Skywind project is a Morrowind port using the Skyrim engine

Awesome.

Outstanding. I hope nobody gets in the way of the release.

@1 exactly.

OMG. BEAUTIFUL AS F…

Wow, maybe Skyrim will be good for something

SARCASM aside, Morrowind is my fave TES game and probably one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played. Skyrim is ok. Much better than Oblivion but still not on par with best days of TES.

This is incredible.

Wow, only #4 is insightful enough to describe beautiful graphics with f-bombs.

That’s some amazing culture.

@7: Why are you trolling him?

Because I’m lol’ing rather than trolling.

I dunno, everything looks too clear and sterile to me. It looks like it needs some mist/fog to capture the charm and atmosphere of the original game.

Any word on whether this will actually have attributes, text-based dialogue, and more heavily character-based combat like Morrowind? I don’t really see the point of them using anything other than the graphics engine from Skyrim. Everything else about the game is shit compared to Morrowind.

@10, mist/fog would be something you add near the end surely? It’d just get in the way of screating the world if you put it in early days – and it’s incredibly early days.

It’s an interesting concept and I do hope that they use the core Morrowind mechanics over Skyrim.

@9: Slow day at the office?

Nope, just observing the website.

How’s the school today?

@13: Yawn. I expected better from you.

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‘Man Da, that’s not even original.

Please retort with a demeaning put-down that you believe makes you look superior. kthxbye.

NerShat, that’s to the point and has a purpose. Besides it’s been used way before you discovered it.

You’re off on all fronts.

Hurry up and agree with yourself using the JM account.

Probs take 10 years to release it

Crowdfund it. Now.

what a legal predicament betashed have got themselves into with their creation engine!

This looks far, far better than the effort to port it to Oblivion did. The problem with Oblivion is that it was always too chunky and blocky, it couldn’t really manage the sorts of details that were commonplace in Morrowind. I have a hard time explaining that, but there’s a variety of styles of building and person that exist in Morrowind that Oblivion didn’t have. As such, the porting effort there just… had the same feel about it.

I remember noticing how absolutely humongous bricks were in Oblivion, too. Everything was bizarrely large and chunky for such a supposedly realistic game. The effect just didn’t work for me. Veeery chunky and odd looking. I’d say ‘lazy,’ because with big, chunky things they didn’t have to bother so much with details, but it wasn’t even that. It was just… weird. Really, really weird. And everything was plasticky along with being chunky, too. Blech.

Skyrim, to be honest, is a much, much better engine. Some beautiful things have been done with it. Have you seen Moonpaths? If not, please do. It illustrates just how well jungles and deserts can be done with the engine. And that it’s all being done by one main modder is just completely and utterly insane. It’s incredible, and to be honest, in some ways I have more fond memories of Moonpaths than I do of anything else in Skyrim. Definitely moreso than the campaign. The only fondness that matches that is the fondness I had for Paarthurnax. That giant, draconic weeaboo.

So, anyway, it doesn’t surprise me that this is looking quite good. They need to fix the sky and the atmosphere, though. The models are right, but the feel of it is wrong. It still has this ‘frozen north’ feel in regards to the atmosphere, which provides an odd juxtaposition to the structures from Morrowind. If they can get the atmosphere in regards to the sky, fogginess, and so on down? Then it’s going to be something quite, quite special.

@10

P much, yeah.