This made you want to buy Morrowind (or any other game)? Use this GOG referral link to support the channel! af.gog.com/game/the_elder_scrolls_iii_morrowind_goty_edition?as=1715648857 Playthrough with these mods: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYmcon56i6x0lZY Although 300+ mods is always going to be an awesome experience in Morrowind it's just impractical to do for 95% of players. Not to mention at some point you're going to need a supercomputer. The point of this modlist is to get it as "next gen" as possible while still being something YOU can do. Of course if you want more mods on top of this, feel free to install more.
@djhenyo Жыл бұрын
Those are some of the worst looking "fireflies" in any recent game or mod. It's like they were animated by somebody who never saw them in real life and assumed they move about similarly to fruit flies zipping around a rotten melon. For reference: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ime0mn6kic2nadU Notice anything different?
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
@@djhenyoThat's why I don't call them fireflies like I say in the video. They look exactly like many night bugs where I'm from. In the tropics they particularly zip around like that near lights but really anywhere they like. There are also fireflies in some parts of my country, so I know what they look like too and why I specifically said what I did in the video.
@djhenyo Жыл бұрын
@@GamerZakh Good on you for being accurate! Wish somebody would make a proper fireflies mod. They look so much more beautiful with their angelic flight patterns.
@darkroadsahead8668 Жыл бұрын
@GamerZakh Could you post your pc specs please and thank you great video.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
@@darkroadsahead8668 I have an RTX 3080, 32GB RAM, and an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX. When not recording, I get 60-90fps with the mods you see in the video with that view distance. If you have a better GPU, I'd push view distance a couple more cells. If a worse GPU then lower the view distance.
@axocopan42 Жыл бұрын
I've not played Morrowind for almost 20 years, and this video looks just as I remember it. Amazing how memory is much higher res than reality. :)
@rodrigoacosta9708 Жыл бұрын
yeah I played it in 2005 - 2006... time really flies away! Timeto give it another chance?? I played the heck out of it back then anyways
@tjahajasuryadinata443211 ай бұрын
auto brain upscaling at play
@miclaud11 ай бұрын
best comment ever
@sidgar110 ай бұрын
Brain-processed anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is an amazing phenomenon.
@TheLostOne324310 ай бұрын
My brain upped the res of GTA:SA a lot :D
@Vurt72 Жыл бұрын
happy to see my trees coming to use, what i love most with morrowind is probably just hearing all the familiar ambient sounds and music, that will never need modding.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
I don't think your flora will ever die haha
@bluecordprecisiongrading2504 Жыл бұрын
Jeremy did an amazing job with the music tracks. This is some of the most iconic modern day music ever written
@pcgamingeconomico3057 Жыл бұрын
wow!!!!! i have been using your mods since 2005 iirc. i have them backup on cd! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
@Vurt72 Жыл бұрын
@@pcgamingeconomico3057 Cool :D
@jameson5508 Жыл бұрын
@Vurt72 I've been using your mods for something like 15 years and I find many of them irreplaceable to this day. Thanks for your passion projects, you're a huge part of why Morrowind has managed to age so gracefully.
@linuxgameplayxp6246 Жыл бұрын
Never thought I'd end up wanting to do a PC upgrade just to play a 20 year old game.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
For reference, when I play with the settings in this video while not recording, I get 65-90fps outdoors with these mods, but I have an RTX3080. If I had a 4080, I could push the view distance and maintain a solid 60fps.
@martinsch Жыл бұрын
I recently bought a new monitor, upgrading from my old cheap ones that I used for far too long. First thing I played: Morrowind.
@linuxgameplayxp6246 Жыл бұрын
@@martinsch based
@arkgaharandan5881 Жыл бұрын
i never thought i would get a rtx to get shadows in new vegas but then new vegas reloaded came out and not since i like sci fi i am interested in starfield.
@redshift912 Жыл бұрын
@@GamerZakhmust be nice
@nessunonessun1 Жыл бұрын
The sound of this game make me feel so relaxed, the old times, it is like to go back home...for me the best elder scroll game.
@alextrainor25525 ай бұрын
I know how you feel, i feel this way hearing oblivion music and sounds. I used to feel relaxed in my house in anvil and corral with the music that played and looking through all my armors and weapons in the storages all around the house.
@BradLeroy4 ай бұрын
Morrowind is the greatest game of all time!
@jsbarretto Жыл бұрын
Glad you had fun with my cloud mod :) FWIW, it's a good idea to use post-processing shaders from within OpenMW itself rather than applying reshade on top in order for effects to be applied in the right order. As an example, SSAO should be applied *before* volumetrics rather than after. There are several SSAO mods for OpenMW that are just as good as those in reshade, if not better (since they have access to a lot of in-game data that reshade simply doesn't).
@colbyboucher6391 Жыл бұрын
Seriously though, Volumetric Clouds & Mists is the missing piece to make a high draw distance MW as atmospheric as the original.
