Hopefully people can stop with the “I bet Bethesda will take down skyblivion!1!!” comments now. It’s very clear there’s good will between modders and the devs.
God so many people on here act like Todd Howard personally killed their child. It’s fucking insufferable. You guys don’t crucify other companies like this when it comes to mods. This only happens with Bethesda who is realistically one of the only companies that has supported mods in the mainstream. Games can also be good without mods. Get over yourselves and just enjoy a fucking game.
I think it’s because Bethesda has a long history of attacking their modding community
So it’s a remaster, not a remake?
Yeah it’s called “The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered” after all.
I’m not that deep into gaming news, I’ve heard rumors of a remake, so I’m surprised.
For all intents and purposes it seems to be a remake. It’s just stupidly named, so it makes the confusing stuff even more confusing.
EDIT: Apparently it’s far closer to a remake than a remaster after all.
It’s still creation engine with UE5 stapled on top, the only gameplay change was making the leveling system more like skyrim.
Wow that was one of my favorite parts about Oblivion. You could break it so easily
I had a wizard who was maxed out in basically ever skill except the magic skills so when I finally did the mages guild quest line I was face tanking everything
I was so over powered I started breaking the enchantment system bc I had done every important quest and could afford anything (100% chameleon was hilarious)
And let’s not forget that jumping off mountains to level up is clearly the best mechanic of all time
Maybe I’ll skip this one if they removed the good jank
That’s literally still possible. The change is that your attribute points are distributed by you after you sleep, rather than being based on what skills you leveled up in that level. If anything this allows you to be more overpowered, I’m level 5 and have 75 strength and endurance. That’s unthinkable without minmaxing.
And sold
I’ve power-levelled up to 25 by now, I’ve maxed out Intelligence and Willpower, and almost maxed out Strength. I have 60s in both Speed and Luck, and then I’m gonna see if I can get the rest of the attributes maxed out.
I love that levelling minor skills contributes to your overall level xp, so there isn’t as hard a level cap as there used to be.
Ah hell yeah. That’s really the only change I wanted as a kid tbh
All of the quests, game logic, AI (including brain dead NOC interactions), voice acting, etc, are exactly the same as in the original and are actually driven by original GameBryo engine. They only rerecorded some lines to add unique voices to NPCs of different races and made some minor gameplay tweaks. The only major changes are graphical - UE5 is used for rendering, all meshes, textures, landscapes and animations are redone. It’s more than a typical remaster like Last of Us, but not exactly a full remake.
I hope they kept all the realy bad voice lines from the original. It was part of the charm
They specifically mention this in the announcement stream and say that stuff is important for the same reason you do, so it’s all still in there, though they say they’ve also recorded new lines too. Will be interesting to hear!
No mods on the remaster? Get fucked Bethesda.
It still uses GameBryo for game logic so that is likely moddable. Graphical mods would probably be more complicated.
I’m suspicious, but overall more relaxed. Only wish other companies would be a gracious
Anyone play Fallout London? I couldn’t rollback the pointless update that cockblocked the mod. This time, they just make an attempt to squeeze out money before skyblivion offers the option.
Unless Bethesda actually fully embraces and supports the modding community, I’ll never buy another one of their games.
their eula for oblivion remastered forbids modding
Does it really? That’s batshit.
https://store.steampowered.com/eula/2623190_eula_0
Section 3D
- LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS.
Certain features of the Game are a Service offered by ZeniMax and may only be downloaded online. In such cases, an Internet connection (which is not supplied by ZeniMax) is required to access these features. You are responsible for all costs and expenses associated with acquiring any hardware, software (e.g., Internet browsers), or other products or services required to play the Game.
In addition to the restrictions, conditions, and limitations set forth in the ZeniMax Terms of Service and the ZeniMax Code of Conduct, the license granted to you in this EULA is subject to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations set forth in Section 1 and this Section 3 of this EULA (collectively, the “License Limitations”). Any use of the Game in violation of the License Limitations will be regarded as an infringement of ZeniMax’s copyrights in and to the Game and will be a breach of this Agreement. You agree that you will not and will not assist any other person, under any circumstances, to:
D. use cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, mods, or any other unauthorized third-party software designed to modify the Game or adversely impact any other persons playing of the Game or their experience of playing the Game
- LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS.
Certain features of the Game are a Service offered by ZeniMax and may only be downloaded online. In such cases, an Internet connection (which is not supplied by ZeniMax) is required to access these features. You are responsible for all costs and expenses associated with acquiring any hardware, software (e.g., Internet browsers), or other products or services required to play the Game.
In addition to the restrictions, conditions, and limitations set forth in the ZeniMax Terms of Service and the ZeniMax Code of Conduct, the license granted to you in this EULA is subject to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations set forth in Section 1 and this Section 3 of this EULA (collectively, the “License Limitations”). Any use of the Game in violation of the License Limitations will be regarded as an infringement of ZeniMax’s copyrights in and to the Game and will be a breach of this Agreement. You agree that you will not and will not assist any other person, under any circumstances, to:
and yet…
https://store.steampowered.com/eula/2623190_eula_0
Section 3D
- LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS.
