OPEN Morrowind for Linux

[SavageMind]

Hey guys,


it has been a while since my last post. However I have been trying to keep my fingers and toes still attached here in Afghanistan. i have found a interesting project that needs some help and would be awsome to be ported to Pandora. Elder Scrolls III Morrowind. This is a open project as they are remaking the engine and seem to have pretty good progress. They are looking for Linux build makers if anyone is interested. I however would be stoked to play this game on the Pandora. :blink:


http://openmw.org/

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi SavageMind


This is indeed an interesting project !


I remember playing Dagerfall demo on my 486 :wub:


Bye, and take care !


Magic Sam

 

[SiegfriedCroes]

Oh, heard about this project more than a year ago and thought it died/was cancelled... Nice to see it's still being worked on Morrowind on Pandora would be sooooo beyond totally amazing

 

[SavageMind]

Now all we have to do is help...lol. I'm hoping some our more saavy programers/coders could put some input to see if it is possible.

 

[numidark]

I want OpenMorrowind

 

[Pickle]

uses ogre for rendering, thought that was running by someone at some point. Seems possible.

 

[mcobit]

Cloudef needs a pandora to work more on ogre

 

[DaMummy]

Cloudef, you should really get a pandora. they're pretty cool.

 

[Asaggynoodle]

Ohh... my.. gosh.. Incredible!!! This is soo awesome! I cant wait to get my hands on this.. An open world game on a handheld... *Eyes get big*. THanks for all your work! Best wishes to you and the project!

 

[bzar]

Cloudef, you should really get a pandora. they're pretty cool.

You're evil

 

[SavageMind]

Ohh... my.. gosh.. Incredible!!! This is soo awesome! I cant wait to get my hands on this.. An open world game on a handheld... *Eyes get big*. THanks for all your work! Best wishes to you and the project!

WHOAAA! Slow up there partner!. I just found the project, I have not typed code since Fortran was popular and I doubt I could do that anymore. I'm trying to rally support for it so we can get it ported over. :blink:

 

[Loonie]

I however would be stoked to play this game on the Pandora. :blink:

http://openmw.org/

Understatement of the year.

 

[GiraffeeDreams]

I couldn't get into the elder scrolls games, I didn't like oblivion and couldn't have cared less about Skyrim, but this has seriously piqued my interest

 

[DaMummy]

right so why does malwarebytes block that website?

 

[gruso]

The site seems legit from here (running through a very fussy Trend Micro system at work). Looking at their forums, looks like they were hacked mid last year but it was resolved pretty quickly. MBAM is probably still blocking based on that.


(I have moved this thread to Pandora General, as there is no dev talking happening as yet.)

 

[Korlithiel]

GiraffeeDreams, while I loved Morrowind I don't feel your missing out on Oblivion. I hear that Skyrim plays about the same, so it will be awhile until I look into it.


Reading into the OpenMW website, I wonder how starry eyed it takes to start work on a project like that.

 

[fahrstuhl]

GiraffeeDreams, while I loved Morrowind I don't feel your missing out on Oblivion. I hear that Skyrim plays about the same, so it will be awhile until I look into it.

Actually you're missing out on the awesome Dark Brotherhood questline and shivering isles expansion I couldn't find anything of equal awesomeness in skyrim, yet. But that's just my opinion, gameplaywise they're pretty similar.

 

[PowerGod]

I couldn't get into the elder scrolls games, I didn't like oblivion and couldn't have cared less about Skyrim, but this has seriously piqued my interest

Go with Morrowind my friend, go with Morrowind !! It's better to play it with enhanced textures and body models, and maybe some mod like "Marksman mod" (just an example) that give you some more underlooked options for the game, like make your own arrows, and get them from the dead bodies... (in the original game if you kill someone with 30 arrows you can get back 1... if you are luky)

GiraffeeDreams, while I loved Morrowind I don't feel your missing out on Oblivion. I hear that Skyrim plays about the same, so it will be awhile until I look into it.

