The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind News

Morrowind remake mod Skywind still looks like it could help my Skyrim-addled brain properly fall in love with the weirdest Elder Scrolls in latest showcase

While not as close to release as its sibling-of-sorts Skyblivion, we've been getting regular looks at what Morrowind remake mod Skywind for a looooong time now. The latest of these peeks at its team's efforts to reinvent The Elder Scrolls 3 in Skyrim's engine came as part of a charity modding streamathon, and featured a nice stroll around Vivec.

I have one job here at PC Gamer and it's this: reminding you all that I really like Morrowind quite a lot. They tell me that's "not a personality," in response to which I begin levitating...
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Here's playable mahjong in Morrowind, boss, just like you ordered

I like to think I'm a relatively smart person; I can often remember most of my ABCs and it only takes me around five seconds to add seven to something. But one thing will remain forever beyond me: mahjong, the Chinese tile-based game that I mostly know as 'that one Yakuza minigame I simply don't interact with.' The fact is: it's impossible to learn. The other fact is: I've never seriously attempted to learn it. These facts are unrelated, to my mind...
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Larian publishing chief wades into the fray, says Morrowind updated with a modern combat system 'would sell like f**king hotcakes'

Bruce Nesmith has an enviable list of design and writing credits earned over a long history on some of Bethesda's greatest games: Daggerfall, Oblivion, Skyrim (on which he served as lead designer), Fallout 3 and 4, and others. None of which prevented him from being extremely wrong in his recent assessment that "the reality of playing Morrowind would not stand the test of time."..
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Skyrim's design lead says if you play Morrowind today, you will 'cringe': 'The reality of playing Morrowind would not stand the test of time'

The PC Gamer review of Morrowind scored it an 83 back in 2002, which as the disclaimer at the top will inform you, is the lowest score a mainline Elder Scrolls game has got from the UK mag to date. That may stir feelings of confusion and unrest in you as it does "the Morrowind enjoyers of the current PC Gamer team," but Skyrim's own design lead Bruce Nesmith reckons fan demand for a remake has more to do with fuzzy nostalgia than it does the actual experience of playing Morrowind...
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