HD - Lets play Morrowind [009]

[VIABellum]

I totally agree with you on the dialog thing. MW has great writing, but it can get lost as you have to skim over pages and pages of drone-speak. Back when I was still playing MW, there was a mod project called Less Generic NPCs. The writing there was PHENOMENAL and really brought MWs atmosphere, its greatest strength, to a new level. At the time there were some issues with it conflicting with the main quest, though. It reqs the expansions, but you should try it out if you ever start a new game!

[BravoJuic3]

Ok, i used the transcribe sound thingy here, and the result from the conversation with Bacola was :All kiss rental urbana basket gist of the hill on the north edge of town. I love youtube functions xD

[hanssonj]

its just called imperial cult in morrowind because its not the countrys main religion. the dunmer worship the tribunal and/or the deadra

[colaguy32]

Blades Dude: You can use my bed if you want to rest.

Gix: No thanks man I don't know what you do in their, but considering the state of your room.........

Blades Dude: But leave my personal stuff alone unless I say otherwise

LOL I laughed for like 5 minutes at that

[newloser]

"They gave me direction?!" - boy does that one bring back memories -thought it was just me not paying attention.

I find your play style akin to that of my own and I'm rather enjoying you exploring this wonderful game with an open mind... not to mention entertaining commentary.

[MatthewTelles]

"they gave me directions!?" 0_0 damnit.... lol best face ever! :D

[MrSparklycookie]

PLEASE ANSWER! Do you now prefer oblivion or morrowind?

[ProjectLegendary]

not to troll n all, but hasphat is pronounched hohz-phaat an-ta~bo-lis with the squigly being a quick pause instead of a normal

[notlad6490]

In my opinion I prefer text over voice in most cases

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[redMotif]

He's a sugar tooth b/c he can't keep off the moon sugar and skooma

[SimplyDragonAge]

You know this is a great game but I agree with you being a text based rpg they should have more diverse duologue. Great LP btw ^_^

[Halfmorne]

Imperial Cult ... that is just the Church of the 9 Divines (I believe)

[degurkin]

@Halfmorne

That isn't a Cult Dude,That has way more followers than a Cult,it's a Whole Religion...even though a Cult "is" That too...you hopefully know what i mean

[Halfmorne]

as far as the Dialogue ... MODS

[SolJustice808]

LMFAO! Okay, next one...

[MrBlindrapper]

10:11

[MrBlindrapper]

you watch starwars?

[darkdestiny0002]

You look like an young version of Thunderf00t.

[killco7]

Think about it, if Caius has a messy house, and he works for the emperor, he obviously has some power and is abusing it by buying skooma and a "skooma pipe" as well as moon sugar (which works as cocaine).

[EmperorLjas]

@killco7 From UESP wiki:

"He's a self-admitted skooma and Moon Sugar addict -- that is, when someone who is not a Blade asks him. His underlings never mention a skooma problem, and the regular patrons of the South Wall Cornerclub have noticed that he holds his skooma better than even a Khajiit would."

It comes with his job as the Grand Spymaster of the Blades to keep his profession secret. The skooma addict thing is just a big sham to fool the whole town of Balmora into thinking he's just a bum.

[MrManGingerBread]

I am probably very late but the Imperial cult is the official religon of the Empire

[edt5481]

gotta say i felt like he was rather off as far as his opinion on the whole text thing goes.

granted..at this point he hadn't really realized the scope of morrowind or how genuinely huge it feels in comparison to oblivion, but i mean obviously there's no way he coulda known about skooma and stuff in relation to cosades...but yeah it's typically people in the same vicinity have similar things to say on important quest topics so you don't miss it by asking the wrong person and just wandering off

[SamuraiX496]

here take 200 drakes.

errr... they'll be hard to carry.

XDXDXDXDXD

[semillasdelorto]

xD HAHAHA I craked up with the drakes dragons comment!!!

