It’s a completely remade game though, you can see it just from watching some gameplay footage on YouTube. The whole game has essentially been remade in unreal engine 5 with completely new assets, animations, etc. It’s not a typical remaster, because that would be impossible with a game from almost two decades ago, it would look terrible if the original assets were simply upscaled.
I don’t even like the elder scrolls games, but this is not comparable to other situations where companies put out a half baked remaster with upscaled textures and call it a day. (See the GTA “remasters”). It’s also not comparable to mods or fan made stuff. The game has actually been remade from the ground up. Is that worth the price? I don’t know, I can see it being worth it if you really like oblivion. I would easily pay a similar price (if I had the money, I don’t so I’d probably wait for a discount/sale) for a remake of the PlayStation Two era Ace Combat Trilogy (4, 5 and Zero), or for remakes of the Need For Speed trilogy (Underground 2, Most Wanted and Carbon), or for a remake of just Gran Turismo 4. Call me a sucker all you like, but those games were great and it would be worth the price for me if it’s essentially a new game from the technical point of view.
It’s not quite a remake. The game still runs entirely on the Creation Engine. UE5 is used to render the graphics, which have been re-modeled and re-textured. Oblivion as it functioned in 2006 is under all those visual updates.
Again, I dislike the elder scrolls games, I don’t think they’re good. I don’t play them. But there are those who do, and they’re probably enjoying this right now. I’m not trying to judge it on a subjective opinion of if the game is good or not, but in an objective way of how much effort was put into it, and if similar effort was put into games I liked from a similar time period, how I would feel about it.
Believe it or not, the GTA remasters were actually made in Unreal Engine as well. You’re right though that they just straight up ripped the old textures and ai upscaled them.
It’s a completely remade game though, you can see it just from watching some gameplay footage on YouTube. The whole game has essentially been remade in unreal engine 5 with completely new assets, animations, etc. It’s not a typical remaster, because that would be impossible with a game from almost two decades ago, it would look terrible if the original assets were simply upscaled.
I don’t even like the elder scrolls games, but this is not comparable to other situations where companies put out a half baked remaster with upscaled textures and call it a day. (See the GTA “remasters”). It’s also not comparable to mods or fan made stuff. The game has actually been remade from the ground up. Is that worth the price? I don’t know, I can see it being worth it if you really like oblivion. I would easily pay a similar price (if I had the money, I don’t so I’d probably wait for a discount/sale) for a remake of the PlayStation Two era Ace Combat Trilogy (4, 5 and Zero), or for remakes of the Need For Speed trilogy (Underground 2, Most Wanted and Carbon), or for a remake of just Gran Turismo 4. Call me a sucker all you like, but those games were great and it would be worth the price for me if it’s essentially a new game from the technical point of view.
I think my main problem here is remaking Oblivion and losing all the mod support lol
It’s not quite a remake. The game still runs entirely on the Creation Engine. UE5 is used to render the graphics, which have been re-modeled and re-textured. Oblivion as it functioned in 2006 is under all those visual updates.
If they’ve remaking things you’d think they’d start by making it good
Again, I dislike the elder scrolls games, I don’t think they’re good. I don’t play them. But there are those who do, and they’re probably enjoying this right now. I’m not trying to judge it on a subjective opinion of if the game is good or not, but in an objective way of how much effort was put into it, and if similar effort was put into games I liked from a similar time period, how I would feel about it.
Believe it or not, the GTA remasters were actually made in Unreal Engine as well. You’re right though that they just straight up ripped the old textures and ai upscaled them.