Images of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Have Leaked - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 15 April 2025 / 5,345 Views
The long rumored remastered of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have leaked online. Along with showcasing what the game will look like it also reveals the remaster will be titled The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.
The images are circulating online and were leaked from a Virtuos website that has since been taken down. The remaster will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Xbox Game Pass, according to the site.
The remaster is primarily in development by Virtuos, while Bethesda Dallas and Bethesda Rockville are also working on it.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion originally released for the Xbox 360 and PC in March 2006, followed by the PlayStation 3 in March 2007.
images of The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion remaster have been found on Virtuous' website. Oops 😬 www.reddit.com/r/oblivion/c...
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren.co.uk) April 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Insert Jack Nicholson yes gif.
That looks like a much more substantial upgrade than i was expecting. I expected a simple remaster with some upscaled textures. It looks as if they completely remade the game.
A LOT of my early teenage years were spent playing Oblivion. I'll be playing a lot of this and the Skyblivion mod :) even if I have some reservations about the screenshots.
Vanilla wise Oblivion is the best ES game it had some of the most notable content for example the dark brotherhood quest in Oblivion is one of the best side quests of all time. Skyrim has the best world and lends itself well to mods while Morrowind has the deepest lore spread throughout the game.
Oblivion might have been my first ever Bethesda game back in the day, certainly the first ES game. I think I liked it more than Skyrim. There was no superhero chosen one bullshit and the world seemed more varied. Guild missions were much better as well. Or maybe I'm just nostalgic or remembering wrong, it's been 20 years.
So it's like a remake not just a remaster
If there is one thing that makes these Bethesda games good it's the jank. I hope it keeps at least some of that.
Alright. I am impressed.
I spent an inordinate amount of time modding and playing Oblivion, it's been awhile since I have fired it up and keen for another play through.
But I also feel like Morrowind commands a remaster/remake before Oblivion...
That's not a remaster. It's a remake.
That's how I take it too, but I don't think there's a strong consensus about which term is correct here.
There is the only definition. If the game's graphics are remade, it's a remake. If it's just mostly the same thing with hogher resolutions amd some new textures, it's a remaster.
Clearly people have different words for games that are essentially old games with remade assets. They're remakes to me, but some call them remasters, and there's not much either of us can do about it. It's lamentable that people can't agree about the terms, but that's just the way things are.
I loved the improvement at first, but now going by the pics I'm worried they've made it too brown compared to the vibrant green of the original.
This I agree with you on. Sure the originals colors were saturated, but I loved how bright and colorful everything was. This looks more like I stepped out of the vault in Fallout lol
On the one hand, the brightness of Oblivion was interesting, but on the other, it often seemed like too much, it often looked washed out and blinding. This looks more realistic, but I fear some of the charm of the original art design has been lost. The perfect blend would have been the more realistic lightning of this remake combined with bright green Ireland like grass and the bright white stone statues and buildings of the original release. Thankfully modders should be able to improve things, reshade alone should work wonders on the PC version, and we will likely get asset rework mods eventually to make the grass more green and the stone more white without needing to rely on reshade.
Are you sure you're not remembering HDR? It made things quite bright back in the day.
That's probably just the weather/time of day affecting the colors. There was another image i saw that was near that area that looked closer to the colors of the original.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ElderScrolls/s/ZLK2Ixvpou
It's one of the images in this post
Edit: a clearer image https://x.com/Jivesh1995/status/1912121208205697528
Oblivion has always been my favorite Elder Scrolls game
Been about 10 years since I explored these lands last and I can't wait to do it again <3
Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 have not aged well. The dungeons are always these uninteresting places with braindead enemies that can't fight. The main quests are linear. The side quests and faction quests are all junk aside from assassination missions. Skyrim and Oblivion feel like Morrowwind but with way less lore, less customization, and a bad level scaling system. Fallout 4 still has VATs which is fun but Skyrim and Oblivion combat is too antiquated. You only really have spells, a parry, bows, and a block. Lots of games now have 10 or more weapontypes that act completely different.
Well apparently the combat was redone as well. Not sure what the means exactly but that might also be different.
Oh that would be awesome!
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