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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

And if they changed it too much you'd complain and say "it's too different" you people just loooooove complaining

[–] mindbleach 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oblivion is aggressively verdant. The fuck happened?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They are pursuing "realism" but the pursuit of realism also means that you must sacrifice strong artistic style, because style is - by very definition - deviation from realism.

[–] mindbleach 7 points 6 days ago

It's April. Have you looked outside lately? Reality's pretty fucking green.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The piss filter is back baby!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] StarvingMartist 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Freakin' VGCATS, my man! What a blast from the past

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That comic is still alive!?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Not really. It's porn now.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (5 children)

We've known since the 2010s that brown equals realism.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Yes, in polluted cities.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Add a tiny splash of yellow tint then we get Mexico

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oblivion without its megasaturation and bloom is gonna look weird

[–] StarvingMartist 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That expansion was marvelous, nearly hit every note for me and I say that as someone with otherwise very mixed feelings for Witcher 3.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

Oblivion Remexicoed.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The ghosting of the sword, the overly wavy reflections in water, the sun burning your retinas. 15 frames of perfection every second!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You can actually get bonus ghosting if you switch to FSR Performance with frame gen!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Skyrim was already grey rpg. They can't do that again. So now it's brown rpg. Maybe next we'll get fuchsia.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 6 days ago

Brown RPG was the one before that!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Honestly they just need to put on a blueish green bloom filter and it's back to being faithful

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Don't worry everyone free labour will fix it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

If that is the only difference you can see you need some new glasses

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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...

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[–] StarvingMartist 1 points 1 week ago

Honestly all this game needs for a 10 out of 10 from me is to be able to take the annoying fan to Dive Rock, cast paralysis on him and give him a little nudge.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Skyblivion better

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was so excited. Until I saw it's going to be UE5. Ah well, Skyblivion it is for me then.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's disappointing. So it's going to have all the logic bugs of gamebryo plus that same annoying graphical feel of UE5

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