Hi! Saw your tags on the Oblivion post you reblogged from me and just wanted to ask you about your opinions regarding the elder scrolls games graphics in general, I find a lot of folks have very varying takes and it's really interesting to hear about them.
Personally I've found Oblivion really refreshing on the eyes after so much time with the muted tones of unmodded Skyrim, but I definitely understand that the lower resolution and clunkiness can be a huge turn off :o
Okay, so it's time for some clarification my part! What I don't like about Oblivion's graphics is the player models, mostly the heads. It's entirely possible I'm exaggerating but it feels like the skin textures are just flat, the heads are all basically just an oval shape or an oval shape With Cheekbones.
I don't really feel badly about much else in the graphics. The bloom is a little out of control, and I do think it's a Little bright (much like skyrim was a Little muted) but other then that I think it's perfectly serviceable. I'm not like super fond of it or anything, but it works.
In general I think the TES games have struggled with graphics and they're always a little wonky (with the exception of morrowind, and I'm not saying that as a morrowind fanboy, though I did like it quite a bit, and much more then I expected to), but the player models in oblivion, mostly the heads, just bother the hell out of me. I've called them "misshapen lumps of clay" in the past and I stand by that.
Oblivion was also my first TES and back when I was in school I had much more time and energy to muscle through things I wasn't entirely onboard with, and while, at the time, I felt oblivion was a little silly, as I've looked back on it I think a lot of the quest writing is very charming and fun, especially coming from DraugrFest 2011: Skyrim.
Not that I didn't enjoy killing those draugrs, I think the skyrim combat system is about as good as it's gotten.
it's a pity it's also got the worst skill and stat system if you ask me.
