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Oblivion Remake Set for 2025 Release, Insiders Confirm | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)

submitted 2 days ago by ktec to c/[email protected]

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Key Details About the Remake

Development Studio: Virtuos is developing the remake. Known for supporting major titles like Horizon Forbidden West and more.
Engine and Technology: The game will use a hybrid engine approach combining Unreal Engine 5 with Bethesda’s original Creation Engine, promising modern enhancements while preserving gameplay mechanics.
Platforms: Expected on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC. Likely to be included in Xbox Game Pass at launch due to Microsoft’s ownership of Bethesda.

Relation to Other Projects

Separate from Skyblivion, a fan-project recreating Oblivion within the Skyrim engine. The lead developer of Skyblivion will continue working on this project regardless of an official remake.
Multiple insiders have corroborated these rumours, suggesting a significant shift in plans after initial hints during Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

How do you think The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion holds up to other games in the series?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oblivion is an excellent game. I'm not sure how much an official remake can bring to the table. Maybe a Skyrim-esque UI would be welcome.

What I'd really want would be a Morrowind remake. The world design and writing was beyond excellent, but the mechanics side had quite a bit of jank and the UI wasn't the best. Would love a mildly Oblivionised Morrowind. Just don't Skyrimise it - Oblivion had just enough RPG stuff, while Skyrim at times feels more like a story-action game rather than a RPG.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe a Skyrim-esque UI would be welcome.

Oh hell no. Skyrim's UI without mods was absolute garbage and worse than Oblivion's vanilla UI.

Personally I'd rather have a Daggerfall remake but I guess that's what The Wayward Realms is going for already.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Skyrim's UI without mods was absolute garbage and worse than Oblivion's vanilla UI.

I don't understand this. The UI is almost identical between Oblivion and Skyrim, and Skyrim's is easier to actually read because it's just a simple modern font in white text on semi-transparent black instead of trying to look like a scroll with handwritten fonts like in Oblivion. And the most popular UI mod for both (and also all the fallout games) mostly just makes the font smaller so you can fit more text on each screen with a few slight tweaks to the overall layout of the info. It's not a huge difference.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I don't understand this. The UI is almost identical between Oblivion and Skyrim, and Skyrim's is easier to actually read because it's just a simple modern font in white text on semi-transparent black instead of trying to look like a scroll with handwritten fonts like in Oblivion.

Huh? Skyrim's vanilla UI does not show you any information unless you click on an item.

Oblivion's UI was not great, but you could at least see the base values of the items inside of the actual inventory list.

And the most popular UI mod for both (and also all the fallout games) mostly just makes the font smaller so you can fit more text on each screen with a few slight tweaks to the overall layout of the info. It's not a huge difference.

I think you're misremembering or something. SkyUI literally made the Skyrim UI closer to that of vanilla Oblivion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

The mod SkyUI has sorting and more info in the list of items itself so you don't have to scroll to an item to compare stats. Those two features alone, make it infinitely better. It's not just "smaller text".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

My problem with oblivion is a lack of controller support and I hate the system of needing stamina to attack.

Once I just ran around waiting for stamina to regenerate then attacked and repeated. It was really annoying. I felt like I was playing the game wrong.