Bethesda confirms via X tweet - TES IV: Oblivion Remaster is real

They put the I on the wrong side

u really thinked its not real, after the leak?

I want to type but just being a remaster, boo. I paid for the game on Xbox back in the day, not paying for it again just for nostalgia factor...

As long as they don't get Patrick Stewart to redo his lines, they don't try and mess with any of the plot and characters and it's on mobile* then I'd give it a look.

*That was a joke.

Personally I'm more interested in Skyblivion, the unofficial remake using the Skyrim version of CK. I think the official remaster is for Oblivion fans who want to play the exact same game they played 18+ years ago, but with the graphics they imagined it had when they were kids.

I've never played Oblivion as a kid so I don't have any associated nostalgia, I've played Skyrim, Morrowind, and all the Fallouts before Oblivion. I first played it last year and while it was a good game overall, I really can't agree with the common sentiment long-time fans have of it. Skyrim improved on too many aspects of Oblivion, even if some were downgrades.

The random, non-quest driven exploration, which I thoroughly enjoy in Skyrim and Fallout 4, is severely lacking. Melee and archery combat are worse and simpler than in Skyrim (and yet it's always dunked on for being crap), and most quests were not that interesting, I would say on par with Skyrim or even FO4. Only thing that I thought was objectively superior were guilds and their questlines, in Skyrim they're far too basic and isolated from the rest of the world.

Since the official remaster is meant to be identical in terms of content and gameplay, with only the graphics improved, I'm hoping that the remake will take a bit more risk. Pretty sure they've redesigned most if not all dungeons to make them more fun and worthwhile to explore, so that's already solving a big con from the original. Plus it will work with Skyrim mods, which is nice.

You know what else is confirmed?

I'll be playing this at some point. :)

Which probably means, that if you may ever want to play the Oblivion, you should get it right now, before it's retired from the store and replaced with the remake with all it's bugs and unasked for "improvements".

Oblivion + (probably) achievements? Count me in! But will wait until it gets cheaper I think!

My b ody is freaking ready

now daggerfal

Anything to not release TES6.

It's something, but I'd prefer they made games instead of copy pasting their old ones and up-scaling textures. Chat GPT Ghibli TES AI mod when?

2 times the detail, 10 times the dlcs!

Definitely not hype, but I'll play it eventually. Tried the original twice, got gamebreaking bugs both times (probably because of an ungodly amount of mods), will give it another go when (if?) the remaster is released.

I'm waiting for the announcement of official mod support.
Otherwise, original version will remain superior.

I am an Elder Scrolls fan since I got Morrowind for Santa Day (actual celebration in Poland) and loved series since. I even got Skyrim tattooed on me 8 years ago, no chance I am going to miss that!

Eh, Oblivion doesn't need a remake. The original holds up very well, and there are all sorts of mods if you don't like the leveling system or stuff like that.

I want to give a proper go for the original for a good while. Still want, the only thing I've seen is high fidelity, and a super sharp change in visual representation. Changing the vivid green environment to an autumnal yellow is just off... Not like I'd pay 50-70€ for it, especially in what state new games are releasing. I hope it's good thought, because if the price becomes right, I'll buy.

unreal engine 5 is garbage

I'm interested, but curious how much it'll be to upgrade our existing versions.

Interesting I suppose but doesn't strike me as a must-have personally. Oblivion is the only TES game I played where I couldn't do an initial vanilla playthrough, at the 3/4 mark I tossed aside my game and restarted with mods to fix alot of the problems I perceived. Graphically I thought it was fine, still holds up decently enough with mods 🤷‍♂️. I suppose that means an engine update for Morrowind is out of the question 🥲. Not surprising, I admit modding it is not a as simple as it was. Mind you if they really want my money they should remake this Terminator games they made in the 90s, I'd buy those.

Though like many I can't escape this feeling that there's something else that Bethesda should be working on 🤔.......

0 shits given. dont trust them at all and would rather have a new game
Oblivion is fun and all. better games in this day and age

I was prepared to buy it already yesterday, sad they haven't released it fir Easters days off.

Was I the only one that didn't like Oblivion?

Same maps used and reused ad nauseum.Scaling was ridiculous Story was weak

Not saying it's a bad game. But really I'm not waiting for a remaster.

I can't understand why everybody calls this a remaster. It's a remake in another engine and assets are re-created e.g. doing away with the sameness of cave and temple layout in the original.

It is contract work from Virtuos, Singapore a studio you may have never heard of but is a 4,200+ strong company according to their home page so more like a game published by Bethesda.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623190/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV_Oblivion_Remastered/

no mod = shit