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Yeah. I know.

The one that really sucked though was that one that allowed you to jump 3 miles into the air but didn't arm you with a parachute. 

That's why you needed to get a slowfall spell or potion before you used it. 

Was funny seeing the guy you got them from land.  Easy to miss it if you're not looking for it though.

And if you had Light Armour as a major skill, you could pick up armour that was 60% as good as Glass Amour within the first week of play, so long as you had Tribunal installed.

In fact, I made a fortune off selling Dark Brotherhood light armour to Creeper. 

One of the earliest things I'd do in any play through, after joining the thieves guild, is make my way to the ghost gate (pain in the ass at early levels but worth it) and steal all of the glass equipment from the tower of dusk, then go pay off the bounty.

Man, now I want to play it again. 

... Pay off the bounty? Where the hell would you get the money to do that? Personally I find robbing the vaults to be a great way to get it, or taunting Buoyant Armigers.

P3nt, you should totally buy Morrowind.  It's like £5 on Amazon, fully patched GOTY edition and with the two expansion packs.

The graphics are a little crappy, as you would expect (though the distance art, in particular the night sky, was breathtaking), but you can use mods to upgrade it to Oblivion level looks in no time.

Also alchemy is much better in Morrowind, because the effects stack.  You make an intelligence fortifying potion, use it, the benefits from that stack when you make your next potion and so on and so forth.  Somewhere down the line you end up having potions that raise your intelligence by several thousand and last months in real time as effects.

No poisoning people with bad potions though  

Oh yes, becoming a god with potions is such fun. And, with an hour and a half of working and one hell of a computer, Morrowind can look like this:

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Or you could just disable the shadows, most shaders and some lighting and get a very similar experience. Same textures, anyhow.

For what it's worth, I think an animated adaptation in which the clouds are represented by static in the sky would look very, very cool.

But then you're getting all surreal. Which may or may not be good for a cyberpunk.

Hangs and lags during file renaming, slow windows refresh. Interestingly, Photoshop still runs fine; it's Windows Explorer that's being a bitch. Unfortunately, I have to do a lot of file management.

Huh. Sounds like a hard drive issue of some sort.

Ah, yeah, then that makes sense. So what are the specifications of said refurbished Asus?

They fucking sold out.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004D2EBH4/ref=ord_cart_shr

Shit! That would've worked extremely well. Though, hm, after dicking around newegg.com for a moment I think this should do what you need it do rather admirably.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883108457

If you don't live in the states; fuck.

That one looks all right. I might keep an eye on Amazon and see if they get any more Asus refurbs though, if I can buy any time by reinstalling Windows on my current computer.

That generally makes machines feel like new. Windows kind of inevitably and inexplicably gets shitty after years and years. No idea why; must be the little gremlins.

It didn't do shit.

Whats wrong with it exactly?

Ah, yeah, then that makes sense. So what are the specifications of said refurbished Asus?

They fucking sold out.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004D2EBH4/ref=ord_cart_shr

Shit! That would've worked extremely well. Though, hm, after dicking around newegg.com for a moment I think this should do what you need it do rather admirably.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883108457

If you don't live in the states; fuck.

That one looks all right. I might keep an eye on Amazon and see if they get any more Asus refurbs though, if I can buy any time by reinstalling Windows on my current computer.

That generally makes machines feel like new. Windows kind of inevitably and inexplicably gets shitty after years and years. No idea why; must be the little gremlins.

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I never played Morrowind so Oblivion was my first encounter with TES series. I was blown away! World was lush, alchemy was a total trip. Fair enough the dungeons were a bit repetitive but what the fuck, there were a million of them? I did eventually give up on it on PC cos of the "1 crash per 30 secs of gameplay" issue but I grabbed a copy for PS3 and it was a lot better. I just hope I don't feel like you guys when I get my hands on skyrim and it turns out to be dumbed down and shite

Well Oblivion was dumbed down in some pointless idiotic ways. In Morrowind you had long swords, short swords, maces, axes and spears for combat. In Oblivion? Axes and swords, spears were cut out of the game completely. Now, the funny thing was that the fusion of maces and axes was justified in game, as they both require a similar technique. But by fusing sword swords and swords, that implies that a thief skilled with a slender dagger will somehow know how to effectively use a claymore. Then the sense of exploration was totally eradicated by quick travel... Which Morrowind had, you just couldn't use it all the time and it wouldn't take you anywhere. With Oblivion? Any fuckass can teleport anywhere for no reasons, and there isn't even an interesting place to explore should you choose to totally ignore quick travel.

So, the only way they can dumb Skywim down anymore is if they were to fuse every weapon and armour skill together into some thing called Combat, and let you teleport onto any spot of the map. Oh and have a compass that was akin to Fable 2's idiotic glowing trails. But there is some hope.. although, Skyrim is cutting down combat skills to one handed and two handed, but really? The RPG experience isn't about numbers and the manipulation of them, its about the experience, the world and the immersion. That is why Oblivion utterly failed as an RPG, to me at least. But who knows, if everything they've hinted at about Skyrim is true then it could be fantastic.

You gotta do what you gotta do. If the options are caffeine vs no caffeine the winner is clear.

...  Yeah...  Go to the next machine over and grab a Mountain Dew...

The next machine had a pile of odd vomit beside it. Y'know. I'm thinking consuming anything from those vending machines would be a bad idea.

I. What. Huh. I am going to make those tacos, I think, then report back. Even with the ketchup !

Yeah, hospital vending machine coffee--NOT EVEN ONCE.

I don't know, it was horrible enough that I want to try it once more. Hell, I cant even recall the fragrance (Though a better word might be stench) of the muck. Actually, I should try their 'cappuccino' and mocha flavours next time I'm down there. My first time I just had dark roast.

[I had no fear, I could take just about anything.]

Emerging from the dungeon tutorial in Oblivion and seeing the bright, lush, breathtaking world that you're now free to explore is probably one of my favorite video game moments ever.  Then it went downhill from there.

It isn't as good of a game as Morrowind, and yes a lot of that has to do with accessibility.  Morrowind felt huge, foreign, dark, and dangerous.  You could walk into the wrong door and just be owned up by some pissed off dude with a big fucking hammer.  I remember all of my save files, that little photo next to the time stamp was always a door.  Oblivion's level scaling made it too easy.  I had no fear, I could take just about anything.

Pretty much. Then if you make the 'wrong' character, you spend 15 minutes wailing on one enemy at level 30. At level 30 you rape everything with your fist in Morrowind, and at level one? ... You cry.

Ah, yeah, then that makes sense. So what are the specifications of said refurbished Asus?

They fucking sold out.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004D2EBH4/ref=ord_cart_shr

Shit! That would've worked extremely well. Though, hm, after dicking around newegg.com for a moment I think this should do what you need it do rather admirably.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883108457

If you don't live in the states; fuck.

I'm going to start taking bets on how long it'll take for Taco Bell to stick this stuff inside of their mexican themed cardboard!

The license is being dramatically overused, but there are some gems. The expanded universe, for one. Then there are several thoroughly impressive Star Wars video games. But I do agree... it is getting a little old a little fast. The The original trilogy was great and deserved to be a cultural thing, but the latest three are all kind of obnoxious cash grabs that only 12 year olds really enjoy.

However, Republic Commando was a great game based off of the later trilogy.