Exactly the same for me, once my little one was born I didn’t have time for anything I couldn’t throw in my pocket. My MIL randomly gave me a cheap light up yoyo, and the rest is history
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Oh interesting! Didn’t know that. What did you think of Oblivion’s main quests?
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That was my last play through, I got out of the sewers and booked it to the gates of madness. Then dropped everything i owned before going in
Best starting point I’ve ever had, goal was to enter the main storyline after completing shivering isles, but skooma had other plans
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I’d totally wait a bit before really committing on purchasing a whole new rig just to play this in ultra settings unless your rig is on the entry level side.
There seems to be a bit of an optimization issue from what I’ve seen thus far this early into the release. The RTX 4090 is struggling to keep frames above 60 at ultra (4k) with dlss off. Which is kind of bonkers. The 5090 is experiencing nearly the same framerate at the same settings (which makes sense because they are pretty similar cards minus the AI crap on the 5090)
The doesn’t seem like it’s because the game is “THAT” demanding (that’s not to say it isn’t demanding or looking absolutely amazing) but more to do with the two engines they are using. The newest Unreal is rendering the visual aspects and it’s piggybacked onto the old crusty oblivion engine. It’s definitely going to need some patching and more optimization before it’s running well on everything, even the top-tier cards.
There’s swaths of folks experiencing graphical issues while others are blasting it on ultra with a RTX 3080 at 1440p.. LOL! The sad part is it seems like they’re really leaning heavily into the DLSS / AI frame generation to carry it further (thanks nvidia 
) - so it’s hard to tell what the best options are currently
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I will not stand for this blasphemy on my own post 
I’ve finished it, I think, once(???) in all my dozens of playthroughs. Personally, I like some of the guild quests and other, random side quests more. Once Patrick Stewart King Uriel Septim VII dies, I’ve pretty much done everything I want to do with the main quest.
I’ll have to give that a shot next time. I didn’t even think to book it to the gate in Bravil and just start in the Isle of Madness
@cowmamba That’s a really weird way to say “You couldn’t wait, could you?” And again, I will not stand here, in my own post, and be put on full blast like that.
In fairness though, I was planning on waiting, but I was watching the stream (about a half hour after it was live) and towards the end, they had gameplay footage, and quite frankly, that cinched it for me. I knew there would be optimization issues (it’s still a BGS game, of course) but quite frankly, Oblivion is my favorite game and the footage looked anything BUT a labor of love. Ended up buying a new GPU (as part of an impulse upgrade that’s rolling out in the next few weeks).
THAT SAID… If you hate stutter and and playing below ultra and you can wait, I would. But personally, as long as it’s playable, I’ll play Oblivion
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Makes sense. That’s one reason that drew me to morrowind specifically, I think it has the best main quest out of the three. I don’t enjoy most side content’s stories
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Haha for sure! Totally didn’t mean it in any malicious way or to come off like I was flaming you or anyone else. I have done the exact same in the past for games too hah! When DOOM 3 came out I bought it day one and realized my card was way too anemic for it haha! I ended up getting the GeForce 6800 ultra OC a few days later because it had JUST came out a month earlier and it was the top of the line card at the time. Expensive as frig back then but totally worth it. So I totally get it! I remember like, two months after that Half Life 2 came out. It was a killer year that year for hardware and games.
It’s crazy to think a $650 GPU today is the basic entry level to the higher-end gpus now. Back then it was like owning a Ferrari in a PC build LOL! It’s just such a bummer the sate of where GPUs are currently at it’s so hard to justify buying the new 50 series from nVidia. The competition is starting to nip at their heels so hopefully that’ll kind of make them snap out of it, but only time will tell i suppose.
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No worries. I didn’t take it as such and don’t usually until/unless someone says otherwise. Thank you for sharing a look into a time in PC gaming that I was unable to afford at the time.
Personally, as a linux user, I’m mostly using AMD because nVidia is just yet another thing that needs to be configured and tweaked. Regardless, agreed, it’s pretty hard to justify a new GPU (Favorite games being remastered incredibly notwithstanding). Also agreed that more than half a thousand only gets you the most basic GPU and can still, likely, be more than half your built PC budget. Honestly shocked because I remember when custom PCs were nigh unaffordable… But, I suppose they are easier to build now than before… So, we got that going for us
However, I do actually enjoy some of the side quests. For Oblivion, if nothing else, Shadow over Hackdirt is a pretty nice homage to HP Lovecraft
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I’ll have to check that one out! Restart my character, didn’t do a good job with picking skills and the level scaling for the og😅