Skywind - Morrowind remake in the Skyrim engine

Skywind - Official Development Video #1

Going beyond being just a mod, over 70 passionate people are working together for a complete remake of Morrowind through the Skyrim engine, re-doing the landscapes, the main quest/side quests, and ofcourse adding aditional content in tune with the alien-like theme of Morrowind, essentially giving Morrowind a "Black Mesa" like treatment.

Also, they're giving the remake a full blown voice over. Yep, they're going to add voice acting to every (important) line of dialogue writen in Morrowind.

Some screenshots:

I saw the trailer.

It's very impressive.

Unfortunately, I don't see this mod being received well, considering the amount of hatred Skyrim has on this forum.

@nintendoboy16: What about from people not on this website?

Pretty cray cray.

Those people don't have Skyrim on PC.

On TES forums, I can (obviously) see going well. Not so sure on everywhere else after reading the Tropes.

Doesn't matter. Yeah, there are mods, but that surely doesn't help the main game's cause no matter what platform considering mods are fan made.

Stop ruining the original vision of the developers !!!! :'(

This is pretty amazing; Morrowind still remains my favourite TES game. So I'm really looking forward to this.

Looks great. When the new mic comes in I'm submitting a demo reel to the team for voice overs.

Don't downplay mods.

Falskaar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeFT6qhja-0

A Skyrim Mod that adds about 20 more hours to the game, All of the people in the Mod are Fully voiced, and adds it's an entirely new landmass separate from the actual game.

The person responsible for this? He landed a job at Bungie, and the Mod was his Portfolio to get a Job for Bethesda.

In 2002 a Game called Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos was released and with it's release came a "world editor" which in 2003, a mapmaker who went under the name of "Eul", released a Map that was based off of a Starcraft scenario "Aeon of Strife". The Map was so popular that many were inspired to make their own maps when Warcraft III's expansion came out and Eul didn't update his map. One such Modder by the name of Steve Feak then created the one map to rule them all. The Map's Name was Defense of the Ancients.

in 2013, DOTA 2 was released and the rest should be history.

Another Game that was inspired by this mod is the Most Played Game on the Internet and that is League of Legends.

A More Recent Story is of a game that showed up in mid 2012 using a Game that was released in 2009 and it's Expansion from 2010. I don't need to give you a history lesson of this game, but I will tell you now that it just recently went Stand Alone, abd was the Top Selling Item on Steam through out the Winter Sale and it's still the Top Seller on Steam.

The Game I am Referring to is Day Z.

Don't downplay mods. Just because it's fan made doesn't make them any less important than today's game developers.

When did I ever downplay mods? Yeah, a lot of them have damn good quality and it's quite awesome how the creator of Falskaar managed to get a job in the industry because of his effort, but do the mods themselves help the main game's cause, especially when it's noted by those who disliked Skyrim, even on PC that no amount of mods help that game (as in, Bethesda's effort) as it is?

That looks great.

So what you're saying is that this mod is not going to help those who were never interested in Skyrim in the first place or just hated how Skyrim worked so it's not going to matter?...I don't really understand what you're getting at.

Look there are mods in Skyrim that COMPLETELY change the game so if you really didn't like Vanilla Skyrim, someone out there "fixed" it and if someone still doesn't like Skyrim after that, they probably just didn't care in the first place.

i really hope it gets finished. is there a relatively easy way to import a lot of the content (things like the text of which there is a lot in morrowind) from the original game into the skyrim engine? if they really have to build everything up from scratch then i fear it may never be done :(.

a great effort so far from the team though.

I can't wait..freaking amazing.

Very Well made mods are always received well at this forum.

This looks like probably one of the best made mods ever.. (possibly).

Point denied.

Skyrim, one of those games that's meant to be played on a PC.

Doesn't it generally matter on how good or bad said game is though?

@nintendoboy16: umm no because the mod changes the game it is a full conversion so no skyrim will remain apart from maybe art assets

Theres a lot of mods you can fix up the Morrowind graphics pretty good, but its still using the same engine so it has its limits.. so its cool they are gonna use the skyrim one. I wonder how long it will take to finish this... i was thinking of replaying morrowind someday soon.

You sure about that? Even with all the mods in the world, even the unofficial patches, I've hardly seen any changed minds.

You know, I'll stop here. I'm causing too much trouble for one page (at least, one page on my settings of the forums)

Mods like this I can get behind, I normally don't care about mods changing a developers game until way after it's release.

I'll admit, that's pretty rad.

Atleast it's not another horsecock and futanari mod..

Thats awesome.

I have Skyrim on PC, it's still shit. It can look as pretty as it wants but the actual mechanics still feel like crap. Bethesda need to get proper animation systems in place and better character models. Then the combat can feel better and thus the game can start feeling fun to play.

anyway this looks really cool, a bit too much bloom though. That last screenshot is hard to look at

This is pretty awesome but even with a team of 70 people, I can see this struggling to get finished. That said, if it ever gets finished I'll be playing this just to sight see all of Morrowind those gorgeous graphics.

@nintendoboy16: I am one of the biggest "haters" of Skyrim on this board (or rather, was). And with mods Skyrim is a pretty good game, removing or fixing most of the things that were horrible about the base game. This mod will remove yet another flaw Skyrim had. The incredibly bland and repetitive Overworld.

I am far from the only one who was convinced that the game is good by mods.

My current skyrim has camping, realisticly dark nights (so dark that you will need torches in forests if you want to be able to see), hypothermia, needs such as hunger and thirst, no level scaling, perks actually feeling like something more than a lame gimmick, game design so you arent flooded with money and money having weight.

Well they need to redo how the combat works as well

I didn't like Skyrim, but as long as this game doesn't have level scaling, doesn't turn skills like lockpicking into an easy minigame that allows a character of any skill to pick any lock, and does a good job of making some areas flat out scary for a low-level character to visit, it should be great. Morrowind was the last great game Bethesda has made.

So going by your logic,your posts are dumb.

Idealistic mod. Probably won't see release for a long time.

Honestly, I'd rather just go back and play Morrowind modded. The graphics in the original probably look better than this (with mods) and this mod would restrict you to vanilla Morrowind, which would be pretty damn limiting. Dislike the idea of full blown voice-overs too - everyone is unfortunately going to sound identical (like Oblivion/Skyrim). I always skip VO after reading the text anyways. The only benefit I'd get from this mod would be ragdoll and different, but equally "meh" combat.

The characters still look bad but the environments balance it out.

Yup, I just came....

So it will actually be worth playing now. Good.

I hated the combat in the original.

If this mod is a full conversion, the combat should be roughly the same as it has always been. Otherwise the game won't play like Morrowind at all, whatsoever. I suspect you won't find it any better unless the entire gratification of combat for you relies on seeing your sword animation connect with the enemy...

does it matter how people without PCs who are just jelly they can't participate think about this? Seriously who gives a rats ass what they think. They don't matter.

Well yeah but at least a proper animation system would be a start and make it feel a bit meatier. TES games have always suffered terribly floaty combat

I don't know how, but someway bethesda is going to find a way to make money out of this or to stop this project.

I was never able to get Morroblivion to run. Hopefully this comes with a noob friendly installer.

Why? Beth has always been super cool with modders.

Nice. I tried to play Morrowind last year and just couldn't get into it. Walls and walls of text, along with imperfect pad and aspect ratio support meant it was just too much effort to give it a go.

I've already been playing it for a few months

@wis3boi: Alpha releases are not what people mean when they say release and we all know it.

Will this be available for free? Do want to play it cuz i haven't even tried Morrowind

Will this be free? I just picked Skyrim up during the Steam sale.

T.I.T.S.