The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

Had to put the game down until it's fixed. It is horribly optimized. Any section that takes place outside in the open world (80% of the game) chugs. Constant FPS drops, stutters, freezes, crashes, etc. Game released over a month ago and not a single patch has been rolled out to solve any issues. I love Oblivion and can't wait to maybe play through this remaster some day, but that's if they ever decide to patch it. For now, try it on gamepass and save your money.

This is going to be a mixed review. The marketing strategy was insane. They shadowdropped this game out of nowhere during the announcement trailer, which is pretty unheard of and I can actually respect that because most anticipated games let the hype overtake the game and the game ends up not living up to expectations. Boy did this game live up to those expectations. You know how when you remember an old game in your childhood and how real it looked at the time but when you went to play them recently you realized just how dated the graphics were? This game is like everything I remembered about how I thought it looked at the time. But that's just it; it's the same exact game with those rose tinted glasses. And therein lies the problem. It will probably be an absolute blast to play as a newcomer, but as an Elder Scrolls veteran, I realized that a fresh coat of paint did not add anything new. I'll admit, I've been spoiled by the critically acclaimed RPGS of the modern era. And I cannot deny that Oblivion was revolutionary for its time, because I experienced that firsthand. It feels oddly dead, though. It feels like all of the stories have been told and the world itself has become a husk of the monumental achievement in game design that it once was. Sure, the developers have attempted to remedy this by bringing some of the mechanics in line with modern gaming (like sprinting, for example), but it doesn't feel enough. It still feels like there is something missing. I don't know. I refunded the game hours after playing, which is surprising to me as I put hundreds and hundreds of hours into the original. Maybe I'll wait a year and see what the modding community has come up with, but until then, this game will not be in my library. But if this is your first time ever experiencing the world, you'll enjoy the game as much as I did when I was younger.

Aah, and i fell for this game-breaking, softlock-ridden, piss filtered artisticly soulles cashgrab, cause nostalgia's plucked my heart strings just the right time. Now, that's a me problem. However. Charging 50 for not having to produce/write/design anything new, piggybacking on a legendary title and still fucking it up is a red flag in itself. Too bad I ignored it. Don't get me wrong, I had my fair share of fun (as long as my not even bad rig allowed me to enjoy the poor stuttery unoptimized performance that is). But the thing is, i'm having a blast with the original just as fine, without having to set up a complete power plant in my backyard just to run this shit. (Srsly, studios should have rethink this UE5 turd 'bastardisation'. No style, no vision, no creativity behind it. Just 'efficiency' am I right? But just because you can consume it fast, doesn't mean it's not a slop still...) Anyway, in the first couple of hours, i was too convinced, that this is the right thing to handle a remaster like this, but as I poured the hours in, the game started to fall apart gradually. Crashes, endless loading screens, softlocked out of crucial questlines, bad audio mixing, and don't even get me started on 'improvements' that are basicall downgrades. (Like I don't know who thought that accessing the local map this way in the game was an "improvement". I'd rather switch by tab as in the original, but thanks, I guess.) All in all, if you can, go play the OG goty edition instead. You get the same (or i shall say, more charm, less bugs for a fraction of this price. Or, wait for Skyblivion and play it for free. Don't support slop just because it's new and shiny. I already did and regretted.

I can't recommend this game right now as currently there are serious game performance issues for what seems to be a large number of consumers. I have had my share of performance issues too game crashes hourly and or multiple times per hour, suffice to say I have many crashes........ When they patch the game up and it performs better I will be willing to change my review.

Despite being a certified Morrowboomer, I somehow missed Oblivion growing up. What a treat to finally return and wander the storied lands of Cyrodiil. [i]Oblivion[/i] stands tall among its Elder Scrolls siblings — uniquely weird, charmingly busted, and impossible not to love. It may be the middle child, but it’s the feral one with all the personality. I enjoyed gripping questlines that put Skyrim to shame [i](special shoutout to the Dark Brotherhood)[/i], Radiant AI that’s both immersive and unintentionally hilarious, and a grand total of like three voice actors who somehow carry the entire population on their backs. I’m home. [b]<3[/b] [i]I saw a mudcrab the other day. Horrible creatures.[/i] [b]BYE.[/b]

So what, you can put the game on sale a month after release but can't update it to be more playable? There are very obvious bugs and very loud cries to fix it. Modders have done more for this game than the developers themselves and it's disappointing to see. If I could get a refund on this game I would just for this.

