jepsen1977: Playing
Battlefield Bad Company 2 on PC. This game wouldn't work on my previous computer due to an onboard soundcard but I got a new PC last summer and now the game works and still looks good. I'm guessing the game has been patched with modern hardware in mind because you can play the game at 1080p on a 144hz monitor that is in the options menu so coded into the game. Game runs flawlessly on Windows 10 64-bit. Only downside is the Origin client but aside from being EA the client isn't too bad.
Awesome campaign and multiplayer.
I also really enjoyed Battlefield 1, while I'm at it.
samuraigaiden: I playing Morrowind. It's a replay, actually. Played it for the first time circa 2012, modded the heck out of it and didn't very far.
This time I'm doing a no mods, vanilla playthrough (GOG version). I've already finished the main quest, now I'm playing the Tribunal expansion.
Despite it's buggy fame, the game is surprisingly stable. I only got 3 or 4 CTDs during the main quest - I also completed 3 guild quest lines - and all were related to bugged items. The most serious technical problem I've noticed is that some quest related items stay in your inventory despite having been "delivered" to an NPC. This happened a few times, and it causes CTDs. Fortunately, the easy solution is to just manually remove the item from your inventory. There was also one key that apparently was instanced twice in the world and if picked up both "copies" the game would crash.
Of course, there are also some quest related bugs, but honestly far fewer than I expected. I think there were just 2 quests in the entire game that broke and forced me to reload an earlier save to complete.
Without mods and fixes, it's even more important to keep several saves. I pretty much create a new save every time I play it, sometimes more than one if I play for long.
And let me tell you, Morrowind is an absolutely fantastic game despite it's many flaws. The main quest has one of the best storylines of any RPG I have played. They achieve one of the hardest things to do in a videogame story, and that is to keep you guessing about the nature of what's really going on all the way through. In fact, arguably the story is open to interpretation and doesn't have one definitive reading. It's kind of amazing to see a major game deliver this.
A few pro tips for anyone who decides to check this game out:
Guild quests are all early game quests. All of them, including the Dunmer Houses. You will not want to go back to doing this stuff once you are deep into the main quest.
You don't have to do everything in one playthrough. In fact, it's recommended you don't try to do that. Pick the guild quest lines that seems most interesting to you or more adequate for your character and do those.
It's extremely easy to become overleveled in Morrowind, so there is no objective need to min/max and try to get a perfect level up. Play the way you feel it.
The best order to tackle content is this: Find Caius Cosades > Do all the guilds quest lines and side quests you feel like doing > Main quest > Tribunal > Bloodmoon.
