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Hey guys. My favorite thing about the Elder Scrolls games has always been the sometimes-wonky AI. It's lead to all sorts of incredibly awkward, yet entertaining situations. I always loved swapping stories with my friends after we had done our various play-throughs. I thought it might be fun to do this at the Team Liquid level as well!
The idea is to share your adventures, awkward moments, amusing moments with less-than-perfect AI. Here are a few of mine:
I was given a mission to kill one of two brothers who owned a tavern or something in Oblivion. Being the sneaky person that I was, I broke into the 2nd floor entrance and carried out my grisly objective. Unfortunately my victim's brother heard the commotion and came dashing into the room... and proceeded to politely introduce himself. "Hi! I'm <somethingblahblah>! Have you met my brother?" At that point things got a bit uncomfortable because his brother was slumped against the wall behind me with an arrow through his mouth. I decided that it was time to depart and ran out without responding. I'm guessing that he was able to answer the question for himself fairly quickly anyway.
Other random memories include:
- Being accosted by bandits along the road and then watching my horse fight them to the death while I hid in a bush until it was over.
- Messing around with the spells in Morrowind to the point where I could jump so high that I could see the entire game world.
- I once fought a skeleton that had another skeleton--that was quite active--stuck inside its ribcage.
- I remember in Morrowind, I had an enchanted robe over my armor, but because everything enchanted in that game was shiny, it looked like I was fighting evil in a giant purple rubber poncho.
I know plenty of you out there have your own tales worthy of sharing here. Let's hear them!
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playing the tribunal addon and losing my savegame because of some random bug  since then i have always at least 2 savegames in every game.
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God damn Fargo and Gaenor....If you played Morrowind, you know who they are...
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I have recently been playing elder scrolls myself hoping to finish before Skyrim but alas its just too much. One of the funniest things I like doing and I some times stream this is going and making a spell for rage which AoE. Then going into the hotel inn in the main city and spawning weapons like axes, swords, daggers you name it. After spawning multiple copies of the inn keeper. Because the inn keeper owns all the weapons you spawn inside, when you cast your Rage spell they will all start brawling with there weapons, and because they are brawling the guards come and they kill the guards run outside the inn and start wreaking havoc on the town, its so funny to watch. Just dont give them mage's staff's, because sometimes they really hurt.
Another funny thing is standing on the outside posts in the arena and just using a bow and arrow to kill all the opponents lololol.
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The strongest memory for me as far as how much I enjoyed Morrowind was that originally, I played it on the Xbox. Anyone who has played it on the Xbox knows how absolutely horrible of an experience that is, so I clearly remember doing all of the tricks listed online to keep the memory down just to avoid crashes.
In spite of all of that, it still crashed like mad, but the funniest thing was, I kept coming back. I'd stop for maybe a day in pure unfettered rage that the last 7-8 hours of gameplay was lost, but it kept pulling me back because it was so goddamn fun to play.
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On November 10 2011 01:22 Kibibit wrote:
The strongest memory for me as far as how much I enjoyed Morrowind was that originally, I played it on the Xbox. Anyone who has played it on the Xbox knows how absolutely horrible of an experience that is, so I clearly remember doing all of the tricks listed online to keep the memory down just to avoid crashes.
In spite of all of that, it still crashed like mad, but the funniest thing was, I kept coming back. I'd stop for maybe a day in pure unfettered rage that the last 7-8 hours of gameplay was lost, but it kept pulling me back because it was so goddamn fun to play.
I had morrowind on xbox. It was never horrible for me but yeah I have really good memories of morrowind on xbox and pc. I still have my pc file so started playing it now also trying to get the Morrowind Graphics Extender to work for it.
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In Morrowind I had a Khajit swordfighter guy. I saw that the little boat-guys in Vivec (I think was the name of the big city?) had straw hats on. So naturally I murdered one to get it, found the bottom half of a dress that matched, and ran around the game with a Daikatana pretending I was Samurai Jack.