[colashanacogh]

this game looks fun and if i weren't spoiled by oblivion's voice acting i'd definately give it a go

[ugaboj]

funny thing is that the imperial cult does charity work(i actually did a charity quest line :D) and you immdeatly think theyre evil cause theyre a cult

[donov25]

The imperial cult is all the temples dude.

[vseslav1]

Lol, I got to Caius in 30 mins, even cleaning out a house in Seida Neen and doing the ring quest too. This guy is so slow.........

[Rincewindcl]

@vseslav1 If you think the Elder Scrolls series has anything to do with running through the main quest as quickly as you can then you are not only missing out on 75% of the games but also just ruining it for yourself!

I for one greatly appreciate the fact that Gix is taking in the sights, lore and story.

[TalesofGirl4ever]

I love your facial expressions. There so adorable, I can't stand it! :D

[AurumKHK]

Sugar tooth=moon sugar user

It's said that Caius has a drug problem, you even find a skooma pipe in his house.

[AlderDragon]

I disagree with the annotation about Oblivion's levelling system. It was horrendous! Morrowind did it (mostly) right, if you ask me. I hope TES V doesn't level everything like Oblivion did.

[Valbruch]

@AlderDragon

I have to agree. The leveling system in Oblivion is the biggest flaw of the game. It takes away the whole point of leveling. I mean when I start seeing bandits with glass weapons I can't help but wonder why is that guy trying to make a living by robbing ordinary travellers. His gear by itself is more valuable than what he can steal in a year.

[gixG17]

@Valbruch Thieves don't need to be poor to steal. Like any RPG, the point of levelling is to become more powerful... while fighting increasingly more powerful enemies. That holds true to Oblivion as well.

[Valbruch]

@gixG17

Yeah I agree with that. But I believe that you also need to see that you are actually getting more powereful, to know that you are becoming somebody - a hero - in the world. But what Oblivion does is that it simply takes the whole world and adjusts it to your new level. So when compared to the rest of the world, lvl 20 character is practically just as strong and dangerous as lvl 1 character used to be.

[Valbruch]

@gixG17 It works somewhat as far as monsters are concerned. Instead of Scamps you start seeing Xivilai so you do have the feeling that the Realm of Oblivion needs its best to match your hero. But when it comes to NPCs it fails. What's the point of leveling if Bandits or Highwaymen still present real danger to lvl 25 master of magic ? If there was a whole band then maybe but 1 on 1... It feels like I'm not going anywhere and I could just stay at lvl 1. No excitement there.

[Valbruch]

@gixG17  I hope Elder Scrolls 5 will be better in this. Oblivion is still a great game and this leveling system is the only serious issue I have with it. It didn't feel that bad in Fallouts though so I am quite hopeful that Bethesda now knows how to do it right.

I don't mean to argue or anything, both Elder Scrolls are amazing games. I just tried to explain my opinion about it ;-) btw you do a great job with the LP. Just today I went through 30 or so parts.

[5965665]

Lol, spending money on speechcraft. 

[Nephi895]

Yeah, the Imperial Cult is the official Imperial religion. You could join the dunmer temple too, but he doesn't tell you that.

[shadowspike99]

Hey Rielle was a aylied ruin in Oblivion

[QuilavaKing]

I love the look on your face when he says look for trouble.

[pacingjames341]

Why didn't you just take away the webcam and just play the game?

[zex95966]

yeah, it doesn't load like that while your walking.

[doug360x]

"You need some time man, i can come back later." XD

[HardWarUK]

A lot of your problems with the game, like the text conversations and the fact the citizens do not go to bed at night, etc can all be fixed with mods.

[BELACSAMOHT]

OhBlivEON lol

[speedtypermananswer]

lol he walk in and saw a naked oldman and rememebers being told that he have to do whatever caius cosades tells him so he was like "mmmm what if the package says I have to suck him or sex him? no way I ll say no let me read it first" then after reading it "oh okay its safe" lol

[kfksl]

I freaking LOVE Caius Cosades <3

[AceOfROMs]

The Mages Guild is friends with the Thieves guild, so either guild gives you disposition to the other. Plus all the directions should be in your journal. Well it would be better if this game had a journal like Arena, where you could write in it.

