Yet Another Morrowind Thread

[Alan]

Been playing this game... I don't wanna say anything bad because clearly a lot of effort went into it.

Does the story/writing become good at some point? Caius Cosades just sent me to Fort Buckmoth

 

[Cologno]

Been playing this game... I don't wanna say anything bad because clearly a lot of effort went into it.

Does the story/writing become good at some point? Caius Cosades just sent me to Fort Buckmoth

Writing is serviceable at best, but generic at worst. TBO, it's not the biggest reason to play Morrowind.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Does the story/writing become good at some point? Caius Cosades just sent me to Fort Buckmoth

Morrowind has an excellent, intricate setting and background story, but it requires some effort from the player at reading and interpreting documents, many of which will be presented to you over the course of the main quest. There are also a few interesting characters with good dialogue, such as Divayth Fyr, Yagrum Bagarn the Last Living Dwarf, and Vivec. However, Morrowind is an exploration-focused game, with story taking a backseat.

 

[Funposter]

Caius Cosades just sent me to Fort Buckmoth

You're at the point where the main quest really starts to pick up pace, but idk what to say if you didn't find the quest immediately preceding it to be quite interesting.

 

[NecroLord]

Been playing this game... I don't wanna say anything bad because clearly a lot of effort went into it.

Does the story/writing become good at some point? Caius Cosades just sent me to Fort Buckmoth

Remember the advice Caius gives you.
Try to gain some levels and go join a faction or two, get some quests, raise your skills.
Then continue with the main quest.
And yes, it gets more and more interesting the further you progress through it.

 

[Fargus]

I remember some american dude streaming this game on steam, he sounded 1 to 1 like young Todd Howard. Maybe his son? He was really bad at the game getting owned by nixhounds etc, but it was fun to watch him struggling.

 

[NecroLord]

I remember some american dude streaming this game on steam, he sounded 1 to 1 like young Todd Howard. Maybe his son? He was really bad at the game getting owned by nixhounds etc, but it was fun to watch him struggling.

Todd's SON?
Really?

 

[Fargus]

Todd has a son apparently.

 

[NecroLord]

Isn't he already planning on retiring for good?

 

[Fargus]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/54454

Some ultra-autist made 14gb of AI voice files for all Tamriel Rebuilt npcs... Just lmao.

 

[NecroLord]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/54454

Some ultra-autist made 14gb of AI voice files for all Tamriel Rebuilt npcs... Just lmao.

Autism can be a powerful asset when wielded properly...

 

[luj1]

There is also this: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/52279

A project to fully voice Morrowind using ElevenAI and MWSE.

 

[NecroLord]

Why...
Just why?
Does everything have to be voice acted?
Can't those zoomers just read text like in the good old days?

 

[Fargus]

I'm a believer that if used right the AI voice acting can enhance the atmosphere, and such mods were posted on previous pages.

But full VA? Not really needed.

 

[Fargus]

Besides, most here would probably read the text faster than NPC could finish their voice line.

 

[NecroLord]

Morrowind had the perfect balance between voice acted lines and text based dialogue.

 

[luj1]

The only good voice acting is when it's sparsely used

For example in NwN only important characters are voiced and only the important lines.

Plot characters also had short personalised musical loops when you talk to them. No one did this since IIRC.

 

[thesecret1]

I like the Morrowind system where only a couple words are voiced, to make the character seem more alive and give him some character. Voicing everything is a pointless waste, as I'm bound to skip half that shit as I've already read the whole thing before the VA is even halfway through.

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

The only character that deserves to be fully voiced is Dagoth Ur. It's probably because I have seen too many videos of Dagoth Ur reading various copypastas.

 

[NecroLord]

You've not seen the Tucker Carlson - Dagoth Ur interview?

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

You've not seen the Tucker Carlson - Dagoth Ur interview?

I have, but another copypasta was on the mind. Here it is.

 

[Fargus]

I hope there is a 30 minute lesson about the history of Resdaynia

 

[adddeed]

I always find myself reading text even in fully voice acted RPGs and just skipping to the next line. I can read much quicker than the spoken dialogue.
Infinity Engine games had the best approach with few specially selected voiced likes and the rest text only.

Also thats why i appreaciated Far Cry 2's really quick spoken dialogue while most people complained characters talked too quickly.

 

[lukaszek]

got curious enough to boot openmw. Its ugly, i guess i had this missconception that its one mod do it all kind of thing.
So I had a quick look on what I need to make it pretty: https://modding-openmw.com/lists/
Are you guyz insane? Do you really install so many mods manually?

 

[Fargus]

Open MW does it's own thing. Mods are optional. Aside from unofficial patch you can install whatever you like. Or not.