To people who don't read the books : V

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:48 am

All i can say is DO!
I came across a camp with some people mauled by a bear... took the loot etc, found a book.. pritty lengthly book but had i not completed reading it, i wouldn't of learnt that ALOT of gold was stashed in the area .. somewhere i wouldn't of bothered looking as i was jsut passing

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:21 pm

It seems a mite pointless to expect people who don't like reading to read about why they should read.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:14 am

Because i've seen people who read the forum post about how they just take books inagme without reading them... I'm merely just stating what a great find i had, just because i read the book..

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:32 pm

The in-game books? Yeah some of them are really good.

The Mirror, Bone, and Silence are a few of my favorites.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Silence_(book)
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:The_Mirror

Edited for typos.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:25 am

I read journals sure but not books.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:07 pm

It all depends on my character.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:58 am

ppl who play video games don't read :ooo:

.................. :user:

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:19 am

I love reading the books. That's where a lot of the lore is. It adds so much more to the game.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:43 am

Refer to Signature (below)

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:21 pm

The directly gameplay-related books/notes are normally pretty obvious, but I think if you don't read the books in the game you're missing out on a lot of what makes the world so expansive. Plus a lot of them are just well written short stories in their own right. They can be time-consuming if you just find a random book on the way to get a quest finished, but it's well worth keeping them, stashing them and putting aside a good hour to sit and read the stories.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:35 pm

I don't read em. I collect em till I have too many fill the bookshelf and sit by the fire reading em while I roll up a fat cigarette irl. Damn though, this might change my mind about that. Was it just a journal or a book with a title?

My faves are all the creation myths and stuff like that. I enjoy how its loosely based off real metaphysics

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:51 pm

You could turn the books into videos and I would not watch them. They are terribly boring and I hate them.

I do read the journals, though, which might be the books you are referring to. They are useful, because they tell you about the people and makes them a good read.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:05 am

Errrm, dunno lol... i just pick up every book going, didn't realise the difference, it may of been a journal - but untill this time, i never bothered reading them.. ever, just put them on my bookshelf... now, after discovering over 500gold and some gems stashed away... i'ma read everything now lol.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:22 pm

The "books" aren't "real books"- we speak of ten-fifteen pages like a 7 yrs old kid diary -so even the lazy ones can read them :biggrin:

i know, it's difficult for someone "to read a book" in 2012 :bunny:

but without the "books" you loose 90% of "game's immersion" tu sabe

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:26 pm

The directly gameplay-related books/notes are normally pretty obvious, but I think if you don't read the books in the game you're missing out on a lot of what makes the world so expansive. Plus a lot of them are just well written short stories in their own right. They can be time-consuming if you just find a random book on the way to get a quest finished, but it's well worth keeping them, stashing them and putting aside a good hour to sit and read the stories.

^this. It's one of the thing's I do when my husband is home and playing his game's, as he often asks me to help him with something. I hate haveing to pause during a fight or while doing something sneaky. ( think AC:brotherhood, mini-games, putting the paintings in order etc. that kinda thing)

Their are a couple of Journal's that lead to "hidden treasure", A couple of book's that lead/hint at quests.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:14 pm

Errrm, dunno lol... i just pick up every book going, didn't realise the difference, it may of been a journal - but untill this time, i never bothered reading them.. ever, just put them on my bookshelf... now, after discovering over 500gold and some gems stashed away... i'ma read everything now lol.

The journals are really cool. Some tell you about pieces of a quest that do not get a quest marker and you would not find these optional parts without these. One can find more than extra treasures by reading them.

Try pick pocketing NPCs. A few carry journals with them!

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:17 am

The journals are really cool. Some tell you about pieces of a quest that do not get a quest marker and you would not find these optional parts without these. One can find more than extra treasures by reading them.

Try pick pocketing NPCs. A few carry journals with them!

pickpocketed journals are the same then? can lead to elsewhere treasures?

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:22 am

I read journals sure but not books.

If you don't read books then you know nothing of the game's world ... It's a bad way to play a TES game ; half of the charm of these games resides in what is said in the books.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:06 am

The "books" aren't "real books"- we speak of ten-fifteen pages like a 7 yrs old kid diary -so even the lazy ones can read them :biggrin:

i know, it's difficult for someone "to read a book" in 2012 :bunny:

but without the "books" you loose 90% of "game's immersion" tu sabe

I do read real books. It is then not laziness that lets some read every trash.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:48 pm

pickpocketed journals are the same then? can lead to elsewhere treasures?

Spoiler

I once pick-pocketed a journal out of an NPC and it triggered a quest! That was awesome.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:31 pm

I looove books (and real books, too). I pick up everything I can, read it and store in a shelf later, unless it's something I want to read again, on the road.
And yes, they can be pretty useful. Journals give you game info and a lot of books give you lore info, so I say, yay for reading! :read:

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:25 am

I do read real books. It is then not laziness that lets some read every trash.

You really expect to find Dante's Divine Comedy in a Tes action/"Rpg" ? :biggrin:

this is a game,and the "Mini-books" that you've described as "trash" are essentials to understand the "lore" and some game events/dynamics.

So yes,for me is simple*preference* not reading a ten-fifteen pages "book" in a game (in particular in the light of my previous statement) but if you don't want no ones forces you to read them of course (or to read only those of your interest)

After all this is a Tes game where "you can do all what you want"...remember what Todd have said. :bunny:

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:13 pm

You really expect to find Dante's Divine Comedy in a Tes action/"Rpg" ? :biggrin:

No, which is one of the reasons why I do not read them and perhaps it is also the reason why some read everything in hope of finding a good read.

Anyhow, why start a game, then run around in a 3D world to read a virtual book? I see no sense in it when it has real books and really good ones, too. Just turn off the game for a while. The forum holds more reading treasures, too, than the game.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:44 pm

It`s true that a lot of people don`t like reading.

But read. You find out things and it`s good for you.

Your English will even improve.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:01 pm

It's not far from the truth to say that you're missing 75% of the game if you don't read the books. They are all very short anyway, some of them are no longer than pamphlets. But they give you a lot of insight into the world that you simply can't get anywhere else.

Besides, some of the books are really entertaining. The Real Barenziah, The Argonian Account, and A Dance in Fire are all great fun. The Wolf Queen is good too, but I wouldn't recommend anyone read that until they have gained a bit of appreciation for the history of Tamriel - that book throws a lot of random yet important names around and its easy to get lost if you haven't been paying too much attention.