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Oblivion Remastered Impressions (and Discussion Thread) (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world
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I've been playing a lot of Oblivion Remastered and was hoping on starting a discussion thread about it.

I've put in around 12 hours so far and it's everything I wanted from a remake. Aside from the gorgeous graphics overhaul, they added a lot of more subtle QoL changes that really add up. Having a sprint button is great, and the reworked leveling system is way better than how it used to be. Combat has also been enhanced in lots of subtle ways like significantly better animations and better impact when hitting enemies.

The remaster is very impressive, when news got leaked that this was in development I expected a low effort re-release with a higher resolution, but they managed to make it play like a modern title. The lighting is crazy good and the open world can look breathtaking at times. They also managed to keep all the old Oblivion charm by not messing around with things people loved - the game under the hood still works the same, glitches and hilarious NPCs are still intact. They even kept some goofs from the original.

The only two issues right now for me are:

  • Open world performance is just not good. It hovers around 50FPS on my 3060 Ti in the open world on medium settings, which is rough.

  • Difficulty settings are wack. Normal is too easy and hard is way too hard. The slider literally goes from 1x/1x damage taken/damage dealt to 3x/0.6! No idea why we can't get something in the middle, but luckily there's already a mod that fixes it (I'm now using 2x/0.75 which is the sweet spot).

If those get fixed, it's basically a perfect remaster. Anyone else here playing right now? How are you enjoying it?

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[–] narp@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

The only thing I don't like is the performance: It stutters ever so often and crashes like once every hour after a loading screen.

Weird thing is that it ran way better at the beginning and then got worse, now even the menu is laggy.

[–] Yermaw@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I'm disappointed with it, but that's my problem. I can't put my finger on why, I think my expectations have changed. Somehow I was expecting it to blow me away like the first time I played it and obviously it just can't do that.

Still gonna sink a fair few hours into it though.

[–] Aielman15@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

I'm honestly surprised that so many people longed to return to Oblivion. The game's as bad now as it was 20 years ago - janky combat, horrible dialogue, bugs galore. They gave it a nice coat of paint, but the moment you transition from dialogue to gameplay, you go back to the same animations from the original game. It's kind of eerie looking at a game with modern graphics and such dated gameplay.

There are so many games nowadays that do what Oblivion attempted to do, so much better.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Skyrim is the same way. I really hope they adopt combat similar to Mordhau or Chivalry for ES6, but that seems about as likely as them firing Emil Pagliarulo to bring the writing standard back up.

Also, the characters still look vaguely horrifying, just in a more crisp but less charming way than they used to.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One man is not responsible for all of your criticisms of writing in their games for decades. The writing and development processes of games are too opaque for you to be able to attribute anything to one person on teams as large as Bethesda's.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was a joke, Emil, I'm sorry I hurt your feelings.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

Still better combat than Fromsoft games

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