The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer (Available Today!)

… now do it with Morrowind. I dare you. I double dare you!
- Morrowind would be a whole different beast to remaster. Not saying I wouldn't enjoy some better graphics and tweaked systems, but it would be a hard sell to most gamers if they only did that.
  -no voice acting -outdated gameplay systems -Game map that wasn't designed with unlimited draw distance, fast travel, or even unlimited running in mind.
  Honestly at this point it would be better served by a full remake.
  
  Morrowind has plenty of fast travel. In fact, it has better fast-travel than later Elder Scrolls games because it's actually integrated into the gameplay.
  
  Yes, that's why you'd make it a remaster; to fix all of those things.
  
  Modern mods fix almost all of those issues.
  The game can easily be 'remastered'.
- There is the Skywind project, but I'm not sure if any progress has been made in the last year
  https://tesrskywind.com/
- Can we just have 6 instead?
  
  No. Oblivion remastered. Then Skyrim Special Oblivion Remastered Anniversary Edition. Then Starfield Remastered.

What exactly has been changed besides the graphics? Sounds like they tweaked the melee combat to more resemble Skyrims.
Imo Oblivions two biggest problems were level scaling and how barren the world was between cities and dungeons.
Edit: I got it after watching more of the gameplay. It still feels like Oblivion, but there's a lot of little tweaks that improve the experience. Combat and movement has more weight to it, so while the systems all effectively function the same it feels a lot less floaty then the original game. There's a lot of small tweaks and QOL improvements, like the UI is reminiscent of the original but much more fluid. Cant comment on if they fixed level-scaling or not, as I'm only at level 3.
Make no mistake, this is 100% Oblivion. Its just a lot prettier and with a lot of small improvements. So far it seems like a rare modern Bethesda W.
- They changed leveling, locomotion, added new voice lines to make all the races sound more unique, added more feedback to combat (hit animations, blood effects, sparks, and sounds; the actual combat mechanics look entirely unchanged)... And that's just what they point out in the trailer.
  
  Gender no longer affects your stats either, they added in 2 origins that do that now
- You can sprint now, so, there's that.
- I haven't see how the level scaling works, but I'm assuming it works exactly like OG Oblivion for two reasons. First is that the underlying game logic is OG Oblivion and second, whether you liked it not, the level scaling was very much in the DNA of Oblivion so it kinda has to be there to feel like Oblivion. That said, the new leveling system looks like it might make the level scaling less horrid.
  And so far from what I watched others play, the world is still as barren and boring as OG Oblivion. Personally I'm going wait for Skyblivion because the barren world was the main reason I didn't enjoy Oblivion.
  
  Mods of the era largely fixed the scaling and the modern day best practices largely are based on that. Mortismal did a good video on Oblivion last year-ish where they talked about it but it mostly boils down to:
  Just stop leveling in (if memory serves) the mid-late 20s. That more or less is what you will get with 60-70% of your levels coming from combat skills and is around where your DPS levels out. The mods of the time basically just tweak the leveled lists to plateau out similarly.
  There was other more stylistic choices (stopping bandits from getting full daedric and glass gear) but that prevented the very common problem of "I didn't optimize my build and now I can't clear oblivion gates"

Looks amazing, definitely gonna pick this up.
Edited to add further thoughts
Having a deluxe edition of a remaster feels bad, though I don't completely begrudge them. It was still a lot of work, time, and effort to do this.
I kinda love releases like this with no build up. I know that this was leaked but I mean compared to six years of announcement to release, I much prefer this kind of shadow drop.
- How much is the horse armor?
  
  $10. I'm not joking. It's a part of the deluxe edition.
  
  Included in the game. Deluxe edition adds new horse armours (among a few other things).
  
  Included. The Deluxe edition adds some new gear, but all the old content (including the old DLC) is available in the base game.
- A deluxe edition does seem a little lame for a remaster. But at the same time the deluxe edition is still cheaper than Starfield and I'd much rather play this.
  
  If this were a Nintendo game it'd be $80 for the base and $90 for Deluxe.

Can't play the game. Just like Nightengale before it, it seems like Intel Arc cards still have issues supporting DX12 on Linux.
Game won't launch because it complains DX12 is unsupported.
- That's unfortunate. Hopefully a driver update comes around soon
  
  Likewise, but I seem to be having major issues with Unreal Engine games in general. UE5 games tend to complain about lack of DX12, and UE4 games run very poorly.
  Meanwhile I'm getting pretty good performance on Cyberpunk 2077 with nearly all the settings maxed out.

