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Holy shit, I got Baldur's Gate 3 recently on sale for less than this lazy remaster of a 19 year old game.
Gamers are lapping this shit up too. What happened to the rage people had for the Switch 2 being expensive?
Ive used this as an opportunity to be real fun at parties and point out to libs “Bethesda is on BDS, so this is kinda like Hogwarts Legacy and you’ll have to decide if a video game is worth it.”
Yes 
It doesn't even seem to have Denuvo, so it should be easy to pirate too.
I thought that it was basically just a texture mod at first, too, but apparently this is an unreal engine 5 game, so it actually is a lot more than a texture mod. Even if they call it remastered, it is essentially a full remake. I wonder what this means for the future of the Gamebryo engine.
It's unreal doing the graphics but apparently it's still Bethesda's engine doing the rest of the game. I'm sure they updated some stuff but it's gonna play pretty damn similarly to Oblivion
The logic is the same as Oblivion and it plays exactly like that. It's a remaster not a remake.
What else has changed outside of the graphics? It looks like a very basic remaster to me.
It seems to be a bit more involved than a typical remaster since they seem to have replaced all the rendering side of the creation engine with UE5’s rendering and remade all assets.
Well that's slightly better than I thought, at least.
I watched someone playing it earlier and I've liked what I've seen. alot of neat little details and i feel like they did a good job with animating facial expressions.
so it's more ninja gaiden 2 sigma black than gta definitive edition.
But the deluxe edition gives you bonus horse armor! 
Remember when people actually got upset about this sort of thing? When horse armor for the original oblivion was used as an example of game companies just being extremely greedy and blatantly anti-consumer? Haha, remember when gamers actually took issue with DLC and "upgrades" that did nothing but provide an empty cosmetic change to the game?
we were right to be mad at the time
Horse armour was only like $3 and ppl got mad.
I guess it proves simply complaining about it does nothing because the market will just do what it wants.
I'm starting to think that this whole "free market" thing doesn't actually solve consumer's problems and only makes them worse... 
Deluxe edition also gets you an art book and the soundtrack
holy fucking shit lmaooooooooo
no chance. straight piracy or utilising some sort of forex scheme to get cheap game pass
on the other hand, i also remember the dark days of N64 cartridge pricing here
Remember when an Xbox 360 game could end up being $120 at launch at EB games? I sure do.
Bethesda fans are a different breed to the ones getting mad about Nintendo
GIB MONEYS NOW
They're outraged they changed Gender to Body Type
did they? do any of us care?
We're all going to mod in massive hogs for either body type so what's it matter?
Oblivion is a bad game to start with
compared to morrowind but it's better than everything that came after besides new vegas (which bgs didn't make)
Skyrim is better than Oblivion 
The levelling, graphics, and voice acting are better, but the quests, which imo are the real draw, are vastly worse.
I guess there's no more marrow in the bones of skyrim?
Where's the remaster of their last actually good game? Daggerfall?
Why not an expansion to Starfield? 
Fucking Starfield…I had forgotten about that one.
Btw its already been cracked for pirating. I'm gonna renew my VPN later cause I've been wanting an Oblivion fix for a while.
Let me know if it still has the funi voices
From what I've seen, they kept the original voices.
I have no idea who can afford this shit atm.
Also please fuck off with forever culture. Things can be in the past. It's ok to move on.
You can afford it. Everything is free if you steal it. Take back your common inheritance.
Bethsoft belongs in 
a ton of people i know are super excited for this
i don't get it
lmao $50 US for a texture/model update is now being called high calibre and generous lmao gamers
yea it's crazy, people see not $80 USD and go "wow, this is so great, they're so generous"
idk if it's that im too indie pilled but if a game is more than like $20 i usually wait for it to go on sale or pirate it
One of the benefits of growing up with the same Pentium I well into the era of Pentium IVs is I learned to rummage through bargain bins for old software and play the same games for years on end. I am not paying eighty fucking dollars for a video game I know will be $10 in less than five years. I probably don't even want to play Oblivion because I haven't even played all the other RPGs I own.
I read that $15 DLC thing as like the upgrade from the original game and thought "at least they discounted it for people who already bought it" but realized that's just the premium shit. Original game with all the DLC is $25CAD and I assume that goes on sale down to half that pretty frequently. Plus piracy is still an option.
Thanks for the price hike normalization, Nintendo.
what happened to ethics in gaming?
People were mad at nintendo because theyre racist af, more than anything
This isn't true. It has some significant changes, but still feels like the original. They nailed it.
There is new voice acting, and voices are effected by your position to the speaker. They improved the leveling system. They added sprint. The combat feels similar, but is a lot less janky. Of course the improved VFX and SFX. There is probably other things. But it's definately more than a remaster. It feels like a remake.
Nyahahaha, for some reason i can use my VPN again despite not renewing it in over a year
