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.

[NightOwl7]

Ursprungligen skrivet av KingOfFriedChicken:

Ursprungligen skrivet av 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!

But you are the King of the dead chickens! You know, fried ones are all deadied. I suppose you can necromance them back to life.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Ursprungligen skrivet av NightOwl7:

Ursprungligen skrivet av KingOfFriedChicken:

Let us chickens unite and talk about the game!

But you are the King of the dead chickens! You know, fried ones are all deadied. I suppose you can necromance them back to life.

I do infact dabble in Necromancy!

[(J)]

This is now a screenshot thread.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469929169

[Witch ~]

Ursprungligen skrivet av (J):

This is now a screenshot thread.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469929169

good waterwalls are a lost art

[Mustachious]

Wasn't the original super desaturated and brown? I never played it but I can't remember seeing a colorful picture of Oblivion lol.

[lnomsim]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Chicken Jockey:

Ursprungligen skrivet av (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.

The original game was released at a time where it was customary to use heavy color filters and rely way too heavily on bloom, which made everything light tinted shine when exposed to light source.
It was the best thing to make games look "realistic" at the time.
Now we have HD textures, high poly models and ray tracing.

If you think high saturation and bloom is better, that's your right. But if you have an Nvidia card, you can use the geforce app to adjust those. (Alt+F3 by default, add the colour and the exposition filters)

But saying the original game looked better, I don't know... last time I played it was probably over 12 years ago, and I seem to remember the trees had sprite leaves. If there is a dinosaur I'm glad disappeared from video games, it's low detailed sprites foliage.

EDIT: https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/36
Classic Oblivion Color Grading mod on nexus (in case the link gets removed)

[BeerdedPhantom]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Mustachious:

Wasn't the original super desaturated and brown? I never played it but I can't remember seeing a colorful picture of Oblivion lol.

There have always been parts of the original game that were, but there was plenty of coverage showing how colorful and bloomy it was. You're probably thinking of another game, maybe Morrowind? Outside of the southern swampy region, most of that game was brown... and no one complained.

[Arthur Morrigan]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Dork_Stalker_310:

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.

The former two games were so graphically compromised that I wouldn't exactly take their depiction as gospel.

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.

Taking place in a purely fictional setting, whether Italy has jungles is neither here nor there. It's a fantasy setting.

Ursprungligen skrivet av BeerdedPhantom:

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.

Do you think this is due in part to the official screenshot comparisons released that are directly comparing the same areas, look notably more desaturated and brown?

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.

I haven't posted any screenshots outside of one from the original game. You did.

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.

Can you actually post any screenshots where everything doesn't look vaguely yellow/brown tinted/covered in smog/desaturated? The screenshots you posted all exhibit these problems; as well as the vegetation and trees looking oddly sparse.

I think the overall look of that game was just as much due to the technology available at the time.

Art direction as a result of technology available at the time doesn't invalidate said art direction though. The verdancy and vibrancy of the original game is something I closely associate with the visual identity of the original.

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

The color of this vegetation reminds me of Texas summers when it hasn't rained in over a month and everything is starting to die.

[patrick68794]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Chicken Jockey:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Dork_Stalker_310:

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.

The former two games were so graphically compromised that I wouldn't exactly take their depiction as gospel.

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.

Taking place in a purely fictional setting, whether Italy has jungles is neither here nor there. It's a fantasy setting.

Ursprungligen skrivet av BeerdedPhantom:

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.

Do you think this is due in part to the official screenshot comparisons released that are directly comparing the same areas, look notably more desaturated and brown?

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.

I haven't posted any screenshots outside of one from the original game. You did.

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.

Can you actually post any screenshots where everything doesn't look vaguely yellow/brown tinted/covered in smog/desaturated? The screenshots you posted all exhibit these problems; as well as the vegetation and trees looking oddly sparse.

I think the overall look of that game was just as much due to the technology available at the time.

