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CollectionsI played this several years ago and for some reason stopped. Three years later and 6 years after its release, I've become an addict again.
Morrowind is a unique RPG experience that I have enjoyed more than any other. The story takes place on a human empire's furthest and most recent conquest - the island of Vvardenfell. The island is populated by Dark Elves, or Dunmer as they refer to themselves, as well as many original and unusual natural and unnatural flora and fauna.
The world seems enormous due to the rich layers of detail and the breadth of quests available. It is actually considerably smaller than either of the previous entries - Arena and Daggerfall. But it is much more interesting due to the detail. I have only played Daggerfall, and it was enjoyable to an extent, but it was just too cookie-cutter for my tastes. Every building and town looked the same, and the dungeons were a mess of weaving, 3D corridors that were extremely tedious to navigate, even with the minimap.
Although Morrowind scales the size of the world down a bit, that is the only thing about the game that is smaller. There are a number of "guilds" or other organizations that can be joined, each with their own ranking system and multitude of quests that take the character to the far corners of the island world. The environs are richly detailed, with varied terrain, numerous towns that are all unique in layout and architecture, fantastic environmental effects like sandstorms and rainfall, and a dramatic night sky filled with stars.
The best part of the game is that it is almost entirely open ended. You can play any type of character you wish, from a virtuous crusader to a dastardly villain. You like to steal things? There are valuables everywhere for the taking (but not without consequence). You prefer to be a noble warrior? There are a number of guilds and quests to suit your sense of right. How about a bloodthirsty barbarian? Got you covered. Maybe a mafia-like hit-man? You bet! Or maybe you are more of a pacifist that would prefer not to fight at all unless it's absolutely necessary? You'll be very busy here. Or just maybe - you'd like to be all of these rolled into one? Well guess what? You can! Now there are competing factions, and law to be upheld, so your decisions may not be without consequences. But with a little caution (and resorting back to saved games), you can be a very successful career criminal in this world. In fact, there are a number of illicit trades that you can become involved with, including slave trading, narcotics, murder for hire, and of course theft. There is even some implicit prostitution in several of the towns. This is not Grand Theft Auto, but the criminal underworld is just below the surface with many opportunities for those who are so inclined.
I stressed the criminal element here merely to demonstrate the game's depth. There is also much political intrigue that the character can become involved with. This makes for some very interesting game play with numerous side stories to be told. Now to solve the game, you must eventually become involved in the "main" quest. But there is so much else to do that you may very well forget about this for a long, long time. In fact, you can come back to it whenever you wish without penalty.
The game relies on a skills-based system for character advancement. You start with a set of skills, ranging from weapons and armors to speechcraft and mercantile. Each one improves with use only. There are no "experience points" for killing monsters. If it takes you two swings to kill a monster, then the skill for the weapon you used increases by two swings. With the skills trainers and opportunities to use these skills, they are increased fairly rapidly, resulting in level increases.
With all the glowing praise I have for the game, there is still room for some criticism. Although increasing one's skills and wealth early in the game is a challenge, as it progresses this becomes easy to the point of tedium. Some of the very valuable items that are supposed to be rare seem to appear with frequency. And the character eventually gets so much outstanding equipment that he/she becomes nigh invincible. Many would not consider this much of a flaw, but when the game fails to challenge it becomes less appealing. There is still an incredibly interesting story and quests to follow, but I feel that some of the game aspects should have been redesigned. It is truly a paradise for the power gamer, however. The combat is rather straight forward and simplistic, but this is not the main focus of the game as it is with so many others - in nearly all other RPG game titles the character must wade through and kill hordes of things just to level up and advance along in the game. You could technically advance to a high level in this game without killing a single thing (although that might become a bit tedious and boring). The only other problem, in a way, is that the game is of the "sandbox" variety, meaning that it never really ends. It is rather anti-climactic.
When all is said and done, however, this tops my list of the best RPG experiences of all time. Immersive, entertaining, with a phenomenal breadth of things to do, places to go, and people to see, this is an experience that any RPG fan would be loathe to miss out on. Do yourself a big favor and go get the Morrowind Game of the Year Edition as soon as you can. I have not played Oblivion yet, so it may even be better. But Morrowind must even then be highly enjoyable.
