Morrowind Elder Scrolls Questions

[Garet Jax]

Hello all,

I am thinking of buying the Morrowind Elder Scrolls GOTY edition. I used to play a lot of RPGs and really liked some and really hated others. I want to try to make sure I will like Morrowind before buying it.

First off, is the progression straight D & D (ie more experience = higher levels = more attacking abilities or more spells) or is there another concept like the Might and Magic series where there are external skills that can be studied and worked on?

Second, I have a Thunderbird 1GHz, 512 MG RAM and a Kyro II video card, will this be enough to play effectively?

Thanks.

 

[Lonyo]

You get experience from doing things.
ie: as you use your short sword, your short sword skills increases, as you try and make potions, your alchemy skills goes up.
Each skill levels itself up, and then you have an overall level, which requires 10 major or minor skill levels up.
Then you have other skills which level up slowly.

It's really complicated to try and explain, but you don't get exp from attacking things, you increase your proficiency by attacking things/doing things, then this adds to your level up meter.
You can also train to gain levels in skills.
The spells you can use you have to learn (and be at vertain levels to use), and you are better at attacking as you level up, due to higher proficiency.

Your system may struggle a bit with some of the effects, but might be OK at low res.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: LonyoYour system may struggle a bit with some of the effects, but might be OK at low res.

Thanks for the response. I will see if I can find the Elder Scrolls Website to see if they explain the progression mechanism.

What would I need to expand on my system to be able to play it more effectively? Is it strictly the video card?

 

[Kipper]

Morrowind is stunning graphically, but it has a few flaws:

a.) It's oogly moogly huge. Some of the missions have you walk from one end of the known universe to the other, grab a few things, then walk ALL the way back, walk across the world, kill a guy, walk back, etc. It starts to get old after a while.

b.) For a game with such great landscaping, the combat system is a bit clunky and isn't as flowing as it could be - but this is a minor problem.

c.) The system requirements are insane if you want to jack all the settings to max.

 

[boran]

hell, I have a:
P4 2.4
512 MB DDR (PC2700 speed)
GEF 4 4400

and the game runs like sjite.

so imho i think you should at least borrow it from someone before you buy it, that way you'll get an idea about how it runs, I think the skill progression is logical but kind of boring, doing stuff all over and over to get better at it, it's like that in real life, but I'm playing a game it's supposed to be fun ...

and imho the huge world is an advantage if you can turn some eye candy on, when I get a better comp I'm definetly going to replay that game, the world is increddibly.

 

[Jeraden]

I had an Athlon XP 1600+ and a geforce4 ti 4200 when I got the game and it ran pretty smooth, I don't recall ever having any performance problems. I probably didn't have the settings maxed out or anything, but I remember being pleased with the graphics.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: Jeraden
I had an Athlon XP 1600+ and a geforce4 ti 4200 when I got the game and it ran pretty smooth, I don't recall ever having any performance problems. I probably didn't have the settings maxed out or anything, but I remember being pleased with the graphics.

This is what I am hoping for. I have never had problems with my trusty Kyro II, but then again I never try to max things out either.

 

[Schadenfroh]

should work good on a geforce4TI4x00, its a xbox game after all, and guess whatkinda gpu the xbox uses

 

[shadowfaX]

perfect. i think i'll play this game this summer.

 

[blazer78]

i've finished morrow + both expansions and i can say its a great game, while it will be boring for u on the first few levels, later on it will get more interesting. You have to be patient but once the story unfolds the game will get much better.

Yes it will run on your athlon 1.0ghz cuz it runs on my friends comp and he has a athlon 1.1 with a radeon 7000.

Its not d&d style and neither is it homm style, its rather unique. the style has been descibed by Lonyo in a previous post.

personally i love really long rpg's that P*$$ u off cuz they rule. the longest rpg's have the best storylines, and imo morrowind is better than NWN, simply because i love it when a ghost pops up around the corner and scares u lol.

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax

Originally posted by: Jeraden
I had an Athlon XP 1600+ and a geforce4 ti 4200 when I got the game and it ran pretty smooth, I don't recall ever having any performance problems. I probably didn't have the settings maxed out or anything, but I remember being pleased with the graphics.

This is what I am hoping for. I have never had problems with my trusty Kyro II, but then again I never try to max things out either.

I don't think it'll run very well on your computer. I used to have a TBird 1.4Ghz with a GeForce 256 DDR (original GeForce) and I had to lower the settings a good amount to make the gameplay smooth.

 

[LongCoolMother]

i loved morrowind. it was so awesome, i played through all three expansions. its very different from neverwinter/diablo. its much much more detailed. as someone said earlier, the annoyance is that the world is....MASSIVE. but its just so detailed, the map has great variety, and the game you probably know is extremely open ended. everything you see can be picked up, etc.

you wont know unless you try it out. borrow your friends maybe or something. all i can say is that the game is just massive and extremely detailed. a kyro 2 should run it, just not with all settings maxed. 1024 might be acceptable with details turned down. but 800x600 would really be what i would guess.

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax
Hello all,

I am thinking of buying the Morrowind Elder Scrolls GOTY edition. I used to play a lot of RPGs and really liked some and really hated others. I want to try to make sure I will like Morrowind before buying it.

First off, is the progression straight D & D (ie more experience = higher levels = more attacking abilities or more spells) or is there another concept like the Might and Magic series where there are external skills that can be studied and worked on?

Second, I have a Thunderbird 1GHz, 512 MG RAM and a Kyro II video card, will this be enough to play effectively?

Thanks.

its mor like M&M. you work on skills to make them better. you can train with trainers or practice. for example, the more you fight with long swords, the better you get at it. the more you repair equipment the better you get. bartering, spellmaking, alchemy, specific types of spell casting are all examples of what you improve on as you use it.