crappiest game ever

I love how everyone bends over to Bethseda because the game has pretty graphics an "decent" combat system.

Morrowind is better than Oblivion. Neither game is really that open ended, Wow, complete the quests in any Fing order you want, It's not the first game to do it, The GTA series has done it better.

It all still comes around in the end, to one point, no alternate storyline, no alternate ending, you have no choice of your fate, and even less so in Oblivion. And that's pretty goddamn liniar if you ask me.

Oblivion upsets me greatly. The AI is nothing but scripting, and the few instances of none scripted events usually results in an NPC dying an incredibly stupid death, Like two Imperial guards fighting each other for absolutly no apperent reson what so ever.

They promised so much, Intelligent A.I, a game world that flows around the player, with or without, Revamped monsters, and even NPCs shoping and interacting and having to eat and sleep.

Instead we get one voice actor doing all of the elves, one voice actor for both Khajiit and Argonian, the dialogue that is spoken between NPCs is... incoherant at best.. for example "DID YOU HEAR, THE CITY OF KVATCH HAS BEEN DESTROYED" (This happened about two years ago)the other NPC's responce "HMMPFG" In which the orginal conversation starting NPC either grunts or says something totally random afterwards. Another game did a similar thing like this, Half-Life 1. And don't start on about how the NPCs talking to each other about random *beep* is cool because it unlocks topics, Because you don't even need to really hear them.

I was looking at a plant in the corner of a city not a voice in my ear, subtitiles didn't even pick anybodys conversation up, And I somehow unlock a new topic.

Speaking of topics; You'ed really be lucky to find one good NPC who has more than three things to say that's not the EXACT same dialogue as the last fifty NPCs you just walked across, who ALL sounded indentical dispite being different races. Oh and when another voice actor IS used, he has the EXACT same lines of dialogue. They couldn't even rewrite paragraphs for different races.

Not only this, But there's absolutly NO RESON to even LISTEN to them blabber on about nonesence, First of all you'ed of probably heard the same goddamn thing from one hundread different NPCs from every race and sex in the first hour of gameplay. Second, They're all faceless. Not ONE NPC I've come across has stood out.

They all just blunder around on scripted paths and get them selves killed when something interacts with them. I once saved this Woman out in the middle of nowhere, She was running (At an incredible speed, Also note Statistics do not seem to matter when it comes with NPCs, as when they get into combat they magically get jacked up five times whatever yours are) to me, I killed the bear that was following her (also at an incredible speed) by arrowing it, She had ONE thing to say to me and that was Rumors, Which I heard from the last twenty women I came across before. She didn't like me for saving her life, no disposition gain, she didn't care/notice/acknoladge, she doesn't have intelligence, none of them do.

Shopping and interacting? You wish. NPCs never walk into stores for any reson, You NEVER see any NPCs sporting a shiny new sword, or a brand-new helmet. You never see NPCs stealing from each other. (Unless it's scripted) Eating and drinking? Yeah they just walk into an Inn at the EXACT same time (Scripted) WHIP out whatever drink/food from their ass, and dig in.

Sleeping? All at the same time, It's all scripted, They don't have "needs" a Sim from The Sims is more "Alive" than ANY NPC in Oblivion.

They literally killed the A.I in the game, As I said, Everything the NPC's do is Scripted. That or when it does act on its own it gets KILLED, as I said in an IDIOTIC MANNER.

Monsters. They act exactly the same as Morrowind monsters, They run directly at you regardless of the risk, They show no signs of self preservence, and if you get out of their reach they will just run at the rock or pillar or whatever you're standing on forever. Also at an incredible speed.

The game is literally the same regardless of Sex, hell sometimes they don't even get your sex right, My uncle plays a Male Breton and they call him Miss all the time (I'm a Male Imperial, no problems so far). I give a point to Morrowind for this for example If you're Male, you could talk to Ahnassi and unlock a "romance" quest, She's a sweet female Khajiit in a town. (no gay *beep* in TES} And if you were Female there was some Male who would request something different.

Presuation is useless as I may or may not of mentioned. Everybody has the same attitude with you no matter what, You get the exact same responces in Presuation regardless of Sex or whoever you are, (Unlike Morrowind) and once you find out what they like/dislike, It sounds a bit like this "THAT'S DISGUS- DON'T WASTE YOUR FLATTER- OH TALK TOUGH TO- MY LIFE IS DRAB AN- THAT'S DISGUS- DON't WASTE YOUR FLATTER- OH TALK TOUGH TO- MY LIFE IS DRAB AN-" repeat untill desired disposition is achived.

