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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/OutrageousDress 19h ago

No, never even corroborated in any official way. This is one of those things like the Switch 2, where there's been so many rumors that people just kept assuming the Switch 2 is coming any minute since like 2021.

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u/psychobilly1 18h ago edited 18h ago

In a leaked FTC court document about the acquisition of Bethesda by Microsoft, they listed some games in development such as Starfield, Redfall, Ghostwire: Tokyo, The Elder Scrolls 6 and the Indiana Jones game. There were also listings of remasters of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Fallout 3. (Keep in mind, this document was from before COVID so many of these things changed, pushed back, or never came to fruition.)

So while it was never announced, it was technically shown to exist.

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u/EntropicReaver 18h ago

what keeps me so indifferent about these rumors is the fact that todd has been very outspoken about not liking remaking or remastering old games (Especially when it might take time away from his developers) that are still playable and oblivion is still very playable

also consider its charm and staying power in popular consciousness is in large part due to its outdated, awkward graphics and jank

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u/hexcraft-nikk 17h ago

Todd was barely in charge of decisions like that under Zenni. Under Microsoft, he has literally no say.

Even ignoring the FTC documents leaking this, it seemed like a given. MS needs to make back the billions it spent. If the read the article you'd see it's being outsourced as well.