Player voice · The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
The patterns long-haul reviewers keep returning to.
What players love
The graphical overhaul's faithful refresh to the classic title is consistently praised by veteran players despite optimization issues.
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"It feels like what it was two decades ago with so many great updates on textures, models, voices (kind of, I still miss the old voices for most of the NPCs), practically everything! Although, it only gets to be perfect with unofficial patches as usual, but that doesn't dent the score for me much."
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"Nice"
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"This remaster was peak, but there are some enduring problems that I hope will be resolved at some point in the future. Specifically, the game tends to peter out in terms of performance around ~60-65 hours for me, going from a stable FPS (~70) to crawling in the thirties. However, every second before"
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What frustrates them
Stability issues and performance degradation after updates are the primary friction that ends long playthroughs for veterans.
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"Abandoned Unreal Slop"
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"Game is completely broken performance wise, and as is the standard Bethesda refuses to fix it."
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"Nostalgia driven cash grab doomed with bad performance, higher price tag, no mod support, generic high fidelity textures that stomps on the 2006 art direction, all with and no further dev updates. There is zero reason for the vast majority of people to play this version over the original."
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