Why? In an interview with Press Box PR<\/a>, Bruce Nesmith, who left Bethesda in 2021 midway through the development of Starfield having worked at the company for over 17 years, highlighted a number of reasons why Morrowind probably won\u2019t be top of Todd Howard\u2019s remaster list.<\/p>\n Every IGN Elder Scrolls Review \u201cThe problem with doing Morrowind is that I bet they don\u2019t have the original code,\u201d Nesmith said. \u201cThe game is so old. I don\u2019t know if the original source code exists anymore. If it does, can you even compile it? When you\u2019re looking at Oblivion, they still had the code. They could still compile it. Putting the code into the new version of the engine was a possibility.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other thing I would say is go back and play Morrowind and tell me that\u2019s the game you want to play again. We all have these fond memories of things that were pivotal moments in our gaming fantasy histories that we absolutely move but you go back and play a 20 year old game and you will cringe. <\/p>\n \u201cPeople even had cringe moments with the Oblivion remake but they forgave it because they\u2019re reliving something, they\u2019re enjoying the nostalgia. I worked on Oblivion. I\u2019m even responsible for some of those cringe moments! The further back you go, the more that\u2019s going to be an issue. The reality of playing Morrowind would not stand the test of time, in my opinion. <\/p>\n \u201cNow if you were to completely remake Morrowind with the Skyrim engine, to try and rebuild it from the ground up, that\u2019s a whole other story, but that\u2019s an entire project. That\u2019s a whole four-year development cycle. Why not go and make something new?<\/p>\n \u201cLet’s revisit the lands of Morrowind and do a new story. You can include the giant crab palace and all of that stuff but make it new and avoid all the things that would not have survived the test of time.\u201d<\/p>\n On that point, Nesmith suggested Morrowind could be an area Bethesda returns to in another game, perhaps The Elder Scrolls 6, alongside Hammerfell, High Rock, and Summerset Isle.<\/p>\n \u201cIf anything, there’s places that would be too interesting,\u201d Nesmith suggested. \u201cI think Elsweyr would be a challenge with its cat people who change the nature of their catness as they mature. That one might be a little challenging to do. But I think pretty much anywhere you go, there’s lots of cool, interesting stuff you could do.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Bethesda\u2019s former Elder Scrolls loremaster revealed his idea for The Elder Scrolls 6 story, and how it would have set up The Elder Scrolls 7<\/a>. In January last year, The Elder Scrolls 6 announcement became as old as predecessor Skyrim was when The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced<\/a>. Skyrim was released on November 11, 2011, and The Elder Scrolls 6 was revealed on June 10, 2018<\/a> \u2014 2,403 days afterwards. It is now seven-and-a-half years since the announcement, and we\u2019re no closer, it seems, to the release of the game.<\/p>\n Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former veteran Bethesda developer has cast doubt on the possibility of a Morrowind remaster in the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-443777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n