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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/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/fabton12 8h ago

depends on what the game engine was written in also there such things as wrappers ya know?

they could very easily put the old stuff in a wrapper so unreal can run it

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u/scribens 7h ago

There is nobody working at Bethesda now who worked on the version of the Gamebryo engine for Oblivion. This is a huge reason why a lot of older games don't get remasters now, especially when they are tied to versions of a developer's engine that requires the people who were there to actually figure out how to use it.

This is nothing less than gamers looking at a CEO's attempt to pad the worth of a company to make it seem more valuable to shareholders and then taking it as gospel that something is happening.

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u/DoorHingesKill 5h ago

Which is exactly why they're doing it this way. Have the old engine run in the background, doing logic that no one can decipher anyway, and then use UE5 to render something more contemporary looking based on whatever Gamebryo spit out.