Bethesda brings Oblivion, Morrowind, Call of Cthulhu to Steam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulu

He is the eldritch horror from beyond the stars who will eat your weak flesh. IA IA IA CTHULHU FATAGHAN!!!!

watch the billy and mandy episode "prank call of cthulhu". it's hilarious.

Seen it. It was funny!

I can't believe the word "funny" was just used to describe something relating to Cthulhu.

I actually caught that episode, was shocked and happily surprised to find Cthulu mixed in with children's programming. Brilliant episode too.

Roll a hundred sided dice to find out how many people die... the rest of the hundred just go insane... Most cahotic RPG ever written :P

Usually. With Fallout 3, you can. I expect that you can with Oblivion as well, which is probably why you were asking.

I'll snag that one, and maybe come back and confirm that. I played it a little bit, but couldn't get into it. It really deserves another shot,

Yeah, I've just come off after heading through the tunnels, I stuck a fair few mod's on n it worked ( they even automatically found Oblivion in the Steam folder)
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Must_Have_Mods - get the good stuff here.

Steam versions of games are basically the same thing as retail versions of games. They use the same folder structure, have the same files, etc. There's just some extra stuff added in to work with Steam. The only thing that might be different is DRM. Some games, like The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, that have DRM like SecuROM at retail have it removed when they're put on Steam.

LOL. A man cant even ask for a handout without getting voted down. I guess i wont bother with the game then.

And both are pale and weak compared to Morrowind :)

I think Fallout 3 was slightly more polished and better looking(if you could call nuclear wasteland better looking), but Oblivion was definitely more open and much styles of playing the game. And it had a crap load more quests, though none of those had Liberty Prime :(.
Morrowind I've not played, And I think it's a bit late to go back n try it out, even Oblivion is starting to show its age, but I am uber-hyped for TESV, I want Oblivion, with Fallout polish n more variances n landscape, and Mass Effects conversation system, rather than the ram rod stare i get.

Oh, I am so glad someone understands how much better Morrowind is than Fallout 3 or Oblivion. The only thing that doesn't hold up are it's graphics, which are easily fixable with a mod. You will not find a more immersive game than Morrowind. Ever.

What happened Bethesda!?!

@deanb,

As Hammer said, graphics can be updated with mods (not entirely to current standards, but good enough unless you require top-notch graphics only) and otherwise it's still the most open, fully realized, immersive game ever. I've spent something in excess of 800 hours playing it.

It is my understanding that the video game "Call of Cthulhu" is based less upon the short story "Call of Cthulhu" and more upon the short story "A Shadow over Innsmouth"

No my dark god is not in the game. Father Dagon and Mother Hydra are. Yes it pretty much is Innsmouth.

agreed

lolz. 1up. Yeah the game is hard as shit, but if you like Lovecraft its a no brainer.

WHOA WHOA WHOA

Pardon me, LS2, but I thought you just said Bethesda released a game filled with BUGS?

YOU BITE YOUR TONGUE YOU SLANDEROUS SON OF A BITCH.

Those aren't bugs...they're "Gameplay Enhancements" and they include them FREE OF CHARGE.

yes

@Dr. John Smith, MD:

I can run Morrowind on an MSI Wind that has the Intel GMA 945/950... so you really shouldn't have too much trouble. I think at the most you'll have to play at a lower resolution, so no biggy.

Awesome. Thanks guys, buying Morrowind now then, and Oblibian, CoC whenever I get a new laptop.

If your gonna get Oblivion get it now if you have the monies while it's on sale, just download it on your new laptop later.

Well, as Dalek Prime can verify, I can just come back to now later and buy it when I've gotten both more dollars and a laptop that can play it.

Oblivion had 2 things better than morrowind: combat and the compass. morrowind was a better game in every single aspect. (graphics obviously dont count)

Morrowind was a true "go anywhere kill anyone do anything" game. You didnt have loading screens at every freaking city, you had levitation magic, you could kill ANYONE, including quest/main storyline critical npcs. (it would give you a message after you did so though). Morrowind also had more area, more npcs, more dungeons, more items, more quests, more everything. I completed all of oblivion, shivering isle, knights of the nine, got max gamerscore on it, and did every quest i could find in under 200 hrs.

I put over 500 hours into my main morrowind character (roughly) and I still had a journal full of quests. Not to mention morrowind didnt have this gay "monsters leveling up" crap. Try to take on the final boss in morrowind at lvl 1, and youll die 10 minutes into the trip there. Oblivon is a dumbed down, casual verison of morrowind, and I was pretty disappointed in it, even though it was still great fun.

If you can take the time to learn morrowind, and deal with the sub-par combat, morrowind is simply a more "epic" game, and I mean epic in the true sense of the word. Its hard to start, but when you get to the point where you can kill the gods of the game, its simply an epic feeling.

Morrowind also has a big mod community around it to make it look prettier. If you liked Oblivion, please, for the love of the Emperor, pick up Morrowind, and give it a little paitence and time and love.

What mods have done with Morrowinds graphics is pretty amazing really. I'd say the only thing Oblivion has over Morrowind is the physics engine now. You can even have Oblivion style combat.

Check these out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOqKegj0T5s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDdovXgXrDY&feature=related

And it still runs better then Oblivion does on my PC.

Morrowind looks so depressing to me though. IDk I might check it out, but if the combat sux im just gonna dump it.

With those upgrades Morrowind seems like.....the......the.......ULTIMATE GAME!!!!

But, it looks like I'll need quite some free time so I better finish all the games I'm playing first.

Well Ive got Morrowind, (torrent XD) Ill try it out see if its any good. For those graphics enhancements does it majke the game alot harder to run?cuz i dont have that great of a gaming pc.

Morrowind is in my top five games of all time. FACT. BUY THIS GAME.

Morrowind is a great game. Highly recommended.

When I played both morrowind and Oblivion, I felt like I didn't have enough guidance. I never knew what I suppose to do. I suppose my hand has been held with a lo t of other games, or perhaps I just didn't try to understand it.

Perhaps I'll play one over my holidays

Yeah, the game doesn't work on Vista and pretty much can't be made to. Since the Steam system requirements specifically call out requiring Windows XP or 2000, I'm not holding my breath that they fixed any of the bugs in this release. :(

But at $11, it might be worth buying just to try. If I do, I'll report my findings here.