annathepiper | Waking up Ganniwer for new Remastered Oblivion! (Reply)

All of my fellow Bethesda gamer nerds are over the moons today for the news of the release of the official remaster of Oblivion, and that includes me, because boy howdy does the remaster look amazing.

High points of what was revealed on Bethesda’s livestream:

Massively upgraded visuals
Modernized combat animations
Updating how leveling works, with a hybrid of Oblivion and Skyrim functionality
Some additional recorded voice lines for NPCs of all races, to give better variety to random NPC encounters
Native controller support (as they damn well should put in to make it friendly to modern systems!)

AND, most relevant to my interests, it is Steam Deck verified. I am downloading it onto my Deck as I write this post. 😀

I will also be attempting install and launch on my Windows VM. I can run Skyrim in that VM, as I’ve written about here before, but I could not run the original Oblivion. So I’m absolutely going to check if the remaster will work on the VM, just to confirm if it works on ARM builds of Windows, for the benefit of any Mac users out there.

Two versions of the remaster are now available right now on the Steam store. The regular version has the base game and core DLCs (Knights of the Nine, and Shivering Isles). The deluxe version has additional goodies and content.

So now, I will be waking up Ganniwer’s Oblivion playthrough. I didn’t get very far with her, only up to level 5 or so. So I will be redoing the start of her playthrough on this shiny new Oblivion version.

Follow along as Ganniwer closes shut the jaws of Oblivion.

This is going to be fun.