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Yes, it's the old game everyone has played and that is referred to as "Better than Skyrim", only to be met with another statement that says that "Morrowind is better than Oblivion".
It's just another remaster, who cares?
Honestly, I do
The original Oblivion is a pain to play due to outdated graphics, animations, menus...
A remaster will likely introduce many new players into the story.
Although many said Morrowind should have been remastered first.
If you had said clunky mechanics or anything that actually affected gameplay, I might have agreed. But I grew on Atari and Commodore, so pretty graphics carry very little weight for me.
Edit: To each their own, but I'm not gonna pretend I understand older graphics being a detriment to a games playability.
Mechanics too, for sure.
As per graphics...my active gaming years started around 2012-2014, and the first TES game I've played was Skyrim, which soon later gained the Special Edition with updated graphics.
So, the bar for me is quite high, and poorer graphics breaks immersion. Oblivion, to me, is bad, Morrowind is untenable.
The only old game I actually played a lot was 2003's Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, and what saved it is decent lighting, no extra blur, enclosed areas and action-packed gameplay that left less attention to how poor it looks.
Morrowind with the graphical overhaul mod looks ridiculously good.
I shit you not, it looks better than anything Bethesda has produced since.
The clunky old mechanics are still clunky and old. But damn, Morrowind mods go a long way.
True! Visuals ger way better in OpenMW mods, but it costs a lot of computer resources and animations remain as terrible as they always were
I do have half an eye on the Skywind Mod. The pictures of the world looks very promising.
So do I!
Funny, those are the reasons I still like to play Oblivion. It's a product of its time I guess.
Sure, taste differs, especially if you were there when it was released.
But I'm happy that a younger audience will get what it takes to dive in!
Also still keeping my eyes on Skyblivion and especially on Skywind
I never played it, partially because everyone looked like burned marshmallows. Will probably stomp around and see what it’s about
To be fair, TES gets better the further you go back until you got daggerfall, where it might still be better, but at that point it's more debatable.
Yeah, it's been a weird exchange. Slightly better graphics at the cost of depth.