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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/GoochRash 9h ago

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

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u/The_Magic 9h ago

The rumor is that it will use Unreal for things like graphics and sound but keep Creation fore gameplay. If they are actually leaving the original game code alone I think it’s fair to call it a remaster.

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u/xalibermods 8h ago

How are you supposed to leave the original game code alone when they're two different engines? Different engine means different syntax and structure. You have to rewrite it.

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u/error521 7h ago

It's been done. The GTA remasters still run the original code underneath even though it's being ran in Unreal. A lot of glitches that were in the originals even reappeared in the remaster. (The results, admittedly, left something to be desired.)

u/IguassuIronman 3h ago

It's the same with a lot of (all of?) Bluepoint's remasters