@nemediv408610 ай бұрын
I don't know if it would be compatible with your mod list, but I strongly recommend giving a mod called Beautiful Cities of Morrowind a try. It really makes the towns on Vvardenfell come alive with lots of extra detail, which merges with the original content so well I can't tell which is which any more. The modders of Morrowind are on another level. Hats off!
@Chtigga Жыл бұрын
Glad you still upload Morrowind content! This game is just so alien and captivating. Looking forward to Skywind.
@rakuengrowlithe4654 Жыл бұрын
LOL! Glancing through the video and I see you mention the 30 fps. When I originally played Morrowind it was on a really weak laptop and I played with ~20 fps and that dropped during combat! I still played the whole game and enjoyed it. I should also note this all looks amazing!
@yukari_katsuragi29 күн бұрын
fps is highly overrated. my wife says she struggles to play anything below 60 and i think that's WILD high fps is nice but movies are 30 fps and cartoons are even lower. these games are basically cartoons. especially with the clunky datedness of the combat in a game like this, what does it really matter?
@pwnedd11 Жыл бұрын
Unbelievable. I was literally planning on modding Morrowind and then going through the game for the first time (I've only ever fiddled about in the very opening area before)... and I had just looked at some of your prior videos and another one. And then bam, this one drops. What timing. Anyway, thank you GamerZakh! I only discovered your channel in the past year, and I am very grateful that the algorithm sent me your way!
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Glad I could help! There's a lot of ways to mod Morrowind but I do think this is a pretty good one for new players. It's not too much and modernises the usual pain points (dice roll combat), but if you want a more vanilla experience with these mods you can skip the Rebirth stuff and Balanced Combat.
@pwnedd11 Жыл бұрын
@@GamerZakh Awesome, that makes sense! I might try the combat vanilla first and the modify it, if I don't like it! Thank you so much!
@greenbow7888 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, what to do? Play this or wait for Skywind, (and SkyBlivion of course).
@pwnedd11 Жыл бұрын
@@greenbow7888 I'm going to be playing this! It looks good, and it strikes a great balance between the classic graphics and something refreshed. Those other versions look too much like those other games, to me. But that's just my opinion! It's wonderful that we have so many options!!! Especially since the game with no mods doesn't cut it for me... I even had tried it on a CRT, since that's how I play a ton of older games. But it didn't have the same level of beauty on a CRT that a lot of games from the era have. I actually feel like Morrowind was trying to be something more, graphically speaking, even back then. So, these mods feel like a fulfillment of that original vision. However, I got sidetracked, because I also am playing Fallout 2, and The Nonary Games... so despite what I said earlier, I probably won't be installing these mods for a few months. But by the end of the year, I will!
@greenbow7888 Жыл бұрын
@@pwnedd11 It does look good. It looks exceptional. However I'd need a fast travel mod before I would play it. I ground to a halt playing Morrowind three times before, due to no complete fast travel. Silt striders are partly useful, but you can't get from on side of the map to the other in one go. You have to sometimes walk a lot and make travel connections. What with cliff racers, and navigating ravines making walking as longer route, it became too much for me. Just ran out of steam with it. I want to play this, but I am no expert with mods, so Skywind for me I think.
@JosephAlanMeador Жыл бұрын
This is nuts. You're right, I want this. Just when I thought I was done messing with my modlist 😆
@zDialecticChaos Жыл бұрын
this looks amazing! after playing oblivion and skyrim and loving both, being a huge fan of elder scrolls, and naming my cat khajiit, i am so excited to play morrowind with your mod list, thank you gamer zakh! also, you were able to introduce the bevilex mod list to me for oblivion and i am so glad i came across your video, as someone who put so many hours into xbox 360 oblivion, i had to get that mod list and i am enjoying it so much! have a greay day gamer zakh and thank you :)
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you like it and find them useful! Have fun playing!
@greenbow7888 Жыл бұрын
I loved Oblivion.
@draevian3458 Жыл бұрын
Me thinking: "Man, this hardly looks any different than I remember let me just check it out unmodded again" ...man, nostalgia can really alter reality huh lmao.
@RedSntDK Жыл бұрын
I waited years to play Morrowind, and even then I played it on a CRT monitor and that probably helps a lot with the smoothing tbh.
@Kivalt Жыл бұрын
The whole effort is to make Morrowind look like we remember it, not like it actually was.
@ElSun_Live5 ай бұрын
@@RedSntDK A lot of people forget that their old game they remember playing were played on a CRT at first, and are surprised when that same game one a LCD looks worse and chalk it up to nostalgia being THAT bad. When in reality its not great, but the CRT does smooth a lot
@Manga_Lloyd2 ай бұрын
Glass armor and weapons are the reason I bought Morrowind in the first place way back when. My friend's older brother showed me the game on the save he had with glass weapons and armor. It was so cool that I knew I had to get the game, too. My first Elder Scrolls game, and my favorite, even today.
