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Very Good Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: April 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Okay, fellow Morrowind fans, remember bringing the game home, excited? ready to expreiance what is told to be one of the best RPGs ever? Well, after installing, you start, get mystified in the voice of Jiub? Then getting lead up to the census office to complete your files. Then the best part, you walk out into Pelgaid and then WOW! Biggness, you get a tinkling feeling down your spine, wow, you can tell this is gonna be good.

Just get this game, but make sure you have a respectable computer to run it.

For players who are bored, don't know what to do? Take a trip around the island, trust me, in no time you can raise levels and have fun doing it!

Morrowind - A game to end them all...or the beginning

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 22
Date: April 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have been keeping track of this game for over a year and if what they say is true, then this game will be a huge landmark for all RPG's. I played Daggerfall when it first came out and I was astounded by not just the bugs(of which there were many) but by the overall life engulfing and unique play. I was so involved in the process of building my character and saving damsels in distress that the constant crashing made no difference.

If Morrowind can deliver the same gameplay(if not better) w/o the bugs of Daggerfall then nothing will hold back this monster of a game from becoming the #1 bestseller of all time. I can't wait for the actual release in a couple of weeks, my wife will likely divorce me(hope not!)...but what an experience this will be. I hope I am not to be disappointed!!

[junk]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

1. You can make a character who can immediately walk into a store, buy items from a merchant, and sell them back to him at higher prices. This makes money essentially irrelevant. Haggling is made tedious by the terrible interface (you change the price by clicking on an arrow and wait while it increments by one several hundred times, for example), and by the fact that the amount of gold on a merchant gets reset to a specific amount (say, 300) every 24 hours, which also works to destroy role-playing.

2. You can easily find people in the first two towns to train all your skills to 50+, since money is not an issue, which makes skills and leveling irrelevant. You can get up to and beyond level 28 without ever having done anything but talk to people. The leveling system is horrid, making it so that if you don't plan which skills (longsword, restoration, etc.) you increase when, you can't max your attributes (intelligence, strength, etc.). It's just a chore.

3. The moment you join a guild, you have access to all the important guild functions, which means there's no point to advancing in a guild--you just get increased reputation and can eventually become guild leader. This last would be cool, if not for point 4.

4. The world is depressing in a number of ways. Everyone gives you immoral quests, and the way they have people say random things to you when you walk close to them makes everyone seem two dimensional and boring, since they can only say so many things. Hearing twenty different guards tell me "move along" in an identical way while I'm running past them at top speed actually gets to the point of being infuriating. It takes a very short time to completely lose interest in the other people in the world. They're also either rude to you or fall at your feet whenever you walk past them, making them appear even more soulless and Lemming-like.

5. Travel is obnoxiously slow and when walking you're constantly attacked by boring enemies you can't run away from (the cliff racer). Further, the effectiveness of your attacks is based on your stamina which gets drained as you run.

6. While I've heard that it's possible to see this sort of landscape in nature, it nonetheless looks terribly artificial in the game. It consists of tiny winding paths going through insurmountable mountains. The paths are supposedly lava channels, as the island is volcanic. It just makes the world smaller.

The only cool thing is the water. It leaves ripples when you walk through it! The game is pretty.

They basically broke everything Daggerfall had right, added some incomprehensibly stupid things, and made it all pretty.

Great Game, but Hoping For Patch Soon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Probably the best computer role-playing game ever. Everything about the world is interesting. All the cities are wonderfully diverse. The people are diverse, and the react to you according to how you treat them, how you look, etc... The only problem: I have a newer system (2.2 GHZ Norwood Proccessor, 528 RAMBUS Ram, IBM 7200 RPM Deskstar Hard Drive, and a GForce3 Ti 128MB). Even with this system I am experiencing chopiness when I move between sections. I hope that the patch will decrease load time (I may just overclock the Video Card and see if that works). Overall great game.

Excellent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This Game is extremely excellent, due to the fact that it is so open ended. You can do pretty much whatever you feel like doing, you don't have to do any of the main quest if you really don't feel like it. Their arent' too many games like that, and that, i think, is why it is so damn addictive. I would reccomend you buy this game. It is well worth it, especially if you have an XBOX. If you have a PC, make sure you have a pretty good one with at least 256 MB's of ram. Get it now. Ton of armors.

imparcial review from a RPG lover

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have the game just instaled in my computer:
Gforce 4 Ti 4400,256 Mbytes, pentium 3 800, windows 2000.

