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04-27-2002, 12:01 AM
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| | Yes, latge manuals really can make a difference, I agree, and BG2's was one of the best. I also remember the older Ultima series boxes, with moderate-sized manuals, cloth maps, and metal ankhs. 
I've been playing Morrowind for about 8 hours straight, today. It definitely was addictive, especially after I made a level or two and my mage could hold his own in battle. The game just starts opening up, branching out all over the place. I discovered the mage's teleportation system housed in many mage guilds, which is very affordable (for mages). Did a task for a guild leader that took me to a guild in another city. Left to see what the rest of the metropolis looked like--
--and ran into the most realistic realtime sandstorm I've ever seen in a game, complete with perfect sound effects. My character even found it difficult to walk upwind, and all too easy to go the other way.
I must have done a good half dozen quests for three different guild leaders, all very quixotic. One has an idee fixe about Dwarven gods and magic; her third task (which I haven't accepted) actually was to steal a book from another guild leader. A second guild leader wanted me to lead a young lady over an isle at night, safely to a ship that awaited her--she was afraid of being accosted by a noble of House Telvenni, a bunch of high end mages who pretty much do whatever they want. Several times she made it clear that my guild rank was beneath hers. 
A third guild leader told me to collect the 2,000 gold pieces owed in back dues by a member in a distant city, and that we'd split the results. Unless, of course, that the guild member refused to pay up, in which case I was supposed to kill her.
At the same time, I ran into a host of other forces who were eager to recruit me, plus an oldline bunch of thieves who hated foreigners, and included me with 'em.  I found an unattended alchemy set, all four pieces of excellent quality, and swiped it. My character has been turning out simple fatigue restoration potions for money, off herb samples he's found or stolen.
And I went through two small dungeons, Killing Many Things. It was fun, except when I had to carry a claymore back for sale that weighed *thirty pounds.*
I wish I had a site so I could link in some of the screens I took. The place looks astonishing. This is going to be one of the most talked about CRPGs for a long time to come.
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04-27-2002, 12:10 AM
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| | So you get to try out the cool stuff because you're with GameBanshee? One other question, do you get to keep the copy of Morrowind you're playing? |
04-27-2002, 12:14 AM
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BTW, 6000 posts...that's a lot Fable. |
04-27-2002, 12:24 AM
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| | I know 6000 is a lot! I just realized I'd hit that number, myself. I posted a confession up in the SYM category.
I got the preview copy not because of GB, but because I'm scheduled to right a review for an online magazine. And no, I can't say which. If I did, you could tell then what my real name is. My cover would be blown, and I'd have to kill you.
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04-27-2002, 12:30 AM
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| | Is it a big name or lil known online magazine? BTW, you used "right" instead of "write" ...what would your editor say?
Also, a rather interesting discussion going on in SYM :P
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04-27-2002, 08:08 AM
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| | My editor(s) would say, "Even supernatural entities such as we are need sleep now and then."
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04-29-2002, 01:07 PM
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| | Hey, thanks for the inside info fable!
Actually having things to think about and decisions to make!
That's gonna come as a welcome relief after 60-odd hours of Dungeon Siege ... |
04-29-2002, 03:29 PM
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| | Bethesda's saying that it will be in the stores by Friday, so perhaps a shade later than May 1st, as promised--but not by much. I understand the strategy guide is already out. I only hope it's all-inclusive, since it is being written by people intimate with the product.
In general, I wave my privates in the faces of the aunties of strategy guides. They are for the most part true garbage, written by authors who are usually still using very early builds of most games, without accurate information, and planned for release on the same day as the product, itself. I made the mistake, for example, of buying Prima's strategy guide to HOMM IV--the least time I will do that. Half the guide was literally a larger scaled representation of information already in the manual. There were no opinions offered, and it was clear the "author" had never actually played the game. Fortunately, the PR person at Bethesda Softworks was invovled in Morrowind's strategy guide, so I suspect it will be a good one.
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04-29-2002, 08:39 PM
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| | | I've seen the strategy guide--it was out at Electronic Boutique. Not bad: very in depth walkthrough of the various dungeons, some charts on the underlying statistics of various character classes. Nothing of opinion on the various spells, comparisons of prices at shops, or that sort of thing.
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04-29-2002, 11:54 PM
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| | I find that that the strategy guides you buy aren't to useful...it really is a glorified manual, with some walkthroughs (depending on game ). Ones I prefer are the internet ones such as the forums or just Joe Blow's walkthrough. They're usually better and more useful (and a heck of a lot cheaper )...anyways, there's my little speech, and now it's off to bed.
BTW Fable, normal or collector's edition?? |
04-30-2002, 07:40 AM
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| | | For me, normal. Sure, a cloth map is nice, but there's nothing but atmosphere in the collector's edition, nothing in the way of additional gameplay.
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05-01-2002, 04:08 PM
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| | Strategy Guide Shmadeby Ride! (or something like that) strategy guides really just seem to me to take away from the initial *fun* of being unaware what awaits you, plus i heard the strategy guide for morrowind was basically 1 big spoiler which for a single player game i wouldn't see why anybody would want it other than perhaps as a reference for seeing the things they missed or can't remember after playing it for 6 months already or somethin
Iduno, to each his own 
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05-01-2002, 04:09 PM
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Release date for Canada looks like next week 
--Lit |
05-01-2002, 04:43 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Literatii
Release date for Canada looks like next week
--Lit | Tomorrow, that's to say Thursday, sayeth Electronic Boutique, here in the US.
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05-01-2002, 05:51 PM
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Tomorrow, that's to say Thursday, sayeth Electronic Boutique, here in the US.
| This is one of the days that i hate been a Europian  .
As i have said Morrowind comes to UK on the 17th ,more than two weeks from now, and i'll wait for another 3-4 days to be delivered to my home. If i order it from US the cost is doubled.
You guys are lucky  .
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