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.

[FedEx Noelle]

Origineel geplaatst door HotGirlPoopin:

Go throw popcorn at a movie screen you homeschooled broccoli headed shut-in

This might be the best insult I have ever heard.

[Arthur Morrigan]

Origineel geplaatst door Powercrank:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtEdlxa6f4

Do not post crowbcat here. Get out.

Origineel geplaatst door Dork_Stalker_310:

Cyrodiil wasn't originally supposed to be a Roman Jungle.

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/5gykwt/was_cyrodiil_a_jungle/
https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Cyrodiil

It’s difficult to find information on this, but from what I can gather, it was originally a jungle and then changed via Bethesda’s signature lazy writing.

Origineel geplaatst door Wirewing:

OG Oblivion was basically technicolor but a lot of that was just because it is washed out in comparison. If you got upgraded textures on OG OB you saw the same sort of thing, where everything got a little dirtier. The colors are still there, it's the lack of light interplay and texture that you are seeing in the OG, like any art. No detail? Cartoon.Bright. Cartoon Nertwork for ten years. Lots of detail? Dark. Gritty limited netflix series.

I can go outside in real life and everything is vibrant and colorful.

[Arthur Morrigan]

Origineel geplaatst door FedEx Noelle:

Origineel geplaatst door HotGirlPoopin:

Go throw popcorn at a movie screen you homeschooled broccoli headed shut-in

This might be the best insult I have ever heard.

Insults aren't allowed on the steam forums.

[Zunnoab #931]

I think they made a mistake with the comparison screenshots because it really makes it look like they added a terrible filter over it to emulate the "brown and grey means real" trend that infested other games of the era.

[EricHVela]

I think the game looks neat, but I already played this game a long time ago. So, I'm waiting.

[FedEx Noelle]

Origineel geplaatst door Chicken Jockey:

Origineel geplaatst door FedEx Noelle:

This might be the best insult I have ever heard.

Insults aren't allowed on the steam forums.

ok

[Dork_Stalker_310]

Origineel geplaatst door Chicken Jockey:

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/5gykwt/was_cyrodiil_a_jungle/
https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Cyrodiil

It’s difficult to find information on this, but from what I can gather, it was originally a jungle and then changed via Bethesda’s signature lazy writing.

Computer, show me how Cyrodiil looked in the first ever Elder Scrolls game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipubFJaJ9FI
Thank you very much.

It was not a jungle in Arena, it wasn't described as a jungle in Daggerfall either. The only game where it was mentioned to have vast rainforests was Morrowind. And honestly, even if they were going for Roman aesthetics, jungles wouldn't make sense, because Italy doesn't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ have jungles. If anything, the current version is closer to the climate that Romans would've inhabited.

[Witch ~]

it has that ugly filter that every other game has that I hate

[MISO4EVER]

Origineel geplaatst door Chicken Jockey:

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.

the jungle thing was reconnected so it did and didnt ever exist like that at the same time

[Zadrave]

Origineel geplaatst door Chicken Jockey:

Origineel geplaatst door Duffman3005:

I'm sure someone will make a reshade with brighter colors

That can only aid so much. Make nature more vibrant and then you end up throwing off the color grading of everything else. Usually it ends up giving everyone irradiated skin tones.

The trees also look like they’ve dropped most of their leaves.

I think it does quite well actually.
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/72

[(J)]

Now returning with more ONLY BROWNS lmao.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469822278

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469844828

[BeerdedPhantom]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469827242
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469826722
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469826472
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469826313
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469826943

Kind of weird that everyone complaining about how "brown" the game looks keeps posting screenshots of the parts of the game that were always yellow or brown and/or just before sunset.

Also, news flash: Dirt, mud, wood, and many types of stone and brick are typically some shade of brown. Posting images of those things and complaining about them being brown makes you look pretty dumb.

Second news flash: Sunlight, particularly when the sun hangs low in the sky, tends to cast a yellowish hue over everything, which can make certain colors more muted and brownish in appearance. If you've never witnessed this phenomenon, try going outside.

I think the main thing people are foggily remembering about the game (when they're even making a good-faith argument) isn't so much how "lush and green" it was but how overblown the bloom was and how over-saturated the colors looked a lot of the time. Sure there was some artistic direction to it, but I think the overall look of that game was just as much due to the technology available at the time. To me, this remaster looks every bit as "lush" and "alive" as the original, even moreso in a lot of cases, but in more realistic ways, and I LOVE that.

Edit: Bonus screenshot because I forgot to include it. Uh-oh, there's some brown in it!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469826603

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Origineel geplaatst door (J):

Now returning with more ONLY BROWNS lmao.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469822278

Brown flowers brown grass! And are those trees brown? Get wrecked!

[CHASE6]

The OG game colours looked so because of the insane bloom. Colours are definitely more muted, but you can always jack the colour saturation on your monitor.

[patrick68794]

it looks almost exactly like what everyone has been trying to mod the game to look like for the last 19 years.