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Still enjoy The Borgias. Yeah, it has a few issues, but I got over them in The Tudors and I can do it here. You've all seen the RDJ Sherlock Holmes, yes? Just watched it again. Liked it even better the second time, I think. Rectify, if needed.

I'm a big subscriber to the "so bad it's genius" idea, so The Room for me was fantastic(ly bad.)

Well I can stumble about in the old graphics for a few more years (have been since it released until just last year or so) or update it. And now that, as you said, it looks like Morrowind again, why not? Mmmm, resolution. Excuse me, I have cliff racers to run from. (Your Athletics has increased to 14!)

So, I have to be honest, because I like you people. And because I'm a mature adu-hahahahaha, haha, ha, oh. Ahem. Because I'm a wise and ki-hahahahahahahaaaaaahaha. No. Look, I wanted to dump the lot of you in a well and fill it with explosives. But once I stopped being a child, and realized it was the exhaustion talking, I decided to do what any sensible person does in a situation like this. I decided to prove you wrong. I might have succeeded? So the primary issue with the screenshots I took this morning were; 1. It was all in the Bitter Coast region. A swampy, rather jungle-ish area, with or without mods. 2. I had used all the "large volume"/"pretty" foliage mods and this was a mistake. Since the issue with the package was a Steam install, I was able to mess about with it to have the darker, less leafy-intensive mods for it. So I decided to go look around in the Ashlands, the West Gash and the Grazelands. Unfortunately, due to a number of circumstances, I didn't reach the Grazelands, so there aren't any shots from there. After I'm done with this post, I'll trek out there properly (most of these were obtained via Icarian Flight abuse) and take some. Morrowind In Pictures, V2. (Fair warning: A lot of them. Click the thumbnail and then click the picture on PB.) While the faces are more human now, they do play in the Uncanny Valley in a lot of places. Babyface Nelson here, for example. Being the RPG veteran that I am, I promptly loot everything that isn't nailed down, and proceed to abuse the engine to keep all of it, and steal the key to the warehouse of Imperial goods across the street. Unfortunately, I was standing just a little too far to the left, and was caught by his holiness "that dude you talk to to get out of jail". Rodi, you primary complaint was that it was too, hmm, verdant, lush, yes? So, from one side of this pass; We have the Ascadian Isles region, and on the other side the West Gash region. Sufficiently desolate, I should think. My trip to the nearest Caldera takes me by Fort Whats-its-name (I honestly don't remember). You can see the Dwemer ruin that's the place of your first major Main Quest. . .quest, in the background. A duststorm coming up. And now in full swing. (Naturally, it looks better in motion. I'm not sure my computer is sufficient to record that, but I'll look into it.) Out of the mists, Ghostgate! And a few of its inhabitants to show off the updated armors. The updated skull mesh and texture. (Actual skulls. Shocking.) Of course, being the fool I am, I decide to step inside the Ghostfence at level one and expend my last two Icarian Flight scrolls to jump straight to the volcano at the middle. I promptly get stuck in a tree and wander about for a bit. The sound has been almost fully updated as well, and the raspy, crackling breath of Corprus victims is rather disconcerting. Gnisis. Imperial Temple or Guard players will remember this place. . .fondly. The bay of that one place whose name I don't remember. It's the single Vivec canton out in the middle of the Ashlands for no reason. That's what I've got for now. I suspect this won't calm anyones fears, but a few Parthian shots on the matter for now. Kingz, the darkness is actually sort of intentional. There are a few .ini tweaks that make it more atmospheric, including night actually being night (a pretty common mod for Bethesda engine games the last few years.) El Muerte, you were correct, and I used MGE to tone down the wave height. It looks considerably better. Rodi, I don't know what to tell you. I use a couple specific mod settings that add more trees in several areas (Ascadian Isles, Bitter Coast, one other) so that's a personal preference. I have, however, endeavored to show that, if it's meant to be barren and hideous, it is. I apologize for the screenshot size, I think that's an MGE setting and I'll look into it.

