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Forbes
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
The Best Feature Of ‘Oblivion' Has Been Faithfully Recreated In The Remaster
Oblivion 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: FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder 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. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Bluesky Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Forbes
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' Reviews Are In And It's GOTY Material
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Still reeling from the launch of the thoroughly excellent Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster? Well, it may not have been ideal for Microsoft to drop that two days before another Game Pass launch, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, out tomorrow. The oddly-named RPG is out on all platforms, but will in fact release on Game Pass. It has looked fantastic since it was first previewed, and you will relieved to know that with dozens of reviews in, it really is that good. On both PC and PS5, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a 92 metascore. On Xbox, with fewer reviews in, it's at a 95. The 92 ties it with Blue Prince, out just two weeks ago, and one point about Split Fiction's 91, out in March. With anything over a 90 almost always a surefire GOTY contender, we can add it to the pile, and yes, are only a third of the way through the year right now. Clair Obscur Clair Obscur has some things working against it like its confusing title for mainstream playeres and now this stealth Oblivion drop, but clearly it should not be overlooked. Here's the synopsis: FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder As for what critics are saying, here's a sampling of the mostly effusive praise: A lot of the focus is on the fact that Sandfall is a completely new developer with his being its first major project. The 'freshman' accomplishment makes this even more impressive, and despite a different genre and scale, that matches its fellow 92, Blue Prince's Dogubomb, as that was its first game as well. Already, Clair Obscur is shaping up to be one of the best games of the year and at least right now, certainly the best RPG. Give it a shot at launch tomorrow. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Bluesky Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
