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The timing might be a coincidence, but it feels like it's intended to take the wind out of Skyblivion's sails.
I hate Bethesda, so I hope this flops tbh.
I feel like skyblivion is gonna have more love and passion put into it. This will be broken shit day 1 then never get fixed
That's what I'm thinking. Skyblivion is going with concept art for things left out or things stated in the lore that the original ignored, like making the city of Leyawiin an actual port city that ships can actually pass through and expanding dungeons that are copy-pasted in vanilla. The things you get without the profit motive and with passion instead.
It's going to stutter to fuck on PC since it's UE5 too, probably.
What's Skyblivion?
Oblivion ported to Skyrim's engine, ability to travel between Skyrim and Cyrodil on one character, similar to Tale of two Wastes and Morroblivion and Skywind.
Skywind probably has a few years to go, I think the last update had them around 75% done.
They've stated it will come out by the end of this year
That's Skyblivion, the fan-made Oblivion-in-Skyrim-SE's-engine mod; Skywind is the fan-made Morrowind-in-Skyrim-SE's-engine mod. Skywind has a little more left to be done compared to Skyblivion.
I actually just thought this was Skyblivion at first glance because it's very close to release.
Isn't the rumor that this will play pretty much like Oblivion with some changes? Skyblivion should be less worse.
They should just dump the source code and let us remaster it ourselves
"Noooo but my trademark patented engine speedtrees AI trade secret proprietary royaltied merchant's privileged asset--" shut up, I already know this is gonna be shit, the textures are gonna be AI generated, and it will somehow have directly involved exploiting third-world labor cuz capitalism is in a total-society-enshittification death spiral and every single modder can do it better cuz they were already making horrific and wonderful binary patches anyway to your Windows 98 MSVC generated 9999999999 thousand line """""solution""""" file defined slop code that can actually still run on a 386 Zionist genocide-optimizing-computer type CPU so your slop code runs less like shit, makes better graphics, and so they can jerk off to modded-in anime girls
Literally collectivize all software immediately, all licensces (doesn't deserve to be spelled correctly anyway, probably French) will be null and void
The exploding quadcopter software will be collectivized as soon as this episode of the class war is complete however
It makes me so sad playing games I love knowing that the code is locked away in some vault somewhere or lost forever :(
They won't release the sauce cos u said game developer code is stinky and now they're sad
You can't remake Oblivion. Everything that makes that game worth playing is baked into it being made when it was, how it was.
Yeah I'm not sure how to even imagine this game being remastered. Is the radiant AI still going to be there? Is it still going to have loads of half-baked quests? Are all the NPCs still going to be voiced by 5 male and 5 female voice actors?
And are mods even going to be a thing with this being Unreal Engine 5?
Oblivion was an amazing game for 16 y/o me
Wanking and cranking my big ol' hog just thinking about the "better titties and ass for kawaii anime bodies" mods that're going to be worked on TODAY.
Can't wait to spend 2 weeks curating the perfect mod list and then playing for a couple hours before getting bored.
Full disclosure, I've beaten oblivion and I have some nostalgia for it but it's just so funny to me that bethsoft games 90% of the time are platforms for masturbation material.
The amount of community effort that has gone into perfecting breast physics for Skyrim is kind of impressive...
Absolutely one of the most boring games of the series as well. It was fun the first time but as a Morrowind lover it was also a huge disappointment
Apparently it's UE5 so fat chance on that.
UE5
Wait UE5!? Shit Bethesda just pissing on their modding community with that
From what I've read, it's still running the old engine with UE5 only handling the visuals like the Ninja Gaiden 2 remake.
On the one hand I think an Oblivion remake is doomed to fail. So much of the charm and character of the original comes down to the jank. A janky engine with janky gameplay and worse graphics, but also one of the best games I've ever played.
On the other hand, I'm really looking forward to playing some of this. Will probably try to pirate this one, though.
There's also the fact that compared to Morrowind or Skyrim Oblivion's setting is kinda mid at best and very generic fantasy with only some of that elder scrolls weirdness in the fringes
When it came out, its genericness was kind of refreshing
I would just wait a few months for Skyblivion to come out.
That comparison with the original 
They made it so much browner...
yellow filter for mexico except for fictional nerd world
Taking the saturated coloring and style of the original and making it look like CoD 37 was a choice
People talk shit about Oblivion but watch the Wha' Happen on Demon's Souls and you realise Oblivion directly lead to Dark Souls and all related games. So few games can claim to have such an influence.
Apparently even the discworld golbins were made in part due to the goblins in oblivion. Terry prachett "researched" goblins for the book snuff by exploring the goblin caves in oblivion with the help of a mod he helped design lol
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-behind-the-oblivion-mod-terry-pratchett-worked-on
So few games can claim to have such an influence.
There's many games that could claim to spawn subgenres lol. So many indies live under the shadow of Cave Story and Yume Nikki. Ultima Underworld is basically why FPS (and Souls-likes for that matter) even exist. Every RPG can ultimately be traced back to at least one of these games: Wizardry, Ultima, and Rogue.
I love that that entire series is named after one really bad line read from one really bad The Ring based Dreamcast video game.
I didn't realise there was actual history to it. I thought it was just internet speak. It's surprisingly good for what it is as well, Matt actually talks to people and gets first party sources instead of just doing wikipedia level skims like that series could easily be. He's also been on podcast that position him as a comrade as well
Make a new game! Don't just make 20 remasters of Skyrim and Oblivion each.
Why is it brown instead of green?
it's set in mexico
Ok but can you make your character a technicolor abomination?
They gave the dryad big booba, finally the game is playable
billions must goon
All I care about is what it’s running on, would love essentially just a 64 bit engine upgrade. You can already mod the shit of the original to look nearly as good but it’s unstable as hell. Curious to see how substantial the combat and leveling changes end up being as well
I was betting that they shuffled it off to a studio somewhere in SEA or eastern Europe to rake in the nostalgia bucks before I even looked up the name at the top of the screenshot.
Virtuos is a Singapore-based company that provides game development and art production services for AAA consoles, PC, and mobile titles.
Stop right there!
Have you heard of the high elves?
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final bite
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