Do not miss this RPG experience
Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 30 July 2022 10:41
(A review of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind)
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sadly, it hardly lives up to its predecessors
Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 30 July 2022 10:29
(A review of Destroy All Humans!: Big Willy Unleashed)don't get me wrong. i love this series. it is one of my favorite video game series of all time, but unfortunately this just does not live up to the others. When i bought this about 2 days after it came out, i expected an awesome sequel. I hoped it would overrule the last as DAH2 did to the first. I expected awesome guns and environments, but sadly i was wrong. What i found was a game that was poorly animated and put together. The enviorments have become a meer drawing by a 5 year old child. Another thing that really makes me mad is that you can no longer read people's thoughts. This makes you feel disconnected from the people and lonely. Also, half the humor of the other two, was hearing people's strange and interesting thoughts. And now that pandemic is no longer working on the game there are new voice acting that is absolutely terrible. How can you possibly replace the voices of the other two games? Also, glitches in the game make progress in the game extremely hard. If you touch water, you die, really? So, this new company better get there heads out of their asses if they want to make a better game. Lets hope that Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon does somewhat better than this. From the preview, it is already known that the voices are still different which is already a downside. I will not know since i don't have an X Box 360, which i deeply regret. But, i strongly hope that it will be a leap up from this game, which just didn't cut it.
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Destroy all quality!!
Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 30 July 2022 10:24
(A review of Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon)I was extremely excited when i heard that a third edition to the Destroy all Humans series was being released because i own all of them including Destroy all humans: Big Willy Unleased and i have enjoyed playing everyone of them, which makes me regret to say that this particular destroy all humans was a disappointment , i partly blame the propaganda but it was also too short for my liking, most games that are short have excellent graphics but the graphics in this game were very poor (appart from in vital cut scenes) for a next generation console. It took me only two days to complete all of the objective missions (the storyline missions) and an additional one to complete the rest. Considering that this game cost me £33.30 i expected more. I found it unsatisfying and by the end i was wondering why it was so poor but thankfully it is not all bad. The storyline is good and the areas are very large allowing many places to destroy and many brains to collect (thats about it). Overall a lower standard than expected and too short!!!
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A fun remake
Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 30 July 2022 10:19
(A review of Destroy All Humans!)I grew up playing the original Destroy All Humans on the PlayStation 2, so this remake touches all the right spots as far as nostalgia goes.
It is more than a simple remaster, the game is seemingly built from the ground up. New beautiful engine, vast improvements to targeting, restoration of a deleted mission from the original game, the list goes on. It is not without its faults (checkpoints towards the end are insanely unforgiving), but the game is just plain fun. At the end of the day: isn't that why we all play video games? To have fun.
It is more than a simple remaster, the game is seemingly built from the ground up. New beautiful engine, vast improvements to targeting, restoration of a deleted mission from the original game, the list goes on. It is not without its faults (checkpoints towards the end are insanely unforgiving), but the game is just plain fun. At the end of the day: isn't that why we all play video games? To have fun.
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A Great Sequel (God, did I just say that?)
Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 30 July 2022 10:17
(A review of Destroy All Humans! 2)To put it simply, this is a fantastic game. Aside from some rather strong cussing, violence, and raunchy sexual innuendo, this may be my favorite game of all time. I was waiting for a game like this to be made. A game where you can play as the bad guy. For example, Resistance: Fall of Man was a great game. But I always hated the fact that you couldn't play from the Chimera's side and blow up humans. Playing the villain was even more refreshing than I expected. Richard Horvitz's performance as Orthropox 13 was perfect, as he has one of the best alien voices ever. Grant Albrecht was great as well, as his overbearing and rather loud voice adds to Cryptosporidium's character. I caution younger players, however, about the amount of violence, language, and sexual references in the game. That factor really turned me off. I give this game a 9/10.
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Best alien game ever made!!!
Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 30 July 2022 10:15
(A review of Destroy All Humans!)For years I haven't played a game this good! "Destroy All Humans" is an explosively awesome, alien game with good graphics, hilarious voice overs, cool sound effects and fantastic game play! You will play as Cryptosporidium(Or Crypto for short), an alien clone sent to earth to collect DNA from human brain stems to save his kind. Throughout the game you will travel from the fields of Turnipseed Farm, to the busy streets of Capitol City to the scorching deserts of Area 42.
You will fight against different humans, ranging from dim-witted farmers to cocky secret agents. You'll also confront vehicles and artillery such as tanks, AA cannons, robots and Tesla coils.
You can fight with an armament of lethal, futuristic weapons including the zap-o matic, disintigrator gun and ion detonator.
You also have access to a flying saucer armed with more powerful weapons, such as the death ray, abducto beam and sonic boom.
If your weapons don't satisfy, then your telekinesis powers will! Crypto can levitate humans and smash them into the ground or send them flying through the air. As you progress you can purchase upgrades that allow you to throw cars and heavier objects, causing all kinds of mayhem! Overall, Destroy All Humans is a masterpiece and is worth trying for just about anyone.
You will fight against different humans, ranging from dim-witted farmers to cocky secret agents. You'll also confront vehicles and artillery such as tanks, AA cannons, robots and Tesla coils.
You can fight with an armament of lethal, futuristic weapons including the zap-o matic, disintigrator gun and ion detonator.
You also have access to a flying saucer armed with more powerful weapons, such as the death ray, abducto beam and sonic boom.
If your weapons don't satisfy, then your telekinesis powers will! Crypto can levitate humans and smash them into the ground or send them flying through the air. As you progress you can purchase upgrades that allow you to throw cars and heavier objects, causing all kinds of mayhem! Overall, Destroy All Humans is a masterpiece and is worth trying for just about anyone.
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6 - Frankenstein
Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 30 July 2022 09:56
(A review of Frankenstein's Monster)Played by: Boris Karloff
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The first and best version of Dr. Frankenstein's (well, really, Mary Shelley's) cobbled-together creation, James Whale's classic made a jobbing British character actor into a huge star. His numerous appearances on this list indicate that he was able to forge a career outside the nuts and bolts of the Monster, but William Henry Pratt - sorry, Boris Karloff - will always be inextricably linked with his lumbering creation. Karloff's trick was not just to create a visual template that defines the Monster to this day, but to see the creature as much more than a creature, to imbue it with a genuine longing to be whole again, to be human, to have a friend, to have a soul. These moments of calm - smoking with the blind hermit, or throwing stones into a lake with a young girl - make the tragedy of the inevitable storm all the greater.
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11 - R. J. MacReady
Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 30 July 2022 09:29
(A review of R.J. MacReady)Played by: Kurt Russell
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Snake Plissken has the patch and the flash, but R.J. MacReady is the greatest product of the fruitful friendship between John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. A cynic and budding drunk, MacReady, an outsider in the camp who lives apart from the rest of the men, comes into his own when the shit starts assailing the fan. Effortlessly cool (and sometimes cold), Mac is a wonderful character: smart enough to come up with the blood test theory, dumb enough to mistake Norwegians for "crazy Swedes" and noble enough to sacrifice himself, and his colleagues, for the rest of mankind. And even then, he goes out on his own terms, swigging Scotch straight from the bottle while the camp burns all around him.
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13 - Ed
Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 30 July 2022 09:23
(A review of Ed (Shaun of the Dead))Played by: Nick Frost
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There's a very real possibility that, had Ed been played by any other actor, he wouldn't be on this list. For Shaun's best friend is, and let's be frank here, an absolute tit, a sponging freeloader who says inappropriate things at the worst possible times, makes hideous life choices, and takes his friends for granted. If he hadn't been played by the innately likeable Nick Frost, there's a chance we'd have been begging for him to be bitten by the end of the first act. As it is, when Ed does go down, there's a note of real tragedy.
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14 - Jack Torrance
Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 30 July 2022 09:21
(A review of Jack Torrance)Played by: Jack Nicholson
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