Look, if it plays as good or better than the original without the Skyrim enshitification then I don't carer how it looks. If it plays like Skyrim though, I'll hate it even more.
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But the unique colors and style of Oblivion are why I remember it kind of fondly. By losing that, it turns into generic RPG #5263...
With all that brown it's as if they accidentally took the Fallout 3 colour palette instead of Oblivion's. Doing a replay now and (Pip) boy, I forgot how bland the Capital Wasteland looks before you get used to it.
Obsepion
The piss filter is back baby!
What is old is new again
Freakin' VGCATS, my man! What a blast from the past
That comic is still alive!?
Kinda. The website was inactive for a few years there, and only recently started updating again. The author was focusing on Patreon, which was reportedly porn of the VGCats characters.
Not really. It's porn now.
Oblivion without its megasaturation and bloom is gonna look weird
Right? I grew up in oblivion so when Skyrim came out with its dull brownish greys I was super disappointed, still can't really get into the game that much. Then a miracle happened and the Witcher 3: blood and wine came out. Toussaint was such a breath of fresh air, it reminded me that why I loved fantasy games was to feel like I was in a fantasy
That expansion was marvelous, nearly hit every note for me and I say that as someone with otherwise very mixed feelings for Witcher 3.
We've known since the 2010s that brown equals realism.
Add a tiny splash of yellow tint then we get Mexico
Yes, in polluted cities.
Piss*
brown
This trend is quite an explosion.
The brown is bad, but to be fair to the right side, it's the left one that has bad reflections and is blurry - it was released when bloom effects were new and it used them way too much.
The ghosting of the sword, the overly wavy reflections in water, the sun burning your retinas. 15 frames of perfection every second!
You can actually get bonus ghosting if you switch to FSR Performance with frame gen!
Honestly they just need to put on a blueish green bloom filter and it's back to being faithful
This sums up my opinion of the new Assassins Creed. It's a beautiful world but half the time I can't actually see anything because I'm either blinded by sunlight or shaded by darkness.
good, always hated that goofy ass bright ass color palette of oblivion
You guys know these are still officially not confirmed leaked pics?
Even if it really comes out and the screenshots are real are you really so bored that you just decided to hate something based on this?
The over saturated, bright environments are a key factor to the vibe of Oblivion. Them somehow regressing to Gears of War brown is a terrible sign. Even if its just in those few regions.
I know this, played Oblivion since day 1 and would also like a faithful remaster/remake.
I just don't undurstand why do this hate-circlejerk based on leaked unofficial info.
Fallen from grace, because I've been away too long
I was so excited. Until I saw it's going to be UE5. Ah well, Skyblivion it is for me then.
Apparently UE5 only for rendering, the game logic still on the old gamebryo engine.
Because if done well, UE5 is fairly pretty and if it’s used just for graphics, maybe it won’t perform as badly either. The mixture of two engines tells me at the very least that the devs spent some amount of thought and time on the engine(s).
But yea, when it comes out and I find out it runs like crap on my 5700xt, I’ll just wait until Skyblivion is out. Not gonna be too long anyways.
That's disappointing. So it's going to have all the logic bugs of gamebryo plus that same annoying graphical feel of UE5
Depends on how much work they put into the graphics. Sure, if they keep UE at default settings, it’ll look like any run of the mill UE5 game. But if they cared enough to combine two engines, maybe they also cared enough to actually make UE5 look and feel more unique and more Elderscrolls-y..
Also, keeping gamebryo for logic might be a good thing to make the game feel more like the original.
It's Bethesda. They probably did it in a couple months trying to recoup money after the Starfield desaster.