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[FoxMcChief]

Wow. I legit hope they keep the VO. Day 1.

How did this just become the greatest thing I’ve ever seen?

 

[FoxMcChief]

GIVE IT TO ME. I WANTS IT

Still hotter than any character in Concord.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

This would explain why it’s taken so long. The first rumors started around 2+ years ago, by now.

 

[FoxMcChief]

True to the original then.

 

[squidilix]

I hope so too!

jfc, this faces...

 

[Arachnid]

Oblivion is the only one I didn't get to play. Hopefully they do a good job modernizing a lot of it. If Skyrim is dated to me these days, I can't imagine the game before it.

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[UniformDeliverance]

I replayed it recently. It hasn't aged well.. Level scaling, level up points (which you can easily mess up and fall way behind on the level curve) dungeon design and more.. the game may live gloriously in memory, but it's a hot mess by today's standards.

It needs a full fledged remake, this is encouraging for sure, but I hope they fully updated and redesigned all of the dungeons and Oblivion gate sequences as well.

 

[nkarafo]

Are they going to remake the terrible level scaling too?

 

[Metnut]

If the enemy level scaling is a real thing then I’ll pass on this. It’s one thing that completely ruins open world games for me.

 

[Chiggs]

Can't wait. I love Oblivion, especially the DLC.

Sounds like this one has been in the works for quite some time now, too...meaning it's probably in really good shape for its debut (whenever that is).

Morrowind needs the same--if not more--TLC.

 

[Crayon]

When I think of modernizing gameplay, I think of Bethesda.

 

[ajanke]

exciting

 

[SportsFan581]

Can I disable bloom?

Seeing that the OG is one of the original bloomfest games, that would be almost criminal.

 

[Laptop1991]

So vanilla only without mod support apparently, that's concerning for me, i love the game always have but i hope that's not true, there is gonna be bugs!.

 

[Gaiff]

I replayed it recently. It hasn't aged well.. Level scaling, level up points (which you can easily mess up and fall way behind on the level curve) dungeon design and more.. the game may live gloriously in memory, but it's a hot mess by today's standards.

It needs a full fledged remake, this is encouraging for sure, but I hope they fully updated and redesigned all of the dungeons and Oblivion gate sequences as well.

Worst leveling system ever lol.

 

[Kamina]

Well we will see how it turns out. Until we actually see it i am more hyped about Skyblivion.

 

[Three]

Yeah this will be worst than Starfield.

It's a remake and we know how much xbox fans love those!

Snark aside, looking forward to it. The only way I see it doing better than Starfield is possibly due to the multiplatform release. Bugs would probably be less though if that's what you mean by worse.

 

[LordBlodgett]

Pretty sure Bethesda isn't making this internally. I believe it's Virtuos Studios.

Ohhh, well never mind about the UE5 experience then.........odd

 

[Braag]

I hope they don't touch the soundtrack which is perfect as it is.

Talking about soundtrack, I'm really worried that they bring Inon Zur to compose the TESVI soundtrack too. He made the Fallout 3, F4 and Starfield soundtracks and at this point I feel like all the more recent Bethesda games have a really similar sounding music. I hope they keep Jeremy Soule for TES at least, or bring in someone new who isn't Inon Zur.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

I hope they keep Jeremy Soule for TES at least, or bring in someone new who isn't Inon Zur.

Unfortunately I read they had a bad falling out

Jeremy Soule is a big reason for the great atmosphere of TES games so not having him on board is a huge loss…

 

[Imtjnotu]

Yeah this will be worst than Starfield.

 

[Dazraell]

I hope they will keep the unintentional hilariousness of npc dialogue

 

[RCX]

Full on remake?

Taking bets now, which gets released first ES6 or this?

Find out in 2030-ish

 

[niilokin]

I wonder how the artstyle will differ and how does it affect the vibe of the game. Is it going to be just realistic style modern UE graphics. Are we going to see a new kind of iteration on how the mer and khajiit/argonians, daedric lords etc look? Are all the expansions also included? Hope it's visually something akint to Diablo2Resurrected -> Diablo2

 

[Wvrs]

Jungle Cyrodill or preorder cancelled.

 

[Emedan]

I mean It needs one certainly but man are they gonna dumb it down : ( When the original released in 06 i was "sick" from school for 2 weeks just to play it.

 

[Mister Wolf]

They finally moved on from that outdated engine. Now we can get some good graphics.

 

[MMaRsu]

They finally moved on from that outdated engine. Now we can get some good graphics.

No they havent. This isnt made by Bethesda internally

 

[GymWolf]

The HUD was changed to make it easier to understand and more aesthetically appealing to young players.

What an odd statement.

Spoiler

Fuck them young players.

 

[Husky]

Can this garbage engine even handle kind of interactivity Oblivion has? And what performance horror it will be in this case?

