The Elder Scrolls

[ATandTism]

So is the level scaling still here? I went into a cave at level one and fought nothing but wolves and scamps.

Edit : Just did some looking and it turns out the level scaling is still here and just as bad as it has always been. Holy fuck. The ONE thing that was absolutely busted about the original still here in full force.

Absolutely fucking shameful. I thought for sure this would be addressed in a remake as Oblivion is practically ruined by this feature. Another point in Skyblivion 's favor.

Fix issues? Ranksheet our new half priced Indian coder can't figure that out, and "gamers" will eat whatever slop we put out regardless.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

ESG and it's like are just another one of these scams. There will be many, many corporate snakeoil salesmen making a huge amount of money convincing companies that they have to adopt this kind of bullshit to remain competitive or attract investors.

yeah thats the thing, they kinda had to for a while. At least for investors.

Like dustborn is an amazing example for being woefully unsuccessful sales wise, but the makers ARE NOT destitute. Because it checked ALL the boxes on ESG, so its funded almost entirely by investments, and it was proven they got govt funds.

I don't think you guys understand that in business, if someone knows something is pants on head retarded and it loses money hand over fist, that person or idea doesn't stay long, and its often a warning sign to others. Just like a pig might see 3 dead pigs in a ditch and think "that ditch is trouble, avoid", companies will see stupid BS and avoid if it bankrupts another company.

Difference comes in if you are already paid an INSANE amount upfront. And I think that really explains this whole phenomenon. Sales aren't guaranteed, but ESG money IS (if you bend the knee) and so its used to make "risk free" investments because if you make something uber pozzed like concord, veilguard, starfield, ect, you can essentially make whatever you want because the ESG money buffers a LOT of lost sales. Of course this doesn't last forever, I think the ESG money valued brand perception AT THE TIME, so if you published nothing but ABSOLUTE flops, they stop paying but if you ARE successful in sales AND make it turbo gay like balders gate 3, you get a ton of money

DEI changes found in the Oblivion remastered: 'Race' is now 'Identity' and Sex-based attribute differences have been replaced by 'Origins'.

this is trying to validate transracialism lowkey. why even change this???

 

[Asian tech support]

Ironically I like how Glass and Thieves Guild armor look now.

It uses the darker green glass like in Morrowind. I like it too.

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Knowing Bethesda? I'm not touching this until there's been at least half a dozen patches.
And knowing Gamers? By that time there will be mods to fix what Bethesda doesn't. Really fuckin disappointed they didn't fix the scaling problems. Jesus Christ. There's "nostalgic jank" and then there's "really shitting coding".

 

[Foltest]

No idea if this was posted by here's Oblivion armor sets comparison
No joke I like how Glass and Thieves Guild armor look now. Definitely an improvement over the original in my opinion. Same can be told about Elven one.

Knights of the Nine armor is fuckin' downgrade and I throw my mad hat at Virtuous for that. Both Saints and Seducers' sets look like shit as I'd expect, though it's male variants and they never looked good to begin with. Something tells me female ones are no better.
Have mixed feelings about the Amber one.

That is not the thieves guild armor, that is the dark brotherhood armor.
TG had no armor in oblivion.

 

[IKOL]

That is not the thieves guild armor, that is the dark brotherhood armor.
TG had no armor in oblivion.

Ah... well I never wore it so I wouldn't know. Because it was this hideous.

 

[Kharash]

No idea if this was posted by here's Oblivion armor sets comparison
No joke I like how Glass and Thieves Guild armor look now. Definitely an improvement over the original in my opinion. Same can be told about Elven one.

Knights of the Nine armor is fuckin' downgrade and I throw my mad hat at Virtuous for that. Both Saints and Seducers' sets look like shit as I'd expect, though it's male variants and they never looked good to begin with. Something tells me female ones are no better.
Have mixed feelings about the Amber one.

They all have this fake plastic look to them. Reminds me of ESO Though I'm not going to pretend that most original armor actually looked decent, the textures had a certain grit to them.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Hey gamers how are you all feeling about the Oblivion remake, would you recommend it?

I played the original as my first Bethesda game and played it again last year with a few mods (bugfixes and the like) after finishing my first playthrough of Morrowind. The remaster I played for about 5 hours after pirating it. I would only recommend the remaster if you: A. can't be arsed installing bugfixes and mods for the original (problem for console players, I admit) B. aren't too familiar with (or never played) the original C. Only have current gen consoles and no other means of playing games.

Otherwise get the original (GOTY edition is cheap) on PC, learn about Wabbajack for automated mod install lists (or just install bugfixes and UI improvements, it's only a handful of mods and the process is easy) and you get a similar if somewhat floatier experience. You could probably get improved visuals too if you bother with that sort of thing, but I'm someone who still games at 1080p despite my rig being capable of far more, so I'm probably just a philistine to visuals.

