Looks amazing, definitely gonna pick this up.
Edited to add further thoughts
Having a deluxe edition of a remaster feels bad, though I don’t completely begrudge them. It was still a lot of work, time, and effort to do this.
I kinda love releases like this with no build up. I know that this was leaked but I mean compared to six years of announcement to release, I much prefer this kind of shadow drop.
A deluxe edition does seem a little lame for a remaster. But at the same time the deluxe edition is still cheaper than Starfield and I’d much rather play this.
If this were a Nintendo game it’d be $80 for the base and $90 for Deluxe.
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How much is the horse armor?
$10. I’m not joking. It’s a part of the deluxe edition.
Yes and no. All original dlc is included in the base game, including the infamous horse armour.
The Deluxe Edition adds art book, OST, and some new weapon, armours, and yes horse armours not in the original game.
Included. The Deluxe edition adds some new gear, but all the old content (including the old DLC) is available in the base game.
Included in the game. Deluxe edition adds new horse armours (among a few other things).
Did they change anything meaningful, like removing that aweful level scaling?
They did, but to what end we might find out just a few hours from now. Seems like minigame stay the same, but the combat is revamped
Edit: ohh wait i don’t think they mentioned scaling, but just the levelling is changed.
All of the games have scaling of some kind (at least Morrowind and Skyrim do). Just as long as they make suboptimal builds viable rather than punishing, that’s all I need.
£50 for the game I already paid for, just with better graphics? No, thank you.
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You need to actually look at the changes because that is completely wrong. They’ve made mechanical changes to the game.
Being what? Skyrim style fight? Fuck that. If they were to completly replace moronic, idiotic, retarded level scaling that would be a different conversation.
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They also changed other things including level progression
They have NOT changed retarded level scaling at all.
Go actually get informed before bashing your facing against the keyboard and spouting off your bigoted bullshit in the future
Go and give them your money again if you already paid for this game once, good sheep. 🙄
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Now read a dictionary 🙄
The Oblivion score is so good.
Jeremy Soule did amazing work. Unfortunately it turned out he was a terrible person and he was blacklisted from the industry after multiple allegations were made against him during the #MeToo movement.
Yeah that was really disappointing
i thought those were just alleged
Oh that sucks
It always reminded me of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme
Stoked to try this game, but I’m waiting a few months for a patch to the graphics issues.
Oblivion, when last met you introduced horse armor! Now you return to look upon the ruined game landscape that you have brought! I loved you like a brother, Oblivion! You were the Chosen One!
Funny enough the deluxe edition includes horse armor lol
I straight up got emotional during the trailer and announcement stream. Oblivion was the first RPG of this kind that I ever played and was one of my favorite games in middle school. Hopefully it’s a stable release because I wanna play that shit as soon as I get home from work.
I’m pretty curious about this. I tried Oblivion a few years ago having never played it before and it just felt too clunky for me to want to play much past the tutorial. Which is a shame because I’ve heard there’s a lot of cool stuff in the game I didn’t get to see.
If this makes things feel better to play and is a good all around remaster, maybe I’ll pick it up and give it another go.
Oblivion was the first game I ever put 100+ hours into, but every time I’ve tried to get back into it over the years, it was just too clunky and awkward. Bethesda games always age poorly.
But this remaster is fucking incredible and I very irresponsibly wasted an entire day yesterday playing it. They fixed and polished it so it feels like a modern game again. The only issue I had was poor performance in a lot of areas, like frequent drops down to 40 fps on my powerful PC. I’m hoping a patch will fix that soon.
Admittedly, my opinion is heavily clouded by nostalgia, so temper your expectations in case my comment actually convinces you to buy it. It’s a great game, but it’s smaller and somewhat clunkier than Skyrim.
Decisions, decisions: get this for my ps5, or wait until my pc build is done. Prob the latter, just need a couple more things and I’ve waited this long, what’s another couple weeks.
Honestly, taking into account how important modding is for the TES serie, I’d say it’s better to aim PC for this one.
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It’s you! The hero of kvatch!
… now do it with Morrowind. I dare you. I double dare you!
There is the Skywind project, but I’m not sure if any progress has been made in the last year
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Can we just have 6 instead?
No. Oblivion remastered. Then Skyrim Special Oblivion Remastered Anniversary Edition. Then Starfield Remastered.
Then Oblivion Remastered 2 since the current one will be outdated by that time.
Morrowind would be a whole different beast to remaster. Not saying I wouldn’t enjoy some better graphics and tweaked systems, but it would be a hard sell to most gamers if they only did that.
-no voice acting -outdated gameplay systems -Game map that wasn’t designed with unlimited draw distance, fast travel, or even unlimited running in mind.
Honestly at this point it would be better served by a full remake.
Morrowind has plenty of fast travel. In fact, it has better fast-travel than later Elder Scrolls games because it’s actually integrated into the gameplay.
skyrim has carriages and boats though
Sky walking was so much fun. Not always faster, but fun
It was also neat that the game was designed for it (Telvanni towers, secrets in high places, etc.).
Agreed. Super convenient fast travel takes something away from the game. It turns an adventure into a handful of loading screens, which is egregious in Starfield because “travel through space” boiled down to “here’s 4 more loading screens every single time you want to do anything.”
Yes, that’s why you’d make it a remaster; to fix all of those things.
Modern mods fix almost all of those issues.
The game can easily be ‘remastered’.
looks like im not finishing avowed 😂
It plays well on the steam deck day 1 as well, if that matters to anyone here. I played the first 2 hours on my deck from work with no issues.
Shaders took like 10 minutes but the rest of the load times were all fine.
How much fps are you getting? And what are your other settings?
I was getting a stable 30fps on mid settings. Having played at home at much higher resolution, I see you lose a lot, but its still very playable.
I loaded it up on my Deck last night for a few minutes using the default settings (low preset) and was getting what seemed like a stable 30 fps running around in Skingrad. Other people have reported sub-20 FPS when in the open world on the Deck, so it’s probably not the best choice unless they patch it
Sweet, never played it and have it in my backlog, so a remaster helps :)
Got the weekend booked for this. Excited just roam around and see how things have changed. Seems like it runs flawlessly on Linux too!
