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#oblivion

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mk30

how's everyone's oblivion remastered experience going?

i've been playing it at my bf's place, just an hour or so here and there.

the main thing i'm experiencing is how different it feels from back when i played it in 2011 or whenever it was. it's making me realize that i am a completely different person, which is true (at that time, i was living in a city, in a sad relationship, no antidepressants, job i didn't like, drinking a lot). i was using it to experience the feeling of being outside and being around nature and hearing the birds and feeling calm. it filled a desperate longing for connection to nature. i drank it like a thirsty person...a person so thirsty that i accepted the little bit of hydration from drinking a soda when what you're really thirsty for is cool, fresh, water.

this time, i'm playing it with the wide world of nature literally right outside, with the sound of wind and birds from outside beckoning me out there. i'm playing it not out of desperation to plug a nature-sized hole that's so large that even simulated nature partly fills it up. so at first, it was kind of weird to play it, because i'm surrounded by actual nature and in a much better place now, mentally. but now i'm getting into the rpg/story elements of it. because honestly i don't remember any of these quests and i'm just wandering around doing random little quests, ignoring the main story line, seeing what there is to see. i love all the weird little quests one can find. and it feels really really amazing to know that i'm not using it for simulated nature therapy, but actually enjoying it as a game, which it is!

i didn't expect playing oblivion remastered would lead to a reckoning on "how far i've come" and "how much i've changed", but given how hard those reflections are for me, i'll take it! and i'll enjoy the game without feeling like i desperately need it or am using it as an escape. that feels cool and neat and new...just enjoying the game on its own terms.

#oblivion
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Cambionn

This stuff is running surprisingly well on my 10 year old PC. Everyone is talking about performance issues but I'm running on medium even and I'm good, even in the outer world, already ran to Chorrol 😅.

I do hear indications low VRAM may be the cause. I did tweak the ini settings a bit for that, and my good old GTX1080 does have 8GB of it. So maybe that's why. But a good surprise it runs so well never the less.

oblivion opening title screen for a new game.
My khajiit just exiting the sewers show right.
My khajiit looking out over lake Rumare.
My khajiit next to the path towards the Imperial City Market District.
#oblivion#oblivionremastered#gamingonlinux
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Aliaksandr, the last Dzik

Это ж какими надо быть контужеными, чтобы радоваться, что в ремастере остались баги оригинала.
У #Bethesda был отличный шанс довести хоть одну игру за десять лет до ума.
С #oblivionremastered #oblivion #tesiv - не вышло.

Уйду в #OpenMW #Morrowind #TESIII , ей-богу.
Книжки читать.

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Octavia Con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars:

:boosts_ok: Come listen to another cozy story reading! This is another lore primer, just like The Amulet of Kings, but this time for any Elder Scrolls games :bugcat_nod:

Succubard Gently Reads [An Accounting of the Elder Scrolls]
youtube.com/watch?v=lzZ9BvOOqs

I say primer because it's nice to have an idea of what they are, but it really won't help you in the gameplay, and the gameplay itself hardly gives many answers, either. Uuunfortunately, while giving us some idea of the power of the elder scrolls, the story really gets us no closer to properly understanding why or how they do what they do. It's implied that reading them costs you your vision, but beyond that, it's one of those stories where you come out of it with as many questions as scrolls :not_like_this:

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I also do live readings a few times a week over on Twitch (alongside Youtube) if that's more your thing :shiba_excited:
twitch.tv/octaviaconamore

#Vtuber #ENVtuber #Bard #Games #Gaming #Trans #TransFem #VoiceOver #Fantasy #Reading #Bookstodon #Books #ElderScrolls #Skyrim #Oblivion #OblivionRemastered :cat_interact:

A vtuber with glasses, black hair tied in two two low buns, and a dark grey and black outfit with blue accents, including blue roses on her upper arms and a blue cravat. She stands within a cozy library lit by a fire in the fireplace, bookshelves crammed with books and a large window spanning from the floor to nearly the ceiling. She looks down at a book floating in front of her, whisps of magic supporting it. Text in the left half of frame reads "An Accounting of the Elder Scrolls"
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Mistigris computer arts

Mistigram: There's a lot of buzz on the Internet right now about the new remaster of Bethesda's 2006 Elder Scrolls game #Oblivion, but who is standing up for the BBS software Oblivion/2 (or "Too")? This spirited #ANSIart logo by Bandicoot (aka Plastic) was included in the MIST2YR artpack celebration released 29 years ago.

Against a black-to-cyan gradient background, a logo floats reading "too", its lowercase white letters apparently having had their bottoms dipped in liquid chrome.
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Cliff

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is the next game I'll be starting. Likely will start it tomorrow morning when I get up for the day.

I grabbed it on PC GamePass for now. If I find I'm going to be putting hundreds of hours into it, I might just buy it so that I fully own it.

Anyone else here playing it and if so, how are you liking it?

The image features a promotional poster for "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered." The central figure is a knight in full armor, standing in front of a fiery archway. The knight holds a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, both reflecting the light from the flames. The armor is detailed, with a helmet covering the head, and the knight's posture is confident and ready for battle. The background is a dramatic scene with a burning castle and a red sky, suggesting a post-apocalyptic or war-torn setting. The title "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered" is prominently displayed at the top of the image, with the word "Remastered" in a smaller font below it. The overall color scheme is dominated by reds, oranges, and blacks, creating a sense of intensity and danger.
#ElderScrolls#ElderScrollsIV#Oblivion
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NEO//LIX 🔊

Quite enjoying #TheElderScrolls #Oblivion remastered. It's fascinating how much more immersive and enjoyable this game is compared to contemporary #Bethesda's #Starfield. Yes, it is Loading Screen Simulator 2000, and like all Bethesda RPGs it suffers from the scale problem ("theme park effect"), but it feels MUCH less awkward. Also the writing is on a completely different level. There is obvious love for the world that has been created.

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Lynn, eh?

I thought that Oblivion gates weren't supposed to start spawning until after visiting Jauffre? Which I put off until I'm content with the amount of side-quests I've done. Also playing it as one long cinematic experience is my jam.

In the original Oblivion (which I'm also playing) this is how it works. I've gone a whole in-game month (or more) without a gate spawning.

But in the remake.... I'm perfectly retracing my steps from the original and I have gates spawning and map markers appearing with no gates.

It's such a weird bug. Otherwise the game runs like butter, smooth sailing on Ultra. (Team Red 3600X and 6800 non-XT)

#Oblivion#OblivionRemaster
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