This is huge news for me, I'll get it for sure. Oblivion was such a landmark in gaming when it released back in the day, I played it on my first own PC. I'm a bit concerned about mods though, since they seem to running it in UE5.

Dammit I need this...

That size difference though....from a game less than 10 GB to triple digits lol

I wonder if they'll keep the ~ commands in :)

Been a while since I had an avalanche of shields





It will be great to revisit Oblivion in VR, I doubt I'll play it again flat though.

This is exciting :)

Oblivion was one of the first Xbox 360 games I ever played, and the first one to bowl me over with its graphics. I actually think that was the last time I was really taken aback by a leap in graphical fidelity.

I hold Morrowind as the peak of the Elder Scrolls series but Oblivion is not far behind. It’s one of those special, incredibly immersive games that takes over your imagination — not to mention your life.

I still have my 360 disc with the big map of Cyrodiil. Cant wait to jump back in.

Same, still got my original Xbox 360 copy.
Also got an original Xbox copy of Morrowind.

Used to be a Moderator on the OldBlivion forums and was heavily involved in the mod scene, managed to get Oblivion running on PC hardware similar to the original Xbox by making and modifying the pixel and vertex shaders, modifying meshes and models and more.

Eventually moved onto other games like Fallout 3, Bioshock and Crysis to eventually ending up on vgchartz.
I would be super happy if the mod scene came back in a big way, but forums are an old fashioned idea that has waned in popularity in recent years, so I doubt the community would ever be as vibrant as it once was.

Same goes for Crysis, used to be a moderator for Crytek and the Crysis forums, the community was amazing back in the day, just not sure if a thriving forum community could be a thing anymore... And that is probably one of the most exciting aspects of Elder Scrolls, the community.

I think from a technical perspective, leveraging Unreal Engine 5 to sit on top of Net Immerse turned Gamebryo is probably a very quick-to-market approach, especially if they are just using it for the renderer, leaving all the scripting to Gamebryo to manage which is what that engine excels at... I am just postulating though, need to see the game in person to see how they made two completely different engines mesh together in a coherent manner... You would have though just forward porting it to the latest Creation Engine used for Starfield would have been the simplest approach.

But if they succeed doing it with Oblivion from a technical perspective, then there is no reason they couldn't backport it to Net Immerse and use it for Morrowind.

I just hope there is no shader compilation stutter.

I kinda wanted Morrowind since I haven't played it before but this is definitely a day one for more me. Summer more or less sorted gaming wise

If you don’t wanna worry about the cumbersome nature of a nearly 25 year old game, there is a group of modders remaking Morrowind in the Skyrim Special Edition engine called Skywind. You can easily find YouTube videos on what the gameplay is like, but currently no release date.

Same mod group are releasing another mod later this year called Skyblivion, which same concept, but for Oblivion lol. It’s a good year to be an Oblivion fan! 

It looks amazing, better even than I had expected. I just hope the UE5 wrap-over won't make it more difficult for modders.

Holy shit it looks so fucking good! And it's out today!😲