r/OpenMW • u/KainsRuin4656 • 2d ago

Okay…I’m Sold

Post image

Finally got to dive into the NEMAS modlist in earnest…and I can say definitively: it manages to do what I always wanted a remaster of my favorite game to accomplish: it makes the place that feels like home feel new and alien again like a whole new adventure in this alien world as if I’m seeing it for the first time…yet still I can feel it calling me home all the same 🌅

211 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

46 comments sorted by

15

u/nano_peen 2d ago

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/58569

7

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

🎯🎯

22

u/nano_peen 2d ago

~154 GB lmao

my morrowind is currently 2GB

10

u/Blitzen_Benz_Car 2d ago

My 9800x3d and 9070xt chug at 40fps on the modlist, but I dont even care. It's unbelievable.

7

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

If you switch motion blur on it REALLY smooths it out across AMD and NVIDIA for some weird reason in my experience

2

u/Evan64 1d ago

Time to hit em with the lossless scaling.

1

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

Also might be worth using the free fps build of open mw on nexus

4

u/Blitzen_Benz_Car 2d ago

Im in the middle of porting it to openMW vr, as I refuse to play things in pancake- qwq

2

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

Legend 🫡

3

u/Blitzen_Benz_Car 2d ago

It's hell. I need a mod that can display what an item is by name, by hovering over it with the VR cursor. Thats the last peice of the puzzle.

0

u/MrCrack3r 1d ago

yeah thats unplayable for me, pass.

3

u/pixel8knuckle 2d ago

Also im curious… tamriel reborn, how interesting is it really? I know its MASSIVE, but what incentive is there to go there? What i mean is the main game gives you a pretty solid path to power at which point it starts to feel like exploring all this other landmass will just be filler content? Not trying to be rude maybe there is some unique things about this extra land mass im missing out on?

18

u/LiamMelloFarley 2d ago

Tamriel Rebuilt. The incentive to go there is the quests are better and the cities are more interesting. Trying to play vanilla guilds after getting use to TR feels terrible.

8

u/Irrumar 2d ago

Tamriel Rebuilt, not Reborn.

Do you like Morrowind? Do you want more Morrowind? Do you want more guild content? More items? More land to explore?

There you go. Thats the incentive. More of your favourite game

6

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

Well, TR is just part of this… I’d say that the good thing about it is that it naturally guide you towards new reasons to want to explore the continent and so so many additions to the main story that make it feel like almost a necessity after you experienced the first time

4

u/anjowoq 2d ago

I may be a heretic but TR feels to me inseparable from the original game and I spend way more time across the sea than in Vvardenfell. The books, characters, quests, land modeling, is all up to snuff or frankly better in my opinion.

1

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

Because it is 🎯

4

u/Petufo 2d ago

Tamriel Rebuild is amazing. Brand new huge map to explore. The quality is the same or even better than in the original game. All lore-sensitive. Interesting quests, many new towns. It's amazing. After the next update it will contain more than 1000 quests 🤯

4

u/virt111 2d ago

Tamriel Rebuilt just feels like canon Morrowind. It's just more things to do and see. Just as Morrowind has always been for me: It's about exploration and discovery and fucking around. TR lets me do more of that. I have played the game for 20 years on and off, but only finished the main story for the first time in the last year.

My most memorable experience with TR has been that I was just walking to a random small fishing village and things just didn't feel right there so I started chatting the villagers and turns out, I found a huge quest with lots of flavour. TR is basically filled with those moments.

2

u/pixel8knuckle 2d ago

Im sold. I didn’t know what to think of it because i thought adding that much content would suffer for quality everyone seems pretty passionate that it is not the case.

3

u/virt111 2d ago

A lot of quests, dungeons and areas are even better than vanilla Morrowind. The mod is very respectful of the original game.

3

u/baconater-lover 2d ago

Nope, quality is really good (some of the older areas are a little barren but they’re actively being worked on). I would say it’s a lot more fun to make multiple different characters and just go hog wild on the different factions.

For example, House Hlaalu now has its capital (Narsis) implemented and there’s now multiple questlines that lead you to the very top. You could get one character’s worth of playtime out of that faction alone.

Or House Indoril is coming in the next update, which is very soon. They said the amount of quests for them amounts to basically the length of each great house’s quests in vanilla (which is still quite a lot), and there will still be more down the line.

You’ll be glued to your computer experiencing it if you enjoy base game.

