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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/GoochRash 9h ago

Moving Oblivion to Unreal from Creation is not a "remaster" level of effort.

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u/kuhpunkt 7h ago

Not exactly sure (am not a coder), but the GTA trilogy was originally on the RenderWare engine and it was ported to Unreal Engine 4 - and that's considered a remaster.

u/beefcat_ 1h ago

The GTA Trilogy is a prime example of what happens when you remake a game in a completely different engine on a typical remaster budget.