@crashoverride1788 Жыл бұрын
This game will always be incredible, lately I've been playing it with the mod that allows you to play in online multiplayer mode with several players, it's really fun
@Jezus667 Жыл бұрын
IDK man, this looks EXACTLY like I remembered it looking 20 years ago🤔
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Nostalgia is a powerful tool lol
@Hernal03 Жыл бұрын
Just one theory as to why that should be the case. 20 years ago your vision was much better so Morrowind *_seemed_* this sharp. Now 20 years later, your vison having worsened a bit (as it does with all of us), these new mods have managed to make it look just as sharp as your old 20/20 memories of it! Either that, or as GamerZakh has already mentioned --- Nostalgia.
@rabidhamster8884 Жыл бұрын
Might want to fire up vanilla Morrowind and refresh that foggy memory. Vanilla Morrowind would not be appealing to most modern gamers due to how low rez the textures are
@gamingtonight1526 Жыл бұрын
A mod that nobody every thinks of is the LGNPC set of mods, that make the conversations with NPCs much more detailed. Instead of 3 -4 lines, you might get 2 paragraphs! Given there is so much talking in this game, this mod is always totally requirable as far as I am concerned
@sonjaR26 ай бұрын
Django's Dialogue is great too. It does something similar, and is totally compatible with LGNPC. The only thing about LGNPC.. I mean, I wouldn't play without it, but not all modules are created equal... The Pelagiad and Ald Velothi plug-ins should be avoided, for example (both have terrible writing), while the entire Redoran suite is absolutely outstanding.
@reignathousandyears9850Күн бұрын
You're an articulate speaker, Zakh. Your speech is fluent and clear. Thanks for making this descriptive and easy-to-follow video.
@edorenel Жыл бұрын
Oh, wow! I'm totally going to try this for my own gameplay. I love trying out mod lists. 🙂 Morrowind is an old game, but it still looks lovely! And of course, there's the incredible story, the world, the characters... I never tire of it no matter how much time passes. 😊
@bobgrimes8618 Жыл бұрын
Great to see you back on Morrowind! Been enjoying your new Augustus playthroughs also.
@lord_kinbote3920 Жыл бұрын
I'm slowly starting to understand how modding OpenMW works. What I don't like is how many of the OpenMW modlists include the EEEEEEVIILLLLL Dagoth Ur voice mod. It completely misses the point that Dagoth Ur isn't supposed to be a black-and-white villain.
@Bdavis24759 ай бұрын
Idk he's pretty evil. Spreading a virus across the world to turn everyone into zombies.. And regardless of what happened at red mountain we know for a fact he betrayed his friends and used the heart to make himself immortal
@kiyoaki19857 ай бұрын
I love how Dagoth Ur comes off clearly thinking that he's right and reasonable while making people grow face trunks and stacking chairs
@KismetLizard5 ай бұрын
Why would they change his voice??? It's perfect! I've modded the hell out of Morrowind and never even contemplated it.
@ThePaperKhan2 ай бұрын
Evil? Never heard of that mod
@tabishev9 ай бұрын
I'm glad to see my journal and scrolls mod in your project. However, I would like to note that the left side of journal's texture is slightly cut off after your editing.
@GamerZakh9 ай бұрын
Oh sorry I didn't notice, but it still looks great! It was the only journal mod which felt like the perfect level of roughness. Others felt too clean or too dirty.
@KillerPSS Жыл бұрын
Now I want to play Morrowind again.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Sorry for your daylight hours lol
@hardywatkins7737 Жыл бұрын
I remember looking at it in PC Gamer magazine and eagerly waiting for it's release. It had the most cutting edge graphics at the time. I think it's main competition was 'Thief - The dark project' and 'Half-Life'.
@Fastwinstondoom Жыл бұрын
Quite a few years between Thief / Half-Life and Morrowind's release. 2002 had games that made Morrowind look pretty rough already, especially the character models. Noone Lives Forever 2, Hitman 2, Mafia.
@hardywatkins7737 Жыл бұрын
@@Fastwinstondoom Maybe i'm mistaken, it was a long time ago.
@Fastwinstondoom Жыл бұрын
@@hardywatkins7737 Nah, I fully believe Bethesda was hyping up their game with screenshots way before it (eventually) came out. I think they spent over 4 years making it, which was a crazy long development cycle for the late 90's.
@JosephAlanMeador Жыл бұрын
I remember reading those articles. Also remember it being called "overly ambitious". I think that ambition paid off in the long run
@skaterkid901 Жыл бұрын
Wow, that's a memory I thought I'd forgotten. PC Gamer, circa 2003, I remember the Q&A section of the magazine answering a question of "what game can I always play" with the response, "Morrowind. You'll be playing that game until your dying day." If only we knew how true that statement was.
@shodan640111 ай бұрын
Zakh, this is absolutely incredible, thank you. I have looked at Tamriel Rebuilt, Skywind (not even out yet), and all of the Morrowind projects, but nothing looks like this, and I already knew that I wanted the combat mod, so this is everything that I wanted, and more. And because this is in OpenMW, people can add any compatible mods they want to this list. Truly amazing, like playing MW for the first time, and with these graphics and combat upgrades, now TES III absolutely destroys all other Elder Scrolls games. Skyrim who? The only reason to play Skyrim now is because of the Nolvus mod plus some of the modders' quests, especially the Enderal alternative reality of Skyrim. That is if there is any reason to leave this stunning Morrowind universe...
