Looks amazing, definitely gonna pick this up.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer
Submitted 3 weeks ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFJ3PZuAjK4
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iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How much is the horse armor?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
$10. I’m not joking. It’s a part of the deluxe edition.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Included in the game. Deluxe edition adds new horse armours (among a few other things).
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Included. The Deluxe edition adds some new gear, but all the old content (including the old DLC) is available in the base game.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A deluxe edition does seem a little lame for a remaster. But at the same time the deluxe edition is still cheaper than Starfield and I’d much rather play this.
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
If this were a Nintendo game it’d be $80 for the base and $90 for Deluxe.
1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
What exactly has been changed besides the graphics? Sounds like they tweaked the melee combat to more resemble Skyrims.
Imo Oblivions two biggest problems were level scaling and how barren the world was between cities and dungeons.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
They changed leveling, locomotion, added new voice lines to make all the races sound more unique, added more feedback to combat (hit animations, blood effects, sparks, and sounds; the actual combat mechanics look entirely unchanged)… And that’s just what they point out in the trailer.
bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social 3 weeks ago
Gender no longer affects your stats either, they added in 2 origins that do that now
dustyData@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can sprint now, so, there’s that.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I haven’t see how the level scaling works, but I’m assuming it works exactly like OG Oblivion for two reasons. First is that the underlying game logic is OG Oblivion and second, whether you liked it not, the level scaling was very much in the DNA of Oblivion so it kinda has to be there to feel like Oblivion.
And so far from what I watched others play, the world is still as barren and boring as OG Oblivion. Personally I’m going wait for Skyblivion because the barren world was the main reason I didn’t enjoy Oblivion.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Mods of the era largely fixed the scaling and the modern day best practices largely are based on that. Mortismal did a good video on Oblivion last year-ish where they talked about it but it mostly boils down to:
Just stop leveling in (if memory serves) the mid-late 20s. That more or less is what you will get with 60-70% of your levels coming from combat skills and is around where your DPS levels out. The mods of the time basically just tweak the leveled lists to plateau out similarly.
There was other more stylistic choices (stopping bandits from getting full daedric and glass gear) but that prevented the very common problem of “I didn’t optimize my build and now I can’t clear oblivion gates”
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Oblivion score is so good.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jeremy Soule did amazing work. Unfortunately it turned out he was a terrible person and he was blacklisted from the industry after multiple allegations were made against him during the #MeToo movement.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 3 weeks ago
Oh that sucks
overload@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah that was really disappointing
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
i thought those were just alleged
gamer@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
It always reminded me of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I was never a huge fan of the base game (after Morrowind, the far more generic fantasy setting was underwhelming and I absolutely hated the Oblivion parts), but I loved the Shivering Isles expansion. Tempted to get it for that alone.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shivering Isles rivals Morrowind in my mind. It has a strange and unique setting and most of the content is incredibly well-written, which contrasts sharply with the standard medieval setting of baseline Oblivion (mandatory reminder that Cyrodiil was supposed to be a rainforest, but the devs retconned it to make development easier).
The other expansion, Knights of the Nine, was just a bunch of fetch quests to unlock an armor set and was disappointing in comparison to even the base game (though at least the final boss fight was cool). It also put behavioral tracking on the DLC’s rewards that would disable them if your character gained infamy, forcing you to repeat a bunch of boring travel quests to fix them whenever this happened. There’s a reason KotN never comes up in discussions about the game.
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Shivering Isles rivals Morrowind in my mind.
Same. It’s easily my favorite Elder Scrolls expansion, period.
mandatory reminder that Cyrodiil was supposed to be a rainforest
I never knew that. Shame the devs for this didn’t go for it, but I suppose fans would be up in arms about it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
The fugly character models needed to be redone BADLY, too.
I kinda wonder what the NPCs in that one village part of a quest that mimics Shadow Over Innsmouth in the remake… They’re supposed to be fugly 🤣
simple@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It looks great, and it’s AVAILABLE TODAY! The rumors were (unsurprisingly) right on the money, it was a shadowdrop.
