Oblivion Remake

[BonesMcJones]

What's people though's on the official remake that might come out this year? If it even exists which I think it does.
I'm about even on it, has a lot of chance to improve, but also a lot to make it worse.

[Punished Fumoposter]

Itll release before Skyblivion, I can say that much just so Bethesda can try to undercut them and get some type of money

[RamiroRa]

I'm highly sure it won't be a remake, which would mean making the game from scratch. Now a remaster, that could be considered, but even by Bethesda standards that would be strange, they even addresed that. If I had to guess is a remaster running in Unreal Engine to milk the IP in order to keep Microsoft happy.

[Haldurson]

From what I've read, it's certainly being worked on, as the leak came from an actual court document back in 2023. But I have no idea if I can trust those who are saying that it can come as soon as June, or what the newest rumor (leak?) says, April. Among other things, the game is being done in Unreal Engine 5.

It won't be, simply, a copy with better graphics. From what I've read, several of the systems in the game are being 'improved upon'. There may be more, but from what I''ve read, it's been confirmed that there are going to be changes to Stamina, Stealth, Blocking, Archery, Hit mechanics, and the HUD. In other words, it's not an update, but an actual new game.

What I don't know is what this means for modders.

[King of Evil]

Publicado originalmente por Haldurson:

What I don't know is what this means for modders.

Most likely, it will have creation club support & extra paid mod/DLC added, which will be a boon for consoles at least, especially Xbox since they allow more variety of mods than Playstation does.

[Barnobestabn]

I remember the day i found the unlock spell. good times. i loathe the lock picking feature with a passion. cause i need my loots!

[psychotron666]

Publicado originalmente por Haldurson:

From what I've read, it's certainly being worked on, as the leak came from an actual court document back in 2023. But I have no idea if I can trust those who are saying that it can come as soon as June, or what the newest rumor (leak?) says, April. Among other things, the game is being done in Unreal Engine 5.

It won't be, simply, a copy with better graphics. From what I've read, several of the systems in the game are being 'improved upon'. There may be more, but from what I''ve read, it's been confirmed that there are going to be changes to Stamina, Stealth, Blocking, Archery, Hit mechanics, and the HUD. In other words, it's not an update, but an actual new game.

What I don't know is what this means for modders.

The leaked document from 2023 simply said fallout 3 and oblivion remaster.

There was no indication of a remake.

Everything besides that detail is made up clickbait that's not been confirmed.

[Ocos]

It will be announced next month, and it will be released soon after.

[الرأس المُشع]

Just overhaul the faces, take the Skyrim design and import it to Oblivion. That's a crucial part for me.

[Sylph]

Publicado originalmente por الرأس المُشع:

Just overhaul the faces, take the Skyrim design and import it to Oblivion. That's a crucial part for me.

but base skyrim textures and models haven't aged well either

[الرأس المُشع]

Publicado originalmente por Sylph:

Publicado originalmente por الرأس المُشع:

Just overhaul the faces, take the Skyrim design and import it to Oblivion. That's a crucial part for me.

but base skyrim textures and models haven't aged well either

Not skyrim textures, but the facial structure and shape, the somewhat pointy chin (for mer), the way they are depicted in every TES game except Oblivion, there's even a mod for Oblivion which does that.

[pjedilord]

Publicado originalmente por Budoshi:

i hope the graphics are at least on starfield level or else meh

uses unreal 5 engine so they prob will be seperate release like Skyrim?

[Jeff Kaos]

As far as I'm concerned I'll say I'm definitely interested but I'll wait for it to be on sale before I pull the trigger; unless it releases for under $20 (I'm assuming somewhere between $24.99 and $39.99). I'm also not sure when or if there will be as big a modding scene as there is for the current version. And for that my assumption is that there probably won't be; but there will still be mods.

Basically, the way I see it is if the remake is real it will definitely be cool but I'm not counting on as many epic mods as we have for the game right now.

[Vulture]

What is this Skyblivion love all about there? We getting official Remake but everyone saying this fan mode. In My Opinion; Official Product (Bethesda Support) > Fan Mode Product. All the time.

I don't want Skyrim Engine in Oblivion. I want to taste Oblivion only. (With Remake/Remaster)

That Fan Mode will get less attention when the Bethesda Remake comes out anyway.

[Jeff Kaos]

Publicado originalmente por Nahkriin:

What is this Skyblivion love all about there? We getting official Remake but everyone saying this fan mode. In My Opinion; Official Product (Bethesda Support) > Fan Mode Product. All the time.