I also think them calling it a 'remaster' is apt, and calling it a 'remake' on their behalf is giving them too much credit. The game plays like a slightly weightier version of the original (the damage feedback is quite nice) with some fixes baked in and a subjective visual 'upgrade' that hits in some areas (monsters, some visuals/assets/environments — Oblivion gates look better for one) and misses in others (interactable NPCs, beastraces, etc). There's not much if anything in the way of 'new' content outside the quests that come with the deluxe edition. It's similar to Skyrim Anniversary Edition: it's just a pre-modded version of the base game you're paying money for. Remakes should be something like REmake 1/2/4, FF7 remake, and Dead Space 1's remake — not whatever this, Halo 1 & 2 Anniversary, and Demon's Souls do.

I think how bad the faces look will be one of the criticisms that'll become 'acceptable' in normie/tourist discourse over the coming weeks once the honeymoon period wears off, just like the POIs were for Starfield — it really can't be overstated just how bad some of them look. I was wearing this face most of the time I interacted with NPCs when I was playing and eventually it never went away:

 

[blackface enthusiast]

For Elden Ring, I would actually assume that this is a choice consciously made by the developer

It's more that it's a localization issue and the fact that Japanese companies are buying into the ESG/DEI shit at a managerial level. They're always years behind on this stuff (like when they were making every game Call of Duty and by the time all their ripoffs came out people were sick of it) and it's several layers removed from the developers themselves and probably not their call to make. There was that interview with some Dragon Quest oldheads where they talked about how it's basically done to appease radical westerners, versus enthusiastically buying into the zeitgeist to be on "the right side of history".

Meanwhile, Oblivion remaster having tranny language was okayed by Bethesda themselves, and Starfield's character creator was also woke. Completely different situations, but consoomers want to consoom without feeling guilty about throating tranny dick so they wave their arms around and do the same thing that trannies were doing in the Body Type mod: "it's just two lines, why do you care?"

Case in point:

If it's such a small meaningless detail why are you making such a big fucking deal out of it? Two can play that game.

Because it doesn't end there, the only reason this remake has "Body Types" and not pronouns in the character creator is because people pushed back against them in Starfield instead of being smug consumer retards.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

this is trying to validate transracialism lowkey. why even change this???

Because it takes you to the screen where you change both your race and your origin.

 

[Sprocket]

Woke DEI changes found in the Oblivion remastered: 'Race' is now 'Identity' and Sex-based attribute differences have been replaced by 'Origins'.

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The character creation screen gave me a few laughs. Go ahead and hit that randomize button. Do it for an hour and come to me and tell me you disagree when I say the randomize button should've been called "troon generator".

 

[Mr Bunny]

Cool, there's aurora borealis in the game now. You see it in the distance all the way from Kvatch hovering above Bruma.

 

[timewave0]

Yes.

Is it really? Goddammit… the one gameplay system that needed drastic changes hasn’t been fixed? I haven’t gotten far enough to notice yet but I was really hoping it would be fixed, or at least improved.

Also — and I know it doesn’t matter that much + has already been discussed to death — this “body type 1” and “body type 2” bullshit is so fucking lame. Trannies are a scourge.

Otherwise I’m having a lot of fun so far. What can I say, I’m kind of retarded and will happily lap up this nostalgic bethesdaslop. I’m looking forward to shirking my work responsibilities to play oblivion this week.

Anyone else having graphical issues? I turned down the settings to get a better frame rate but now I get occasional flashing/distortion.

 

[PanLake007]

thats fine too, I was talking about the YouTuber outrage culture that talks about every new release now, theres a bias against everything and its insane to me, Oblivion is not GaaSslop so I really don't see why so many people are angry about it

Oblivion, from Bethesda who have showed with their last game how much they hate White people and White men, they are now part of Microsoft, do I really have to show you how woke and anti-White they are. And people already posted here about the woke stuff they did add.

So you "anti-woke" guys give happily money to the people who want to wipe out the White race, destroy White countries with browm/black mass immigration, and want to troon out every single kid out there, I hope you are all proud of yourself, consumerism is just more important than your county and your kin.

Talking about remakes/remasters, they are all worse than the orignals, name one that hasn't censored stuff, added more niggers and modern woke politics, or shows a warning screen how everything was so racist and sexist in the orignal.

If you have to play it at least get it for free: https://repack-games.com/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remastered-free-download/

 

[Muad'Dick]

I don't think you guys understand that in business, if someone knows something is pants on head retarded and it loses money hand over fist, that person or idea doesn't stay long, and its often a warning sign to others. Just like a pig might see 3 dead pigs in a ditch and think "that ditch is trouble, avoid", companies will see stupid BS and avoid if it bankrupts another company.

Patently false fella. I've worked in corporate environments for most of my career until fairly recently (I set up my own business) and if anything they will allow money to be pissed away indefinitely. The larger and more compartmentalised a company is, the greater the chance of things lying undiscovered for years.

Anyone who has worked in a large company for any length of time will tell you that there are people working there that are just "part of the furniture". They will happily coast along doing the bare minimum for years until there is a shake up in management or someone takes the time to go over the books with some real scrutiny.

