Divorced and no prospects in 25 years, so that may touch a nerve. <_<
I hear the Oblivion remaster is good.. 
Just bought it some days ago.
I haven't played the original, so I'm still on the fence. How similar is it to Fallout in terms of difficulty?
Hard to say, as I haven't played Fallout.
Difficulty is entirely build dependent, but unless they did serious redesign, things scale with you, so you can't just outlevel content. I'd say it's generally easier than Fallout 3 and 4.
Ah, sounds good. I loved Fallout, but had trouble after a certain point. I'm gonna give it a go next.
The main thing I struggle with in large RPGs is inventory management. Straightforward skill upgrades are easier to understand, like those in Far Cry, Ghost of Tsushima and the likes. But the moment there are potions, 3,000 armors and weapons, and you need to pay attention to stats (and do math LOL), I'm lost.
Perhaps we could amend this to top 5 Genres/ top 5 games on different platforms.
On PlayStation my favourite FPS is BLR (Black Light Retribution). (Picture of my 6th loadout to follow - about to go Walkies with the pooch).
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But the moment there are potions, 3,000 armors and weapons, and you need to pay attention to stats (and do math LOL), I'm lost.
Play how you want to. It's not generally hard enough to force you to do otherwise. If you don't like managing so much stuff, ignore a lot of it, and play something easy to manage while you get used to it. A strong, sturdy warrior in heavy armor is very easy to play. Just make sure you keep healing potions on hand. If you don't want to do alchemy, keep picking them up and/or buying them. Don't hoard things you won't use. Any potions OTHER than healing/mana certainly have their uses, but you can absolutely ignore/sell them to focus on the brute force playstyle. Elder Scrolls games don't lock you into your class, so if you find yourself wanting to add magic, or alchemy, or archery, or whatever, you can do so at any time, and your skill level will rise as you use it. (That does mean starting something late game will be useless until it catches up though.)
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And of course if your spouse/SO isn't interested in that stuff, you're outta luck. 
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All right, so I've played for a bit (out of the sewers, at least, pingponging between Oblivion and Expedition 33), and so far so good. It feels slightly unoptimized on my 3070 Laptop GPU. (Even KCD2 ran flawlessly at 4k60, so I think it's an optimization issue on the Oblivion remaster.)
I might actually get Oblivion on PS5 for a smoother gameplay.
It may be a nvidia problem as it's smooth as ever on my AMD GPU.
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Nah, it's the remaster. The original had performance issues too:
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As a related post I'd show you the games I've ignored.
But I don't think the forum allows posts that long. <_<
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How do you even go about doing that to that many games? I just don't look at them, I don't bother adding them to some list lol. It's almost impressive you've got a list that long.
Have you ever used Steam's "discovery queue?" I do, and I ignore anything I know I'll never want. Ten games a day adds up, and if you're bored or really looking for a new game, you can do more queues in a day. I've been doing them for as long as the feature existed, and also ignore anything that I never want to see again outside the queue.
I have used it, yeah, but very rarely. I just usually get games by word of mouth from other people. I also don't like an algorithm at all, and I don't want steam to go "oh, well he didn't want to see this game, therefore he doesn't want to see any games that are of the same genre" or something. For example, if I see an anime waifu type game, I'm gonna basically immediately say no, but if that game happened to be an RTS? I actually like an RTS from time to time, so I don't want them to mistake my disliking one thing for another thing.
Understandable, but they don't extrapolate. If you say ignore, it ignores ONLY that game. It does try to select games it thinks are similar to ones you've spent time playing, but it doesn't avoid games in genres you haven't played, and it tells you why something was suggested. Sometimes the reason is "just to see if you might be interested." If you want negative selection, you have to make that happen with ignore, ignore publisher, or ignore tags. I'm set to ignore driving games and RTS, but I had to actually TELL IT not to offer anything with those tags.
The reason really is as simple as your concern: If they show you something you don't want, you lose one click to be rid of it. If they fail to show you something you DO want, they lost a sale.
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I will say I randomly got recommended a completely weird game called "ENA Dream BBQ" through the recommendation one day. The first ... world? Chapter? I don't know, is free, but it's completely weird and very well made and voice acted, so much so that I don't really know where it came from, but if you wanted to try something weird and 90s weird geometric shapes esque, it's ... well, weird. But I love weird things.