Game has been out for two months and has received only one update that doesn't even fix major bugs and performance issues. There is NO excuse for a game with the backing of a AAA company like Bethesda to not have more, and faster fixes. Compare that to Avowed, a game from the same publisher that put out hotfix after hotfix immediately after release and is working on major updates based on community feedback. I don't know what's going on at Bethesda, but keeping the game in this state is just straight up baffling. I couldn't help myself and got the game because Oblivion was my first ever Elder Scrolls game and western RPG, but this feels like an insult to the Elder Scrolls fanbase. I wouldn't go as far as to call it a cash grab, but something needs to be done to fix the game's many, many issues, and no, mods shouldn't be the answer. Games you buy should be functional and fully playable without the need for external tinkering.

game keeps on crashing. until they fix it, i don't recommend it buying

I would give this game a TWO thumbs up if the developers would haven't been lazy and had used a more efficient video processing engine. The frame rate and stuttering make it all but unplayable. It astounds me that a 7 year old game like Red Dead Redemption 2 can still run circles around this monstrosity. I certainly hope they do something about this soon. What a shame!

Not recommending this game at this state. Horribly unoptimized, and poor performance. Also a ton of FPS drops, stutters, freezes and crashes.

Things ran fine in the tutorial, but the moment you leave the sewers, the game starts hitching like mad, even on lowest-quality settings. Save you money and wait for them to patch this steaming pile of poo. What a disappointment!

Once upon a time. In a galaxy far, far away. There was a game remastered called The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. And in the beginning, everything worked and the game played well. Then the evil empire (Bethesda) patched it. Now, it does not work. It's broken. Suggested fixes don't fix the broken game. Sick of seeing UE5 has crashed again. Save your monies. Save what fond memories you have. Save your HD/SSD space. Do not buy. The end.

Until the game gets a desperately needed performance patch, it is not worth buying.

I got this game for my steam deck because it says its verified. If you have any kind of standards at all then no it does not run on steam deck. Cannot hold 30 FPS with lowest graphics settings. And boy does it look terrible at the lowest setting. Cant read signs and everything looks and feels like a cloudy fever dream where everything is constantly taking turns rendering. Also lots of crazy artifacting at the top of the screen. Idk what Bethesda paid to get it steam deck verified but I know there's no way play testers verified it.

It has been over a month and the game is still borderline unplayable for alot of users due to the horrendous optimization. I gave them grace and time to fix it but I'm starting to think we'll never get a patch to resolve this. which is unsuprising from bethesda, they have reached a new bar of bad here

[h1] 5/10 (temporary ([i] hopefully... [/i])) [/h1] Please understand this game is [u] amazing [/u] and truly sets a new bar for remasters but I cannot fully recommend it until they fix the performance issues and the way to often crashing. I'm quite deep into my play through but at this point the crashing is becoming so often and the performance so bad i'm just choosing to wait for the first patch, which over a month into its release and as of this writing, has not been seen yet. Its taking awhile unfortunately and until we get that patch my review will stay like this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I love Oblivion, it's my favorite Elder Scrolls game, but this version is literally unplayable on Unreal Engine. I have a pretty solid gaming laptop, and yet the engine crashes about every 4 minutes. I have tried so many things to fix the issue, from installing mods to deleting files in the game folder to changing graphics settings, but at this point, I've spent just about as much time troubleshooting the game as I have playing the game.

Experience a bug that only could be solve by console commands and mods. Lost 25 hours of progress as the only way to fix this bug was load a save 25 hours ago before doing a long chain of other quests. Fuck you guys for not fixing these bugs that have persists for 10+years in this game. Thanks for this awful gaming experience.

Loved morrowind and oblivion growing up, childhood defining games for me. but this 20 year old remaster needs just that, a remaster. It's insanely buggy, laggy, game breaking bugs, etc. Don't know how they came out with this remaster in this state, it's almost as if they didn't fix anything from the original and updated textures, and NOW are just focusing on fixing bugs. Give it a couple years or possibly a decade to play.

How you manage to introduce NEW bugs into such an old game is beeyond me. I've had the same quest bug out on me in SEVERAL different ways. It has killed almost all joy I experienced from the upgraded graphics. On the inside, it's almost exactly the same system, with a few minor tweaks. I think I'll wait for Skyblivion, thank you very much..

Constant crashes on 9800X3D/9070XT. Wouldn't recommend to anyone until the game is more stable.

DO NOT PURCHASE UNTIL THERE IS A PATCH. This remaster has been out for over a month. Not only has there been no patch, but there has been no hint as to when a patch may be arriving. "Oblivion" is a great game, but this remaster release needs a lot of work. I'm not recommending it until some bugs get fixed.

