• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    I don’t get the hate. If a game is fun to play, then I’d much rather have the option of playing it with better graphics. People ITT are acting like the existence of remasters prevents new games from being made, which I don’t believe is actually the case. The bulk of the work on Oblivion Remastered wasn’t even done by Bethesda developers, but by an external company that specialises in art production.

    I wish they’d do a proper remaster of Might & Magic VI in a modern game engine.

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    Oblivion Remastered is fucking awesome though. Blown away it manages to maintain what makes it fun, quirky, and bad and add new fun, quirky, and bad aspects to itself. It has genuinely been a blast to the past as someone who is now an adult that started playing Elder Scrolls as a teen.

    I would love to see Morrowind next. Hate all you want Bethesda absolutely picked the perfect Elder Scrolls game to remaster.

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    The remake trend has been going on for a minuet now and a lot of once great game companies are now just stagnate. Blizzard is another one that comes to mind. If you want new and better games I think you need to start supporting indie games and projects like Godot that make indie game development possible.

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    They don’t have the creativity or the engine capability to recreate morrowind unfortunately.

    I’d love to be proven wrong. But I won’t. I don’t want Morrowind in the Skyrim engine. I want to fly.

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      given how you can use jetpacks in starfield and fallout 4 i hope they bring back flying. probably wont be as insane as morrowind though

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      To be fair, the remaster used UE5. Bethesda is apparently not above some engine fuckery, and there’s also remade engine for morrowind in the form of OpenMW. Do I know what I’m talking about here? No, not at all, but if someone explains to me why I’m wrong I’ll be all the smarter for it, so fuck it. Posting this.

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        The remaster used unreal 5 for the graphics and creation for the game logic. It’s still the same shitty creation engine it always has been

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          Well, I guess that’s a step up, somewhat. Starfield ran like hot garbage on my steam deck, so I’m glad they did that.

          I can’t blame them for using the same framework. Porting a game between engines sucks 7 tons of ass, especially when it wouldn’t even more their biggest project happening at the moment, and the bigger project uses the old engine most likely.

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              Yeah, I tried to learn to use unreal once. It got me 500gb of tree models that made my computer hotter than hell.

              In actuality, though, it does run at a solid 30fps on deck. The textures are fucking disgusting sometimes, though.

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      Just play OpenMW. It may not be “pretty” like the new Oblivion (and holy fuck, I don’t care, I have the original, why bother with the new one?), but OpenMW lets you play Morrowind on anything, including phones. It’s a complete and faithful recreation of the entire game and all you need are the original game resource files.

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      It’s already being done. Look up TESR Skywind. Probably won’t be done any time soon, but it is coming along nicely.

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      Morrowind was the best of the series. I would love to see it remastered and the mods ported.

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            It was the lack of handholding. Between modular armor, spells and enchantments without guardrails, lack of leveled lists, diverse lore/region based loot, and other things like shopkeepers having a physical inventory you could steal from, you had a kind of freedom and respect for the player that the later games failed to replicate.

            There was still a lot of funkiness to it of course between graphics, bugs, severe lack og QoL features, and just being an older game. The chunk loading was miserable, especially on console where you’d walk a few minutes then load just as long. For the era, however, those drawbacks were forgiveable.

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    I’m putting my bets on Skyrim Remastered before we see Morrowind or TES6.

    Or maybe a skyrim-(or fallout-)based battle royale shooter, i could see that being very likely too.

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    Meanwhile, for those of us who want a new game to play…

    This is why AAA sucks. I haven’t been excited about a game release in fucking years. It’s just the same shit they already released over and over again. They “announced” ES VI over 6 years ago. Not a word since then. Which means at least another 2-3 years minimum.

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      It was made by a different studio though. This isn’t stopping a new ES game from being made. Instead it’s allowing them to onboard new devs better so they can help make the next game either better or faster.

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    Who asked for this? Can bethesda just make a new game ffs. They have been releasing skyrim for a decade. Dont get me started on Space skyrim, that gets good after the first 12 hours.

    Come up with a new engine, a new concept and just make a good game.

    (I am aware they have made more games, but putting dishonored aside, they arent good games. I mean they made redfall ffs)

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    I don’t understand why people are talking so much about a has-been studio’s remaster of its worst entry to the series. anything to avoid making tes6 I guess.

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        I meant keeping people busy with old games so they don’t ask about the next one but yeah of course it’s better than bgs handling anything.

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      I’d call you a killjoy, but I’m still having a lot of fun with it, so you obviously didn’t succeed. I guess you’re just boring then.

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        not as boring as tes4 but yeah never said I was exciting. weirdly defensive by the way, I don’t know what’s supposed to be “succeeding” here: you either agree and aren’t playing, or disagree and are playing.

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            yeah it’s called having an opinion. idk why gamers can’t handle it. death threats for 7/10 reviews and shit. you can just move on without getting personally offended.

            I understand making a case for something you enjoy for people who don’t, maybe give people a perspective they might have not considered. but notice how neither of you gave any reason why tes4 isn’t the worst in the series. because it is.

            it has Patrick Stewart though so that’s not a claim a lot of games can make.