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In Morrowind there was a pair of boots (you got by a man falling from the sky I believe ?) that made you run 432080329% faster, but made you blind. Combining it with a high-end armor enchanted to provide 40% spell reduction, I managed to see a bit where I was going and travel at lightning speed through the world like that.
Neat.
the crashes were annoying though :p That was in.... I was doing 3/8shifts at Philips, so... summer 2002 ? Took me the whole summer to finish at about 8h a day. (8h work 8h play 8h sleep :p) Good old times, I was only 19 then :p
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Oh I remember those boots! "Boots of Blinding Speed" (lolololol)
I remember once making it my goal to de-populate as many towns as I could in Morrowind. Didn't go that well.
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I loved Morrowind :D
I remember when I first got to Balmorra, and I had found the Sword of White Woe. I wasn't aware at that point that stealing gets you in to big trouble, so of course I helped myself to this kickass shiny sword with a sweet name.
Next thing I know, I'm being chased out of the house by the guard. I get outside, and the fighting music hasn't gone away. The guards are coming from all corners of the city, so I'm frantically hopping around trying to dodge the guards. I've run around the city so much that they have formed into a group, so I try to jump over them. I ended up jumping off their heads on to the roof and picking them off one by one with my bow and arrows.
This was my first playthrough, and it sure sucked having to learn about paying off fines t.t
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Elder scrolls: Oblivion. Well lets see i had a warrior class i did every warrior guild quest, even got kicked out by accident then ahd to collect i think it was bear pelts or something which took an ass load of time. I also completed the main quest and even waited the in game 2 weeks to get the armor. I put easily 40+ hours into this one char, then my memory corrupted and i lost my file.
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Ah, the Elder Scrolls. My first experience with it was back around 1995, with Daggerfall. Due to the flexibility of the character generation system, you could make pretty ridiculous characters. I was very fond of making hoppythieves - usually able to jump several times their own height (due to world glitching) from creation. How it worked, was basically jumping while ascending a slope, which would propel you forward several times stronger than your actual momentum, shooting you often to lethal heights if you weren't careful. Using this, my most favorite method of city transportation in any game was made - jumping from rooftop to rooftop, using the sloping roofs as springpoint for my travelling.
Of course, gear grinding was an important part of the game. Unfortunately, relying on mob drops was very unreliable to say the least, and shopping was very expensive (or dangerous, if you enjoyed thieving). The danger did not lie in the shop guards or the city guards coming after you, no. The danger lied in that once you were a criminal in a province, you'd be assaulted by endless armies of guards whereever you went, and if you got caught, you'd lose all your stolen money and goods.
Unless you avoided getting hit.
You see, how the crime detection worked, was that if a guard hit you after you had performed a criminal act, you'd get a bounty. If you managed to kill the guards WITHOUT them actually hitting you though, you'd get off scot-free! So over time, I perfected the skill of clustering guards and killing them, dozens at a time, without getting hit, which turned out was a far better way of grinding cash than robbing places. Here, I'd kill double digit enemies all at once, and reap huge heaps of loot from it. Sure, it was never any good, but it sold well, so money accumulation was pretty easy.
Of course, I wasn't flawless. Sometimes I'd get hit. And that was always a setback.
Fortunately, there was this little island just outside of Daggerfall that counted as its own province, but was absolutely ridiculously tiny and had no impact on the game world what so ever. Using this island, I happily reaped hundreds and hundreds of guards and amassed millions of gold.
Ah, good times.
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Let's talk about how much we hate Will'o'the'Wisps >
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walking from seyda neen to balmora. dat music. dat atmosphere.
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I love athletics, and I love thievery. So much so that I predicated my recent playthrough on a badass trickster with a bow and arrow with insane athletics and no fast travel. Throwing on some insane wilderness mods and playing through the thief guild and dark brotherhood storylines was just an incredible amount of fun. Losing my horse in the middle of nowhere? Priceless. Finding story in the middle of nowhere? Amazing. The wilderness is just an amazing experience. FU city-dwellers!
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I actually have a really long story, which directly ties into what you were talking about and is very reflective on why oblivion is one of the best games to come out in recent years.