[M44hk]

the directions and information the npc give really isn't that hard to understand... -___-

[MrHogGamer]

I loved it when he went "Ahhhhh". lol

[Reginator3311]

Why do you show your face on the bottom?

I dont see the benefit.

[FalloutMaster101]

haha your mad funny

[TheFalloutfreak123]

dude you should look through batmora there is a strip club whith beer somewhere in there

[TearsOfWar1]

You say "Oblivion" very strangely.

[gitarmats]

Finaly gonna get this game instaled on my PC again, such a great game!

[DrowsySage]

awesome LP this make me want to try morrowind, but i only have oblivion

[Garsemor]

Little tip for newbies, absolutly everything that isn't inside a house is legal to take. Even if it's guarded.

[Kpspen]

I like your videos a lot, I've been watching all of them so far, very good let's plays. Not too much rambling like nintendocaprison, and not too less, where its more like a walkthrough.

[4543563]

I love Morrowind for all the text; a huge advantage over Audio if you ask me.

The MP3 on Oblivion was half the disc... But the only disadvantage of Morrowind's text is that some of the Topics are shared around the town.

[tapestapele]

lol, 7:30. :)

[Gwannyn]

The coins are referred to as Septims or Drakes, because on one side they have one of the Septims, Tiber Septim presumably, and on the other side they have the symbol of Akatosh.

[gixG17]

Oooh, that's very interest. Thanks!

[Gwannyn]

You're welcome!

[lazynav]

what i liked about morrowind was that you were a spy of sorts, not some special force soldier. It made me feel more like James Bond rather than Rambo

[jagger1865]

almost everybody has the same dialoge

[EmperorLjas]

Generic topics get generic answers. It's a little like rumours in Oblivion, except that there's different types of it.

[spacecoke]

sugar tooth = he is a skooma/moon sugar addict :P

[LapKidProductions]

I loled soooo much when you said "holy crap! you need some time man?.."

[nyran125]

ive played morrowind im completely in love with Bestheda RPG's (i never played Daggerfall or anything or Arena) though, im playing it through a second time at the moment with a Witch hunter meening his skills are a Conjurer , Marksman. Interesting combination and quite fun to play in Morrowind.

[zunevsipod1]

is it just me or does it take a long time for videos to load up then they lag?

[MouthofSaurons]

its just you, or atleast it doesnt lag or take long time for me

[Zackr27]

imperial cult is a religous legion type of deal

by sugar tooth they mean druggy... moon sugar (which you can probobly find around his house) is a drug.....

[gdement]

I've never played Oblivion, but just compared to old late 80's/early 90's Ultima games I used to play, I found the NPCs in Morrowind very disappointing. They're the weakest part of the game, and technology is not an excuse for it.

It's a great game overall though, the NPCs are the only major thing I don't like about it.

[GIR5467]

I heard Imperial Cult and immediately thought of space marines from Warhammer 40k.

JOIN THEM! BE A LIBRARIAN, CRUSH YOUR FOES WITH PSYKER POWERS!

[starwarsguy9]

Morrowind to me is a lot different, I've played it for years, and now I mod it all the time, the way I notice a lot of modders judge games, modding-wise is how capable the engine is to be modded, here you mentioned the diolauge, in the vanilla game the diolauge is very generic, but the capabilities of modding it are amazing, full quality conversations with multiple choice strings are possible, it's possible to make an amazing persuasion system, the diolauge system is just amazing.

[dend027]

I wonder when the term cult picked up such a negative connotation. It really just means a minority religious belief.

[MoonIMover]

Who knows. Language history is wierd.

