I wonder how long Todd had to sit on the toilet to come up with this idea. "What if, instead of Skyrim getting remastered and re-released. Very long pause. It was Oblivion!?"

This is fucking stupid. I am so tired of remasters and re-release of games I've already played.

Apparently the game is 120Gb

We hope it stays that way.

Knowing the track record it would be released with so many bugs, that it would be tripled the size in a 4 months.

Did they fix the potato faces?

I would play it, but I just downloaded Red Dead Redemption 2.

Hopefully when I'm done with that, any bugs in Oblivion will be patched and I'll play it in a better state.

I got my first RROD playing Oblivion

I can't deny the quality of the assets in the remaster, but it doesn't feel much like Oblivion. It would be nice if Bethesda focused on VI.

There are in higher resolution that's a great step forward!

Red Dead Redemption 2 is an amazing game. Actually fun to play.

Oblivion 2.0 includes a Deluxe edition, which includes the horse armor! Yep, for $10 extra.

The game has barely been out for 5 hours and already has 3,877 reviews!

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

Some of them are not so nice, I wonder why.

How did you fix it?

I strongly agree!

This actually looks so dam good.

I haven't played since xbox 360... and I'm actually excited to revisit the game with the stunning new visuals.

I think you took the hdd off the side then sent the 360 in to Microsoft and they sent you a fixed one right back for $129

Karen encounters got better graphics then this.

SNNRKKKKKKKK whatever.... wake me up when persona 6 is announced or somthing.. zzzzzzzzzzzz

What's this game is about?

Did the NPCs get remastered too?

what happened to games at most being like 30GB? the game that uses up the most space that i have is pretty much the FF7 remake, it's like 90GB

It's an action RPG tho idk what the lore is

I'm the opposite I'm so tired of persona games and spinoffs

Chronically online gamers must either be manchildren or really bad masochists, because they'll never be happy no matter what.

If you wanna take psychic damage because $INSERT_FAVOURITE_STUDIO has released a game you're not interested in, then be my guest. But you could also just...not play it, lol. It's literally that easy.

This was made by a third party studio, so both things can happen at the same time.

Ah let people be passionate about their interests. There hasn't been a new Elder Scrolls in 14 years, despite VI being announced 7 years ago. I'd say it's understandable that some fans are getting impatient.

You are right, the Oblivion remaster was made by a partner and probably hasn't impacted Bethesda's own operation.

A 2006 game not being full of brown & bloom feels like historical revisionism

Won't be a while til smt vi comes out!

Ordinarily I would agree, but it's not like Bethesda were just sitting on their asses (*cough* Valve*) since they were working on Starfield.

The bigger problem is setting expectations: when every game you make takes multiple years since it has to be a gargantuan game, then you have to make people understand that things take proportionally - or even exponentially - longer. If they would delegate TES VI to a third party studio like they did Oblivion's remaster, then it would get done faster but it wouldn't live up to anyone's standards - not Bethesda's, nor players'. So HQ inevitably has to make the game, but that means they can't work on their other titles during that time...which are also gargantuan. Rinse and repeat.

Now that's a management issue, but it's also a gamer issue - "large open world" has been the mainstay of AAA for a long time now because it works. And people come to expect it "because it's AAA", and then you have a self-perpetuating cycle which just widens the rift between what counts as "indie" and what counts as "AAA".

Are there IPs which are functionally abandoned? Sure, dozens - Prince of Persia for example. It's perpetually starved of attention because Ubisoft rakes in the moolah with their other projects. But that's not what's happening here. Bethesda knows all too well the significance of TES to its player base.

*And even Valve in a way wasn't, since they released the Steam Deck.

While I feel like it's our moral obligation to be vigilant against blatant nostalgia farming, Oblivion really could use a facelift, and upgrading the engine does actually feel like a value add to me. As a seasoned hater, I promised myself Todd wouldn't get me to re-purchase his games again. But here I am, once more on the precipice.

https://youtu.be/UjTv8ivh7mY?si=FNikD43lU032mReY

You know, I'm totally fine with an Oblivion remake, or remaster as it were, but please tell me why it has to weigh 120 GB? Most of us would be happy if the quality were somewhere around Skyrim Legendary Edition, and the god awful NPCS were fixed.

But then it wouldn't be as wonderfully jank as the Oblivion we know and love.

Also, yes, they did fix the potato faces, but they still move like potatoes.

Actually checked it out now.. the faces seem slightly improved, but the whole game looks like someone tried to build Oblivion from scratch using only UE5 store assets.

We can't stop him from winning.