So, this is my third character. My first one beat the game and did all the major questlines, and my second one I played until I was completely maxed out on all stats. So at this point, I knew all the ins and out of what to do and how to break the game. Anyway, with this character, I set a few challenges on myself
1) I'd play on very hard from level 1
2) I would not break the law
3) most importantly, and you'll see why when i finish the story, i banned myself from use of a couple spells, most notably chameleon
Anyway, so I'm coming out of an oblivion gate near leyawin, going back to town to sell off my loot, and I accidentally slip and instead of click on the gate, I clicked on the horse of the guard at the gate. This knocks the damn guard off of the horse, and counts as stealing the horse.
Now honestly I was pissed off mostly because the last time I saved was while mass reloading to get the sigil I wanted, and I didn't want to do that all over again, but also because it was a complete accident. But obviously all attempts to reason with the law in oblivion will fail, so I try to run away and for some reason I just cannot get him off my trail, because the area I was in was too rocky and difficult to move around quickly. So eventually I just kill the guard, and at that point I decide these charges were such bullshit that I'm just never going to turn myself in, and the crime spree begins. Changed my mind entirely about being lawful and start up the thieves guild quest, gave up on selling heavy shit like armor and weapons for money and made money to fuel my spells by using the portals in frostcrag to go sell potions to the mage's guilds.
Flash forward about 60 hours of doing this later, and eventually one day I just plain didn't feel like fast travelling all the way to frostcrag just to enter the town (skingrad) that I happened to be right next to. This turned out to be a huge mistake, it ended up becoming a total bloodbath between the guards and the mages guild, and unfortunately, because I always travel alone and banned myself from summons, I never thought to develop any touch healing spells. After about half the guild died, I finally gave up, and turned myself in, even paid the bounty which was tens of thousands of septims from all the guards I had killed at this point.
Anyway, after I got out of jail, I went back to the mage's guild to sell off my stuff, come out the door, and the most unbelievable shit happened. It actually baffled me so bad I went to UESP (the most useful elder scrolls site out there) to figure out what happened - turns out there's a weird quirk in the guard AI. NPCs can be reported for crimes, but they can't be arrested, the guard will only kill them, even for something as insignificant as stealing a loaf of bread.
I assume that's the reason when I walked out of the guild that I saw some guard wailing one of the helpless beggars, because they're programmed to steal food if they run out of donations. At this point, I was in complete awe and disbelief that a video game could actually put you in an ambiguous moral scenario where the right thing to do is technically the wrong thing to do. I really cannot stress enough how ridiculously timed this was. It wasn't like I finally turned myself in, then a few days later this happened - this happened literally right after I walked out of jail and finished shopping.
I shook my head, said aloud "clearly this was never meant to be", and pummeled the guard with the strongest poisons I had on hand, and went full on robin hood mode for the rest of the game. After that incident I snapped on my chameleon ban and finally made a 100% camo suit (it was something i was easily capable of doing at that point in the game and took like 15 minutes to do) but only to use in towns, but it wasnt because I was worried about dying, but rather I didn't want any more collateral damage to happen.
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I remember one time in oblivion I stumbled upon this ruins. I was auctally interested in what was in it and the story surronding this place. So I went in and found a ton of bandits and such. It was so much fun destroying them.
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I never played the game but watched my brother play it on end.
Favorite memory, an Oblivion destroyer, where he just created a guy who was built purely to take on oblivion as fast as possible.
Second favorite memory? My brother creating a Chuck Norris character, made him look like chuck norris and he never yielded weapons, so it was just punching all day, specifically our favorite move, the bear palm to the face
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best memory is in Daggerfall,finally getting out of the starting area only to find you are too sick to fast travel because you got infected my a damn skeleton (or maybe rat) then you try to fast travel and die so you spend a week running around looking for the cure. really keeps the game exciting rather than instapwn in oblivion
ahhhhh why did you have to get me so hyped for skyrim?!?!?!
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Killing entire towns and the guards in morrowind after I saved and was done playing for the time being. I wouldnt save it, then would relog.
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