Asafum@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I’m so happy to have been wrong about the shadow drop! Now I just need to get through the rest of the day at work lol
De_Narm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did they change anything meaningful, like removing that aweful level scaling?
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They did, but to what end we might find out just a few hours from now, might be something like XP mod. Seems like minigame stay the same, but the combat is revamped
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All of the games have scaling of some kind (at least Morrowind and Skyrim do). Just as long as they make suboptimal builds viable rather than punishing, that’s all I need.
Sarmyth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It plays well on the steam deck day 1 as well, if that matters to anyone here. I played the first 2 hours on my deck from work with no issues.
Shaders took like 10 minutes but the rest of the load times were all fine.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How much fps are you getting? And what are your other settings?
Sarmyth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was getting a stable 30fps on mid settings. Having played at home at much higher resolution, I see you lose a lot, but its still very playable.
gamer@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I loaded it up on my Deck last night for a few minutes using the default settings (low preset) and was getting what seemed like a stable 30 fps running around in Skingrad. Other people have reported sub-20 FPS when in the open world on the Deck, so it’s probably not the best choice unless they patch it
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m definitely trying the unreal engine VR i jector the second the game is done downloading to see if that works!
TheBest@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Would love to hear results if you do try it out!
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen people get pretty good results but i don’t think i had the right settings so i wasn’t able to make it run. I have a 3090 wich is pretty much the minimum for that XD i also tried to run the game in 8K just to see how it would look with no luck. I ended up playing at 4K medium settings for now. I’ll definitely try again tomorrow with someone’s UEVR injector profile.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
£50 for the game I already paid for, just with better graphics? No, thank you.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
[deleted]FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You need to actually look at the changes because that is completely wrong. They’ve made mechanical changes to the game.
Being what? Skyrim style fight? Fuck that.
WhatSay@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m waiting for skyblivion instead
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
dont wait, play this until skyblivion comes out. boom double oblivion remasters to play
Elkot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you have Game pass give it a go, it kinda plays like a weird hybrid of Skyrim and Oblivion
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
my steam download speed is dead right now lol. I blame this
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Maybe pause and start the download again, or try a different server? I just downloaded it at nearly full gigabit speeds.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I live in Northern Australia in the capital of the Territory and have fiber to my premises, best o can get is 20mbs download.
I hate the Australian government for what they did rolling out our National Broadband Network
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Looking at Steam it looks like they locked the expansions behind the deluxe edition?
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Every publication I’ve read says the DLCs are all included in the base game. Deluxe adds new cosmetics, OST, and an art book.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 3 weeks ago
Yep, they did…it’s pretty shitty.
Though it’s only $10 upgrade, whether you choose now or later. But still, for a 19 year old game, come on man.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nope, the old DLC is available in the base game. The Deluxe edition adds some new armor (and yes, new horse armor) but isn’t necessary to access the old DLC.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I straight up got emotional during the trailer and announcement stream. Oblivion was the first RPG of this kind that I ever played and was one of my favorite games in middle school. Hopefully it’s a stable release because I wanna play that shit as soon as I get home from work.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stoked to try this game, but I’m waiting a few months for a patch to the graphics issues.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Even though I have been gaming since Ping (my first game console), I have never played any Elder Scrolls games. This trailer’s voice over is new to me, and it is so strange and nostalgic to hear Patrick Stewart’s young and vibrant voice on the trailer for a game released this morning.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Haha, I wondered at first if that was Patrick Stewart, and then decided it wasn’t. Glad I was wrong.
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
He’s almost the age of the emperor now.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
90% of Oblivion’s voice acting budget must have gone to paying for Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean to say a few dozen lines. It’s long been a meme that basically every other person in Cyrodill shares the same six or seven voice actors.
drmoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Got the weekend booked for this. Excited just roam around and see how things have changed. Seems like it runs flawlessly on Linux too!
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can’t play the game. Just like Nightengale before it, it seems like Intel Arc cards still have issues supporting DX12 on Linux.