Game performance in the sewers is pretty good but upon leaving the game begins to run like absolute shit and looks horrendous. Even with mods that improve performance it still runs bad. Either the game isn't properly optimized or Unreal Engine is just a dogshit game engine

New 15 GB update KILLED the optimization, like what?! Game barely runs anymore. PC is overheating and the FPS barely reaches 20, while it used to run 60+ before the update. Negative review until the game is fixed. In its current state it is UNPLAYABLE

Game is currently a buggy mess with terrible performance, even with a decent PC. No patch to fix anything one month in... devs are completely radio silent. Game looks gorgeous though and am looking forward to playing when it gets fixed... eventually. Until then I can't recommend getting it, wait a few months and buy it later.

It might just be me but freezes on load8ng screen and doesn't load for 4hours computer specs are better then recommended

Of course I had to purchase Oblivion Remastered! But damn it to hell, I can't recommend someone spending their hard earned money on this game right now. I could not recommend a game to people that constantly crashes about every 5 to 20 minutes. It is ABSURD. I really hope they can fix this. Then and only then I would recommend this game.

This is a joke. One of my favourite games of all time has been rendered unplayable thanks to being constantly booted from the game. I've just had a session where i was booted around 10 times in the last hour. I'm over it. FIX THE GOD DAMN GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM SERIOUS .... FREAKING FIX IT FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the remaster isn't gonna run well or in any playable state if you have a mid range gaming PC, I fell just short on the video ram and the character creation was lagging basic input, this didn't improve on the lowest settings available. Unfortunately settings don't allow more optimised game play over the graphics I thought if there's an issue it will present in the open world not the character creator

Really awful stuttering in the open world, no matter what settings you use. Unreal 5 once again proves to be a performance mess. It looks pretty nice though, even though every time you access a menu, run more than a few meters, or have an enemy appear, there's stutter. For context: I run a 5080 with an i7-12700k. I get >60 fps in most enclosed areas, >50 in the open world with mostly maxed settings. Turning down the usual suspects (shadows, lighting, reflections) does not really make a difference in stutter or framerate for me. Using a modded engine.ini helped a little bit, but the performance is still pretty bad. It is extremely true to the original in terms of gameplay, almost too true, with very minor QOL additions. Sprinting is really nice to have, for example. There are a lot of issues though with pacing, cell structure, and just outdated gameplay, to be honest. The biggest sin for me is not taking advantage of fewer hardware limitations and combining cells. You need to go through multiple loading screens to just visit your entire house, for example. This gets especially tedious with some dungeons, escort quests, and similar gameplay. The gameplay being outdated... yeah, its just that. The cities are pretty dead, the quests involve lots of waiting (both for time of day and jank NPC AI to make its way to the right spot), lots of jank, and are fairly basic from a modern perspective. I think a remake would have been better than remastering with unreal 5. I think this is a really overpriced texture/map swap with raytracing added. Once again, I am disappointed with UE5 performance

Do not buy this game in its current state. It is a buggy mess and the developers are not fixing the major issues with the game. The latest patch "fixed" some absolutely minor bugs but it introduced even more. I can't even use the spellmaking or enchanting altars without the game crashing and I can no longer use my alchemy skill because the game crashes every time I do. I did not have these problems before the patch, and I even opted out of the beta update when I discovered these bugs. Unfortunately, they the patch is now part of the main version of the game and I can't roll it back. I have a top PC, so my hardware is not the issue (though this shouldn't be happening regardless of my specs). It is unfortunate because I was enjoying the game until this happened, even though there are honestly just so many bugs. The writing was on the wall from day one. Visual bugs, constant crashes, frame drops, random ui elements not working or displaying properly. The list goes on. These are not things that "add charm" like some people claim. They are annoying and disruptive to an enjoyable experience. My 80+ hour playthrough has pretty much become unplayable because of the latest patch and I will not change this review until the myriad of bugs in this game are fixed. I mean ACTUALLY FIXED. Not "fixed".

Game breaking bugs make this otherwise perfect game unplayable. I ran into a devastating bug where items that are stacked in your inventory, or armor and weapons that have been repaired to over 100 disappear from the inventory. When this happens in a chest you can simply use the grab all option button to get all items back. But when it happens in your character's own inventory it's literally game breaking. I'm over 100 hours in only to run into this. The old version of Oblivion had a mod that fixed this. But that mod isn't available for the Remaster. There is no fix for this issue. Also, I ran into the issue of temporary magic effects on armors becoming permanent and continuing through even when the character is naked. I used a mod to fix this, but it was very annoying to deal with that till I found the mod for it. So sad. This could have been an incredible game re-introduction. Instead, it came out as just a cashgrab. Stay away folks.

