New Elder Scrolls 'Remake' Announcement Rumour Surfaces Online

I wouldn’t hold my breath. It’s been rumored for a while. And Todd has always kind of shot it down.

If it’s true, I hope they don’t mess it up!

@jesse_dylan it did appear on the offical documents but that was dated from before they was bought by MS.

I wouldn't be suprised if it existed at one point but was cancelled.

Well, the animations would need a total overhaul. Not to mention the graphics. Lots of work would have to go into such a project if they want to release it at quality.

Wasn't it mentioned in the FTC documents? It wouldn't surprise me if it was coming on the 20th anniversary.

I could see it appearing as a result of the new 3rd party mindset. As a 3rd party publisher, Microsoft would see that Oblivion (a game previously playable on PS) isn't playable on PS5 because there's no PS3 backwards compatibility and so a remake has an opportunity for huge sales. Also Nintendo hardware has never had the game and Skyrim did well on Switch.

If this turns out to be true I will freak out

It's looking more and more like this remake won't be Skyblivion.
Honestly if it's not, that would be a disaster for the Skyblivion team, who have poured themselves into this projet for years now.
I just can't believe Bethesda would do that to its community...

I mean look at this trailer... What else would we need?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wgkkXyxklRE
And the quality of their dev diaries is unmatched: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ2w3ciSVEQ

One of my all-time favorites. I would love to dive back in to a remaster/remake.

After loving Skyrim on Series X, I considered playing Morrowind and Oblivion. Honestly, I would prefer playing remakes. Not because of graphics, but quality of life and gameplay features, maybe an optional third-view camera that I liked in Skyrim.

2025 and 2026 are going to be great years for gamepass ultimate subscribers!

What sucks is they'll never do Morrowind without an overhaul because it's too difficult for modern gamers.

Oblivion is playable on modern systems. Just finish TES6 please.

If any of the Elder Scrolls deserves a remake it's Arena - yeesh!

At least Daggerfall has the community-based Unity project that brings it more in-line with modern games. The first one is stuck in a time capsule.

Plus, you can at least configure the original Daggerfall controls to have a more "modern" control scheme (it's not perfect, but significantly better than Arena).

@Jenkinss wouldn't say difficult, just antiquated design for this day and age.

@fizban3332 some things about it are antiquated like the skill system for example, but many things are just way too difficult for people who didn't cut their teeth on older games. I'd love to watch a young person try to keep track of a few Morrowind quests with no real quest log and no markers, just descriptions. It's hard. I played it again a couple years ago. Having to use your brain isn't antiquated and never will be, it's just hard.

@Ryu_Niiyama the team making tes6 would have nothing to do with a tes4 remake

@Jenkinss you sound like Todd Howard!

@GamingFan4Lyf except arena sucks! Daggerfall is actually great.

@abe_hikura I want to believe! But there’s not much to go on, especially if Todd is still saying no remakes.

@jesse_dylan Neither one are very good in my opinion.

I tried both and had no idea how the series even became popular.

I guess, at the time, they were amazing feats of gaming...but looking at it through a modern lens, they are both hot garbage.

@GamingFan4Lyf I can understand confusion, but hot garbage? To me, designing around objective markers in modern design is hot garbage. The new jones game tries to get away from objective markers. But in some cases they make you read their mind in lieu of it, which is also bad design. Good design should make objective markers unnecessary. The amount of handholding in modern games, where if you take more than ten seconds characters will repeat objectives to you over and over, is nuts to me.

@jesse_dylan Oh, I am all about no hand-holding - I have been gaming since like...1986 - but the game design of the older Elder Scrolls game is just frustrating as hell and not fun for me.

I gave both Arena and Daggerfall a fair shake multiple times, but I kept losing interest in the intro dungeon the game drops you in.

But, I also know classic RPG games like these also relied on having the game manual, reference cards, and any supplemental documents that came with the game in front of you in order to enjoy the game proper.

Sadly, except for GOG versions - which provides those as PDF downloads - those documents just aren't available.

I will say, I never really liked the dungeon-crawler genre, so there is already a bias against both games. I was more partial to platformers, actions games, point-and-click adventure games, real-time strategy, and FPS games from the time.

@GamingFan4Lyf I do think Arena is almost irredeemable and was never that "good," just different and broad. I think Daggerfall is genuinely good, but yeah, the intro dungeon is not easy to begin with. It would be much easier with a quest marker But I think that would ruin it, in that case.

Not a perfect game by any means, and can be janky. But it has a scope and freedom that modern game design is unlikely to ever match, unfortunately, because they just don't even try. It was also one of the first true 3D games (despite the sprite-based art for characters/monsters), not that that matters (Arena was fake 3D, but Daggerfall had a fully polygonal engine... before Quake, I think)

But that's all beside the point. Daggerfall didn't rely much on outside material, but I actually think the experience is improved with some wiki-reading and the like xD

But Arena maybe just isn't that good. Perhaps others would disagree with me.

@jesse_dylan you seem to be taking swings at everyone but I will bite. So you are on good authority of this how exactly?

Bethesda Game Studios made oblivion, skyrim and presumably is working on TES6. So you are saying that no one from that dev group would work on an oblivion remake? So if true that is even worse. And if not which is what I suspect as you have provided no evidence to the contrary I would rather bethesda game studios work on TES6. Especially since they were stalled by starfield. Either way however oblivion is available on modern consoles. So I would rather they focus on TES6. Thank you.

@Ryu_Niiyama I'm not taking swings, just being logical. I'm saying about two things here. #1, if Todd Howard says there are no remasters coming, we should probably not get our hopes up, because there probably are no remasters coming (at least not now). #2, if there are remasters, in the past, they've been outsourced to a totally different studio. Similar to how there's a Witcher 1 remake, and a Witcher 4; it is not the same team working on both games. When an Oblivion remake was rumored, it was rumored to be in development by an entirely different group, not Bethesda Game Studios.

Other than rumors in the past, and statements by Todd that there are no remakes coming, we have almost nothing to go on, so it's not worth getting hyped about either way.

@jesse_dylan ok. You didn’t say either of those things when you initially tagged me. So was I supposed to read your mind and infer your logic?

Not every company outsources a remake. And I never mentioned anything about Todd Howard. I responded to the speculation of the article. So again. Oblivion is on modern systems already. I would rather bethesda focus on TES6.

@Ryu_Niiyama the article itself mentions both those things I was talking about. We don’t even disagree so I’m not sure why you’re triggered. XD all I said when I originally tagged you was that the main team working on TES would not be working on a hypothetical remake, since that’s what you seemed concerned about.

Instant Day 7 buy after all the reviews are out, maybe instant year 1 buy if full of bugs. I LOVED Oblivion, never got into Skyrim much wasn't a fan of the theme. But I probably would love it if I dropped 20 hours in..

The fact that it's called Unreal Engine is a lie.
The Creation Engine specializes in AI and other features needed for Bethesda RPGs, and it would be very difficult to achieve the same thing with the UE.

There is also the problem that it would require a completely different set of knowledge for the existing modders.

oh boy !! A wet dream,..... but if it's true ...!!