The same applies to harebrained schemes that actively cost the company money. I've got dozens of examples from my time in these kind of places, but I'll give you one good one. A supplier at one of the places I worked at was consistently less competitive than others that went to tender, yet we still kept them on year after year. Why were they kept on when the company could be saving a considerable amount of money by switching to another supplier? Because one of the purchasers was banging one of the staff members at said supplier. That fact remained hidden until he was poached by the supplier and left. (The company involved here was a multi-national that was a household name in the engineering field.)

To give another more relevant example. The last company I worked at was a law firm. They had recently transitioned (lol) from a traditional partnership to an LLP. The existing partners had either been bought out completely or became company directors. The new CEO hired a consultant to try and increase turnover. This consultant tried to convince a bunch of experienced lawyers that they should change their approach entirely and see themselves as salesmen, and act accordingly, heavily pushing other services that the company offered whenever they had a chance. The result? Several large clients left the firm and turnover was consequently reduced. Was the consultant for this retarded idea told to fuck off with his tail tucked between his legs? No. He was given a permanent position within the firm. Why? He was a personal friend of the CEO. After this the company went of a spree of buying up smaller law firms to try and shore up more high value clients. Again, pissing more money away. After a period of rapid expansion for about five years the share price tanked, investors started pulling out, and staff cuts had to be made.

Just because a company has a huge turnover and thousands of employees does not mean that it is less prone to retarded decisions. If anything it makes them more prone.

I have no doubt in my mind that the DEI/ESG/whatever flag you want to pin on it will continue until these companies are in the gutter. The larger the company, the greater the chance of them repeating the same thing time and time again while expecting a different result.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Hey gamers how are you all feeling about the Oblivion remake, would you recommend it? Also if not then please tell me your issues with it.

Aside from minor troon pandering it's more or less the same game with a fresh coat of paint. Some great and dearly missed QoL features, slightly different combat. All the jank you could do in the original you can do in the remaster.
After reading the "complaints" from most "veterans" here I can with 100% certainty say that they have never heard of it prior to mid 2010s, and either never actually played it, the knowledge coming from bitching on plebbit and "quick retrospectives" from that faggot doing 8+ hour videos, or played it with a walkthrough/podcast on. It's painfully evident because literally all you do is look at a bunch of screenshots/10 second videos, go "LOL THIS IS DIFFERENT AND ERGO BAD SOULLESS XD" and think you've achieved some peak of fucking criticism. You didn't go into the game and appreciate how fathful to the original it is, because again, you never paid attention to it IF you even played it in the first place. I know this is true, they know it's true, and they will start bombarding this post with impotent negrates.
OR is on the same level as Diablo 2 Resurrected, and the same fucking worthless grifter niggers are bitching about the exact same fucking shit. 1 month later these dingleberries will forget about the whole ordeal and move to another grift while impotently seething at how others spend their money, and the people who actually play the game for THE FUCKING GAME will continue playing it.
Notice how I'm not harping on about pirating it. I don't fucking care. Pirate it. Bethesda has gotten maybe $150 from me since 2015. I exist to them as much as you do, ie. not at all.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

Oblivion, from Bethesda who have showed with their last game how much they hate White people and White men, they are now part of Microsoft, do I really have to show you how woke and anti-White they are. And people already posted here about the woke stuff they did add.

So you "anti-woke" guys give happily money to the people who want to wipe out the White race, destroy White countries with browm/black mass immigration, and want to troon out every single kid out there, I hope you are all proud of yourself, consumerism is just more important than your county and your kin.

Talking about remakes/remasters, they are all worse than the orignals, name one that hasn't censored stuff, added more niggers and modern woke politics, or shows a warning screen how everything was so racist and sexist in the orignal.

If you have to play it at least get it for free: https://repack-games.com/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remastered-free-download/

calm down retard

 

[Don Turtelli]

Seems there's a few typos on the new splash screens, presumably due to AI upscaling issues. Road appears as Roag, and Skingrad looks like Fkingrad

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Seems there's a few typos on the new splash screens, presumably due to AI upscaling issues. Road appears as Roag, and Skingrad looks like Fkingrad
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Fuckingrad? Holy shit, that's awesome.

 

[Greene County Health Dpt]

No idea if this was posted by here's Oblivion armor sets comparison
No joke I like how Glass and Thieves Guild armor look now. Definitely an improvement over the original in my opinion. Same can be told about Elven one.

Knights of the Nine armor is fuckin' downgrade and I throw my mad hat at Virtuous for that. Both Saints and Seducers' sets look like shit as I'd expect, though it's male variants and they never looked good to begin with. Something tells me female ones are no better.
Have mixed feelings about the Amber one.

I'm not sure why the greaves are oversized in some sets, it looks really jarring.


and some of the remastered textures make some armors look plastic, the original textures conveyed a lot more grit and wear and tear

Most of them look better than the originals however, I'm curious to see how Skyblivion reworked them.