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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 AIPedant »

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.

I think the remaster may have been an experiment with Unreal Engine on top of Bethesda’s scripting / etc. I love Starfield, it is my favorite BGS game by a wide margin, but Creation Engine 2 is very difficult to work with - the Creation Kit is intolerably slow, I imagine BGS rank and file got very frustrated. Creation also lags with fancy lighting / fog effects, and might not ever support PS5[1], so I can see why Bethesda would explore the option for the next Elder Scrolls.

I don’t care for Oblivion but I hear the remaster crashes a lot, whereas I’ve had 3 crashes in 400 hours of Starfield. Two of those crashes were BSODs that Microsoft was responsible for. Maybe the Oblivion remaster’s instability indicates they will stick with Creation 2 in TESVI: I was skeptical that UE memory management was a good fit for BGS games’ complex global state. My suspicion is that Creation 2 uses multithreaded scripting, and Starfield on release had some odd bugs suggesting dangling threads (e.g. NPCs which stayed stuck on “busy” and couldn’t be interacted with). But in recent updates they’ve hammered a lot of that stuff out.

[1] Obviously Microsoft has a strong incentive for console exclusivity but the other side of this is that BGS games always sucked on PlayStation. Morrowind was also PC/XBox only, and Bethesda’s roots are in PC development.

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

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Post by AIPedant »

ReptileMan wrote: post #45
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.

My controversial opinion is that Fallout 2 is by far the worst mainline Fallout game: it was obviously written by sexist 90s teenagers, the humor is plain awful, and most of the game is incredibly tedious, especially the dungeons. It’s also by far the buggiest Fallout. I think people give it points for ambition + a desire to take Bethesda down a peg, without actually playing it. Alternatively, they last played when they themselves were 90s teenagers so they’re looking through 30 years of rose-tinted glasses, and never noticed how misogynistic the script is.

Speaking as a grownup who got about halfway through a few years ago, Fallout 2 sucks.

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

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

chii wrote: post #52
jimbob45 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Nintendo doesn't litigate if they believe the community project won't impact their sales/profits. For example, wii homebrew is not taken down by nintendo, even if there has been a recent "discovery" that the wii homebrew had relied on decompiled nintendo SDKs. Nintendo's litigious intention always has been profit driven (and this includes vaguely IP related issues, such as palworld's game mechanics - which i think is…

> and this includes vaguely IP related issues, such as palworld's game mechanics - which i think is frivilous but apparently not according to the courts

Do you happen to have a link handy to an opinion document? It seems weird that Palworld’s “mechanics” would put them under fire but somehow development teams behind Tem Tem and Nexomon (and Cassette Beasts and Abomi Nation and ...) get away with selling games that are primarily about capturing and/or befriending different monster species and pitting them in fights against other monsters.

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

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Post by olddustytrail »

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 would only allow one level: all companies must be owned by a person or persons named.

I would also have it that any contract controlling that person's interest is nullified so if you're trying to use a proxy to get around the law you'd have to be very sure you trust them because they are the legal owner.

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

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Post by watwut »

jemmyw wrote: post #57
TiredOfLife wrote: post #50

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

Do you mean the Russian opposition who are actually opposed to Putin and persecuted out of the country / existence, or the opposition Putin allows to exist to make elections appear legitimate? One of those doesn't support the war, and one of those isn't really an opposition.

Yes, those support the war. Their claim is that they would be better at winning it then Putin.

There were few Russian individuals against the war, it does exist. But they are exception regardless of the camp they are in.

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

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Post by Sophira »

Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe wrote: post #44
sushid wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 coc…

I think using the term "by" like that at all is going to lead to serious confusion.

As we all know, GitHub is not "by" Microsoft (as in, written by them). It's under their control now, and sure, they've made a lot of changes, but the actual code was written before Microsoft purchased them.

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

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Post by rowanG077 »

Sophira wrote: post #66
Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 coc…

I think using the term "by" like that at all is going to lead to serious confusion. As we all know, GitHub is not "by" Microsoft (as in, written by them). It's under their control now, and sure, they've made a lot of changes, but the actual code was written before Microsoft purchased them.

I don't see how it matters how, when or by whom the code was written.

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

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Post by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe »

Sophira wrote: post #66
Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 coc…

I think using the term "by" like that at all is going to lead to serious confusion. As we all know, GitHub is not "by" Microsoft (as in, written by them). It's under their control now, and sure, they've made a lot of changes, but the actual code was written before Microsoft purchased them.

I meant it more in the sense of, as you said, "controlled by".

But really it could be anything else including new symbols.

You see, whatever you use would become instantly SO ABUNDANT that this symbol would get a whole new meaning.

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

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Post by astrange »

Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe wrote: post #44
sushid wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 coc…

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

You own Microsoft. It's a public company.

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

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Post by astrange »

olddustytrail wrote: post #64
sushid wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 would only allow one level: all companies must be owned by a person or persons named. I would also have it that any contract controlling that person's interest is nullified so if you're trying to use a proxy to get around the law you'd have to be very sure you trust them because they are the legal owner.

Why do you want to ban social wealth funds?

(Also, any form of equity investing that isn't a tax nightmare. You'd have to love doing K1s.)

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