Tracklisting for last night's #dj set. Hit me up if you'd like the recording!

There's so much digital history that is rapidly slipping away from us, and I feel an urgency to experience it before it's gone forever.

#gaming #gamehistory

Graphical fidelity has become more of an aesthetic choice, and isn't the deal-breaker it used to be. I remember games like Arcanum being criticised for looking dated, but that sort of argument holds less sway now, as it's often a conscious choice. It also means older games get a look in now.

I discussed this a little in a Superjump article. Graphical fidelity is sort of on a logarithmic scale, we're in the era of incremental updates rather than drastic leaps. On the plus side, I think it somewhat take graphics out of the equation.

www.superjumpmagazine.com/what-is-prog...

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Wait, why didn't that give me all your artwork?

We'll see who makes more honey.

Beads?!?

It's far from a disaster, but something to consider before investing full price. Best recommendation, wait for a sale. And if you can't wait, subscribe to Xbox Game Pass for a month and try it out before committing to AAA pricing.

#Oblivion #OblivionRemastered #CRPG #ElderScrolls #Gaming

Both options have their benefits and drawbacks, but both are showing commitment to a design philosophy.

Oblivion Remastered is just Oblivion with new graphics, and that's it. What little it adds for veterans will be short-lived, and its shortcomings will not win new lifelong fans.

2) Take the "remake" pathway. Expand the world, make it larger, more richly detailed, a new graphics engine, but retain the spiritual elements - plot, quests, etc. The Silent Hill remake route.

My gut feeling is there were two better paths to take here:

1) Take the "faithful remaster" pathway - keep the engine largely unchanged, just support higher resolutions, more advanced rendering (lighting, RT, etc.), but retain the aesthetic of the original game. The Nightdive route.

Oblivion Remastered lacks the deep RPG mechanics and more unique writing of Morrowind... But it also lacks the more expensive and immersive world of Skyrim (which by now is well and truly showing its age in scale and fidelity).

What we're left with is a game stranded between eras.

Here's the problem - mechanics were *never* that good. Oblivion was the first major step down the path to the neutered RPG experience of Skyrim. Fans of Morrowind and Daggerfall disliked how simplified Oblivion was at the time, but many at the time overlooked that due to a massive, immersive world.