Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster Of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' And Supports It

Last week, Xbox and Bethesda shadow-dropped a fancy remaster of 2006 open-world RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and it promptly took implicit the world. However, it besides made immoderate radical disquieted that a long-in-development instrumentality mod which besides aims to recreate the aging RPG would look ineligible issues oregon beryllium overshadowed erstwhile it arrives aboriginal this year. That doesn’t look to beryllium the lawsuit arsenic Bethesda themselves look precise excited for the project.

On May 1, Bethesda published a caller developer spotlight video focused connected creation and improvement pb Dan Lee. He’s been astatine Bethesda for a agelong clip now, having worked connected Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Skyrim, and the archetypal Oblivion as good arsenic the recently released remaster. And successful his dev spotlight video helium called retired Skyblivion, a mod that’s been successful improvement since 2012 and aims to recreate the OG crippled successful the Skyrim engine. Bethesda adjacent included gameplay footage of the ambitious instrumentality mod successful the spotlight video.

“Even though I worked connected Oblivion Remastered, I’m inactive excited for Skyblivion,” said Lee astatine the extremity of the spotlight. “I deliberation what they’re doing is precise peculiar and I’m excited to spot their mentation of what we’ve done successful the past. And I deliberation it’s a large twelvemonth for Oblivion fans.”

The squad down the mod replied to the dev spotlight video connected BlueSky.

“Dan, we’re conscionable arsenic excited to get Skyblivion into your hands this twelvemonth arsenic you are to play it,” posted the Skyblivion devs connected societal media. “Thanks for the shoutout and benignant words. You said it best: It is simply a large twelvemonth for Oblivion fans.”

And this isn’t conscionable 1 azygous dev showing their enactment for the upcoming mod. On April 22, the devs down Skyblivion thanked Bethesda for the studio’s continued enactment of Skyblivion and revealed that the workplace had sent everyone connected the squad a transcript of Oblivion Remastered, too. It’s truly bully to spot a steadfast arsenic large arsenic Bethesda, which is owned by Xbox, not sic the lawyers connected a squad of modders oregon fans for simply modding older games they love. Nintendo and Take-Two, you could larn a fewer things.

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