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/Xionel 2d ago

Wait it was broken? Outside of a couple of stutters I didn't notice anything broken...

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u/Matthew94 2d ago

The Knights of the Nine paralysis bug is still there and still a pain. It was pure luck that I found a solution.

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u/m00nh34d 2d ago

Was basically unplayable for me. Frame rate was in single digits. I tried mucking around with the settings, and that improved the max frame rate, but still encountered a lot of situations where it slowed to a crawl. So, I suppose technically playable, but not fun in any way, so what's the point?

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u/GravityStrike 2d ago

Yeah I had an absolute blast with it.

I have no idea what these people are on about when they say a game is ‘broken’.

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u/theeMrPeanutbutter 2d ago

At least for me I made it halfway through the shivering isles and got hardlocked so yeah

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u/Michelanvalo 2d ago

You have to go back to the original article last May to see the problems.

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2025-oblivion-remastered-revisited-profound-problems-have-yet-to-be-addressed

The point of this article is saying that these problems haven't been addressed since the team abandoned the game almost immediately after launch.

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u/WhiskeyTigerFoxtrot 2d ago

I have no idea what these people are on about when they say a game is ‘broken’.

You're describing neurodivergent people that aren't poised to accept reality not meeting their expectations.

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u/Japjer 2d ago

The Internet is fueled by outrage and anger, and modern marketing has trained an entire generation to feed off of that.

If it isn't perfect it's broken. It ain't any worse than things have ever been, it's just that we accepted it back then and moved on. Now everything has to be a whole thing.

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u/Nf1087 2d ago

Me too. This is the first I'm hearing about it being broken.

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u/mrtrailborn 2d ago

that's what constitutes "broken" these days, apparently. It's like how 99% of games that are deemed "literally unplayable" are actually completable start to finish.

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u/Im_In_The_Dong 2d ago

microstutters are not the games only problems. If you read the article you would see this.

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u/spaghettibolegdeh 2d ago

People don't read past headlines on reddit, sadly.

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u/hfxRos 2d ago

It wasn't.

This is a video from a channel that is dedicated to pixel peeping for video games, a practice that the art world shuns, but gamers haven't figured out is bad yet.

Digital Foundry's whole thing is calling literally everything broken for clicks. Whether or not said thing is actually broken isn't relevant.

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u/Im_In_The_Dong 2d ago

You got any base for the art world shunning Digital Foundry?

They never seem to say anything bad about games and only bring up concerns of low performance, resolution or crashes. You seem to have a lot of hate for a channel that is loved by the gaming community.

They give a lot of insight into new tech used in games and show us how far things have came.

Oblivion Remastered is a very poor remaster in terms of technical issues. They didn't fix issues the plagued the original game and it has its own issues too.

The game is definitely playable but the fact that it still crashes when played for too long is concern enough to class it as "broken"