Totally slipped my mind to post this yesterday. In any case, I hope everyone has been doing well. Ive been playing more New Vegas and Stronghold Crusader remastered. Hope everyone’s week has started off okay
Totally slipped my mind to post this yesterday. In any case, I hope everyone has been doing well. Ive been playing more New Vegas and Stronghold Crusader remastered. Hope everyone’s week has started off okay
Trudging my way through Oblivion Remaster because I got it for semi-cheap and it does a good job of keeping my office warm. I never played much of the OG version, so this is my first real playthrough. I’m doing pretty much every sidequest in the game before I deliver the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre and start spawning Oblivion Gates everywhere, because fuck it, why not.
I’m not sure what I have lined up next; probably a BG3 Dark Urge + Honor Mode achievement-hunting run. Maybe finishing Sea of Stars. I’m not really sure; too much general burnout to think that far ahead.
Having played the old one a lot, I felt like the remake was kind of a flimsy skin on top, I recommend the original over it if you want to really appreciate the atmosphere and art style
Coming from Skyrim as my first Elder Scrolls game (yeah, I know, fight me), I couldn’t get past the clunky UI and didn’t want to go down a modding rabbit hole just to get the 2006 game playable at a decent resolution. The remaster fixes enough of the quirks and adds some quality-of-life elements (read: fast travel) that I love solely on the basis that they piss off purists. Having real support for ultrawide monitors is also a huge plus for the remaster. (Lack of 21:9 support outside of some half-abandoned mods is still a nuisance with Skyrim, and even then, the engine is still locked to the video refresh rate.)
I just wish the remaster didn’t crash so damned much.
FWIW the original release of Oblivion also had fast travel, including markers for every major city immediately after leaving the tutorial.