The Guildmasters

I’ve had to post for the last few days here in one as I lost my internet service provider and it’s taken this long to get back online so my apologies for that.

Well over the last few days it’s been an amazing game, i’ve ridden a boat, I believe they are known as “punts”, the ones used for travelling the canals of venice, i’ve also ridden a stagecoach, flown in Leonardo’s invention of an aircraft, primative but it flew enough to get me to where I needed to be for one quest.

One of the more difficult quests is the one where you have to get all six seals from Assassins tombs to unlock the large gate so you can acquire the rare armor of Altair, these six seals I have now acquired.

I’ve also managed to discover all but 5 of the Codex pages, each of which has to be decyphered by my friend Leonardo.

After many quests involving assassinations I realized that I shouldn’t have just been killing guards like I have been doing (but it was so much fun), I should have been more stealthy in order to keep my notoriety level down, you can hide the guards bodies in gullies on rooftops or in haystacks (after robbing them of their gold obviously).

I have strayed from the main storyline several times in order to gather “feathers” for my mother, or hidden treasure, which is various amounts of gold hidden inside chests, some are fairly obvious and easy to spot, others are either well hidden or make you really think “how on earth can I get to that?”.

Another amazing thing about this game is reactions, by you, by other people and even by the horse you ride, it’s so lifelike. I decided in a side quest (riding a horse to beat a time) to run a bunch of people over with my horse, sure i’d knock them flying instead of going round them, to my surprise I got knocked off my horse and even my horse fell over, probably exactly how it would happen in real life.

I think I might be fairly close to finishing the main storyline but it’s impossible to tell with this game, i’ll try and complete the rest of the codex pages tomorrow and some more assassination quests, it’s the assassinations which enable you to progress through the story.

I will be looking forward to writing the walkthrough, there will be so much to do and it will involve finding everything in the game and getting all the trophies, i’ll do that on the second time around, I look forward to that a lot.

Tony

Wow, one of the best games i’ve ever played, this game is awesome, i’ve just finished all that I can, meaning the basic game not the one with all the extras, it’s the only thing that stopped me buying it, i’ll wait until I can get the version with all the extra quests.

I did finally manage to get all the trophies for this game and as soon as I get the chance i’ll sync it with the playstation server for all to see.

Ok review time, there isn’t much else they could have done with this game which would have made it better, it really was that good.  The main quest again could be completed fairly quickly but with the amount of side quests and some very hard to find quest items and bobbleheads it made for many many more extra hours of game play.

There seemed to be traces of so many other good games in this one, in some cases it was very much like Morrowind and Oblivion with guns yet it was nothing like those two games, when one of my boys first saw Fawkes he said “cool, a better version of Nemesis” I thought that wasn’t a bad description really, Fawkes was pretty cool.

I have to admit there were two bobbleheads  I would never have found on my own, one in particular I ended up having to look for the location online, even after finding it I knew I would have never found it on my own, a place called Rocopolis  ( or similar ).

The quests in this game aren’t boring either, there always seems to be something new wherever you go, dialogue can play an important part but it’s not a have to, you can be very good and get rewarded for your goodness or you can be downright evil, or of course you can be a bit of both, it works on a good, neutral or bad karma rating.

I think the thing that is really going to draw the playtime out for you is if your like me and decide to go for every trophy in the game, I would say hunting all the trophies gave me an extra 20 hours of playtime at least,  I really enjoyed going away from the main quest to explore, the fact that you could get certain beings to hang around with you was cool, I used my extra buddies to carry an awesome amount of stuff when I would have had to go back to my house if i’d have been alone, and a dog too, how cool was that? Get your own dog who can hunt down meds or ammo for you, my next dog I get i’m going to call him “Dogmeat”.

Overall rating i’m giving 10 out  of 10, it was so enjoyable to play this game, I can’t wait to pick up the game of the year edition with the extra quests.

Tony

Hi all,

I know this review has been a long time coming but with a game like morrowind it’s going to take time to write a decent review, I know the game is a good few years old now but i’ve actually been playing it off and on for over two years and I never get bored with it.

First of all i’d like to say playing this the first time around was like the same feeling I had when I played my first Final Fantasy game back on the ps1, it was something unique, something I had never experienced before in terms of playing console  games.

It was so open ended, you could go anywhere, do anything, stay to the main quest or just play for days just completing side quests for the various guilds, it was and still is an amazing game, even after two years I still can’t honestly say i’ve completed every side quest.

I did complete the main quest about 3 times, each time with a different character and different attributes and have attempted to complete all side quests but never did get them all. This game was so involving it made me go and buy the walkthrough, a huge book with detailed information on every quest as I really wanted to be able to complete everything, I will eventually get everything done in morrowind and it will definitely go down in my history books as a classic, I don’t think I will ever let this game go, if you haven’t played it yet I really can’t think of a reason why, forget how quickly people say you can complete this game because they are talking about the main quest only, there is literally thousands of hours of game play with morrowind, it’s not something you could get bored with.

My overall rating for morrowind is 10 out of 10, you can’t really expect any more from a game, especially if your an RPG fan, this game is for everyone and you get to have a lot of fun with it, steal houses, decorate them with your spoils,  take on the quests of the televanni or one of the other houses and get your own fortress, an excellent all rounder, it will be a long time before this type of game becomes outdated.

Tony