Mumen Online The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Review

Oblivion Remastered is a fun nostalgia trip, one that’s been sullied every step of the way by poor performance. Beyond the optimisation issues lies a fantastic new version of Oblivion that’s visually stunning and meaningfully improves on the original gameplay, by bringing the combat closer to Skyrim as well as tweaks and changes to things like stamina and levelling. If you can push past the technical problems and you’ve never played Oblivion before, you’re in for a pleasant surprise, with some of the best quests in open world games ever, and the remaster offers a somewhat more streamlined experience without changing the original game too much. Where it falls short is in persisting issues from the original game, such as bugged quests and crashes. While not game-breaking, these are problems a remaster had the perfect opportunity to fix. There are also some missed opportunities for quality-of-life improvements, most notably, there’s still no keyring, which leaves your inventory cluttered with dozens of random keys, making it messy and frustrating to manage. Difficulty is all over the place. On the recommended setting, the early game is almost too easy, but cranking it up just a little makes enemies complete damage sponges. And once your character levels up, more and tougher enemies will spawn. This makes some moments, like the Battle for Kvatch, chaotic as hordes of Daedra annihilate every NPC. Funny? Yes, but frustrating. If like me you have a decent PC (3080, Ryzen 5600X), you’ll be required to use FSR and frame generation just to make the game playable on medium… Commonly in games, enabling these features results in visuals that look muddy, blurry, and washed out. At that point, what’s the point of a modern remaster if it only looks great for less than 1% of players? While the “wow” of the remaster was lost for me due to the performance, I’d still recommend the game, or at least wait a few months for stabilization updates that might make for a smoother experience.