morrowind? mechwarrior? multiwersus? muperwario? help me out
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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How is this related to Skywind?
EDIT: Not saying it needs to be, just seeing if someone can tldr the difference between the 2 projects. I would love to revisit Morrowind and want the best experience...
Skywind: Playing the plot of Morrowind in the Skyrim engine. Game mechanics, spells, skills, models, textures, and bugs are all going to be similar to what you have in Skyrim, give or take some modding.
OpenMW: Playing Morrowind in an open source, crossplatform game engine. You are playing the exact same game as TES III (gameplay mechanics, spells, models, textures, etc are 1:1 identical in a vanilla install) but the code behind it is less buggy, more moddable, and constantly being improved.
Thank you very much!
They are both in some way related to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
OpenMW is an open source game engine that can be used to play Morrowind. (There is an unfinished "Example Suite", a CC0 licensed game data that can be used instead of Morrowind game data, so technically OpenMW does not play just Morrowind. Feel free to come help finish the Example Suite)
Skywind is remake / reimagining of Morrowind game in a modified Skyrim engine.
I love openmw
Open Modern Warfare?
Open Muppet Wars
Open MicroWave
To be pedantic, the MW in OpenMW doesn't stand for anything. It's supposed to make players think of "Open MorroWind", but only Bethesda has the right to use the name Morrowind.
Swing and a miss.
Nah, it's Open Mech Warrior.
A free re-implementation of the engine that powered Morrowind.
Exciting release for Tamriel Rebuilt players, we might finally get to enjoy some of the custom spells that mod adds!
if only i still had a cd drive. i think i still have the game cd somewhere.
when is a game this old finally public domain so they can get rid of the original game installation requirement?
I keep a USB DVD drive for this reason. I should upgrade to BD when it craps out
If you own the game, just get a torrent or something.
70 years after the author’s death IIRC
And then they add a t-shirt or gloves and voilà
Ah and mega corporations never die, so never 😂
Don’t say that, the Hudson Bay Company died a few years ago. It’s worth a read in Wikipedia; they were so powerful hundreds of years ago that they were treated like a country.
IBM is defunct for consumer tech.
Radio Shack is dead.
Many other examples haha.
Well that's just neat.