The annual Morrowind May Modathon kicks off today and there's also a new sneak peek at the latest progress on the Skywind project which aims to re-create Morrowind in the more modern engine of Skyrim Special Edition.
Skywind - Necromancer in Mawia
We've covered Skywind's progress a few times over the past few years - most recently in 2020 - and it's always great to see progress being made on this enormous project. Today the team will be unveiling a 20-minute gameplay demo which shows off new environments, items, creatures, spells and even a fully voice-acted quest that follows the player from the Tribunal Temple in Molag Amur to a necromancer's secret hideout. Fans of the game should expect a pang of nostalgia while watching!
If you're interested in learning more about Skywind or would like to join the team, check out TESRSkywind.com.
Morrowind May Modathon 2023
If you've never heard of it before, the May Modathon is an annual event where old and new modders of Morrowind come together to create and share mods for this classic game. Last year was the biggest year in the history of the event with almost 300 participating mods uploaded. The event is run mostly for fun, but you can also earn a few prizes or unlock some badges for "bragging rights" by participating. Without further ado, here's a message from darkelfguy and Danae123 who are running the event. Â
A huge thank you to both Danae and darkelfguy for keeping the tradition alive. We hope you enjoy the event.
Are you playing Morrowind in 2023? Which location would you most like to see recreated in the Skywind project? Let us know in the comments.
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Even I uploaded a boost for it. The little mod I created gave it another story right there in Seyda Neen. Like all good stories (what they called hooks in my fishing days) it took. It gave some people good start to realize Morrowind was the magical moment gamers were dreaming of and Skyrim was the baby. Skyrim SE was the baby finally out of diapers.
You should have seen the number of modding websites. The people were having mod madness. Forums filled with discussions with the new form of artists added real art to the game too. Their calm discussions were filled with splashes of home brew mixed with hard liquor, and any other kind of mind bending stuff.
It was and I refresh everyone's memory IT was the Wild Wild Wild days of the Old West revisited. Calm discussions on the Forums occasioned to have a pup enter a thought that caused some confusion and Flame Wars became another sign of Bar Room Brawl's just like in the Good Ol' Days of the land called the U. S. A.. Fights that would have brought many a country old cowboy to tears. It was like someone offered cool aide to a man who drank Snake Eye booze from birth on. The good ol forum owners and operators had to put them down, but at first the floor was so hot they didn't dare.
Yeah I remember Morrowind. Starting out thrilled by the thought it was going to be the Magic Ride and each quest would have fantastic door prizes.
Think about it. Morrowind made video games like they are today just as did the wheel for cars.
Every body loved to hate it! Until it finally started to get rolling.
Pumaman's long drawn out paleontology, archaeology, from giants and UFOology called GIANTS had dragons we would see, and another quest we could tame them and ride the skies of Vvarndenfell. His modding TEAM must have been dying every minute a little bit, because their jollopy was barely moving with so many breaks and CTDs it was lucky it moved at all.. It was a stupendous trial and Error at making Morrowind a winner.
Skyrim's team picked the bones from it. Pumaman's mods made it even a bigger enchanting mess with crashes. Hair pulling frustration and people screaming at the monitor in their excitement. Thinking somehow they got ripped off.
The introduction of the invention of the wheel didn't change anything over night EITHER.
We should all have a round on the house. The house owned by Todd and his team at Bethesda Softworks Inc..
I didn't know Morrowind used to be hated. I'm only used to seeing it be renowned and praised for many of its elements - 'many' meaning the exclusion of graphics. I recently read a post where somebody said Morrowind had awful combat and visuals but incredible lore, story, and secondary gameplay elements. It got me interested in the game, and reading your post about the history of Morrowind and its online impact makes it sound more interesting to me.
Thank you for the story, Pagafyr.
Seriously, this is a false argument. With the right set of mods (YMMV), Morrowind can provide very exciting combat and amazing visuals in today's standards. Sure, technically speaking modern games are definitely better at that, AAA rendered graphics $ motion captured animations $ voice acting & other stuff that cost lots of budgets to make. But even non-modded Morrowind can either give you heart-pounding challenges faster than later titles, or superior unique aesthetic impressions that inspired many in communities and the industry. I can't really agree with those shallow comments saying Morrowind is ugly. It's just old(er), not awful. And what if with mods covering these "weaknesses"? Time to find it out yourself. (for example, PVP & Sheogorad region)
What makes the experience great and irreplaceable is something money cannot buy.
In some ways it was really easy to mod in 90s, for example graphics were often bitmaps. It was just time consuming as us modders used things like MSPaint! And even then computer modding wasn't new, for back in the 80s I'd get game coding from magazines to type into my ZX Spectrum. Computer games mags of the 80s to late-90s were sort of our internet! And their circulation was huge.
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/28893
Sorry if it has already been mentioned. Don’t have the time to read all the comments right now.
Beside's you talk like you did buy a car and it was junk but you didn't spend a coin...
I consider this vaporware and don't expect to ever get the chance to play it.
I think Enderal was the only single mod on that scale ever reached the point of a release
Botom line, as much as I love it Morrowind combat is a headache.
Its like saying thats its pointless because they dont stay true to morrowind graphics...
Both, combat and graphic sucked for morrowind, subjectively speaking. And i love what they do with it, giving us the opporturnity to play the story onec again with a more polished combat and graphics
^_^
xD
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