None of these games are worth playing without some modding to solve the gameplay deficiencies, Morrowind included. It’s the worlds that are great, the game on top of them needs some tweaks.
I’m not saying modding can’t improve them, but I very much disagree that they are not worth playing unmodded.
I just wish Elder Scrolls would, like, when you became head of a thing, that you actually be head of that thing.
“Yeah I know I’m the head of this wizard’s college now, but I’m gonna peace out forever.”
Razgon
6565
Or, its an amazing experience, the first time you get there, and everyone should try it out at least once, no matter how “faceroll” they are.
Its not a zero-sum game - Games can be about experiences and emotions, and not just how powerfull your character is.
@Rock8man Its very much worth it. You can always check in skyrims own stats page, how many locations out the standard 459 you actually have visited.
The game is very much enjoyable out of the box, but I always recommend trying out the wabbajack modding experience, which is basically the closest you get to a professionally modded Skyrim experience. Most of the modpacks are between 400-600 different mods that enhances gameplay and graphics in various ways, and checked, modiefied and changed to interact without issues with each other.
Personally, I currently run Living Skyrim 2(Extremely graphics heavy, 6 GB GPU needed, 8 GB recommended) and Equinamity (Which is a very fine modpack that enhanced gameplay immensely, based around Lexys Legacy of the Dragonborn).
DeepT
6566
So morrowind runs fine on modern OSes? I thought I tried it a few years ago and had some problems with it. I am thinking of trying it again (although I do not know if I have a steam copy yet) after I am done wtih Oblivion. I also heard they are making a morrowind total conversion for skyrim, but I do not think that is playable yet.
Recently picked up Oxygen Not Included and am having a helluva good time trying to figure out what’s going on. I haven’t killed any duplicants yet, so I must be on the right track!
Highly recommend.
Anno 1800 was pretty much all I’ve played this weekend. I finally found settings that won’t make my GPU run hot, which means I can finally play this properly… and play it properly I did! Many many hours, in fact. I love this series and this game - even more so with the addition of the statistics screen - is exactly what I wanted to play.
vyshka
6570
I put in a number of hours this weekend as well. I need to figure out plumbing so I can deal with some co2 scrubbing and using the water sieve.
The Steam version runs OK for me on Windows 10. I have one mod going (the Morrowind Graphics Extender, which improves draw distance, adds fancy water and some other things) but otherwise it’s vanilla. (Well, GOTY edition vanilla, meaning it’s been patched with whatever the two expansions patched it with.)
“Yeah I know I’m the head of this wizard’s college now, but I’m gonna peace out forever.”
Hahahah. I guess if you just start ordering people around it sort of becomes a different genre of game. It would be pretty cool if the reward for rising to the top of the Mage’s guild was that you get to play a Master of Magic-style strategy game.
schurem
6572
I flew a lot last weekend. Finally! Got comfortable putting the thing in the thing in the F/A-18C and zapped countless trucks using the snazzy new laser guided rockets on the warthog, had an hour of joy circling a village full of bad guys in a Huey while the door gunner blazed away. And to top it off I murdered two sabres in my favourite little fighter, a MiG-15.
I got sucked back into the Borderlands 3 for most of the weekend’s playtime. Made a new character.
Got up to the 2nd planet which I think is where I started getting bored the first time through as well.
It’s fun while it lasted but I’m not sure I’ll make it much further. :P
Incredibly, I actually managed to play some XCOM 2 Tactical Legacy Pack missions this and last weekend. Felt really good and helps keep me sane these days.
kerzain
6575
Sniper Elite 4 (Xbox One)
I’ve been playing this on GamePass. I’ve had to ramp up the difficulty to Hard and based on my current progress I’ll probably have to raise it again after the current map. I’ve been having fun, but with all the helpful UI features it makes the game a bit easy, at least in the first few maps so far. Hopefully harder difficulty levels do more than make enemies bullet sponges, I’m assuming more UI elements will be disabled and more bullet physics are activated as I increase difficulties.
Subnautica (Xbox One)
Earlier this year I tried playing this on the heels of completing Soma, but found the game much too bright and cheery when I was in the mood for darker, spookier, and drearier. But now that I have current GamePass trial for the next couple weeks I’ll see if I can blitz through it in that time.
This weekend should see me playing more Anno 1800. Lots of it, if I’m lucky. ;)
Watch Dogs: Legion this weekend I suppose.
Still playing the crap out of No Man’s Sky. I set a goal to get to the Eissentam galaxy, and I arrived there last night. Now going to work on unlocking all the recipes and maxing out my ship and multi-tool. Will also work on expanding my base in Eissentam.
schurem
6580
I caved and bought Red Dead Redemption 2. I’m goin gunslingin’.
kerzain
6581
If you bought it on PC you might want to find a walking speed mod. I don’t think such a thing is available on console.
