- Senior Game Designer for the Original The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is impressed by Bethesda and Virtuos’ Remaster
- Bruce Nesmith thought the game should be a texture update and don’t think that calling it a “remaster” doesn’t do justice
- Nesmith would categorize the game as “Oblivion 2.0”
Bruce Nesmith, Senior Waste Designer for the Original The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, Has shared his thoughts on Bethesda and Virtuos’ new remaster and doesn’t think the phrase “actually makes it fair”.
In a recent interview with the video jokes, Nesmith said he spent years working on the original game and that “a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into it,” but revealed that he hadn’t heard of the remaster before the game leaked online prior to his official announcement.
“I knew intimately every single scene they showed. And they looked amazing,” he said.
The game has been rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 and has brand new character models, a new lighting system, environmental improvements and a reworking of the game mechanics.
The improvements are so significant that Nesmith doesn’t think that calling it a remaster is doing the game justice.
“I assumed this would be a structural update,” he explained. “I didn’t really think it would be the complete overhaul that they announced it was … I wouldn’t have fought for it.
“But to repeat the animations completely, the animation system, put the unreal engine, change the leveling system, change the user interface. I mean, it’s that you touch every part of the game. It’s a staggering amount of remastering. It almost needs its own word, frankly.
Bethesda Shadow fell The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered The day it was revealed and the game quickly got over 190,000 contemporary players at Steam.
When Nesmith sees the reception to Remaster in 2006, Nesmith said the first thing he feels is “pride”.
“A game that I was working on has the life of still creating an interest 20 years later and being worth doing – it sounds like a significant effort – and time that Bethesda put in remastering it,” he said.
Since Nesmith believes the term “remaster” does not do 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 / £ 59.99 for the Deluxe edition.
