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Bethesda announces remastered version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_E2crglcw
52•carlos-menezes•9mo ago

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TheJCDenton•9mo ago
Haven’t played it yet, but if it’s good, I hope the eerie world of Morrowind is next !
tommica•9mo ago
Well, after Fallout 76 and Starfield, they needed to press the "print money" button. So we can look forward to it once they've messed up again.
klaussilveira•9mo ago
I think https://openmw.org/ is much better than anything that Bethesda could produce.
Lammy•9mo ago
Comedy option: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion_Mod:Oldblivion
Fade_Dance•9mo ago
SkyWind is so incredible that I honestly don't think it's necessary. Skyblivion was a thing, but the love and care put into SkyWind is just something I have rarely if ever seen in modding before. So many people loved that world, and so much talent has gone into the project. Even something like the stained glass windows scattered through the world were approached not like a game asset but like a series of art pieces, consulting all of the lore experts, etc.

(Yes it still needs finishing touches but it's complete to the point that there are 10s of hours of gameplay footage from fundraiser streams to confirm it's 90% of the way there. It's polished and looks incredible.)

Am4TIfIsER0ppos•9mo ago
> Sign in to confirm your age

Fuck you youtube, google, alphabet.

> Enter your date of birth

My account with you is old enough to drink, even in the US.

I saw screenshots elsewhere and all I can ask is "why is it brown?"

Havoc•9mo ago
Some oblivion areas where pretty brown. This was before everything had skins and rainbows and what not
Jnr•9mo ago
It was the "piss filter" era in gaming. Lots of games during that period looked brownish with a terrible blur on everything. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/piss-filter/
whywhywhywhy•9mo ago
Gotta say the new ChatGPT 4o image gens are like the resurgence of the piss filter aesthetic
mrguyorama•9mo ago
At the time though, Oblivion was notable for it's trees and greenery. It definitely didn't have a piss filter, The Elder Scrolls series just spends a lot of time in literal dirt caves.
ezekg•9mo ago
I always called this the "chlorine filter" because it reminded me of what your vision looks like after swimming in chlorinated water after a while.
Rebelgecko•9mo ago
Oblivion had more of a blue tint IIRC
Ekaros•9mo ago
Depended on area general world was blue, then the Oblivion gates were orange/brown. I think shivering isles also have something different.
xeromal•9mo ago
It is wild we have swing so far to the other side. Join a COD match and it looks like a carnival.
m463•9mo ago
I recall it wasn't as bad as the grey of fallout 3.

I'm trying to recall if any of the bethesda games colorful?

Am4TIfIsER0ppos•9mo ago
The area in the west was brown coastal scrub. The north was white with snow. Everywhere else was lush temperate forest green or possibly tropical rainforest green in the far south. In fact to further refute your point and the child post's reply about the piss filter and BrownIsReal (which I guess he forgot) I'm going to find the screenshot I saw comparing the sight you see after leaving the Imperial Prison Sewer. [several hours later] wtf it was actually an embed from reddit https://i.redd.it/kmvxwrz7ozue1.jpeg furthermore I dragged out a couple of my own screenshots https://files.catbox.moe/7o0eq7.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/dbmvid.jpg unfortunately I don't have any beauty shots
HelloUsername•9mo ago
You can watch the reveal trailer (https://youtube.com/watch?v=wFJ3PZuAjK4) by bypassing the sign-in through Duckduckgo's player (https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duck-player)
lofaszvanitt•9mo ago
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ibey8
Lammy•9mo ago
I wonder if this would exist if https://skyblivion.com/ didn't.
os2warpman•9mo ago
Until there's a download link, Skyblivion doesn't exist.
Lammy•9mo ago
People said the same thing about Black Mesa
FloatArtifact•9mo ago
It's slated to release this year.
dkkergoog•9mo ago
And noone cares
NikkiA•9mo ago
Until it's C&D'ed later this week.
Rebelgecko•9mo ago
Who would do such a thing? Not Bethesda/Microsoft
monetus•9mo ago
I've watched these developers make the game for years now. I hardly believed they would succeed. Big congrats.
jayGlow•9mo ago
you might be thinking of skyblivion that's a separate thing this official remaster was only announced and released today.
monetus•9mo ago
Indeed I was, thanks. I had a late morning, thanks for catching that.
FloatArtifact•9mo ago
According to the Bethesda FAQ, it looks like modding is not supported. It feeds into my suspicion that Unreal 5 is difficult to mod especially adding new content/mechanics without official support from developers. A real shame.

https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/69672

Well, we'll see what the community can do, but it'll be limited without official support.

spacemadness•9mo ago
What?! That's a huge miss for them. Incredibly disappointing.
Lammy•9mo ago
From a corporate perspective I could see “no mods at all” being preferable to mods they can't control, especially since all the best ones come from loverslab-dot-com which is totally untouchable to corpo-kin.

Microsoft-presents-Zenimax-presents-Bethesda had a string of failed attempts to control the modding community for Skyrim:

- https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_Mod:Paid_Mods (2015–2017)

- https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Creation_Club (2017–2023)

- https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_Mod:Verified_Creator_Program (2023–)

andrewmcwatters•9mo ago
Doing various things with Unreal is deceptively hard.

It’s very attractive in its marketing, but as soon as you need to start doing something slightly off the rails, you run into a very large labor premium that you wouldn’t with other engines, in my experience.

EdwardKrayer•9mo ago
I'd be surprised if modding frameworks don't start popping up via reverse engineering efforts. Someones gonna get annoyed at having to manage inventory against limited carry weight, and end up in a 3 months side project. Respect to the modding community.
Ekaros•9mo ago
The engine Bethesda used was especially mod friendly. Basically almost build for that sort of workflow.

This game seems to be actually full remake, not a remaster. I think they essentially rebuild entire game in new engine. Only thing that likely was moved was voice lines and probably music.

lofaszvanitt•9mo ago
Remaster.... free money!

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