Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remake Reveal Livestream (starts in 23 hours)

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t fuck with Skyblivion, Bethesda.

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t expect they would, since Skyblivion already has their blessing and the team has been working with representatives from Bethesda to make sure that everything they’re doing continues to be kosher with them.

    The Skyblivion devs also released a statement recently that they are also looking forward to the release of this remaster, and believe that there is enough love to go around for both projects.

    Basically, Oblivion fans are going to be eating well this year. If the official Oblivion remaster is underwhelming, there will still be Skyblivion to look forward to.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s all kosher until Zenimax decides it can make more money.

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Which is it, a total remake or a remaster? Or a remaster with reworked controls?

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  • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m hoping for remake. The game needs to abandon (or at least rework) their level scaling. It’s by far the worst implementation it that I’ve ever seen.

    Then make everything less orange, shiny, and bulbous.

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    • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I actually restarted halfway through because I leveled up so much that every enemy (even animals) were miserable to fight.

      I realized you only leveled up when you slept so I just never slept. Game was way easier.

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    • Kelly@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      At that point is not really oblivion?!

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t think we know for sure how updated it is until tomorrow. Mod support is another big question mark

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    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So, it’s tomorrow now. I’ve seen the trailer and it looks pretty damn updated, but I don’t know any details.

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    • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That is still the big question for me. I am all for modernizing the engine and don’t care if that means Unreal Engine 5, but if it doesn’t have comparable mod support to other Bethesda games, I feel that will end up hurting it pretty badly.

      But as long as they don’t pull a Blizzard and replace the original game with the remaster, the original game and all of its mods will still be there to be enjoyed.

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t think we know yet. Based on earlier leaks, the thought is that Unreal Engine 5 is involved somehow, but there is uncertainty about whether or not it is full-on in UE5 or if UE5 is just being used as a rendering layer. If Bethesda’s own engine is still used as the core of the game, we don’t know if that means simply reworking the original Oblivion code, or if they updated everything to the latest version used for Starfield.

    What we can assume is that, even if the original engine is used, there will need to be a good deal of work done to update it regardless, since it is still a 32-bit application that would need to be rewritten for proper 64-bit support. And a lot of the game mechanics, physics, movement, etc. would need to be updated to work with the UE5 rendering layer if that is indeed how it’s working.

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    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They can’t just be rendering on top, the visuals would clash with collisions. Some of the assets we’ve seen in captures are different enough from their legacy counterparts that they would cause all sorts of issues while playing. Also, they wouldn’t be able to increase the forest density, because trees have collisions. I’m pretty sure this is a remaster

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Booooooo… So not today. I’m doubting the same day drop. Knowing marketing asshats they’ll want to run a week or more of advertising first especially if they’re calling this a reveal. :/

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m doubting the same day drop

    Ye ah, they might have it drop next week. At the very least we know it should release by the end of the month.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      At the very least we know it should release by the end of the month.

      how do we know that?

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’ve been running weeks of marketing now.

    Don’t even for a second think those articles from ‘games journalists’ (marketers) were organic and that things ‘leaked’ - this has been a marketing campaign.

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• Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve mostly been ignoring these Oblivion remake posts. I’ll believe it’s actually gonna happen when/if they actually drop it in the next 24-48 hours. I actually don’t give a shit, and it’s one of my favorite games.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    dude follow the link, there’s an official bethesda countdown to the stream.

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  • Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m with you there. It’s going to be cool and I really want it, but I’ve already completed it a bunch. I’m never going to be able to get properly excited like I would for ES6

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• Faildini@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The shadow drop was real, I’m downloading it now!

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So… is Elder Scrolls VI ever happening?

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    hold your horses armor buddy, they still have a few other elder scrolls games to remake first.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      When Daggerfall stops being free you know they’re about to destroy it’s charm with a modern take.

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As another user already said, this remaster is being done by an outside studio, so it shouldn’t be significantly affecting any ongoing work at Bethesda.

    While Todd Howard is full of shit half the time, I do believe him when he talks about their development roadmap. When Elder Scrolls 6 was announced, it was under the disclaimer that it was not an active project for the team at the time, and would not enter full production until Starfield was done. Starfield released in fall of 2023, so Elder Scrolls 6 should have been in full development for about a year and a half now.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bethesda didn’t make this port.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They literally have a teaser trailer for ES6 they officially launched years ago.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Right. Yet there’s zero timeline for release, and I’d like a timeline for release.

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Im definitely interested in seeing how this came out. In the Day 10 patch world we live in I’m definitely not going to try it for awhile though.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It might motivate me to dust off my old copy of Oblivion though.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve been playing Morrowind, and it’s still a great game. Script Extender or OpenMw, choose your modern flavor. The quests and flow of the game is excellent.

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• adoxographer@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wonder how the loading screens will be, that was the main thing that kept me from Starfield.

  Did UE5 help beyond “pretty”?

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