Why Unreal?

[Red Zinfidel]

One of the leaks for this (assuming it's real) is that it's going to use Unreal 5 for the visuals.

Why though?

I know lots of y'all love to hate on the Creation engine and want Bethesda to take it out back and give it the Old Yeller treatment, but Bethesda seems committed to it, so why make the game with Unreal? Say what you want about Starfield, but it's not like it's ugly.

Wouldn't it be easier to port it to Creation II anyways since it's just a more advanced version of Oblivion's engine to begin with?

[Ki11s0n3]

Because it's an easier and better platform to use. If Bethesda and Microsoft did outsource the remaster to another Dev then it makes sense to save money and use it instead of wasting months teaching Devs to use the Creation Engine. Plus they are probably using a lot of AI upscaling to enhance graphics and it's just easier to do it in Unreal.

[psychotron666]

Well because the rumour is that it's virtuos studios doing it, which they're known for lazy ai upscaled remasters (in general. Some of their remasters are okay but all of them are simple remasters you see every game studio coming out with), and not familiar with Bethesda's engine.

[Red Zinfidel]

I guess I can see that, but at the same time I don't think Obsidian had any experience with it when they made New Vegas.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Red Zinfidel:

I guess I can see that, but at the same time I don't think Obsidian had any experience with it when they made New Vegas.

Yeah but that's them getting the dev time and budget to release a full and new game.

By all evidence of this remaster, it's just gonna be a lazy cash grab remaster that's done in a couple weekends on the spare time of virtuos devs that is worse than just regular oblivion with 4 mods.

Unreal engine makes perfect sense for that type of thing. That's exactly what the GTA definitive edition remasters were, in the original engine and rendered on unreal with AI upscaling of graphics and nothing else changed.

[Sifer2]

It's probably going to be a lazy B studio project like the Half Life 2 RTX. Might be barely able to be modded we will see.

[theo]

Because in the beginning of 2024 when the remake "leak" first appeared mentioning UE5 guaranteed hype

[Breeding Medicine]

people working on unreal are the cheapest you may get on market

[GoodSmith]

Because it’s a remake, not a remaster.

A remake is more than just remastered graphics. A remake usually means different gameplay mechanics, almost different game altogether, except the story.

[Red Zinfidel]

The MicroSoft docs called it a remaster specifically.

[Mexicutioner]

It's so they can outsource the development to other places/studios. Unreal is the industry standard now. Big reason why games today all start to look and feel the same.

[iMatrix7]

I hope it is UNREAL 5. I really hope it is.

So haters will learn once and for all that the creation engine wasn't that bad after all.

[LordKuraba]

If done properly it would be a good test to see how a Bethesda RPG does with Unreal and if it's bad then we still have the original. I'm planning on letting others be the guinea pigs before I decide whether to buy it or not that way I don't have anything to lose lol.

People have been demanding that Bethesda get a new engine for years and now they seem to be getting what they wanted. Maybe, we'll see.

[Green1]

Originally posted by LordKuraba:

If done properly it would be a good test to see how a Bethesda RPG does with Unreal and if it's bad then we still have the original. I'm planning on letting others be the guinea pigs before I decide whether to buy it or not that way I don't have anything to lose lol.

People have been demanding that Bethesda get a new engine for years and now they seem to be getting what they wanted. Maybe, we'll see.

It's rumored to be dual engine. Still using bethesdas while using Unreal 5 for everything graphical. With updated mechanics for combat and stealth plus some other things, UI overhaul as well.

[King Garbage]

I assume its to give people a taste of what Elder Scrolls 6 will look like.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by King Garbage:

I assume its to give people a taste of what Elder Scrolls 6 will look like.

Elder scrolls 6 isn't made with the unreal engine