The industry is so focused on remakes and remasters right now, taking games from the past and giving them a modern coat of paint. But we're all suckers for nostalgia, and by the time we reach our twenties, we're already reminiscing about how everything was better when we were kids. Naturally, this means a whole lot of us are nostalgic for the early 2000s right now, and the charm that came from the graphical limitations in video games at the time.
If this applies to you, then you'll want to copy this mod setup for the original release of Oblivion. By messing around with some settings and making use of a huge overhaul mod, a Redditor has essentially given us an Oblivion demake, or as they call it, Oblivion Unmastered Edition, in reference to Oblivion Remastered.
"I was having a great time with the Remaster, but when it dawned on me that it was essentially a reskin, I wanted to try my best to push the graphics in the other direction, taking 'I Want Shorter Games With Worse Graphics and I'm Not Kidding' to heart," says Reddit user mufb. "I found Oblivion [Unmastered], which crunched all of the textures...