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Oblivion "remastered"
(lemmy.ml)
The piss filter is back baby!
What is old is new again
Freakin' VGCATS, my man! What a blast from the past
That comic is still alive!?
Kinda. The website was inactive for a few years there, and only recently started updating again. The author was focusing on Patreon, which was reportedly porn of the VGCats characters.
Not really. It's porn now.
We've known since the 2010s that brown equals realism.
Yes, in polluted cities.
brown
This trend is quite an explosion.
Oblivion without its megasaturation and bloom is gonna look weird
Right? I grew up in oblivion so when Skyrim came out with its dull brownish greys I was super disappointed, still can't really get into the game that much. Then a miracle happened and the Witcher 3: blood and wine came out. Toussaint was such a breath of fresh air, it reminded me that why I loved fantasy games was to feel like I was in a fantasy
That expansion was marvelous, nearly hit every note for me and I say that as someone with otherwise very mixed feelings for Witcher 3.
The ghosting of the sword, the overly wavy reflections in water, the sun burning your retinas. 15 frames of perfection every second!
You can actually get bonus ghosting if you switch to FSR Performance with frame gen!
The brown is bad, but to be fair to the right side, it's the left one that has bad reflections and is blurry - it was released when bloom effects were new and it used them way too much.
Honestly they just need to put on a blueish green bloom filter and it's back to being faithful
Look, if it plays as good or better than the original without the Skyrim enshitification then I don't carer how it looks. If it plays like Skyrim though, I'll hate it even more.
But the unique colors and style of Oblivion are why I remember it kind of fondly. By losing that, it turns into generic RPG #5263...
Oblivion is hugely over saturated. The game feels perfect for that in some areas and like a kids story book in others.
The people commenting the generic "now it's brown and dull" are just lame. Its just hating to hate really.
Personally, Oblivion is 10x than skyrim even if the game looked like fucking Morrowind I would play it. It is like people on Lemmy have to purposefully hate on something popular so they feel different than the "Normies."
The game could use a graphical overhaul and the bloom and over saturation hurt my damn eyes in a recent play through. So please tone it down and make it feel more realistic.
Also, lol, the image for comparison is just subjective bullshit bias. It purposefully makes a comparison to make the remaster feel boring. People were all over this style when Skyrim released.
Much like my opinion people don't have to agree and if you like the way Oblivion looks now versus the graphical overhaul in the leaked screenshot well then the good news is you can still play the original Oblivion. I know, complete shocker.
The point I am trying to make is that Lemmy sometimes feels like the "I am not like other girls" version of Reddit. You guys hate shit just as much as Reddit but in a weirder "I am different so my opinion is better." Reminds me of a post I saw on here where some guy raved for 4 paragraphs about why he didn't think the new Deadpool was funny but that his opinion wasn't like others that didn't like the new Deadpool because his was more refined and over all carried sophistication I'm his criticism. When in the end all he was saying was, "it wasn't my kind of humor." That is Lemmy.
Just say you don't like something and move the fuck on. Personally, Oblivion is peak Elderscrolls for me. This remaster looks fucking fantastic and I am going go play the fuck out of it. Have a nice day.
The people commenting the generic "now it's brown and dull" are just lame. Its just hating to hate really.
Or they simply have fond memories of the graphical style of Oblivion, and are disappointed that it's now more "realistic"? I don't want realistic, I want Oblivion. It's a fucking fantasy game.
People were all over this style when Skyrim released.
Sure, but we're not in 2011, so why change the graphical style to fit opinions of that time?
Much like my opinion people don't have to agree and if you like the way Oblivion looks now versus the graphical overhaul in the leaked screenshot well then the good news is you can still play the original Oblivion. I know, complete shocker.
I would love to play a remastered version that keeps the distinct graphical style I fondly remember. I know, a complete shocker.
Just say you don't like something and move the fuck on.
I did, and you really didn't like me saying that! I like Oblivion, I really like the graphical style. I don't like that they are removing the graphical style and making it look like any generic action RPG. If you don't like my comment, maybe move the fuck on?
I will say, all that aside, there's one thing I hated about oblivion. The FUCKING OBLIVION GATES, ugh so tedious, when I first learned there was mods I think the first one I downloaded was one that let you skip them for my next playthrough, but I would love to see if they somehow make them less grindy in this one
Honestly all this game needs for a 10 out of 10 from me is to be able to take the annoying fan to Dive Rock, cast paralysis on him and give him a little nudge.
I was so excited. Until I saw it's going to be UE5. Ah well, Skyblivion it is for me then.
Apparently UE5 only for rendering, the game logic still on the old gamebryo engine.
Because if done well, UE5 is fairly pretty and if it’s used just for graphics, maybe it won’t perform as badly either. The mixture of two engines tells me at the very least that the devs spent some amount of thought and time on the engine(s).
But yea, when it comes out and I find out it runs like crap on my 5700xt, I’ll just wait until Skyblivion is out. Not gonna be too long anyways.
That's disappointing. So it's going to have all the logic bugs of gamebryo plus that same annoying graphical feel of UE5
Depends on how much work they put into the graphics. Sure, if they keep UE at default settings, it’ll look like any run of the mill UE5 game. But if they cared enough to combine two engines, maybe they also cared enough to actually make UE5 look and feel more unique and more Elderscrolls-y..
Also, keeping gamebryo for logic might be a good thing to make the game feel more like the original.
It's Bethesda. They probably did it in a couple months trying to recoup money after the Starfield desaster.
It’s not actually done by Bethesda though but by Virtuos Games, which have both a history of making excellent remasters and miracle ports, and remasters that were very buggy at release.
Skyblivion better
Skyrim was already grey rpg. They can't do that again. So now it's brown rpg. Maybe next we'll get fuchsia.
They kind of did fuschia with the shivering isles iirc
If that is the only difference you can see you need some new glasses
Don't worry everyone free labour will fix it
This sums up my opinion of the new Assassins Creed. It's a beautiful world but half the time I can't actually see anything because I'm either blinded by sunlight or shaded by darkness.
good, always hated that goofy ass bright ass color palette of oblivion
With all that brown it's as if they accidentally took the Fallout 3 colour palette instead of Oblivion's. Doing a replay now and (Pip) boy, I forgot how bland the Capital Wasteland looks before you get used to it.
You guys know these are still officially not confirmed leaked pics?
Even if it really comes out and the screenshots are real are you really so bored that you just decided to hate something based on this?
The over saturated, bright environments are a key factor to the vibe of Oblivion. Them somehow regressing to Gears of War brown is a terrible sign. Even if its just in those few regions.
I know this, played Oblivion since day 1 and would also like a faithful remaster/remake.
I just don't undurstand why do this hate-circlejerk based on leaked unofficial info.
Obsepion
Fallen from grace, because I've been away too long
And if they changed it too much you'd complain and say "it's too different" you people just loooooove complaining
I'm still excited for it.
What are you guys even complaining about here? The color pallette? Really?
Never said I wasn't excited friend, I would love to have another romp through my childhood. I complain because I love this game, and would like to see it how I remember. If it comes out with the brown filter over it, it's whatever, it's oblivion it will get modded back.
But I daresay there's much worse things we could be doing online than griping about an old favorite, harmless fun I'd say.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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