I know there’s great love for Oblivion (I never played it when it was new), and of course Skyrim is the gold standard for new fans (I played the shit out of that and it was my first entry into the elder scrolls back when it came out 14 years ago…) but I really feel like this shadow drop of a half assed remake is just priming everyone to lower their expectations for the likely dumpster fire that is The Elder Scrolls VI.

I know its old hat nonsense of a complaint but whatever Bethesda used to be it stopped being that 20 years ago and we’re all just stuck thinking they’ll put out some new masterpiece when in reality all the talent they had back in the day has likely left for other jobs and they are now just a shitty company among countless other shitty companies putting profit over anything else and stifling anyone who might actually have good ideas on how to make good games (how unsurprising).

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[+] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world -19 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

More than a coat of paint. They didn't actually port the game to Unreal 5, they just used it to make the graphics look better. The modding community could have done this years ago if that's all they wanted to do. Skyblivion is more of a remaster than this official one.

With all of the resources of the original development and sources, I expect more than the modding community is capable of.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 37 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Emm, no. If you build something from the ground up it's called remake.(Demon Souls, the Resident Evil series) Remastered is taking the old game and put on a fresh paint of coat and give it some modern QOL so it's much more accessible today.

Skyblivion is closer to remake than remaster.

Also i feels like you misunderstand why people like this game.

[+] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world -15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

If you're fine paying $50-60 for what amounts to a community graphical overhaul mod that's fine. I expect more from an actual developer with access to the source code.

A remaster should be releasing Oblivion with an updated engine and graphics, and bringing in some gameplay enhancements from newer games. Technically this meets those requirements, but only by the bare minimum and all of those can be achieved with community mods for free.

A remake would be completely abandoning the decrepit Gamebryo/Creation Engine that's clearly dragging all of their games down now, and has been for over a decade, and actually giving us something that doesn't feel like it came out 20+ years ago.

I love the Elder Scrolls, Oblivion is one of my favorite games of all time, and the only one I ever bothered to get every achievement for back on the 360. But I won't accept a half assed remaster for nearly full price just because it's what Bethesda wants to distract everyone from the fact that Elder Scrolls 6 isn't coming out anytime soon and they couldn't just release Skyrim for the 12th time.

Don't accept paying for mediocre products just because you're desperate for content.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 10 points 12 hours ago

You're describing a remake, which isn't what this remaster is. A remaster is literally what this is, just like Diablo 2 Resurrected a few years ago

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 points 14 hours ago

Ok.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago

The only real problem here is the price. It should've been more like $30.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Thats a remake, not a remaster. Idiot.