(November 14, 2011 at 8:09 pm)Shell B Wrote: Me too. Morrowind was actually where I picked up playing Elder Scrolls games. I played forever and never got bored with it.
Yeah, I started with Morrowind as well. I found the game of the year edition in a bargain bin for something like $20 and figured I'd give it a shot. I've always been a fan of fantasy RPGs (yep, I was a D&D geek), but never found a PC implementation that did it right, so I didn't play games in the genre for many, many years - other than Lord of the Rings Online.
The $20 I paid for Morrowind (with the two expansions) was money well spent many times over. Compare that to the $10 or so a month to play a typical MMORPG - no comparison at all.
As a rule, I almost never buy games when they're first released, and also almost never pay full price for them. So many games don't have enough content / replay value to make it worth the price in my view. Besides, the game will still be new to me when it's in the bargain bin a year later.
I gladly paid the $60 to pre-purchase TES5, knowing that if it had half the content of Morrowind, and was at least as good as Oblivion, it would easily be worth the price. I can't remember the last time I paid full price for a game (for me, I did buy Little Big Planet 2 for my son).
I have not been disappointed so far - at least in the game, my 6-month old laptop (w/Nvidia 525M) does struggle a bit with it at times.
As an aside, someone needs to make a sub-$1000 laptop with a 17" display and acceptable 3D gaming performance at native resolution.
