minutes in>the entire game consists of about 3 colours (brown, grey and "stained bathroom tiles" green)>enemy AI just b-lines for you until whatever attack it has equipped is in range, then stops and spams attack until you're out of range, repeat>combat is literally just "spam left click until enemies fall over, if one of your 3 bars runs low pause and drink a potion to instantly refill it, repeat">you have to manually left click every corpse that appears and click "delete corpse" every single time, otherwise the game breaks>enemies get stuck on terrain>summons get stuck on terrain>no companions (because they'd get stuck on terrain, painfully obvious when you get a quest to escort an NPC from point A to B)>flying enemies get stuck on the skybox>NPCs can't open closed doors>NPCs don't know they can't open closed doors so they just run in place trying to path through the door
>>3668533But at least the quests are creative right?>first side quest >go to bar>"hurr durr im a corrupt soldier and a menace to society i shake down a whimpy guy for cash, will you help me yes/no?">it's actually a yes/no, there is no option to help anyone other than the criminalM-maybe the faction quests are good?>go to mage guild>collect 20 mushrooms...>turn mushrooms in>"ok now go into this cave and kill all the bandits there">think "this has to be, at the very least be at least as interesting as a skyrim dungeon, with either multiple entry points or some kind of gimmick like caged wolves you can release or whatever">it's a linear cave with a single wall texture repeating with the aforementioned combat and enemy AI to be relied on for "fun">next one better be good>"take this fake gem and swap it for a real one at that lady's drawer, i'll call her to come to me so she's not looking">no option to help the lady that's being stolen from for no good reason, just a yes/no>NPC is scripted to walk there and back>if you do the objective and turn the quest in before the lady completes her path, she gets stuck in place, which can be in the middle of a corridor, blocking the way foreverMaybe this guild is just particularly bad?>go to fighter guild>kill 3 ratsI'm not doing that. One last hailmarry, maybe the quests direct you to the shitty dungeons and the ones you stumble into are the good ones?>pic relatedTHIS is the game this board has been shilling since it's inception? Is this some elaborate ARG? A social experiment?
the only difference between mother 3 juxtafag and morrowind schizo is that people actually recognize, mock, and ignore the former yet take this moron's bait every single timebut you're smarter than that, right, anon reading this post?you're not ACTUALLY gonna give this guy a (you), right?
>>3668537What are you talking about?Sorry, is this part of this bizzare ARG you've constructed around this game? Pretending people who played this shit game are mother 3 fans or something?Please enlighten me, which part of my posts were "bait"? It's all factually accurate and can be easly checked as it's all in the starting area of the game.
>>3668542Boggles my mind how this came out 2 years EARLIER.Gothic>NPCs have a schedule they fulfill each day and dynamically react to what's happening around themMorrowind>NPCs stand in the same spot 24/7 or walk around aimlessly 24/7, reacting to every crime the same way by instantly treating the player as public enemy number 1 to be killed on sight>they also ignore every other criminal element, inclduing the assasin that can attack you every time you sleep
Yeah Oblivion is peak Elder Scrolls. Sorry gen-x, we're putting your dadcore games to rest. The setting of Morrowind is certainly cool, but it's cool when you're daydreaming about it, not when you're actually playing the game.
>>3668544becomes way less cool once you read hindu mythology and realise just how plagarised it is
>>3668533jesus what a fag
>>3668571>>3668566very engligtening pair of posts
>>3668553>mythology>plagarisedDamn didn't think India took out copyrights on their 4 thousand year old IP.
>>3668544Gen-X is Daggerfall, not Morrowind, kiddo.
>>3668610outside of legal contexts "to plagiarise" doesn't outright mean to do so criminallythat's how "self-plagiarism" (copying an older work of your own and passing it off as new material) can be a term, despite obviously not being theft
>>3668533Why not play BG3 or the new Dragon Age game? Lots of nuslop with plenty of colorful HD graphics, quest markers, hand-holding and DEI for you to enjoy, my child.
>>3668615Who's the author of Hinduism?
