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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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?!?!?!
I think I fell in love with TES when I got really heavy into Morrowind. I randomly bought it for $30 on my original xbox but didn't touch it for a really long time, and then during the summer of like 02 or 03 or something i got really sick and didn't leave the house for like a week and spent that entire time playing morrowind. No walkthrough or anything, i managed to figure out how to get infinite gold by robbnig some person that would always have 3k gold and then using it to build a spell that did like infinite damage over an infinte area and give myself levitation for like 15 minutes at a time. fucking awesome.
Oblivion: First time exploring some Ruins which I don't remember the name or the place... but I remember being chased by some floating, spooky Ghosts there. Gosh that's scary.
In Morrowind I apparently killed an extremely important person in the main plotline (my biggest hobby was always to taunt people on end until they'd attack me so I could kill them and steal all their shit lolol), but it didn't give me that message saying I should load a game because I wouldn't be able to complete the main quest. Thus, I kept on playing with no clue I had screwed myself over, and like 200 hours further into the game when I tried to continue on at some later point in the main quest I apparently had to talk to this guy that I found still dead on the floor where I left him.
In oblivion I was walking around the imperial city and just out of no where about 4 to 5 guards just started fighting with each other, It was quite fun to watch.
I dicked around with the console commands and maxed out my agility and strength or something, as well as giving myself this lightening spell that 1-hit KOs all enemies and costs almost no magicka.
I had already finished the main quest by then and was currently on the Shivering Isles. I basically got too impatient and cheated my character up to imba levels, running around the Shivering Isles at super speed and killing everything in my path.
On November 10 2011 02:22 -orb- wrote: In Morrowind I apparently killed an extremely important person in the main plotline (my biggest hobby was always to taunt people on end until they'd attack me so I could kill them and steal all their shit lolol), but it didn't give me that message saying I should load a game because I wouldn't be able to complete the main quest. Thus, I kept on playing with no clue I had screwed myself over, and like 200 hours further into the game when I tried to continue on at some later point in the main quest I apparently had to talk to this guy that I found still dead on the floor where I left him.
So I never got to finish it
You can beat the Morrowind main quest without talking to a single person, all the items you need and the end boss are accessible at any time, even level 1.
The game does try to kill you for doing that, but you can get around it.
I had an experience recently where I walked into one of the guard towers in the main city and came upon 5 guards beating a fellow guard to death for apparently no reason. I just stood there and watched and when they had killed the poor guard they all turned towards me and simultaneously said "Can I help you, citizen?" Creepy....
On November 10 2011 02:22 -orb- wrote: In Morrowind I apparently killed an extremely important person in the main plotline (my biggest hobby was always to taunt people on end until they'd attack me so I could kill them and steal all their shit lolol), but it didn't give me that message saying I should load a game because I wouldn't be able to complete the main quest. Thus, I kept on playing with no clue I had screwed myself over, and like 200 hours further into the game when I tried to continue on at some later point in the main quest I apparently had to talk to this guy that I found still dead on the floor where I left him.
So I never got to finish it
You can beat the Morrowind main quest without talking to a single person, all the items you need and the end boss are accessible at any time, even level 1.
The game does try to kill you for doing that, but you can get around it.
Indeed. The ability to finish the game without doing the vast majority of the main quests has been an extremely important element of Morrowind speed runs, as well as the ability to glitch the crap out of the game.
Their are soo many......The first time I booted Morrowind and was walking to Balmora and this guy falls out of the sky and kills himself! Had a note on him saying something like he finally completed his ultimate flight or jump spell and hopefully it would work.....God that cracked me up so fukin hard!
When you come out of the sewers in Oblivion and realize how BIG the world is! That was an awesome moment. Looking for those god damned Nirnroots!
On November 10 2011 01:49 Zanno wrote: 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.
lol that was hilarious. I always do Thieves Guild just so that if I get in trouble with the law I can just pay it all away at half price or whatever it was ^^.
Once you're leveled/have enough good gear, killing guards is the funnest thing to do haha. On one character I went around collecting all the cities' different guard uniforms hahaha.
Fargoth. That is all. My brother and I would take turns reloading from a save from right before you first talk with him. We would wait until night and see how many different ways we could kill him without getting caught because we thought he was creepy.
