Remember the Morrowind Overhaul mod, which employed an entire suite of Morrowind add-ons to drastically improve the look of the decade old Elder Scrolls adventure? Well, version 3.0 has finally launched. The update introduces an infinitely useful auto-installer, removing much of the hassle involved in prettifying the RPG classic.
How things have changed since the Year that Debuted Norah Jones. I remember when all of this glacier was volcanic dust. Of course, then it was all obscured by render distance mist - we were grateful just to see our own hands waving back at us in front of our faces, often responding with a suitably enthusiastic “Hullo!”.
It was also the year of Morrowind, and more unfeasibly, the year in which the Elder Scrolls made the top 10 most searched new subjects on the entire internet.
Morrowind was beautiful and wonderful for reasons that just couldn’t exist these days, at least coming from Bethesda. It was broken in ways that weren’t just bugs or glitches, but instead ambition and risk taking on the part of design. It was mad, and it was an incredible amount of fun. But it’s threatening to become something you can’t even pop into your CD Drive and experience again, thanks to the unstoppable onslaught of operating system upgrades and various software issues. So the modders are going to fix it.
The astonishing thing about surveys is how accurately the views of a small sample reflect those of the majority. Ask 10 random people how they feel about, say, the geopolitics of the Balkan Peninsula, and you’ll get a pretty good idea of what the entire world thinks of it. The same goes for Skyrim - ask 1,000 people what their game preferences are, and you’ll get a good indication of what everyone else is doing.
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Take some of Skyrim's heaviest hitters, some critters, a few iconic characters and everyone’s favourite backpack, Lydia. Now make them fight! The results, as expected with all things Skyrim related, are epic.