This is my main concern. Hearing it's a "full-fledged remake" with "modernized" gameplay makes me worry we'll lose out on the interactivity of the original game, for a more static, Unreal Engine world. Something pretty but not as fun to play. Not sure we can hope for much mod support either. I love the infinite fun of super-moddable games.

 

[GymWolf]

This is my main concern. Hearing it's a "full-fledged remake" with "modernized" gameplay makes me worry we'll lose out on the interactivity of the original game, for a more static, Unreal Engine world. Something pretty but not as fun to play. Not sure we can hope for much mod support either. I love the infinite fun of super-moddable games.

Bethesda engine doesn't have the exclusivity on physics or objects staying where you leave them, other engines can do that, stalker 2 is ue5 and has objects\weapons staying in place for example, pretty sure that cyberpunk has weapons staying in places for a lot of days aswell.
Days gone and rdr2 have bodies remaining on the terrain for long periods of times.

 

[MMaRsu]

Bethesda engine doesn't have the exclusivity on physics or objects staying where you leave them, other engines can do that, stalker 2 is ue5 and has objects\weapons staying in place for example, pretty sure that cyberpunk has weapons staying in places for a lot of days aswell.
Days gone and rdr2 have bodies remaining on the terrain for long periods of times.

Can you pick up every object in those games? No. Pick up as in just hold it in front of you, not putting it in your inventory.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Can you pick up every object in those games? No. Pick up as in just hold it in front of you, not putting it in your inventory.

Oblivion was mostly small instances and a somewhat empty open-world. If well optimized (lol) I see no reason why they couldn't replicate those interactions in UE5.

But if I had to bet, I'd say they won't. Because it's a lot of work and to me this doesn't sound like a big budget game. Hope I'm wrong tho.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

The HUD was changed to make it easier to understand and more aesthetically appealing to young players.

What an odd statement.

Not half. The hud was already brought down to a four year old levels..

So what level are we dropping to now?

 

[GymWolf]

Can you pick up every object in those games? No. Pick up as in just hold it in front of you, not putting it in your inventory.

In stalker 2\cyberpunk\many other games objects have havok physics like in skyrim so it's just a matter of lacking a grab button, it's not a limit of the engine, devs just decided that on their game a grab button was superfluos because they have other things going on.

Bethesda engine only reason to exist in 2025 is objects staying where you leave them so of course they are gonna flex the only good thing in their engine, even if in practical use, you are almost never gonna have a use other than putting 40.000 pieces of bread in your room to make funny gifs for reddit.

 

[MMaRsu]

In stalker 2\cyberpunk\many other games objects have havok physics like in skyrim so it's just a matter of lacking a grab button, it's not a limit of the engine, devs just decided that on their game a grab button was superfluos because they have other things going on.

Bethesda engine only reason to exist in 2025 is objects staying where you leave them so of course they are gonna flex the only good thing in their engine, even if in practical use, you are almost never gonna have a use other than putting 40.000 pieces of bread in your room to make funny gifs for reddit.

The reason they still use the same engine is because of its devs are trained on it, and modders use it.

Pretty sure modding is a huge reason they aren't stepping away from the Creation engine.

And I applaud them for it.

Not every game needs to be UE5 trash

 

[GymWolf]

The reason they still use the same engine is because of its devs are trained on it, and modders use it.

Pretty sure modding is a huge reason they aren't stepping away from the Creation engine.

And I applaud them for it.

Not every game needs to be UE5 trash

Ue5 trash are the best looking games on the market but ok.

That engine is done for, getting your games fixed by modders must be the most reatarded reason to keep an ancient engine that is clearly not capable to keep up with the new ones.

You are praising these dudes for being lazy fucks basically, ue5 is not the only option available.

 

[MMaRsu]

Ue5 trash are the best looking games on the market but ok.

That engine is done for, getting your games fixed by modders must be the most reatarded reason to keep an ancient engine that is clearly not capable to keep up with the new ones.

You are praising these dudes for being lazy fucks basically, ue5 is not the only option available.

Its not for letting modders do the fixing. But you are acting so pedantly that you probably don't even know the scope of what modders are able to achieve and create with the Creation engine.

Which seems stupid if you want to pretend to argue about which engine is beneficial to their pipeline and type of game they wish to create.

 

[GymWolf]

Its not for letting modders do the fixing. But you are acting so pedantly that you probably don't even know the scope of what modders are able to achieve and create with the Creation engine.

Which seems stupid if you want to pretend to argue about which engine is beneficial to their pipeline and type of game they wish to create.

I don't care what modders do, i don't buy games to play mods i buy games to play the devs vision, i'm not an heavy mod user (or even a light one tbh)

And don't fool yourself, they definitely hope for modders to fix their games, i don't know how you can think otherwise after all these years, that for me is being lazy fucks and ANY other dev would be trolled until the end of the days but we are so used with bethesda releasing broken games that other people have to fix that for some people this is normal and even positive.

Sorry, to me it sound like horsecrap.

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[GigaBowser]

perdiction ue5 will make it crud Im sorry my friends