Morrowwind sucked away many, many hours days months of my life.

Make sure you get the body and poly updates (Better Bodies was one I seem to remember) and I did love the one that got rid of the flyers by giving you a quest to kill the queen.

Other than that it was a well awesome game =)

You will come to despise Cliff Racers (Flyers). At least, if your route goes near mountains/hills often.

They are suicidally aggressive. They are many. And the pathetic flying routine means they can take minutes to seconds to sneak up behind you.

Only good thing is they are so slow (Racers??) you can generally outrun them.

But really, that and the 2d dungeon mapping (Daggerfall had 3d!) are the only real downsides.

A couple of mods I recommend picking up are the Ogre Merchant (he pays you full price for things, and keeps them in inventory in case you want to buy back later).  Another is a house mod.  I used one that had exits to every city, which was extremely handy for traveling.

Also, if you make a thief type, it is easy to get green glass armor and weapons right off the bat if you go to the right place.  That actually makes the game too easy, because those items really outclass the lower level stuff you start off fighting.  But you can put the handy new glass armor in your multi-city house and use it later.

I never finished the main storyline, but I enjoyed being the "Avenging Avenger Who Wreaks Vengeance Upon the Drug Lords" (TM).  There is a very nice house that has a big drug manufacturing operation going on in the basement.  That became my home until I found the multi-city house mod.  It was awesome seeing all of the weapons and armor I picked up laid out upon the furniture in the house.

With a bit of Googling, you should be able to find some abandoned software to suit your needs.  I found some old games I used to own that I have enjoyed playing again.  I mention that, because downloading games you didn't previously own is wrong.

It's ordered and should be here tomorrow or Saturday. Should i load up the expansions at the same time as the main game or wait until i'm some way along the main game? Does it make any difference?

If you install Tribunal along with the basic game, you will be hounded by dark brotherhood assassins from early on. They are tough customers for a low level character, but are also wearing very good and expensive light armor. This means no money troubles.
I would also recommend the master index mod. It contains a quest, that will yield you a teleportation device.

It's in my grubby mits!

I hereby bid farewell to the world for a month or so...

Return with tales of glory.

Like the time I killed a god, with my bare hands. (Shh. In game, don't tell anyone...they get all weird.)

Quote from: Silverlion;241575Return with tales of glory.

Like the time I killed a god, with my bare hands. (Shh. In game, don't tell anyone...they get all weird.)

Well, my first tale of glory is that it has loaded ok and seems to run alright on my PC - hoorah! However, the very first person i talked to once i got out of the census office where you make your character crashed my PC. Boo! Hopefully it won't be that common an occurence.

So, sorted some smugglers out, bought some decent armour with the proceeds. Couldn't afford the siltstrider, so i walked to Balmora, just to see what the experience was like. I liked it! Went into a rather boring mine along the way and approached the city via a mountain ridge instead of using the road. Foggy vista ahoy!

Yeah, i like it already...:hatsoff:

I'm playing a Redguard Crusader. Thought i'd stick to the basics to begin with. Managed to make my first potion though - Resist Poison.

Quote from: One Horse Town;241796I'm playing a Redguard Crusader. Thought i'd stick to the basics to begin with. Managed to make my first potion though - Resist Poison.

Ha!  I remember playing Redguard.  Interesting-ish game, even with the buggy stuff.  It had some cool graphical glitches, too.  If you swam all the way to the edge of the map by the islands, the screen started going really funky, but it was pretty.

Quote from: One Horse Town;241796So, sorted some smugglers out, bought some decent armour with the proceeds. Couldn't afford the siltstrider, so i walked to Balmora, just to see what the experience was like. I liked it! Went into a rather boring mine along the way and approached the city via a mountain ridge instead of using the road. Foggy vista ahoy!

Yeah, i like it already...:hatsoff:

I'm playing a Redguard Crusader. Thought i'd stick to the basics to begin with. Managed to make my first potion though - Resist Poison.

Yeah, don't expect to melee the god, just yet.


Potion making, guild joining, magic stuff is a lot of fun. So try different characters when you get the chance.

One of my first characters was killed by a Scrib.

My last character regularly did *slaughter-runs in Daedric ruins against the high-level guys.

Players level too.

* Run in, slaughter everything, grab any useful souls.

How the hell did you get killed by a Scrib?

Diary 1: Forgot to mention that as i left Seyd? by foot this bloke fell from the sky! Got a magic sword from him and 3 scrolls of 'leaping'. Given his display, i figured i'd sell them rather than use them. The mine i entered, unknown to me was part of a mission from the Fighters Guild - more later. Got to Balmora, joined the Fighters Guild - haven't looked for the guy i need to give a package to yet. Got a mission to kill some rats - did it with few problems - got promoted. Got another mission - the mine one. So i broke off the discussion, then started it again and got 100 gps and another promotion! Hurrah. Bought a new spell and a funky Trollbone helm which upped my overall armour from 8 to 10 points. Got another mission - this one in Caldera, killing 4 tellani in the mines there. Got mage transported and just arrived. Made 2 new potions, a healing one and a Detect Keys one. For some reason i can't run, so my athletics is going to stay static, whatever i do. Shift doesn't work in getting me to run and when i kept trying my computer didn't like it and exited the program. It also seems that i can only thrust with my weapon - dunno how to slash or crush - can't seem to do it. 40% to getting to level 2 at the moment, working on getting armourer, destruction & alchemy up as at the moment only block & long blade have advanced.

Phew! I'm sure my diary will fade as i lose my initial interest in the game, but i'll try to update every now and then.