SpaceMadness: Besides issues with level scaling, I've always hated the way leveling system works, forcing the player to perform unintuitive tasks in order to maximize their attribute gains. From what is shown in the official overview review, you assign points right from from the start, which is an improvement in my book.

Odessam: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/praise-the-nine-oblivion-remastered-doesnt-make-you-grind-your-minor-skills-to-level-efficiently-and-increasing-endurance-boosts-your-hit-points-retroactively/

dtgreene: Or way too easy to break the game's balance. It's the sort of game where, if you want there to be any semblance of challenge, you have to hold back. Like, intelligence potions seem like a great idea, except that there's no cap on how powerful they can get, allowing for exponential stat growth that can break the game in multiple ways. (Getting too much Speed, for example, will crash the game; even before then, high Speed will break collision.)

There's plenty of exploits in Morrowind. Oblivion went to lengths to prevent them (though 100% Chameleon is still possible), while Skyrim seems to take a middle ground.

amok: Then you know it's not so straightforward. Generally, I would say that truth can be seen as a statement that accurately reflects reality or corresponds with a fact (i.e. the correspondence theory of truth). A fact is a fact regardless of what anyone believes, and a statement is true only if it aligns with that fact. So, in this view, truth is not subjective; it's objective and independent of personal opinion.

But there are other philosophical perspectives on truth. For example, you might say a statement is true if it fits logically within a consistent web of beliefs (i.e. the coherence theory, where truth is about internal consistency). Or you might take a pragmatic view, where truth is defined by what works, what is true is what proves useful or effective in practice. Or you can see truth as something constructed and shaped by social agreements or cultural frameworks. And so on. Personally, I prefer the correspondence model of truth, though for many many perspectives I must admit to be a bit of a constructvist as well.

However, take a statement like "I like this game." That’s only a true statement in relation to the individual, because another person might say "I do not like this game," and that would be true for them as well. These are both facts, but they’re facts about the person. So whether someone likes or dislikes a game is subjective, it's based on personal preferences, but the statements they make about their preferences can still be evaluated as objectively true or false relative to the individual’s perspective. In that sense, subjective experience can give rise to objective truth statements

JomVanFliet: Unfortunate to see yet another classic's remaster/remake (ab)used as a trojan horse for trying to normalise body type 1/A & 2/B instead of Male & Female.

And of course the mod rectifying that got removed in an instant on good old totally-not-biased bootlicking Nexus.

Yigdboz: Based Mods got you, at least in this regard.

No replacement models for the deliberately de-feminised Spriggans in the remake yet, as far as I can see.

Mafwek: Oblivion is just as easy to break as Morrowind or Skyrim, all three games are very exploitable if you know what you are doing. But I would ask which of the three games is the most fun to play without using exploits? Oblivion seems to have the most fun gameplay loop over Morrowind or Skyrim, even though it is worse than them in pretty much everything else, IMO.

Eanthol: Looks like it got pulled fast, probably for violating Nexus rules. Not surprised given how strict they are lately.

Mafwek: Oblivion is just as easy to break as Morrowind or Skyrim, all three games are very exploitable if you know what you are doing. But I would ask which of the three games is the most fun to play without using exploits? Oblivion seems to have the most fun gameplay loop over Morrowind or Skyrim, even though it is worse than them in pretty much everything else, IMO.

idbeholdME: And they are enforcing those rules in a completely objective and neutral manner of course :)

But no matter their blatantly obvious political bias, only a lunatic would still use Nexus voluntarily these days. Because they now claim ownership of whatever you upload to their site. From their ToS:

"
In particular, we may retain your content indefinitely and are not obliged to delete your content if you so request. The rights you grant us continue after this agreement is terminated or your access to the site is withdrawn by us.
"

If a site having explicitly written legalese about being able to tell mod creators to go fuck themselves isn't raising any red flags, I don't know what does.

But Nexus is basically the Steam of mods, so whatever they do, people will still come crawling back to it.

dtgreene: One thing, however, is that Morrowind is the easiest of the three games to unintentionally break, while Oblivion contains some counter-intuitive mechanics (behavior of damage + weakness in same spell, Fortify Alchemy) to try to prevent exploits, arguably going too far in that direction.

You mention what happens if you know what you're doing, but if you don't, Morrowind is the easiest to break and Oblivion the hardest.

(By the way, in Oblivion my favorite armor enchantment ends up being Fortify Luck; that stat has significant benefits before maxing out all your important skills and (even in the remaster, apparently) is the hardest stat to permanently increase.)

MysterD: Curious:

Are there any mods for Oblivion, Skyrim, and Morrowind that can block the player from breaking the game?

You can easily break the game in Morrowind if you kill a main quest important NPC like Lord Vivec, if you can reach a high enough level and take him down. Good luck w/ that - but, it can be done.

PookaMustard: Whinging over "Body Type A/B"? And going as far as to mod it out? Seriously?

Mafwek: Well, I unintentionally made myself completely immune to magic in Oblivion by playing with Fren... Breton master race and equipping Mundane Ring, so I don't know about that one.

MysterD: Curious:

Are there any mods for Oblivion, Skyrim, and Morrowind that can block the player from breaking the game?

You can easily break the game in Morrowind if you kill a main quest important NPC like Lord Vivec, if you can reach a high enough level and take him down. Good luck w/ that - but, it can be done.

tremere110: So, does anyone know if the level scaling is just as borked as the original? I quit the original for making the grave error of making a character who had primary skills that were the focus of my playstyle. Gained levels way to fast and ended up taking on enemies with top level gear that completely outclassed me. Please tell me that's been fixed.