this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
198 points (97.6% liked)

Games

37769 readers
1215 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here and here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Eurogamer understands Bethesda's current plan is to shadow drop the game next week on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, including via Xbox Game Pass.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Theres no way I'm reading this in real life

We're saying the oblivion port to UE5 is going to be less buggy? That makes you hopeful?? What is this place??? Did the gta trilogy not make it to lemmy?

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, despite whatever reputation UE5 may have, Oblivion was legendarily buggy. Oblivion defined Bethesda's reputation for producing bug-riddled games.

But that is honestly part of the charm.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Im not denying the bugginess of oblivion I'm more concerned about the general unplayability of a lot of Unreal games in this latest gen

Like if the bugs were bad when they wrote the code I can't imagine porting that code into unreal with its famously poor optimizations is anything but the worst case scenario for this remaster lmao

My hope was that they were porting it to creation 2 with upscaled assets and taking some time to squash the most egregious bugs. Hearing it's going to be a ue5 port now I'm almost not even willing to give it a chance. We shall see. For all we know, this could just be industry drivel getting us excited about a fake leak.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The quality of Unreal games is a product of the developer. Plenty of games have been great. Satisfactory and Talos Principle 2, for example.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Huh, I never knew satisfactory was in unreal. On that point, if they offloaded development to a 3rd party studio does that impact your expectations? Idk who it is but I saw a bunch of people saying it wasn't Bethesda remaking it

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is definitely a ground-up remake, not a port with original code.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, seriously? That is terrifying lmao

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why is that? It's being done by a different studio entirely that specializes in ports and remasters.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Avowed was a recent unreal open world game that didn't have many issues but I still had at least one point in my playthrough where every object was ghost trailing and map textures were stretched across the sky. Thats from obsidian busting their asses and it was great outside of the one major glitch.

With oblivion being what it is in its original form and then being handed to some outside studio to port to unreal it just sounds like a nightmare scenario. Maybe they're unreal specialists idk but they can't be better than Bethesda themselves. I'll be holding my breath until we get confirmation but I'll have to see what people think once it's out before I'm gonna risk spending money on this. OG oblivion is free on gamepass and I can stream it to my phone lol

If it does end up being great, fantastic! Im just not trusting Todd Howard to do the right thing anymore lmao

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The only GTA game I've played was the one on the DS, so 🤷‍♂️

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

😮

I remember that one from the PSP but I never played it. I didn't know it was on DS and mobile too! That's actually pretty sick. It looks much more like the original GTA games, which is not what I expected. I bet that was neat for the time with gta 4 having just dropped!