More particularly, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition for the X-Box.
I am an RPG novice. Having played through KOTR I, I thought I had some idea of what platform RPGs were all about. I was wrong. I feel like I have no background in this type of game and I need some help getting centered. First of all, I am completely aware that I’m about three years behind the curve here, but that’s what happens when you only shop the used racks at Game Stop.
Second, my character is a Nord Spellsword. I had no intelligent input on this, as I just picked things randomly. At this point, I’m at level 2, and my primary weapon ability, longsword, is at I think 49. This is the only skill I’ve been able to consistently improve, as the concept of using a longsword to hunt rats, squibs and mudcrabs is pretty simple.
Now my questions: first, given my skill rating at longsword, why am I completely inept at hitting anything with my sword? My combat experience involves equipping my sword and shield, approaching the enemy, and then madly mashing the right trigger button to wildly swing my sword, making contact about 1/5 attempts. If I’m this pathetic at 49, what’s the max rating you can get? 1,000? Also, how high can you level a character overall?
Second, at my level, is it expected that I should be able to enter one of the caverns, crypts, whatever and survive? So far, the only thing I can consistently defeat is the random creatures running about topside. The aforementioned rats, squibs and mudcrabs are my favorite targets, but I also dabble in slaughterfish and those pterodactyl-like birds. Anything bi-pedal is right out. I conquered one crypt, but that was only because I had agreed to escort some merchant to the next town over, and she turned out to be a better fighter than me. I let her do all the heavy combat work while I just danced around the edges occasionally flailing around with my sword. By the way, I need to find her again and introduce her to the business end of my flail sword. My payment for “escorting” her was a pair of Boots of Blinding Speed. They give you great speed, but at the cost of being 100% blind. Ha ha, very funny. I now have heard that there is a bounty on her head, which I intend to collect once I can get this combat thing straightened out. She’d easily hand me my ass on a platter at this point.
I’ve got a bunch more, but I’ll leave it at that. It’s a very cool game, much cooler once I figured out the basics. For example, the first few hours I played, I had been using an axe on the theory that any Nord character should automatically be good with an axe. It wasn’t until I finally studied the stats page that I realized I should be using a longsword (major ability) rather than the axe (minor ability). My domination of mudcrabs went up significantly at that point.
One final thing, if one more non-player character backs me into a corner in such a way that I can’t get out and have to re-boot, this game is headed right back to the used rack at the neighborhood merchant.