The only thing that made my ears perk up was the mention of MS thinking of buying Valve. I know Valve are a point of contention with some gamers, my personal opinion is that they are 1 of very few companies that I actually 'kinda like' and feel that the decisions they make are usually in line with my thoughts around gaming. I know that can all change with new mgmt or owners, so even the idea of them being bought by anyone made me get a little uncomfortable in my seat.

I guess I have to start planning for this anyway as it seems consolidation/monopolization is a trend that is only getting worse in every industry. It's been tough watching the game industry go from a niche hobbyist dream with passionate creative devs focused on sharing their hard work to whatever you want to call the industry today (profit scouring creative wasteland that leans on gambling tricks to get gamers to keep playing?)

Getting old can be so much fun sometimes and othertimes.... well not so much

Doom an Dishonored are the only real interesting ones on that list. Anything remastered by Bethesda will be a disappointment, just like the original game releases.

Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 12:11:
a NEW XBOX? Say it isn't so!! Now what will Sony DO?

Continue being successful and making money, like usual.

I loved the Dishonoured series, its been such a brillaint time playing 1st & the 2nd.
Now looking forward to the 3rd.

Braden wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 20:48:
Would much rather see them remaster Morrowind since it's much more outdated than Oblivion and has a more interesting and imaginative art style/aesthetic.

Morrowind also has much more robust gameplay and RPG mechanics. It's probably the best Elder Scrolls game made by Bethesda, out of the box. Skyrim with mods comes close.

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...o.O Doom Year Zero? wat?

Ugh, no more remasters! Make new shit!

Too bad remasters sell insanely well.

Dishonored... I liked the first two, but I think I'm Dishonored out... the protagonists are super heroes fighting laughable AI, starts to feel like punching down pretty quick.

Would much rather see them remaster Morrowind since it's much more outdated than Oblivion and has a more interesting and imaginative art style/aesthetic.

Mr. Tact wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 18:41:
Maybe it is just me, but this seems like a big nothing burger to me.

First of all, it's a big deal to Dishonored fans to find out 3 is a possibility, and second, only the cool kids are allowed to say "nothing burger".

RogueSix wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 16:45:
Microsoft is definitely taking the wrecking ball to Sony now. The only recourse for Sony fans is to buy a gaming PC if they ever want to lay hands on any of those games.

SONY VAIO's FOR EVERYONE!!1! Sony can even bundle COD MW III with them.

Maybe it is just me, but this seems like a big nothing burger to me.

I'd go for a new version of FO3 and Oblivion. The latter is my least favorite Bethesda game since I started playing them, but that may be due to the fact that all the NPCs in that had humpty-dumpty faces (and yes, that's a technical term).

A new, non humpty-dumpty-face Oblivion would be cool.

jdreyer wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 17:33:

RogueSix wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 17:24:

jdreyer wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 17:09:

meezookeewee wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 15:50:
If the Oblivion remaster doesn't come with horse armor, I'm out.

It does, but due to inflation, it now costs $14, not $4.

To be fair, the original price of horse armor was $1.99.

Huh, seems like we're both wrong. Debuted at $2.50

Better than D4 at $25.

It was $2.50 on Xbox Marketplace because you had to buy it with the corresponding amount of marketplace Xbox points but the PC version was $1.99 .

The first package, a set of horse armor (barding) for Oblivion's steeds, was released on April 3, 2006, costing 200 Marketplace points, equivalent to US$2.50 or £1.50; the corresponding PC release cost was US$1.99.

EDIT: Thanks to Archive.org, we can actually travel back to 2006 and revisit the Obliviondownloads.com page. Here is a snapshot from shortly after horse armor was released and you can see it was sold for $1.99 from the website. As we can see, The Orrery and The Wizards' Tower were also $1.99 each. I bought them all back then because, minus the stupidly overdone level scaling, I really liked Oblivion. It had some awesome content and quests.

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RogueSix wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 17:24:

jdreyer wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 17:09:

meezookeewee wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 15:50:
If the Oblivion remaster doesn't come with horse armor, I'm out.

It does, but due to inflation, it now costs $14, not $4.

To be fair, the original price of horse armor was $1.99.

Huh, seems like we're both wrong. Debuted at $2.50

Better than D4 at $25.

jdreyer wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 17:09:

meezookeewee wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 15:50:
If the Oblivion remaster doesn't come with horse armor, I'm out.

It does, but due to inflation, it now costs $14, not $4.

To be fair, the original price of horse armor was $1.99.

jdreyer wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 17:10:

RogueSix wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 16:45:
Microsoft is definitely taking the wrecking ball to Sony now. The only recourse for Sony fans is to buy a gaming PC if they ever want to lay hands on any of those games. It's almost a little disgusting how they are milking these old games like Oblivion and FO3 just to have more fodder for Xbox and GamePass but it's a viable business strategy, of course. Can ya feel the squeeze, Sony? Yeah. That's you being squeezed out of the market. Buh-bye.

No different than what Sony did for Uncharted and TLoU.

Those games were never on Xbox/PC (well, until they were... many, many years later ).

Elder Scrolls and Fallout (as well as many other brands that will now continue being Xbox-exclusive) are long established brands also on Playstation. Huge difference.

RogueSix wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 16:45:
Microsoft is definitely taking the wrecking ball to Sony now. The only recourse for Sony fans is to buy a gaming PC if they ever want to lay hands on any of those games. It's almost a little disgusting how they are milking these old games like Oblivion and FO3 just to have more fodder for Xbox and GamePass but it's a viable business strategy, of course. Can ya feel the squeeze, Sony? Yeah. That's you being squeezed out of the market. Buh-bye.

No different than what Sony did for Uncharted and TLoU.

meezookeewee wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 15:50:
If the Oblivion remaster doesn't come with horse armor, I'm out.

It does, but due to inflation, it now costs $14, not $4.

I just dont think its possible that they will make an Oblivion remaster that is better then what the community has already done on PC, but for consoles this makes a ton of sense. Too bad it's not for Sony as the original version of Oblivion on Playstation was as crappy as Skyrim. Okay, maybe not AS crappy, but close.

Xero wrote on Sep 19, 2023, 14:38:
Dishonored 3 ah? I didn't beat 2, though enjoyed what I did play with it. The destruction physics were very satisfying. Beat the original and DLC.

I wouldn't mind going back into the world. Perhaps it gives me reason to fire back up 2 and finish it.

I bought Dishonored and all of its DLC during a Steam years ago, and somewhere along the line I also ended up with Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider. Only a few months ago did I finally pull Dishonored out of the backlog and play it.

It was fun, but it doesn't like high frame rates. They must have known this and put a frame rate cap on it, but it's still too high. I think the default was 130, but I still got glitches right from the start. The admiral guy at the very beginning of the game couldn't get off the boat, and if you played hide and seek with the little girl, she would just stand there after counting down. I re-loaded, skipped the hide and seek, but since the guy was still trying to figure out how to get off the boat, he never showed up for the cutscene. I edited the .ini and lower the frame cap to 120 and it fixed it for the most part.

I played through it on hard, and went for a stealthy no-kill run. Played the main game and story DLCs (skipped that trials one). I then re-played it, same difficulty, also stealthy but went full on kill mode. The second play through was more fun, quicker also since I didn't re-load everytime I messed up. I was interesting how the game changed based on the chaos level. Some maps were different, and some places played out different.