I decided to strip my excessively modded Morrowind down from almost 7GB to just over 3. As a result, I just spent. . .7 and a half hours compiling, modifying, installing and tweaking Morrowind mods, because five fucking people, together, do not understand how the NIF system works. THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS. I am angry, exhausted, my neck and fingers are sore from a thousand minor coding projects, and I could eat a fucking cow, or five. But gods body, if it isn't pretty. I present to you, a short story of Morrowind, in pictures. Some of you may recognize where I am, and what I have equipped. Yes, I am that stupid. Yes, that stupid. Naturally, I missed. (I was aiming for Vivec.) The next few shots are just various Vivec things (and the very nice waterfall VFX.) Guess what I have one of left. Naturally, I miss again, but do have the presence of mind to save mid-air and crank the MGE Distant Land to a fair bit. Being level one, it didn't end well. If I come across anything else pretty, I'll shove it along to you folks. Taken from a lower post so I can be a whore: I just went through the mod readme list and pulled everything and then plugged it in and either messed around with the coding itself, or its changes in TESCS. I'm actually going to trim most of the foliage mods with more barren ones sometime this weekend/week. I'm not doing anymore modding for a couple days. Yes, you can survive a Scroll of Icarian Flight. . .if you have 2. (This is precisely why it gives you three.) You trigger it, jump. As you approach the ground, you cast another one, thereby raising your Acrobatics so high that you take no falling damage. In my jump from the top of that part of Vivec, I actually went just over the moon and landed partially in the water. There was just enough land under me that I died, however. You can survive a fall into water from any height in Morrowind, because it does not model whatever the physics are for falling into water at a high velocity. (Water resistance/buoyancy? Not sure.) I actually experimented with various levels of the Icarian Flight model of spell a few years back. I postulated that if you created a spell that did the same thing, but at varying levels of Acrobatics modification (I believe the scrolls you find set it to 500 or 1000), you could control how far you went. I was mildly successful, but often ended up in untenable places, like the side of a mountain where I would have to cast the spell to get back down by falling. The issue with that being that I'd set the duration to 2 seconds, just enough time to cast and jump, and timing that for a fall was. . .tricky. I'm actually going to make a third install of Morrowind (I downloaded the cd images, since I own the game twice, to see if it was a Steam install issues) and see if the package works on that. I do not have high hopes, but we'll see.

Your horrific mental image is forgiven in light of your avatar.

We shelved it after initial netcode problems. We should probably look into trying it again to see if it's mostly fixed before buying Vietnam.

Been playing a fair bit of this the last couple days, since RPS pointed it out. Damn good fun.

Has JoCo been mentioned here before? IUPu_ipbVB0 y4sOfO8Ei1g

I got, "I'm drowning in the ultimate gaming Wizard! - IGN.com" On my first go, no less!

It really is! But that's also in the spirit of Tribes. The voice-over work for Tribes was just so horribly over-the-top. Shazbot, for instance.

He can stop reading at "A Day In The Life Of Kvothe".

Theme parks man. Some of the stuff they have for that sort of looping attraction is really weird. But things like the Tiki-Tiki Room at Disney California, things like that (the video) where they get audience participation, and all manner of things. Great stuff. It's like I realized this morning, Loony Toons is more or less guaranteed to make me smile, no matter how I feel. Same thing with this sort of tom-foolery. Guess I'm a child somewhere in my wretched soul. I always wanted to work at a theme park when I was younger, I have to admit. However, from my understanding, unless you were an active ride/attraction 'presenter' it's pretty shit.

*Twirls his moosestash* Well played sir. Well played indeed.

Based on previous people I've vouched for not being crotchbabboons, could Rosk915 get a whitelist add, Doug? Much obliged.

Misuse of the term proto. I should have said "wanna-be". But proto sounds cooler.

Religious people actually do take religion that seriously. "Praise the lord, for I am happy because of him!" Because of a fictional, non-proven father figure with cosmic powers. You're sure it's not the Prozak. . . I digress. Religion be crazy.

SPOI-FUCKING-LERS AHEAD

I find it odd that they allow actual French, but not proto-French (Quebecois.)

That is possibly the worst thing on this earth. That music combined with religion. I need to go have a drink. Of bleach. Through my ear.

I've actually culled a couple purchases off "Now Playing" lists, and not been disappointed yet, so I do at least.

For those of you who know what I'm talking about: What the hell is Bast's angle? The ending of Day 2 has had me mighty confused/worried for a while now. Speculate, go!

Now I'll never play DeathSpank. What use is playing an action-RPG if you don't get to play inventory tetris all day long?

Indeed. I was just thinking about the discussion a page back or two, in which I longed for both, to paraphrase, meaningful companions and a talking protagonist (you). Having just finished Dragon Age 2. . . I've slightly soured on the idea, let's say.