@GamerZakh11 ай бұрын
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy the collection. There's a lot of flexibility with it but I did make it as best as possible to what I think most would prefer.
@tiberiumgaming Жыл бұрын
What a grand and intoxicating mod list
@cyberflightfpv41847 ай бұрын
I check back about once a year to see if there have been anymore overhauls. It’s been about 5 years since my last playground. Morrowind came out my 7th grade year and remains my #1 fav. I think it’s time to play again
@bwractive Жыл бұрын
The fun of playing the vanilla game once in a while, next to the great game itself (story and such), is to see how far we've come today, no need for mods. Nostalgia is bliss
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Of course there's no 'need' for mods, but Morrowind shipped with the Creation Kit. Of all old games, we were specifically told to mod Morrowind by the developers themselves.
@AsteriaRiselta Жыл бұрын
@@GamerZakh This is a very good mod list. I have only one minor issue; I prefer TR over Rebirth, though both are fantastic mods, they aren't compatible. That being said, I still got it to work with TR and it looks breathtaking. So thank you for this, I'm glad this popped up in my feed when it did.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
@@AsteriaRiselta Glad you like it! Yeah this modlist is pretty flexible, swapping Rebirth for Rebuilt shouldn't be an issue. It's an easy list to build on as well if you want more stuff.
@borgestheborg Жыл бұрын
Thank you king! Been waiting for an updated modlist from you for a while now.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
I tend to make one every 2 years, every year and not too much changes. Usually I wait for some new tech, like volumetric clouds or grass LOD or something.
@markwtal9453 Жыл бұрын
This looks so good. When i get new hardware, I'll mod mw again. I have graphical herbalism running for 4 years on openmw. Even on modding just on the phone. Strange you didn't!
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
It's odd but it just didn't work for me the last time I modded. Probably just some obscure issue that only streamers run into haha, but had no issue this time it worked no probs.
@Ianlee197711 ай бұрын
Just re-installed Morrowind and damn, time to mod it. I remember playing this years back but this gives it a really fresh look and feel.
@84Joshof Жыл бұрын
I love this! Some of this modding is still -extremely- fiddly though, I teach computer science and even I am having a hard time modding Morrowind with OpenMW.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Yeah especially the first time you do it, plus you know computers, sometimes it just doesn't work for no reason haha.
@mercai Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this lovely video, Zakh!
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@jam34786 Жыл бұрын
Ahhh yes... time to take a break from modding Skyrim to modding Morrowind. Vvardenfell will forever be my home!
@nightshade1912 ай бұрын
this is still my all time favourite game, so this makes me happy
@prozac1127 Жыл бұрын
It's beautiful. I love pc graphics. No matter which year it came out. I just love the raster graphics.
@AndreiChera Жыл бұрын
thank you for keeping us updated with a recommended modding guide! awesome work. i plan to do this later this year.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Glad you like it! It's worth checking back on mods every 2-3 years. Things tend to change a lot.
@lolmao500 Жыл бұрын
Its crazy that Bethesda never made a next-gen remake of Morrowind... the game that basically SAVED Bethesda from financial ruin and annihilation. Without Morrowind, Skyrim, Fallout 3-4-New Vegas and Starfield never exist. Anyway great mods to make it look good, finally I'll be able to play Morrowind in VR and it'll look great.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
It's probably just to do with money. A full remake of Morrowind would cost as much to make as a brand new game and a brand new game would straight up make more money. A remake of Morrowind would also be competing with all these mods, Skywind, and Morroblivion, so it will be a lot of comparisons and fighting for the same space. It's not like the Final Fantasy 7 remake where there isn't really anything like the Morrowind modding scene.
@poilboiler Жыл бұрын
Is there a single artist, programmer, etc left at bethesda who worked on Morrowind?
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
@@poilboiler Todd Howard worked on Morrowind.
@lolmao500 Жыл бұрын
@@poilboiler Bethesda team back in Morrowind time was really small (they were only around 40-60 with some people doing work from outside) and apparently 13 out of 26 who were still at Bethesda when Morrowind shipped still worked there in 2017. A lot of them were forced to leave in 2001 when they ran out of money and the los angeles office closed. Probably in 2023 its way lower.
@greenbow7888 Жыл бұрын
@@GamerZakh Dunno I could see a Morrowind remake selling a lot of copies. It might even get the sort of notoriet that Skyrim has. It's a highly celebrated game.
@sadboiz4lyfe8 ай бұрын
Awesome! TBH I've played so much Morrowind without mods except for one: Graphic Herbalism. Couldn't play without it.
