• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    The original Oblivion was the first AAA game I played!

    IMO giving good games a second wave of hype like that isn’t a bad thing, as long as it’s not totally butchered.

    …But Skyrim (specifically the latest re-release) has aged better than Oblivion, I’d say. It’s kinda past a threshold where the visuals are okay enough, and gameplay ergonomic enough, where even the original isn’t so jarring compared to, say, KCD II and all its hyper fanciness. Like, Daggerfall -> Morrowind was a different world, Morrowind -> Oblivion was like you’re in reality, Oblivion -> Skyrim was dramatic, but… stuff after that feels more like icing?

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      10 days ago

      skyrim just needs a round of polish; bump up texture quality and polygon counts, and go over the actual content and make that less absurd and disconnected from the world.
      Like go through every part of the game while having witcher 3 on another monitor, so the lackluster parts of skyrim inflict physical pain.