Eurogamer understands Bethesda's current plan is to shadow drop the game next week on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, including via Xbox Game Pass.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly, I don't have a ton of faith in Bethesda anymore, so I don't care much for the next game. This on the other hand, as I understand it, was handled by another studio which has delivered great remasters and remakes, so I'm actually kinda stoked for it. I could play through Oblivion again, it's been years.

[–] DarthFrodo@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Skyblivion (the fan remake) will probably have much more attention to detail and will also release this year, after over 10 years of development. The dev log videos look amazing. I'd be very surprised if the official remake is as good.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really admire the work of the Skyblivion crew, as well as the ones remaking Morrowind, but I'm not quite as cynical as you regarding the official. As I said, I think the studio has handled some good remasters in the past and I think it will be done well.

[–] DarthFrodo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't think the official one is gonna be bad by any means. They will probably fix the biggest flaws with hindsight and modernize the graphics, and it will be a big improvement over the original if everything goes right.

But ultimately they had deadlines to meet and many more games in the pipeline, whilst the Skyblivion team can work on everything for as long as it takes, experiment much more and put as much detail and soul into everything as they want. I think that will make a difference, but both will be good games.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only part that gives me pause is that this is supposedly in Unreal Engine rather than Bethesda's usual engine.

Not to say that there won't be a modding scene, but it will be substantially different without the equivalent of the Construction Set/GECK/Creation Kit.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I admit this is less of a concern to me because I don't do a lot of modding, but I can definitely understand that disappointment for those that do. With a different engine, though, I do hope it will be less buggy.