**The game is the greatest atempt of RPG in last years***

You should spend a lot reading carefully and trying to figure out how to make a good(best) character.

I would like some hints in Bethesda Home Page( there arent, not even in the manual).

Best way by now seems to do a character more or less what you want, taking care of initial abilities numbers, then play five hours, and see, how your abilities has changed, the most increased abilities are the ones you should choose for major and minor ones, so you can level at a comfortable speed.

Although the samll information on manual, there is lot of information inside the game,(I think Bethesda wants you to get informed inside the game) .Information on the manual doesnt look very good and doesnt give you enough Hints. Indeed is the smallest guide I have ever seen for a game of this kind.

Bethesda must think We can travel with our computers evrywhere because there are not interesting stories to read in the manual, in the way BLIZZARD does.

Collectors Box figurine is a bit disappointed and small.
Also I wonder Why I can not have a cloth map?, like ultima, not just a paper one.

Now for the visuals they look very good but not awesome( if you have played Unreal). Water is pretty, you can see the waves of the rain falling in the water. But reflects to much light so sometimes is just a well iluminated surface, (in RL sometimes that happens, but not so often), makes me wonder if that was the best they could do or it was for hidding some underwater places, or for technical performance reasons.

Fire of tree logs is shamefull, looks awfull, but in candles looks great.

All other things in textures , sky, clouds, stars , and buildings looks better than ever. Especially the sky is magnificent. Must see to believe them. Where is my camera!!!!.

Fog is a major complaint, sometimes with maximum distance view in options menu, all you can see in the horizon are shades and shadows of mountains and trees. I have seen somedays with high air contamination when that happens in Mexico City, and Morrowind has a big Volcano spitting moxius gases, so maybe that not so unrealistic, HAHAHAH.

Character faces options for your Playing Character looks simplistic I would like more options.

About gameplay the best I have seen in years, but characters Who like to jump around here and there can get easily stuck, becuase of technical problems with clipping surfaces. Better to save the game frequently, but in a case of hurry you can use almisivi intervention or recall to get you out of the place you got stuck.

WOOOW, must things that you can see are usable and sell(able). There are to many items and armor, etc etc. But there are so many items that one would like more filters on inventory. Although managing inventory is better than other games.

3D sound does some wierd things, when moving around some times it give you very bad position of things creating the noises.

The gameplay looks very promissing as soon as Bethesda corrects the bugs.

The game is very HUGE, HUGE, HUGE, sometimes you stop playing, look the sky and wonder ,uff, I have not explored but the 0.5% or less, of the game and it looks complex and big, it should be so much bigger.

There was(is) to much hype on Morrowind Visuals and every one one to say that buying their gforce 4 Ti was worth. Well Yes and not, gameplay is smooth but visuals seems to lack from the high status of the hype. Nevertheless this wame is the better looking I have seen and is also the best RPG game around there.

The guide on Collectors package is more a spoiler book than a guide. Few pages are worth for one that want to be guided but not spoiled.

Although not even is this biblical tome are there all the places, inside the game. What is very fortunate.

This is the kind of game thats is so huge and carefully detailed. thats is going to be hated for people who just wants to hack and slash,( I can not say that is good hack and slash but there are better ones in that area), because they are not going to read all the information on the game, getting the subtle and comples story, that want it ot not is the best part of this game. Hack and slash people are going to complain about anything just to hide the fact that the world is so large that they felt lost.

I just hope Bethesda fix the clipping surfaces problems so people dont get stuck, though is very interesting to kill a flying netch and see him trapped inside a big rock.

I would really like to give them 6 stars but I cant, be warned that games that ask this much of computers ussually dislike bad configured computers so if you doesnt care about drivers, system updates, etc , you will crash a lot.

Final word graphics are incredible but this game is not about graphics is about story, and sometime in the future it will deserve a better graphics engine.

Easily the best looking game I've ever played

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

There's a lot to like about Morrowind, but perhaps my favorite feature is that you can go anywhere and be anyone you want. The world is very large, so large in fact that travel is impractical without using one of the forms of public transportation.

