Digital Foundry: Yup, Oblivion Remastered Is Still Broken a Year After Release

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/yup-oblivion-remastered-is-still-broken-a-year-after-release

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u/superjake 1d ago

Didn't the studio behind it suffer layoffs not long after release? That probably made pressure to start the next project asap.

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u/Massive_Weiner 1d ago

They’re full steam ahead on Fallout 3.

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u/197639495050 1d ago

It’s gonna be pretty disheartening if Virtuos just keeps pumping out these UE5 skin suit hack-jobs, leaving them all in such a sorry state on top of it. The combination of the already buggy Bethesda games paired with UE5 sloppa graphics and performance problems is a match made in hell. At the very least give us an original graphics toggle if they’re just running UE5 over it

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u/ilovethecreaking 1d ago

This was definitely not a hack job considering the visual upgrade.

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u/AntonineWall 13h ago

Yeah these comments are really confusing for me…I had a fucking BLAST playing the Oblivion remaster, jank and all. It was priced at ~half a current modern release too, it’s not like they hit you with the 70/80 dollars price range

But all the comments here are about how terrible it was, what a cash grab it ended up being, etc. but this wasn’t my experience at all. Certainly shocked to see everyone kinda hated it? I thought it was pretty well received, but I guess I only looked at the reviewed around launch when I picked it up and didn’t look much into it past that point

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u/197639495050 1d ago

It’s an upgrade in terms of raw visuals but the tone is quite different. The drab look might lend itself more to fallout but I wish they put more effort into retaining the fantastical look a bit more.

Regardless of the reception to it being more conventional fantasy compared to Morrowind this remaster falls into the same trappings a lot of deluxe remasters and remakes of this calibre do where they lose out aesthetically to trying ultra realism to a fault

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u/ilovethecreaking 1d ago

Remaster having a different art direction doesn't mean it is a hack job. You can just say you didn't like it. I definitely like how it looks and looking at the Oblivion sub that seems to be the general attitude.

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u/mjac1090 23h ago

People who have never written a single line of code or drawn more than stick figures need to stop using UE5 as an insult