Eurogamer understands Bethesda's current plan is to shadow drop the game next week on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, including via Xbox Game Pass.

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[–] 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Feels on brand for Bethesda to secret release this just before skyblivion mod finally gets near their release date. Kind of feels like a slap in the face to the community. I guess we will get a who did it better comparison.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Unless they DMCA the Skyblivion mod.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Unlikely to happen, because the leadership behind the project claimed they are in contact with Bethesda, to make sure no one’s stepping on anyone’s toes. Although obviously they can just pull the rug at any time, which would be catastrophic. Given that they’ve remade basically every single asset in the game, and require the original game to be owned and installed, it should be fine

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    At least it is not skyrim again?

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The first oblivion gate actually just takes you to the Skyrim intro and you can't leave.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Now we get 11 years of Oblivion re-releases!

    I guess TESVI is already doomed, probably won't release until after the ice-caps melt.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Honestly, I don't have a ton of faith in Bethesda anymore, so I don't care much for the next game. This on the other hand, as I understand it, was handled by another studio which has delivered great remasters and remakes, so I'm actually kinda stoked for it. I could play through Oblivion again, it's been years.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Skyblivion (the fan remake) will probably have much more attention to detail and will also release this year, after over 10 years of development. The dev log videos look amazing. I'd be very surprised if the official remake is as good.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    they really doing anything but making elder scrolls 6 huh

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I still remember my first playthrough. Low level character. I save scummed until I could sneak into the tower in the heart of the Imperial City. In the council chamber was a mage with an incredibly powerful staff. I pickpocketed it off of him, again using save scumming. I then traveled to Bravil and entered the castle there. As the Count of Bravil was giving a speech, I pulled out the staff and zapped him dead on his throne, right in front the of the whole court. I then got away from the assassination through the brilliant escape plan of running out the front door, murder weapon still in hand.

    Damn I loved Oblivion.

    Muuuuurrddeeerrr!!!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My favorite story was actually from my buddy's playthrough. He duped the poison apple from the assassin's guild quest using the arrow glitch. He then duped it 50 more times and put-pocketed one into everyone's pockets in a specific town. When they all went to lunch they ate them and died. An entire town of dead people. It was hilarious.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I beat the entire thieves guild quest line starting at basically level 1 by using the strategy of "run fast". There were some major flaws that kept me from loving that game properly, so I'm hoping it's more user friendly with the remake. But I could definitely see a lot of charm in it.

    If it isn't one of the ugliest games I've ever played though. Why is every character a shiny, pudgy, orange?

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    My only thing is that I hope they fixed some of the blaring issues with the original. I still go back and play Oblivion from time to time, but I usually have to spend 4 or 5 hours just downloading and installing mods. My biggest gripe with Oblivion has always been enemy scaling. Unless you do the main quest first you'll be fighting the strongest enemies in the game by the time you get around to it.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't think it would be hard to fake these screenshots. Bethesda shadow dropping a game of this high profile within a week, without ever having officially said anything about it or even replying to media asking about it just seems incredibly unlikely.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's so fucking weird to drop a remaster or remake like that so suddenly with no advertising or announcement. Something about this still doesn't feel right in my gut, so I guess I'll believe it when (if) it does drop. I don't even know if I am going to buy it if it's real, I have more faith in the modders behind Skyblivion than I do in Bethesda to actually do right with their IPs

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i think its a panic project that was fired up quickly because Starfield failed so miserably.

    unless this was just a side project that a few devs were working on and it was latched on to as a product that could be focused on.

    i suspect that while todd was failing to put out fires, a couple devs were like "should we tell them we've been messing around with Oblivion assets in our new engine?"

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No, they contracted this game out to another developer, and it's in Unreal. It's been in the works for a long time. If they're smart, it's a testbed for getting future games off of their usual Creation engine.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What's weird is that they're still keeping it a secret even though it's been rumored for months. We know it's coming, but they're still acting like it's going to be a surprise.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Oblivion has my heart, but I'm not super interested in this. So far some of the visual choices look less inspired than the original take, and I don't just mean the yellow filter. The dryad went from other worlds to person with a dryad skin equipped.

    I'm more interested in the Skyblivion mod. It feels more like it improves upon what was there and has some cool deviations of its own.

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    What the fuck the community already did this just make a new game already, one that's preferable not garbage

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    I have a bad feeling about this. I'm getting GTA The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition flashbacks.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yeah.. but RuneScape dgaronwilds came out today so... Only so much money to spend this month

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