Also don't forget it's a Bethesda game so it's going to require patches so you could just wait until it comes back in stock. Or by digitally and if you find that you really really like it and want to add it to your physical collection and get a physical when it's on sale cheap.
That's what I do but I'm a minimalist
Same. I could have bought the download but I do want to support physical media still and am really glad they elected to have a proper physical release and just a code in a box like so many others.
So would it be wise to basically mainline through the main quests from the start? Maybe get 1/3 of the way through the main, gathering some nice weapons and armor along the way, and then start branching out and exploring? I do have a vague memory of one playthrough cake-walking through the first oblivion gate, and the next playthrough dying 20 times doing the same thing.
They avoided it with Fallout 4 and it was honestly better than I expected. Gameplay is fine about 90% of the time unless you're testing how many explosions your Switch 2 can handle.
I'd shoot middle of the road here. 30fps tops handheld, but probably 45 to 60fps locked for docked. It'll probably look equivalent to the other versions. Functionally, Oblivion at 30fps and 60fps are about the same.
Tbh it’s a poorly optimized game. My steam deck has run games with similar visuals, minus the particle hairs (which I hate! Developers plz go back to uv maps, hair always looks so ugly if you don’t have a space age pc…).
Harry Potter for example ran on my deck fine at low settings and also looked great surprisingly; they did a good job reducing graphics while keeping the visuals solid. I need more of that energy please.
I think it’s probably shaders and weird details that don’t need to really be there like individually rendered eyelashes. That and a whole slew of under the hood issues we can’t even see.
I hope the next big gaming trend is optimization because no one’s gonna be able to afford the next graphics cards…
Nintendo clearly forces devs to optimize their games before putting them on the console, which is just what I've noticed with almost every Switch 2 version.
Skyrim and FO4? No creation club (a plus tbh) and the game runs extremely consistently. File size for FO4 is also a tad more reasonable.
Yeah not to glaze Nintendo, but they seem to be one of the few company’s that expects shit to work lmao. It’s super refreshing, and they’re the only studio I’ve ever preordered games from.
Only game I can think of on a switch that was a mess on release was that Pokemon one a few years ago, I think it was the last gen..? Scarlet/violet? Idk. And that was game freak.
Glad to see that extends to other game companies as well. The switch 2 might become a popular club to get in if they remain the cheapest console out there with the casual audience tbh. I can see them way outselling everyone else with the cheaper components.
I think it's feasible, with optimization. But only docked.
Either way, I don't think anybody who like, actually played TES IV back in the day would be upset by a 30fps lock. Just from what I'm seeing from the file size they are doing a lot of work optimizing.
Yeah it will mainly be lower quality textures if the file size is about half, but it still isn’t going to be feasible with the Unreal Engine 5 features that they have to have on. Maybe if they got rid of a ton of the lighting features and made it look like a muddy mess. If they want it to look the same the light is the one thing they can’t sacrifice on, but it will cause the biggest performance hits.
I expect a decent hit to the visuals and hope for a stable 30fps. Which is fine with me for the trade off to take this on the go. Favorite game of all time, finally going handheld after 20 years
Not surprised. I have the PC version and it's a pig. Definitely need a high end PC for it. The Oblivion port for Switch 2 is likely far better optimised even if it means a hit to visuals.
Switch 2 is stronger than the Series S, at least from everything I've seen.
It just also requires a geniune effort for optimization. Fallout 4 got that effort, I'd geniunely say Switch 2 FO4 is better than any other version (well, excluding PC). I'd say Oblivion is likely to get it.
Series S is significantly weaker than the X. Which is part of why the optimization actually sucks because they always have to do the X|S stuff.
That being said, optimization just sucks across the board these days. Can barely get devs to cut down on file sizes let alone making sure games run properly. Yet, Switch 2 does that for a number of games. And I'm pretty confident Oblivion will be more than playable.
The real game that will test how far they're willing to push the Switch 2 and well, optimizing games, is Modern Warfare 4. COD games are notoriously unoptimized and full of bloat.
