Comments on: Replaying Oblivion, Kinda Glad They’re Redoing The Faces For Skyrim

By: SnuffyTheEvil

SnuffyTheEvil — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:03:17 +0000

Fortunately, you can make the rest of it look pretty nifty with OBGEv3, OBGE Liquid Water and a few dozen texture packs.

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:57:29 +0000

Someone remind me never to question Tom’s omnipotence again.

By: GaGrin

GaGrin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:47:08 +0000

It’s a side effect of having randomised faces from a range, you end up with a “grey goo” effect, especially if the extremes of the features aren’t really well defined. None of Oblivion’s facial options allow pronounced, square, or sharp features – so everyone looks round, flat and as TooNu says, “pudding”-y.

Which is sort of a big deal when you’re dealing with characters you’re supposed to remember, and hopefully recognise by sight when they’re wondering about and you need to find them again.

By: TooNu

TooNu — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:41:18 +0000

They all have pudding faces. Big doughy faces where their complexions look see through and a bit like the senator in the first (terrible) X-Men movie when he comes out of the water onto the beach.

I didn’t like Oblivions faces nor their chatter.
“Good to see you!”
“I hear the king is dead, a sad day indeed”
“They still have not caught the Grey Fox”
“Well bye bye”
“Goodbye”

By: Jackrabbit

Jackrabbit — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:50:47 +0000

Yeah, the faces always worried me. No matter how young the character was supposed to be their faces looked crumpled.

By: Caleb

Caleb — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:00:57 +0000

This is probably 50% of why I stopped playing Oblivion after one hour.

The other half is that I didn’t realize there was a fast travel system. D’oh.

I need to go back to Oblivion at some point :/

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:10:39 +0000

“Their facial animation ranges from basic to non-existent, and some of their faces are downright ugly (including that of Patrick Stewart’s character, sadly)”

Wasn’t a huge deal to me then or now, though.

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:23:32 +0000

I was reading your original Oblivion review in an old PCG on Tues. Don’t think face fugliness was mentioned. Although, most games at the time were relatively fugly anyway, so this was still better than all the rest. Hell, I remember having to run most of the graphics settings on medium at release!

Those were the days….no they weren’t…

By: GaGrin

GaGrin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:19:21 +0000

Oblivion’s people looked fugly on release. Not bad art, just… ugly.

By: Jaz

Jaz — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:17:52 +0000

I can’t wait until 5 years after Skyrim, when the incredible new faces look this shit to future-us.