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Morrowind is one of the most iconic role-playing games in history known best for its fantastical landscapes flying jellyfish and the waterlogged NPC's in Balmorra but we can all be perfect and more when ii was first introduced to the world in 2002 rapidly achieving critical acclaim in the charts and becoming a game of the year title very quickly we even interviewed morons Ken Ralston in 2014 now working at turbine and his contributions made to the game more than a decade ago now helps shape what more went became and why it was such a regarded title in the games industry for creative leader Alston the game is quote like jazz he told us in the interview and said so many notes that you may not like all of them but you have so much to choose from that it's exciting and I could not agree more with that analysis in our 2014 interview with the former morrowind developer Rolston also counted on oblivion which was old at this point - stating that when you look at a product like oblivion it's far better software but in more when there's so much delicious nonsense we couldn't agree more with both of those statements and that's perhaps why the modding community is still fully alive today even if looking outside of marwan's unarguably aged software relative newcomer Skyrim is brimming with reimagine ations of the games key territories even its entire continent in some cases and Skyrim has an endless supply of mods and references to the third game in the series that'd be again morrowind there's lately been much discussion of multiplayer morrowind and ground up reimagined morrowind mods they've both been tried before and oblivion to readapt ations of tasks games have rarely seen full delivery due to the overwhelming nature of such a project and multiplayer attempts have often fallen short just on the multiplayer side alone we've tried almost all of them at gamers Nexus and that usually ends in frustration as the best case scenario is generally just seeing the other player if not all of their clothes and armor but the current suite of mods hopes to properly recreate the game in newer engines some even with multiplayer add-ons and there's a couple of them today that we're going to talk about the three main mods and their differences that we're looking at will be morrowind related frontrunner sky wind morrowind rebirth and openmw or open morrowind so that's sky wind at moorland rebirth and open morrowind sky wind is probably the most discussed in past months this is a mod of Skyrim hence the name and uses Skyrim's more mature engine and updated game mechanics including updated combat and spell mechanics and interfaces as a backbone for a pure morrowind recreation sky wind does what the old baldur's gate to redux mod was attempting to do in dragon age it rips data from an existing more when to install and ports it into the sky wind mod as executed using the test 5 executable back when we were helping the Dragon Age modders with their baldur's gate to remake this was strictly for legal reasons and to force ownership of both games so they'd actually pour it in scripts and dialogue and all this stuff from the older game and therefore require you to own both in that case father's gate - and Dragon Age that's probably what the sky one team has in mind here - but we're not 100% sure sky wind is currently in an alpha state and not publicly playable the mod is completely remaking all of the textures meshes models and effects providing a visually updated look for morrowind and some of the game systems are mixing - crafting and smithing for instance will be available in sky wind the skill tree may be overhauled or mixed and matched - since Moreland had 27 skills and Skyrim has simplified down to 18 but introduces some new ones again like smithing the mod is ultimately an updated look and engine for morrowind but will contain all the same morrowind cities locales NBC dialog and quests of test3 if completed the modders hope that sky wind and morrowind will be effectively indistinguishable in terms of core gameplay content but improved by way of visuals and engine mechanics and taking advantage of modern hardware there is no public multiplayer plan for sky wind at this time it is purely a revival of more on the skyrim engine the next mod is morrowind rebirth this one is similar in some ways to sky wind but made by a completely different team and with different objectives this mod born in 2007 and updated as recently as December 31st 2015 is a complete graphics sound and feature overhaul atop the existing morrowind game and engine morrowind rebirth is in version 3.5 right now and already has rebuilt cities new places to visit and more than 20 creatures and monsters added on top of the existing creature and monster base for morrowind it's also got bug fixes balance tweaks new music denser cities and more the mod is compatible with most texture replacers and mesh enhancement mods but does make some of its own seamless texture changes to remove those unsightly tiling effects seen in morrowind unlike sky wind morrowind rebirth lives within the morrowind toolset and executable entirely and does not make use of modern engine tech this is a more mechanically true mod to the original morrowind experience but is hamster on in a few technological ways for players who'd rather experience the look and feel of Skyrim's combat and overall gameplay but want a more awenda world this won't do it for you but for anyone who's still in love with morrowind at its core and wants to add on to an already great game world morrowind rebirth is worth a look and already available for download the last of the big 3 morrowind mods is open morrowind abbreviated by modders as openmw this is a younger attempt at morrowind inspired modding and exists only in version 0.37 as of now so it's definitely an alpha open morrowind builds a completely new engine for test 3 including a graphics engine rewrite new renders and scaled graphics hardware capabilities it is with these tools especially the new engine that open morrowind mater Akula has been able to push for new bloom effects shaders and the implementation of other modern graphical FX for games interestingly it is also introducing a multiplayer and already has a functioning multiplayer demo open marwan's multiplayer won't be finalized and fully supported until much later but its current allows for players to see one another allows accurate item depiction as equipped to those characters stats transferring and location mapping to other players in the same world and basic movement that's about it right now but for anyone who's ever tried multiplayer in task games that is a lot of functionality considering just how tough it is to get this stuff to work as for the core focus of open morrowind the mod is an open source engine that's been created to run morrowind but with a new editor and new graphics capabilities Akula hopes that version 1.0 of the engine will allow players to create their own games from scratch which is a much different target than the previous two mods we discussed and will support contents and import of those content items from tribunal morrowind Blood Moon and other user made mods if this works out it means a large mod base on the day of the engine's launch and will allow some rapid expansion version 1.0 will also aim to improve marwan's interface physics and AI though truly cliff racers are flawless as they are design bugs and saving glitches will be resolved journaling resolved and updated and graphics updated pretty heavily the engine creator has also indicated a wish list for Android and iOS support though isn't prioritizing either and that has many interesting implications as you were thinking of right now Morrowind reserves a special place in the heart of gamers at least here at our site and we're hopeful that some of them stal juh can be recaptured and overhauled with these three very different unique and inspiring attempts at modding learn more about open morrowind at openmw org learn about more when to rebirth on test Nexus 4 Morland and learn more about sky wind at test renewal comm and of course to support our efforts help us out on patreon by clicking the link of the post roll video or just check us out on gamers Nexus net for high-quality article coverage of games and PC hardware I'll see you all next time