The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer
Our first look at the long-awaited remake of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion comes from a leak of screenshots and details…
Eurogamer understands Bethesda's current plan is to shadow drop the game next week on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, including via Xbox Game Pass.
Feels on brand for Bethesda to secret release this just before skyblivion mod finally gets near their release date. Kind of feels like a slap in the face to the community. I guess we will get a who did it better comparison.
Unless they DMCA the Skyblivion mod.
Unlikely to happen, because the leadership behind the project claimed they are in contact with Bethesda, to make sure no one’s stepping on anyone’s toes. Although obviously they can just pull the rug at any time, which would be catastrophic. Given that they’ve remade basically every single asset in the game, and require the original game to be owned and installed, it should be fine
Sounds like what they did to fallout London.
I am actually not even sure how much input Bethesda had in this. It was remastered by an outside studio contracted by Microsoft. The same studio handling the remaster of Metal Gear Solid 3, apparently.
At least it is not skyrim again?
Honestly, I don't have a ton of faith in Bethesda anymore, so I don't care much for the next game. This on the other hand, as I understand it, was handled by another studio which has delivered great remasters and remakes, so I'm actually kinda stoked for it. I could play through Oblivion again, it's been years.
Skyblivion (the fan remake) will probably have much more attention to detail and will also release this year, after over 10 years of development. The dev log videos look amazing. I'd be very surprised if the official remake is as good.
The only part that gives me pause is that this is supposedly in Unreal Engine rather than Bethesda's usual engine.
Not to say that there won't be a modding scene, but it will be substantially different without the equivalent of the Construction Set/GECK/Creation Kit.
I admit this is less of a concern to me because I don't do a lot of modding, but I can definitely understand that disappointment for those that do. With a different engine, though, I do hope it will be less buggy.
they really doing anything but making elder scrolls 6 huh
They need to create some new Creation Engine bugs first
That game only really went into production after Starfield shipped.
starfield counts as "anything but".
If you just click on the article and read the first paragraph, you will learn that it's made by Virtuous.
I was making a joke I'm not gonna check if I'm right first
I still remember my first playthrough. Low level character. I save scummed until I could sneak into the tower in the heart of the Imperial City. In the council chamber was a mage with an incredibly powerful staff. I pickpocketed it off of him, again using save scumming. I then traveled to Bravil and entered the castle there. As the Count of Bravil was giving a speech, I pulled out the staff and zapped him dead on his throne, right in front the of the whole court. I then got away from the assassination through the brilliant escape plan of running out the front door, murder weapon still in hand.
Damn I loved Oblivion.
Muuuuurrddeeerrr!!!
My favorite story was actually from my buddy's playthrough. He duped the poison apple from the assassin's guild quest using the arrow glitch. He then duped it 50 more times and put-pocketed one into everyone's pockets in a specific town. When they all went to lunch they ate them and died. An entire town of dead people. It was hilarious.
An entire town of dead people. It was hilarious.
I see you also follow the life philosophy of, "if you're not on at least one watch list, are you even really living?" :D
I beat the entire thieves guild quest line starting at basically level 1 by using the strategy of "run fast". There were some major flaws that kept me from loving that game properly, so I'm hoping it's more user friendly with the remake. But I could definitely see a lot of charm in it.
If it isn't one of the ugliest games I've ever played though. Why is every character a shiny, pudgy, orange?
Yup. I'm pretty sour on Bethesda RPGs after getting burned hard by Starfield. But I have a hard time imagining even they could fuck up a simple remastering of a game I already loved in the past.
I've been save scumming my way through the fighters guild quests for literally 10+ years.
I'm like 1 achievement away from 100%... but holy shit, those trolls are relentless. They take like 40 hits to kill but only need 1-2 to kill you.
My only thing is that I hope they fixed some of the blaring issues with the original. I still go back and play Oblivion from time to time, but I usually have to spend 4 or 5 hours just downloading and installing mods. My biggest gripe with Oblivion has always been enemy scaling. Unless you do the main quest first you'll be fighting the strongest enemies in the game by the time you get around to it.
I used those glitches to my advantage thank you very much.
I don't think it would be hard to fake these screenshots. Bethesda shadow dropping a game of this high profile within a week, without ever having officially said anything about it or even replying to media asking about it just seems incredibly unlikely.
Maybe release isn't likely, but announcement is. Remember they drop Fallout 4 trailer and then saying it'll come end of year? Maybe that's the magic they want to recreate.
This remaster has been leaked and rumoured since 2020 though
That's so fucking weird to drop a remaster or remake like that so suddenly with no advertising or announcement. Something about this still doesn't feel right in my gut, so I guess I'll believe it when (if) it does drop. I don't even know if I am going to buy it if it's real, I have more faith in the modders behind Skyblivion than I do in Bethesda to actually do right with their IPs
i think its a panic project that was fired up quickly because Starfield failed so miserably.
unless this was just a side project that a few devs were working on and it was latched on to as a product that could be focused on.
i suspect that while todd was failing to put out fires, a couple devs were like "should we tell them we've been messing around with Oblivion assets in our new engine?"
What's weird is that they're still keeping it a secret even though it's been rumored for months. We know it's coming, but they're still acting like it's going to be a surprise.
Video game marketing changed dramatically about 2 years ago. No one likes long marketing cycles anymore. There are too many opportunities for delays or "puddlegates".
Microsoft likes doing shadowdrops, apparently. Hi-Fi Rush being the most prominent, but they also shadowdropped the Ninja Gaiden 2 remake a few months ago.
Bethesda used to have a very short time between announcements and release. This game isn't made by them, but they probably made the devs keep a tight lid on it.
Oblivion has my heart, but I'm not super interested in this. So far some of the visual choices look less inspired than the original take, and I don't just mean the yellow filter. The dryad went from other worlds to person with a dryad skin equipped.
I'm more interested in the Skyblivion mod. It feels more like it improves upon what was there and has some cool deviations of its own.
I have a bad feeling about this. I'm getting GTA The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition flashbacks.
What the fuck the community already did this just make a new game already, one that's preferable not garbage
Yeah.. but RuneScape dgaronwilds came out today so... Only so much money to spend this month
Too bad it's american and I'll never buy it.
Yar har fiddly dee
if I can't play it in VR im not doing it