@martinsch Жыл бұрын
I recommend "Signposts Retextured" instead of Real Signposts and "Pete's Scroll 2018 ...in 2020" as a replacer for books and scrolls They are better alternatives to the mentioned ones, in my opinion. But it's a matter of taste as always. :) Also, "Darknut" has extremely good replacers for monster textures. I think that's a major point that is missing in the list.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
I did look at Signposts Retextured but felt it looked a bit too modern for what I was going for. Pete's Scroll too, bit clean for my tastes haha, I wanted that cosy vibe. Darknut textures are a good alternative though, it's just the creature textures are already improved here by MET.
@martinsch Жыл бұрын
@@GamerZakh Makes sense! I am going for a little bit more modernization in general, with chocolate ui and a HUD mod I've created recently (Simple HUD for OpenMW). So those fit a little bit more in my setup and might look out of place in yours.
@arkgaharandan5881 Жыл бұрын
can you give me some lists i cant find many mod lists for morrowind.
@martinsch Жыл бұрын
@@arkgaharandan5881 Are you interested in my Modlist? I'm writing on a guide for a Rebirth OpenMW modlist with roughly 70 Mods. There are also modlists on modding-openmw, but I personally find some of the common entries questionable and there is none with Rebirth in it.
@calripplebear1293 Жыл бұрын
thanks for all your work in this. We all appreciate the time and effort you've put into this. I'll have to come revisit this game again. It's been perhaps 10 years since I've played it.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I'm glad I could help.
@Dosedmonkey Жыл бұрын
One of the best games I ever played.
@IzSumTingWong7 ай бұрын
Thanks for this bro. The game is absolutely gorgeous. I've been trying to do this for years and I have finally achieved it because of this video. It's been 18 years since I completed my last Morrowind playthrough
@GamerZakh7 ай бұрын
Glad I could help, have fun playing through again!
@Tomattoism Жыл бұрын
Graphic Herbalism is so simple yet so good
@Baraz_Red6 ай бұрын
Point lighting in Skyrim, by playing around with ENB, is also quite nice (though there are tons of settings in ENB for Skyrim as it depends on the time of day). It looks much simpler and really nice here in modded Morrowwind.
@donfolstar Жыл бұрын
Be the hero of our age. Be the one who finally makes a Wabbajack list for OpenMW.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if all these mods would work with Wabbajack?
@petmat1984 Жыл бұрын
Why wouldn't they? There are huge Modlists for Skyrim using Wabbajack.@@GamerZakh
@colbyboucher6391 Жыл бұрын
I mean, You Are Just An Nwah is pretty dang cool as well. More of a gameplay-focused, hardcore modpack, but _very good_ at what it does.
@dylanherron3963 Жыл бұрын
"You know you want this, don't lie to me!" at 0:48 and I'm like bro I'm literally foaming at the f*cking mouth, the last time I played Morro was Tamriel Rebuilt and this is so much better.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Mods have really come a long way. I like to check back every 2 years because the mod makers keep making progress.
@Welther478 ай бұрын
34:46 chandelier and candelabra, are the words you are looking for. Walking animations is the biggest thing Morrowind needs.
@GamerZakh8 ай бұрын
I know those words, I'm just speaking of multi-light sources in general. And I think there is a new walking animation mod now, it's not perfect but I think a lot of people like it.
@laurencelikeit45911 ай бұрын
Love it. looking fantastic!! I admit to being intimidated by the prospect of modding, and hope that my retail CD original version of Morrowind will work with what you have suggested, or that openMW is free? anyhow, well done, it's nice to look at. I will clock my Sci-Fi Civ style game and do Morrowind again, again....again. LOL 🤗🤗🤩🤩
@ycl260779 Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! Sure it might not look like a 2023 game, but honestly it still looks pretty great. I'll probably give your list a shot when I have the time.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@RandallStevenson2 ай бұрын
I changed my point light settings to yours, and it looks so much better
@theprogram19508 ай бұрын
I remember many years ago I had my game with all the available nexus mods, all the mods that improved something without breaking the immersion, there was not a single mod that I was missing, I even had mods that few people know but improved small items of the world that nobody had modded yet, to do something like that again today would take me weeks of compilation.
@Space_Cased2 ай бұрын
The game has always had directional attacks @ 23:05. Great video. I just had to comment bc morrowind was the first game I ever played with movement based attacks. Years later I got heavily into M&B:Warband but thats another story...
@wolfmauler Жыл бұрын
Can't wait to dive in! Morrowind began it all for me! 😉
@gavinmatthewlyall Жыл бұрын
Thank you - I've been meaning to retry OpenMW for a few years now, and you've answered a number of my concerns. I gotta say, tho - all those buggy, low-poly flying things from Where Are All Birds Going really don't help it look better. The same author (abot) implemented the same basic idea MUCH better with Water Life, which also implements fishing, NoM integration, and effectively extends the playable gamespace throughout the ocean; from the Nexus posts, it appears to be at least largely compatible with OpenMW.
