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I loved that Morrowind, especially the music, and the fact that you could see the stars at night. A very immersive game.

However today it might look a bit dated, I hope for this project that can bring some cool upgrades to the Morrowind experience as well as that it can thrive from a legal standpoint.

Now, I never really enjoyed the fact you could enter a shop and steal from it, and then sell it to the vendor. In Oblivion they fixed that.

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A handful of games trigger a deep sense of nostalgia and... I don't know what you'd call it, home-sense I guess. Morrowind's (relative) immersiveness, large world, and first-person perspective trigger it hard. Walking off that dock is like coming home.

Big thanks to the project contributors. Morrowind's one of a few games that I'll probably never go more than 2-3 years without playing at least a little bit, and their work makes that much easier.

The music is just amazing, i still get goose pimples when listing to Nerevar Rising. For a remastered high quality version, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5GpgG8Bj4

The soundtrack is also available as FLAC, IIRC.

All of that remastering work just to be recompressed by YouTube.

yes, but it still sounds better than all the other versions available for streaming. the uploader also added some reasoning in the video description.

His reasoning violates information theoretic bounds on lossy compression algorithm performance.

From memory you couldn't. The owner would say something like hey that's mine and you would gain a bounty instantly and guards would chase you.

IIRC you couldn't sell to the person who was marked (behind the scenes) as the object's owner, but the object wasn't classes as "stolen" and made impossible to sell to anyone but a fence, as it would be in later games.

He might be thinking of Daggerfall, where you could use the "wait" command in a shop until the shop closed, then take all the items off the shelves and none of them were considered stolen.

You could if you sold items from one vendor to another vendor, e.g: from another town.

Yes but in the long-term this screwed you hard. If you ever stole e.g. a diamond from one trader you could no longer sell that trader diamonds. Even after years and dozens of looted diamonds you still couldn't sell diamonds there.

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