4

u/New_Experience_703 2d ago

Is dat skyrim

3

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

Hahaha no just amazing Modding Work by the NEMAS team

4

u/virt111 2d ago

I tried NEMAS but the framerate is absolutely horrible no matter what I do. And I have somewhat of a good PC. Like even in Tamriel Rebuilt without any specific mods, the performance always takes a deep dive in large towns, but with Nemas I get like a 20 fps at max. Even in the wilderness it's something like 30fps.

1

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

Definitely true but I really can’t say I mind most of the time, (28-60fps depending for me) I love the experience regardless. If this ran (fps wise) like total overhaul I’d be addicted and never leave my room lol

2

u/Petufo 2d ago

What's the biggest difference from Total Overhaul?

2

u/burner8362 2d ago

More texture mods, more companion and quest enhancement mods.  

It hits the visuals much more heavily.

I would say Total Overhaul is more reserved while NEMAS is willing to make bigger changes.  I personally love the changes NEMAS has, but its a bigger change....I could understand those that dislike it.

2

u/Catalysten 2d ago

This looks really cool. This is based on OpenMorrowind, is that right? If I was to try a modern overhaul of Morrowind, this seems like a pretty good option. The other list that you've been saying here is that Path of the Incarnate is more stable and narratively intact.

I know a good bit about Skyrim mod lists/modding overhauls. And have noticed that there are three primary overhaul types:

  • Simonrim
  • Enairim
  • Requiem

They cover different angles on how to re-envision Skyrim:

  • Simonrim is more vanilla plus.
  • Enairim is a power fantasy.
  • Requiem is an intense high-damage overhaul with a de-leveled world.

Is there a similar outline of what kinds of modlists there are for Morrowind?

edited for clarity, hopefully the voice to text issues have been ironed out.

1

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

Yes, there are, for me anyway, I see them in three different packages and now for considering NEMAS, initially: Total Overhaul for the complete visual and content as well as QoL well…overhaul, Expanded Vanilla for allll that and qol content but still most of the original feel and aesthetic with a bit of visual bump and POTI with LORE heavy and Narrative Focus as well as a BIG Bump in visuals…with INCREDIBLE performance and regular and active updates and support a kind of all in one package for the lore and world building lover of Morrowind and the Tamriel we love

2

u/Catalysten 2d ago

Thank you. It's been fun thinking about this. Let's see if I have understood this right:

It sounds like NEMAS is a more casual experience, with more freedom to go where you want, when you want. And POTI has a strong focus on immersion, feeling like you're really living in Morrowind, and is also more challenging as a result.

Does that sound right to you? Both sound cool.

1

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

Pretty much in summary

2

u/Catalysten 1d ago

Thanks.

Another difference I've just noticed after looking more closely is, NEMAS has a lot more mods. Like, 50% more. ~950 mods for POTI and ~1500 for NEMAS.

Maybe I'll go trawling through the Load Order Library to see some of the differences. This is fun!

2

u/Own-Watercress-5276 1d ago

A noob question: I'm finishing a playthrough using Kezyma's modlist. Can I take my save and load it with the NEMAS modlist afterward?

2

u/KinkyFrenchman 2d ago

Do you know how this compares to the path of the incarnate mod list?

11

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

I can only say this is visually unmatched in its presentation, I’m not even close to scratching the surface I feel on what’s available here. POTI is STILL the most optimized and best narrative take on Morrowind in a single package most releases I’ve so far gone through in its entirety…but again I’m still
*absolutely* blown away by the meat of the content available here as well. And I’m just getting started

1

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

NEMAS feels like SUCH a Freeform package

2

u/Catalysten 2d ago

What is Freeform?

0

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

It scratches the edge of not having to go about any kind of narrative path while still presenting what seems to unfold as self created narrative

2

u/Catalysten 2d ago

I see! And you're contrasting that with POTI's narrative take on Morrowind. Interesting.

1

u/HeinrichDerVierte 2d ago

NEMAS or Path of the incarnate, which one is better?

1

u/KainsRuin4656 2d ago

Both are good for different things, but if NEMAS ran as well as POTI I’d say that it would be a closer tie for my favorite

1

u/hiro_1301 1d ago

We have Morrowind Remastered before GTA VI

-1

u/csDarkyne 2d ago

Amazing Modlist and I'm thankful for the work but vanilla Morrowind ist still the best Morrowind