Recent reviews by cryptoquick

Works great on Linux. Does it crash? Sometimes. But it's probably not the fault of the remaster or the fact that it's running behind Proton... Oblivion is just that crashy. Fortunately autosave and quicksave prevent that from being a big issue.

As for the game itself... It's just a pretty Oblivion, the game we all know and love.

Such a classic series. The remaster is great quality. Will probably be one of the last few remastered games without being tainted by AI slop.

This game is very, very, very, INCREDIBLY buggy on Linux. In ways Baldur's Gate 3 never was. Cyberpunk 2077 was even a better experience than this. Starfield crashes constantly, and in a very annoying way; it just logs me out while I'm in the middle of playing the game. And then I have to manually stop the processes, since the sound is still playing. And then it just won't start again without restarting the OS. This is after doing a full system update (I run Garuda, an Arch gaming distro) and double-checked I'm running proton-ge from the Chaotic AUR. This is a new low for Bethesda, a total mess, they should have held off. Cannot recommend. Everything else I want to play works fine in Linux. It's sad, since I'd grown accustomed to playing AAA titles day one on Linux with no issue, like Stray. Things were going so well. And then this nonsense. Bethesda can't be trusted to put out quality products anymore. This is a huge reputation-damager.

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Update, February, 2024
It's been 5 months since the initial launch and the game is much less buggy now. As for if it's any good... Yeah, it's alright. "Recommend" is a pretty strong term, the story, setting, and characters are all pretty meh so far, but it's mostly playable and doesn't crash anymore, so that's good. I've gotten stuck in-game a couple of times, though.

This is an incredibly cool game. I'm new to TTRPGs and the DND universe, and I suppose this is a proper introduction. The party relationship building and plot development is probably one of my favorite parts of the game, and is a literally night-and-day difference between Diablo IV, which I was just playing prior to this. I was worried I wouldn't like combat, but I actually got pretty good at it. The jumping mechanic is pretty polished and powerful. The interface is pretty intuitive even though some things I discovered a lot later than I probably should have. 30 hours in and I'm finally at Act 2, and I'm already looking forward to playing this game a second time. You can tell the developers put a lot of time and care into this game, it really shows. I've also already bought this game for several of my friends for full price, and I'm glad to, in order to support and reward developers who actually care about their players enough to build the best game they could possibly make. I don't think many other studios can say the same.