They need to. Strong rumours that Bethesda has tasked a studio to remake Oblivion in a different engine.
Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion
Submitted 5 days ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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fartsparkles@lemmy.world 5 days ago
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Let’s see who can do it better, BGS or unpaid indie devs.
My money is not on BGS.
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 5 days ago
Frankly Bethesda would do very well with remastering all their previous tes games, including the first two.
I would really like to play Morrowind with the option of a modern UI instead of dragging windows around and clicking stuff
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 5 days ago
A remaster for the first too wouldn’t be enough, I figure. I played daggerfall unity and it just does not hold up. A full on remake would be interesting, but they’d have to go hard, and reconceptualize a lot.
Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
A different engine? Are you sure? They just buffed up their creation engine 2 for Starfield.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah an ex Virtuos developer said they had been working on a remake in UE5 for Bethesda. Can’t find the reference but it was a big rumour a while ago.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Both and Neither.
It’s the same as the GTA remasters, it’s still Gamebryo running the game, but UE5 will be handling the rendering.
Venicon@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I really hope so! It seems like such a no brainer, get a studio to remake the bulk of it and keep creative control. I came into TES world in Skyrim and would love to go back through them but I’m a snob for a modern looking game now.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Even if they do, I feel like both projects will have different enough approach to things to avoid making the other obsolete. Maybe… possibly.
I’ll certainly take the unofficial remake over the Bethesda one due to lower requirements and lack of Creation Club. That, and I’m just more interested in the fan interpretation of Cyrodiil to be honest.
bricklove@midwest.social 5 days ago
I’m waiting for skyrim and oblivion to be remade in OpenMW
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 5 days ago
There are mods that add Skyrim and Cyrodiil.
I think Project Tamriel Rebuilt and Project Tamriel are the ones.
I’ve not played them, watched a stream play one of them. The tippy part is they go off the OG lore so Cyrodiil is a more tropical/Mediterranean climate which is fun.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 days ago
I’ve used Tamriel Rebuilt a while back and it was pretty fucking cool. There was only one small patch of the map that wasn’t completed when I played it, and none of it was populated. But they had the landmasses and cities all built and decorated. If they haven’t gotten NPCs populating places by now, I have no idea what they’ve been doing this whole time.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
The tippy part is they go off the OG lore so Cyrodiil is a more tropical/Mediterranean climate which is fun.
Fucking Thalmor denying the power of Talos of Atmora.
Seriously though, the canon explanation for Cyrodiil being the way it is now as opposed to original lore is that when Talos achieved CHIM he changed it, because that’s a thing you can do with the secret syllable of royalty. All part of the path to mantling Shor/Lorkhan via one of the Walking Ways and forging an empire.
towelie@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Skyblivion in OpenMW
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I thought I’d heard a rumor that TES 6 was going to be an Oblivion remake, which would be a dick move on Bethesda’s part if true.
towelie@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Half right. They are rumors that they’ll be releasing a remaster of Oblivion soon, which is a separate project from TES 6. And yeah, it’s a major dick move.
shinratdr@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
How is it a dick move to remake their own game? I would love that and buy it day one, Oblivion is amazing and it’s very constrained by its PS3/360 era memory limits.
A dick move would be sending a C&D to the Skyblivion team and not letting the remaster/remake stand on its own. Attitudes like this are why most developers don’t even bother with modding support.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 days ago
How? I don’t care how long a game takes to make, I want it to be good.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
ign.com/…/the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion-remake-det…
Yup. They love to screw the community. All they care about is money. Fuck Bethesda.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Imagine having Skyrim and Oblivion exist
And playing avowed lmao 🤣
samus12345@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Avowed’s story is pretty mid, but it’s still much better than either Oblivion or Skyrim’s.
Exploration-wise, of course Oblivion and Skyrim are better. That’s never been Obsidian’s focus.