Note that in Morrowind, Intimidating was a way of initiating a fight without throwing the first punch. In Oblivion, the NPCs enjoy it.

The Demo was one big gigantic lie, Yes. One of the resons I was so THRILLED to get Oblivion was after seeing the demo of the book seller woman actually APPEARING TO EXHIBIT SOME FORM OF INTELLIGENCE I thought "WOW THE POSSIBILITIES WILL BE ENDLESS, MAYBE I WILL COME INTO A TOWN TO SEE SOME OLD GUY GETTING MUGGED BY A CROOK AND MAYBE I WILL SAVE HIM AND EARN RESPECT AND THIS AND THAT AND OHHH" no, I was dissapointed.

You can't even kill everybody, "Special" characters simply go "Unconcious" and certian areas involving quests are locked by doors requireing "Keys" which means YOU CAN'T PICK THEM.

Plus if you have a Quest item, you can't even drop the goddamn thing. atleast it's weightless.

Bethseda is going down a bad bad bad road, Their most recent (StarTrek Legacy) promised EVEN MORE than Oblivion, infact it had stuff IN THE MANUAL THAT WAS NOT IN THE GAME. However I do love Startrek, but that is still no excuse.

i do not like open end games either. i stick with secret of evermore. at least it has music by jeremy soule. and a SCRIPT.

Eating rocks may lead to crumbling teeth.

I'd have to agree with the original post. I watched my boyfriend play it for four hours and thought I was gonna die from boredom and he was gonna die from frustration. Don't insult people for simply having an opinion that conflicts with yours, it shows how shallow you are.

"The robins are singing, the pidgeons are cooing!"
-Aramis (Man in the Iron Mask)

Oh the 'subjective mirrored as objective' viewpoint mixed in with a touch of 'insinuating that people who disagree are thick/ignorant' argument, how did I not see that comming.


Two hunderd thousand Orcs on your doorstep...Now thats alot of Orcs!

As a reply to all the people who said Morrowind is boring....Firstly most of you were probly bought up on PS2's and forced into playing mindless games like GTA, where in your told what to do and cannot progress any further until that task is completed, If however you were bought to appreciate RPG'S then you would have sampled Baldurs Gate 1 or 2 and know what really makes a good game.

Maybe you also think that Final Fantasy is an RPG, WRONG! Final Fantasy doesent or never had used the D&D system, your playing a poor mans role playing game which is child like and unplayable once completed, From the moment a played Morrowind i was hooked, the moment you see the sun setting over the hills with the lens flare *WOW*, No other game has come close to rivaling Morrowinds interactivity, for the first weeks that i played it i ignored the main quest and explored the world finding hidden caves and tresure and marvelling at the beautifully dynamic rendering of the world, sometimes scary and at other times wonderous is how i would describe it.

Now for the girl who had to watch her boyfriend play the game, firstly, did your boyfriend expect to jump into the game and be given a shotgun or uzi so he may go around killing people for no reason?, or did he play the game to be totally immersed into a different world, it all comes down to maturity, You really have to think when playing morrowind, which is why you and your boyfriend probly dident like it.

This game even though i have completed it offers unimagined replayability, im still going back and exploring things i never found before, Especially with the Blood Moon and Tribunal expansion packs, if your Boyfriend did like this, i assure you, you wouldent be a couple for long, it totally grabs you and dodesent let go, You may think Morrowind is boring, but your probly into mindless games like GTA or Beat em ups, Morrowind has truly stood the test of time, and cannot be judged by just playing a few hours, Give this game your time, and youll find out why it was given Game Of The Year.

Morrowind Obilivion on the XBOX360 falls at the end of this year, and is sure to build upon the Eldar Scrolls success, This is the final word on the this conversation, you cannot judge unless you have given quality time to really appreciate this game and all it offers.

Why The *beep* can't I say D-A-G-O-T-H?

Well red mountain is barren because...it's in the middle of the blight! gawd.

i hated this game when i first played it, the first 2 hours were terrible. but after i started to get things to work i.e. being able to hit stuff, the game turned out to be freaking awesome. i'm doing fighters guild stuff the now, and have no idea where thr main quest is, nor do i care. this game is brilliant if you just stick by it for a wee while