I found that the most fun in the game wasn't following the storyline, but just wandering the countryside looking for adventure.

And the game looks fabulous. I bought a GeForce4 Ti 4400 just for the occasion, but also played on a Gefore2 Ultra and found that it looked almost as good, though the water effects with the Geforce4 were amazing.

Replayability is very high. I played a straight-up fighter my first time through, and never cast a spell. I would simply close with the enemy and beat the bejeebers out of him. I will play the game again as more of a stealth mage type character.

On the downside, the game pauses constantly to load when you're in the wilderness. Once I got the Boots of Blinding Speed, the game would pause about ever 4-5 seconds. Also, I found the ending of the game to be rather dull. You run from town to town trying to gain approval, like some kind of politician.

These are both pretty serious flaws, which just goes to show how good the game is that I would still give it 4 stars.

One more thing... Since I did a lot of exploration and adventuring before jumping into the main quest, encounters in the main adventure ended up being pretty simple. I finished the game at 27th level, but I believe it could be done 8 or 10 levels lower than that.

FANTASTIC in the beginning

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The music was nice and the start was very exiting. Bethesda has made a quite good character editor; first filling out your name when a guy asks for it and them filling out your skills when you are going to create a sheet that the legion (military) needs. All this happens in the beginning of the game.
All the graphics are wonderfull! The sea is almost like on video and the trees and everything else is amazing. The NPC's are also looking well.
The story is good because there are so many of them. You can choose innumerable of different quests and which factions to belong to.
The game is a little bit confusing, but OK. The NPCs could have been more intelligent and could have had more things to say to you (I hear that Gothic is much better on this).
Other rewievers say that the performance on this game is not that good and I agree with them. The minimum Mhz is set to 500 but I recommend 1 Ghz.
I had very great expectations to this game, but after some days playing it gets boring. YOu always do the same: recieve a quest, go and complete it (if you can) and return and get some advancement in your faction (I'm a champion in the Imperial Legion). The thing that is VERY good is the construction set, which allows you edit the morrowind world in any way and is easy to use too.
This game IS worth the money.

A True RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Morrowind is the single best game I have ever played. You create your own story by chosing name, species, class, etc. You can either decide to follow the games main plot or go on your own quests exploring the vast world in Morrowind. What set's this game appart from other's is that it let's you choose to use almost any object or resource in the game and that affects you accordingly. The more you carry the slower you move etc. If you walk into a city and find a fork on a table you can pick it up. This has the greatest gameplay, graphics and just about any other specification you can think of is exceptional. I truly recommend this game for someone looking for a real game where you create and affect the ending and story by your decisions and not have something happen every once in a while because you reached a checkpoint in the game.

Fun Game...and Extremely Difficult

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Being a fan of RPGs like Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy series (except for 7), I heard about this game that was supposed to be very revolutionary, time consuming, and fun. And after I played it, like whoa.

There were some things that were new to me. First of all, this game is not a hack and hit game. This game involves strategy that you've never seen before. In every aspect of this game, strategy is the key, otherwise you'll go no further. In fights, you're accuracy is like literally 30%, thus you have to dodge more than attack often times. The strategy involved and the AI (artificial intelligence) really impressed me. I dare say (sorry to all FF fans), that the AI and strategy of this game was the best I've ever seen.

This game took me about 300 hours to beat. Probably because I spent time beefing up my Argonian, looking for stuff, and powered myself up. Also, I realized the more factions you join, the more time the game extends. All in all, this game requires a lot of time and a lot of patience to beat. Even the best RPGer is not going to beat this game in a heartbeat.

Graphics in this game were splendid. It could easily be seen that this game took full advantage of the power the Xbox had. Whether it was the realistic raindrops seen on the water, seeing the waves of the water, or seeing a smooth transition from day to night, the graphics and presentation was definitely something worth being impressed about.

All in all, this is great RPG. The only reason why I docked this game to 4 notches was because the game was very difficult and the bulk of the game was a bit slow (unless you can afford transportation, you're talking about spending 1-2 hours walking from one town to another). However, the benefits of the game obviously destroys that one minor flaw. If I could, this game should be a 4.5.

For all RPG fans, this is a must-buy. For virtually any gamer, this is a must-buy. The only types of gamer that should hesitate to grab this game is gamers that crave fast-action games or panic games.

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