'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN
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I regret not to have played these Elder Scrolls games when they were new. These are really special games. At the time, I wasn't a fan of western RPGs and leaned heavily into JRPGs. But man, I regret it.
Morrowind is undoubtedly better today than when it was released. The thousands and thousands of mods, thundreds of mod lists, dozens of tools, and hell even the complete, open source, crossplatform reimplementation of the core game engine and its crazy good multiplayer fork, all add up to today being an even better time to experience the game and the community!
I highly recommend picking up the base game and then playing it through OpenMW, with minimal mods the first playthrough (tho unofficual bugfix patch and the like are still probably a good idea)
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Morrowind is undoubtedly better today than when it was released. The thousands and thousands of mods, thundreds of mod lists, dozens of tools, and hell even the complete, open source, crossplatform reimplementation of the core game engine and its crazy good multiplayer fork, all add up to today being an even better time to experience the game and the community!
I highly recommend picking up the base game and then playing it through OpenMW, with minimal mods the first playthrough (tho unofficual bugfix patch and the like are still probably a good idea)
The "I Heart Vanilla" pack is supposed to be good for that, I run with Just Good Morrowind, plays extremely well on the steamdeck too.
It's still by far my favourite of the series.
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I have gone back and played Morrowind. Multiple times. Because it is, in fact, a game I want to play again.
It’s almost like that’s the reason people are asking for a remaster.
Yeah, Morrowind is my favorite game of all time.
These days I play it with higher res textures and a mod to make the wildlife less insanely hostile via the excellent OpenMW.
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Yes, I do, and I have recently. Next question!
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I think if they did a ground-up remake/reimagining of Arena or Daggerfall, it could still be compelling. Not a simple remaster, though.
That being said, there is apparently a Unity port of Daggerfall that appears quite decent, and goes a long way towards modernizing an otherwise ancient game.
The Daggerfall remake is more of a source port…. But it’s amazing.
Daggerfall needs a certain degree of modding but the source port makes it super easy to install mods for it.
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If they don’t have the code anymore they could just fund OpenMW with 100k $ and take that.
It's already extremely good and basically finished.
But now each minor new version of the engine would be a new re-release of the game.
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Yes, please stop asking for remakes or reboots or rereleases. There hasn't been a AAA game I've cared about in years. It's all derivative shit.
Everything is derivitive if your pedantic enough
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I sure would. And I didn't even want to play Skyrim all the way through the first time.
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Morrowind only sold ~4 million units. I think you're overestimating how big the fan base is. The fan base is loyal, opinionated, and vocal, but small.
As of 2010 according to your link. And that was before it went digital/backwards compatible on Xbox One with a whole announcement.
I know I bought it for my One as soon as I could back in 2018. And I bought it at least one other time since, when I got my PC.
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I have gone back and played Morrowind. Multiple times. Because it is, in fact, a game I want to play again.
It’s almost like that’s the reason people are asking for a remaster.
did you read the article
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Ok I did. And I'll play it again, too. It was the best Elder Scrolls game to date.
The only thing that could make it better is updated visuals, better combat, and NPCs that actually move around and have schedules.
Oblivion and Skyrim have slightly better combat, better visuals, and NPCs that walk around. And nothing else that made Morrowind so fucking good. Let Kirkbride write more than 1 or 2 quest lines, god damn it.
Morrowind was my favorite. I couldn't play Oblivion for more than an hour and I have tried multiple times over the years. Something about that game just bores me to death. Skyrim was good though, after getting some used to.
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Morrowind was my favorite. I couldn't play Oblivion for more than an hour and I have tried multiple times over the years. Something about that game just bores me to death. Skyrim was good though, after getting some used to.
Same for me. In the moment I left the starting dungeon I lost all interest in exploring the world. Tried it 3 times over the years and never progressed further. I am wondering if the remake might be different and worth another try...
I heard so much good about oblivion that I really see me enjoying it. -
Everything they make new is complete shit, so they just remake the good stuff from back in the days. I mean, I get it. Bit lazy though, and what are they going to do after all the remastered editions? Re-remastering the remastered editions?
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Meanwhile I just got into retrogaming (as a PS1 kid) and I'm amazed by how.. just all around better old games are, unless you want realistic graphics. You don't need battle passes and daily quests to have an entertaining experience, just a d-pad and a couple of actions (one can be jump)
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I have no problem with Daggerfall Unity, why should Morrowind be a problem?
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I play it repeatedly, every few years or so. It has it's flaws, but it's still one of the best games ever made.
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As of 2010 according to your link. And that was before it went digital/backwards compatible on Xbox One with a whole announcement.
I know I bought it for my One as soon as I could back in 2018. And I bought it at least one other time since, when I got my PC.
The article was updated in 2023 with the most recent data.
Almost all of the sales of videogames are front-loaded. Most at launch (or at the launch of a re-release), and then it falls off hard over a couple of years. Morrowind came out in 2002. It's incredible that Bethesda even released any sales data still by 2010. The units sold since then would be immaterial to the conversation.
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I sure would. And I didn't even want to play Skyrim all the way through the first time.
Yeah, I never finished the main quest or all the factions in Skyrim. I did everything in Morrowind. That game is the most immersive game I've ever played. Nothing has gotten close since. Even with the shitty combat system.
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Everything they make new is complete shit, so they just remake the good stuff from back in the days. I mean, I get it. Bit lazy though, and what are they going to do after all the remastered editions? Re-remastering the remastered editions?
Nah, that's Spiderweb Software.
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I don't think it's just because it's weird. It's because it's weird and immersive. Part of what makes it so immersive is that there's no modern fast travel. There are in game fast travel options but they can only get you to major settlements, or fortresses that you've found and cleared, or whatever point you've marked that you can use the recall spell to. Beyond that your on your own two feet. You want to get to the Urshilaku camp? Better start walking because you can't fast travel there. And at the start of the game you're slow as fuck. I still remember it being quite an adventure to get from Seyda Neen to Balmora on foot.
And that's to not even mention the quests. I don't wish the for the Morrowind style journal, but the quests didn't have a huge waypoint telling you exactly where to go. If you wanted to know where you had to go you had to listen to the directions you were given and then actually try to follow them. One of my more memorable side quests from Morrowind was where I misunderstood the directions, took the wrong left turn and kept searching for a farm almost all the way to Caldera. The actual farm was pretty much just around the corner had I taken the right turn. I don't even remember what the quest itself was about. I only remember getting lost.
I remember getting a high enough acrobatics and enough skooma to "fast travel" by finding a high place to jump across the map from. Good times
