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Holy shit, I got Baldur's Gate 3 recently on sale for less than this lazy remaster of a 19 year old game.

Gamers are lapping this shit up too. What happened to the rage people had for the Switch 2 being expensive?

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[–] red_stapler@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ive used this as an opportunity to be real fun at parties and point out to libs “Bethesda is on BDS, so this is kinda like Hogwarts Legacy and you’ll have to decide if a video game is worth it.”

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)
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[–] neo@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I thought that it was basically just a texture mod at first, too, but apparently this is an unreal engine 5 game, so it actually is a lot more than a texture mod. Even if they call it remastered, it is essentially a full remake. I wonder what this means for the future of the Gamebryo engine.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's unreal doing the graphics but apparently it's still Bethesda's engine doing the rest of the game. I'm sure they updated some stuff but it's gonna play pretty damn similarly to Oblivion

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

The logic is the same as Oblivion and it plays exactly like that. It's a remaster not a remake.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What else has changed outside of the graphics? It looks like a very basic remaster to me.

[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It seems to be a bit more involved than a typical remaster since they seem to have replaced all the rendering side of the creation engine with UE5’s rendering and remade all assets.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well that's slightly better than I thought, at least.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

I watched someone playing it earlier and I've liked what I've seen. alot of neat little details and i feel like they did a good job with animating facial expressions.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

so it's more ninja gaiden 2 sigma black than gta definitive edition.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

But the deluxe edition gives you bonus horse armor! soypoint-2

Remember when people actually got upset about this sort of thing? When horse armor for the original oblivion was used as an example of game companies just being extremely greedy and blatantly anti-consumer? Haha, remember when gamers actually took issue with DLC and "upgrades" that did nothing but provide an empty cosmetic change to the game?

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

we were right to be mad at the time

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Horse armour was only like $3 and ppl got mad.

I guess it proves simply complaining about it does nothing because the market will just do what it wants.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

I'm starting to think that this whole "free market" thing doesn't actually solve consumer's problems and only makes them worse... thonk

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Deluxe edition also gets you an art book and the soundtrack

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

Normalization or something.

I remember when dlc used to HUGE addition to the games (even then there were criticized), and not just stuff cut out from the actual game and sold as day 1 dlc.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

holy fucking shit lmaooooooooo

no chance. straight piracy or utilising some sort of forex scheme to get cheap game pass

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

on the other hand, i also remember the dark days of N64 cartridge pricing here

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Remember when an Xbox 360 game could end up being $120 at launch at EB games? I sure do.

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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

NAIN HANDREED DOLLARIDOOS?!

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

T O B I A S

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

Bethesda fans are a different breed to the ones getting mad about Nintendo

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

GIB MONEYS NOW

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're outraged they changed Gender to Body Type

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

did they? do any of us care?

[–] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

We're all going to mod in massive hogs for either body type so what's it matter?

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Oblivion is a bad game to start with

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

compared to morrowind but it's better than everything that came after besides new vegas (which bgs didn't make)

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Skyrim is better than Oblivion i-think-that

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

The levelling, graphics, and voice acting are better, but the quests, which imo are the real draw, are vastly worse.

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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess there's no more marrow in the bones of skyrim?

Where's the remaster of their last actually good game? Daggerfall?

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why not an expansion to Starfield? doggirl-smug

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[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Btw its already been cracked for pirating. I'm gonna renew my VPN later cause I've been wanting an Oblivion fix for a while.

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[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea who can afford this shit atm.

Also please fuck off with forever culture. Things can be in the past. It's ok to move on.

[–] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can afford it. Everything is free if you steal it. Take back your common inheritance.

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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

Bethsoft belongs in dumpster-fire

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

a ton of people i know are super excited for this

i don't get it

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

agony-shivering lmao $50 US for a texture/model update is now being called high calibre and generous lmao gamers

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yea it's crazy, people see not $80 USD and go "wow, this is so great, they're so generous"

idk if it's that im too indie pilled but if a game is more than like $20 i usually wait for it to go on sale or pirate it

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

One of the benefits of growing up with the same Pentium I well into the era of Pentium IVs is I learned to rummage through bargain bins for old software and play the same games for years on end. I am not paying eighty fucking dollars for a video game I know will be $10 in less than five years. I probably don't even want to play Oblivion because I haven't even played all the other RPGs I own.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

what happened to ethics in gaming?

People were mad at nintendo because theyre racist af, more than anything

[–] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This isn't true. It has some significant changes, but still feels like the original. They nailed it.

There is new voice acting, and voices are effected by your position to the speaker. They improved the leveling system. They added sprint. The combat feels similar, but is a lot less janky. Of course the improved VFX and SFX. There is probably other things. But it's definately more than a remaster. It feels like a remake.

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[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nyahahaha, for some reason i can use my VPN again despite not renewing it in over a year

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