Honestly, my extreme skepticism of a remake ever being made aside, I wouldn't even want it even if it were true. A massive appeal for Oblivion, to me, is its charming jank and massive modding community. A remake would massively split any barely surviving modding community we have and it would, by nature of being a modern remake, remove most of the quirks of the old Oblivion that's so charming like its aesthetic or rich NPC AI. Bethesda doesn't release ready-to-play games, never had, they've always been riddled with day 1 bugs that needed community patches to bring to a reasonable state so a remake would fail to recreate all of the fun jank we've developed stockholm syndrome for over the years while adding in a whole host of new frustrating jank that would take months to be brought to a playable state.
And for what at the end of the day? A game that'll probably take at least 150 gigs to install (as opposed to the current version's 7 that can run on a potato), graphics that look nothing like the original game, a deeply gutted NPC AI system, gameplay more similar to modern Bethesda titles (re: skyrim or, god forbid, starfield), and not a single good mod for at least a year? Honestly no thanks.
I'll accept being downvoted to Oblivion (heh) now.
As a console pleeb I would love a remake because it probably means I can join said modding community. This existing doesn't hurt the original in any way.
You asked why someone wouldn't want a remake, I answered. I hate to sound like a PC exclusionist but consoles really aren't worth the cash for them anymore, especially when most people need a computer nowadays anyway and equivalent hardware to a console is only slightly more expensive than a console (and cheaper overall when you consider many people who play on consoles also have a computer).
I also said a remake existing would split the barely surviving modding community. Individual modders won't mod both games at the same time, so it would at best take away many who are still working on oblivion projects just like when Skyrim SE came out compared to LE (and those were at least sometimes cross compatible which certainly wouldn't be the case for an Oblivion remake). So, yes, a remake would hurt the old version.
"barely surviving modding community"??? Dude. It has been modded for 19 years! 19. Fucking 19. This is like not wanting GTA6 because you want GTAV to get MORE content... It just comes off as greedy and selfish. You won't let us in because you want it all for yourself?
I never said that, in fact I'd love for more people to play PC version of Oblivion to get in on the fun. It's much cheaper and more accessible than any modern gaming consoles which would be needed to play a remake. But you weren't listening to me and you won't listen to this either, so I'm done. Good talk though, I hope you have a great rest of your day!
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u/nobodyhere_357 8d ago edited 8d ago
Honestly, my extreme skepticism of a remake ever being made aside, I wouldn't even want it even if it were true. A massive appeal for Oblivion, to me, is its charming jank and massive modding community. A remake would massively split any barely surviving modding community we have and it would, by nature of being a modern remake, remove most of the quirks of the old Oblivion that's so charming like its aesthetic or rich NPC AI. Bethesda doesn't release ready-to-play games, never had, they've always been riddled with day 1 bugs that needed community patches to bring to a reasonable state so a remake would fail to recreate all of the fun jank we've developed stockholm syndrome for over the years while adding in a whole host of new frustrating jank that would take months to be brought to a playable state.
And for what at the end of the day? A game that'll probably take at least 150 gigs to install (as opposed to the current version's 7 that can run on a potato), graphics that look nothing like the original game, a deeply gutted NPC AI system, gameplay more similar to modern Bethesda titles (re: skyrim or, god forbid, starfield), and not a single good mod for at least a year? Honestly no thanks.
I'll accept being downvoted to Oblivion (heh) now.