Oblivion: "nothing personnel, kid"

[stratzilla]

It's too bad that a genuinely good game is immediately overshadowed by a behemoth shadow drop.

[Agent]

Oblivion 'aint exactly an amazing drop, just a 2006 game remastered into the stuttery, ghosting, blurry mess being sold as a 'new' full priced game. Traversal stutter, bad performance, modding not allowed, anti-cheat in a single player game, forced data collection, original art style of the game replaced with realism and raytracing, flickering grass shadows, crashes I mean I can go on.

A lot of people are starstruck, mostly for nostalgia's sake but the game is a genuine mess in it's current state, essentially just a classic cash grab and an attempt to milk all the other elder scrolls games since Skyrim has dried out after the 15th re-release.

On the other hand, this game looks fine and runs good but probably just doesn't have enough advertising and not many know about it.

[HAZZARD]

Oh, be quiet. Oblivion releasing today isn't gonna stop anyone from buying this $13 game if they were waiting for it. Only broke ass homies would have to pick and choose between them, and honestly, with how bad the Oblivion remake is (I own it, it's really bad on a technical level and people are glazing it due to either nostalgia or personal clout, as there's lot's of these skyrim baby's saying ♥♥♥♥ now like "I always thought Oblivion was better than Skyrim" for gamer brownie points. There are actually people buying this instead, as others have stated on this board.

[peep]

Well this game got delayed like 3-4 times so kind of a bad decision to delay it so many times.

[darxide23]

Why would I want Oblivion? I only play good games.

[Stoibs]

We already played Oblivion 20 years ago, and even then it was worse than Morrowind and Daggerfall.
After the absolute slop Bethesda has been shoveling out in recent years (Especially that Starfield embarrassment) why on earth would I give them the time of day now with a remaster of all thing?

[Igor Tavern]

I've heard that Oblivion Remake "forces" ray tracing which can afect a lot of non-RTX/RX owners out there. Since there's no mod support, theres really low chances that modders finds a way to turn it off to help.
I still gotta finish the original. And I'm more interested in Post Trauma cause there's not enough classic-inspired survival horrors out there, only a lot of "jump scare simulators".
And, yeah, I don't own the game yet.

[Jase]

Nu-Oblivion's character design is so bad I'd rather look at AI-slop art, and I *despise* AI slop.

Post Trauma actually has some care put into it even if it's rough around the edges.

[Furyofflame]

I just hate Microsoft, first they closed the devs of The Evil Within, and now they're dropping Oblivion the same week as Post Trauma and Expedition 33. Straight up evil corp vibes, like they're trying to kill the whole industry

[mdesaleah]

This is a bait post.

But the audiences are completely different. Most people going for Oblivion, dont even know this game exists and wouldnt care about it if they did.

[stratzilla]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

This is a bait post.

To be clear, I am hyped as heck to grab Post Trauma today and play tonight, am just waiting on GMG support in resolving an account issue. I made no judgment on game quality other than praising Post Trauma. It's not a bait thread, I'm lamenting the fact it's going to be steamrolled because of happenstance outside its control.

But the audiences are completely different. Most people going for Oblivion, dont even know this game exists and wouldnt care about it if they did.

While true, consider how big TES is. It's not only siphoning sales from other WRPGs but likely other genres and possibly adjacent hobbies, too. Regardless of your opinion on TES, it has some of the largest brand equity in the industry.