Celebrating the recent launch of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, Bethesda has released a new video. Focusing on the differences between the company’s past with its present, the video features Bethesda developers watching an old documentary that was originally created to cover the development of Oblivion back in 2006.
The video, which you can check out below, features quite a few developers that had previously worked on Oblivion, who have still stuck around with the company and worked on more recent titles. The old documentary that they are watching even has their past selves talking about the development of the game, with their modern day-selves mentioning how they didn’t know that they would go on to work on games like Fallout 3 and Skyrim at the time.
Former Bethesda executive Pete Hines also spoke about how Microsoft presenting The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion on stage during its Xbox 360 reveal was a big deal. “This was the first time we ever had that kind of spotlight,” reminisced Hines. “Nobody ever put us on the stage before.”
“It was as awkward as I thought,” said Todd Howard when asked how he felt about watching the documentary twenty years after being a part of Oblivion‘s development team. “In so many ways, when I see [the documentary] and look in the room, it feels the same.”
Bethesda had revealed last week that development on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered had only begun four years before its release. In a post on social media, the company thanked its fans, as well as its development partner Virtuos.
“When we started this project in 2021, we aimed to breathe new life into a chapter of The Elder Scrolls that set the path for so many of our games after it,” wrote the company. “We never wanted to remake it – but remaster it – where the original game was there as you remember playing it, but seen through today’s technology.”
The company also went into detail about some of the changes that had been made to the Remastered release over the original 2006 version of Oblivion, which includes new animations, art, and even some gameplay enhancements.
“We were so fortunate to work with an unbelievable team and partners at Virtuos,” posted Bethesda. “Even though we had worked together before, we had never attempted something on this scale. Every piece of art, animation, special effects, and part of the world would be remastered.”
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered was released just last week, and is available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Priced at $49.99, with a Deluxe Edition priced at $59.99, the game is also available through PC and Xbox Game Pass. For more details, check out our review. You can also check out everything you need to know about the game.
In the meantime, you might also be interested in the thoughts of other veterans of the gaming industry, such as former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra who believes that, even with the Remastered release, Oblivion can’t really hold a candle to more modern RPGs like FromSoftware’s Elden Ring when it comes to combat and the sense of exploration offered by current games.
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