Incredible Footage Of Cancelled Elder Scrolls: Oblivion PSP Game Has Emerged

Footage of an unreleased PSP titled called The Elder Scroll Travels: Oblivion has emerged. The concept was clearly a fair way into development as the footage below suggests, but ultimately budget as well as the PSP not being too successful were the reasons for its cancellation. The builds were from 2006/2007 and look quite incredible.

[Eidolon]

Would love a Vita ES or Souls game.

[Vegamyster]

Salt & Sanctuary is coming to the Vita at some point, basically 2D DS's kinda game.

[Ozmoses]

pretty much all games on PS4 can be played on the Vita via remote play... It might just be me but I feel like a lot of people forget this.

I mean I know it's not the same as a title strictly for the Vita but it will give you a chance to at least experience a game on the handheld device.

One night you could just sit on your bed and play the current game you're on via remote play to change it up from the usual night of gaming on the "big tv"

It might be weird for most people because the vita was designed for travel in mind. But I barely leave my house let alone my hometown so playing the Vita at home is nothing new to me.

[Eidolon]

Nah, can't play a PS4 game like Dark Souls or ESO on Vita. For one, even on local network, there's some latency. There's also some loss in graphic quality, and the controls just don't feel right, the analogs are not that great either. It would have to be designed for the Vita for it to be enjoyable.

[kitsune451]

Playing Dark Souls with Vita controls and Remote Play latency is like asking a doctor to do surgery with a potato.

[2pacalypsenow]

All the videos have been removed

[shancake]

Just added mirrors.

[AHall88]

Zenimax already took the videos down, surprise, surprise.
Really sucks that Bethesda is owned by such crappy people.

It would have been nice to have had an Elder Scrolls game on the go back then, maybe if the Vita 2/PSP3(If Sony decides to try the handheld market again for some reason) were to catch fire and sell well enough we'd get one.

[Hold_It]

It'd work if Sony didn't have such aggressive anti-piracy, that it makes the price of mandatory accessories (Memory cards) unaffordable.They also couldn't have a lot of the games on it also available on iOS for a cheaper price, and they would actually new to put a decent amount of money into advertisement.

[DragonDDark]

Wow.. a company trying to protect its product.. 0.o

[2pacalypsenow]

Making a console that people can get free games for it defeats the whole purpose, the memopry cards I agree with

[Hold_It]

@DragonDDark

I'm not saying they shouldn't have anti-piracy, but in this case with the Vita, their anti-piracy measures were so aggressive that it drove up the cost of memory cards, since they had to be proprietary. See, the ironic thing is here is that Piracy killed the PSP, and Sony's super aggressive stance on anti-piracy killed the Vita. Most games required memory cards, which were expensive because you could only buy them from Sony (because with the PSP the security was in the battery, not the memory card, but with the Vita the security is in the Operating System, and the memory card).

[Null1980]

I would have bought this day 1. No doubt.

Too bad they took down the videos, but I saw them elsewhere.

[YourGreatUncle]

I remember reading about it in a Tips & Tricks magazine way back. Wish it could have actually happened.

[Fist4achin]

I think if they released this on the vita it would do well. The vita has a strong niche for rpgs. Mine is getting good use.

[TheFirstClassic]

https://www.youtube.com/wat... Gameplay

[Germany7]

Sony portable gaming devices are really impressive, sadly, it looks like we will not have another one.

[KentBenMei]

They are impressive but I think we will get another in due time.

[Germany7]

That would be great!

[tanukisuit]

The sad/funny thing is... Elder Scrolls Travels (not Oblivion, but a previous title) got a port to the N-Gage... of all things.

[KentBenMei]

Shows how stupid companies are.

[innocentrebel]

23:30 minutes of footage - https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[psplova]

lol @ 'the PSP not being too successful'..

http://www.vgchartz.com/ana...

[Kaneki-Ken]

Lol, it sold like around 80 million and they saying it's was not successful enough for them that just non sense.

[TheFirstClassic]

To be fair, this game was being made in 2007, the sales in the u.s started picking up later if I remember correctly

[shancake]

We've just gone in and added mirrors. Videos are up again.

[KentBenMei]

And to think, some idiots kept trying to convince me that VITA couldn't even run an Elder Scrolls game...where you at now?! I wish I remembered the user names. F***ing f****** acting like they're programmers and shit, don't know a damn thing. Vita could EASILY have a TES.

[Darkwatchman]

This game wouldn't have been open world, though. It was going to be a linear dungeon crawler kind of game.

[KentBenMei]

But the game began production about a decade ago on significantly inferior hardware. Today an open world game is possible on Vita and we know this because we have a couple.

[Darkwatchman]

Okay but you're using this PSP game as proof it could be done on vita since it could be done on PSP, but the PSP version was just a linear dungeon crawler so it doesn't help your point at all

[KentBenMei]

Though it seems to be much more limited than something like Skyrim or Oblivion, I'm sure it had some more open areas than just cramped interior space.

Regardless, MS DOS's 1994 The Elder Scrolls: Arena was an open world game. I'm sure PSP even had some, so I simply don't know what point you're trying to make. I don't need to use this unreleased decade old PSP game as proof of anything since there were already open world games on PSP and Vita, and now an Elder Scrolls (regardless of how open it is).

You know what that means, RIGHT? If PSP and Vita can run open world games, and MS DOS in 94 could, and PSP had a TES (regardless of if it was open world) then we can naturally conclude that it can be done on Vita no problem.

I'd like to re-iterate that the game was not finished and we have not seen all of it, so it could very well have more open areas (though not enough to consider it open world).

[Darkwatchman]

We didn't see all of the finished game, but I remember when it was announced and followed it. They stated it was a linear dungeon crawler and would be nothing more than that

[KentBenMei]

Proof that the company stated it would be "nothing more" than a "linear dungeon crawler"?

[TheFirstClassic]

It would have been awesome if this had been picked up again and finished on vita. The vita had so much potential.

[TheColbertinator]

Looked terribly limited by hardware but in time...who knows.

Vita version of Skyrim would blow my mind

[KentBenMei]

I would love that, definitely 100% it.

[windblowsagain]

Vita needs a souls game.

[Ysmir6723]

Compared to my 4k modded oblivion,it looks...pitiful.

[TheFirstClassic]

Looks great for a psp game tho. Even comparable to vanilla oblivion.