The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

IT JUST WORKS. Oh wait, no it doesn't. The most poorly optimized hunk of junk imaginable.

Just tried playing this again since I first got it after release. It's still unplayable. This game has some of the worst performance/optimization I have ever witnessed.

Crashed 3 times within one hour.

I adore the Elder Scroll series, Oblivion being my favorite so far. The plot feels exciting and larger than life, a true power fantasy. Many of the storylines in the game are similar to familiar books and movies. The main storyline is awfully similar to Lord of the Rings. The Thieves guild storyline is Robinhood right down to the greedy sheriff (Captain of the guard?) taxing the poor. I have great memories of playing through some of my favorite stories as the main character. What more could you want in a video game? Truly, Oblivion is one of my favorite games if not my favorite game. However, all of that praise is for the original Oblivion. The remastered edition was incredibly disappointing for two main reasons. The first was that there isn't a lot of additional content, but I could get over that. The price is almost worth it just for the graphics updates. But then that leads to my second issue. When I first bought this game, my laptop was able to run it. Then they updated the game. My laptop is now unable to run the game. It's incredibly frustrating that this game is so much bigger and requires a significantly beefier computer than Skyrim despite not actually looking that much better. I have a computer that's beefier than my laptop, so I technically can play it at some point, but I'd rather play Skyrim because I can play on my laptop from anywhere. Side note: It's not like the game developers actually fixed the bugginess of the original game. I still often have to use cheats or load a previous save to fix a buggy quest. The fish quest in particular is somehow buggier than original. TLDR; Love Oblivion, but can't run Remastered on my laptop. Not really any new content and still just as buggy as the original. Hate fish quest.

It's much more pretty and a bit more playable than the original (direct comparison playing them both today), but overall it's just too glitchy and not enough of an improvement for the money. If you can get it on sale for say £15, I'd say buy it, but anything more and you'll be disappointed.

doesn't run well, not even on high end hardware. expect to tinker with settings and mods to avoid performance dips. at that point, just play the original or wait for skyblivion.

its the worst combat i ever seen in my life

现在这游戏Bug挺多的，怎么说呢，优化不是很好，有一种普通版《湮没》（《上古卷轴4》）的氛围感，但配上这种画质看着还挺不错。他们确实对怪物做了一点改动，不过看着还可以。但对话选项系统确实惊到我了，我还猜怎么选才能更划算地提升NPC的好感度。这是一款看重技能的RPG，很大程度上取决于你练度有多高，挺有意思的。不过敌人的强度也会随着角色等级的提升而叠加，哪怕我玩的是元素护盾加伤害反射的法师流派，敌人也没法在一秒钟内被秒掉。

I cannot recommend this. In the first 3 hours of gameplay, I encountered 5 bugs, two of which were game-breaking and forced me to reload an earlier save. Visually it's just "okay," looking like a title from 2020. Very disappointing.

Great game, I do have strong nostalgic feelings for it. Would be nice if it received support from Bethesda. I have the feeling it runs worse the more I play. But with everything Bethesda nowadays, it seems like releases are followed by almost no patches, with way too large of a time span between them and a tiny amount of fixes that fit on a napkin. Bare minimum, not enough. And no, I am not in the mood anymore to fix everything myself by modding and changes to the config files, thank you. Put in some work for your games if you want me to care about future games like Elder Scrolls 6 or Fallout 5 - which I currently don't, since there have been better RPG brands out there in recent years.