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Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

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Re: Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

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Post by stephenitis »

stevenwoo wrote: post #39
goosedragons wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pokemon is it's own weird situation. It's not solely owned by Nintendo, but co-owned and managed with Game Freak and Creatures Inc by The Pokemon Company. It's not just a game but a media empire. They have to coordinate between the game, anime and TCG. It's not quite the same as Zelda or Mario where they have complete control and don't have to worry about messing with dozens of other product launches if the game need…

Game Freak’s latest Nintendo offerings are subpar compared to somewhat open world offerings from the Wii generation like Xenoblade Chronicles and Breath of the Wild. They are just milking the Pokémon player base.

I agree their latest games always feel 2 generations behind and woefully lacking in content filled worlds

Re: Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

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Post by viraptor »

PoignardAzur wrote: post #16
jemmyw wrote: post #13

Bethesda doesn't think anything. Some people in leadership there think this. It would be very nice if they codeified what "support" means and the circumstances around it into company policy so that fans know what is what while that policy is in place (and who to blame if the policy is abandoned).

I mean, when you reach the point where they advertise the mod in dev spotlights videos, I think it's fair to say there's some institutional support, even if it's not codified.

Sure, but that means in a few years another manager can remove it and sue the creators. It doesn't matter who the current guy approves of, long term.

Re: Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

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Post by jemmyw »

sushid wrote: post #33
jemmyw wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't know who Bethesda was owned by without going and looking it up. I personally don't think this kind of corporate structure should be allowed, too much controlled by too few.

What would you allow? Just one level deep? Two? All you'd be doing is incentivizing the creation of more proxies and more legal fees/inefficiencies to go along with it.

Not sure. I certainly think there should have been anti trust interest in Microsoft buying GitHub. If only we had good agencies with subject matter experts who can't be bought off by the companies.

Re: Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

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Post by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe »

sushid wrote: post #33
jemmyw wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't know who Bethesda was owned by without going and looking it up. I personally don't think this kind of corporate structure should be allowed, too much controlled by too few.

What would you allow? Just one level deep? Two? All you'd be doing is incentivizing the creation of more proxies and more legal fees/inefficiencies to go along with it.

I think one solution would be to always have the parent company iname n the children company. This way you don't have github by "Github by microsoft". But any links in between should appear if a separate legal entity.

1. It makes it clear how few powerful people are owning everything.

2. It makes it obvious there's something wrong when you see that the 30 different bottles you can buy in front of you are all from coca colla

3. It makes it very obvious that there's something fishy about "chocolate chips by a france by b luxembourg by c switzerland by d ireland by big conglomerate by mondelez international"

Re: Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

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Post by ReptileMan »

formerly_proven wrote: post #6

Regardless, the remaster appears to have been rushed out due to increasing leaks, no? It's hard to believe that with the technical issues the release was actually intended to land in April 2025, instead of fixing issues until March 2026 and releasing it as an anniversary remaster.

Bethesda never releases games. They release mod sdks. Beta versions.

The only good fallout after the first two is the one they weren't involved with. And it was the mods for skyrim that made the game.

Re: Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

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Post by aucisson_masque »

jimbob45 wrote: post #17
neuroelectron wrote: post #14

This is a bit different situation than Nintendo and it's not fair to compare the two. The mod requires the base game where Nintendo software is hardware coupled. Furthermore, Bethesda has monetized mods directly (the Creation Club).

Let’s call a spade a spade. Nintendo litigates worse than any other company and they never drop prices. I can look the other way because they’re otherwise very good to their customers but they do have genuine faults.

> I can look the other way because they’re otherwise very good to their customers

I thought their customer support sucks ? In France they got a law suit because they refused to replace the joystick of their latest portable gaming machine when they had an insane rate of failure.

Re: Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

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Post by mschuster91 »

Better than Rockstar, eh? Like, these fools had had people remaster their engine and assets for all the GTA games for decades, and instead of leveraging that they go, get a ton of mods taken down and then release a "remaster" done with barely-supervised AI slop.

Re: Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

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Post by Manfred »

People in the comments act like they have been to a family party and are now nitpicking every detail of the party, speculating that granddad might not let uncle celebrate their birthday next year, exclaiming that auntie had much better cake, and discussing the clip their niece posted to Facebook of the dirty basement.

It's fine to be skeptical about the intentions of big family, but it's also fine to enjoy the cake once in a while.

Re: Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It

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Post by TiredOfLife »

npteljes wrote: post #36
jemmyw wrote: post #13

Bethesda doesn't think anything. Some people in leadership there think this. It would be very nice if they codeified what "support" means and the circumstances around it into company policy so that fans know what is what while that policy is in place (and who to blame if the policy is abandoned).

I hate the same about how media presents news regarding to nations. Russia attacks instead of Putin's army attacks, Brussels denies instead of EU officials deny, etc. It irks me so much, especially in a world where we pretend to do away with racism. Because what these headlines end up reinforce are just stereotypes. Which just keeps the people in their bubbles, wasting the chance of them learning something new about…

It's Russia and russians that is attacking not Putin. Even Russian oposition fully supports war
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