• Aganim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 hours ago

    While I’d absolutely love a Morrowind remaster, I’m fairly sure that the encounters with a certain Dark Elf rogue which (for a female character) went a bit like “I’ll let you go for a little a kiss, what’s the harm?” and Uncle Crassius (Let’s see what we are working with, take off those clothes) will be seen as ‘problematic’ these days.

    Fortunately guides like https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/Morrowind_graphics_guide exist so you can make Morrowind look pretty good even today.

    • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
      2·
      22 hours ago

      It’s not the graphics it’s the clunk

      Games have plenty of problematic characters, I doubt this would be an issue. Bg3 was popular.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    331·
    2 days ago

    I answered my own question about why they choose Oblivion over Morrowind in my head last night. It would have taken way more work to bring into the modern age. Oblivion was already pretty close to what Skyrim is, and they even use the same scripting and logic (including bugs that were never officially fixed!) so all the work was just creating the new assets and then taping UE5’s graphics engine to GameBryo/Creation.

    It also would have required ass loads of money to record every line of dialogue. Remember: Morrowind didn’t have a lot of voice acting. It was mostly text-only.

        • Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          2 days ago

          well i would imo, whenever comparing volunteer work vs paid full time of a prof studio we should at least divide the time by half if not more. so 6 years ish of work~ and if i could i would just provide the actual work hours comparison and not just total time since start. etc

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            2 days ago

            They’ve accomplished a ton. If they were only aiming to recreate the base game that would still be great, but they’ve fleshed it out, added full voice acting, and done every scrap of work to a professional standard.

            Not only that, it’s so close to finished now it makes zero sense to start writing them off based on how long it took. If someone took a decade to walk around the earth, you wouldn’t talk this way when they were a few months away from home.

            • Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              “wouldnt talk this way” what? just to be clear, im literally championing skywinds team & hard work, arguing that if Bethesda really wanted to, their studio could very quickly produce full ‘remakes’ (not remasters) of both morrowind and oblivion from the ground up like what skywind/skyblivion are doing, both in about the same time, they chose Oblivion because it was cheaper/faster to literally outsource to another company for just a UE facelift and some QOL changes, all so they could focus on whats really important, more “micro” transactions for fallout 76 and more empty fishbowls for starfield. (just FYI that last line is pure sarcasm)

    • rklm@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      61·
      2 days ago

      taping UE5’s graphics engine to GameBryo/Creation

      I can imaging maybe writing an interface layer, but given the scale I kinda doubt they’d choose to do this.

      IDK I could be wrong, but if we know they used UE5 my bet is the game was rewritten in mostly new C# and blueprint.

  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    181·
    2 days ago

    I wouldn’t be able to stand watching new Bethesda massacre my boy. Leave Morrowind in the past where it belongs.

  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    Morrowind remake with Bloodmoon, Tribunal, and new additions on a map larger than Skyrim, in a self-contained portable VR set that also works as a handheld and PC. I will pay $10k for that if I have to live in a cardboard box.