Tag: Elder scrolls

The good news from Oblivion

The game is gorgeous. There is no other way of saying this. Morrowind was the first game I ever played where one of my first actions was to sit on a rock and watch the sun go down. The landscapes were very alien, with charred valleys, giant mushrooms and flying jellyfish. Oblivion is several orders of magnitude better looking, with…

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New Oblivion gallery

I created a new section in my main gallery for Oblivion screenshots. This time around, I will document the adventures of Selena in Cyrodiil , my main character, right from the beginning. 

Morrowind 2.0

The news of more delays for Oblivion last December were enough to motivate me to get as close as possible to a new version of Morrowind. Four years after its release, Morrowind has spawned so many mods that it has become possible to literally upgrade the game to a whole new experience. Getting there not an easy task though, but…

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New Morrowind gallery

I opened up a new section in my main gallery for Morrowind screenshots. One of the albums in this gallery is dedicated to the adventures of Bastet in Vvardenfel , my main character since I started playing the game in 2002. Unfortunately, I started taking screenshots on a regular basis only late in the game. Hopefully, I will fill in…

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Welcome to Vvardenfell

Where do I even begin talking about Morrowind ? How about with a shot from one of the very first scenes in the game ? From the moment you step out of the prison ship that brought you, an outlander, to the Land of the Dunmers, one thing is clear : this is way more than a simple game. The…

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Beyond Morrowind

Bethesda’s latest chapter to their Elders Scrolls saga, Oblivion, is promising leaps in advanced AI and gorgeous graphics. Their previous game, Morrowind, was so beautiful when it was released 4 years ago, that the first steps outside of the village in the beginning gave an overwhelming sense of freedom. I remember one of the very first things I did the…

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