If you want to play the game without bugs...

[bladeddragonknight]

...you will probably have to download a mod that patches these things as Bethesda is notorious for leaving their games broken buggy messes that they let modders clean up. That said try to find a mod that just bugfixes and doesn't change anything beyond vanilla if you want the original experience.

Unacceptable to do this in this day and age but even the Dead Space remake still has a game breaking bug. Stop buying AAA games. Let them sweat.

[Vyvyvn]

I didn't vote for you.

[Lone Eagle Canada]

So what bugs are we talking about?

[Xaade]

Bethesda didn't do this.
So, now we know, take another studio, another engine, and Elder Scrolls is still busted.

[Slender]

the bugs kinda make it tes4 imo

[wombat93]

Originally posted by Lone Eagle Canada:

So what bugs are we talking about?

Whatever existed in the original 2006 Oblivion game that Bethesda never fixed. This Remaster is a true Remaster as it ported over the same bugs and issues that plagued the original that Bethesda never bothered to deal with.

When I was playing Remastered, after running into a variety of issues I'd do searches to find fixes or workarounds. Interestingly I found tons of search results dating back years prior for the original game, even from the 2000s that still applied to 2025's Remaster.

One example is Frostcrag Spire. The quest directs you to Mystic Emporium to buy items for your new home. But the shop is permanently locked and closed at all times of the day. Among other issues.

Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages has an entry for this. It was never fixed in the original game and it required the community to have an Unofficial Patch.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Mystic_Emporium#Bugs

You play Remastered long enough and when you come across issues, and look them up, most of them are problems players had to deal with in the 2000s.

[SKN The LISPer]

A sligthly better link https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Remastered_Bugs <- those are bugs exclusive to remastered edition = OG version does NOT have these. Remaster also have all the vanilla bugs in addition to these, making remastered the most buggy version.

[Scraps]

If it's got the name "Bethesda" attached to it, it's likely a buggy mess regardless of involvement, New Vegas is a clear example of this. ESO is still probably the game with the least amount of bugs, but I wouldn't be surprised if weaving via cancelling attack animations with abilities was unintended early on. "Bug but feature" situation type thing.

That all said, I don't mind most bugs in the game, they can often be pretty charming, but regardless of my initial point, bugs that actively make it so you cannot complete a quest -especially a Main Story quest- should have been looked at and have made an attempt at rectifying. But nope, they're allll there and then some.

[wombat93]

Originally posted by SKN The LISPer:

A sligthly better link https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Remastered_Bugs <- those are bugs exclusive to remastered edition = OG version does NOT have these. Remaster also have all the vanilla bugs in addition to these, making remastered the most buggy version.

The best of both worlds. A big oof.

Virtuos has a lot of work to do. If they're going to fix the game at all, that is.

[Yoghurt shot]

3rd party soft shouldn't fix games
also, keep in mind that mods break after official updates
what do you do after modder stop updating their mod and you're left without any support at all?

[Kirara]

Funny how I keep reading about those buggy, messy Bethesda games, but still have not played one myself. Some jank? Sure! But buggy mess? Nope.

[wombat93]

Originally posted by Yoghurt shot:

3rd party soft shouldn't fix games
also, keep in mind that mods break after official updates
what do you do after modder stop updating their mod and you're left without any support at all?

If a modder stops supporting their mod and it's not in a finished, good enough state, you drop that mod. Simple as that.

Wishing for no updates for a buggy game with technical and gameplay issues? No way to that. I'm fine with official updates busting mods if they're actually fixing things. What Bethesda had been doing updating FO4, Skyrim though in recent years was no real fixes but CC content. Bethesda actually left FO4 in a worse state after an update last year.

[wombat93]

Originally posted by Kirara:

Funny how I keep reading about those buggy, messy Bethesda games, but still have not played one myself. Some jank? Sure! But buggy mess? Nope.

You got some serious fanboy goggles on to say that. Even the much beloved Skyrim had glaring problems.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Glitches
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Glitches

Hell, some people have been posting that items are disappearing from containers in their homes on Remastered. Guess what? That was a problem back with the 2006 Oblivion, too.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Minor_Glitches#Items_Disappearing_from_Containers

Back in 2023 I returned to Skyrim. I had not played that game since the early 2010s. When i started playing again there was a big rush of nostalgia. I was also surprised to see a bunch of problems that happened back when the game was new and were never fixed.

Thicket Excavations for FO4 was godawful looking like this example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w666Mjvky4U

When I last played FO4 in 2023, it was still a problem. That's not jank. That's f'ed up.

[Kirara]

Originally posted by wombat93:

Originally posted by Kirara:

Funny how I keep reading about those buggy, messy Bethesda games, but still have not played one myself. Some jank? Sure! But buggy mess? Nope.

You got some serious fanboy goggles on to say that. Even the much beloved Skyrim had glaring problems.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Glitches
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Glitches

Hell, some people have been posting that items are disappearing from containers in their homes on Remastered. Guess what? That was a problem back with the 2006 Oblivion, too.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Minor_Glitches#Items_Disappearing_from_Containers

Back in 2023 I returned to Skyrim. I had not played that game since the early 2010s. When i started playing again there was a big rush of nostalgia. I was also surprised to see a bunch of problems that happened back when the game was new and were never fixed.

Fanboy goggles? I have played all main ES titles and several spinoffs. I have also played their Fallout titles and never once, in my thousands of hours playtime, I encounter any gamebreaking bugs or situation where I had to fix something with console. Not in Morrowind, not in Oblivion, Skyrim, Arena or Daggerfall. None! There have been some few annoying situations, there have been jank, but nothing that extreme to scream about broken game.