Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate"
Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate"
Skyblivion >>> remake
We haven't even seen the remake yet.
It's Bethesda, there's not a lot of goodwill with them
I'm sure the remake will release with the same level of QA and polish that the original Oblivion shipped with. That renowned Bethesda standard of quality.
Skyblivion is developed from a place of love, the official remaster is developed from a place of “money please”
Bethesda?
Gosh I hope but Bethesda's Radiant AI in Oblivion made for some real weird and unique NPC interactions. It gave that game its charm, IMO. Skyrims is different and just porting the game to Skyrim's Creation Engine might lose some of that weird charm.
I'm over here supporting Tamriel Rebuilt myself.
I'll wait the eternity for Oblivion support on OpenMW.
Skywind, skyblivion, Obwind. Idk, idc I’m all in.
Every time I see a Luigi Saint pfp, it's a based take.
Yeah, it's all cool until Bethesda or their owners issue a takedown.
If I recall correctly the team behind Skyblivion was (or still is) in contact with Bethesda throughout the development and had no problems with the latter in regards their work. Heck, Bethesda itself posted about the mod on their site in 2023.
They've been aware of Skyblivion for years and there's no indication they're interested in killing it.
That goodwill can change in an instant, especially if they are releasing a competing product, and especially if the legal team gets in the loop rather than the development staff.
Bethesda is pretty open about their support in modding.
Maybe they aren't, but what about the company that is doing the remake? They might argue it will hamper their ability to meet estimated sales and overall profit.
The way skyblivion has been implemented avoids all this. They have made it very clear they are not in any way using original assets or providing the game. They are mods that utilize both Skyrim and Oblivion game files and you must have both for it to work. It is modding those game files, not providing them.
My computer's specs are just under the minimum for new games released these days. It will probably be able to handle Skyblivion, but almost definitely not the remake. So that's the one that has my attention
can the rest of us hate?
That's because they're classy and understand that the two are totally different projects. Skyblivion is impressive but that doesn't even remotely mean that an official remaster/remake isn't worth having.
Good response. A bit offtopic but:
Earlier this month our Jim called upon Bethesda to remake Morrowind rather than Oblivion. "You cowards," Jim wrote, calling Morrowind a "special game, where a beautifully unique fantasy setting is locked away behind technology and interface design that has aged particularly badly".
I prefer Morrowind's UI to Skyrim's, even with SkyUI mod:
Overall, this whole system was obviously designed for consoles and it doesn't really work well on PC even with mods. I don't really remember Oblivion's interface, but the one in Morrowind's is something that I think definitely needs less "fixing" than Skyrim's for example. And I don't think it aged bad at all. Also hotkey system was great, I really miss it in Skyrim, potions are way less fun when you need to go through a bunch of menus every time you want to drink one.
I like Morrowind's interface better, too, with the optional window managing and selecting dialogue options from within text. But the icon-only inventory is atrocious. I have to hover every single icon to know what it is. I hope OpenMW will spawn a mod or something that will offer an alternative.
There is the unfortunately abandoned MorroUI.
Hopefully the skyblivion team will move en masse to skywind!
Two cakes.
To play Skyblivion, I believe you need to buy most if not all the Skyrim dlc.
It's for SSE, which has all the DLC.
Ah. nevermind me then
Hasn't this Bethesda helmed Oblivion remake been in the rumors and 'eventually' stage since around 2021-2022? Feel like skyblivion team has had plenty of time to get used to it at this point, but has something changed recently to make the bethesda version more relevant?
Leaked pictures / more confirmation. It's "real" now, or at least a more solid rumor than before.
I see they're remaking the worst one first, good
Yeah, that's right, my hot take is that Oblivion fucking sucks ass and needs a remake, unlike TES 2, 3, and 5
I would certainly love to see Morrowind remake.
Oblivion is at least playable for newer gamers. It's not a good experience, but it is manageable.
Morrowind, for all its immense benefits, makes everyone who entered the game scene after 2010 scream in terror. I personally never left Balmora, because it's just a terrible experience by modern standards (graphics, character animation, controls, battle mechanics...), which is a great shame because the game seems to be great otherwise.
TES I and II, while deserving recognition, are very Doom-like in terms of gameplay, and I don't believe an adequate remake could be made, because they are so different they can't adequately be turned into a modern experience.
So, I guess for me all hopes are for Skywind, so I could finally walk the streets of Vivec without the need to fork my eyes.
I’d love to see anything Morrowind‑related from Bethesda. Anything at all. The province of Morrowind, with its weird culture, architecture, and landscapes, is always quite an experience. To me, it’s the most interesting setting in the whole TES series
Oblivion is far less playable for new players, y'all just have nostalgia blinders / mods in mind
The levelling system breaks Oblivion, violently. Nothing that awful is in Morrowind, even the "I can't hit anything with a dagger because I'm too stupid to read" doesn't come close
if I didn't have to mod the fuck out of oblivion to make it playable without a spreadsheet, i'd be very mad at you.
They're right on the money. We're getting double the oblivion!
(you guys decide which cake is whose)