The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind News

Top-down modded Morrowind lets you experience Vvardenfell like it's Baldur's Gate

Morrowind came out in 2002, the same year as isometric RPGs like Icewind Dale 2, Divine Divinity, Freedom Force, and Dungeon Siege. Its first-person/third-person perspective was a selling point at the time, though some would argue that playing a full 3D game with randomized to-hit chances made for an unsatisfying experience. Nowadays, thanks to the mod combo of OpenMorrowind and OpenNevermind, we can experience Morrowind as if it was a top-down CRPG complete with click-to-move and having to zoom in so you can pick up small objects...
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Massive Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt couldn't be less worried about Bethesda going for an Oblivion-style remaster: 'Modernising Morrowind would just ruin the game entirely'

These are heady days for Tamriel Rebuilt, the 24-year-old Morrowind mod that aims to build out—in a brilliant and fanatically lore-friendly way—all the parts of the titular province that Bethesda didn't get to. The team has just put out Grasping Fortune, its ninth and biggest expansion, which adds in a humungous new landmass to explore that includes Narsis, the capital city of Morrowind's merchant House Hlaalu...
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Morrowind with every texture deleted is a beautiful magenta fever dream

In my early 20s, I hopped over to Amsterdam with some friends. I'd just ended a long-term relationship and was determined to melt my brain. On the third day of our trip, we rented a cabin outside the city, surrounded by farmland and chickens, and devoured too many mushrooms...
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'Morrowind in Skyrim' fan project Skywind demos underwater combat and new spells

It's a good time to be a fan of The Elder Scrolls. Oblivion Remastered has brought the classic Bethesda RPG back into the mainstream, and we've recently seen a major update for the Tamriel Rebuilt mod. Now comes another big reveal - a new 20-minute gameplay demo for giant fan project Skywind, which aims to recreate Morrowind in the Skyrim engine. It's been two years since we last got a full showcase of this nature, and it's looking very impressive, demonstrating the likes of underwater combat and new spells. In even better news, the team tells PCGamesN it's seen a "significant" rise in interest lately as more people offer their support.

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I don't want a Morrowind remaster, I want Bethesda to write a fat cheque for the OpenMW team

t time of writing, the Oblivion remaster has generated enough money to buy France. Across the world, the gears of business churn inevitably: someone at Microsoft emails someone at Bethesda to ask, a little forcefully, which classic game they'll be making a quadrillion dollars on next...
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