Old Morrowind screenshots were (probably) just mockups

[rusty_shackleford]

Just a bit of interesting trivia.


You may or may not have seen these screenshots before:


And, probably the most memorable:

You can find more here:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Screenshots

It turns out, those were (probably) just mockups. An old bethesda developer stopped by OpenMW's forums to comment on a thread, and briefly mentioned it:
https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?t=7960

AFAIK, those particular screenshots were not in-engine.

I recall those particular screenshots being used to sell the game. In fact, they used to be on Bethesda's site itself…
https://web.archive.org/web/20010529210 ... ots_01.htm

Someone with the same name probably did work at Bethesda during Morrowind's development:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/General:Dougla ... ll's_Posts

… Goodall is known as Affamu, …

…Who seems to have actually been one Douglas Goodall
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/General:Douglas_Goodall

Only issue is the hiring dates don't match up right. He says "January 2001" in an interview, but "January 2000" now. Getting the month right but being off by a year isn't exactly very far off when it's a 22 year time gap, though.

Now we know why we never got our gondolas I guess.

[WhiteShark]

@rusty_shackleford is the lack of gondolas one of the reasons for which Todd is considered a liar?

[KnightoftheWind]

Bethesda were always the masters of "bullshotting". Fake mockups, screenshots, it was always the norm in gaming.

[maidenhaver]

Affamu's got time on his hands:
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/use ... user files
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/52896

He was a regular at the old TES forums.

[Oyster Sauce]

The Morrowind level up messages are so weird. They pop into my head whenever I figure out something difficult IRL but I don't like the ones that imply you're getting old and ****** and will certainly **** up and die towards the end.

[Red7]

The Morrowind level up messages are so weird. They pop into my head whenever I figure out something difficult IRL but I don't like the ones that imply you're getting old and ****** and will certainly **** up and die towards the end.

**** up after death is actually one to be concerned about

must do thread about space **** soul catcher later

[Finarfin]

The LVL 20 one is really passive-aggressive lol.

You'll never be better than you are today. If you are lucky, by superhuman effort, you can avoid slipping backwards for a while. But sooner or later, you're going to lose a step, or drop a beat, or miss a detail -- and you'll be gone forever.