Morrowind 2019 – 17 Years Later

Posted on 9 April 2019 by FoxTwo

I remembered buying Morrowind back in 2002. I had that box in my hands, reading the back – NPCs remember you! They respond to your actions! Epic RPG! I was sold. Before this, I have never heard of Tamriel, Morrowind, or any other things related to Nirn. I played this strictly vanilla – no mods, and only buying the DLCs Tribunal and Bloodmoon when they were released. I had a whale of a time!

Now, back then I had a crappy toon. It was a mish-mash of builds. At first I wanted to be a kung-fu master, so I went with the custom class option. I specialised in un-armoured and un-armed combat. Mid-way through I realised I was getting beat up really hard, so I suddenly switched to Heavy Armour and started using a sword and shield. So my skills levelled up in those. Then even later on, I decided to ditch the heavy armour and weapons, and went with light armour and short blades (knives, shortswords etc).

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Witcher 3 – First Impressions

Posted on 20 May 2015 by FoxTwo

It is VERY RARE that I buy a game “at launch” nowadays. Most times I wait for sale – Winter Sale, Summer Sale etc, where I get anywhere from 30% to 80% off some titles. Yes I have been spoilt by Steam as well as several other online shops.

As an example, even for Grand Theft Auto V, I didn’t buy it “at launch”. I still haven’t bought it, and it’s one of those that I am definitely going to get “sometime soon”, but “not at this price”.

However, for Witcher 3, I had very tempting offers. GreenManGaming had an offer that was so good, that I was able to get 30% (3% more than the 27% off offered by GMG) off the launch price. That was kind of the push I needed to get it on “Launch-Day”. So, applying all the coupons and discount codes, I pre-purchased the game.

May 19 came. Because I am on the “other side of the world”, May 19 for me is May 18th for you. So I was thinking I won’t be able to play anything until May 20th, when it is May 19 for you guys. How wrong I was! On May 18th my time, I received an email from GMG with my activation key. So I went to GOG.com (yeah the guys that do not do DRM on their games!) to activate it. Yes I can play it without Steam. I can just click on “witcher3.exe” and the game runs without any DRM checks 🙂

What can I say when I clicked the PLAY button?

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Elite Dangerous – Beta 1 Thoughts

Posted on 6 August 2014 by FoxTwo

I was just a kid when I first played “Elite”. I have fond memories of it, rushing home from school everyday, forgetting homework, and just sat myself down in front of the computer and then flying off into space.

30 years later, the same creator that made “Elite”, gives us “Elite Dangerous“. At the core, it’s still the 1984 game Elite, but updated with modern graphics and multiplayer capability.

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