Also lots of other people have mentioned the guy falling out of the sky after trying his flight spell. Its actually a +3000 acrobatics for 9 seconds or something and he has 3 scrolls for it on his body. First time I found him I used one and was disappointed when it didn't immediately do something fancy. I decided to jump on down the road to my destination and with my first hop I found myself flying through the air so high that the ground beneath was wasn't even rendered. After a long FFFUUUUUUU I landed quite far away and immediately died from the fall damage. On later playthroughs I would eventually use these scrolls as a way to quickly get to the main city. I figured out the perfect trajectory to land myself in the water right outside one of the gates.
I have one pretty crazy oblivion AI story. I was watching my brother play, he was wasting time in the imperial city trying to steal stuff off people/tables in one of the large inns. He was near a table with 6-7 npcs near him. He went into sneak mode but was not hidden and picked up an apple from the table. I'm not sure why he did this as the apple wasn't owned, he could have just picked it up without "stealing" it. Anyway, as soon as he picked it up an npc near him pulls a hammer out and swings it in his direction. The blow does not hit my brother but was apparently aimed at an invisible npc who, as soon as he takes the blow, is revealed and is also crouched in sneak mode. He immediately stands up, casts a restoration spell and runs outside. The 6-7 other npcs immediately follow and so does my brother. When the street outside loads we see these 7 npcs beating the hell out of the sneaky one. Like it was crazy I swear they were like CSI angry mob flashback style murdering him, still swinging at him after he was down. Once he was dead the crowd went back inside and just chilled as if nothing ever happened.
On November 10 2011 01:48 Diglett wrote: walking from seyda neen to balmora. dat music. dat atmosphere.
this. and the dude falling out the sky with the banana hat on his head. awesome.
Also spending about 3 hours trying to kill an orator for his bonemeld armor. that was some fine ass armor.
Have to say this though, my discovery of oblivions OOO, coming out of the sewers and swimming to vilverin, instead of the noobie 2 bandits i found in vanilla, there was now 4 bandits fighting a hooded vigilante who proceeded to kill 3 of them for me while i took on an archer. Got some epic lootz only to follow the hooded person and try and talk to her.
I have a friend who played WAYYYYY too much Morrowind back in the day when it was still newish, and him and his brother found a epic way to "broken" the game.
Basically you start a new dude, and get him to molag maar AS SOON AS POSSIBLE because in that town there is an NPC in a room alone, right by a very handy door. You just taunt this guy into attacking you. (he has a full set of glass armor and the best longsword in the game, he is also the master trainer in long blade xD)
Once you've gotten him hostile, charge into his face and he will back up to cast a spell....but he backs up right into the corner. You then open the door right next to him and he gets stuck in between the wall and the door. Kill him, take all his shit, and then it's off to talk to the famous Mudcrab.
I walked away from the mudcrab at lvl 1 with around 150k gold. And then you can do whatever the fuck you want.
This also solves the problem of getting endurance maxed ASAP, cause you just go to the spear or heavy armor trainer and just boost yourself up.
At my current point after a good 10-15 hours in, I have over 500k gold, I'm lvl 30, have 4 golden saints in grand soul gems ready for boss enchants, have speed/agi/str/endurance all at 100, and working on getting more of the best gear in the game.
hehehehe, prolly my favorite part of Morrowind is the ability to just know where shit is. My buddy (the one who found this glorious method of starting out a new dude) was telling me "hey, if you just go over here you can get the second best helmet in the game" or "go into this cave and look here and you can find the best heavy armor handpieces in the game"
So ya, Brokening the game is my favorite part of Morrowind. And honestly, I'm prolly gonna play Skyrim till I can't physically stand it anymore....and then go back to playing Morrowind at some point xD.
Daggerfall: When I took loans from multiple states to afford buying the large ship. Also, when I first met that imperial agent, lady something.
Morrowind: When I became the leader of the imperial forces in Vvardenfell.
Oblivion: When I realised the ancient and supposedly super powerful vampire was as easy to kill as a regular bandit. That is also when I realized that the game was a piece of shit.
I recall one time the game glitched in...I feel like it was Caldera? Anyway, the shop keeper who sold the Amulet of Shades (Summon Bone Walker for 60 seconds), kept getting a new one every time I left the shop and came back in. Seeing as each of these let me summon a new bonewalker on top of my existing ones, I just killed an ass ton of ordinators, made the usual rounds to the Magic Mudcrab and bam, I had 300 Amulets of the Shade.
Went to Vivec. Declared aloud, much to my families displeasure as I was quite loud, that "I AM THE NEW LORD OF VIVEC. BOW BEFORE ME OR I SHALL LEAVE THIS WORLD IN RUINS." I proceeded to hit an Ordinator, run around gathering up as many of them as I could and then summoned as many bonewalkers as I could for an epic battle.
