#1 The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
Morrowind is another game that showcases how games that pushed graphical boundaries of its day tend to look a lot the worse for wear once those boundaries get moved along by the inevitable progress of Moore’s Law.
But the game marked The Elder Scrolls’ beginning to solidify the gameplay elements the series has relied heavily on in subsequent titles. Leveling up skills through practice, for instance, and shifting the focus away from the main questline to a more free-form playstyle. There’s a lot to still love about this game, and its weirder, more alien landscapes would look amazing in a modern engine.
Fortunately, a group of modders called TES Renewal Project is working on bringing Morrowind forward, at least a couple steps. Using the Skyrim engine, they’re completely rebuilding Morrowind, using community-created models, maps, items, and scripts. They’ve even reached out to the community to provide brand new voiceovers for characters who had spoken only through text in the original game. There’s no release date set yet, but the results so far are pretty impressive.