[Above49Gaming]

@dend027 hmmm i would guess when satanic cultists started eating live children. just my guess :P

[oblivionfan12345]

during my first play through i actualy found caius cosades's house before i found southwall cornerclub

[cool1pivoter]

hey i think that they say something cuz in older games they had just text no speaking at all but in redguard had talking

[Burnthunter]

I love how they had drugs in morrowind like moon suger thats where sugar tooth comes from :D and moon sugar makes skooma the super easy to fin drugs in Vvardenfell

[blender7]

Same here. and i like how your first real boss in the main quest is basically a crack-head.. awesome game in a lot of respects.

[farnsworth14]

He looks like Nikko from Grand Theft Auto 4.

[TheAtroxious]

"If you're gonna poke me with a knife..." great stuff.

Ooo-hoo-hoo, go lookin' for trouble.

Caius Cosades is a sleazeball.

[Dragomire]

"DO THIS OR DIE" LMAO

[amvmaster1000]

i'm thinking of starting the game again because i'm using too many cheats and it looks far better without them

[ChareosRantras]

200 drakes? Is he giving me dragons? O.o

[gixG17]

It's also another word for "male duck"... but in fantasy realms it's pretty common to refer to dragons as drakes.

[ChareosRantras]

aight you rly know your vocabulary ^^, was just a joke though ^^, loving the videos!!! Me wantz more!!!

cheers!

[zarteen]

@gixG17

And you can see why. Giving people dragons sounds way cooler than giving them ducks.

[CartmanLandZ]

@gixG17 a drake is a smaller form/race than a dragon. Its not a synonem. Its a different dragon species.

. Damn I am a nerd :X

[nyran125]

Another awesome RPG ou people might like although very different is The Witcher.

[undeadmanwalking]

your funny dude XD

[hyperk2]

The reason why it's the "Imperial Cult" is because it is for the "Imperial" religion and not the dunmer one, which you are in morrowind so it would be called a cult in morrowind.

the Dunmer one involving vivec and the like..

[gixG17]

Yeah but the part I find weird is that it's an Imperial talking about an Imperial cult... A Blade no less.

If it was anybody else talking about the cult, I wouldn't find it so awkward. Unless they actually have a small group of religious people that doesn't follow The Nine but then it wouldn't necessarily be because they're in Morrowind.

I don't know, it's probably just me.

[fowad27]

@gixG17 it's sorta like a state-sanctioned religion. The empire wants as many of the native dunmer to convert to this religion. They're trying to target the dunmer, convert them, but they're meeting stiff resistance since dunmer are fiercely nationalistic. It's a cult because they want people to become hyper-involved in its workings and lose themselves in its religion. They're simply acknowledging the barefaced political expediency of it.

[tjbrody]

I have to agree with you about the text and dialog. Morrowind gets so much praise as being better than Oblivion and yet in my first few hours of playing the game, I was not impressed.

[CY130RG]

5:12 sounds like sexual roleplay lol

[blender7]

hahaha, nice catch! your right, sounds like the cliche mailman pron movie plot.

[D9Vlogs]

hahah i love these you do them very well ... there is only one thing that bugs me,,, when you say Oblivion you say (Oblivi-ON) i usally say it (Oblivi-UN) its not that your saying it incorectly but for some reason it bugs me LOL haha i love these though great great job .. what do you use to capture? FRAPS?

[gixG17]

The pronunciation is probably a regional thing than anything else :P Then again, I pronounce the word necromancy as "neecromancy" for some reason and I know it's wrong.

I use ScreenFlow to record video footage.

[PingoWoW]

I really like these videos. :D I think you should make an Oblivion and Morrowind comparison type thing.

[shadingNight]

"you know i dont trust you" man that was funny good vid man

[Ravenn266]

haha Mos Eisley, right on

[StoneMonkWisdom]

Some things certain npc's all know, but some are more defined to tell different things depending on both your location and their location. So it's worth it to check out on the off chance they might have some interesting tidbit of information.

lol, Sugar tooth = Caius Cosades, moon sugar and skooma user >.>

[SilverMagics]

Balmora has 4 Loading point in the town itself, let stand alone the surrounding area's and houses.

Nice video though !

[gixG17]

That explains the multiple map markers dedicated to Balmora.