As per graphics…my active gaming years started around 2012-2014, and the first TES game I’ve played was Skyrim, which soon later gained the Special Edition with updated graphics.
So, the bar for me is quite high, and poorer graphics breaks immersion. Oblivion, to me, is bad, Morrowind is untenable.
The only old game I actually played a lot was 2003’s Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, and what saved it is decent lighting, no extra blur, enclosed areas and action-packed gameplay that left less attention to how poor it looks.
Mechanics too, for sure.
As per graphics…my active gaming years started around 2012-2014, and the first TES game I’ve played was Skyrim, which soon later gained the Special Edition with updated graphics.
So, the bar for me is quite high, and poorer graphics breaks immersion. Oblivion, to me, is bad, Morrowind is untenable.
The only old game I actually played a lot was 2003’s Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, and what saved it is decent lighting, no extra blur, enclosed areas and action-packed gameplay that left less attention to how poor it looks.
Morrowind with the graphical overhaul mod looks ridiculously good.
I shit you not, it looks better than anything Bethesda has produced since.
The clunky old mechanics are still clunky and old. But damn, Morrowind mods go a long way.
True! Visuals ger way better in OpenMW mods, but it costs a lot of computer resources and animations remain as terrible as they always were
I do have half an eye on the Skywind Mod. The pictures of the world looks very promising.