YouTube’s ‘Mr. Moonshine’ has shared a video, showcasing The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind running in OpenMW with over 300 mods. And, this modded version of Morrowind looks great, and way better than its vanilla version.
Now in case you didn’t know, OpenMW is a free, open-source, and modern engine which re-implements and extends the 2002 Gamebryo engine for The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind. OpenMW comes with its own editor, called OpenMW-CS, which allows the user to edit or create their own mods or original games. Both OpenMW and OpenMW-CS are written from scratch.
What’s also cool is that Mr. Moonshine has shared the list of mods he used. Therefore, you can download the mods and make the game look exactly like that in the video.
Lastly, the OpenMW team is currently working on a brand version of it. One of the most exciting features of the upcoming version 0.47 is the addition of distant LOD (distant land/statics). And, as you may have guessed, this video also showcases this new feature.
You can download OpenMW from its official website. As the team has noted, OpenMW is currently more stable and less buggy than the original Morrowind game engine.
Enjoy!
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Did they fix the constant crashing? It’s the only ES I never finished because of it.
Impressive!
Cyberpunk with RT Psycho and DLSS Quality looks great, this however does not.
MW was the best Elder Scrolls from a RPG perspective. I’ll probably get around to trying this one day.
It looks incredible compared to the original!
So a 2020 game looks better than a game from early 2000’s? Genius insight s/
This game is not from early 2000’s, this is a new engine built to run Morrowind assets, and having other modern qualities. Reason why it is called OpenMW.
Pay attention.
“load Morrowind assets”
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You mean assets from the early 2000s?
Again with the need for hand holding…
Next time they should release a brand new game with their new engine instead of relying on assets from a 19 year old game, capish?
Alright, are you paying for that?
I was just messing with your autism take.
The title ‘The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind looks great in OpenMW with over 300 mods‘ claims the game looks great. I am saying it doesn’t as things have moved on. Is that really so hard to understand or do you always need the hand holding?
There was no standard set for what “looks great” have to be, mentally challanged genius. If a game from early 2000’s can be modified to look like a game from 2010, then that would be a massive achievment.
WTF are you smoking moron? Bethesda would be laughed at if they launched that today?
Would be laughed for launching a remaster? Normal people don’t expect a 2002 game to look like a 2020 game, but they expect improvements. Fanboys would be ok with vanilla, and people with delusions such as you would expect a next gen game.
The original dream-like foggy atmosphere (also because of the very short draw distance) is pretty much completely lost, but many locations do look fantastic.
I deeply regret that MGSO was abandoned since a long time now, because it was a very neat mods pack which managed to preserve the original art direction and atmosphere while making everything look great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTLJHjVXJms
to me the game runs like crap by using the mod that extends the view distance.
Are you talking about open-source engine OpenMW? I think I read somewhere it had been improved lately, but that it clearly needed optimizations in every aspect.
When I used to play Morrowind, I didn’t even use this yet, actually.
So I’m not sure how that goes…
no the original game when you extend the distance it has horrible framerate even without mods.
Looks like vanilla skyrim + sweetfx
meh
not going to install all these mods and make it work properly for such an old game.
i modded the game a few months ago with a modding list i found on reddit.
Didnt look this good, i dont recognize the assets must be new mods.
Im impressed… But even more impressed to get 300+ mods working together and 0 crashes or errors ..
open mw is very stable. Propblem is not all mods support openmw, especially old ones, but they get patches.
is this coming with fully modded?
its same sh**ty graphics updated a bit. why just remake whole thing from scratch
I tried to install mods on my android in OpenMW and there were no results. I’m talking about sheath/unsheath mod. So now I’m skeptical.
original assets + faithful high res textures + shadows
anything else just ruins the atmosphere.
Looks pretty cool. My favorite ES game, bar none, so this interests me.