- The designer of senior games for the original The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is impressed by the remaster of Bethesda and Virtuos
- Bruce Nesmith thought that the game was going to be an update of the texture and does not think that calling him a “remaster” does not do him justice
- Nesmith would classify the game as “oblivion 2.0”
Bruce Nesmith, the designer of senior games for the original The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, shared his reflections on the new remaster of Bethesda and Virtuos and does not think that the term “does justice”.
In a recent interview with Videogamer, Nesmith said he spent years working on the original game and that “a lot of blood, sweat and tears had entered it”, but revealed that he had not heard of the remaster until the game fled online before his official announcement.
“I intimately knew every scene they showed. And they looked incredible,” he said.
The game has been rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 and has all new characters, a new lighting system, environmental improvements and a resumption of game mechanisms.
Improvements are so important that Nesmith does not think that calling him a remaster does justice to the game.
“I guess it would be an update of the texture,” he said. “I didn’t really think it would be the complete overhaul that they announced that it was … I would not have spurred.
“But to completely redo the animations, the animation system, put the Unreal engine, modify the upgrade system, modify the user interface. I mean, that is to say that you touch each part of the game. It is an amazing 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 collected more than 190,000 simultaneous players on Steam.
Seeing the reception of the 2006 remaster, Nesmith said that the first thing he feels was “pride”.
“A game on which I worked on the longevity to further arouse interest 20 years later and to assert the pain – it seems to be a considerable effort – and the time that Bethesda has put in remashing,” he said.
Since Nesmith thinks that the term “remaster” does not do justice to the game, he thinks “the closest who 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 Deluxe edition.