@leserbeacerbe6910 Жыл бұрын
My first TES and the best. Compared to current rpgs, it was a masterpiece, deep gameplay, content with dlcs
@birdideasisallyouhave82612 ай бұрын
Whats crazy is this is how i remember the game looked twenty years ago 🤣 god damn my eyes when i looked up OG Morrowind. (After reading through the comments this is a common occurrence, wild how memory works).
@woodrainmudd76843 ай бұрын
Awesome video
@jennifermoore25936 ай бұрын
@GamerZakh Dude, Your AMAZING. i been looking to make Morrowind look at least 1 grade better, and you just made my day!
@loftonrudolph75865 ай бұрын
Love this. Thank you!
@darkbugo72127 ай бұрын
My problem when I started morrowind (at least at first), wasn't the dice rolls in combats. I was playing before Daggerfall which also has dice rolls, but at least there was an audible clank when you failed to hit enemies. There was kinda of an indication that you hit something but it didn't penetrated it's armour. In morrowind from what I remember, it was some clanky swinging of my weapon over bugs, with clanky 3d, and I wasn't even sure I was positioning my camera well. I wasn't sure it was my fault and I was hitting air. Also, from what I remember, in Daggerfall when you fail it might be 1/3 or 1/6 or.. some low number like that. In Morrowind, at least in the beginning, I swear I would swing like 20 times over a bug and not hit it. Dice Rolls are not bad. They could have make it though more easy to hit something and have an audible clank or something.
@chiffmonkey Жыл бұрын
My brain that hasn't seen Morrowind in years - "Isn't that just what it always looked like?"
@Lukemasonmedia6 ай бұрын
Oblivion is the first elder scrolls I truly played but I did technically start on morrowind. Played it very very briefly, but being 10, I went for the new game with the new graphics instead but I really want to go back and play this game. I’ve heard so many amazing things about this game and remember it having immaculate vibes when I did play through the first few missions. Now that I have a pc and can make it a bit prettier it will be easier to play , can’t wait!
@benvg5198 Жыл бұрын
I love your modlist, it looks amazing. Thanks. But I do struggle a bit with the grass mod to work with REBIRTH + OPENMW + MO2. As far as I understand now, you need both Aesthesia Groundcover and Rebirth Grass , correct? Or can you just add Rebirth Grass when you add the configs (as in the description) ?
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Glad you like it! For proper grass, you need to have all the required mod files but they aren't activated in the modlist. You need to follow the guide linked in the description to put a bunch of new lines in a text document.
@benvg5198 Жыл бұрын
@@GamerZakh Thanks. I will try again.
@baitposter Жыл бұрын
OpenMW is definitely the best way to play Morrowind nowadays. A community-made engine that's compatible with most old .esp mods, and has Lua scripting? Sold (It plays very well, and provides some options for people who actually enjoyed certain unintended quirks of the original)
@antonmatsak1294 Жыл бұрын
Yeahhh! thats what was I'm talking about!)))
@anarkhya.5 ай бұрын
Hey, just pointing out that: 11. Cozy Journal and Scroll Replacer (tweaked this so text fits) has been fixed on nexus, no need for homemade tweaking anymore
@GamerZakh5 ай бұрын
Oh awesome! I messed up my fix a bit, so it's great it's done properly now.
@ninoopen9 ай бұрын
I did it, managed to install everything...I'm programmer now, Thanks Zakh!!
@GamerZakh9 ай бұрын
Awesome! I'm glad I could help a bit.
@Onlygloo Жыл бұрын
Damn! I'm flabergasted. Thanks to your amazing video I'll have to reload my old save (running with MGE) once more and create a new profile on Vortex to test this up. Everybody's talking about how long people keep playing that old Skyrim but what about these old farts like me still roleplaying with Daggerfall Unity, Oblivion or Morrowind... ? To be fair, I even recently booted up Arena again for a while ;o) Kudos to Beth Soft for giving us some of the most amazing cRPGs ever created!
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Glad you like it! It's really impressive what you can do with mods now.
@alextrainor25525 ай бұрын
I used to play morrowind in 2002 and 2003 religiously everyday after middle school and weekend mornings. That game had so much mystique, it almost matched ocarina of time for me. Trying to play it as an adult is so hard unfortunately, im so spoiled by games that play much faster from the last 15 years. Maybe ill try it again one day with this mod.
@anarkhya.5 ай бұрын
Adding more thoughts, about your visual output, since I'm using your modlist as a base to build upon and fiddled a lot with shader and openMW settings now, to get nice visuals and performance at the same time (laptop demands). (too?) Dark Bitter Coast: Connary's art is usually very dark and contrasting (compared to MET textures), you compensated for this with volumetric mist/fog, after that you reintroduced contrast with reshade's HDR. So there's a bit of ping-pong effect going on proceeding like this. That being said, I wanted Connary's art for BC, so I quickly "unblackened" their most critical textures, for my usage. I also found that making adjustments using war_adjustments shader offers some extended possibilities altering contrast, brightness, most importantly gamma (very useful to me) & saturation. Ultrabright Fog/Mist: Zesterer (clouds shader) mist, while being very nice introduces a very bright field of view, kinda bothered me and couldn't unbrighten it the way I wanted, despite the shader settings available. Instead I found that enabling all openMW advanced visual settings regarding fog gives some nice results, without going too white. Moving mist will be lost though, but it will still help to unflatten the view. Lastly, adding SSAO shader to your actual shader chain would be a nice improvement, really helps to feel more 3D in interiors and adding a sense of volume to groundcover/grass objetcs.