>>3668624https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas#Vedic_textsjust because it was transmitted orally and then written down by anonymous scholars doesn't mean you can pass it off as your own work, someone or some collective at some point clearly came up with it, unelss you actually believe they were stories descended from creation or whatever
>>3668617>>3668566prophetic
>>3668615What if there were Indians employed at Bethesda who were working on the game? Would it then be considered self-plagiarism?
>>3668637Are you retarded?If a christian was to retell the parts of the bible but try to pass it off as his own creation to an unfamiliar audience, it'd still be plagiarism and a complete hackjob.
>>3668625I see, you have no idea about any of this. Carry on.
>>3668639>If a christian was to retell the parts of the bible but try to pass it off as his own creation to an unfamiliar audience, it'd still be plagiarism and a complete hackjob.But what if for example you changed some elements? Like you renamed the church into a Chantry, and you make Jesus to be a woman?
>>3668624>Who's the author of Hinduism?Brahman?
>>3668643>there is no singular author attached to these texts therefore i can pretend i came up with it myself and get all the credit, pretending it's original work
>>3668644changing some names and superficial elements around is exactly how you get away with plagiarism if you're doing some kind of mel brooks style "what if the hero in a western was a black guy" twist then you should state your influences. mel brooks never claimed to have come up with the idea of the wild west.
There's a lot more references than just "hinduism" in Morrowind, it's a virtual collage of ideas from all sorts of things. Dune is a big influence on the plot, with a false Messiah backed by an implanted prophecy and Ashlanders as Fremen analogues. I don't think they were attempting to pass anything off.
>>3668647I don't see why not. What are the authors that died 4000 years ago gonna do about it? Sue you?>how DARE you rename our pantheon. I'll see YOU in court.
>>3668544>Oblivion is peak Elder ScrollsGood bait kek.
>>3668647Religious texts are plagiarized by nature then. Groups of men copying each other's ideas and passing it off as divine revelation.
>>3668650>it's okay because it's legalthird world mindset
>>3668649>Dune is a big influence on the plot, with a false Messiah backed by an implanted prophecy and Ashlanders as Fremen analogues. I don't think they were attempting to pass anything off.Which in itself was based on plenty of other works which were ultimately based on every historical event between the rulers/elites and the oppressed/revolutionaries, meaning they plagiarized the entire human history.
>>3668653>third world has a functioning rule of lawLol. Lmao even.
>>3668654Everything is ultimately the work of the Monad. We are all under copyright threat. Repent!
>>3668656Indeed, anon. I repent for my transgression against the Monad. May he bless and forgive us all.
>>3668637>What if there were Indians employed at Bethesda who were working on the game?That is now. This was then.
>>3668533>I trusted /vrpg/There's no one respectable on /vrpg/ left. Only the cringiest idiots imaginable. This is the worst place on the entire internet to find rpg recommendations and I'm not exaggerating. Even resetera knows more than who's left now.
>>3668711where did the good posters go?
>>3668738>>3668711Some of them remain. One dude recently recommended me a genuine 9/10 (maybe im still in the honeymoon phase) RPG I not only haven't played, but haven't heard of. (Knights of the Chalice 2)Some patricians with pedigree still remain, their voices are just burried deep beneath anime/jap faggots, porno game coomers, morrowind casuals and other stupid fucking sub humans.I haven't been posting for a couple years myself. Came back recently since I deleted all my social media, to scroll a bit in free time.
>>3668533Sorry, I'm just going to keep playing Morrowind because it's still my favorite game of all time.
>>3668738Well after the i nitial wave they just go back to their boards that is years(?) ago now. Then you get the okay posters but they get turned off by the "we have our own board" faggots who said that three (four) times in a row now. Then those faggots left because it turns out they are parasitic attention whores. now you just got the same guys who post about the games they like which doesn't translate to being good.
>>3668533It's simply a game that is not for everyone. And I don't mean that as an insult. It literally got greenlighted as a project from the beginning to be as alien to existing High Fantasy worldbuilding norms as possible. The result is a fairly unique RPG game, true, but also a game that will never appeal to the majority of High Fantasy fans. Because it is quite niche by choice.And then comes its age, rigidness and technical shortcomings, compared to what we have nowadays, to worsen the situation. And the cherry on top is the unsatisfying combat where on one hand it gets treated dynamically (the attack has to be initiated and clicked by you) yet on the other it takes agency from the skill of the player and gives it to the game (damage and percentage to hit). Morrowind is a...weird game. But like all niche games with something to say, it has acquired a strong cult over the decades.
