If it has a dementia-addled Jon Voight trying to shoot a rude monkey robot with a shotgun I’ll buy a ticket
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battle mania daiginjo is one of the true forum poster classics…
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Life Was A Bore PUMPED Remix '25 Edition
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20 cameras running at random angles on one car driving down a street, hands the pile of footage to the editors like “here, make movie please”
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Watch it be all 80s grid “OutRun” synthwave aesthetic and completely miss the aesthetic of the original game.
What it should look like:
What it will probably look like:
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i just want 2.5 hours of a red car turning back and forth over beautiful vistas while a girl in the passenger seat yells that she wants to go all the way. is that so much to ask
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This looped 16 times.
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Michael Bay doesn’t do movies with production design or art direction
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Not sure of the consensus here but I found Oblivion quite boring and, like every other in-house Bethesda game I’ve played, a major bug prevented me from actually finishing it
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Little late on this but music is totally ripping off Hell Divers 2
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wonder how those guys that have spent half of their lives making that obvilion in skyrim mod are feeling these days
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fuck consensus, but here’s my take on oblivion
cons:
- writing is a massive step down from morrowind
- world design is a massive step down from morrowind
- visuals are in one of the most horrific uncanny valleys ever discovered, just garishness incarnate
- enemy scaling ruins the game in numerous ways
- dungeons and caves are shit and repetitive
- oblivion realm is shit and repetitive
pros:
- the music is good, BUT it’s by noted sex pest jeremy soule, so even that is tainted
it’s actually worse than skyrim. skyrim is also not good but it at least sorta works as a game. oblivion is fundamentally busted
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Oblivion is definitely my generation’s Elder Scrolls. I’ve played through 3 and Skyrim as well. Oblivion isn’t great in the way 3 is but I think it has way better quests and weird jank than Skyrim that makes it more fun to hang out in. I like the garish, glowing, uncanny atmosphere of Oblivion’s painterly art style way more than Skyrim, which I just find very very generic and uninteresting.
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kudos to bethesda for supporting the microsoft boycott by releasing a game that somehow has fewer aesthetic qualities than vanilla oblivion
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To be fair Skyrim remakes have made them kajillions of dollars and trying to make an actually new game was a black hole of embarrassment, if I ran Bethesda I’d only ever remake games again too
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I remember every time I played Oblivion, after exiting the opening dungeon I’d just walk in the opposite direction of the objective and just look at stuff. I still have no idea what the story is supposed to be and didn’t know Oblivion was a thing in the game and not just a name of the game. In a sense it’s cool that that’s a thing you can do. It’s just I don’t recall ever finding anything interesting to look at.
I never played Skyrim because the guy on the cover looked dumb and your super power being able to scream “fus ro dah” really loud always struck me as supremely dumb. But screaming really loud seemed to really resonate with the industry.
Is Skyrim actually that different from Oblivion? I just realized I think I forgot they were different games and whenever I hear people talk about Skyrim I assumed they were talking about Oblivion.
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the only charm of oblivion was how ugly it looked. its aesthetic matched its jank. even with its “stunning” environments at the time everybody looked terrible.
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as much as i think oblivion, fallout 3, and skyrim are mid in a lot of ways, and outright terrible in others, i still think the general bethesda creation engine mold they’ve been using since then has something especially compulsive about it. personally, i love the ambition and all the details and the hand-placed junk all over the world, and the little stories. i get annoyed all the time at missed opportunities, but i also can’t deny there’s still something innately appealing about these things to me.
something about the basic fantasy promised by these games along with their generally sorta-friendly-but-janky vibe makes them singular. the imitators generally don’t do it, they don’t compel the same way. i’m not actually sure the compulsion is even a good thing (see some of our discussions on flow and “loops” recently), but it’s definitely A thing.
i guess that’s what leaves me in the position of having played bethesda games i ostensibly think are bad for (collectively) several hundred hours. and i still like skyrim alright lately (i never want to see fallout 3 again in my life, fuck that game lol)
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oblivion is a good litmus test for mental health. it goes like this
are you playing oblivion? you are depressed.
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