Oblivion Remastered

[Raoul Duke]

Some images leaked and it looks like it's coming soon...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4HKYfxIH-I

[Disco]

Oblivion is a weird one, it's an odd middle ground between the brilliance of Morrowind and the inch deep schlock of Skyrim all with bizarre shiny playmobil faces and a god awful scaling system, yet some of the writing and quests still managed to poke through and leave an impression. Not sure I would trust Bethesda to remake it any better than the original though.

[Shindig]

I bloody loved Skyrim but bounced off Oblivion twice. I hear closing the Oblivion gates is a bitch.

[Disco]

There were too many of them, and by the point where they might have been interesting you've seen enough. A bit like how dragons in Skyrim were fun for five minutes but after a while you just run away so you don't have to bother with them. Oblivions best bits were some of the guild questlines and the sidequests.

[Magic]

Game pass day 1. I loved Skyrim as well so will probably give this a bash.

[Yevrah]

Any news on how this has been remastered? Like improved combat or levelling system?

[Raoul Duke]

Nothing yet apart from a few images leaked. I'd be surprised if they didn't do some improvements (hopefully to the bollocks persuasion system in dialogue :moop:).

Oblivion was the first one I played so I have a lot of affection for it.

[Shindig]

Man, if this has vague Fallout 4-ish dialogue options, it's done for.

[Pepe]

This one had dynamic difficulty, right? Never liked that.

[phonics]

I remember the Oblivion Gate shader would slow my PC down to 3 FPS but only if I directly looked at it, those fights inside Oblivion were among the most skillful and infuriating things I ever did.

[Disco]

Any remake must capture the true character of the original.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy5fgDvb9-c

[Mike]

It's out.

[Magic]

I've downloaded it.

[Yevrah]

And on Gamepass. Looks like a long overdue win for Bethesda.

[Yevrah]

After the most ludicrous download size I think I can recall I now have about an hour to play it.

[Shindig]

120GBs for what is essentially a 2006 game under the hood.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, I have no idea how it comes in at that size. Madness.

Looks lovely mind.

[Disco]

120GBs for what is essentially a 2006 game under the hood.

And £50 for what is essentially a 2006 Bethesda game under the hood. They'll be charging for horse armour again next.

[Shindig]

They are.

Deluxe Edition comes with the horse armour for an extra tenner.

[Raoul Duke]

I'm away so not had a chance to play this but it looks massively different to the original (in a really good way). Some nice improvements to a few systems it looks as well.

[Disco]

They are.

Deluxe Edition comes with the horse armour for an extra tenner.

:D

Fuck you Todd.

[Mike]

I can not do the lock picking in this. I’ve watched a number of videos and just can’t. I’m giving up on playing it on the Xbox on the tv just so I can use a lock pick mod on PC.
I blame getting old.

[Disco]

It's quite fun seeing people, 25 years later, reaching the same conclusions just from the other direction (you can get an unbreakable pick and just mash auto).

[Yevrah]

It can’t be as hard as the nonsense in Kingdon Come Deliverance, can it?

[Magic]

I can not do the lock picking in this. I’ve watched a number of videos and just can’t. I’m giving up on playing it on the Xbox on the tv just so I can use a lock pick mod on PC.
I blame getting old.

I agree. It's very weird playing a game with such bullshit and ancient mechanics that looks so good. I'm kind of enjoying it though.

[Disco]

Is it any worse than the Skyrim one? It being there at all was the bigger issue at release.

[Pepe]

Funny carrying a massive magic axe around and having to fiddle with locks.

[Disco]

Lock bashing didn't even make it to Morrowind, Bethesda not in the habit of adding systems/complexity back into their games. In fact didn't they remove open spells for Oblivion leaving you to learn the minigame or just not open stuff.

[Magic]

I love the "open this lock" spell. Been ripping the arse out of that one and resting a lot as well. Gotta love unlocking a door only to find it's just barrels of cheese.

[Raoul Duke]

Was reading this earlier: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Quest_Timing if you want to plan out your quest sequence