Art direction as a result of technology available at the time doesn't invalidate said art direction though. The verdancy and vibrancy of the original game is something I closely associate with the visual identity of the original.

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

The color of this vegetation reminds me of Texas summers when it hasn't rained in over a month and everything is starting to die.

I think it's been too long since you were actually outside

[G O R K]

Ursprungligen skrivet av 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.

Bait poster, been on many forums before.

[xShapelessx]

Ursprungligen skrivet av 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.

Dude yawn. game looks amazing and I loved the original

[InternetPeopleSuck]

Ursprungligen skrivet av G O R K:

Ursprungligen skrivet av 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.

Bait poster, been on many forums before.

I wouldn't say he baits, he just complains and argues a lot. Enough to where he has 300 pages, which is as long as some books.

May OP one day find peace and stray away from hate and negativity. I hope you eventually become contempt with other people's opinions and lead a good, healthy life. One where you can be kind to those around you and yourself. I know you don't do all of that, but if you do some of it already. I am proud of you. Stay safe, much love, and farewell brother.

[Rommel]

Ursprungligen skrivet av 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.

It's already been taken care of thanks to the modder's. And it looks pretty good!

[Arthur Morrigan]

Ursprungligen skrivet av patrick68794:

I think it's been too long since you were actually outside

I spend several hours outside every day. Unless it's at the start of a drought, nature is typically a lot more vibrant than this, no matter what part of the country I've been to.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Zadrave:

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

Finally got a chance to look at this. This actually does a pretty good job at toning down the smog and the weird orange filter.

Ursprungligen skrivet av G O R K:

Bait poster, been on many forums before.

I have no idea how this is bait.

Ursprungligen skrivet av InternetPeopleSuck:

I wouldn't say he baits, he just complains and argues a lot. Enough to where he has 300 pages, which is as long as some books.

My account is well over a decade old.

May OP one day find peace and stray away from hate and negativity. I hope you eventually become contempt with other people's opinions and lead a good, healthy life. One where you can be kind to those around you and yourself. I know you don't do all of that, but if you do some of it already. I am proud of you. Stay safe, much love, and farewell brother.

This topic isn't even particularly negative. I don't think the game even looks bad.

What's with you people

[AmaiAmai]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Chicken Jockey:

May OP one day find peace and stray away from hate and negativity. I hope you eventually become contempt with other people's opinions and lead a good, healthy life. One where you can be kind to those around you and yourself. I know you don't do all of that, but if you do some of it already. I am proud of you. Stay safe, much love, and farewell brother.

This topic isn't even particularly negative. I don't think the game even looks bad.

What's with you people

The modern gamer cannot stand someone saying a game they like is bad or that they don't enjoy it.

See, most of these gamers aren't real gamers. They will defend modern games as long as those games stress their hardware and provide a reason for them to have spent 3K+ on a GPU.

To them, having an opinion contrary to their own is unacceptable -- because their opinion and a collective opinion justifies their expensive hardware purchases, and that is all that matters to them.

So then they go on to ramble about graphics and how cool ray tracing is, spending more time rambling about that instead of playing the games they oh-so-love, and once someone says 'well I don't quite think the graphics are right or as good as the older version / before / without' , then they start going insane because it means that you have now challenged their worldview, their idiotic purchase (they know it too), and ultimately their inner self.

Their inner self that can do nothing besides act on impulse and ride hype, only to be bitter and disappointed in the end. Like a date that tries to move too fast and gets ghosted, they become bitter and blame everything around them that reminds them of that bitterness.

You'd be surprised at how angry some people got when I said a game wasn't getting Nvidia's raytracing because it was proprietary and ran like garbage. The amount of people that thought they could tell me what to do on Reddit and even LinkedIn was astonishing.

And you know what? It only made me triple down just to see these kinds of people lose it. And you know what? They still consumed. That they did.

And some of them that still consumed are right in this very thread attacking you.

Couldn't be me.