But....I am older than most of you here I'll bet. I was old when Pong came out. I just started playing Morrowind a few months ago. I have played CRPG's for decades and used to love the old Ultima games. In fact Morrowind is the first RPG I have played since U-7 that recaptures some of the old magic. I like this game so much that I have even inserted some of my favorite music from U-6 and U-7. I found this forum and this site while looking to learn more about this game and the universe in which it exists.
Greetings all,

-Baer

Hello and welcome!

Great to find someone else who likes U7 - I've yet to find another game which allows the same amount of item interaction (baking bread was fun!!!), and has anything like the NPC schedules...

Also good to see that Morrowind appeals to a wide age range...the oldest Morrowind players I know of - though I don't think they post here...yet - are over 60.

wow there's players over 60??

welcome baer! and just how old r u neways?

i wanna try some of the old ultima games but MS-DOS hates windows XP (and me ) so the only one i cud play is ultima 9 but i have no idea where to get it from.

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I am over 60 (by a few months). I have been computer gaming since text mainframe games in the 60's. I played Zork and some of the early Ultimas on an Apple ][. The first PC game I got hooked on was Empite by Intersil. I played many games of that on my old B&W Compaq 286 notebook while flying to Asia and back a number of times in the 80's. My favorite RPGs are Ultima-6 and 7 and I have played Ultima 9. U-9 was not so bad once the hardeware caught up with the ineficient coding of the game and if you used some of the plug ins like the one that let you put in your own avatar name.
I liked Baludors Gate and Neverwinter Nights but I really like Morrowind. Right now the only games I am playing are Morrowind, CIv III and VGA Planets.
There are lots of us "Old Guys" who play. In fact my wife (lots younger than me I might add but still older than most of you) LOVES Dungeon Seige. I had to upgrade her Vid card so she could get higher fps while playing it for the umpteent time.
BTW, if you liked Ultims 7, put some of the music from U-7 into Morrowind to replace some of the music that is already there. It really takes you back. :-)

ahh interesting ^_^ well, ur now officially one of the oldest people ive met on the net 2 date nice 2 know not just young people can enjoy gaming

ur wife likes dungeon siege eh? me too! pretty addictive game but still pales in comparison 2 morrowind

i quite like neverwinter nights too but i mainly like making mods for it (cos its so damn easy!) as for baldur's gate i havent really played many of their games... i played icewind dale which was by them, man that game sucked! but the game they did for PS2 is quite good (forgotten the name of it now) ^_^

and wow thats quite an array of ancient games u've listed there, havent even heard of half of em! :lol:

mainly im a recent gamer, only been into em for the past 7 or so years. mainly cos im only 15 i cant touch DOS. mainly cos windows XP doesnt like it but also cos it scares me C:\DIR
C:\F
Beginning format...
woops! :blink:

Welcome Baer.

Ultima 6 was the game that really introduced me to roleplaying, Ultima 7 firmly sealed the deal!

Welcome to the forums B)

Thanks, and by the way, I am 60 but I am NOT OLD!.

DOS, you mean..... C:\ CD\Ultima6 U6,.....now how hard was that :-)
I must admit that having a different config.sys for each game was a pain.

I remember vividly having to make boot up disks for U7 Black Gate...all I ever learned about DOS was because of U7, and the challenge to make it run on my 486 :lol:

And it's true - you are only as old as you allow others to make you feel! :lol:

Haha yeah that boot-disk, I can feel a nostalgic tear stinging my eye...

We got ultima vi when my dad brought home our 1st cd drive for the pc. IT WAS DUEL SPEED! Woah!!!! haha :lol:

Anyways' one of the cd's that came with it had wing commander 1 (another classic) and ultima vi on it.

lol yeah i cud prolly use it if i tried - and if XP didnt hate it

im more of a phobe than anything

Classic? I bought U-6 and Wing Commander 1 when they were NEW and came on a bunce of floppys. In fact U-6 initally came on 5" floppys but you could get it on 3 " floppys if you wanted to order them. My computer at that time was a 20 Mhz 286 with 4 meg of Ram ( a lot for those days). U-6 and Wingcommander made me get my firsy mouse ( up till then real men dident need no stinkin mouse), and my first sound card, an original Soundblaster. In order to get the game to run well I had to write cutome config.sys and autoexec.bat files along with a little batch file that changed out my configuration depending on which game I was loading. I still have my final save game files for those two games, the one just berore I "saved the human universe from the Kilrathi or Saved Britannia". Just wait ten years and we will be talking about the "Classic game Morrowind".

(Typos, Ouch, sorry)

WOW, that is old! (No offense) I remember playing Wing Commander, but I don't really remember it all that much. But anyway, it's always good to see the appeal of a game like Morrowind, which will become a classic someday, to all generations.

custom .bat files? now thats the sorta stuff that scares me about DOS games.

also if u make typos in ur post u can edit it by clicking the little edit button to the top right of ur post