Oblivion, when last met you introduced horse armor! Now you return to look upon the ruined game landscape that you have brought! I loved you like a brother, Oblivion! You were the Chosen One!
- Funny enough the deluxe edition includes horse armor lol

I got it, and despite the performance issues everyone is talking about, the game is a wonderful trip down nostalgia lane. And unlike the original, they fixed a lot of the annoyances like the clunky UI.

I'm waiting for skyblivion instead
- dont wait, play this until skyblivion comes out. boom double oblivion remasters to play
- If you have Game pass give it a go, it kinda plays like a weird hybrid of Skyrim and Oblivion

It plays well on the steam deck day 1 as well, if that matters to anyone here. I played the first 2 hours on my deck from work with no issues.
Shaders took like 10 minutes but the rest of the load times were all fine.
- How much fps are you getting? And what are your other settings?
  
  I was getting a stable 30fps on mid settings. Having played at home at much higher resolution, I see you lose a lot, but its still very playable.
  
  I loaded it up on my Deck last night for a few minutes using the default settings (low preset) and was getting what seemed like a stable 30 fps running around in Skingrad. Other people have reported sub-20 FPS when in the open world on the Deck, so it's probably not the best choice unless they patch it

The Oblivion score is so good.
- Jeremy Soule did amazing work. Unfortunately it turned out he was a terrible person and he was blacklisted from the industry after multiple allegations were made against him during the MeToo movement.
  
  Oh that sucks
  
  Yeah that was really disappointing
  
  i thought those were just alleged
- It always reminded me of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme

I was never a huge fan of the base game (after Morrowind, the far more generic fantasy setting was underwhelming and I absolutely hated the Oblivion parts), but I loved the Shivering Isles expansion. Tempted to get it for that alone. The fugly character models needed to be redone BADLY, too.
- Shivering Isles rivals Morrowind in my mind. It has a strange and unique setting and most of the content is incredibly well-written, which contrasts sharply with the standard medieval setting of baseline Oblivion (mandatory reminder that Cyrodiil was supposed to be a rainforest, but the devs retconned it to make development easier).
  The other expansion, Knights of the Nine, was just a bunch of fetch quests to unlock an armor set and was disappointing in comparison to even the base game (though at least the final boss fight was cool). It also put behavioral tracking on the DLC's rewards that would disable them if your character gained infamy, forcing you to repeat a bunch of boring travel quests to fix them whenever this happened. There's a reason KotN never comes up in discussions about the game.
  
  Shivering Isles rivals Morrowind in my mind.
  Same. It's easily my favorite Elder Scrolls expansion, period.
  mandatory reminder that Cyrodiil was supposed to be a rainforest
  I never knew that. Shame the devs for this didn't go for it, but I suppose fans would be up in arms about it.
  EDIT: Apparently they actually DID add some rainforest-y looking locations!
- The fugly character models needed to be redone BADLY, too.
  I kinda wonder what the NPCs in that one village part of a quest that mimics Shadow Over Innsmouth look like in the remake... They're supposed to be fugly 🤣

It's you! The hero of kvatch!

It looks great, and it's AVAILABLE TODAY! The rumors were (unsurprisingly) right on the money, it was a shadowdrop.
Edit: Official 20 minute showcase is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk5cymSWmqo
- I'm so happy to have been wrong about the shadow drop! Now I just need to get through the rest of the day at work lol
  
  You and me both, but at least I'll see first impressions before I get back home.

Stoked to try this game, but I'm waiting a few months for a patch to the graphics issues.

I'm definitely trying the unreal engine VR injector the second the game is done downloading to see if that works!
- Would love to hear results if you do try it out!
  
  I've seen people get pretty good results but i don't think i had the right settings so i wasn't able to make it run. I have a 3090 wich is pretty much the minimum for that XD i also tried to run the game in 8K just to see how it would look with no luck. I ended up playing at 4K medium settings for now. I'll definitely try again tomorrow with someone's UEVR injector profile.

Did they change anything meaningful, like removing that aweful level scaling?
- They did, but to what end we might find out just a few hours from now. Seems like minigame stay the same, but the combat is revamped
  Edit: ohh wait i don't think they mentioned scaling, but just the levelling is changed.
  
  All of the games have scaling of some kind (at least Morrowind and Skyrim do). Just as long as they make suboptimal builds viable rather than punishing, that's all I need.

my steam download speed is so dead right now. rip their servers
- Maybe pause and start the download again, or try a different server? I just downloaded it at nearly full gigabit speeds.
  
  I live in Northern Australia in the capital of the Territory and have fiber to my premises, best o can get is 20mbs download.
  I hate the Australian government for what they did rolling out our National Broadband Network

Got the weekend booked for this. Excited just roam around and see how things have changed. Seems like it runs flawlessly on Linux too!

