TES IV: Oblivion Remaster Leak

[Turin]

Oblivion Leak Reveals 'Remastered' Title, Upgrades, and Deluxe Edition

It's apparently real. Very curious to see how Oblivion can possibly exist without it's janky, fever-dream charm. I'm pretty excited, but with a certain amount of skepticism that they can keep the charm of the original.

 

[Osprey]

A larger image and a few more:

It looks like the world is now in the middle of a drought. To me, a lot of Oblivion's charm was in how lush and green everything was. The lower right image in the first screenshot, especially, makes me worried that they changed the look of the game too much.

 

[Mikeaveli]

Like I said in the Xbox thread, it's different but I like the look. I'm mostly concerned about what changes were made to the gameplay and voice acting.

I wonder when we will see the Fallout 3 remaster that was leaked alongside this game.

 

[Beau Knows]

The bloom and whatnot was a bit much in the original game, but that and the colorfulness of the world made it feel inviting and yet slightly strange and otherworldly at the same time.

I much preferred that style to the muddiness and realism of Skyrim. This remake doesn't look as ugly as that game, but it's still a bit disappointing. Those screenshots looks like they could be from any other modern open world RPG, it doesn't stand out.

 

[Turin]

The bloom and whatnot was a bit much in the original game, but that and the colorfulness of the world made it feel inviting and yet slightly strange and otherworldly at the same time.

I much preferred that style to the muddiness and realism of Skyrim. This remake doesn't look as ugly as that game, but it's still a bit disappointing. Those screenshots looks like they could be from any other modern open world RPG, it doesn't stand out.

I don't think Skyrim is ugly at all but yea, the fact that Oblivion looked the way it did was a huge point of identity for it, it was supposed to be vibrant. Why is Cyrodiil not green?

 

[Osprey]

Here's a gallery with all of the leaked images:

https://imgur.com/a/oblivion-remake-OUg7kXu#g8FP2ak

 

[Turin]

Eurogamer is saying it’s going to drop next week

 

[aleshemsky83]

Definitely have to play this one but i know theyre gonna change a ton and dumb it down.

 

[Turin]

Definitely have to play this one but i know theyre gonna change a ton and dumb it down.

I hope they don't touch any of the core mechanics except for how the game levels/level scaling.

 

[Mikeaveli]

I would love to see the global level scaling go in favor of a system where enemy levels scale within a set range like New Vegas. Armor scaling should be gone altogether. The combat could also definitely use some work, it doesn't feel good at all today.

I imagine some other elements like the persuasion minigame might change but I'd like to see everything else stay the same.

 

[aleshemsky83]

I hope they don't touch any of the core mechanics except for how the game levels/level scaling.

I might be remembering wrong but did oblivion have the percent chance that rpg hit/miss dice roll thing when you attacked? I know morrowind for sure did but I can’t remember if oblivion did.

 

[JoVel]

Looking forward to immersing myself in this game once again.

 

[NyQuil]

Oblivion was my first TES but I think a lot of the flaws were fixed by Skyrim.

Imperial City is vast but empty. The level scaling of the monsters is weird.

With heavy modding it might be worth playing again.

 

[RandV]

I might be remembering wrong but did oblivion have the percent chance that rpg hit/miss dice roll thing when you attacked? I know morrowind for sure did but I can’t remember if oblivion did.

No they did away with that in Oblivion. Personally I never had a problem with that in Morrowind, it's a beginner issue which makes some sense but as you advance your skills you stop noticing it. Even then at the beginner stage I'm not sure if I noticed it much because in both games you're basically swinging till the enemy goes down, and Oblivion filtered out a lot of options/choice.

Thinking about the only 'ease of use' change I liked getting away from Morrowind, not sure if it started in Oblivion or Skyrim, is natural mana regen. In Morrowind you only got your mana back by drinking a potion or resting. I've always had an aversion to 'resting to get your mages magic back' in CRPG's, so I recall with Morrowind I opened the modding toolkit and made myself a character with mana regen.

 

[Osprey]

No they did away with that in Oblivion. Personally I never had a problem with that in Morrowind, it's a beginner issue which makes some sense but as you advance your skills you stop noticing it. Even then at the beginner stage I'm not sure if I noticed it much because in both games you're basically swinging till the enemy goes down, and Oblivion filtered out a lot of options/choice.

I've been re-playing Daggerfall, which also has it, and didn't really notice it until I wanted to test something a few days ago and started a new game without customizing my character. I was swinging and swinging at the lowest of enemies and rarely registering any hits. I didn't have that problem when I made my real character and assigned him the proper skills and attributes (as well as a dagger, whose speed probably made the misses even less noticeable). So, I'd say that it's a beginner issue in that game, too, and possibly not even much of one then if you build your character right. In fact, Daggerfall is notorious for being very difficult or very easy depending on your character build. That's why it pays to follow a guide rather than going with a pre-built or randomized character. It's been a long time since I played Morrowind, but it might be similar.

 

[Turin]

Official announcement and presumably release tomorrow morning.

 

[Mikeaveli]

The official tweet in case anyone still doubts it:

 

[hangman005]

I don't want to wait, but it actually works out, I'll have money tomorrow.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Depending on how the reviews for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, are will depend if I start this up this week or not.

 

[Turin]

If they change the level system to Skyrims, we riot.

If the game is buggy at all, we riot.

If the music is any different at all, we riot.

If the game maintains a consistent boring Avowed style, we riot.

If they didn't change the level scaling, we riot.

 

[AirGut]

Instant buy for me. Really more curious about the rumored Fallout 3 Remake/Remaster in the works though but this will hold me over for a while with all the DLC.

The thing I'm starting to realize is that this is probably going to be very hard to run on PC. I have a 7800XT but UE5 games like to chug.

 

[Mikeaveli]

I've been surprised by the attachment people have shown towards the original art style since the screenshots leaked. I never found Oblivion to be a good looking game, though by the time I first played it the game was like 6 years old.

 

[PeteWorrell]

I don't think that Bethesda games have historically looked good even at launch. It's mostly been about RPG elements and extreme modability.

 

[Beau Knows]

I've been surprised by the attachment people have shown towards the original art style since the screenshots leaked. I never found Oblivion to be a good looking game, though by the time I first played it the game was like 6 years old.

Oblivion certainly had it's warts. But it also had a different feel to it than the other Elder Scrolls games, I'm a little concerned the game will lose some of the charm of the original and instead feel more like being in the world of Skyrim.

Halo CE Anniversary Edition didn't feel right to me for that reason (and others) it was like I was playing a mod that added Halo CE into Halo Reach or something. It was weird.

Having said that, I've only seen a few screenshots so maybe the art style will be more faithful than I'm expecting.

 

[Turin]

The environment looks great but I can’t jive with Unreal 5 npcs and animations for some reason. I hate IE5