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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer (Available Today!) (www.youtube.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I was never a huge fan of the base game (after Morrowind, the far more generic fantasy setting was underwhelming and I absolutely hated the Oblivion parts), but I loved the Shivering Isles expansion. Tempted to get it for that alone. The fugly character models needed to be redone BADLY, too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The fugly character models needed to be redone BADLY, too.

I kinda wonder what the NPCs in that one village part of a quest that mimics Shadow Over Innsmouth look like in the remake... They're supposed to be fugly ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shivering Isles rivals Morrowind in my mind. It has a strange and unique setting and most of the content is incredibly well-written, which contrasts sharply with the standard medieval setting of baseline Oblivion (mandatory reminder that Cyrodiil was supposed to be a rainforest, but the devs retconned it to make development easier).

The other expansion, Knights of the Nine, was just a bunch of fetch quests to unlock an armor set and was disappointing in comparison to even the base game (though at least the final boss fight was cool). It also put behavioral tracking on the DLC's rewards that would disable them if your character gained infamy, forcing you to repeat a bunch of boring travel quests to fix them whenever this happened. There's a reason KotN never comes up in discussions about the game.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Shivering Isles rivals Morrowind in my mind.

Same. It's easily my favorite Elder Scrolls expansion, period.

mandatory reminder that Cyrodiil was supposed to be a rainforest

I never knew that. Shame the devs for this didn't go for it, but I suppose fans would be up in arms about it.

EDIT: Apparently they actually DID add some rainforest-y looking locations!