The Elder Scrolls Thread

[Antimatter]

So it's true. An Oblivion remake is very close, it's real, and here are some screenshots:

What do you folks think? Would it be the same game with these graphics and (supposedly) no modding support?

Oblivion Leak Reveals 'Remastered' Title, Upgrades, and Deluxe Edition

The Oblivion Remake has been leaked online in a series of images, showcasing key details including an 'Oblivion Remastered' title.

insider-gaming.com

 

[Antimatter]

It's out now!

• New voice acting (mixed in with original voices - each race has a unique voice now)
• New combat animations with hit feedback
• Sprinting system added
• Reworked third-person view
• New levelling system (fusion of Oblivion & Skyrim; you just allocate stat points on level up now. Since the space for "virtues" seems fixed, looks like there's no more need to grind skills for "perfect" levels)
• New interface (retains the general aesthetic of the original)
• New content with Deluxe Edition
• Every model/texture in the game has been remade by hand
• Remastered VFX and SFX, added effects for combat
• Uses Unreal Engine 5 for graphics, the original engine for core gameplay systems

 

[O_Bruce]

If they don't keep bugs features like this, or even better yet, implement new ones, then what's the point?

 

[Antimatter]

Skyblivion is hoping to launch this year. Imagine this!!! After 10 years of hard work, it's in the final stretch. A full remake of Oblivion in the Skyrim engine.

I urge everyone to watch the trailer. Voice Narrating is by Ryan Cooper, whose voice sounds amazing and so fitting for Oblivion.

 

[Antimatter]

Bethesda is celebrating its 40th anniversary today, and they've revealed the name for TES6: Sentinel (just as everyone had figured out before):



Not much else has been revealed yet.

 

[rpggamer329182]

Hey guys. I spent probably about 2 months getting Skyrim running with all the mods I want - most of that time, with breaks due to frustration/exasperation, were trying to make Requiem work on Linux/wine, which I finally did by a really tricky method but did it.

Anyway, after all that work I played it for only a couple of hours and lost interest, lol. Pillars of Eternity 2 has taken over my playtime right now. Even the arguably watered down Pillars, compared to older IE games, feels worlds apart from Skyrim, with the latter feeling very empty and shallow.

I did play a good bit of Oblivion back in the day, once I learned about the Oscuro Overhaul, as vanilla was just too simplistic/easymode for me and while that too was not super deep I did enjoy it casually. I will try again with Skyrim but I am finding it hard to justify pulling myself away from POE2.

Without spoilers what do you 'do' in Skyrim? I ran around a while and it just feels shallow tbh. The quest just seem simple and the spell system super elementary (literally lol, just the 4 elements and healing) compared to dnd/a dnd clone with all the spell abilities they bring.

I could not imagine enjoying a mage character on Skyrim due to that. I am currently playing a tank but I remember that I played a rogue on Oblivion and thinking that would be an easier way to enjoy it as there feels like there would be more to do of your own accord since there feels so little content to sink my teeth in to.

To be fair I haven't actually tried any quests really. I have just run about randomly and got bored. Also, the POE2 quests aren't that great either. I would say it is the world building and lore that really engages me with the latter.

 

[Antimatter]

Don't take this personally, @rpggamer329182 . I noticed there is a certain element of not understanding why game X or Y is good in a few of your posts; that's fine. It would be the same for me, if I were asked about certain live-service games, FPS shooters, or some other games, including GTA.

This thread alone (the role-playing posts in it) should be a good illustration of why TES games are so appreciated by their fans. The freedom they provide needs to be used by the player, ofc, and it might not fit everybody. Also, Skyrim in particular is a game from 2011. People who fell in love with it most likely played it in 2011 and for them it meant something, compared to other games released until that point. In 2026, it might not work at all, especially if you didn't play it in 2011. It's fine. Even the game you mention, Pillars of Eternity 2, wasn't released in 2011. Heck, even the first PoE wasn't.

For me personally, and it doesn't matter much if it's Oblivion or Skyrim, it's the feeling of role-playing as the character in this or that particular playthrough. What background do they have? What are their priorities? Who will be their friends? That kind of stuff. Plus, for me personally again, Skyrim DOES have the feeling of nostalgia because I played it in 2011 and my gaming experience was limited at that point. I wouldn't use a mod such as Requiem for the first or the second playthrough, like, at all. It's a different game with that mod.

 

[rpggamer329182]

Don't take this personally, @rpggamer329182 . I noticed there is a certain element of not understanding why game X or Y is good in a few of your posts; that's fine. It would be the same for me, if I were asked about certain live-service games, FPS shooters, or some other games, including GTA.

This thread alone (the role-playing posts in it) should be a good illustration of why TES games are so appreciated by their fans. The freedom they provide needs to be used by the player, ofc, and it might not fit everybody. Also, Skyrim in particular is a game from 2011. People who fell in love with it most likely played it in 2011 and for them it meant something, compared to other games released until that point. In 2026, it might not work at all, especially if you didn't play it in 2011. It's fine. Even the game you mention, Pillars of Eternity 2, wasn't released in 2011. Heck, even the first PoE wasn't.

For me personally, and it doesn't matter much if it's Oblivion or Skyrim, it's the feeling of role-playing as the character in this or that particular playthrough. What background do they have? What are their priorities? Who will be their friends? That kind of stuff. Plus, for me personally again, Skyrim DOES have the feeling of nostalgia because I played it in 2011 and my gaming experience was limited at that point. I wouldn't use a mod such as Requiem for the first or the second playthrough, like, at all. It's a different game with that mod.

Well it doesn't hold much water because I originally played it a year or two after release. Also you make it sound like I am some punk kid that doesn't get 'real games'. It must have been around 2013 I first played Skyrim because looking on the Requiem mod history the other day it's first release was around 2013 I believe and I discovered it at that time so couldn't have been before it was available.

I played OG Baldur's Gate on release circa 1999.

I think your points raise philosophical questions of how much a game should provide the world for the player and how much they should invent it themselves. If all the heavy lifting is down to the player aren't they better served reading a book or making up stories and worlds in their minds?

I am not saying Skyrim is 'useless' in that department of course just that my impression that it pales in comparison to the BGalikes but not that one can't enjoy it for other reasons. I get that an open world is not going to be as content packed as a mainly on rails game.

It is clearly a wildly successful game. I am not writing it off. My point was just that I haven't found my groove with it. Even both POE games I didn't get into right away and put them down for long stretches - with the original I uninstalled it for almost a decade before picking it up again a few years ago but that was due to disillusionment with games all round in general at the time seeing them as a 'waste of time' which I no longer think.

Looking back through time I find it interesting that Morrowind never came across my purview when it was first released as I was very into games back them and RPGs in particular. I think though I had gone off them by then as I had been almost living in a Neverwinter Nights persistent world and then Anarchy Online; two of my favorite gaming memories in top ten but I went to university in that year so I had much more to do then while before was bumming about in my bedroom.

I have a more balanced view of games nowadays after swings back and forth going on and off them. As other interests in my life evapourated, against my own will, I have found it a welcome old crutch to return to.

Also admittedly I haven't read the content of this thread, so perhaps it will give me some inspiration of what angle I might want to take with it. I am also writing it because I want to like it and just haven't really gotten into it yet as I feel I really should because I love RPG in general and this is an all time great. So it isn't just a bashing I am doing.