The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake is real
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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.

  • Philote@lemmy.mlEnglish
    64·
    6 个月前

    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.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    54·
    6 个月前

    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.

    • DarthFrodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      6 个月前

      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.

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        6 个月前

        I really admire the work of the Skyblivion crew, as well as the ones remaking Morrowind, but I’m not quite as cynical as you regarding the official. As I said, I think the studio has handled some good remasters in the past and I think it will be done well.

        • DarthFrodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 个月前

          I don’t think the official one is gonna be bad by any means. They will probably fix the biggest flaws with hindsight and modernize the graphics, and it will be a big improvement over the original if everything goes right.

          But ultimately they had deadlines to meet and many more games in the pipeline, whilst the Skyblivion team can work on everything for as long as it takes, experiment much more and put as much detail and soul into everything as they want. I think that will make a difference, but both will be good games.

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        6 个月前

        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.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    37·
    6 个月前

    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!!!

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      6 个月前

      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.

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        6 个月前

        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

    • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 个月前

      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?

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        6 个月前

        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.

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 个月前

      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.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    6 个月前

    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.

  • Console_Modder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    6 个月前

    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

    • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
      17·
      6 个月前

      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?”

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        6 个月前

        No, they contracted this game out to another developer, and it’s in Unreal. It’s been in the works for a long time. If they’re smart, it’s a testbed for getting future games off of their usual Creation engine.

        • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
          5·
          6 个月前

          ooooooh! I’m very happy to have been corrected. it might actually be decent, then!

          thank you much for the info. that’s interesting.

        • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
          1·
          6 个月前

          I hope they made it impossible to mod. In my new but rapidly growing religion, “modding” (desacrating) games is a mortal sin. Elder Scrolls games have damned the souls of many hairy, soft-bodied men.

    • simple@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      9·
      6 个月前

      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.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        6 个月前

        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”.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      6 个月前

      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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    12·
    6 个月前

    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.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      6 个月前

      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.

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    9·
    6 个月前

    What the fuck the community already did this just make a new game already, one that’s preferable not garbage

  • VerseAndVermin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 个月前

    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.

  • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
    6·
    6 个月前

    But that’s the worst one

    It’s in the awkward transition between good game Morrowind and mediocre game Skyrim, with the worst parts of both