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New games suck... or is it just me?
Carbuncle.Nynja
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-04-14 15:23:58
Ghibi style afania is looking at a bunch of tarus
Do the ghibi slug
By Viciouss 2025-04-14 15:24:19
Couldn't even tell you the last time I was in voicechat with anyone outside of my own discord group. Would guess...Black Ops 2? Over a decade ago. Not having proximity chat is a big whoop dee do. It's checking the important box, crossplay.
By Afania 2025-04-14 15:28:44
Ghibi style afania is looking at a bunch of tarus
Do the ghibi slug
When I look at tarus I also have evil smiles because sacrificing taru is funnnn and it gave me dopamine rush =>
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By Godfry 2025-04-14 16:00:13
The more important question is why are you going down with RA today when everything he has said about Microsoft and Sony has been wildly offbase and backed up with zero evidence.
I'm seeing this dimwit throwing billionz and hundredz of trillions gazzilions dollars here with no goddamn receipt, and he goes on posts this.
Viciouss, solve this captcha cause I am starting to think you are a low quality bot.
By Viciouss 2025-04-14 16:07:34
The more important question is why are you going down with RA today when everything he has said about Microsoft and Sony has been wildly offbase and backed up with zero evidence.
I'm seeing this dimwit throwing billionz and hundredz of trillions gazzilions dollars here with no goddamn receipt, and he goes on posts this.
Viciouss, solve this captcha cause I am starting to think you are a low quality bot.
Sucks to be you. I absolutely do not care what you think.
Carbuncle.Nynja
サーバ: Carbuncle
Game: FFXI
Posts: 4,877
By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-04-14 16:15:56
Thats a conspiracy theory because you reply to his posts quicker than moth finds lamp.
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Lakshmi.Sahzi
サーバ: Lakshmi
Game: FFXI
Posts: 244
By Lakshmi.Sahzi 2025-04-16 17:41:15
"Why modern movies suck"
https://youtu.be/F2ngB-zjVmM?si=TFDFwW53W-6PSg1t
Eloquent, tight, and funny and everything also relates to modern games.
Reject the facts all you like, but this guy has really dialed in all the issues. Anything to the contrary at this point is, frankly, full-on gaslighting.
By Kaffy 2025-04-22 11:22:26
oblivion looks pretty freakin good, and I'll give Bethesdasoft passes to remake ES games all day over Starfields
just in case you're trying to get it on PS5 may need to restart the system or restore licenses to get it to show up... downloading now.
By K123 2025-04-22 15:02:40
By Kaffy 2025-04-22 15:16:46
i'm quite sure that if everyone who posts here uploaded a selfie you would say the same thing.
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Carbuncle.Nynja
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-04-22 16:58:38
I never played Oblivion, so I'm interested.
Bahamut.Negan
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By Bahamut.Negan 2025-04-22 17:29:59
I never played Oblivion, so I'm interested. I'm jealous, Morrowind and Oblivion took my life from me. I gotta stay away.
Enjoy it!
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Asura.Vyre
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By Asura.Vyre 2025-04-22 17:39:58
I picked up the Oblivion Remaster.
So far...
It's ok. Character creator was a tad disappointing, because it's not as memey. They went with Type 1 and Type 2 instead of Male and Female, the only caveat there being that Type 1 is now Female.
Instead of color slider for hair, they let you just choose any color of the rainbow. What was once a joke you could do with a slider is now just a static option.
They don't let you mess with the skin colors and shades quite as much, but you can be purple if you want too. I'm a blue-green orc this time around, since I can't be black/red in the way I want too.
Level ups don't depend on what you skill up and aren't controlled by your major skills anymore, thus freeing you to pick major skills in what you'd like to be extra good at immediately. You seem to get a static 12 attribute points to spend, but still may only raise 3 stats per level up. While this is less abusable, it also means you can't get +15 attribute per level like in the original.
Game itself looks good, though sometimes the lighting makes it feel like it got brought out of a 2008ish action movie where colors can become incredibly muted/brownish in certain lighting.
They actually made orcs look worse somehow, by giving them the Skyrim Orc nose, but kind of keeping the rest the same. The Gray Prince's mouth is so wide he looks like he's talking while standing in a wind tunnel.
Health now regenerates automatically outside of combat, reducing the importance of potions and Restoration magic.
We can still fight in the water like in the original, thank god.
Objects that you can take or move now get a white outline. The cursor seems to have some issues with touch detection though, and I think they kinda bungled the active hit boxes for melee.
They also seem to have reused all of the old voice over, but I'm not too far in and so am not 100% sure on if that carries across everything.
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By Fenrir.Niflheim 2025-04-22 17:44:11
the true and correct ordering, female race is best race.
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By K123 2025-04-22 18:06:34
I'm on the fence about playing it since I never played the original. Every remake I've ever played deviated from the original so much or in ways which were significant and it ruined them.
Once people have played it, please let me know if it deviates enough to irk you.
By Kaffy 2025-04-22 18:07:12
this not memey enough for you?