I don't want Skyrim Engine in Oblivion. I want to taste Oblivion only. (With Remake/Remaster)

That Fan Mode will get less attention when the Bethesda Remake comes out anyway.

This has always been my issue with Skyblivion or Skywind or Morrowblivion before either of those. It's literally the game engine that makes Morrowind and Oblivion so much fun. In fact, I still play Morrowind because even though the quests are kind of weak (I have yet to find any that aren't just fetch quests) the game is a true RPG and gives me a solid sense of progression. Without mods Skyrim, and to a lesser extent Oblivion, become too easy. And with leveled lists Oblivion especially becomes sort of silly: "Give me 100 gold to pass" , bro, your Ebony armor is worth 10,000 gold. But I will say this about Oblivion: Some of the best quest design I've seen in a game. I'm currently working on the Dark Brotherhood questline and every mission is S Tier.

[psychotron666]

Publicado originalmente por Jeff Kaos:

Publicado originalmente por Nahkriin:

What is this Skyblivion love all about there? We getting official Remake but everyone saying this fan mode. In My Opinion; Official Product (Bethesda Support) > Fan Mode Product. All the time.

I don't want Skyrim Engine in Oblivion. I want to taste Oblivion only. (With Remake/Remaster)

That Fan Mode will get less attention when the Bethesda Remake comes out anyway.

This has always been my issue with Skyblivion or Skywind or Morrowblivion before either of those. It's literally the game engine that makes Morrowind and Oblivion so much fun. In fact, I still play Morrowind because even though the quests are kind of weak (I have yet to find any that aren't just fetch quests) the game is a true RPG and gives me a solid sense of progression. Without mods Skyrim, and to a lesser extent Oblivion, become too easy. And with leveled lists Oblivion especially becomes sort of silly: "Give me 100 gold to pass" , bro, your Ebony armor is worth 10,000 gold. But I will say this about Oblivion: Some of the best quest design I've seen in a game. I'm currently working on the Dark Brotherhood questline and every mission is S Tier.

To me oblivion is the worst elder scrolls and it mostly comes down to the systems. The watered down and useless attributes, the Abysmal world scaling, useless stamina, the design of not allowing the player to find unique or good stuff at low levels or run into strong enemies (every dungeon at level 2 is imps and rats, bandits in fur or Marauders in iron, stunted scamps, etc). Every piece of loot lying in the world (not in a leveled chest) is iron or steel because god forbid the player find something before they're supposed to.
The combat was also boiled down to smacking enemies 50 times over creating essentially the same result as morrowind except in morrowind you eventually get better and it takes less smacks where in oblivion it does the opposite. This also resulted in a near broken armourer/equipment decay system.

Even the enchanting was dumbed down to try and "balance" the game like it's some kind of bland MMO.
The other big factor is the world is procedurally generated slop, and just one giant flat bowl where you can walk in a straight line from any location to any other location without terrain getting in your way.

Morroblivion was an absolute abomination because it took out all the good mechanics of morrowind and replaced them with the ♥♥♥♥ mechanics of oblivion.

However Skyrim was an improvement on almost every aspect over oblivion when it comes to the game systems. Stamina is useful again, all crafting was improved upon, the level scaling is actually pretty decent, and while attributes were removed they were reduced to garbage in oblivion and Skyrim found a new way for character advancement that essentially fixed all the problems with oblivions attributes.
Enemy detection is way better in Skyrim, instead of oblivion where you get detected at the beginning of the dungeon and if there's a floor above or below you, those enemies will be alerted and you'll have the whole dungeon on you at the beginning.

So to me, oblivion in Skyrim's engine with Skyrim's systems is an improvement in every way, and can make oblivion an actually replayable game that I'll enjoy once again. I've got no interest in a Bethesda lazy ai upscaled oblivion if it's going to keep all the systems that made oblivion ♥♥♥♥♥♥ to begin with.

I don't see anything redeemable with oblivions engine or systems except spell making which is again a watered down version of morrowind. Oblivion tried way too hard to over balance everything and restricted the player's freedom by doing so. Even Skyrim allows you to break the game and become a god akin to morrowind if you do desire. But oblivion is built to specifically stop that type of behavior, creating a very mediocre and bland experience doing so. Like I said before, it feels like a really bland over balanced MMO.