@such
Yea, you are being a bit of a downer. :smile: It's easy to be jaded nowadays. Try looking at it from a different perspective:

how is that different from the Before Times when they were also selling these games, and also maintaining them?

It's not. GOG is simply reaffirming their roots, which they admittedly had drifted away from for awhile. That they have refocused on maintaining good old games should be seen as a good thing!

has that "this is extremely uncertain and unstable as a business that they have no idea how to run to turn a profit" subtext

I had to investigate this a while back when someone posited - without proof - that GOG was going bankrupt. It turned out they had one bad year and had recovered admirably from it. Unless things have changed in the last year, GOG is quite profitable. Check the CDPR financial statements.

Just because you don't think that game preservation is not profitable does not make it so. Perhaps it's not your priority, but look around: with all the crap being brought to market focusing on ever-increasing glitzy graphics rather than engaging storylines, excellent game mechanics and careful performance optimization, retro is in -- in all fields of entertainment, not just video games. People are reaching back for the quality they or their parents remember. Clearly, there is potential profit to be made.

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@scaine

I tend to just blacklist the dev or publisher page on Steam when I see this kind of attitude.

Good idea. How do you go about blacklisting a developer/publisher? I've never done that before.

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@heidi.wenger

There is also Zoom Platform to get DRM free games:

https://www.zoom-platform.com/ [External Link]

There is also Itch.io:

https://itch.io/ [External Link]

And, sometimes, IndieGala:

https://www.indiegala.com/ [External Link]

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@d3Xt3r

happy to report that it's been running flawlessly on my GPD Win Mini 2024

Impressive little machine. I also like the form factor.

I don't get all the negative comments here.

I'm down on it because of the inflated system requirements. This game should be able to run on much older machines than they've allowed for. 4K means nothing to me, so it's wasted storage space.

Why can't these developers separate the high quality texture packs into free DLC? Set the base textures at 720p and let the user select to download the 800p, 1080p, 2K or 4K texture packs if they want them.

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@Trias

Never was really hooked into Oblivion, but still bought remaster in hopes it will motivate Bethesda to remaster their other games. Like Morrowind.

IMO, the game mechanics of either Morrowind or Daggerfall are just too complex for Todd's current aRPG approach to Elder Scrolls games. If they were to make either of those excellent cRPG's into aRPG's, fans would be in an absolute uproar. Besides, OpenMW and the modders have greatly modernized the look and feel of Morrowind. Daggerfall Unity is looking pretty good too.

So no, I don't think we'll ever see remakes of these earlier games. I imagine that Oblivion Remastered is just to hold over the fans until TES6 releases.

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@sonic2kk

I'm getting 60fps no problem apart from at a handful of moments

In the original game, the telling point was the great battle with the Oblivion forces at Bruma. The game would just slow to a crawl. I wonder if the remaster will fair better at that point in the game?

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Terrific! That means my T580 laptop is covered. Since the MX150 chipset is still supported by the proprietary drivers, I'll wait until the performance comparisons come out.

Happy to know that Kepler is still on the radar, even if it is limited to Vulkan 1.2. It's the active support I'm hoping for, more than anything. Combine Kepler NVK with Proton-Sarek and my beloved T440p will be even better than it was before.

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At least the price is much more reasonable than the other remaster announced today.

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500MB reduction in size of the game.

Well ... you don't hear that very often in this day and age. Especially in an Unreal Engine 5 based game ...

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Unreal Engine 5?

I don't get it. Why didn't they use the Creation Engine from Skyrim SE or even their Creation Engine 2 from Starfield?

Don't get me wrong. From the launch videos, animated GIFs and pictures, the remaster looks gorgeous. It won't run in my gaming laptop, however. 125GB of storage? Sorry, Todd. I didn't upgrade for Starfield and I'm not upgrading for this one either. Those days are done.

I'll happily do another playthrough of my slightly modded version of the original Oblivion one more time ...

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