"Your Strongest Potions": Oblivion Remastered Players Have Discovered The Most Overpowered Easter Egg

"Your Strongest Potions": Oblivion Remastered Players Have Discovered The Most Overpowered Easter Egg

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For almost all intents and purposes, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is an incredibly faithful remake of the original game. It's retained almost every aspect of what made Oblivion an enduring, if imperfect, classic: the stilted voice acting, the obtuse mini-games, and even the bugs, glitches, and crashes synonymous with Oblivion. But it does add one or two new elements that show just how far the game itself and its cultural legacy have gone. That includes a bizarre console command totally exclusive to the remaster.

As first reported by AquaScum333 on Reddit, Oblivion Remastered has a console command that references the classic "Potion Seller" viral video. Consisting of a three-minute improvised dialogue between a haughty merchant and a desperate knight, characterized by face-morphing camera filters, "Potion Seller" is exactly the kind of thing that belongs in Oblivion. However, the original video, first posted on YouTube by Challengers and Queer screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes in 2011, postdates the original game. The console command quotes directly from the video, and gives the player power sufficient to defeat a dragon, let alone a man.

If you'd like to test this Easter egg for yourself, simply activate the console (press...

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