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the price and the filesize are obviously ridiculous but i pirated it and have been having a blast ngl. the original passed me by, was the tiniest bit before my time so i have no nostalgia for it and don't think i could really get past how it looks. despite the absurdity, the remaster is an ideal way for me personally to get to enjoy the game. sure the art style is cookie cutter and safe, it's not exactly inspiring, but it looks good. i don't think i could tolerate the bloom and smoothness and oversaturation of the original. might be heresy but without the nostalgia it doesn't hold up very well.

i did a playthrough of vanilla oblivion about 2 months ago (strange coincidence).

been watching streams of people paying/playing this new $50 remaster and i'm just.... why? OG is eons better still - caveat being you need just a few QOL mods. and it's not a, what, 120gb bloat with, imo, worse graphics (though admittedly i'm a sucker for janky oldschool 2005 graphics).

Whoever did the clothing in the remaster has no sense of what fabric is. No dumbass, that is not any type of silk. And the "Velvet" fuck me...And this is before we get to the idea that different fabric moves in different ways. if you're not going to try just make a static mesh ffs.

and also oblivion is a target of bds

Because hogs will still dump money

yes but unironically

re-releaseing bethesda games is tricky because for at least a few months the original + mods is a far far better experience, at least when it happens with skyrim it only takes the modding community a few months to catch up

remaking bethesda games with a graphical layer on an entirely different engine is a recipe for disaster. from what i'm hearing the game is still moddable with the original modkit but several elements don't work as they should. it's going to take years to port over oblivion modded content to the new version, and you better hope those original modders are still even around.

essentially fracturing an ancient modding community for a smeary UE5 re-release of a beloved game. not the worst thing you can do but just mod the original release christ. do you know how well modded oblivion runs on anything?