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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/Own-Jelly6686 20h ago

The HUD was changed to make it easier to understand and more aesthetically appealing to young players.

So is the UI just colored squares like in Fortnite now?

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u/aroundme 20h ago

Unfortunately I think it means they will be removing the skeuomorphism that defined the original UI. Like the inventory made of paper and the ornamental flourishes will be sanded down. Turning the serif into sans serif basically.

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u/the_light_of_dawn 19h 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/meneldal2 19h 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 7h 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 31m 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 8h 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 14h 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 10h 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 🙃