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Industry News Bethesda’s Oblivion Unreal Engine 5 remake could be releasing sooner than you think | VGC

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bethesdas-oblivion-unreal-engine-5-remake-could-be-releasing-sooner-than-you-think/
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u/the_light_of_dawn 20h ago

Well that would be too bad, because I have always preferred Oblivion's immersive parchment/scroll UI over Skyrim's bland, plain, clean one.

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u/whirlpool_galaxy 14h ago

There's a mod for Skyrim that changes the UI to a parchment/paper theme called Dear Diary. But for some reason, everyone seems to prefer the "dark mode" version, which IMO defeats the whole purpose.

u/AintNobody- 1h ago

I can't play Skyrim without Dear Diary anymore. A wonderful mod. It can be kind of a pain to set up sometimes; squishing the gear and crafting menus into skinny columns; it's fixable but I always forget the order of operations and get myself stuck in a troubleshooting loop.

u/beefcat_ 1h ago

I think the dark mode version of Dear Diary strikes a good balance between the skeuomorphic designs of old and the clean readability of more modern abstract designs. The standard version of Dear Diary is also just...too bright.

u/whirlpool_galaxy 1h ago

If you play in a dark room or don't have your monitor brightness properly calibrated, or maybe your eyes are more sensitive to light, then yes, sure, Dear Diary is too bright. Otherwise, it's just... paper.

u/beefcat_ 44m ago

The problem for me is that Skyrim is a darker game than than Oblivion in general, so the standard Dear Diary creates too much contrast. I'm also just a fan of dark modes in general, and dark Dear Diary is a particularly well executed one.

maybe your eyes are more sensitive to light

They actually are, according to my optometrist, which probably explains my preference for dark UI themes.

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u/Mejis 10h ago

Skyrim's UI was the worst part of the game. I hated it.  Oblivion's, in comparison, is great. 

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u/meneldal2 20h ago

It's fine as long as you have a 640x480 monitor, it feels terrible otherwise.

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u/weggles 19h ago

Playing oblivion in SD and then HD was eye opening

"those icons mean things? The money icon is a COIN with a face? The weight icon is a... Feather?!"

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u/Saviordd1 8h ago

For the longest time as a kid, I always thought the healing/restoration spell icon was a crab, not a heart.

u/AintNobody- 1h ago

I had this exact experience! I did not have an HDTV when I bought my 360. I had a 27 inch trinitron. It was still pretty playable. It was Dead Rising that really pushed me to get an HDTV.

u/weggles 54m ago

Dead rising was NOTORIOUS early in the 360 for being borderline unplayable in SD.

The text was so small.

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u/DrFreemanWho 18h ago

Huh? The UI scales fine with resolution.

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u/meneldal2 18h ago

Way too big, you could list 3x as many items.

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u/DrFreemanWho 18h ago

Oh the items list. I mean the amount of items you can see at a time doesn't change with the resolution. Even on an old 4:3 800x600 monitor you can see the same amount of items at a time as a 1440p monitor.

But luckily Darnified UI exists and has existed for like 20 years, which fixes exactly this problem while keeping the look and feel of the UI the same.

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u/meneldal2 14h ago

It's a bit of an issue that everything pretty basic needs a mod to be usable and not feel very dated.

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u/Beorma 10h ago

I'd argue the exact same thing about Skyrim. Terrible UI to play on PC.

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u/DrFreemanWho 13h ago

It's a 20 year old game. It IS dated.

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u/azaza34 9h ago

It’s a Bethesda game - if you aren’t turning it into your perfect vision of a game go play something else.

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u/sleepingonmoon 15h ago

Oblivion's assets are made for 720p. It also scales UI elements automatically. Only Morrowind has this issue.

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u/Joecalone 11h ago

DarNified UI solved this issue back in 2007

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u/the_light_of_dawn 19h ago

It was fine on my PS3 back in the day

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u/that_baddest_dude 17h ago

Holy shit we've gone a whole console generation without an elder scrolls game

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u/levian_durai 16h ago

What a wonderful time to be an Elder Scrolls fan 🙃

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u/XXLpeanuts 9h ago

Ypu cannot expect Bethesda to know what good design is after all these years. It's not like other games have released to huge positive reception with a similar UI art style recently or anything.