According to leaked documents, Microsoft are/were remastering Oblivion and Fallout 3. This is boring. The past decade of innumerable remasters has been boring enough, but remastering these two games is particularly boring. When even bother when all Bethesda have made since Oblivion is Oblivion remakes with added spacesuits or yelling? Boring. But while I think the torrent of remasters is a miserable sign of big publishers just giving up, if they're going to do it anyway: why not Morrowind?
2002's Elder Scrolls game is an overambitious, odd, scrappy, and spiky beast. It is a game happy to leave you lost, confused, misunderstanding, weirded-out, frustrated, and stuck. Find locations and items by paying attention, not following markers! Say hello to the last Dwarf, a rotting guy with mechanical spider legs! Without fast travel, hasten journeys by riding a network of giant bugs! Befriend a weird god! Visit many places that are intentionally unremarkable! Possibly be a giant fraud of a prophecised saviour! Destroy a nascent divine meatbot! Use crafting to get game-breakingly powerful! While Bethesda's open-world RPGs just aren't for me, I can respect Morrowind.
To be clear: I know why they're not doing Morrowind. It's because 2002's Elder Scrolls game is overambitious, odd, scrappy, and spiky. It's because it is happy to leave you lost, confused, misunderstanding, weirded-out, frustrated, and stuck. Bethesda have spent 21 years trying their hardest not to make Morrowind again, 21 years sanding down knobbly bits and filling crags, 21 years mastering the art of creating giant games which offer dozens of hours of inoffensive nothing-in-particular. I understand why people might dislike Morrowind but I think that if a game doesn't
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