How DARE you.

I don’t know if they actually changed the dungeon leveling logic in the remaster, but it *feels* like dungeons don’t auto-level as aggressively (and boringly) as they did in the original. Plenty of places where I feel out of my element, which is great. Feels more like Skyrim to me.

Hmm, maybe I’ll try a super jumpy abused Khajiit “alley cat”, just trying to survive in the world. Everything will be fair game.

On mechanics the remaster stays true to what made Oblivion Oblivion. Feels like exactly the same game, for all the good and bad.

I still got chills during Patrick Stewart’s narration, of course.

I think I’ll reroll a new character and go with a full-on roleplaying approach. And see how far I go.

It’s also bringing back memories of what I didn’t love about Oblivion: to build that game at scale, Bethesda relied on prefabs that made the dungeons feel too cookie-cutter and clinical. Sure, they used awesome (for the time) pixel shaders and normal maps, and the update looks way better than that.

The initial dungeon definitely brings back memories. IIRC it was Bethesda’s reaction to Morrowind opening up right away and leaving players confused. I must have finished that opening multiple times, and I still remember many areas.

Let’s do it!

Of course I then played Skyrim a ton - like we all did.

Beyond feeling like it was more of the same, the main thing that turned me off about Oblivion were the auto-leveling dungeons: it destroyed the feel of “you shouldn’t be here (yet)”. Wondering if that dynamic got adjusted in the new version.

That would have been mine :)

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