Doublezero Posted May 5 Author Posted May 5 On 5/4/2025 at 8:20 AM, ritualclarity said: So the remake couldn't even get the mouth to move? Wow. I think they animated the faces with good old weights and bones instead of using tri files like Bethesda did in previous games. The studio probably just forgot to make drinking animations or something is broken. 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted May 5 Posted May 5 1 hour ago, Doublezero said: I think they animated the faces with good old weights and bones instead of using tri files like Bethesda did in previous games. The studio probably just forgot to make drinking animations or something is broken. What else did they "forget". Quality control was lax IMO. Let's see how long before they patch that. If it is fast, then they are doing a good job. It shouldn't be hard to fix if it was forgoten. Quote
ritualclarity Posted May 5 Posted May 5 Talking about mouths and faces... How about At first glance, the new "remastered' version looks quite good. However, It might be me, but the OG version looks pretty spectacular. With added mods and upgrades for looks, It can be quite satisfying as far as I am concerned. I am honestly concerned about the Unreal Engine tacked on the Gamebro system. Gambro was fragile as it was. That combined with the refusal to support mods in any way makes me very concerned. Perhaps they seriously thought mods would overwork the system? This is considering how much they love their mod stores, after all. Added review for essentially free and they are giving that up. Quote
Doublezero Posted May 6 Author Posted May 6 Everything is brown and it's ugly. It's like there's a wildfire burning out of control in Elsweyr, and all the smoke and haze is moving north into Cyrodiil. 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted May 6 Posted May 6 9 hours ago, Doublezero said: Everything is brown and it's ugly. It's like there's a wildfire burning out of control in Elsweyr, and all the smoke and haze is moving north into Cyrodiil. But it is beautiful! That is what people are saying! The whimsical coloring and ethereal architecture was bad. The massive amount of green was bad. Brown is good! Haze is good. We just don't know what we are talking about. Give it a bit and people will start to seriously see the flaws and problems. It is sad, but understandable. The underlying story was from a time when real RPGs were made by Bethesda. Bethesda which WAS a company that set the standards for RPGs. Them along with Bioware were blowing customers away with their games. People were fond of those games and once they saw what looked like a great re-release they got excited and carried away. I admit, I got carried away as well. It looked good at first and thoughts of perhaps they actually released something decent. It isn't horrible but it isn't the re-release that we deserved. They should have just took everything and put it on Unreal Engine not just the graphics. It would have took a bit longer but it would have been very likely much more solid and much better. Especially if they weren't going to release their dam store and support mods. The whole reason to use Gamebro is for modding tools and flexibility that they had since way back in Morrowind days perhaps even earlier. Quote
Doublezero Posted May 7 Author Posted May 7 This video is over a week old, but this is the first time I've seen it. After watching it, I can't understand all the praise for this game. Quote
Doublezero Posted May 7 Author Posted May 7 I played my fair share of Oblivion back in the day, and I don't remember anything like this. 1 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted May 7 Posted May 7 Looks like any Bethesda game I have played in the past. 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted May 7 Posted May 7 7 hours ago, Doublezero said: This video is over a week old, but this is the first time I've seen it. After watching it, I can't understand all the praise for this game. The studio that worked on Oblivion remake. "Hey, Bethesda, what you want us to do. ?" Bethesda "Make an awesome remake of Oblivion" Studio working on the remake. "What you expect is impossible. This is what we expect will be the result of what you are telling us to do" Bethesda "Awesome. We will charge the same amount of money as a full game and the customers will eat it up and praise us again" 1 Quote
Doublezero Posted May 8 Author Posted May 8 14 hours ago, ritualclarity said: Looks like any Bethesda game I have played in the past. It's a Bethesda game, but it's different from the original Oblivion. I remember seeing dead NPC heads stretched across Ayleid ruins and other weird NPC physics. I have yet to see a video of the remaster that looks like this. I'm not saying this is good or bad, I'm just saying that this game seems different. It's Oblivion, but it feels like a different game. If that makes sense. Another video on the game physics. Quote
Doublezero Posted May 10 Author Posted May 10 LOL. People are saying the honeymoon phase has passed. Too late! Todd has your money. Quote
ritualclarity Posted May 11 Posted May 11 The first video showing the same stupid AI that the original game had was the end of my "honeymoon". Shame it took everybody else longer. Quote
ritualclarity Posted Tuesday at 12:07 AM Posted Tuesday at 12:07 AM On 5/18/2025 at 1:37 PM, Doublezero said: Yep, stupid AI. This game needed a rework of the AI. It was great when the game was released. NOt so great now. Quote
Doublezero Posted Wednesday at 07:13 PM Author Posted Wednesday at 07:13 PM Edit: I just watched the whole video, and all I can say is that I dodged a bullet when I decided not to buy this game. The game's EULA prohibits users from using mods. What the hell? This game is a hot mess. And Bethesda fanboys defend this garbage. 1 Quote
ritualclarity Posted Thursday at 09:57 PM Posted Thursday at 09:57 PM On 5/21/2025 at 2:13 PM, Doublezero said: Edit: I just watched the whole video, and all I can say is that I dodged a bullet when I decided not to buy this game. The game's EULA prohibits users from using mods. What the hell? This game is a hot mess. And Bethesda fanboys defend this garbage. Once I understood that they packed UE over the original game and that Bethesda doesn't support mods and never will. I lost all interest. The mods that you add to the game for the original game is so good that it can easily raise the graphics and looks without paying for the game again. As the video states the "good changes" I am fairly confident that mod authors can add these to the old game reasonably easily. Sure, the game looks aged, but I don't condemn the game for that. It looked good at the time it was released. People loved the look. I don't understand why people think they need to have perfectly good-looking old game looking modern. If you need a modern look, the game should be reworked FULLY. Then to not have modding options or support for a game that has historically been modded... that is an added red flag. All this and they didn't fix the stupid AI. Hell, if you fixed the stupid AI and fixed all the bugs which has already been fixed by mod authors with some tweaks here and there that people have praised you might have a nice release. However, not for FULL PRICE. I am sorry. I know games are pushing to go 80 dollars for new for AAA games and such, but that hasn't happened fully yet. Don't come here with a rework that is poor at best and then expect to get at or near current full price for games now. I never wanted to buy the game however, I did have a temptation for about half a day with the praises and videos (from fanboys of course) to open my subscription to Microsoft Xbox to get to play it for a bit. If it was superb, I might have bought it when it was 20-50% off, depending on how much I liked it. I don't want to subscribe to Microsoft. I buy the game I want on Xbox (which is rare) Those games require a leisure easy game play for casual gaming. Think Hogwarts. Easy shit. Most games I want a keyboard to play, and to be honest, ALL Bethesda games are keyboard games. For me at least. 1 Quote
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