Did you clap your fingers? Say your prayers? Keep in mind to drink your Ovaltine? You will need to have achieved, as a result of Bethesda’s solely gone and shadowdropped the Oblivion remaster the very same day it formally revealed the dang factor, simply as prophecy foretold.
Not that the reveal was a shock, thoughts you. The existence of an Oblivion remaster has been the worst-kept secret in videogames ever since a courtroom doc splashed the goss throughout the entrance pages again in September 2023. After all, that doc—a leaked Microsoft presentation—had the sport down as releasing in fiscal 12 months 2022, which is, hold on, let me work it out, earlier than the likes of you and me acquired our mitts on it, so it was anybody’s guess as as to whether it had been cancelled or not, or whether or not it ever actually existed in any respect.
That’s, till rumours and supposed leaks started to flow into in the previous couple of months that the sport was due an imminent announcement and launch. Rumours and leaks that saved repeating themselves with rising quantity and frequency, driving poor, benighted Oblivion followers to the brink of Silksong-style insanity of their zeal for only a crumb of precise, strong information.
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However wily Todd Howard saved his powder dry. Till right this moment. We did not simply get a crumb of information, we acquired an entire loaf: the Oblivion remaster is right here and it prices $50 (£50), and it is out on Recreation Cross too. The look we acquired at it throughout its reveal positive makes me curious to get a go on the full factor. It is all shiny and uprezzed, sure, and truthfully appears to be like extra just like the type of factor you’d ordinarily name a ‘remake’ relatively than a ‘remaster,’ however I am largely wanting to know if the polish-up has left Oblivion’s absurd, beating coronary heart intact. Bethesda and Virtuos counsel it has, however I would like to search out out for myself.
As a result of say what you want about it (and as a Morrowind stalwart, I’ll), however Oblivion is the funniest sport Bethesda ever launched. Presumably one of many funniest video games of all time. The exact mixture of Bethesda’s ambitions with the boundaries of the know-how of 2006 made for a sport that was consistently, brilliantly bizarre—humorous sufficient that its unmatched comedian timing remains to be sufficient to go viral almost twenty years after it first got here out. If two individuals do not have a banal dialog whereas one in all them slowly burns to demise in lava on this factor, I am calling the entire remaster a failure.
You could find the The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered on Steam and the Microsoft Retailer.