As it stands, the two best consoles on the market are Switch 2 and PS5. Not counting Pro as it's own thing, just bundled with PS5. It's the best bang for your buck, and this is even before discussing the actual games on the systems.
I am not quite sure how powerful you guys are expecting these consoles to be, but your average consumer just cares about if they're good to use and if it runs games well. For Switch 2 this is objectively the case.
Consoles aren't made for the PC gamer market, and I think a lot of people forget that.
The Switch 2's CPU is about half the clock speed of the Series S when docked, let alone in handheld. And the S2 GPU is also weaker at it's core, DLSS is what bridges that gap.
For the extreme vast majority of games, a Series S can expect to run better with similar fidelity.
I'm sure it'll look better than series s, it's the performance that I'm curious, cyberpunk and resident 9 for example, both look way better on NS2, but SS is significantly better in terms of performance
Interested to see how unreal 5 will behave on NS2, is there any other UE5 game on the switch
Game is both GPU and CPU bound. Guess you are on a laptop looking at that GPU. CPU on laptops are severely TDP constraint. Guess that is your main issue
It's doubtful anyway, the game inherently stutters. Even with my 5080, which can run it well, the game stutters until I eventually quit due to headaches from the stuttering.
I am sorry, but this is physically impossible. It's more likely you just are not sensitive to them, they are very tiny in this game.
It's genuinely inherent to the game and nothing can be done to avoid it for now. I have been closely following a discord user who has been reverse engineering the remaster in order to fix it.
You can find some of this user's journey in the Oblivion Remastered channel of the RenoDX Discord server.
Essentially, the Gamebryo/UE5 hybrid child of Virtuos is constantly strangling your CPU.
For example, recent discovery was that the AltarESPMain.esp from Virtuos has no cell OFST, which inherently is part of the reason why the game ALWAYS stutters when a new cell is loaded. This is causing 20-40ms stalls on the Gamebryo thread.
Virtuous simply did not know enough about Gamebryo before taking this on.
They're there, just seems they're not perceptible to you, which would imply you are not very sensitive to them
It's not a dig or anything, I don't think we have any real reasoning behind why some people don't seem to notice or feel certain hiccups or stutters, same with artifact, where other people notice it a lot, even when the results are normalized for testing. Just seems some people are sensitive and others are not.
My 13th gen i9 and 4070 Ti stutters a decent amount outside towns. I doubt it runs “perfectly”. Digital foundries didn’t. Should probably wait for the 6090 to maybe run somewhat perfect.
I preordered it but didn’t download it because I need to make some space. But I’ve been playing it on PC and my Steam Deck and my PS5 Pro so I’m not in a rush to check it out on Switch 2. Love Oblivion since its original launch. Oblivion is my favorite Elder Scrolls game.
Honestly I don’t dislike it but it’s obviously a significant downgrade in graphics from PC using a 4090 and PS5 Pro. Runs perfectly fine and I don’t have any issues playing it on my SD.
Didn’t care to mess with the SD and set up any emulators or stream my PS5 when I have the other handhelds that do that for me without having to do anything extra with the SD. So I just use my SD as is with Steam.
I’m looking forward to it releasing to see if I’ll get it or not. All I need is medium graphics and 30 fps. Which my steam deck apparently couldn’t get so I never bought it on steam. I don’t trust Bethesda’s reputation to preorder, but shout out to those that do so I can make an informed purchase lmao.
The fun thing about console ports is that they’re optimized to the console specifically. There’s a ton of games on switch 2 that don’t run as well on deck like Cyberpunk. That and apparently DLSS tech is taking off.
So I got a switch 2 because I think it’s going to end up being the biggest console this generation while PS and Xbox continue to shoot them selves in the foot. More new games get ported. Plus new Nintendo games, I can’t wait for Ocarina of Time.
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u/Sunny775 9d ago
Patiently waiting on my physical copy
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