For those who may be interested.
Oh and horse armor is locked behind the deluxe edition…
I’m surprised they’re remastering this one when Morrowind seems to be remember more fondly. I was around when Oblivion came out the first time and it was good but not great, Skyrim seemed like an upgraded version of the same thing.
I think it’s because of this TC mod that these volunteers have been working on for 10(?) years. It’s due for a 2025 release
Because when you’re trying to maximize money, you work your way to the good stuff - save the best for last.
I hope this means my Skyrim modlist is finally safe and they’ve moved on to milk a new cash cow
$50+!? Isn’t this like a 20 year old game?
And it doesn’t even include the DLC of the original game like skyrim se did, you have to buy the deluxe edition (an extra £10/$10)
The original expansions are included.
Experience everything Oblivion has to offer with previously released story expansions Shivering Isles, Knights of the Nine, and additional downloadable content included in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.
The deluxe edition includes some new stuff and cosmetics, as well as non-game extras.
• New quests for unique digital Akatosh and Mehrunes Dagon Armors, Weapons, and Horse Armor Sets
• Digital Artbook and Soundtrack App
Edit: The MS store makes it even more explicit regarding the “additional downloadable content” included in the standard edition:
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Standard Edition includes:
- Digital base game
- Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine story expansions
- Additional downloadable content: Fighter’s Stronghold expansion, Spell Tome Treasures, Vile Lair, Mehrune’s Razor, The Thieves Den, Wizard’s Tower, Orrery, and Horse Pack Armor
Cool! I was just looking at the poster they made and it looks like the DLCs are part of the deluxe set but it is designed badly or I misread it
It’s like an classic car. After 20 or 30 years it starts to go up in value again.
But classic cars are finite. This is infinite.
I mean … not really, they all but rebuilt it. New assets on a new engine.
Yes, assets and fancy graphics but the gameplay and story are still the same?
Story is relatively cheap to develop. A lion share of the cost of making a game is the coding (which with this being moved to another engine, there almost certainly was a lot of that) and art (which it seems they redid like all of that and there’s a good chance a lot of the animations had to be tweaked).
Basically the only thing wouldn’t have to pay for was the story writers and some level designers (people still had to touch up the maps even if there was some automated conversion that pulled most of the map into Unreal Engine 5).
https://youtu.be/1jZXzv1-CmA – like this isn’t just a texture upscale and some minor tweaks to the animations, it’s a large scale remaster.
As a consumer, the costs of development are irrelevant to me.
And that’s why you don’t understand why it costs 50$
As I just said in the comment you just replied to, I don’t care why it costs $50. I’m not paying $50 for the same game, no matter how pretty it is.
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54,99€
Yea… I’m gonna wait for that discount lol
don’t pay for this.
Creating new horse armor to lock behind the deluxe edition is possibly the greatest piece of video game irony ever
Oh my god your right
Also knights of the nine and shivering isles aren’t included
All original DLC is included in the base release.
Yeah I see that now I originally misread
My understanding is that they are included? Unless I read it wrong
Edit: oh my god you’re right
Maybe I read it wrong, but this is what I saw from the steam page so I’m assuming that’s what you get from the upgrade
In my defense I haven’t had coffee yet
Edit I think I read it wrong because for shivering isles it says included and on the right column it says deluxe content
The text blurb just below seems to imply that the expansions are only included in the deluxe edition. The fact that it’s so hard to tell isn’t very promising lol
Yeah idk if you saw my edit but I think I misread the image the first time around
Yeah, pretty pathetic in my opinion.
I’m currently listening to Sir Patrick Stewart’s memoir audiobook, and totally forgot that he was the voice actor for Uriel Septim! Quite drastic change in his voice these past twenty years unfortunately.
The game looks gorgeous, but I’m going to wait until Skyblivion is released, just to make sure Bethesda doesn’t pull some bs and block the creators from releasing their passion project.
They gave each of the creators of Skyblivion a free key for the deluxe version. Last I heard they were being friendly
That’s great to hear!! Glad they did that.
All of the old DLC is available in the base game. The deluxe edition adds new horse armor (and a few new weapons and armor sets). But to be clear, the old horse armor is 100% available in the base game.
Source: I’m fuggin playin it right now.
Crazy marketing and release strategy for this one, making it just vague enough to inspire drama between those-who-believe and those-who-didn’t; from what I can tell, it has generated A LOT of interest, and the Steam numbers are super high right now. We might see more of these slow-leak-surprise-drop releases going forward, based on the success of this.
Brilliant marketing trick: Keep people waiting for the next game in the huge blockbuster series for 14 years and they’ll be eager for whatever they get
The AI-generated speech animations are strangely exaggerated like it’s some kind of lip reading training program. There’s no hair physics. You don’t get a shadow in first-person mode. The persuasion minigame UI looks worse than it used to. Sometimes the NPCs look off to the side while they’re talking to you as if the camera’s in the wrong place. Considering that the main point is to make the old game look nicer, they seem to have neglected a lot of little details.
I’m pretty sure the main point was getting another million or ten sales for relatively little development cost.
That was my reaction watching it on Twitch. Playing it in person is way more fun, the nostalgia got me. Still, Skyblivion will probably be better-looking as well as having better mod support.
Massive cash grab
Definitely never spending a penny for this.
Eribees and Mortalbeef will be streaming it on Twitch as soon as they can download it, along with many others. Might be interesting.
Taking bets! Now that it’s on unreal engine, is it gonna support mods?
I’m calling that it won’t have mods and this is them shutting down future Skyblivion and Fallout UK projects without pissing off the fans.
Slowly boil the fanbase frogs and they won’t notice that the creation club is the only option left. Be sure to buy their micropayment currency! 🤮
No official mod support, unofficial mods have already started rolling in though.
Alright, for those who got it. How fucked up can you make your character look?
