I have never played Oblivion

[Siggi94]

So I know this sounds stupid. I am a 30-year-old guy who was a child when the original The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released, and I have never played it, and now with the remaster out, I am wondering which I should play.

[DeathRow]

you should play the original, since that was the first one

[Kashra Fall]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW7Us5_JTuA

Here's a direct comparison of graphical presentation and some gameplay mechanics. The remaster if faithful to the original design, but not a 1/1 copy.

[Unquestioning Soyim Altruist]

download skyrim

[Supernautilus]

Play this game, it's amazing.

[Bad Behavior Defender]

You're better off with the updated version, especially if you don't know how to install mods, The original is 20 years old and require quite a lot of patches to run correctly and even then it will still crash from time to time. The original was also infamous for being a buggy mess.

[Sirius Black]

Play the remaster — it’s basically the same game, just modernized. If you didn’t play the original, you’re not missing out, since now you can enjoy it with much better visuals and improved balance. Plus, you won’t need to deal with installing a bunch of mods just to get the original working smoothly on modern systems.

[Lamiosa]

If you rather like more mod (support) and prefer the creation engine before Unreal Engine, you could also try Skyrim with Skyblivion. There are actual way more mods for Skyrim than Oblivion and Oblivion remastered.

[★REM★]

Originally posted by Siggi94:

So I know this sounds stupid. I am a 30-year-old guy who was a child when the original The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released, and I have never played it, and now with the remaster out, I am wondering which I should play.

If you are aware that this is a remaster, NOT a remake and you fine with that, yes worth it.
Just have the right expectations, it's a clunky, janky, game of 2006, it's not Elden Ring or Wukong, not even good old Skyrim.

[Mumblez]

Originally posted by Siggi94:

So I know this sounds stupid. I am a 30-year-old guy who was a child when the original The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released, and I have never played it, and now with the remaster out, I am wondering which I should play.

you really AREN'T missing much with OG. If you are halfway capable of modding, you have no excuse for spending twice the money for the same game.

If you CANT mod, you have to ask if slightly better graphics and sprinting is worth 30$.

[Laser]

Originally posted by Siggi94:

So I know this sounds stupid. I am a 30-year-old guy who was a child when the original The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released, and I have never played it, and now with the remaster out, I am wondering which I should play.

why would you not play the remaster?

[Bad Behavior Defender]

The people recommending skyrim is wild. It's the equivalent of suggesting a burger when somebody ask which cut of steak should he get.

[Mumblez]

Originally posted by Laser:

Originally posted by Siggi94:

So I know this sounds stupid. I am a 30-year-old guy who was a child when the original The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released, and I have never played it, and now with the remaster out, I am wondering which I should play.

why would you not play the remaster?

Because why spend double for the same thing???

[★REM★]

Originally posted by Mumblez:

Originally posted by Siggi94:

So I know this sounds stupid. I am a 30-year-old guy who was a child when the original The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released, and I have never played it, and now with the remaster out, I am wondering which I should play.

you really AREN'T missing much with OG. If you are halfway capable of modding, you have no excuse for spending twice the money for the same game.

If you CANT mod, you have to ask if slightly better graphics and sprinting is worth 30$.

Actually, stability. UE5 is more stable than gamebryo, thousand times.
But both the good 300 mods guides on the OG one you can find on nexus, can actually take the OG on the same (probably) better graphic quality of this so it's a close call. I would buy this over modding OG because this has the hybrid leveling system OG does not, and a much cooler menu page :P

[Unquestioning Soyim Altruist]

Originally posted by Bad Behavior Defender:

The people recommending skyrim is wild. It's the equivalent of suggesting a burger when somebody ask which cut of steak should he get.

skyrim is far superior than this outsourced garbage "remaster". Too bad you have passed your time to enjoy that masterpiece.

[Damedius]

I'd play Skyrim over this. It's far superior in just about every way. They should have just redid Oblivion with the engine they used for Skyrim.