Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140221183807/@comment-3547390-20140402013358

That summarization explains a lot unless you wanted a scene by scene analysis. The first few seconds is rather difficult and can instantly spell disaster if you do it wrong. You don't know how many times I had to redo the character's name. Why do they make the choices so difficult? But after that it became easy. They wanted me to choose a species, so of course I being unoriginal chose a human. Then to be even further unoriginal I gave my character every stat I felt belonged in a thief like game after non-stop playing of Thief. Did I forget this was the 20th time I did that as well as the first 19 I wanted to be a fighter and yet would steal the first object I saw and get upset that I had a low lockpicking skill? I also tried to play a mage one time and started getting angry within ten minutes due to alchemy involving 30+ different ingredients (these were only the ones I picked up in those then minutes) being combined to give different effects that I can only assume I have to memorize or write down (after writing down a little bit, I tossed out the paper and quit playing as a mage). So I learned a certain path that takes only a few minutes, yet with this character has already taken longer as I have made it my mission to loot everything I can. I have also learned that Morrowind is probably my favorite RPG ever (which isn't saying much), simply because it allows me to rob stuff. For once I felt like I was doing something different than killing enemies, using magic, and talking to NPCs. All that is there, but we also have angry mobs from me lockpicking and stealing (in first person, the elder scrolls is one of the rare series that isn't some shooter hybrid to allow first person).

The first town you get dumped in has a few people and a few houses. All the people patrol around, and if they can even see you in the slightest you immediately get caught. They also, as I said before, can see out the back of the head. Still, I looted every unoccupied house except for one in the middle of the town. I waited patiently for about an hour or so, expecting to see an oppurtune moment. Instead I saw a bunch of buggy patrol routes where guards would walk into civilians and eventually everybody would just stand around for long periods of time. I learned that I actually have more of a life (read, less patience) than these people, so I gave up and moved to the next town. But not before looting the local police warehouse for confiscated drugs (which makes no decent seller want to deal with you until you put it down, even if you put it on their counter). Before leaving I caused some chaos with stabbing people due to my frustration with them for being so vigilant. Me being so low level and not a combatant style player, my butt was kicked in two seconds by the guards. So I started using my speed to my abilities. And I learned that I can lead the guards on wild goose chases, one guard chased me for miles to demand me pay 5 gold. 5 lousy pieces of gold required him chasing me everywhere, including numerous times around a house and across numerous rivers (my speed is low for some reason even though I am a thief, so I used which sometimes forced them to go around though they also would sometimes cross). I also learned that I can lead them into the wilderness and be my bodyguards against the growing wilderness population (it seems to get worse with time) so I didn't have to fight them myself or take a transport that costs gold (I am too cheap for that, even though it is only about 60 gold and I had 40000 at one point before spending a ton in trainers to boost up personality). I already found an excellent system. Get personality with a thief, admire the shopkeeps to like you (after boosting up speechcraft), and do an intense bartering session (mercantile helps here). In return I get more cash to spend 200 gold per level of something on a trainer at the very least. A dungeon exists near the first town, so I have already killed some people (blue people, smurfs?) that were angry at my intrusion by just mashing the attack button to stab them continuously with a large Bowie knife. I have learned that upon death you can strip everybody of everything they own, including their clothes. I feel like the terminator (I stored them all in a house with my first victim, who I killed for their shirt).

If the person doesn't see you, you can steal all you want. This is an interesting trick that I learned from goofing around. So I basically have used poles, walls, and other obstacles to loot things that would be normally impossible to steal. One poor shopkeep lost most of his inventory. Only problem is what I mentioned before, nearly everything I try to sell to him makes him accuse me of theft of that item, saying it is his. I stole it, but i sold his stuff a while back (I sell everything except quest items, a ring, and some lockpicks). My character is basically naked at this point, which apparently causes the people to comment on your nudity and make it harder to see if they have a quest for you. The ring I wear fixes that, because apparently a ring is considered concealment even if it doesn't do anything to my third person character's state of nudity (or, fur underwear run). So basically I rob entire houses and then sell it to a merchant, though as the only merchant that would buy my items in town 2 keeps insisting I stole stuff that isn't even his, I have to constantly make runs back to town one.

I also have a sneak skill that should allow me to sneak up to people and pickpocket them, based on a sign in the corner. I thought it would be great, another thief skill to have! So far I don't really see how it helps, I have it at like level 45 and everybody still can instantly detect me if they can see me (even if I start around a corner and sneak up to them). Of course, I did manage to look in one person' pocket without detection four times in a row while they were looking right at me and I wasn't sneaking, so I have no idea how sneak works and nothing on the internet seems to help me (they even talk about stealing things right at the beginning that I can't steal with my greater skill level). Oh well, I am so filthy rich from robbing people that a little pickpocketing doesn't really matter. Plus I could always just stab them and take everything.

So, short story, I have learned that if you want an in-depth storyline with great enjoyment and a difficult challenge, this isn't your game. If you just want something to kill a bit of time and do some stupid things are perhaps game breaking two seconds after starting for your first time, this can be rather addicting. I wouldn't go out and recommend this game like I would Thief, yet on the other hand I would be lying if I didn't say that I have had some fun moments.