Summoned about...200ish bonewalkers? Maybe?
Game crashed. My words rang true. I left their world in a ruin.
Morrowind: Breaking the game with alchemy. Me and my friend would go to one of the mages guild and steal the master set. Then steal enough stuff to start ur alchemy spree. First u would make the increase intellgence potions and mass those. Eventually u would have crazy intelligence and make potions of levitations for 4000 seconds and sell them. Also summoning golden saints killing them and taking there wepons.
On November 10 2011 02:22 -orb- wrote: In Morrowind I apparently killed an extremely important person in the main plotline (my biggest hobby was always to taunt people on end until they'd attack me so I could kill them and steal all their shit lolol), but it didn't give me that message saying I should load a game because I wouldn't be able to complete the main quest. Thus, I kept on playing with no clue I had screwed myself over, and like 200 hours further into the game when I tried to continue on at some later point in the main quest I apparently had to talk to this guy that I found still dead on the floor where I left him.
So I never got to finish it
You can beat the Morrowind main quest without talking to a single person, all the items you need and the end boss are accessible at any time, even level 1.
The game does try to kill you for doing that, but you can get around it.
And this is why Morrowind will forever trump that travesty that was Oblivion.
My fondest memory was raiding the vaults in Vivec in Morrowind. One of the Houses had the key stashed on a dresser on the top of their Vivec tower in a dwelling. You could close the door on yourself and keep it open just a crack so you could stay hidden and grab the key without being seen by the person in the room. Then you'd stroll right in to the vault and use Tower Key on all the chests. Of course you could only use that once a day, so you'd have to wait 24 hours to open another chest. Not to mention that on occasion a guard would spawn in the vault randomly, so you'd have to wait again to see that he left the room. Then I'd go to the Scamp and sell all the stuff, waiting 24 hours for each $5000 payment iirc. Once this was done, I would spend all the money training up to break into the other ones. I sold every thing from the vaults after insane amounts of waiting. Then I maxed all my skills (poorly, as I didn't realize about the bonuses to my main attributes until I had leveled a number of times). I literally played that game until there was nothing left. I wish I could load my character to see how many in-game days I was there for, but it was definitely over 1000 :D
1. Every woman in the game that honestly thought I cared if she saw a mudcrab the other day. 2. I created a guy to have the absolute highest magika possible. Sign of the archon or what ever, and master alchemy with huge fortify magika potions. Made the biggest aoe frenzy on touch spell. Would walk into bars and cast it on people. Then the entire bar would get into a fight. 3. Charming the unicorn and riding it around as a pet instead of killing it for its horn. 4. Using the duplicate item glitch on the skooma to make 300 of them out side of the crack house.
I fell in love with Daggerfall, the one problem was that I loved cool armor but it never dropped and I was really poor...up until I figured out that the open spell, even on its weakest setting would open any outside door. So I found the highest quality blacksmith shop, waited for it to be nights and then went to town...over and over and over. God it was awesome.
I owned Morrowind, and I remember killing Trebonius early in the game in order to get the necromancer's amulet (very powerful item). However, since I killed him so early, I was never able to become Archmage of the Mages Guild.
Loved making my strongholds in Morrowind as well. Tel Uvrith and Rethan Manor were my personal favorites, but Bal Isra was definity cool as well.
I am definitely a Telvanni supporter 100% and cannot wait for Skyrim.
I was traveling through the forest looking for godshrines when I encountered some wisps... being followed by bears... being followed by bandits.... being followed by some guards, it was a hilarious circus I still have the exact gamesave somewhere xD
On November 10 2011 05:20 Bagration wrote: I owned Morrowind, and I remember killing Trebonius early in the game in order to get the necromancer's amulet (very powerful item). However, since I killed him so early, I was never able to become Archmage of the Mages Guild.
Loved making my strongholds in Morrowind as well. Tel Uvrith and Rethan Manor were my personal favorites, but Bal Isra was definity cool as well.
I am definitely a Telvanni supporter 100% and cannot wait for Skyrim.
Hlaalu 4 life
It seems that your posts suggest that Telvanni will have some prevalence in Skyrim... Is that the case? I'm kind of out of the loop on this, I'm purposely staying away until exams are done after December XD
I think my favorite memory of Morrowind was once I was finally completely my character and finished bothering to level him up. I probably spent more time after the game was done then before it just messing around. I had the boots of blinding speed a ring from the king in the expansion city which was ridiculously good and among many other things allowed me to see perfectly clearly with the boots on. I also had figured out how to make a ring with 1 levitate on it permanently. This combination allowed me to fly around at super speeds which was extremely awesome. After obtaining those items I set about getting a lightning spell that was a pretty large AoE but not all that much damage or mana cost. This was I could fly around and super speeds and just bomb people. I didn't care that I wasn't killing them all I just cared that I was Zeus.
