Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered has taken the gaming community by storm. Despite being a Game Pass title, it has garnered around 200K concurrent players on Steam. The remake is built atop the Unreal Engine 5 using its cutting-edge (but not so optimized) visual technologies, including Lumen, Nanite, and Virtual Shadows.
Eurogamer writes: "History repeats itself with this week's brand-new remaster - and it's perhaps one of the worst-running games I've ever tested for Digital Foundry."
They’re releasing this on the Switch 2… I genuinely wonder how that’s going to turn out?..
I was enjoying it, but im gonna shelf it while i catch up on my backlog and see what gets patched in the meantime. Hopefully better optimized and maybe a classic color filter by then 🤞
As long as that archaic engine is still in play, this issue won't be resolved for Bethesda's games
Bethesda Game Studios writes: We are so grateful to the over 4 million of you that have already ventured into Cyrodiil with Oblivion Remastered. Thank you!
Congrats goes to Todd and everyone at Bethesda and team Xbox for another huge milestone!
Hopefully after this huge success, Phil might greenlit New Vegas Remastered powered by UE5 as well.
Fingers crossed!
I wish for, at the very least, maybe Fallout 3 remaster? I mean the success of the show proves that not just hardcore gamers are ready for a great updated Fallout game. I believe it could potentially be even more successful than the Oblivion remaster. But I do like your idea of a New Vegas UE5 , because I actually never played that. Bethesda are better under Microsoft, I agree with you now after this "remaster". It's much cheaper and faster to do something like this for an old classic game. Reminds me of when Capcom started doing that with RE2. Gamer goodwill became skyhigh for Capcom. Fingers crossed indeed
F3 Remastered already came out on the court documents, so unless it was cancelled, which sounds unlikely as it would the best they can hope to have to match any releases of the TV show since F5 isn’t coming out any time soon.
That said, I do agree that if this has proven to be a hit and I don’t see why F3 wouldn’t be if it gets the same level of treatment, they will probably want to do more
It's on GamePass. According to Steam DB: it has a 190k peak, which is not close to 4 mil. It didn't even reach 500k on Twitch stats and owner estimations are hovering around 1 mil or less.
Yeah, let's listen to you anast and not an official release from the developers, because, you know, he used twitch and steam peak numbers and his calculator lol...
It's not official. There aren't any official numbers. It just says 4 million people touched the game. At least the numbers I provided give a sketch of what's going on. They devs are being vague to market the game. By the looks of it not a lot of people are buying it.
the bonfire pisser is back, before i even saw the comments i knew you woulda been playing the Gamepass excuse card to say its actually an unsuccessful, bad and unfun game. At least the horse armor is free, so you can't cry about that this time XD
anast,
"At least the numbers I provided give a sketch of what's going on"
No sir, it did not, you didn't even count PS5 lol.
"By the looks of it not a lot of people are buying it."
Huh? Twitch and Steam DB is what your whole "Sketch" is based on, don't make me laugh, it doesn't even make sense, not everyone uses Twitch, and the game is available on way more than Steam, and you realistically have no idea how many console or PC GP players played played the game, and again you completely left out PS5.
The install base of PS5 and Xbox GP console alone could easily push it to 4 mill players.
Just stop, your "Sketch' is incomplete , nonsensical and ill conceived.
You also said 190k peak which isn't close to 4m. You confirmed its on GP then basically said it can't be true because of steam. Your comment is makes no sense and confusing.
It's called reaching, and it's a symptom of being stuck in a fictional console war, even though the game is on PS5 lol.
His entire post was a hard, hard reach that when he wrote it, he was absolutely aware that it made no sense, and haphazardly constructed, especially leaving out PS5, the largest install base. He could not fight the overwhelming urge because of his blind dislike of MS...so what does he do? he posted it anyway without care of embarrassing himself.
Clair Obscur just broke 1 million sales in 3 days. Oblivion has been ahead of it on Steam all week. What does that tell you?
The cope is strong here. He’s crying while he types this because it’s #1 on PlayStation.
Well done, despite not getting exact sales, this is still great news because the budget for this and the development time wouldn't have been much at all when compared to a full 6 or 7 year development window and the cost that would entail. So it does seem like a great success and even better when you consider that they shadow-dropped it without paid marketing. Hope this team is already past pre-production on another "remaster" of another classic, I'm personally hoping for Fallout 3 remaster
Microsoft realised how stupid they had been and delayed following Sega's example.
There you go MS, worldwide lots more people own PS5 or PC than Xbox. You got the money you're desperate for.
To be truly Sega, don't bother releasing a new console. Just focus on software.
"To be truly Sega, don't bother releasing a new console. Just focus on software."
MS will continue to release new consoles as they´ll continue and make tons of money out PC, PS5 and Switch 2 as well.
Gamers on other platforms will happily pay full price for amazing Xbox games while we get everything day one on Game Pass.
It´s a win win for everyone.
Why? Assuming game pass market penetrative remains as it is now i will continue to lose money or onl just pull a profit. Why would MS continue to run it? When they can cut the cost out and make a tonne of money just selling games the games. Eventually, sooner rather than later the investors will call time on it. That's why next xbox is basically a rebranded ROG Ally.
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is a reflective lens that highlights RPG evolution while proving the appeal of certain design philosophies.
"RPGs were defined by their humorous quirks and immersion-breaking bugs, as advancing"
No they weren't. Only Bethesda games were defined by this. It was a bad practice then and it's a bad practice now.
"Oblivion Remastered, then, effectively shines a light on the unique personality of classic RPGs by embracing its own quirks rather than dismissing them."
It's 2025, they should have fixed those 10 year old bugs. It's incompetence and being cheap.
"The bugs, the freedom, and the depth all still work because they still mean something. "
The game is broken and it isn't deep. This means that Bethesda can't or won't put out a quality product.
It's valid though. If any other RPG or game came with a fraction of the issues Bethesda Games do (they're slowly getting better in the graphics department but still behind a lot of the industry in terms of animations and voice acting), they'd be torn to shreds in both reviews and forums.
Seriously why do you spend this much time and energy critiquing something you don't enjoy? It's so bizarre to me.
I think the point they're trying to make - whether we agree or not - is that if the game was released as a new game now, with all these bugs, it wouldn't be considered acceptable. So why should we embrace it or use it as a standard by which to compare modern games, just because at the time of it's release, it's bugs and glitches were largely overlooked?
Not saying I necessarily agree, but I can see the argument.
