What an Oblivion mountain lion actually looked like:
Kinda crazy how we remember games to look better than they actually did. Like the remastered version is as good looking as I remember the game, but obviously the differences are huge. Weird how that works!
I hold the belief that once you are immersed in the game, your brain accepts it as “reality” and will remove the questionable bits from visual processing. Being the player really makes a difference to me, as opposed to just watching a video of someone else playing. They can have their graphics at a much higher res than me but I am still sort of shocked and put off by how ugly/unrealistic things are when watching someone else, and always surprised of how much I don’t notice while playing the same game myself.
And then years pass, you play games with better graphics.
When you try to recall the old game, your brain reconstructs the game from the associative data (of events, relationships etc) but with updated visuals.I remember Freedom Fighter to be much better looking. But maybe that was due to the low res CRT and that the game visuals were designed for being blurry.
The brain is the best GPU
Your brain is always filtering stuff, that’s a thing.
Suspension of disbelief is definitely a thing. It’s also a lot easier to catch things going on when you’re spectating vs playing yourself, kinda like tunnel vision.
That and rosy retrospection effect of human memory.
Characters and creatures looked like such a weird mess of polygons in Oblivion.
Christ, remember how Khajiit looked like melted plastic!?
That mountain lion is prime meme format.
Is this the remastered version?
Yep, you can recognize it by the text style and the skip button, and some might recognize it by the less goofy looking faces:
And
Love the lions attacking during the dialogue no matter which version… Thanks for making me chuckle.
To be fair, Uriel Septim looks even more goofy in the remaster:
It is, yes
Everyone Hated the brown era of Graphics (Oblivion falls right in it) but in reality the earth is covered in dirt and dirt is brown so reality is often very Brown.
OG Oblivion was super green. So much that the remaster, despite having natural lighting, looks brown in comparison.
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That’s the remaster.
The original is very green
I think it’s the bad lighting that casts no shadows and the slightly out of focus camera that makes it look like it is low res texture
Well, putting the lights closer would interfere with the scene…
Also, it’s heavily compressed. The file size limitation is probably a larger issue here than the quality of the camera.
It was a hard decision, but when color was invented it was very computing expensive and graphics quality had to be lowered.
“Your money or your life!”
Pays 100gp
“You’re smarter than you look.”
steals back money
“Take it! Its worthless to me anyways.”
your life! In 3… 2…
I forgot
the charge time for Lightning Storm
When Oblivion came out there was no shortage of shitposters screaming and crying that it was too bright and cartoonish because it had green grass and blue skies. I guess if your experience with graphics comes from the Piss Filter era, and you don’t go outside, you’ll think everything that isn’t muddy brown is unrealistic.
Everything is a muddy brown when your depressed.
Khajiit has wares, if you have coin
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