Maybe I’ll play Morrowind again some day! I don’t think I actually finished it but I did play it quite a bit. Those various environments you mentioned sound awesome and definitely only partially familiar.
I thought, all video games would have similarly interesting worlds
This is super interesting to me. I cut my teeth on NES games so most games I played impressed me on some level. I didn’t like most games out there honestly but when games provided the right mix of things I was so in. I remember being very impressed with Morrowind and thinking it was more advanced and deep than any game I’d seen at that point!
If you do play it again, there’s a cool community rewrite of the engine: https://openmw.org/
It makes it more easily playable on modern operating systems and has various quality-of-life improvements, like greater rendering distance and practically no loading times.
And well, Morrowind was kind of my first ‘proper’ game. Beforehand, the best thing I played was a Diablo clone, which came in a box set with 9 other games. So, Morrowind definitely blew me away, but it did also set me up for some unrealistic expectations… 🫠
Yes, you do need the original game files. Personally, I ripped my CD from way-back-when and have it pointed to that, but I’m pretty sure, you can also point it at the game files for Steam and other launchers.
Maybe I’ll play Morrowind again some day! I don’t think I actually finished it but I did play it quite a bit. Those various environments you mentioned sound awesome and definitely only partially familiar.
This is super interesting to me. I cut my teeth on NES games so most games I played impressed me on some level. I didn’t like most games out there honestly but when games provided the right mix of things I was so in. I remember being very impressed with Morrowind and thinking it was more advanced and deep than any game I’d seen at that point!
If you do play it again, there’s a cool community rewrite of the engine: https://openmw.org/
It makes it more easily playable on modern operating systems and has various quality-of-life improvements, like greater rendering distance and practically no loading times.
And well, Morrowind was kind of my first ‘proper’ game. Beforehand, the best thing I played was a Diablo clone, which came in a box set with 9 other games. So, Morrowind definitely blew me away, but it did also set me up for some unrealistic expectations… 🫠
Neat! I assume you still need to have the original game files for that engine rewrite to run?
Haha yeah that is a crazy game to get started with.
Yes, you do need the original game files. Personally, I ripped my CD from way-back-when and have it pointed to that, but I’m pretty sure, you can also point it at the game files for Steam and other launchers.
Nice. Thanks for your responses!