>widely worshipped as one of the greatest games of all time>only 200k person-hours to make>would be 50-100k person-hours with modern tools>still no indie attempts to make a game like this, 23 years laterWhat gives?
>>12264675you cant just throw time at a project and make it good. Some indie dev could have 200,000,000 hours and still churn out a derivative pos thats worse than a japanese game from 1998.
>>12264675nobody actually wants to play bethesdaslop that isn't made by bethesda
Dude what the fuck? Person hours are not how you judge a game like this. Bethesda games require so much redesigning and testing because they have so many interacting parts. Its not like a pixel platforming where you just need to know the pace of an artist's drawing to plan out about how much fun content you'll have.
>>12264675>would be 50-100k person-hours with modern toolsNo.
>>12264675You don’t make shit with hours, you make it with knowledge and talent
i can't wait for tamriel rebuilt to come out in 2008
>>12264675there are plenty of indie open world action rpgs, but they all suck (like morrowind) try pirhans bytes games
>>12264750that all suck too
>>12264675How big was the Morrowind team?
>>12264675>>12264690>>12264675>>12264681Best example is modern "AAA" "devs" crunching decade long development cycles yet outputting utter dogshit. Miyamoto was lying out of his ass when he said "a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad". KEK sometimes the game is gonna be bad no how matter how long you delay it.
>>12264675>would be 50-100k person-hours with modern toolswow so it would take five people a mere four years? "indie devs" are so lazy
>>12264681no need to call me out like that...damn.
>>12264697Completed Project Tamriel in VR is the best retirement home dream a young man today can wish for.
>>12264843Huh, it was so big that Todd even had to code now and then (and as I get it, nobody was fond of Todd's code, even Todd himself).
>>12264750Those suck even more
>>12264991>nobody was fond of Todd's code, even Todd himselfNormal programmer feel
>>12264675look at the rest of bethesda's output, morrowind was lighting in a bottlealso check out arden fall, not out yet but the trailer clearly positions it as a spiritual successor
>>12264675Frankly speaking, Morrowind is one of those games where a modern developer wouldn't be competing against Morrowind, but the idea of what Morrowind was. Seriously, where do people get off saying it's "one of the greatest RPGs" when a shitton of the quests are just dungeon crawls or boil down to "either Kill or spam Persuade on these guys." Quests mods come out all the time with this level of depth and they get ripped to shreds for it, let alone full-on games.
