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Old 11-20-2011, 02:23 PM   #222
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Originally Posted by DrA View Post
When did this series become so popular. I remember when the third one came out it was relatively obscure compared to other mainstream titles.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind came out on XBOX back in June 2002, but a lot of people were turned off by the fact that eventually after so much playing and wear and tear on the disc, it would cause the game's save file(s) to eventually become corrupt and you had no way of continuing, even with a disc in better shape. Mad annoying.

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Originally Posted by Mathias Gonzanuka View Post
Morrowind was fantastic.
Especially the G.O.T.Y. version, which includes 2 expansions, Bloodmoon and Tribunal. In Bloodmoon, you can travel to a far-off land to the northwest of Vvardenfell and eventually the Daedra Lord Hircine makes you a participant in his hunt, and winning the hunt makes you his "champion" and completes the main quest.

In Tribunal, you travel to a land south of Vvardenfell called Mournhold, where it's up to you to unravel a nefarious plot by Almalexia to take absolute control of everything in her wake. Eventually you have to destroy the Heart of Lorkhan, as it wasn't destroyed as originally alluded to in the end of Morrowind's own main quest. Doing this kills Almalexia, thereby killing the Almsivi Tribunal that started the whole mess, and the prophecies foretold of what the Nerevarine would do are concluded.

They are both worthy additions to the TES III: Morrowind experience. On one last side note, my absolute favorite quest in any of the games to date has to be "A Star Is Born" from the Tribunal expansion. One of the actors in a play, The Horrors of Castle Xyr, has fallen ill at the last hour and the playwright asks if you'd step in. Agree and he hands you the script, which anyone who knows from playing knows, READ THE ENTIRE SCRIPT AND MEMORIZE IT! That's because when you tell him you're ready to go on with the play, you are paid based on your performance. Eventually you come to one of your lines in the script: As I hear, all are Telvanni., and according to the script
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(Note from the playwright: this line should be delivered without sarcasm. Trust the audience to laugh -- it never fails, regardless of the politics of the locals.)
; however in an ironic (and hilarious) turn of events, an assassin from the crowd attacks you and the actress. Fend him off and kill him, and then see the playwright for your reward based on your performance, and he tells you to take your gold and rest, far away from there, as everyone has by then had a very long evening.
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