I really don't understand why the game looks like this.

[Arthur Morrigan]

I don't think this is quite a Demon's Souls remake situation, primarily because the original Oblivion was always hideous anyway. This certainly doesn't seem to respect original's art direction, though. It would be excusable if it were trying to replicate what Cyrodiil was originally meant to look like - a Roman Mediterranean jungle. It's not doing that either, though.

Everything just looks brown. And dead.

[Arthur Morrigan]

It's so cool how no one can actually talk about the actual game, thanks to the relentless spam. Thank you steam.

[Lord Griswold]

Sounds like rage bait to me. You don't even own the game. It looks pretty colorful outside to me, and I literally played the original Oblivion last week in preparation for the remaster so that I could more easily notice what's changed between the remaster and the original

[Arthur Morrigan]

Originally posted by Lord Griswold:

You don't even own the game.

I don't need to own the game. I have eyes and can easily directly compare areas from both games.

[(J)]

Uh huh.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469414378

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[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by Chicken Jockey:

It's so cool how no one can actually talk about the actual game, thanks to the relentless spam. Thank you steam.

Let us chickens unite and talk about the game!

[Wild]

It's exactly like a demon's souls remake. I think the reason is colorful games are criticized and probably doesn't sell as well, besides the graphical filters seems to be similar to other games made in UE5, it's more the rule than the exception, some of them can look quite bright and still look modern like satisfactory, so it's not like the devs don't have a choice but they seem to default to this style.

[Arthur Morrigan]

Originally posted by (J):

Uh huh.

All but one of these screenshots is either indoors, in a city, in Hell World, or of a dead landscape.

The one screenshot showing any greenery does not look anywhere near as lush as the original game.

[Arthur Morrigan]

Originally posted by Wild:

I think the reason is colorful games are criticized and probably doesn't sell as well

There's no actual evidence of this.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Chicken Jockey:

Originally posted by (J):

Uh huh.

All but one of these screenshots is either indoors, in a city, in Hell World, or of a dead landscape.

The one screenshot showing any greenery does not look anywhere near as lush as the original game.

Wtf? Lush as the original game? Did you PLAY the original game?

[Arthur Morrigan]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Wtf? Lush as the original game? Did you PLAY the original game?

Yes. Don't misunderstand me as saying the original game was lush.

[Wild]

Originally posted by Chicken Jockey:

Originally posted by Wild:

I think the reason is colorful games are criticized and probably doesn't sell as well

There's no actual evidence of this.

My personal observation from reading online comments and videos since 2005, it's why I used the word "think" and "probably".

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Chicken Jockey:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Wtf? Lush as the original game? Did you PLAY the original game?

Yes. Don't misunderstand me as saying the original game was lush.

Thing is, people keep saying "Color this, color that." Oblivion had 1 color range, that's it, OBlivion remaster has lumen day/night cycle global illumination, the color range changes depending on the lighting provided. Tombs look 10x better, the oblivion gates look awesome and when the light is overcasting on a specific area, it also looks awesome. However, you're still putting a new can of paint over something very, very old, so you can't expect miracles. They worked two engines together with some sort of magic and it worked, be thankful it works lol.

[Schlumpsha]

Originally posted by Chicken Jockey:

It would be excusable if it were trying to replicate what Cyrodiil was originally meant to look like - a Roman Mediterranean jungle. It's not doing that either, though.

Gosh, do I miss the old lore from Morrowind times. The Oblivion retcon about the Emperor wishing a tropical to subtropical Cyrodiil into a mundane medieval setting never sat well with me.

I take Project Cyrodiil's[www.nexusmods.com] vision over Bethesda's.

[AmaiAmai]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by Chicken Jockey:

Yes. Don't misunderstand me as saying the original game was lush.

Thing is, people keep saying "Color this, color that." Oblivion had 1 color range, that's it, OBlivion remaster has lumen day/night cycle global illumination, the color range changes depending on the lighting provided. Tombs look 10x better, the oblivion gates look awesome and when the light is overcasting on a specific area, it also looks awesome. However, you're still putting a new can of paint over something very, very old, so you can't expect miracles. They worked two engines together with some sort of magic and it worked, be thankful it works lol.

It has all of that and looks less graphically impressive, disjointed, and in some cases downright bad.

The game looks like planes moving over each other because of these so called "great graphics" -- I'm unfortunately not kidding about that.

It looks like your character is floating on a flat surface very often -- and people are praising the graphics because of resolution and generic UE lighting effects?

But of course, the modern gamer likes to fawn over nonsense like ray tracing and gets excited when their overpriced GPU struggles to play a game, while reading that others cannot.

That's more important than quality. That's more important than stability. Being able to justify spending so much money on a piece of plastic and metal that still fails to give an acceptable experience, so they flock and pretend that modern graphics are "better" no matter how bad or generic they may be.

But let's not talk too much, I can feel a hammer over my head.

[Arthur Morrigan]

I'm not saying it looks worse than the original. I just don't understand the choice to make everything so desaturated and brown. Most of the original game looked like it took place during spring, now a lot of it looks like autumn.