The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake Will Reportedly Be Revealed Soon, and Released Not Long After That

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

That engine is ancient and their game design needs an upgrade. A lot of the quests were so bland in Starfield that I watched the credits to see how many designers they had on them. It was like...6. Thousands of planets, 6 quest designers. If your quest is, "go here, push a button, and come back," just don't bother putting the quest in the game.

Likewise, Oblivion's conversation system probably looked immaculate compared to old Elder Scrolls games at the time, but Starfield is outclassed next to Mass Effect 1 from 2007, not to mention The Witcher 3 or Baldur's Gate 3. And for how much people like that their towns are filled with NPCs on a schedule, it would be nice if that system led to anything more sophisticated than the thieving tricks people used 20 years ago.

[duchess@feddit.org]

probably non-existent

[vga@sopuli.xyz]

I wonder, can they just cease&desist Skyblivion off the map?

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[acosmichippo@lemmy.world]

eh, i don't see any reason why they can't churn out another TES or FO like they have been for years. my problems with starfield were mostly unique to the galaxy map and space.

[Guest]

You joke, but I’d totally be down with an update that integrates better graphics technology and reduces modding issues. Ive played through it half a dozen times in VR and 2d and there’s still plenty of content I haven’t done. Only issue I have these days is the small pool of voice actors so every 5th person has the same voice.

[skullgrid@lemmy.world]

Come on man, gotta get a Morrowind with modern QOL stuff.

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i don’t believe you

[yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works]

You can send a cease and desist for any reason to anyone at anytime.

But they wouldn't be able to win in court, the eula of both games explicitly allow using their IP in mods

[alexanderthedead@lemmy.world]

To this day it still has a more active community than any other game they've ever made has ever had.

[Guest]

I see the title - and first thing I think

"Oblivion, now with 16 times the upscalers" in Todd's voices

[ogmios@sh.itjust.works]

Yea, fan projects (when there is actual work put into it) are often significantly better than AAA remakes.

[fenririii@lemmy.world]

Fallout London, though not 100% finished, was a blast

[ogmios@sh.itjust.works]

Thanks for the tip!

Edit: How close to finished is it? Their website lists version 1.01 as current.

[Guest]

This will come out about three days before skyblivion officially releases, in order to REALLY mess up Skyblivion, the same as they did for Fallout London.

[fenririii@lemmy.world]

It's playable and you can complete most of the content. There are bugs and you have to downgrade pre-NG, but it's stable and the work they did is incredible.