Allero@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I don’t think it’s even possible to untangle storytelling from experience in TES games. Their magic is that they immerse the player in a way no other game ever managed to, in my opinion. Every stone is part of the lore. And when you put those games into the time context they belong, you see the masterpiece.
That said, Avowed did a fairly good job, and storytelling has also advanced in 14 years since the last TES game.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Lol no , how are you writing that seriously.
The only thing avowed does better than any other game is being a massive turd sandwich 🤣🤣🤣
And that’s good if you like it, but please don’t tell everyone else that you are eating melted chocolate LMAO 🤣
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I bought oblivion six years ago in anticipation of this release. Just another couple of years until it’s done.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
I hope they manage to get it complete, and good. Giving Oblivion another try (this time exploring the rest of the world instead of focusing on the boring main quest) has been on my list for a while, and improved graphics would be welcome.
That font, though… not a good choice for quickly delivering information. Mods to the rescue?
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 days ago
Funny, for me it’s the other way around. I probably played a couple hundred hours of Oblivion back in the day: modding, exploring and restarting. Never once finished the main quest. I’m thinking Skyblivion might be my chance to finally do it.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s me with every Bethesda game I played. I don’t even treat them as games to beat, just worlds to run around in.
StitchIsABitch@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Sweet, then I could finally play oblivion instead of giving up after the 34th crash
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You really want to make the game infinite, create smooth way for s player to travel between each chapter making the entire world one huge game
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Bethesda is already prepping to screw them over. Like with the Fallout London guys. Fuck Bethesda. Leaning heavily on the community to fix their issues but ready to fuck them over when they come with a large project by quickly releasing their own shitty remake or updating the game, breaking the mod. Better pirate their games or don’t play them at all, they do not deserve our money.
simple@lemm.ee 4 days ago
This is a weird take. Bethesda isn’t getting in the way of mods and actively supports them, it’s not like they pushed an update to screw over Fallout London, they’re not going to get permission from mod creators to work on their own franchise.
If Bethesda does make their own remake, I fail to see how that hurts the people working on Skyblivion.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Combining oblivion, morrowind and Skyrim into one game mod: Bethesda broke it. Fallout London: Bethesda broke it. Both very soon after release by an update which was specifically designed to break the mod. Yeah, they do actively break mods to screw too enthusiastic modders who will create more and better content using their platforms, which will show their failure, laziness and not-caring-at-all-about-their-customers-at-all, because they only think of money and how to get as much as much as possible by screwing their customers over again and again. Todd is an asshole and Bethesda is a rotten company which still profits and milks their old successes from the time they weren’t rotten.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Exactly! I hate when people keep saying Bethesda “screwed over” mod devs, as if making a free mod takes precedence over someone who actually works for the game studio being told by their boss to make this update happen.
There’s too much going on at the company for someone to try to track down mod authors to “get their permission”
It would be like you offering me a place to stay and asking if I’m okay with you doing housework. Like I have no say, it’s your house, you need to do regular maintenance.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Perhaps he heard the same thing I did - Bethesda announced a soon to be released refresh of the game.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t see Bethesda has doing anything about this project.
Like TESNexus did take down my main quest implementation back in 2010 (although someone else had already uploaded a half done version which was allowed to stay up? maybe they had sucked Arthmoor off or something.)
But you’ve been able to complete basically of Morrowind in Oblivion for more than ten years ago, and I don’t think Bethesda has done anything. I think they threatened/scared the French guy who made the executable that converted everything.
Tbh, I could see them giving Morrowind away for free at some point - just like Daggerfall and Arena.
The way they might fuck people over is the endless Skyrim and Fallout updates I guess that break fucking everything. But not legally I don’t think.
orize@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
How do you know if Bethesda is ready to pull the level for the falling hatch Skyblivion stands on?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 days ago
How did they screw over Fallout London devs?
Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Bethesda released (announced, maybe?) a mod-beeaking patch 24 hours before the mod was to be released.