An Elder Scrolls: Oblivion thead

I think I was playing the original of this game the Christmas just before my eldest was born. Now we're doing parellel playthroughs of the remaster and comparing experiences of it...

I'm a bit surprised how little of the original I remember, tbh. I'd even forgotten that Uriel Septim was voiced by Patrick Stewart! The one thing that I do remember was how careful I was about levelling with the enemy scaling issues. I was talking to my son about this and he was pretty incredulous, so it will be interesting to see how (or if) they've fixed this in the remaster. I know they've changed the skill and attribute levelling a bit; not sure about the scaling.

The Imperial City feels quite familiar, but I've done several side quests now and I don't remember a single one of them.

My 3080 is running the game noticably less well than my son's 4070, largely because he is able to use the DLSS frame gen and I've had to switch to FSR. It looks better with the RT on, but it tanks my FPS without using FSR and frame gen. With DLSS and RT I was getting 40 FPS outside. Most settings are still only on medium (textures on high), now using FSR balanced and getting 60-80 FPS outdoors mostly. My lad had better looking visuals and around 20 FPS better performance with DLSS, I think.

Having the same issues as others with the difficultly levels too, and you can really see some of the ancient mechanics underneath the graphics update, but I'm quite enjoying this anyway.
 
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DisrupTor75 said:
With all the fuss about this at the moment I figured I'd take a ride down nostalgia lane and try it on gamepass for £1. I am glad I did as I found it absolutely boring to play through.
I have played them all from Daggerfall, Oblivion, Shivering Isles, Skyrim and all the expansions and, at the time, loved them immensely. However I just cannot get into this remaster. Maybe it's because I have done it all before in the past, Or maybe I am just too old these days for spending huge amounts of time to run back through it all again with nicer graphics.

It just felt...dull. And I never thought that was a feeling I would get coming back to Oblivion.

I am not nocking the game as plenty will get their enjoyment out of it but sadly this one is not for me. :(
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Did you play star field? Strangely I'm getting the exact same feeling playing oblivion as I did playing star field, which is that I'm just bored as hell. Nothing in it is particularly fun.

Bethesda games used to be good because of the open world and rpg aspects being better than any competition, but honestly I don't think they ever thought "is this mission fun" when designing their games.

I get that this is a remaster not a remake/retelling, but the fact that star field was just as dull which came out I think last year says it all.

I was worried about the next elder scrolls game after star field and I'm worried again after this.

Zeldas latest 2 games are just so much more fun than these games. I think it's because zelda is technically just essentially a load of puzzles to be solved, and so rewarding when you figure them out, while Bethesda games are hand held walking missions with a bit of combat
 
The issue is that Bethesda are still developing RPGs in the exact same way using an outdated engine while gamers have moved on and expect more from an open-world RPG. The loading screen debacle in Starfield about sums up their attitude and approach. The launch on Xbox was criminal, locked at 30FPS, looked pretty bland with no map options and a terribly convoluted crafting / inventory system!

Goodness knows how ES6 is going to end up.

Hope folk are enjoying this tarted-up of a re-release though (:
 
Now that the hype has worn off, I'm going to shelve this.

They've done a really beautiful job of updating the graphics (even if I'm not a fan of the colour palette). But beyond that, there's very little improvement over vanilla Oblivion. In many areas it is a step back from modded Oblivion. IMO they should have done more. A lot more (and maybe offered this version as a "Classic Mode"). To give an example, the loading screens are ridiculous when you consider that they were (mostly) modded out of the original Oblivion.

If the community can sort out new modding tools & start porting mods over from OG Oblivion, the Remastered version could be amazing a year from now. That's the version of this game I would like to experience.

And then there's Skyblivion, which sounds amazing. One of the developers laid out why Skyblivion still matters in a Reddit post (link) and now I'm incredibly hyped for it.

I don't hate the remaster. But I don't want to burn out on it now when there's likely to be at least one vastly improved Oblivion experience in the next year.
 
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As with a lot of these games just let the game patches and modders improve them. Then there's the drivers following with obligatory improvements.
 
As someone who when this came out originally was console-bound, I only played it a little and gave up on it, but I do remember my friends going on and on about this game.

However, years later I played Skyrim to death, then another few years later played it again using Nolvus, this remaster has come at a good time for me.

Thought I’d give it a quick go last night to make sure that it worked and ended up spending about 3 hours on it.

Running full screen, Ultra, hardware Lumen and SSR’s off. Not a stutter in sight apart from the first 2-3 seconds after a loading screen. No idea what the FPS is as I’ve given up looking these days but this is the first thing I’ve tried playing since UV & OC my 5090 but the PC was suspiciously quiet.
 
I was thinking of starting a new game this weekend and was planning on getting the new stalker 2 game, but having heard the Oblivion remastered is out and never played the original. I'm not sure which to get, I've played the original stalker and I've playing Skyrim which I really enjoyed both.

Anyone played both, if so which would you get?
 
w00dy85 said:
I was thinking of starting a new game this weekend and was planning on getting the new stalker 2 game, but having heard the Oblivion remastered is out and never played the original. I'm not sure which to get, I've played the original stalker and I've playing Skyrim which I really enjoyed both.

Anyone played both, if so which would you get?
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If you’ve got Game Pass, give it a go as you’ve nothing to lose. If not, then it’s a tougher call I guess.
 
Got to bloodletter in the Arena, went and did a few quests outside of that, came back and run into a bug where he tells me I'm not wearing my rainment despite me doing so. Tried all the workarounds, but god knows why it won't work.
 
I haven't played the game in 17 years, I can probably wait a couple of months more for it not to be 50 quid :p

I'm so pleased its a largely faithful remaster, not these pseudo-remakes that seem to be a fad now...
 
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Neil79 said:
Mines around 35-50 doesn't go any higher...

Biggest hit to performance for me however is Reshade, it makes the game look so much better... But is it worth it for the fps cost? :(
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Yeah same here around 30 to 55 though that isn't great compared to having sub 30 in the past with my tuned X79 setup and native rendering in older games.
 
For me the original Oblivion was just too dull a game even back then. Sure even if you rewind back to when the original came out the graphics at the time was as impressive trait and being a core strength of the game as they are now /w UE5 giving us a modern take on handling the graphics side of things.

However under the hood its still the same game that has the same design problems.

The main quest line was uninteresting, the side quests especially some of them felt better designed then the main quest plot and the scaling of the enemies sapped that feeling of your own progression and any feeling of your own powers growing.

Skyrim improved this a lot and it needed to, but it still felt lacking despite improving the formula so this Skyblivion project does intrigue me more, but for me I can't sink any more time in this game I already played a ton all them years back, and hoping it would change my conclusion when I know it won't.
 
Swore off RPGs for a bit after playing Rebirth but Skyrim is one of my favourite games, have never played any of the others so will give this a go.
 
Decided to take the Reshade off, it just affects the game too much for my liking in terms of performance/latency...

There is also a known bug with the latest Reshade that can drop frames by 5-15fps in certain areas
 
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