Earlier this month our Jim called upon Bethesda to remake Morrowind rather than Oblivion. "You cowards," Jim wrote, calling Morrowind a "special game, where a beautifully unique fantasy setting is locked away behind technology and interface design that has aged particularly badly".

I prefer Morrowind's UI to Skyrim's, even with SkyUI mod:

It's more fun to have individual item icons than just text or generic icon just for item type
Those classic brass borders are beautiful
Choosing one of multiple reply options work more reliable in Morrowind, in Skyrim when playing on PC you often click one option and it still picks the wrong one because you didn't scroll enough

Overall, this whole system was obviously designed for consoles and it doesn't really work well on PC even with mods. I don't really remember Oblivion's interface, but the one in Morrowind's is something that I think definitely needs less "fixing" than Skyrim's for example. And I don't think it aged bad at all. Also hotkey system was great, I really miss it in Skyrim, potions are way less fun when you need to go through a bunch of menus every time you want to drink one.

[–] duchess@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like Morrowind's interface better, too, with the optional window managing and selecting dialogue options from within text. But the icon-only inventory is atrocious. I have to hover every single icon to know what it is. I hope OpenMW will spawn a mod or something that will offer an alternative.

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

There is the unfortunately abandoned MorroUI.

[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Hopefully the skyblivion team will move en masse to skywind!