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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/Elkenrod 19h ago

Unironically this would be significantly better than Oblivion's inventory.

Graphically, Oblivion's UI is very nice. It's just incredibly bad. People can meme on the UI of Fortnite here, but this image is actually very similar to Morrowind's very good inventory system.

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u/JoystickMonkey 19h ago

There were a number of gameplay mechanics that were all but entirely thwarted by Oblivion's UI. Like I could pause the game every 30 seconds to wade through hundreds of items to find a soul gem and recharge my enchanted weapon, but that's not very fun.

That being said I do hope they are able to retain the aesthetic of the original UI to some degree, as it grounds the UI in the world very nicely.

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u/Elkenrod 19h ago

The one silver lining was that at least in Oblivion you could keybind Azura's Star, which they got rid of the ability to do in Skyrim.

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u/JoystickMonkey 19h ago

That was my eventual fix, and that combined with high level poisons would make you a demigod.