• Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world
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    20 minutes ago

    I thought I’d heard a rumor that TES 6 was going to be an Oblivion remake, which would be a dick move on Bethesda’s part if true.

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      23 minutes ago

      There are mods that add Skyrim and Cyrodiil.

      I think Project Tamriel Rebuilt and Project Tamriel are the ones.

      I’ve not played them, watched a stream play one of them. The tippy part is they go off the OG lore so Cyrodiil is a more tropical/Mediterranean climate which is fun.

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    4 hours ago

    Oblivion without the comically fucked-up levelling system sounds like a blast

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      1 hour ago

      I remember playing both Morrowind and Oblivion with like a ton of notes on how exactly to level up my character, not to min/max but to keep the game from scaling the difficulty too much.

      I’d rather see a remake of Morrowind over Oblivion, though. I have the game on GOG but I don’t have the time in my life to go through all the mods to make it playable (especially getting the journalling system up to par with modern games).

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        I tried that once, found it too tedious, and just stopped levelling up instead

        There is a group that’s remaking Morrowind in Skyrim, but I have absolutely no idea how far along they are https://tesrskywind.com/

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        54 minutes ago

        Morrowind was better than oblivion and Skyrim. Skyrim was good but Morrowind was so well done.

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            the mechanics were absolute shit

            Levitate on up to the top of my Telvanni tower and tell that to my face — oh wait, you can’t!

  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I bought oblivion six years ago in anticipation of this release. Just another couple of years until it’s done.

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    4 hours ago

    They need to. Strong rumours that Bethesda has tasked a studio to remake Oblivion in a different engine.

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      I really hope so! It seems like such a no brainer, get a studio to remake the bulk of it and keep creative control. I came into TES world in Skyrim and would love to go back through them but I’m a snob for a modern looking game now.

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      Frankly Bethesda would do very well with remastering all their previous tes games, including the first two.

      I would really like to play Morrowind with the option of a modern UI instead of dragging windows around and clicking stuff

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        3 hours ago

        A remaster for the first too wouldn’t be enough, I figure. I played daggerfall unity and it just does not hold up. A full on remake would be interesting, but they’d have to go hard, and reconceptualize a lot.

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      3 hours ago

      A different engine? Are you sure? They just buffed up their creation engine 2 for Starfield.

      • fartsparkles@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        Yeah an ex Virtuos developer said they had been working on a remake in UE5 for Bethesda. Can’t find the reference but it was a big rumour a while ago.

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          not a huge fan of UE5* but it has to be better than the spaghetti that is CE2 at this point.

          *-The engine itself isn’t the problem developers just don’t optimize shit because they aren’t given the time/derective to.

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            Have you seen what the recent UE5 games play like? Not even frame generation can make them run smoothly.

            I honestly prefer creation.

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      Even if they do, I feel like both projects will have different enough approach to things to avoid making the other obsolete. Maybe… possibly.

      I’ll certainly take the unofficial remake over the Bethesda one due to lower requirements and lack of Creation Club. That, and I’m just more interested in the fan interpretation of Cyrodiil to be honest.

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    I hope they manage to get it complete, and good. Giving Oblivion another try (this time exploring the rest of the world instead of focusing on the boring main quest) has been on my list for a while, and improved graphics would be welcome.

    That font, though… not a good choice for quickly delivering information. Mods to the rescue?

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      Funny, for me it’s the other way around. I probably played a couple hundred hours of Oblivion back in the day: modding, exploring and restarting. Never once finished the main quest. I’m thinking Skyblivion might be my chance to finally do it.

      • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        That’s me with every Bethesda game I played. I don’t even treat them as games to beat, just worlds to run around in.

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          just worlds to run around in

          Which, ironically, was why I only played the main quest in Starfield vanilla. Running around empty, boring planets, with copy-pasted dungeons (there’s only, what, 10 varieties?), felt like nothing but a colossal waste of time.

          So glad I didn’t pay for it (Gamepass, with apologies to my Linux friends).

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            I got through about half the main story before the load-door-load-fastravel-load-door-load made me just give up. I learned later you can directly fast travel from the map but for some reason when I tried it initially it didn’t work and thought you had to go to your ship everytime.

          • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world
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            1 hour ago

            Starfield never really grabbed my attention so I thankfully dodged a bullet with that one.

            So glad I didn’t pay for it (Gamepass, with apologies to my Linux friends).

            No need to apologise, people should have the option to play games however they want.