Game won’t launch because it complains DX12 is unsupported.
simple@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
That’s unfortunate. Hopefully a driver update comes around soon
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Likewise, but I seem to be having major issues with Unreal Engine games in general. UE5 games tend to complain about lack of DX12, and UE4 games run very poorly.
Meanwhile I’m getting pretty good performance on Cyberpunk 2077 with nearly all the settings maxed out.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
looks like im not finishing avowed 😂
kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I am pretty disconnected from this videogame series, is Oblivion now the best looking game from Bethesda? (It should be as it is the most recent game I suppose) Would you recommend it over Skyrim graphical and gaming/story wise?
scoobford@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’d argue that Skyrim represents a significant downgrade from earlier titles. The simplified mechanics and increased advertising budget made it more accessible, but the writing quality has been in free fall since morrowind.
That being said, this is probably their prettiest title now. I haven’t gotten to try it yet, but supposedly it is a ground up remake, and if it’s on a better engine it may be their least janky game too.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
As much as I like Skyrim, I don’t think there’s a general consensus that the earlier games were better written.
Personally, until I played Phantom Liberty, the Shivering Isles was the best expansion I had ever played for any game. I’ll leave it to you to discover, if you get the game, but allow me to say it is delightful and different and a ton of fun.
Tronn4@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oblivion, when last met you introduced horse armor! Now you return to look upon the ruined game landscape that you have brought! I loved you like a brother, Oblivion! You were the Chosen One!
Montagge@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Funny enough the deluxe edition includes horse armor lol
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I got it, and despite the performance issues everyone is talking about, the game is a wonderful trip down nostalgia lane. And unlike the original, they fixed a lot of the annoyances like the clunky UI.
nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Looks shit.
Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Decisions, decisions: get this for my ps5, or wait until my pc build is done. Prob the latter, just need a couple more things and I’ve waited this long, what’s another couple weeks.
BrowseMan@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Honestly, taking into account how important modding is for the TES serie, I’d say it’s better to aim PC for this one.
Sepix@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Sweet, never played it and have it in my backlog, so a remaster helps :)
darthelmet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty curious about this. I tried Oblivion a few years ago having never played it before and it just felt too clunky for me to want to play much past the tutorial. Which is a shame because I’ve heard there’s a lot of cool stuff in the game I didn’t get to see.
If this makes things feel better to play and is a good all around remaster, maybe I’ll pick it up and give it another go.
gamer@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Oblivion was the first game I ever put 100+ hours into, but every time I’ve tried to get back into it over the years, it was just too clunky and awkward. Bethesda games always age poorly.
But this remaster is fucking incredible and I very irresponsibly wasted an entire day yesterday playing it. They fixed and polished it so it feels like a modern game again. The only issue I had was poor performance in a lot of areas, like frequent drops down to 40 fps on my powerful PC. I’m hoping a patch will fix that soon.
Admittedly, my opinion is heavily clouded by nostalgia, so temper your expectations in case my comment actually convinces you to buy it. It’s a great game, but it’s smaller and somewhat clunkier than Skyrim.
krebssteven@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
… now do it with Morrowind. I dare you. I double dare you!
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There is the Skywind project, but I’m not sure if any progress has been made in the last year
tesrskywind.com
1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Morrowind would be a whole different beast to remaster. Not saying I wouldn’t enjoy some better graphics and tweaked systems, but it would be a hard sell to most gamers if they only did that.
-no voice acting -outdated gameplay systems -Game map that wasn’t designed with unlimited draw distance, fast travel, or even unlimited running in mind.
Honestly at this point it would be better served by a full remake.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Morrowind has plenty of fast travel. In fact, it has better fast-travel than later Elder Scrolls games because it’s actually integrated into the gameplay.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, that’s why you’d make it a remaster; to fix all of those things.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Modern mods fix almost all of those issues.
The game can easily be ‘remastered’.
figjam@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Can we just have 6 instead?
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No. Oblivion remastered. Then Skyrim Special Oblivion Remastered Anniversary Edition. Then StarCraft Remastered.