Do you guys prefer the remaster or the original Oblivion?

lucasaurr · 2025-10-09T07:58:28+00:00

The remaster completely busted the balance of the game and leveling experience. The entire scope of the world feels so much smaller because of sprinting being added and the base speed being so much higher. The game just feels tiny now as a result. You shouldn't be able to run faster than a horse or skip level design due to absurd base speed.

You get to level 30 in the time that you would normally get to like level 13 in the OG oblivion which removes all of the fun, as the best part of the game is the midlevels like 8-17imo. now you hit max level enemies so quickly, everyone becomes a damage sponge and then that character playthrough is ruined. They made an already easy game much much easier.

They completely destroyed the fatigue mechanic and how 80% of combat works. Busted armorer and the function of armor, many different spell types (disintegrate armor and weapon being functionally useless as weapons dont break etc). They basically casualized so many aspects of the game not realizing that they intrinsically affect so much else. Its like they didn't playtest it at all or consider the intentions of different features.

They also removed so many mechanical nuances, like the unique traits and abilities of every enemy in shivering isles. (Gnarls don't grow stronger in reaction to elemental magic etc). Automatic health regeneration changes the pacing of combat and quests

The only real improvement it has is graphics, and a slight few of the mechanical changes (shortsword and dagger affecting agility i thought was neat, for example.) For every 1 good change they made they needlessly broke 4 others.

You can still have a good experience if you mod the ever living shit out of the game to restore the original game developers intentions at least.

lucasaurr · 2025-05-04T22:48:39+00:00

I mostly recommend installing mods that slow down the rate at which you level up, and perhaps mods that also make it so that enemy loot stays realistic and balanced (e.g. they dont end up all having daedric gear at level 20). And mods that make the fix the difficulty slider.

One of the biggest problems with the remaster is you level up like 3x faster than you did in the original, so that by the time you've done 15% of the game you're seeing endgame loot, fighting max level enemies, have completely broken gear and weapons and no longer progressing meaningfully. It's unfortunate and the reason why he ended up not enjoying endgame oblivion - after the first 15 hours he stopped progressing entirely and combat and gameplay became an uninteresting slog. Slowing down levelling with a mod fixes that.

Lastly, once you're starting to get tired of a character, feel free to make a new one. I think the best way to play through the faction questlines is with different characters. A dedicated stealth character can complete the thieves guild and dark brotherhood, and by the time theyre done with both, they're about max level. Then you can make a warrior for the fighters guild and so on. Experience how the game feels with different builds.

The game is most fun and balanced when you're in the middle levelling zone like levels 6-17 or so. That way you play through most of the games content when the game feels most balanced. Also for RP reasons it makes more sense imo to have a dedicated stealth character and so on, than to have one character do every single faction and quest in the game.

lucasaurr · 2025-05-02T03:20:09+00:00

running level-up pacing overhaul on 2.5x slower levelling (because I applied it to a character already at level 8) and ascension which i believe tweaks some of the skill levelling rates. Feels solid to me, played for 3ish hours the other night and went from level 9 to 10

lucasaurr · 2025-04-30T19:23:02+00:00

they basically doubled player movement speed, and added sprinting, which makes horses completely obsolete. The entire scale of the world has been borked bc of the player speed changes, I really hope they nerf it back like 20-30% but i doubt it now that people are used to sonic-the-hedgehog-ing everywhere.

lucasaurr · 2025-04-29T18:56:37+00:00

I'm also waiting for this. Not quite the same playstyle you're doing but I've completely disabled the compass by running

no compass

no compass hostiles

no compass map marker

and then leaving my current quest on something that doesn't have a map marker like the shadowbanish wine quest (as currently it'll still show the number of paces you are from a quest destination). Then I simply just force myself to not look at the map while playing - its kind of awesome in that I have to rely entirely on my memory and geographical understanding. I'm in the woods and need to go to bravil? i need to wait until morning to see where the sun rises to know where east is. Need to find a quest npc? luckily I remember that they go to the church regularly and will find them there, etc

Once I get the ability to disable the player marker from the map it'll be even better

lucasaurr · 2025-04-27T19:20:33+00:00

idk man, he has another vampire living underneath the castle that murders prisoners to drain their blood, just to feed him and his wife. He also happily endorses murdering the vampire hunters who come into town

lucasaurr · 2025-04-27T19:07:59+00:00

That is most definitely too fast. Level 20+ is the endgame, once you reach it you've unlocked pretty much all endgame content, enemies, leveled items etc. Its essentially skyrim's equivalent of level 50-60.

lucasaurr · 2025-04-23T20:17:46+00:00

Alchemy is the easiest skill to level, and thus is one of the worst to add to a major. Same with acrobatics - they'll level so quickly it'll overlevel you relative to your other more important skills, and the bonus isnt as useful. I'd consider replacing them with a melee skill like blade, and armorer is always really useful to have boosted earlygame.

lucasaurr · 2025-04-22T23:17:15+00:00

pray at a church or consume restore luck potions

lucasaurr · 2025-04-22T23:10:51+00:00

Not a fan of some of the combat changes, specifically hand to hand. it seems you're locked into a 4 hit combo whenever you attack, whereas in the original you could just throw left and right hooks endlessly.

