What is Morrowind?

Perhaps the best description of Morrowind has been made by its makers, Bethesda Softworks:

"The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is an epic, open-ended single-player game where you create and play any kind of character you can imagine. Be the noble hero embarking on an epic quest, or an insidious thief rising to leadership of his guild. Be a malevolent sorcerer developing the ultimate spell of destruction, or a reverent healer searching for the cure to a plague. Your actions define your character, and your gameplay changes and evolves in response to your actions. Confront the assassins' guild, and they take out a contract on you. Impress them, and they try to recruit you instead. No two sagas are the same in the world of Morrowind.

"Players can choose to follow the intriguing main storyline, or set off to explore the huge province of Morrowind and the many interesting people and exotic locations it contains. Vast cities and remote villages dot the landscape, each with its own unique look and feel. Hundreds of quests and adventures await as you interact with characters and learn more. Regardless of whether you play a murdering assassin or a noble knight, the game holds endless possibilities and allows you to revisit the main storyline at any time.

"With Morrowind, the unparalleled Elder Scrolls character system is coupled with an exponential increase in the world's richness of detail and level of visual splendor. Utilizing the latest in 3D technology, Morrowind will feature hyper-realistic textures and polygon counts, real-time shadows, vast landscapes, skeletal based animation, and a complete weather system.

"Gameplay is further extended with the inclusion of The Elder Scrolls Construction Set, which will be included with the game. This powerful tool is being used to create the entire game, and will also allow players to modify and add to Morrowind in any way they see fit. Change character or creature attributes and skills, introduce new weapons or dungeons into the game, or create entire new worlds to explore. You'll be amazed how simple it is to use, and astounded by how much bigger it makes an already immense game universe. Players can easily swap files and add or delete hem from their game with the click of a mouse, ensuring that no file can ever damage your game or change it permanently."

Taken from the official Morrowind Website - Morrowind.com

Morrowind is perhaps the most successful single-player orientated Computer Role-Playing Game (CRPG) of the year 2002. The game features stunning graphics, and amazing versatility. This is a game with many possibilities for those with imagination. It is also very well suited for modding, and the skill and leveling system is actually quite similar to the Quest for Glory series, making it the right candidate for a tribute mod. This team also looked at modding Dungeon Siege and Neverwinter Nights, but both games were dissapointing in their modding constraints.

Why Morrowind?
 There are many reasons which make Morrowind ideal for a Quest for Glory Mod:

  • Morrowind comes standard with the Morrowind Construction Set - Powerful development tools to build mods for the game, making outside utilities aside from 3D modellers and texturers virtually unneeded.
  • Morrowind is in full 3D and offers both First Person and Third Person perspectives.
  • Morrowind has a leveling and skill system that is very similar in its design and function to the original Quest for Glory games.
  • Morrowind is a very popular game, with a large fanbase.
  • Morrowind can easily be made to place focus on adventure rather than Hack and Slash games like Diablo or Dungeon Siege.
  • A Morrowind Mod cannot be considered competition by Sierra, making its chances for being officially supported more likely.
  • It gives our creative team the chance to show off their talent with brilliant new 3D models and textures.

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