OpenMW – open-source TES3 Morrowind reimplementation

Late last year, after they restored shadows (I think they'd had to take them out while fixing some stuff, or something) I played most of Morrowind with this. Still intending to go back and finish. Finished the main quest, a huge percentage of the side quests, and Tribunal. Was just getting ready to start Bloodmoon.

What works: everything. Everything I tried. What did I try? All the parts of the game listed above, plus 20-30 plugins, including one obscure library plugin that's not on Nexus. Used Mod Organizer2, IIRC. No problems. Worked great. Know what's amazing? No crashes. Not. A. Single. One. Anyone who played Morrowind back in the day remembers all the crashes. So many, even with stability mods and later versions of the game. This? Rock solid.

What doesn't: plugins that patch or wrap the Morrowind .exe file. That's about it. Oh well.

Bonus round: you can crank up the view distance to fairly high levels on even a medium-good rig, much farther than in the original game. Definitely improves it.

I had the luxury of morrowind coming out at the perfect age for me. Plus dabbling with mods and customizing your games - perfect for someone interested in computers and gaming.

Being able to ignore it's in your face faults in a modern world, I honestly dont think any other RPGs will hit me the same way. Okay, there's one. It's Oblivion.

As much as Todd Howard has been a weasel, they've created two of the greatest RPG's ever made, imo.

I guess this is my reminder to check in on the fan Unity port of Daggerfall.

https://www.dfworkshop.net/

I think it's actually done now? I struggled mightily to get through the tutorial dungeon when the original Daggerfall was made freeware long, long ago, and one of these days, I swear, I'm going to really play it.

Ha, I ended up checking up on that myself for the first time in a couple years a day or two ago. I've always been particularly interested in Daggerfal ports because that's one I never played when it it was first out. Not entirely sure why, I owned and played Arena, and Morrowind is one of my all-time favorites (Possible my absolute favorite game, actually. I played Oblivion last year finally and it was meh, I'll probably start Skyrim finally in a few months and have low expectations, so maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised).

I've tried to get into Daggerfall multiple times over the years (before and after the game was made free), but combined with it being testy to get running right in Dosbox, and that even when you get it running some keys seemed to not work quite right, I've never quite gotten a game more than a few hours in.

As of January, their roadmap says they are at "All game features now supported", so this seems an opportune time to try again...

There's also https://tes3mp.com/ which as the name implies, lets you play multiplayer Morrowind. Yes, you read that right.