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Morrowind - Tamriel Rebuild: 16th Anniversary
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It's a great mod and I really enjoyed it. It can't help the combat though and that is the only problems with Morrowind. One of the greatest settings in crpg history.
Morrowind can be pretty enough graphics-wise, but yeah the biggest con for me is the combat (and broken balance on higher levels).
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Eh, I prefer Morrowind's combat over later iterations in TES. I prefer when stats heavily dictate the combat rather than player stick skills. The combat in Morrowind is not that different than Baldur's Gate or other old-school CRPGs that have dice rolls.
I wish someone would combine Morrowind's combat with Baldur's Gate. 6 second rounds, single-player (maybe with AI controlled companions, a la NWN), RTWP in first-person. I think it would be cool to explore a huge open-world with that sort of combat. One flaw in Morrowind was that, while you had a ton of spells, trinkets, magical items, etc. at your disposal, the battles usually are over so quick that you can't really explore all the options available. Slow down the combat some and give some options to how you want to fight and I think it would be even better.
NWN in first-person, basically. In a Morrowind-style open-world.
On topic, I still have to explore Tamriel Rebuilt. I've installed it in the past but haven't gotten far with it yet. My next playthrough I'll have to mod it to oblivion. Hoping I can upgrade my GTX 970 soon. I need that 50 mile view distance.
I wish someone would combine Morrowind's combat with Baldur's Gate. 6 second rounds, single-player (maybe with AI controlled companions, a la NWN), RTWP in first-person. I think it would be cool to explore a huge open-world with that sort of combat. One flaw in Morrowind was that, while you had a ton of spells, trinkets, magical items, etc. at your disposal, the battles usually are over so quick that you can't really explore all the options available. Slow down the combat some and give some options to how you want to fight and I think it would be even better.
NWN in first-person, basically. In a Morrowind-style open-world.
On topic, I still have to explore Tamriel Rebuilt. I've installed it in the past but haven't gotten far with it yet. My next playthrough I'll have to mod it to oblivion. Hoping I can upgrade my GTX 970 soon. I need that 50 mile view distance.
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LOL! This represents everything good and bad about modding, 16 years and counting. While the project is interesting, it still is nothing more than a long running joke. While entire games have been made and released in Nehrim and Enderal, this simple expansion of an existing product is still little more than a half finished wish for a small minority of gamers that even care anymore. It is both a sweet testimony to those that love something and want to continue to tinker with it and the stark reality of the difference between doing something and wishing something existed. Celebrating 16 years of something not even remotely getting finished is laughable to me when so many have accomplished so much more in so much less time, but it's a nice story anyway. It is the definition of the difference between amateurs doing something for a hobby and professionals doing something for a living and it is not very favorable to modders. It is always easier to tweak the efforts of superior labor than it is to create something new by yourself. Hopefully this "anniversary" is a lesson in humility for anyone that ever laughably stated that modders were better than the creators of the original content. And before you waste your time with hate in response, I won't be reading replies, so cheers!
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Combat is the most obvious weakness, but you can throw in the repetitive dialogue of the npc's, the static nature of the world, the idea that interesting means replacing a few trees with mushrooms and some leather armor with insect armor, all of the gameplay that was tossed out to make it work on an XBox, understandably financially but a joke in terms of the finished product and I find little to like in Morrowind beyond the idea that it was the best of its time. It certainly was, but it is light years short of the GOAT argument that stiff old men make in laughable earnestness,
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I hated it, you know. But eventually I started to grow fond of the "dice roll" combat.
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While the project is ambitious it's also practically modular: you can visit the finished parts of the landmass in a playable and enjoyable state. It might be useful to think of the individual regions as their own mods, many of which are finished.
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Truly looking forward to play morrowind once more with this mod.
Isn't that pretty much what KOTOR has?
I would say so. KotOR's combat was very easy even on the highest difficulty settings which took the fun out of the game. Story is still nice, though.
This could be work for other games if done right, but I largely prefer a solid turn-based system any day.
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Nah. I mean combining the first-person exploration and gameplay of Morrowind with KOTOR/NWN combat. So you'd explore Morrowind, for example, be able to interact with the game the same way yet combat would be balanced around NWN-style RTWP. And the character system could still be Morrowind's as well with some tweaks.
That sounds like a terrible idea.