>>3669238none of the criticism in the OP was about the "le unique setting", it's all extremely basic stuff any commercially released video game should comply with like "enemies shouldn't get stuck in the skybox"nobody ITT has said anything about it being "too quirky"You say "it's not for everybody" but who the fuck is a game where NPCs can't navigate the terrain for? Lobotomites?
>>3668533So I start this game, steal everything in the town and armory, steal the elf's money out the tree, and bounce to balmora. On the way I run into the mage falling from the sky. In Balmora I join the thieves guild and do a quest in a mine. I steal everything in Balmora. I explore and find a cave with some wraiths that rape me. I quit.How do I stop from being filtered by wraiths unironically?
>>3669675There is no way this is an honest post.
>>3669679it's real.
>>3669675>How do I stop from being filtered by wraiths unironically?Wraiths are immune to normal weapons and you need to either use a magic weapon, or a weapon that is silver quality or higher.
>>3669675>I steal everything in Balmorathen equip the fucking sword, noob
>>3668533Veterans of the game speedrun because the game lets you do that and will acknowledge it.
>>3669433I know there are purists, but just use openmwI'm almost sure that navmesh gets generated even if you don't use mods, and that'll solve the enemies being stuck problem 99/100 timesNPCs will also be able to navigate the terrain with navmesh on
>>3669790>le mods fix it>mods don't actually fix iteither name mods for the remainer of the so far named issues or admit that it's applying a bandaid to a decapitation at best
>>3671178the navmesh is generated with zero mods in place for an app which aims to replace the games enginemost issues cannot be solved without mods, everyone knows that and its the reason why nexus still existsno one can get Bethesda to improve, they still employ Emil after all hes doneyou don't have to worry anymore though, Bethesda, like ubicunt and biowhore are on their way to being gutted and sold for parts anywaybetter games exist anon, go play themhowever know that none of them will be perfect
>>3671192>they still employ EmilIs there a better writer in the industry you know by name they could hire?
>>3671216anon, they had Lawrence Schick write the most lauded expansion of an otherwise soulless mmo known as ESOthe problems at bgs are deeper than Emil by now, it'll be a mercy kill but micropenis will hesitate to bring down the guillotine like ea did with biowhore and ubicunt should've just killed itselfgo play better games, and if you really do wanna get into morrowind, you'll have to accept the shortcomings and avoid the usual pitfalls by modding the game and making it betterbgs has shown it cares nothing about fixing their own games so its your decision at this point to either stop bitching, mod it and play the game cause it kinda has a pretty good main story or move on with your life even if its more fun to bash it like a baby seal with a nail bat
>>3671224Different anon.Shick is busy with ESO, then.
>>3668617>They hated Him because he spoke the truth .jpg
>>3671227no, its worse. he left, for some reason or the other..I don't remember what truly happened since even I know better than to play absolute shit colored sloppeople blamed him for a long time till he went on and bg3 released and now everyone realizes what bgs let slip from under thembgs isn't coming back, think of it as a timebomb cause the explosion is gonna lit the skies up brighter than 4th of july>>3671178I'll just wait patiently, and play my pirated morrowind/fnv copies (cause i sure as fuck am not gonna contribute to emils salary) with a shit tonne of modsthese mods are incidently the strong suit of Bethesda games to a certain extent, cause modders at least allow you to change their games into something betterthink of it as having the capability of homebrewing dnd on your computer
>>3671248>since even I know better than to play absolute shit colored slopAnon, it has its flaws, but this is a pretty harsh way to describe Baldurs gate 3, the critically acclaimed game of the year, don’t you think
>>3671249lol, that was funny, NGLuntil I realized Bethesda released shartfield to compete with it, and now the joke is kinda funnier
>>3671250The crazy thing is that Larian rushed BG3 out the door unfinished and with tons of cut content in order to beat Starfield to market. I knew tons of people excited for BG3 but I don’t know a single person who thought Starfield was going to be good. Even people who like Bethesda games just replay the old ones.