Certain features of the Game are a Service offered by ZeniMax and may only be downloaded online. In such cases, an Internet connection (which is not supplied by ZeniMax) is required to access these features. You are responsible for all costs and expenses associated with acquiring any hardware, software (e.g., Internet browsers), or other products or services required to play the Game.
In addition to the restrictions, conditions, and limitations set forth in the ZeniMax Terms of Service and the ZeniMax Code of Conduct, the license granted to you in this EULA is subject to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations set forth in Section 1 and this Section 3 of this EULA (collectively, the “License Limitations”). Any use of the Game in violation of the License Limitations will be regarded as an infringement of ZeniMax’s copyrights in and to the Game and will be a breach of this Agreement. You agree that you will not and will not assist any other person, under any circumstances, to:
D. use cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, mods, or any other unauthorized third-party software designed to modify the Game or adversely impact any other persons playing of the Game or their experience of playing the Game
That means literally nothing to modders, and about 99% of gamers, at all.
I’m even surprised people had enough energy/time/whatever to even scour the EULA at the very beginning.
Some of us care about who we give our money to
I understand that, and I care who I give my money to as well.
But almost every game nowadays has that clause, and almost every game regardless of single player or not, has mods for it.
This is also a Bethesda game. People are going to mod it out the ass regardless of what a few words in a text box say. The fact you think it means anything like we’ll never get official mod support is pretty cooked tbh.
Yes we should give Microsoft and Bethesda the benefit of the doubt. They’ve never done anything shady like try to sell mods before.
- LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS.
Certain features of the Game are a Service offered by ZeniMax and may only be downloaded online. In such cases, an Internet connection (which is not supplied by ZeniMax) is required to access these features. You are responsible for all costs and expenses associated with acquiring any hardware, software (e.g., Internet browsers), or other products or services required to play the Game.
In addition to the restrictions, conditions, and limitations set forth in the ZeniMax Terms of Service and the ZeniMax Code of Conduct, the license granted to you in this EULA is subject to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations set forth in Section 1 and this Section 3 of this EULA (collectively, the “License Limitations”). Any use of the Game in violation of the License Limitations will be regarded as an infringement of ZeniMax’s copyrights in and to the Game and will be a breach of this Agreement. You agree that you will not and will not assist any other person, under any circumstances, to:
Source? Iirc it just said that modding wasn’t supported, not forbidden
https://store.steampowered.com/eula/2623190_eula_0
Section 3D
- LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS.
Certain features of the Game are a Service offered by ZeniMax and may only be downloaded online. In such cases, an Internet connection (which is not supplied by ZeniMax) is required to access these features. You are responsible for all costs and expenses associated with acquiring any hardware, software (e.g., Internet browsers), or other products or services required to play the Game.
In addition to the restrictions, conditions, and limitations set forth in the ZeniMax Terms of Service and the ZeniMax Code of Conduct, the license granted to you in this EULA is subject to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations set forth in Section 1 and this Section 3 of this EULA (collectively, the “License Limitations”). Any use of the Game in violation of the License Limitations will be regarded as an infringement of ZeniMax’s copyrights in and to the Game and will be a breach of this Agreement. You agree that you will not and will not assist any other person, under any circumstances, to:
D. use cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, mods, or any other unauthorized third-party software designed to modify the Game or adversely impact any other persons playing of the Game or their experience of playing the Game
- LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS.
Certain features of the Game are a Service offered by ZeniMax and may only be downloaded online. In such cases, an Internet connection (which is not supplied by ZeniMax) is required to access these features. You are responsible for all costs and expenses associated with acquiring any hardware, software (e.g., Internet browsers), or other products or services required to play the Game.
In addition to the restrictions, conditions, and limitations set forth in the ZeniMax Terms of Service and the ZeniMax Code of Conduct, the license granted to you in this EULA is subject to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations set forth in Section 1 and this Section 3 of this EULA (collectively, the “License Limitations”). Any use of the Game in violation of the License Limitations will be regarded as an infringement of ZeniMax’s copyrights in and to the Game and will be a breach of this Agreement. You agree that you will not and will not assist any other person, under any circumstances, to:
Always be suspicious of corporations.
What is the point of this cynical comment in this context. Everyone is winning here.
“We beat you to it bitches. And while you’ve spent 9 years on your labor of love and and made nothing from it, we will make tens of millions. Here’s a couple copies of our shittily optimized remaster just to rub it in :)”
Sincerely Todd
I don’t get why some people think Skyblivion is some threat to Bethesda Elder Scrolls games at all. Mods are always going to be more niche than fully marketed and funded maintained commercial storefront releases.
Skyblivion is going to be limited to what the latest Skyrim release engine supports while this remaster has Unreal Engine 5 stapled on top as the graphics renderer. They added new voice acting. People are developing mod toolchains for the remaster. It’s more substantial than the vast majority of remasters we’ve seen
I don’t think many people believe that Bethesda views skyblivion as something that will compete for market share. I think it’s more of a surprise to people that in an age where so many major companies are quick to go after modders, Bethesda has not only allowed skyblivion to exist but has also officially acknowledged their work in a positive light.
sounds PR stunt-y
It’s not a stunt if it’s a good thing
OK but still good
