Creating new horse armor to lock behind the deluxe edition is possibly the greatest piece of video game irony ever
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All of the old DLC is available in the base game. The deluxe edition adds new horse armor (and a few new weapons and armor sets). But to be clear, the old horse armor is 100% available in the base game.
Source: I’m fuggin playin it right now.
This game is a technical mess. Oblivion is top 3 of all time for me. I'm the target audience for a litany of reasons, yet I refunded it after 3 hours.
It runs like shit on everything. Windows? Check. Linux? Check. Steam Deck? Check. GeforceNow? Check.
As soon as you leave the prison it all falls apart. Hopefully the next few months of patching can salvage it. I'll keep an eye on reports. Until then though, the console versions seem to be the only way it's worth trying to run this release.
Specs for anyone interested:
PC running Win 11 23h2 and PopOS - Ryzen 5900x, 5080FE
Laptop Running 24h2 and Mint Ryzen 7945HX, 4080
Both of those should be able to run this game at 240 1080p, 120 2k or 60 4k and unfortunately none of that happens. Its just a see saw of random drops and stutters not matter what settings I use.
I was wondering if it was just my 1660 Super being basically the minimum requirement. Runs nice when in interior cells; lose half my frames in the exterior, unless I use the Ultra Performance setting for FSR, which then makes the game look uglier than the OG.
$50+!? Isn't this like a 20 year old game?
I mean ... not really, they all but rebuilt it. New assets on a new engine.
Yes, assets and fancy graphics but the gameplay and story are still the same?
Story is relatively cheap to develop. A lion share of the cost of making a game is the coding (which with this being moved to another engine, there almost certainly was a lot of that) and art (which it seems they redid like all of that and there's a good chance a lot of the animations had to be tweaked).
Basically the only thing wouldn't have to pay for was the story writers and some level designers (people still had to touch up the maps even if there was some automated conversion that pulled most of the map into Unreal Engine 5).
https://youtu.be/1jZXzv1-CmA -- like this isn't just a texture upscale and some minor tweaks to the animations, it's a large scale remaster.
As a consumer, the costs of development are irrelevant to me.
And that's why you don't understand why it costs 50$
As I just said in the comment you just replied to, I don't care why it costs $50. I'm not paying $50 for the same game, no matter how pretty it is.
It's like an classic car. After 20 or 30 years it starts to go up in value again.
But classic cars are finite. This is infinite.
And it doesn't even include the DLC of the original game like skyrim se did, you have to buy the deluxe edition (an extra £10/$10)
The original expansions are included.
Experience everything Oblivion has to offer with previously released story expansions Shivering Isles, Knights of the Nine, and additional downloadable content included in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.
The deluxe edition includes some new stuff and cosmetics, as well as non-game extras.
• New quests for unique digital Akatosh and Mehrunes Dagon Armors, Weapons, and Horse Armor Sets
• Digital Artbook and Soundtrack App
Edit: The MS store makes it even more explicit regarding the "additional downloadable content" included in the standard edition:
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Standard Edition includes:
- Digital base game
- Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine story expansions
- Additional downloadable content: Fighter’s Stronghold expansion, Spell Tome Treasures, Vile Lair, Mehrune’s Razor, The Thieves Den, Wizard’s Tower, Orrery, and Horse Pack Armor
Cool! I was just looking at the poster they made and it looks like the DLCs are part of the deluxe set but it is designed badly or I misread it
I hope this means my Skyrim modlist is finally safe and they’ve moved on to milk a new cash cow
54,99€
Yea… I’m gonna wait for that discount lol
Crazy marketing and release strategy for this one, making it just vague enough to inspire drama between those-who-believe and those-who-didn't; from what I can tell, it has generated A LOT of interest, and the Steam numbers are super high right now. We might see more of these slow-leak-surprise-drop releases going forward, based on the success of this.
Brilliant marketing trick: Keep people waiting for the next game in the huge blockbuster series for 14 years and they'll be eager for whatever they get
Anyone know if the save game files are compatible with the original?
I’m currently listening to Sir Patrick Stewart’s memoir audiobook, and totally forgot that he was the voice actor for Uriel Septim! Quite drastic change in his voice these past twenty years unfortunately.
The game looks gorgeous, but I’m going to wait until Skyblivion is released, just to make sure Bethesda doesn’t pull some bs and block the creators from releasing their passion project.
They gave each of the creators of Skyblivion a free key for the deluxe version. Last I heard they were being friendly
That’s great to hear!! Glad they did that.
don't pay for this.
I’m surprised they’re remastering this one when Morrowind seems to be remember more fondly. I was around when Oblivion came out the first time and it was good but not great, Skyrim seemed like an upgraded version of the same thing.
I think it's because of this TC mod that these volunteers have been working on for 10(?) years. It's due for a 2025 release
Because when you're trying to maximize money, you work your way to the good stuff - save the best for last.
Definitely never spending a penny for this.
The AI-generated speech animations are strangely exaggerated like it's some kind of lip reading training program. There's no hair physics. You don't get a shadow in first-person mode. The persuasion minigame UI looks worse than it used to. Sometimes the NPCs look off to the side while they're talking to you as if the camera's in the wrong place. Considering that the main point is to make the old game look nicer, they seem to have neglected a lot of little details.
That was my reaction watching it on Twitch. Playing it in person is way more fun, the nostalgia got me. Still, Skyblivion will probably be better-looking as well as having better mod support.
I'm pretty sure the main point was getting another million or ten sales for relatively little development cost.
Alright, for those who got it. How fucked up can you make your character look?
Anyone test it on steamdeck?
Yes, I have already refunded it.
Runs great until you get into the open world. Then it barely manages to keep 30fps on lowest settings while everything looks blurry and debateably worse than the original.
Runs fine on my decently powerful Linux desktop via Proton at least. I was at like 80 FPS on high settings 1440p in the overworld. maybe like 50 FPS on ultra. In smaller dungeons the FPS was significantly higher.
Yeah moonlight game streaming from the gaming rig to the steam deck is the way to go if you want to play handheld. That's what I'm doing at the moment
Massive cash grab
Eribees and Mortalbeef will be streaming it on Twitch as soon as they can download it, along with many others. Might be interesting.
Taking bets! Now that it’s on unreal engine, is it gonna support mods?
I’m calling that it won’t have mods and this is them shutting down future Skyblivion and Fallout UK projects without pissing off the fans.
Slowly boil the fanbase frogs and they won’t notice that the creation club is the only option left. Be sure to buy their micropayment currency! 🤮
No official mod support, unofficial mods have already started rolling in though.