I have zero interest in them remastering the older games. I 100% do not want an unreal engine Morrowind remaster. I want Morrowind to be a buggy exploitable mess where I can buff my intelligence and speed into 5 digit numbers.
to be fair what has happened to oblivion is that the game still runs entirely on the old creation engine, but the renderer and all the graphics assets have been swapped for unreal engine. you get old bugs as well as new bugs.
I am pretty sure Hard Drive dot net is a satirical tech blog.
Okay, hear me out… I have no place for this anymore because conspiracy theories are overrun by super crazy people… but that’s not my point right now…
So, my conspiracy theory is that some government entity established satirical websites as a means to spread misinformation or to desensitize the population…
It’s really strange that like pre 2008 (i dont have excat dates here), there were basically none of these kinds of sites, and then they started popping up everywhere…
It’s one of those things that I believe got us to this point…
But I’m probably crazy and wrong who knows
I can assure you with absolute certainty that satire has been an established tradition for a very long time before 2008
Lies. Voltaire was a deep state psy op
But you provide no references, which mean none exist! My god, maybe this commenter is on to something and satire was invented in 2008 to turn us into sheeple!
(I love a good/shit conspiracy theory and stand equally behind op and this comment)
The Onion started publishing in 1988, and was online by 1996.
Landover Baptist has been on the net since 1998. I stumbled on it as kid, back when the family computer was for playing Neopets.
There’s been an increase in satire websites for sure, largely driven by the popularity of the Onion, and it does cause problems. There are conservative outlets which 100% put out complete and utter bullshit under the guise of “satire,” knowing that their audience has the gullibility of a five year old, and that’ll end up on garbage Facebook pages as unironic.
It’s not “conspiracy” but more - the Onion is very popular, popular things get knock offs, and opportunists saw a way to inject lies or laziness into the public discourse, while claiming they’re “satire.” (Similar to how CinemaSins on YouTube uses the term, “we were wrong about a basic thing in the movie? psych! the jokes on you for taking it seriously!)
I really miss that brief time that the Babylon Bee was good.
Speaking as someone who got literally any humanities education:
The whole ‘predictive programming’ thing only works on absolute inhumanly stupid dumbfucks who unironically join the ‘homelander’ fan club. People need to be made that stupid, and doing it while teaching them how to read and fo arithmetic was a hell of an achievement.
“the government spreads conspiracy theories” has been a (proven) theory since conspiracy theories existed
• Carrots are good for your eyesight
• the [common enemy] did it
• Fats are bad for you
This aes but three of many.
People who buy this crap are out of control. Vote with your wallet.
I was in highschool when skyrim came out, that one cracked install we had was shared like a used needle
(it’s satire, for those unaware, but damn funny)
The problem is that it’s believable at this point
“Dylan wasn’t even born yet when the original announcement trailer released,” Carter said, shedding a single tear, “now that he’s seven, I get to share the experience of watching that announcement for the first time. I can’t wait to see his jaw drop as he realizes what he’s seeing."
Article is some top tier parody lol
I don’t mind the remasters, because I’m too young to have actually played any of the remastered games when they were released. So, I played Oblivion Remastered, and that’s the only way I would’ve ever know about it. I thought that Skyrim was just a legendary standalone game that people loved (I’ve still never played it). I can see it as a waste of time for the studio and a ridiculous cashgrab as well, especially for the people that played the originals.
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?
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.
I don’t mind remasters if they are that - remasters. Faithful graphical updates to the originals (e.g. Halo 2 Anniversary). But a lot of the time they are janky remakes instead by outsourced development for as cheap as possible. They usually end up as insults to the originals.
The problem I have with remasters is how they fundamentally change the art direction so often.
They’re good supplements to their original, but I don’t think they’re fit replacements.
Agreed.
Probs because they are usually outsourced for cheap with little direction from the main studio, “as long as its good enough”. And/or the main studio has completely changed since the original and they just dont have the same respect for it.
It’s weird when applied to other mediums, nobody is out there repainting the Mona Lisa in a modern art style then marketing it as the “new” Mona Lisa and going as far as to replace the original with it.
The closest parallel I can think of would be remake/remasters in film but even then you’d be hard pressed to not start an argument with Star Wars nerds over mention of the remasters.
Halo 2 anniversary was good but I’m one of those people that would have preferred halo 1 campaign remade in the halo 2 engine instead of having a visual overlay with the collisions from the original models
If that’s your fancy then sure, but I much prefer a remaster, especially when you can swap on the fly between old and new, I feel like that should be a requirement for them. You can’t really do that with a remake, as the physics etc will be different.
Counterpoint, the System Shock 1 remake was an absolute banger and probably would not have been possible in the modern ecosystem as a faithful remaster. It absolutely needed to be cooked again from the ground up, and Night Dive did this very skillfully and turned a game that, while good, was notoriously difficult to parse and control, into a modern immersive sim RPG shooter that anyone can understand.
Remakes can be good when the team behind them understands the product that they are remaking and the audience that will be playing it.
the only reason to switch for me was if it was a better visual reference for alignment of glitch maneuvers or if the collisions were off by too much. For me nostalgia filter makes the original look better in my memories than when I actually go look at it again, and if the game is 100% identical under the hood I will exploit every bug and glitch out of habit even if I don’t want to.
I suppose with a game that old there is a good chance of something similar to what happened to majora’s mask 3ds happening (character movement worse, boss mechanics dumbed down to the point of being insulting but also not even working well) if they were to change much more.
It’s just nice to see what’s changed in X amount of years. People who wouldn’t have bought the original will buy the remaster, then be able to see the old graphics, maybe even prefer it. To get a firsthand look at the original is a nice touch, understanding how they built the world with the limitations they had and to see how far we have come. But each to their own.
The trailer could use a remaster though
I wonder if someone has/will make a fell for Todd’s lies again award meme with the bewildered guy wearing an Iron_Helmet_(Skyrim). Probably needs some real headlines/reviews (well, aside from Starfield).
