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Morrowind with mods can look almost current-gen. Here's a look at OpenMW running 300+ mods.
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Morrowind and Melee are better now than they've ever been. Melee modding scene is unreal.
I never got into Morrowind. Oblivion was my first real go at ES. I'd love to try this at some point will keep an eye on it.
My big issue with Morrowind mods in the past is that they tend to remove the fog. A combination of slow movement and limited visibility made Morrowind feel bigger than it actually was.
The only game where you can say "I've fought mud crabs more fearsome than you!" and have it be a heroic claim.
It looks nice, but I wouldn't say it looks current gen. The moment you see the spacing on the grass and objects that are supposed to be rounded not be so round, which is the majority of that trailer, it immediately removes that notion.
Impressive work nonetheless, especially for a game I hate. But they should up the polygons on some of the terrain and add in more grass.
Impressive work nonetheless, especially for a game I hate. But they should up the polygons on some of the terrain and add in more grass.
This looks good, but how does it look when you are actually playing the game and not using no clip/debug/flyby camera?
I'm still waiting for Lua mod integration before switching from my heavily modded Code Patch-based install to OpenMW, but they've made amazing strides regardless. The sky's the limit for this, especially once Oblivion and Skyrim can run on it.
You're right about so many hand-drawn texture overhauls, but AI upscales like Intelligent Textures for Morrowind do a great job of preserving the original aesthetic but at HD/4K remaster quality. Some character/geometry mods definitely go overboard, though. I've made my peace with the original models.
There used to be a mod for the original Morrowind that synthesised voices for written dialogues. Yes, it couldn't provide the acting element and depth of a proper voice actor but it did add a lot to the immersion in the end for people who. If this feature somehow ended up in OpenMW, I could see myself going back. For now, pretty graphics don't do much for me despite how impressive they have become for very old games.
Would much prefer the original to that. Not as hideous as a Skyrim one I saw recently but vanilla is a beautiful game in it's own way.
Can see it's use as an interesting alternative or for someone who's never played before and is put off by old graphics
Can see it's use as an interesting alternative or for someone who's never played before and is put off by old graphics
I would say it does look good, but those are just environment shots and doesn't look current gen, most likely even less so if it had characters in motion on it.
Also many of those textures just look too "retro 3D game HD texture pack" that many games have as mods, with just too much detail for the sake of detail.
Low texture resolution can have its charms.
Also many of those textures just look too "retro 3D game HD texture pack" that many games have as mods, with just too much detail for the sake of detail.
I would probably agree.
Low texture resolution can have its charms.
Environments look good but what about the characters and the animations? It's usually the big stand out for immersion when it comes to graphical mods.
Looks light years ahead of OG Morrowind obviously, but still at best it looks like a 2013 or 2014 game
That's the ultimate goal of OpenMW: since it's a new engine, modders can do pretty much anything. Someone already posted a video of some new running animations earlier in this thread, but it's still early days for that.
Wow, as someone who has appreciated and dabbled with mods with Bethesda games in the past, this is one of the most ambitious things I've ever seen come to fruition. This is even more ambitious than A Tale of Two Wastelands (which combines Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas into one contiguous game). You said that you can play this now?
Probably a silly question, but are mods built for the original Morrowind supported by this?
Probably a silly question, but are mods built for the original Morrowind supported by this?
I think it looks like a 360/PS3 era game, so I guess thats an improvement. Maybe not as good as Skyrim. Also, environments are one thing, characters/animations are harder to improve fidelity on.
I tried replaying MW last year with just graphics mods, and was surprised at how well it holds up. The world is interesting, I love how lot of important worldbuilding is just in the background, and I found whole questlines like the temple priest faction that I never knew existed, even after playing it a ton when it released. A lot of time this run was spent reading books and just trying to soak in the details. I honestly expected it to feel really dated, but other than the really slow movement speed I had a blast. I'll definitely be revisiting Vvardenfell again once with OpenMW
I hate Bethesda games. Hate their art style, hate their mechanics, hate their animations, love their bugs and wonky AI tho.
I'm strictly talking about Bethesda in a developmental capacity though, since I'm fine with Dishonored and the like. Starfield piqued my interest, but that's only because it's sci-fi. The moment it shows any sort of the classical Bethesda jank is the moment I immediately bow out.
I've tinkered with OpenMW recently and can say that, at least heavily modded, it still doesn't run very well. From what I understand there are technical reasons for this having to do with how the objects and texture data for the game is stored and broken up. But I'm sure they are working on solutions for this.
Most of them are but some of them aren't. If you take a Morrowind game that was previously heavily modded with MGE XE-era stuff and attempt to run it with OpenMW it will work with some tinkering but you will probably see some weird shit. Glowing textures and the like for some objects. You probably need to start the modding over from scratch and make sure everything is compatible as you add it.