vickstick wrote:galraen, just admit, from level 20 on, nothing can stop any character in morrowind(unlike oblivion)
True, once you reach level 20 in Morrowind you are pretty powerful relevant to most of the creatures you meet, unlike Oblivion where that's true from level one, thanks to the pathetic leveling system. Fortunately both games have third party mods that can overcome those flaws.
n oblivion, there is only 1 attack! your answer makes no sense! the only other attacks are power attacks.
Exactly, in Oblivion it's so dumbed down there's only two weapons, and it only has 'best attack'. Unfortunately I haven't found a mod to overcome those flaws yet. In Morrowind there are three different types of attack, chop, slash and thrust. Choosing 'best attack' simply means that you use the one appropriate for the weapon your wielding, e.g. Chop for Axe, Thrust for Spear. You're trying to make out that it's some sort of power tool rather though.
about the blocking: imagine a real warrior, unskilled in combat. such a person would litteraly HIDE under his shield. + in oblivion, blocking damages your health too, which is a lot more realistic.
A real warrior, unskilled in combat is a self contradiction, a real warrior has some skill in combat, if someones so hopeless in combat that they have to hide under their shield they'd never leave town, but that's bye the bye. Blocking doesn't damage your health in Oblivion, your opponents attack does, blocking simply absorbs some of the damage. In Morrowind blocking doesn't work very often, unlike Oblivion where it works all the time, but when it does work you take no damage. I actually prefer the Oblivion model in this regard, but to say that it's automatic in Morrowind implies that it works all the time and gives the character an advantage, whereas the truth is that blocking helps the PC much more in Oblivion than in Morrowind.
I can understand you not liking Morrowind Vickstick but I can't for the life of me understand trying to say an inferior game like Oblivion, which can easily be finished before reaching fifth level is so much better, and trying to put people off playing it.
the + 36 strength might be exaggerated but my strength came close to 250. needless to say, the game was dead easy.
Your exaggeration of the downsides of Morrowind in order to make it seem terrible are puzzling. You say you fortified your strength to 250, then bitch about the fact that you did it! Weird. Did you fortify your Chameleon to 100 in Oblivion? If so you know that kills the game faster than 500 strength, I'm amazed your not using that as a reason for slagging off Oblivion even more.
Morrowind is far from perfect, without the third party mods it's not close to being the best game ever written, but that's even more true of Oblivion.
and your last argument about the rogue mages and daedroth and the like doesnt even make sense! go to a daedric shrine with a level 1 guy. i invite you!
So again, where's the nearest Shrine that a Noob will meet a Daedroth? Noob implies a first or second level character to me, and such a character would have to search really hard to find a shrine with a Daedroth in it. However Adamasartus is right outside Seyda Neen, and there's a weak mage in there, weak, but will probably fry most first level characters real quick. So what? Adventuring is a dangerous existence, if it wasn't why would we bother playing any RPG? One of the problems with Oblivion is that everything you meet (with the exception of Umbra I guess) is set according to your level, the challenge, if it can be called that, is always the same; frustrating until you get the hang of the leveling system, but dead easy once you've got it sussed.
Morrowind does have fualts, no question, there ARE too many good items lying around for the taking; once you've played the game a time or two you can equip yourself to the hilt very quickly. Master Alchemy sets lying around for you to pick up at the start of the game, several filled soul gems sitting on a desk for you to take etc., etc.. But, it's like drugs man, 'Just say NO',
Both games are well playable with mods, the purpose of this thread was to find out if playing Morrowind after playing Oblivion was worth it. The graphics aren't too shabby in Morrowind, even without mods, not as pretty as Oblivion, but what matters most prettyness or gameplay?
about the yelling and cursing at each other,
sorry if it seems that way, ive got quite a temper
Arok2092's post was aimed at me actually, I've got a temper too, and my previous post was too inflammable I guess.
[QUOTE=Darth Gavinius;1096098]Distrbution of games, is becoming a little like Democracy (all about money and control) - in the end choice is an illusion and you have to choose your lesser evil.
And everything is hidden in the fine print.[/QUOTE]