Actually you're missing out on the awesome Dark Brotherhood questline and shivering isles expansion I couldn't find anything of equal awesomeness in skyrim, yet. But that's just my opinion, gameplaywise they're pretty similar.

Morrowind VS Oblivion


Ehm... maybe fly ? Or dungeons with upper hidden passages ? Or maybe the detailed written background story of everything ? Maybe fantasy monsters like Nix Hound and Silk Striders ? There were no normal animals in Morrowind... even plants and buildings were so different from town to town...


Maybe the possibility to became a werewolf ? (Even at command !!)


I liked to finish quest objectives listening to vague information from people and making some search, not following an arrow...


I lost much of the game when I played Oblivion, the dungeon where always the same, with ALWAYS the SAME "HIDDEN PASSAGE ROCK"... even the portals to oblivion where so similar... and temples with all the same exact switch...


Anyway I liked very much the Dark Brotherhood questline (somewhat similar to the Morrowind Morag Tong questline, but better) and Shivering Island with the hilarious Sheogorath (if i remember the right divinity)


I didn't play Skyrim, but I think it's young... Bethesda games always need some years to became mature, with mods and upgrades (AND PATCHES !! OOOOOH A LOT OF PATCHES !!!)

 

[fahrstuhl]

It was more of Oblivion vs Skyrim than Oblivion vs Morrowind, because I don't remember a lot of Morrowind, except that after a while I lost the patience for it. I ran from one wall of text into the next without really getting what I was doing or what I should do.


One of the main problems I have with Bethesda games is that they're extremely unreliable. If I was just following a questlog (if at all... Think of unmarked quests in Fallout 3) without some marker I'd never know if I'm just too stupid for this quest or if the NPC bugged through the floor again.


I hated the Oblivion portals. That's pretty much the reason why I've never finished the main quest. (But every sidequest )


Although none of this kept me from investing 100+ hrs per game...


Also flying in morrowind was pretty much cheating xP

 

[PowerGod]

@Fahrstuhl: I was responding at your quote and your post at the same time anyway Morrowind actually HAS a questlog, with the Tribunal expansion installed, maybe you played the game without it.


But what you just told about the "wall of text" (LOL) in Morrowind make me think it's just not the game for you, I was in your situation at the start of the game, I started just for a "demo play" and wasn't reading anything... and after 1 hour I was lost... but then something changed, I stopped in the first big city I found and I lost myself in the library, but this time for good !! Listened to all the people and I started to feel the world I was in. I finished Morrowind in 4 years, with some pause, but everytime I restarted to play was just great. And I didn't become a vampire, with it's quest related, or finished the other houses quests, cause you can be only with one house. So there something I missed.


I don't think that flying was cheating, cause the normal potions or scrolls were very slow, and the duration was short, so you wasn't even able to flee with them... the money needed to buy or make something worth were too much... only at higher levels you can get some equipment or spell worth to fly, anyway a mage character need to fly to take shortcuts on mountain paths, instead a thief can jump and run better to get to the same location.


Maybe cheating can be overpowering INTELLIGENCE and CHARISMA (with A LOT of potions) to make SUPER POTIONS to sell (at incredible prices) and drink AGAIN, just to become a super achemist, and then make AGAIN SUPER POTIONS OF FLY... but if you play the normal way, it's not cheating, instead, in the Morrowind world magic is not so powerful like in Oblivion.

without some marker I'd never know if I'm just too stupid for this quest or if the NPC bugged through the floor again.

LOL, this happened to me in Oblivion, the arrow was pointing to the last orc to kill, but there wasn't anyone there !! I passed 30 oblivion days in the area searching for some secret entrance of some sort, but it was there, in the floor !! I had to DUPLICATE it with the console to finish the mission...


Oblivion took me 6 month to finish (all guilds and all "worth" subquests). I just stopped when the last quests were "find all the statue in the temples" and similar... I wasn't going to search the map just to find always the same temple, but in another location, and just to get some coins.