Oblivion had no such thing and vampirism was one of my favorite mechanics in that game! So I decided to give the game a chance, despite it’s outdated graphics. Not only that but if your character had turned into a vampire you could also join several different vampire clans to hone your vampiric abilities. After a quick read through some Wiki-articles I found out that Morrowind had way more factions to join than Oblivion had, and the factions of Oblivion were some of my favorite content of that game. After all, judging a game by its graphics is rather shallow and Oblivion certainly had some questionable graphical qualities as well (like the faces. The graphics may be a bit dated but I must admit there’s a certtain charm to them.Īfter my initial emotions had subsided I decided to do some research on the game anyway. That’s pretty much how I justified not exploring the matter further and preemptively decided Oblivion was better. “Oblivion isn’t perfect but at least the combat doesn’t consist of 2 opposing characters playing whack-a-mole against each other until one falls”. “So THIS is the supposed superior Elder Scrolls game?” I thought. Although I remember looking up videos of Morrowid online just to see what the fuss was about and I remember pretty much falling to the floor with laughter looking at the outdated graphics and animations. As a naive 13 year old who defined his entire personality based on his interests I took this critique quite personally and decided not to play Morrowind out of spite. Though a quick glance at the internet forums of the time revealed that a large part of the Elder Scrolls fanbase thought the game was rather underwhelming compared to it’s much deeper and complex predecessor Morrowind. I actually first heard of the game after having played the fourth entry of the series, Oblivion, which at the time was the most complex game I had ever played. I have a long and complex history with the third entry of The Elder Scrolls Series, Morrowind. Morrowind Review - Fourth Time's the charm I guess Do tell me if you play battlerealms maybe we can play online on a map. The others that I play was the game Spellforce, Heroes might and Magic 5, older games like red alert 2( you can run this even on a very weak 2004 computer) and my favorite strategy game Battlerealms! A 2001 game.
That is the predecessor to Oblivion even earlier! These two games have a charm to them that I don't find modern Skyrim have. Elder Scrolls Oblivion yep the grandfather of Skyrim. In that era, I was playing Call Duty Modern warfare 4. Your laptop is not a low spec one at all! Saying that you will be able to play a lot of good games comfortably. It was an era where the most powerful card was the gtx 8800.Ī modern laptop with integrated graphic would stomp on my 2007 rig and it is highly overclock! I remember putting my core 2 duo at a FSB of 450 on my asus motherboard. It was the standard for gaming on good price and it was as powerful or slightly more powerful if I recall right as the previous generation high end the gtx 7800 during that time.
when I had the nvidia 8600gt graphic card, a midrange graphic card for its time. There's lots of platform games that could even run on a mobile phone, for example.Īn intel hd3000 is graphic is slightly powerful than my gaming rig in 2007 or about equal in performance. If you don't have a Steam account yet, register one and browse the indy games on there. Minecraft is another good one if you like building stuff. You could also try Half-Life 1, HL2 and EP1 & EP2, perhaps. Even the older version is still good, even though it's so dated now. I still play UT2004 all the time and it still looks gorgeous, so can heartily recommend it. This is a 1999 DX7 game and will run like greased lightening on anything remotely modern. You could also try the original version, Unreal Tournament. Yes, the game is over a decade old and is DX8, but it's still surprisingly taxing on a graphics card, especially a low end one. Which model of Intel CPU do you have? I'm asking this, because the more recent ones can be surprisingly powerful and will allow you to play fps games ok - ie you'll get no studying done.įor example, my 2700K can actually play Unreal Tournament 2004 pretty well at 1080p.