The Best Feature Of ‘Oblivion' Has Been Faithfully Recreated In The Remaster
Nearly 200,000 people on Steam alone, concurrently, dove into the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster after it was shadow dropped on Tuesday by Bethesda and Virtuous. Well, 'stealth dropped' after being leaked a dozen times, but the end result was a wildly impressive remaster that may be one of the best we've ever seen.
Some people wondered if everything was going to carry over from Oblivion, and they have in fact left some of the 'jank' in place, and players are getting goofy bugs and having awkward NPC conversations. But there's one aspect that has remained faithful to the original in a big way: the ability to create horrible monstrosities in the character creator, now with the added benefit of Unreal 5 for even more stomach-churning detail.
I've been going through social media to find the best of the best, or rather the worst of the worst, and I've collected a gallery of the most feature-worthy here. Check them out:
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There have got to be thousands of these, but I'll stop here for now. If you have one of your own that you want featured here, you can send it to me on Twitter, @paultassi, and if it's ugly enough, I may throw it in. I made a normal looking character myself but now I'm starting to regret that. Plus, a helmet erases all this anyway, right?
Glad to see that Oblivion is still Oblivion after all these years, and everything, including the comedy, has been kept intact for this.
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