A former veteran Bethesda developer has cast doubt on the possibility of a Morrowind remaster in the same vein as the recently released Oblivion remaster, saying going back to play The Elder Scrolls 3 now, over 20 years after it came out, would make fans “cringe.”
A time honored tradition of getting lost because of misreading the journal. I don’t remember which quest it was, but it was one that asked me to find something heading south. The first time I went south I got pretty much to the end of Vvanderfell. Next time I tried doing the walk, I kept to the road. It didn’t take more than 1 minute from the city (Balmora? Can’t remember) to where I was supposed to go.
I know there’s one quest that gives the wrong directions. I assume that’s part of the reason they don’t do it anymore. If they modify the game and the position of something changes they need to go back and modify any text that referred to it. With a quest marker they just mark the location and it works automatically. It shouldn’t be that hard to make a procedural text directions generator though, but that wouldn’t work with 100% voices lines.
Thats part of the reason I think that is flawed. They can’t have characters give you detailed lore about the world because it needs to be voiced, so they have to shove it in a book, which means you can’t have a conversation about it. I think a hybrid approach would be better, but there’s no way Bethesda is going to do that now.
I guess there is an argument for AI generated voices for this task. It’d be doing something that is impossible to do otherwise, so it’s not replacing anyone.
Sorry, that was a huge tangent/rant.