Why is Oblivion so much uglier than Morrowind?

These are my settings

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oblivionsisters...we lost..

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wtf is that sword
revolting

I think the style of Blandmora and Vivec ( the city) take the top spot in the bland division. No soul or effort was put into them.

>worst leveling system in any game ever
Even if you perfect min max, there comes a point where every level after that point makes you WEAKER, it's fucking retarded (all damage skills are maxed, enemies keep HP level scaling).

Not one screenshot from Morrowind.
That settles that.

>ready to poke fun at your shitpost
>released in 2006
Jesus user I wasn't ready for that today.

I almost peed myself when I've seen it on release.
Just use mods if you want to play it in 2022.

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which mods you recommend for first time player? Aside from unoficial patches and obse

good thing you don't have to level up to raise your skills.

Does Oblivion have any good quest or world expansion mods?
Something like Tamriel Rebuilt?
I haven't played Oblivion in like 8 years now

they fell for the technology meme
those specular maps were considered jaw dropping at the time

Obviously the draw distance hampers the visuals

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for me it's the armor detail. even skyrim is worse in this regard

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>hdr and bloom off
that's literally what made it look next gen tard

HDR doesn't mean HDR in the modern sense, it just imitates your eyes adjusting to changes in light
and bloom is just part of Oblivion's charm

forced to have open faced everything helmets to facilitate the silly ass persuasion minigame so you could see NPC expressions

That's just silly. You can spin the wheel once to know which options are bad and which are good

based

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it gets better, it's been over a decade since Skyrim

Oblivion was considered ugly even at the time of its release

A oblivion port on psp would've been so much soul. I would have loved to play oblivion on the go as a kid

i think it looks comfy

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Because they wanted the cartoony kiddy audience.

Why are you complaining about a decade old game.

Not at all, it looked great. It was still disappointing

You know what else hurts the visuals from Morrowind
The visuals from Morrowind.

morrowind used fog to hide the ugliness

Also.
Now do an unmodded game.

That is unmodded

They used fog to hide many things

That is a lie.
I am playing it as we speak. Vanilla Morrowind does not look like that.

The real settings are changed in the stupid launcher that pops up because bethesda is full of retards

Morrowind got MGE for max viewing distance.
Has Oblivion something similiar?

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It's the unmodded GOG version

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oblivion is part nostalgia, and obviously the beginning of the end for TES, but it's a legitimately fun game with an adjustment period.
Play some vanilla, and maybe creep into vanilla-friendly mods for your first playthrough. And then go wild your next one, and you'll see.

The NPCs yes, but the draw distance and environments, especially trees and foliage, combined with the size of the world were beyond anything else in 2006. There were better looking games and bigger games, but nothing that combined that level of scale with those kinds of graphics.

Ironically, while distant LOD was the biggest thing about Onlivion when it came out, that aspect has also aged really badly with very blurry distant textures and the fact that smaller points of interest don’t exist in distant LOD meshes. Obviously it’s moddable, but it’s kinda funny how it didn’t take long for Oblivion to get overtaken on that front.

The first pic wasn't unmodded.
The second looks unmodded.

Man morrowind's world looks so much better than oblivion, like just compare to You can tell that morrowind was handcrafted while oblivion looks like it was borderline procedurally generated, I don't know why so many people act like it's the best of the three when it comes to its world, is it just nostalgia?

> The begining of the end for TES.
The facts in evidence do not support your conclusion.

Was facial hair really a bridge too far for the creation engine in 2006?

beginning of the end, quality wise. As Todd got a taste of that sweet console-focused money, and set him on the path he is today of max casualization for max profits.

Nostalgia is always the answer when Morrowind is involved.

All my screenshots are unmodded idk what to tell you

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I don't see anything modded in the first pic and I play mostly with light mods

As I said the facts in evidence do not support your conclusion.

You mean oblivion, objectively the world in looks more handcrafted and interesting than the world in

No. I said what I meant. Nostalgia is the lifeblood of Morrowind fans.
They use words like soul and heart since actual points could be picked apart.

If it objective show your math.
Your opinion is a subjective one and you may be the only one that holds it.

user, for the third time, look at the images in and It's ironic that you complain about people who have nostalgia since you're absolutely blinded right now.

Because Oblivion is rushed

I have seen them both. It is clear nostalgia , or a general unwillingness to admit Morrowind is inferior in anyway, is clouding your judgement.

Are you trolling?

In what way(s) is Oblivion an improvement over Morrowind?

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In combat

Why does nostalgia apply to Morrowind praise but not Oblivion praise?

Oblivion was 20 years ago.