What would be the problem with remaking Morrowind in Gamebryo+? Granted, I'm basically a retard, but it mostly seems to be implementing a higher level of granularity than post-Morrowind games had, not having to make a system that would have to do that from the ground up. It still exists through having skill leveling, and that leveling still having a noticeable output, whether it's damage, damage mitigation, or craft-ables quality.
Mostly I'm thinking of how lazy Bethesda has proven themselves to be with their iterative game design over time. Because of that I just don't think they would ever bother doing real proper engine update remasters
or remakes.
I remember the people behind MorrOblivion, years ago, had to compromise a lot of the design elements from Morrowind when they ported it into the Oblivion engine. Remaking the removed weapon types was one thing (I
think they were successful at that?), but they just gave up on spells like Mark and Recall and Levitation. And that dramatically changed the way you played the game, even if the fast travel system from Oblivion is "better."
Bethesda themselves could obviously program whatever they wanted in a remake/remaster, but I don't get the feeling they would. None of their games get
more complex over time. Look at Skyrim. Why does it have a perk system? Because Fallout 3 and New Vegas did, and they didn't want to create a new gameplay system, just iterate on previous designs. Is that appropriate? I mean, it
works, but I would argue it isn't. It's lazy.
Sometimes I get the feeling Bethesda as a developer is made up of a bunch of (very talented) game designers and writers who create great stuff with toolkits they don't fully understand. I know that isn't accurate, but it seems that way. I doubt their ability to re-add design complexity back into their games because it would be more effort than they are used to. And Morrowind is structurally different than the later games.
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