@Baraz_Red6 ай бұрын
Sharpening in older games does miracles ! I say this based on using Reshade with Mordheim, which is not really an old game (2015).
@TheLetsRead10 ай бұрын
My apologies if this is something which another commenter already asked in regards to, but I was curious if this modlist would be compatible with the Project Tamriel & Tamriel Rebuilt series of mods in particular? I've been looking to do a lore-friendly run but have been holding it off in order to do it with those mods after watching the entertaining Warlockracy videos which reacquainted me with their progress vs. when I had last checked in a little over a decade previously hahaha. However, I've been stunlocked by the process of mod hunting (hence coming here blablabla), so any help you or any other viewer/commenter could provide would be immensely appreciated!
@GamerZakh10 ай бұрын
People generally say Rebuilt isn't compatible with Rebirth, so basically you can do all this but swap Rebirth for Rebuilt. You can also check the easy guide I have linked in the description if you're looking for something more straightforward.
@TheLetsRead10 ай бұрын
@@GamerZakh Thank you kindly!! Why walk when I could ride :)
@Usumgallu Жыл бұрын
I think the magicka regeneration is not heresy, because in vanilla morrowind Atronach birthsign had absolutelu no disadvantages. In fact, using ancestral ghost summons to replenish your magicka gave you an infinite pool and you never had to rest or use magicka potions. With the regen mod (assuming that it's the mod with slow regen rate is based on your willpower), it really makes the other magicka bonus birthsigns viable options. What comes to the speed, it's better to use the 1/4 speed increasing mod (faster-10) that does not boost your speed attribute. This is, because the attribute also boosts your other skills. I avoided using the speed mod for so long, but after trying it there's no going back. It just makes you use 1 hour less time walking in a four hour session. All always-hit mods ruin the combat completely. I recommend not using them. It's player's own fault if they miss all the hits, if they go adventuring with 30 agility and 20 their main weapon skill with 0 stamina.
@colbyboucher6391 Жыл бұрын
"It's player's own fault if they miss all the hits, if they go adventuring with 30 agility and 20 their main weapon skill with 0 stamina." I mean, instead, you just deal effectively zero damage now. The real issue with Better Balanced Combat is that no matter what you do to balance things, high-agility enemies aren't the dodge gods that they should be.
@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers11 ай бұрын
"All always-hit mods ruin the combat completely." I agree 100%. Stop fucking with the gameplay, people. Its fine.
@AshenElk2 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for making sense of this. I wouldn't want to try sticking hundreds of mods together. I recently heard of the Skywind project-funnily enough from a KZbin comment made by a Skywind voice actor-and it looks kind of amazing. Do you know anything about it / are you looking forward to it?
@WotanSkyFather9 ай бұрын
Until we get Skywind (someday) this is what we've got, and it looks great! Nice work!
@cdeford2 Жыл бұрын
Nice video. Lots of new ideas here to try. I've been struggling to get good lighting on Open MW, even with the recommended lighting mods. I assume all this will work with the latest stable release 0.48, as that came out very recently.
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yes it'll work with 0.48, when I made this it was still dev builds working up to that version so most is the same.
@killerkendro9 ай бұрын
Gos this game was a big highlight in my gaming life. Absolute game changer
@adniumedia3499 Жыл бұрын
Property looks really hi-res with these mods, Dren & Arvel plantations approve! 🦎😆 Thanks for the impressive video and loving your choice of Fargoth!
@GreenPrestige5 ай бұрын
Played so much of this game when I was a kid many many years ago. Funny thing is, this is how I remember it looking, I swear the graphics were incredible when I played it, and I guess at the time, they were.
@RedSntDK Жыл бұрын
I prefer saying "quarter of a century ago" over "decades ago", just to make it sound really ancient 😂 Excellent results my dude.
@Silent-Pain. Жыл бұрын
Wow that looks beautiful 😍😍 Now i need some Quest Markers etc. 😂
@Ordo19809 ай бұрын
23:40 Definitely a heresy. What will be the next, Daedra worship??
@MaitreMechant Жыл бұрын
this looks how the game looked for 15yo me 20 years ago, it's amazing
@yukondave838911 ай бұрын
Wish I would understand how to get the grass mod working on OpenMW, but the instructions on both the OpenMW and the mod page are very unclear. How did everyone else get this to work in OpenMW instead of XE? You placed thr grass mod on second place of your order, but creating that file requires you to select all the mods that change the terrain, but the terrain mods come later in the list so I can't select them?
