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.
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Yeah but a lot of people don't realize that the actual world didn't exist in color until the 1850s, and it was really, really, really hard to find color in real life until the 1930s, and it was the kind of place you'd spend an unreasonable amount of money to take a photograph of. That's why as color started to appear more often in the world you started getting more photographs - but even until the 90s the world usually was very faded colors, nothing vibrant we recognize today.
As the colors of the world became more vibrant, cameras became more popular, reducing the cost to produce them, and new ways to capture the color. The world had grown so vibrant that digital cameras were required to actually capture it, and now we're at a point where displays need special color ranges in order to match what reality can produce.
I predict in the future, the world's vibrance will be so powerful we can't actually produce technology to match it.
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OG Oblivion was super green. So much that the remaster, despite having natural lighting, looks brown in comparison.
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.
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!
Characters and creatures looked like such a weird mess of polygons in Oblivion.
Christ, remember how Khajiit looked like melted plastic!?
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.
Your brain is always filtering stuff, that's a thing.
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
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.
You probably played Oblivion on a CRT television. 480i is a lot more forgiving of blocky geometry than 1080p or 4k
It's not just the resolution but also the CRT tech. It smooths out the image because the pixels themselves are different.
Yeah. A CRT at 1280x1024 looks just as good as my 4K TV in terms of clarity in TV/movies/video games. Really, text is the only thing that's worse. Hell, even 720p looks amazing in a side by side comparison with native 4K content on my relatively high end 4K TV (Hisense U8 series).
Funny you mention that! I was actually playing Oblivion when I went from CRT to 720p and the difference felt like putting on glasses.
It's when I realized there was actually a border around the loading screen that had sketch-like art.
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
To be fair, Uriel Septim looks even more goofy in the remaster:
Love the lions attacking during the dialogue no matter which version... Thanks for making me chuckle.
It is, yes
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.
It was a hard decision, but when color was invented it was very computing expensive and graphics quality had to be lowered.
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