Don't waste your money on this game unless you have a strong pc with a powerful graphics card. The second I got out of the dungeon to fps tanked and the game crashed. It took me over two hours to discover the game was unplayable on my pc so steam is refusing to refund. I wish I could give a more detailed review but I simply can't get the game to work whatsoever. Total waste of money.

When they fix the constant crashing issue ill change my rating. Would love to just play more of it. But having to restart the game every 30 minutes and constantly being worried that i have to quick save the game every time i walk into a new area. Don't buy until fixed

As a remastered version of an iconic game, it's enjoyable. They've stayed faithful enough to the original that my sense of nostalgia was never disrupted. Unfortunately, this faithfulness also applies to the bugs, glitches, and constant crashes. The fact that they haven't done anything about optimization (and haven't made any announcements about it even after weeks) is exactly what you'd expect from Bethesda.

Update: I managed to solve my CTD issue by installing old Nvidia drivers 576.28 and resetting shaders cache. Will not update my review before latest drivers work properly. -- Oblivion Remastered is unplayable. It just keeps crashing to desktop constantly. My playtime reflects purely my efforts in trying to get it running properly (closer to 15 hours). Tried all engine tweaks I could find online and will probably keep trying for some time just because I'm stubborn. (Fyi, My hardware is good.) Taking a risk and paying full price for a 20 year old game that is technically worse is definitely not worth it. Stay away! If you end up paying for this for some weird reason: My advice to you is that refund the game instantly upon first crash. It may seem to get slightly better at times but ultimately crashing is random and soon you could crash 1-10 times per hour as you continue playing.

This would be a solid game if it didn't have heaps of performance issues. Honestly I just wish game devs would stop using unreal engine 5.

Game is extremely poor regarding performance, stuttery, and very difficult to actually enjoy. Plus the new update broke the game.

Bad performance. Sloppy attention to detail. Buggy and underdeveloped UI. All creativity and personality stripped out of the character and environment assets. I wish I didnt impulse-buy this on the shadow drop date. Play the original.

Wait until they fix this game up more. I got it running good for 3-5 hours at a time on the initial release build after much tinkering with in-game settings and other driver tweaks. New update crashes every which way like never before.

Kind of a buggy mess tbh, crashes a lot, literally got locked out of the Thieves Guild questline on my main save because of a constant crash bug. If it worked and was optimized even a little bit I'd be loving it a lot more, given how much I played the OG as a teen but like this? It's really disappointing.

Oblivion is one of my favorite games of all time. This version, however, is buggy, crashy garbage. 0///10

The game is great and just how i remembered the original, but having it crash a minimal of 5 times in an hour just ruins everything. Over a month released and not even an update or any kind of fix to this. I would not buy this game until this issue is fixed.

Time to scold the game. The game is full of bugs. The funny thing is that these are bugs straight out of 2006. Come on guys! How could the bugs be migrated? What's with the new engine, even. Most bugs are fixed by simply rolling back the save before the start of the quest. but! The game has 6 active saves. By default, the game is auto-saved when waiting and navigating to a location. It follows from this that your save before the quest is already gone, it just doesn't exist anymore. Therefore, we have to use the game's console, but even here, the unfortunate developers gave us a shit. You may ask, how? And it's simple, if you activate the command to change the state of the quest, you will automatically be turned off from receiving achievements. It's good that there is a community that has already found a way around this. But, I shouldn't suffer so much playing your game, it's not Dark Souls. You're selling a texture pack for $40, that's not okay. There are no complaints about the game itself in terms of gameplay and plot, it's still the same Oblivion, only more beautiful. But why did I pay $40 for bugs and the inability to safely go through it?

Extremely unoptimized and Crashes often

I'm not recommending a game still plagued by game ending bugs you have to CC to bypass. Bethesda is a joke of a dev and it's pathetic that problems in the original game are still here. Yea, the cute ones are cool but ones that lock you out of quests are just lazy.

This is a great Remaster if you like a game that runs like crap and crashes. Bethesda does nothing about it. No patches since release. I have a Radeon 6600xt which is supposed to be just fine. Nope! I guess I give up. They got me for 50 dollars. Shame on me. I pulled the trigger on day one and saw it figuring Bethesda would support their own games. I was wrong.

Graphics are great, and it's a great game, but it crashes a lot.

It is not TOO bad. It is just hard to play without it crashing a lot.

I can't bring myself to recommend buying this in it's current condition. I've played this for only a small amount of time, everything seemed to be running well, and then it would crash...and then crash...and then crash again. When looking up stuff on other websites it seems even people with better pc's than my own (that can play cyberpunk with minimal issues) even are suffering from similar issues. Oblivion is a great game, and this feels like it can just as great as it's non-remastered self but if i can't play the point's moot.