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Date : Thu Apr 24 2025 12:30:08

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivions original game designer thought the remaster 
was going to be a texture update: Im not sure remaster actually does it 
justice

Date:
Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:27:26 +0000

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Bruce Nesmith, the senior game designer for the original The Elder Scrolls 4: 
Oblivion, has shared his thoughts on Bethesda's new remaster.

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senior game designer for the original The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is 
impressed by Bethesda and Virtuos' remaster Bruce Nesmith thought the game 
was going to be a texture update and doesn't think calling it a "remaster" 
doesn't do it justice Nesmith would categorise the game as "Oblivion 2.0" 

Bruce Nesmith, the senior game designer for the original The Elder Scrolls 4: 
Oblivion, has shared his thoughts on Bethesda and Virtuos new remaster and 
doesn't think the term "actually does it justice". 

In a recent interview with VideoGamer , Nesmith said that he spent years 
working on the original game and that "A lot of blood, sweat and tears went 
into it", but revealed he hadn't heard about the remaster until the game 
leaked online ahead of its official announcement . 

"I intimately knew every single scene that they were showing. And they looked 
amazing," he said. 

The game has been rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 and features all-new character 
models, a new lighting system, environment improvements, and a rework of the 
game mechanics. 

The enhancements are so significant that Nesmith doesn't think calling it a 
remaster is doing the game justice. 

"I was assuming this was going to be a texture update," he explained. "I 
didnt really think it was going to be the complete overhaul that theyve 
announced it to be I would not have batted an eye at that. 

"But to completely redo the animations, the animation system, put in the 
Unreal Engine, change the leveling system, change the user interface. I mean, 
thats, youre touching every part of the game. Thats a staggering amount of 
remastering. It almost needs its own word, quite frankly. Im not sure 
remaster actually does it justice. 

Bethesda shadow dropped The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered the day it 
was revealed, and the game quickly garnered over 190,000 concurrent players 
on Steam. 

Seeing the reception to the 2006 remaster, Nesmith said the number one thing 
he feels is "pride". 

"A game that I worked on has the longevity to still generate interest 20 
years later and to be worth the effortit sounds like considerable effortand 
time that Bethesda put into remastering it," he said. 

Since Nesmith thinks that the term "remaster" doesn't do the game justice, he 
thinks "The closest that could come [to categorizing it] is Oblivion 2.0." 

 The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is now available on PC, PS5 , Xbox 
Series X , Xbox Series S , and Xbox Game Pass for $49.99 / 49.99 and $59.99 / 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivions-original-game-d
esigner-thought-the-remaster-was-going-to-be-a-texture-update-im-not-sure-rema
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