With Oblivion remaster’s announcement tomorrow what are the chances they drop a TESVI trailer?

It’s just too perfect of a chance considering they can mirror the IV into VI. Also it sounds like something Todd would do.

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    16 hours ago

    Oblivion “Remastered” is just going to be Oblivion with AI-upscaled textures. Maybe new voice work since the original game’s is so bad. They will fix half of the bugs that are fixed in the most recent version of the community patch, and introduce a dozen more.

    TES 6 will never release. It isn’t even in development. That JPEG everyone knows about wasn’t actually revealed by Bethesda, it’s a deepfake that we have all developed a collective hallucination around.

  • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    17 hours ago

    Considering Starfield took like 8 years to come out as a completely half-assed shallow barely-even-there game and TES VI only starting full production after that launched in 2023, I’d be surprised to see anything regarding that game before like 2027. I’m gonna be there for it though, somehow these games just keep getting worse and worse. Like Starfield is such a giant step down from even like Fallout 4 I still kinda can’t believe it. It can’t get even worse, can it? At some point people are going to have to notice, and they’ll definitely notice the more they have to compare these games to.

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    19 hours ago

    I think most players really don’t want TES 6, I think they want to be 16-24 again. I don’t really think most players even know what about Skyrim or Oblivion made them happy or what they would want from that game, I think they just want the feeling of freedom that is gone from their lives. I don’t even mean this in a mean way, I just think the game is carried more by nostalgia rather than any particular mechanical, narrative, or creative traits.

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      18 hours ago

      I’m more excited about the release of a game that has a large and established modding community and what they’ll do with that new platform than the game itself.

      I genuinely did not enjoy Skyrim at release- modded Skyrim is one of my favorite games ever.

      The talent in the broader Bethesda modding community is beyond impressive and they’ve had years to refine tooling/interop that I think will result in another modded game that will, hopefully, reach the same heights to me as previous works.

      • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        16 hours ago

        I was really hoping that would happen with Cyberpunk 2077 and Starfield, but I think Skyrim was more an exception than a rule. I genuinely don’t think we’re likely to see that level of involvement from a modding community again.

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          Cyberpunk being a RedEngine (I actually like this engine) game limited the pool of potential modders somewhat because it’s a single-studio engine without a history of modding (there are a few large/complex Witcher 3 mods but as far as I’m aware it’s a few custom user-created quest chains that are supposedly really good- I’ll try to find the name later). CyberMP seems to be cracking this fairly wide open (it’s a GTAV RP-like modding framework that adds multiplayer) that’s pushing the current limits of RedEngine modding.

          I haven’t extensively looked into changes of GameBryo from Fallout 4 to Starfield but from what little I’ve read adapting tooling hasn’t been especially painful, it’s just that the base player interest from potential Starfield modders seemed really low due to disinterest with the game/its setting at launch.

          I think a fantasy setting with tooling and lessons learned that will hopefully continue to be built up from the Morrowind -> Oblivion -> Fallout 3 -> New Vegas -> Fallout 4 -> Starfield will have a better chance at catching that Skyrim modding spark again, but I will admit a lot of this is equal parts “here are some rational reasons why I think it will happen” and “shit it’d just be dope if it did and I really want it to.”

          • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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            my not paying attention vibes based read on it was that starfield isn’t an open-world and it kinda sucks so nobody can be bothered to make stuff for it.

            considering they nearly had voiced protagonists in starfield i’m not very confident in them being inclined to learn shit about shit.

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      17 hours ago

      I think theres some truth to the idea that, even if Elder Scrolls VI were a really good game, a larger than youd think portion of the fanbase still wouldnt be happy with it.

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    After Fallout 4 and Starfield, I am not looking forward to any of this shit

    After all, now you can run Oblivion on any potato computer and install some mods to make it less bad

    The remake exists solely to try and steal steam (and money) away from Skyblivion

  • NoYouLogOff [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    The whole situation with Oblivion Remastered feels so strange to me. If I had to guess, Bethsoft has very little marketing budget for this game, being a remaster, so they’re doing a marketing by leaks strategy. But even then the leaks are like “It could launch any day now!” And that seems like such a quick turnaround for an unannounced game, though it may have to go through platform related stuff before actually selling. Fire Emblem Engage had something similar happen, but it didn’t really sell well at all.

    Not really relevant to your post, but the Remaster has been on my mind.

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    15 hours ago

    Tbh every bethesda game i’ve played has felt exactly the same as the others just with different visuals and lore. I wouldn’t even mind them rehashing the same game over and over if they actually improved upon the formula

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    it’s gonna be the same dog shit as starfield with the same bugs and the same mechanics as the games bethesda has done for the last decade or so. i mean i get the hype bigger number is better but like aside from that what’s there to wait for? everyone can basically play TES VI by getting Skyrim or fallout or starfield and mod them so the title changes to elder scrolls 6 or whatever. i don’t get it.