Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster
Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster
And a new Doom game.
I wish I could forget oblivion so I could experience it the first time again. Emerging from prison after that long tutorial. Spending hours in complicated oblivion gates.
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Realizing that Martin is the protagonist and you're a side character
And the shivering fucking isles. The butterflies.
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Oblivion Remaster sounds awesome.
originally set for fiscal year 2022
Perhaps they abandoned the idea when they heard about Skyblivion.
Starfield is also set for fiscal year 2022 in these leaks, though. Fairly safe to say everything was pushed back 2 years.
Of all the games to choose to remaster they decided on Oblivion and not Morrowind? Man, Bethesda couldn't confirm how out of touch they are even harder if they tried
I think you might be in a bit of an echo chamber. Oblivion has a much bigger audience.
The reasons that Oblivion has a bigger audience are the same reasons why it's less in need of a remaster: Mainly just that it's more recent.
My big point here is that Bethesda isn't aware of what their fan base enjoys. There are plenty of people who have played their games who are not fans. When I say fan what I'm talking about is the kind of people who play all of their games throughout history. You garner good will with your community by catering to the desires of the fan base itself. that said even if they wanted to do the most money grabbiest thing they could it would still make more sense to start with 3 and work their way toward 5 again. It would give them more games to monotize and would also let them build hype for the games that did penetrate the general audience
I can kinda see why they went with Oblivion. For one, Morrowind would be harder to do because it relies heavily on invisible dice rolls and she stats of you vs the enemy for...basically everything. From hit chance, to if your spell is succesfully cast, to how much damage your armor (or the enemy's) eats up. Unless they gut that entire system and do a more modernized one instead (like Oblivion/Skyrim's)
Another reason i wanna say they picked Oblivion is because, frankly, it's the middle redhead child of the "modern" elder scrolls main games. Everyone praises Morrowind and Skyrim, but Oblivion....yeah. I love it, it was what Skyrim was to many players, but yeah it can be rough in a lot of aspects. Sometimes even more so than Morrowind (YMMV. I could easily get used to Morrowind, even vanilla. Everytime i go back to Oblivion, I have to make myself look past the roughness to see the good stuff).
IDK, i see this as a great second chance for the game...and, foolish it may be but, I'm also hoping they restore Cyrodiil to the jungle it was hyped up to be in Morrowind and the pocket guides since the tech is there now, plus they no longer have to cash in on the Lord of the Rings movies. They won't. But i can dream.
I get caught off guard in morrowind any time I have to jump up stairs.
Oblivion is full of jank, too, obviously, but it's the things that are annoying all the time that get me.
I have a bad feeling about an Oblivion and Fallout 3 remaster. Due to the last two games they made. Fallout 76 is trash, and Starfield is mediocre. I hope the remasters are good.
Was that the one with the really stupid conversation meter
I see Microsoft playing a safe card here.