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Friday Fun Thread for May 2, 2025

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Oblivion Remastered:

Still playing this, a bit every day. Haven't played any Cyberpunk or anything else. It's a bit shallow and generic, but even so it always feels like a decent way to spend some time.

I'm almost level 15, and I've reached 75 in Destruction. I can sling some pretty sick spells now. I'm in the process of joining the Mages Guild. Got a few recommendations done, still a few to go. Mostly trivial quests, but they need doing. I've been fighting in the Arena and slaying a dozen fools or so. Most of those fights have been too easy. I turned the difficulty down from 4/5 to 3/5 a while ago though, so that's partly why. And I'm using the mod Ascension Remastered which tones down some of the "world revolves around player character" factors. And a Reshade preset to bring some vividness back into this game, after some color-grader was let loose on this release of the game. And the Ultra Plus mod to enable Ray Reconstruction and some other things. Recommended!

The people of Cyrodil no longer greet me with vaguely racist ash related comments (Dunmer), instead sometimes being positive or complimenting my Intelligence attribute. :)

Exploring the south today. Bravil and Leyyawin areas. Walked down there from the Imperial City. Found Hircine's Shrine, a grove with a white unicorn guarded by four minotaurs (I left them alone for now), Sheogorath's shrine, and some other things. It's beautiful down there: https://i.ibb.co/sp6PzkPQ/oblivion-south.jpg

It's a bit ironic that they managed at the same time significantly improve the graphics but also not fix the biggest problem with the landscape which is that the ground sharply alternates between being completely smooth dirt and patches of grass.

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