Which is better Morrowind Beautification Project or Morroblivion?

[RIVEIR]

Which of these two provides the best overall outcome and why? I want to get one or the other installed for a play through and am hoping that some of you would be kind enough to give your opinion? Or is there an even better option? Thank you in advance.

[Nebgama]

They are kinda different beasts tbh, from your post you seem to be coming from a graphics comparison standpoint? The former is morrowind only where morrowblvion is morrowind and oblivion combined.

[Nebgama]

You need to own oblivion as well for morrowblivion not sure if you are aware or not.

[RIVEIR]

Originally posted by Nebgama:

They are kinda different beasts tbh, from your post you seem to be coming from a graphics comparison standpoint? The former is morrowind only where morrowblvion is morrowind and oblivion combined.

Oh I thought Morroblivion was just a re-make in the oblivion engine.

Originally posted by Nebgama:

You need to own oblivion as well for morrowblivion not sure if you are aware or not.

I do have both games.

[Nebgama]

yeah can travel to oblivion also but regardless of this you would still need oblivion anyway for its engine seeing as its the engine used.

[Turtleswatter]

I remember someone in another thread saying that Morroblivion is the worst of Morrowind and Oblivion. I totally agree. It's a really good mod and I admire the work that's gone into it but it completely destroys the atmosphere and mechanics of Morrowind.

Some people may feel that's a good thing, but then they should play Oblivion instead.

[Nebgama]

oblivion sucks arse in all areas not shure why anyone wants to bring it into morrowind.

[Nebgama]

the graphics look fugly and the mechanics suck. Although those videos on yt are pretty funny probably the best thing in regards to that game tbh.

[RIVEIR]

Well between the two of you it sounds like of the two "Morrowind Beautification Project" is a potential option to get the game looking good but what other mods would really make a difference?

[Nebgama]

Sucks this forum is not moderated we need some pinned threads here because this gets asked every second day.

Vanilla or OpenMW is your two paths. I would not follow beautification project unless its actively maintained and i cannot speak for it fully because i have never followed it.

I am not aware of your knowledge of the game so forgive me if you know some of this already. But essentially your two paths are as follows.

vanilla = more graphics but outdated engine some graphics mods only work here and some mods in general only work here.

OpenMW = slightly less graphics mods but more modern engine and sometimes/mostly better performance on newer systems more headroom and is morrowind brought forward 20 years and into todays gaming standards.

what ever path you take will determine what you need.

[RIVEIR]

Originally posted by Nebgama:

Sucks this forum is not moderated we need some pinned threads here because this gets asked every second day.

Vanilla or OpenMW is your two paths. I would not follow beautification project unless its actively maintained and i cannot speak for it fully because i have never followed it.

I am not aware of your knowledge of the game so forgive me if you know some of this already. But essentially your two paths are as follows.

vanilla = more graphics but outdated engine some graphics mods only work here and some mods in general only work here.

OpenMW = slightly less graphics mods but more modern engine and sometimes better performance on newer systems more headroom and is morrowind brought forward 20 years and into todays gaming standards.

what ever path you take will determine what you need.

Well thanks for that additional feedback. I haven't spent much time modding or playing this game and didn't really see what I was looking for during google search or on these forums. A pinned thread would be great. If I have just been an effective pain in the butt I am sorry, not trying to clutter the place with another of the same threads.

[Nebgama]

looking at beatification project further and as i suspected it uses mgso. Hence why i said what i said last post because i had a feeling you should not use it because its buggy and not maintained.

Rather look through here and on reddit/online even browse through nexus mods to see popular graphics mods.

vanilla will be MgeXE related for graphics and with texture replacers

openmw will be mainly texture replacers with much config tweaking because it cannot use MgeXE but it can do much of mgexe natively.

Thread that i made it is mainly biased towards openmw because that is the nature of the thread but we are disscussing both paths loosely here.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/22320/discussions/0/4679778856506118781/

[RIVEIR]

I honestly just want to end up with the best looking and playing game. Like to have a good UI, any quest fixes, bug fixes, sound fixes, fixes balanced economy if that is a consideration, ..... and more.... I have been looking around online for hours and am just not sold on anything yet.

[Nebgama]

Well you can try options like the one you first mentioned but anything MGSO based is going to be extremely buggy and hard to mod on top off, most mods are way past any compatibility with the current scene regarding mods and many MGSO based "modpacks" are never kept up to date.

Majority of the community does not use this method some would but you will end up limiting your self compatibility wise and left with a broken game mostly its easier and better to build your own mod structure. I am saying this loosely and mainly based of general consensus here. Most prefer to build their own mod set

Morrowind modding can be as easy as you want to make it but just as difficult. Going with MGSO is a can of worms at beast and asking for hours upon hours of troubleshooting also to
note that you will never see many mention MGSO or talk about it much if any it will be old discussions from around the times when the packs were still updateded.

If you go with MGSO route it will work probably but if you want to mod on top of it then that will be a headache and not worth it. Morrowind modding can get quite multifaceted to begin with, without adding problems on top of it.