Holy shit, I got Baldur’s Gate 3 recently on sale for less than this lazy remaster of a 19 year old game.
Gamers are lapping this shit up too. What happened to the rage people had for the Switch 2 being expensive?
Imagine playing this when Caves of Qud is right there
Btw its already been cracked for pirating. I’m gonna renew my VPN later cause I’ve been wanting an Oblivion fix for a while.
oh thank god. I was surprised by how much I want this but I can’t bring myself to fork over any more nostalgia bux to the house of Todd
Let me know if it still has the funi voices
From what I’ve seen, they kept the original voices.
But the deluxe edition gives you bonus horse armor!
Remember when people actually got upset about this sort of thing? When horse armor for the original oblivion was used as an example of game companies just being extremely greedy and blatantly anti-consumer? Haha, remember when gamers actually took issue with DLC and “upgrades” that did nothing but provide an empty cosmetic change to the game?
we were right to be mad at the time
Horse armour was only like $3 and ppl got mad.
I guess it proves simply complaining about it does nothing because the market will just do what it wants.
I’m starting to think that this whole “free market” thing doesn’t actually solve consumer’s problems and only makes them worse…
Normalization or something.
I remember when dlc used to HUGE addition to the games (even then there were criticized), and not just stuff cut out from the actual game and sold as day 1 dlc.
Deluxe edition also gets you an art book and the soundtrack
This isn’t true. It has some significant changes, but still feels like the original. They nailed it.
There is new voice acting, and voices are effected by your position to the speaker. They improved the leveling system. They added sprint. The combat feels similar, but is a lot less janky. Of course the improved VFX and SFX. There is probably other things. But it’s definately more than a remaster. It feels like a remake.
Also it’s actually a different engine. Or at least partially? Apparently it’s unreal for graphics but the crusty ass Gamebryo for gameplay according to wikipedia.
Yeah apparently Unreal for rendering, overtop Gamebryo
I thought that it was basically just a texture mod at first, too, but apparently this is an unreal engine 5 game, so it actually is a lot more than a texture mod. Even if they call it remastered, it is essentially a full remake. I wonder what this means for the future of the Gamebryo engine.
It’s unreal doing the graphics but apparently it’s still Bethesda’s engine doing the rest of the game. I’m sure they updated some stuff but it’s gonna play pretty damn similarly to Oblivion
It’s unreal doing the graphics but apparently it’s still Bethesda’s engine
what in tarnation…
The logic is the same as Oblivion and it plays exactly like that. It’s a remaster not a remake.
What else has changed outside of the graphics? It looks like a very basic remaster to me.
It seems to be a bit more involved than a typical remaster since they seem to have replaced all the rendering side of the creation engine with UE5’s rendering and remade all assets.
Well that’s slightly better than I thought, at least.
I watched someone playing it earlier and I’ve liked what I’ve seen. alot of neat little details and i feel like they did a good job with animating facial expressions.
so it’s more ninja gaiden 2 sigma black than gta definitive edition.
Ive used this as an opportunity to be real fun at parties and point out to libs “Bethesda is on BDS, so this is kinda like Hogwarts Legacy and you’ll have to decide if a video game is worth it.”
Yes
It doesn’t even seem to have Denuvo, so it should be easy to pirate too.
skyblivion isn’t on BDS
Yes it is.https://bdsmovement.net/microsoft#take_actionedit I totally misunderstood here.
the mod isn’t. our comrade is correct i expect people to already have skyrim and/or to pirate it for this purpose.
if skyblivion is annoying to install like fallout london is or if it needs a version of hodd toward’s opus, i’ll be getting mine from fitgirl
I guess I don’t follow, if someone clicks to buy it on Steam, does Bethesda get some of the money or not? Or is this free if you already own Skyrim?
as far as i know it’s going to be a free mod, doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that would be allowed in the steam workshop or whatever bethesda’s paid mods thing is called
Ok I’m like two levels of misunderstanding deep here, you’re talking about a fan mod that people could play instead and not the remaster from the original post.
whoops
I’m guessing that they’re making the assumption that someone interested in this Oblivion remaster would already own Skyrim, but yeah, don’t buy stuff from MS if you can avoid it people!
you’ll have to decide if a video game you probably already played over a decade ago is worth it
Just adding an extra detail in there lol
EIGHTY FIVE DOLLARYDOOS?
NAIN HANDREED DOLLARIDOOS?!
T O B I A S
Nyahahaha, for some reason i can use my VPN again despite not renewing it in over a year
holy fucking shit lmaooooooooo
no chance. straight piracy or utilising some sort of forex scheme to get cheap game pass
on the other hand, i also remember the dark days of N64 cartridge pricing here
Remember when an Xbox 360 game could end up being $120 at launch at EB games? I sure do.
Take a guess at how much (my mum probably) paid for Conker’s Bad Fur Day?
With or without inflation? (I had a Sega mega drive and skipped the PS1/64 Era of games so I’ll probably guess it wrong anyway.)
I want to say…$80?
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS AND NINETY FIVE CENTS LMAOOOOO
i think the AUD was particularly in the shitter at that point
adjusted for inflation by Australian CPI (2001 - 2025), that’s $242.31 AUD today. As of right now, that’s US$155.42
Edit: yeah, just got this historical FX rate and Trade Weighted Index data from the RBA and the AUD fucking collapsed from Jan-May 2001 against the USD, Euro (didn’t think that existed then but idk) and Pound, we went down to 48 US cents and almost under 34 pence for a few weeks there. Yen didn’t matter with BFD being published by Rare
Yikes. My parent’s decision to never actually get me a nintendo 64 makes a lot more sense now lol.
I have no idea who can afford this shit atm.
Also please fuck off with forever culture. Things can be in the past. It’s ok to move on.
You can afford it. Everything is free if you steal it. Take back your common inheritance.
Arrrrr….
Bethesda fans are a different breed to the ones getting mad about Nintendo
GIB MONEYS NOW
Oblivion is a bad game to start with
I heartily disagree with you
compared to morrowind but it’s better than everything that came after besides new vegas (which bgs didn’t make)
Skyrim is better than Oblivion
The levelling, graphics, and voice acting are better, but the quests, which imo are the real draw, are vastly worse.
skyrim is barely an RPG. considering fallout 4 i’d be shocked if tes 6 is one at all.
They’re outraged they changed Gender to Body Type
did they? do any of us care?
We’re all going to mod in massive hogs for either body type so what’s it matter?
I guess there’s no more marrow in the bones of skyrim?
Where’s the remaster of their last actually good game? Daggerfall?
Why not an expansion to Starfield?
Fucking Starfield…I had forgotten about that one.
There was an expansion to Starfield, IIRC nobody liked it.
