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Arena Adventurings and Daggerfall Dealings, A Characters Update thread |
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mALX |
Oct 30 2016, 03:25 AM
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Joined: 14-March 10
From: Cyrodiil, the Wastelands, and BFE TN
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QUOTE(Renee @ Oct 27 2016, 10:24 PM) I rolled a nu t00n today (it was raining) say hello to Sheeza Hawty. She will be my dark elf sorceress. I don't know why I want to play a dark elf sorceress (out of all possible choices) but I just do. The idea just jumped out at me. Here is a pretty nighttime picture. Hey, hello there!Whoops, wrong room! (hope there isn't a problem with that last one. I used imgur's blemish tool best I could). BWAAHAA!!! I love it !!! I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out combat in these early TES games - got killed by two rats in the tutorial dungeon so many times I gave up!
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ghastley |
Nov 21 2016, 03:25 PM
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Joined: 13-December 10
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I played a bit of Daggerfall this weekend. I couldn't remember what my older characters had been up to when I parked them, so I started a fresh one. Silanu is much the same as her Oblivion and Skyrim incarnations, except that she doesn't have a riding crop of shock in this game. Still a white haired (mod) generously proportioned (mod) Dunmer (not a mod!), who doesn't use anything but leather - which is a useful character generation option in Daggerfall. She's doing Short Sword, Backstabbing and related skills, and has only just reached level three and the first main quest dungeons. She's finding a huge number of bras in random loot. I think the game is trying to tell her something. Over the holidays, I may make another attempt to get Morrowind running. When I tried under Windows 8, I didn't get a mouse cursor, which made the game rather difficult. I've "upgraded" that laptop to Win 10, so there might be a chance this time. Any guidance? This post has been edited by ghastley: Nov 21 2016, 06:55 PM
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Mods for The Elder Scrolls single-player games, and I play ESO.
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mirocu |
Nov 21 2016, 07:21 PM
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Spam Meister
Joined: 8-February 13
From: [CLASSIFIED]
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QUOTE(ghastley @ Nov 21 2016, 03:25 PM) Any guidance?
Yeah. Roll back to Win 7
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Lol birdIt matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
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ghastley |
Nov 21 2016, 08:21 PM
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Joined: 13-December 10
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My desktop has Win 7 Pro, but the laptop came with Win 8, and 10 is better than that only because 8 was so bad. If I can't get Morrowind to work, I may take Daggerfall on vacation instead. Silanu needs the work. Most of the modding tools for DF need to run in DosBox, but that's not too bad. Edit and change of subject: Silanu did a "Fetch the heirloom" quest for Lady Bridwell and had to try and pick up a ring that must have been all of 10 total pixels, without the aid of a cross-hair. And it took her about twenty attempts to get out of Scourg Barrow without falling through the exit stairs. Are these old games challenging, or what? This post has been edited by ghastley: Nov 21 2016, 10:49 PM
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ghastley |
Nov 22 2016, 01:34 AM
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Joined: 13-December 10
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Fired up Morrowind under 10 and it's better than 8. It starts windowed, so I lose a bit of screen to the border, until I find how to turn that off. Under Win 8 it stretched the 4:3 to fit the 16:9 and distorted everything. I believe it's possible to play in native resolution if you know where to set it.
Learning the controls, especially combat, always takes a time. But I know to save often, so I can go do silly things to find out how it works.
I need a better body mod, maybe Better Bodies, maybe Roberts. Then I'll think about installing the CS and doing other things.
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Mods for The Elder Scrolls single-player games, and I play ESO.
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Renee |
Nov 24 2016, 02:26 PM
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Councilor
Joined: 19-March 13
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
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QUOTE(mirocu @ Nov 23 2016, 05:05 PM) QUOTE(Renee @ Nov 23 2016, 10:41 PM) I am doing my first dungeon crawl in Daggerfall right now. I see what everybody means, the sound effects in this game are creepy and frightening.
It was pretty atmospheric in Arena too You're right, those first few tries in Arena's tutorial dungeon especially were scary. Something about Daggerfall though goes beyond. It's because there's more sound-effects, and more of everything, I guess.
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Renee |
Nov 30 2016, 10:32 PM
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Councilor
Joined: 19-March 13
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
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27th of Morningstar -- So Mann Buubz is supposed to be accompanying a shopkeeper he met to an inn, in a town called Newwick. He's got 7 days to do this task, and he'll earn somewhere over 300 gold. He gets to the town in 3 days and I'm thinking this is just as easy as Arena's town quests, but then, a twist. Turns out, the man being escorted is part of the thieves guild, and so this guy from the TG comes up and attacks my character initially, but then he stops and says his "attack is meant for Bedistyr Wicksly" (the shopkeeper who's a TG member). And the game actually gave me a choice whether to protect the shopkeeper or not. Well duh, of course he's going to be protected. This is good too. Mann Buubz's reputation is pretty [censored] because of all the foibles he's made.
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Renee |
May 29 2017, 03:03 PM
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Councilor
Joined: 19-March 13
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
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I have picked up Daggerfall on this Memorial Day Monday. Rolled a new Redguard guy named Rowan Tushorrgh, who I think is some sort of fisherman. Rushed him through the tutorial dungeon, and he left the place with a few chain armor pieces, a few leather armor, a steel claymore which he really seems to like, and a few miscellaneous items. Somebody said a few months ago that unlike Arena, Daggerfall's wilderness actually does connect with its map. In other words, it is possible to walk to various locations on the map. So that's what Rowan just managed to do. He found a town called Gothway Garden. Just bought and sold, spent the night in some inn, etc.
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ghastley |
May 29 2017, 09:45 PM
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Joined: 13-December 10
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Wow, you got out of Privateer's hold without the Ebony Dagger! Meaning you didn't get one, because you would not have left it behind. Most people can't get past the imps without it. Does a Steel Claymore affect Imps? Iron stuff doesn't, but steel might. Claudia would like to meet Rowan. This post has been edited by ghastley: May 30 2017, 04:42 PM
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