this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
183 points (96.9% liked)

Games

36346 readers
684 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here and here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

I see the title - and first thing I think

"Oblivion, now with 16 times the upscalers" in Todd's voices

[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’ll wait for Skyblivion 🔥

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yea, fan projects (when there is actual work put into it) are often significantly better than AAA remakes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fallout London, though not 100% finished, was a blast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Thanks for the tip!

Edit: How close to finished is it? Their website lists version 1.01 as current.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anything to avoid discussing TES6.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What, the announcement trailer from 2018 isn't enough to hold you over until it launches in 2029?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I kinda wonder if they even have any good ideas left after Starfield was such a disappointment in the creativity department.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

It's still going to sell really well even if it's just pretty Skyrim.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't wait for them to remaster skyrim again before TES6

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

You joke, but I’d totally be down with an update that integrates better graphics technology and reduces modding issues. Ive played through it half a dozen times in VR and 2d and there’s still plenty of content I haven’t done. Only issue I have these days is the small pool of voice actors so every 5th person has the same voice.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago

Yeah its called skyblivion.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

oblivion is my favorite in the series, but goddammit bethesda stop making remakes. make a make.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean, Starfield should have been my dream game, but after that...

I dunno. All my enthusiasm for BGS has been sapped, and I adored Oblvion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the scope for starfield was just too much, it was doomed to fail from the beginning. i think they'll be fine going back to their TES roots.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

eh, i don't see any reason why they can't churn out another TES or FO like they have been for years. my problems with starfield were mostly unique to the galaxy map and space.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The remake is not developed by Bethesda Game Studios

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I bet the remake will be fine, it's just technical upgrades, no new writing or anything. Maybe not as "soulful" as Skyblivion, but fine.

What I am more worried about is "fun" writing and storytelling in new games.

EDIT: Wrong reply, but you get the idea @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Come on man, gotta get a Morrowind with modern QOL stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why take a third risk (Fallout 76 and Starfield) on the unknown when you can remake a good thing?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

FO76 and Starfield were much much more risky than TES6 or FO5 will be.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

i don’t believe you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Mod support? Between this and Skyblivion, the one with better mod support wins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I wonder, can they just cease&desist Skyblivion off the map?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You can send a cease and desist for any reason to anyone at anytime.

But they wouldn't be able to win in court, the eula of both games explicitly allow using their IP in mods

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

probably non-existent

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Aww man, are they going to take down Skyblivion right when its done?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably the only reason they did it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or, perhaps optimistically, it's to prepare themselves to transition off of their absurdly dated engine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Unless they switch to one of the current Gen engines available, they will keep using the one they have, they just updated it's now the creation engine 2... and that was for starfield and ES6. And it seemed like the same engine for starfield.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Bethesda has actually been consistently supportive of Skyblivion, Morroblivion, and Skywind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait a moment. Oblivion is turning 20 years old ??? 😥

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Oh man, I can't wait for them to reveal it, so I can finally know about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Are they still using their twenty year old engine?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Noooo, creation engine 2 is new, it definitely not a ball of bandaids wrapped around the netimmerse engine that was released in 1997.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Twenty eight year old engine?

Leonardo DiCaprio would be mortified.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The thing is, the age of the engine doesn't say anything. The Unreal Engine started its development before 1998. But you do have to put in work to upgrade an engine over time and Bethesda doesn't have Fortnite money for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

No, they have Skyrim money for that. Imagine making money off of a game for over a decade, while barely putting money towards rereleases/ports. Didn’t even need a team for patches or content updates.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Unreal Engine is 26 years old. id Tech is 30 years old. What's your point?

load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›