Finally figured out how to trick Steam into letting me buy games here in Korea and Skyrim is now pre-loading. Can't wait!
I've always 100% played thief-type characters in these games. I think I might finally play a warrior or full-on spellcaster for Skyrim. It'll be a big step though...
DoA I fucking love you man. Every time I hear you speak I realize that we have more in common. As creepy as it sounds haha
I remember the VERY first time I played morrowind.
It was on my friends character.
I was wearing the robe and the fur helmet and wielding the iron spark sword. It was nightime and it was raining. I was crossing that rope bridge near Balmora and I encounter and slew a kwama forager. My eyes lit up as the lighting struck the feral beast much to my delight. Then I found the miners sitting near the campfire which warmed my heart as the fire warmed their bones.
I then proceeded to Balmora and the silt strider looked ahead of my mysteriously. I then met Ra'Virr who I mercilessly slew and took his Fiend Katana. I then made his house my own and dropped all my gold 1 by 1 to make a big pile of coins.
I have been playing Morrowind for 8 years and I still haven't done everything that I wanted to do in the game.
It is by far my favorite single player game of all time.
One of my favorite things to do is to collect books.
Edit:
Finding Umbra and listening to his tale was amazing.
I loved finding the house of earthly delights. And that NPC vendor in Suran that let you take everything.
I also loved Creeper.
I too loved raiding the vaults in Vivec.
Ok I will stop now, I may as well make a thread as to why I love morrowind.
Also My band has a song about Umbra haha its pretty awesome
FINAL EDIT Here are a few of my characters I have made, bear in mind I started playing when I was 13
I was playing morrowind and somehow my speed stat was well over 9000. I hit forward once and I am in the middle of an ocean. AN OCEAN. I see some fucking lochness monster and never play the game again ( I have a fear of oceans). I never experienced morrowind the way you guys did.
Haha I have so many good memories of morrowind from when I was young. I never even beat the main quest but i must have spent a few hundred hours playing that game.
Some good ones from oblivion too, but mostly it was just me ogling over the graphics and physics engine.
All of my characters were khajit because having night vision was just so convenient, plus what isn't badass about a cat thief/assassin character. Totally hoping you can still play khajit in the new one.
And yes I'm soo looking forward to Skyrim midnight tommorow ^_^
On November 10 2011 02:09 Assuton wrote: 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.
Haha yeah that's a classic. Suddenly all your sense of morals and trying to play a continuous story are washed away by the magical save game button.
I had one frustrating AI experience where I found an Argonian slave in the middle of nowhere in the Molag Amur region and had to escort him to Ebonheart. Trying to keep track of him let alone keep him alive was such a hassle.
One of the more frequent instances of hilarious/bad AI is when you get the Gray Fox cowl and take it on/off. Once I was wearing it to boost my carrying capacity and had to run through the Market District to get to a shop to sell my loot. The guards ran into me right before I entered the shop so I clicked resist arrest and opened the door as fast as I could before talking to the shopkeeper. After selling everything and taking off the cowl, I come back out and find that the entire Market has erupted in a brawl, since 1) thieves' guild members will protect you and thus auto-attack guards and 2) if archer guards hit their allies too much they cause them to fight each other (apparently it's only like 3 arrows for a guard to turn on his fellow guard or something). So many NPCs died that time T_T
On November 10 2011 04:36 Sabin010 wrote: Here is the short list from Oblivion.
1. Every woman in the game that honestly thought I cared if she saw a mudcrab the other day. 2. I created a guy to have the absolute highest magika possible. Sign of the archon or what ever, and master alchemy with huge fortify magika potions. Made the biggest aoe frenzy on touch spell. Would walk into bars and cast it on people. Then the entire bar would get into a fight. 3. Charming the unicorn and riding it around as a pet instead of killing it for its horn. 4. Using the duplicate item glitch on the skooma to make 300 of them out side of the crack house.
Oh man, that reminds me. Using the duplicate item glitch to make a few hundred watermelon race down a hill. Or off a roof.
If only that did damage when it landed on someone...
EPT
since then i have always at least 2 savegames in every game. 