Even though I have been gaming since Pong (my first game console), I have never played any Elder Scrolls games. This trailer's voice over is new to me, and it is so strange and nostalgic to hear Patrick Stewart's young and vibrant voice on the trailer for a game released this morning.
- Haha, I wondered at first if that was Patrick Stewart, and then decided it wasn't. Glad I was wrong.
  
  He's almost the age of the emperor now.
  
  90% of Oblivion's voice acting budget must have gone to paying for Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean to say a few dozen lines. It's long been a meme that basically every other person in Cyrodill shares the same six or seven voice actors.

I straight up got emotional during the trailer and announcement stream. Oblivion was the first RPG of this kind that I ever played and was one of my favorite games in middle school. Hopefully it's a stable release because I wanna play that shit as soon as I get home from work.

I’m pretty curious about this. I tried Oblivion a few years ago having never played it before and it just felt too clunky for me to want to play much past the tutorial. Which is a shame because I’ve heard there’s a lot of cool stuff in the game I didn’t get to see.
If this makes things feel better to play and is a good all around remaster, maybe I’ll pick it up and give it another go.
- Oblivion was the first game I ever put 100+ hours into, but every time I've tried to get back into it over the years, it was just too clunky and awkward. Bethesda games always age poorly.
  But this remaster is fucking incredible and I very irresponsibly wasted an entire day yesterday playing it. They fixed and polished it so it feels like a modern game again. The only issue I had was poor performance in a lot of areas, like frequent drops down to 40 fps on my powerful PC. I'm hoping a patch will fix that soon.
  Admittedly, my opinion is heavily clouded by nostalgia, so temper your expectations in case my comment actually convinces you to buy it. It's a great game, but it's smaller and somewhat clunkier than Skyrim.

looks like im not finishing avowed 😂

I am pretty disconnected from this videogame series, is Oblivion now the best looking game from Bethesda? (It should be as it is the most recent game I suppose) Would you recommend it over Skyrim graphical and gaming/story wise? Would a new Skyrim remastered game with these assets would be near the horizon? lol.
- I'd argue that Skyrim represents a significant downgrade from earlier titles. The simplified mechanics and increased advertising budget made it more accessible, but the writing quality has been in free fall since morrowind.
  That being said, this is probably their prettiest title now. I haven't gotten to try it yet, but supposedly it is a ground up remake, and if it's on a better engine it may be their least janky game too.
- As much as I like Skyrim, I don’t think there’s a general consensus that the earlier games were better written.
  Personally, until I played Phantom Liberty, the Shivering Isles was the best expansion I had ever played for any game. I’ll leave it to you to discover, if you get the game, but allow me to say it is delightful and different and a ton of fun.

Decisions, decisions: get this for my ps5, or wait until my pc build is done. Prob the latter, just need a couple more things and I've waited this long, what's another couple weeks.
- Honestly, taking into account how important modding is for the TES serie, I'd say it's better to aim PC for this one.

Sweet, never played it and have it in my backlog, so a remaster helps :)

Looking at Steam it looks like they locked the expansions behind the deluxe edition?
- Every publication I've read says the DLCs are all included in the base game. Deluxe adds new cosmetics, OST, and an art book.
- This is what it says for the deluxe edition on the PS Store:
  "Upgrade* from the digital base game to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Deluxe Edition* to receive:
  Unique digital Akatosh and Mehrunes Dagon Armors, Weapons, and Horse Armor Sets
  Digital Artbook and Soundtrack App
  *Base game required, sold separately"
  
  Soundtrack App
  Bruh...
  
  Wow, they literally added more horse armor lol
- Nope, the old DLC is available in the base game. The Deluxe edition adds some new armor (and yes, new horse armor) but isn’t necessary to access the old DLC.
- ~~Yep, they did…it’s pretty shitty.~~
  ~~Though it’s only $10 upgrade, whether you choose now or later. But still, for a 19 year old game, come on man.~~
  Apparently I was reading this wrong.
  Here’s the poster from Steam
  
  They have not, actually.

Looks shit.

£50 for the game I already paid for, just with better graphics? No, thank you.
- You need to actually look at the changes because that is completely wrong. They’ve made mechanical changes to the game.
  Being what? Skyrim style fight? Fuck that. If they were to completly replace moronic, idiotic, retarded level scaling that would be a different conversation.

All I get from these links is "Sign in to confirm your age"
lolno
- It's YouTube...
  
  Right, I see that, and I also see the piped.video link. I don't think I understand the point you are trying to make? Can you clarify?