By Kaffy 2025-04-22 18:07:57
its a remaster, the game has very minor changes beyond graphics and voice
if you only ever tried skyrim and enjoyed that, you will probably enjoy oblivion too, maybe more.
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Asura.Vyre
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By Asura.Vyre 2025-04-22 18:20:25
this not memey enough for you?

They still let you screw with the shape of your face, but that's never been the cut of my jib.
In original Oblivion the shade of your skin itself had a slider and a lot more that influenced it, and you could make Orcs look really similar to Dremoras that way.
I had Orc in the original who was mostly blacker than deepest night, save for his nose/eyes and a couple other spots where the dark red really showed up. He really looked like he could pass for a Dremora.
Now your skin options are kinda memey, cause you can make your skin purple/pink/blue/puke green etc. But once out of the character creator the game adjusts them slightly.
Like if you pick orange in CC, then actually start the character, take their shirt off and BAM they're like the color of milk chocolate.
By Kaffy 2025-04-22 18:25:09
they have tan lines too
Carbuncle.Nynja
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-04-22 20:51:59
They went with Type 1 and Type 2 instead of Male and Female
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By Seun 2025-04-23 02:24:25
They went with Type 1 and Type 2 instead of Male and Female
"Type 3 or GTFO" - Nynja 2025
By Drayco 2025-04-23 05:57:45
"Why modern movies suck"
https://youtu.be/F2ngB-zjVmM?si=TFDFwW53W-6PSg1t
Eloquent, tight, and funny and everything also relates to modern games.
Reject the facts all you like, but this guy has really dialed in all the issues. Anything to the contrary at this point is, frankly, full-on gaslighting. I like Critical Drinker, but he's also insanely pesimistic and acts as if movies should never have any suspension of dispbelief at times. I try not to watch his reviews of any movie I'm interested in until after I've watched it.
That said, he's spot on with most everything he says.
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By K123 2025-04-23 06:56:28
its a remaster, the game has very minor changes beyond graphics and voice
if you only ever tried skyrim and enjoyed that, you will probably enjoy oblivion too, maybe more. They always say this, then always change mechanisms which make it not the same game anymore! They already talked about skills being changed to skyrim way or whatever.
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By Godfry 2025-04-23 07:48:38
the true and correct ordering, female race is best race.
I hate these micro-aggressions. Why are you assuming type 1 is female? It's just a body type. Can't i be male, with a pickle sword on body type 1?
"It's MA'AM!!!"
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By Viciouss 2025-04-23 08:26:42
Probably won't pick Oblivion up any time soon, but it will last years with mods.
By RadialArcana 2025-04-23 08:41:15
You know why they put the body type stuff in there? to distract from this ***. Now people are complaining about that nothingburger, rather than the outrageous price for a remaster.
None of the writers, voice actors, designers, composes were paid again for this. Suits eating good today.
At least wait a few months, holy crap people have no impulse control at all.
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By Fenrir.Niflheim 2025-04-23 08:47:58
I was curious what the price was in real money, and was surprised to see it was $49.99 and $59.99 which means you are being shafted 33% cuz we dont like tea.
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By Godfry 2025-04-23 08:51:23
You know why they put the body type stuff in there? to distract from this ***. Now people are complaining about that nothingburger, rather than the outrageous price for a remaster.
None of the writers, voice actors, designers, composes were paid again for this. Suits eating good today.
At least wait a few months, holy crap people have no impulse control at all.

Im still the bad old consumer. People need to do a lot of convincing for me to buy their peoduct.
I give up at the slighest inconvenience!! Lol
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By RadialArcana 2025-04-23 08:56:36
Quote: I was curios what the price was in real money, and was surprised to see it was $49.99 and $59.99 which means you are being shafted 33% cuz we dont like tea.
Dongs winning.
By K123 2025-04-23 09:38:10
None of the writers, voice actors, designers, composes were paid again for this. Suits eating good today. What do you mean? The assets are all remade from scratch it says, I assume the voice clips are all new or redone too.
Writers and game planners obviously get nothing.
So... I have been increasingly frustrated with new games over years. I feel like so much effort it placed on graphics, lighting, art style, ect and maybe 10% of that effort is placed into gameplay, controls, and story.
My latest purchase was Visions of Mana, which I was pretty excited for. Secret of Mana is in my top 5 all time, I've played Seiken Densetsu 3 translated and while I didn't think it was as good as Secret of Mana, it was still extremely enjoyable. I skipped Trials of Mana since I had already played Seiken Densetsu 3. Vision is just bad. The english voice acting was awful, the characters were bland/generic or just stupid, and I was 3hrs into the game and all I was doing to running 30seconds between CS. Felt like a slightly interactive shitty anime.
Hogwarts Legacy, Visions of Mana, Baldur's Gate 3, Starfield... I felt like all of these super hyped games were absolute duds. Final Fantasy 16 is coming to PC in a few weeks and I'm not sure if I even want to try it anymore. I've heard people say not great things about it.
I know I'm just venting a bit here, but it really sucks being excited for a new game and then the crushing disappointment when it's not fun.
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