@mikatheluv4 ай бұрын
My god, this is exactly how I remembered it, all the video I was like "what's the difference" and I happen to have the Xbox version here so I made the comparison OMG
@ohareport7 ай бұрын
i get why people don’t like better balanced combat so ng+ is a good way to think of it. the questing, levelling, bartering, alchemy, conjuration and enchanting i went through to earn my constant effect restore magicka ring seem cheapened otherwise!
@braidenzack30910 ай бұрын
Love the video, Very helpful. I beat vanilla morrowind a few years ago and I'm getting the itch again. Idk if you know what reshade is but you should totally play around with it with this mod list, I know I will.
@GamerZakh10 ай бұрын
Thanks! I do know reshade and show my settings on this video.
@patmalloy35692 ай бұрын
I use MGSO pack from Nexus Mods and while theres a warning that the mods are buggy, I used it for 40 hours of game play and I think the worst thing that happened was i fell through one of the bridge walkways in Vivec, into the water, after i jumped. Lol The warning wasnt there when i downloaded the mod pack years ago, and plenty of recent comments haven't had a problem with it either, or if they have, its just that the odd table here and there is a yellow square or something miniscule. Its super easy to install and make the game look as good as all this manual modding mess and with all the frills. If you enjoy modding, more power to you, that's fine. But the MGSO pack is great for people that just want to hop in. It takes no more than 30 minutes to maybe an hour.
@SeesSean Жыл бұрын
I WANT THIS!!!!!!! Hope your well brother man, its about taste yes, simplicity is bliss, still wiating for that RTX mod xD
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Thank you, you too! Glad you like it, and yeah the RTX stuff isn't ready yet but I'm pretty happy with this.
@relensha7804Ай бұрын
PSA: if you are a new morrowing player (like i am) and you dont want to overhaul the combat and remove rolls, there are mods that add the features GamerZakh talks about but separately. i might swap it out once i have as many hours into this as i do skyrim and oblivion, but for now i wanna experience the janky feeling roll system. (even tho the ghosts in that first cript seem to be immune to my silver longblade....) im adding 2 mods in its place, 1 that adds magic regeneration and 1 that makes the character move faster
@Harbringe29 күн бұрын
When modding its always a case of choice and restraining yourself from just throwing in everything you can. I always broke it down based on categories. First how you want it to look enviroment wise. Then how the character and npcs would look , then items be they objects weapons or armor , then weather and then gameplay mods combat , monsters and balnce mods. Basically try to take it one layer at a time. And be careful to deal with conflicts as you go. And that was years ago , nowadays you have mod packages that take care of that for you , even auto installers. Life has gotten much easier doing this than it used to be.
@therexbellator Жыл бұрын
17:25 total Morrowind moment 😂
@GarDenofThieves Жыл бұрын
The Imperials immediately abolished themselves after seeing the beauty of this Vvanderfell version
@MrToullaf Жыл бұрын
22:07 I ve made an improved version of the BBC. But didn't post it on the nexus course SilentNightxxx still didn't answer me and didn't give me permission to upload the edited version of his mod. My chages: accuracy not 100%, but 30%, which is already enough for a comfortable game. also expand penalties and buffs based on the skill levels - the original ones are absolutely usless. For compensation accuracy buff, slowdown attack speed for all weapons by 30%. If you are interested, you can also dig into the code of this mod. The code is great, the implementation is not so good
@bmmaaate Жыл бұрын
I liked the way Morrowind looked. My main issue with rpg games is the limited dialogue and doors that don't open. This does look great though and I would like to play it but my machine won't be able to handle it atm.
@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers11 ай бұрын
I agree. There was nothing wrong the the original graphics (or gameplay, for that matter).
@calripplebear1293 Жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved the Morrowind music when you travelled. It was so enchanting. Oblivion also had great music. I don't know why I can't remember Skyrim music so much. Was it just reused assets?
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Skyrim music was more orchestral, which I find can be less memorable when it's too 'big' because the melodies get buried. But also yes, Skyrim reused at least 1 Morrowind explore song.
@corysargent7057 Жыл бұрын
Also when you did overhaul mod video it was my first time modding a hame i desperatley needed that video and a step by step guide. I also had it playing on my samsung note 20 ultra cellphone haha idk that this will but finally got a decent pc setup with a ryzen 7 and a 3060. Ill never forget the day i went to my first friend i made at church and in my childhood hisndad was the pastor. I wejt to his hoise and he was a gamer like me. But then i noticed his brother playing something on his pc... morrowind and i had never seen a game with an ipen world and it felt like this brilliant twist of true fantasy and alien. I was mesmerized who could have created something so incredible. Anyways love the game and longtime follower of your content God bkess you my friend and then insaw him play halo and watched an eneky get into a banshee and inwas sold on it as well 🤣🤣🤣
@GamerZakh Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Modding the first time is always difficult, glad I could help!
@RenRen-m9u6 ай бұрын
I love that the fog is kept in. So many remasters always take away the fog and ruin the aesthetic and part of what made the original graphics work. This is a complete upgrade.