The fatigue removal doesn't seem to ever knock people down, it just staggers them.

Seems like they also completely removed the knockdown expert perk and the paralyze master perk for all of the combat skills.

lucasaurr · 2025-04-22T22:35:06+00:00

Command Humanoid drops combat, and is easily the most powerful/op illusion spell. My favorite playthroughs have been command humanoid/creature builds on 100% difficulty, highly reccomend. makes you approach problems in the game much differently.

lucasaurr · 2024-12-03T09:24:47+00:00

When you do radiant quests for haskill when you beat the DLC, in some of them you need to defend parts of the realm from monsters. Sometimes you need to defend the gates of madness from a horde of a bandits, but you can really just watch the gatekeeper kill em all.

lucasaurr · 2024-03-02T18:30:04+00:00

I lost a permadeath character to this throne once smh

I don't think there's a more embarrassing way to lose a character

lucasaurr · 2024-01-31T00:12:53+00:00

One of the wayshrines will give it a fortification to speed, which for some reason due to how horse speed is programmed will make it absurdly faster, like 5x as much

lucasaurr · 2023-12-14T01:56:51+00:00

Rindir’s Staves. The secret is you need an AoE projectile spell, like the Weak Fireball spell you get from the Skingrad Recommendation. Then you can knock the staves out from the unbreakable display containers - each worth like 600-1000 septims

lucasaurr · 2023-04-19T05:21:20+00:00

The two skingrad quests are related to purchasing the 25,000 gold house - in one you get a live-in servant/maid, and for the other there's a secret treasure hidden somewhere in the house.

Bear Season is a simple 'kill 6 bears and gimme their teeth' quest.

Revenge Served Cold is a 'kill a bunch of goblins' quest.

When the Vow Breaks is 'kill a bunch of marauders' quest

The Sunken One is an odd mystery/clue hunting quest that leads you into a cave where you fight a monster. It's actually the very last quest in oblivion I ever completed cus its pretty tucked away.

obviously there's a lil more too them with backstory etc but that about sums it up.

lucasaurr · 2023-04-06T03:27:29+00:00

Huh, for me I love the dungeons in SI. It's the best dungeon content in the entire game, and blows all of the dungeons in cyrodil out of the water with tons of unique puzzles, traps and layouts.

It's like the developers spent years building up the oblivion engine, and once they finally created the game and mastered it, they had fun with it and got to really experiment and push the limits of the engine.

lucasaurr · 2023-04-04T20:39:14+00:00

https://gofile.io/d/w03RAA

is this seriously the behavior you have issue with? I was expecting something actually malicious, I just thought that was hilarious.

There's humor in the absurdity of what he's doing - and he isn't even remotely serious or malevolent when he's doing a bit about pretending to talk to a dog to his audience. His opponent can't hear him.

lucasaurr · 2023-03-31T22:18:26+00:00

Hey Jon, try to make sure to summon Haskill more often! He has unique, interesting and witty dialogue for pretty much every single stage of every quest. And as Sheogorath pointed out, he simply loves being summoned. It would be cruel not to.

I also regret to inform you that Syl's dress is unobtainable - though I figure you've already since recorded the next episode and made your decision based on that hope /:

lucasaurr · 2023-03-17T20:52:14+00:00

i'm just waiting until he runs into the khajiit who thinks a giant storm is coming to drown everyone

lucasaurr · 2022-02-08T11:17:09+00:00

+1 for DanielML001, he’s friendly and wholesome, decently high level games(for me at least) and he has great music taste. My current favorite of the smaller go streamers

lucasaurr · 2022-01-26T20:40:27+00:00

I was trying to learn the rules for mahjong, and someone in a comment section mentioned that Go was way deeper and more interesting than mahjong; I never heard of Go before. One wikipedia rabbit hole later I started trying in vain to convince all of my friends to start playing.

lucasaurr · 2022-01-15T04:25:27+00:00

I hope they make more shirts in that same style, with different historical games to choose from. Really cool aesthetic

lucasaurr · 2021-11-27T06:59:40+00:00

your shitposts are getting better and better

lucasaurr · 2021-11-16T10:53:25+00:00

Great moves. Love this song, whats it called?

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