Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

Funner.

Huh, it's actually a word. I always thought it was 'more fun' or 'funnier', but apparently you can combine them and be 'more funner'.

Alternatively, just grab a sword and skewer the ones that don't buckle when they take an arrow in the... face.

Skyrim > Morrowind > Oblivion

Morrowind is an awesome game. That said there are some annoyances that you will quickly notice.

1. It is very rare that you will hear someone talk. Heck the only talking I heard outside of random npcs saying a quick one liner as you pass, do something stupid, or kill them is the deadric quests when they speak to you. Which means you will be doing a lot of reading.

2. Combat is wonky. If you choose to pick up a melee style of fighting be prepared to be swinging at mobs for quite a while until you build up your skill in said weapon type. Oh and there are a ton of various weapon types you can level. Maces, swords, axes all come in one and two handed versions. Swords also come in short and long blade. Daggers, polearms, staves, etc...

3. The biggest pet peeve of mine, mainly due to playing it on the console, is the bloody journal. But since you are picking it up on Steam you can easily mod that out and get a good one. Or if you pick up Bloodmoon expansion with it you can use the updated one.

That said if you do start playing it and want to find a vendor that has a good chunk of change go to Caldera and go in the three story Orc house, (I don't quite remember the name) Ghorak Manor. On the second floor there is a scamp that will buy any weapons, armor, drinks you have at face value. Really nice when you run across a deadric dai-katana and want to pawn it off (the thing goes for 120000g). You will just have to wait a day for his gold to restock.

PS - If you drop something it tends to stay where you dropped it at. I use either the mage or fighters guild halls in Balmora as my temporary storage (alter area and bedroom area downstairs respectfully) until I get around to building my base.

PPS - Regardless what fighting style you pick make sure to get levitate. That is all I'm going to say about that.

Edit: Figured out the name of the Orc's house in Caldera.

Edited, Dec 13th 2011 1:08pm by Criminy

the morrowind goty was included with a pc i bought in early 2003. it looked pretty cool (with a tweaked view distance) but i did the proverbial "go one way, get destroyed by a bandit; go the other way, get destroyed by a sewer rat" beginning. and that was my morrowind experience. if i ever catch it on sale again i'll definitely give it another go.

I know there is a mudcrab that sells booze. All I can remember is that the scamp I mentioned has 5000g, don't remember how much the mudcrab has. I might fire the game up later and check him out to verify.

None of them should affect it at all as far as quest status goes, except for the obvious part where you might find yourself rather less powerful than before and be in a bit of a bind.

Try not to spread yourself too thin. The real power comes from blacksmithing/enchanting/alchemy. If you use those to their fullest potential (even without glitches) you can become insanely powerful. If you ignore them, you'll be facing an uphill battle. There's also a limit to the number of perks you can get and the true strength of any skill category comes from the perks. You can gain skill in whatever categories you want (and even some that you don't just by using them because it makes sense or seems like a good idea at the time) but you'll never really be great with those skills unless you've got the perk points to spend. For me, Sneak would be my first choice to invest points into, since it will allow you to get multiple shots off on a target before they see you.

Also, a sneak-y trick is to use your arrows to distract your target by intentionally shooting past them at an object (or even a wall)behind them. As long as they haven't detected you, they'll turn around and go to the arrow's point of impact to investigate which not only gives you more distance to get clean shots on target, but also gives them a predictable travel path making it easier to lead them and make each shot count.

There are seven(?) others like him. SpoilerCollect all their masks(plus the plain wooden one) for the ability to make another awesome one that has some interesting unique effects.

This video makes me want to make a ******* BADASS VIKING!!!

Maybe he should have embedded it.

Sorry DG.

Too lazy.