Well, we all saw that coming. After failing to predict the correct release date of the Oblivion Unreal Engine 5 Remake, a fake leaker went ahead and deleted his account. And this is your daily reminder to never trust unknown sources.
Let’s start from the beginning, though. 11 days ago, someone called DetectiveSeeds claimed that Bethesda’s official remake of Oblivion in Unreal Engine 5 would come out on April 3rd. Then, the same leaker said that it would happen sometime next week. The leaker was confident about this leak. His “sources” told him it would definitely happen. Well, today is April 12th, and nothing really has happened.
To the surprise of no one, DetectiveSeeds simply deleted his account, and that was the end of the story. And this, right here, is why I didn’t report on this rumor. A lot of you have been asking about it. A lot of you asked me to cover it. But now, you know exactly why I didn’t publish an article about it.
Ironically, a lot of gaming websites took the bait and published his rumor. And I get it. An Oblivion Remake is a big deal. I also know that it can get you lots of clicks. But if they only care about clicks, they may start posting rumors with fictional sources. Or they can ask ChatGPT about a rumor and post it. Wait… that’s actually a pretty cool idea. Hmmmmm.
Anyway, I’m not saying that Bethesda is not working on a remake of Oblivion in Unreal Engine 5. A more trustworthy leaker, NateTheHate, claims that Bethesda will reveal it this month. However, I’m still not sure whether it will release it on the very same month. Rumor has it that we should get it before June.
I don’t want to start speculating here. But yes, the Oblivion Unreal Engine 5 Remake appears to be real. It also appears to be real close. So, if you want to become a “leaker”, start guessing its date and you may hit a jackpot. Then, you can use that prediction for your future nonsense. And people will fall for it. Pretty easy, right?
If you want to get an idea of what Oblivion can look like in Unreal Engine 5, you should download this tech demo. Created by Greg Coulthard, this project ports the entire map of Oblivion to Unreal Engine 5. For most of the areas, the demo uses the original assets/textures. Thankfully, though, the demo takes advantage of some of UE5’s techniques, which can improve the visuals.
In theory, Bethesda’s official remake should look better than it. Still, if you can’t wait for it, you can go ahead and try it. Just make sure to temper your expectations. This is a tech demo/fan project, and not a fully-fledged remake with proper gameplay mechanics.
Stay tuned for more!
UPDATE:
It appears that DetectiveSeeds’ X/Twitter account was hacked. Right now, the account is back online. So, a correction here. The account wasn’t deleted. This, of course, does not mean that his “leak” was accurate. April 3rd and April 10th have passed, and Bethesda hasn’t released the Oblivion Remake. As I said, I’m certain that the remake is real. However, there is no accurate leak/rumor right now regarding its release date.
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it was always fake and gay.
Takes gay to know gay
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I'm tired of hearing about Unreal Engine. From a consumer standpoint, Unreal Engine is trash. So it's capable of rendering photorealistic graphics… Who tf cares when performance is busted? In our world of broken games you'd think that would be a deal breaker, but apparently not. Everyone seems to be fine with it as long as it's Unreal Engine. I can't think of one open world/semi open world game in UE5 that was even close to acceptable upon release. It takes months, and literally thousands of bug fixes, to get them up to par. So, please, developers, just stop.
A lot of it is lazy developers too. Because I know the coalition will nail it with the next Gears of War
Not lazy. Greedy. There is a giant difference. Often these devs have real life commitments that they allow to force them into releasing unfinished work to start bringing in money. Or the company paying the bills yanks what they have out from under them and releases it. This is why game makers need a union and standardized pay ranked by skill level. Currently they do not.
I know this is crazy to believe, but not everyone has a 10 year old computer that can't run Unreal.
I never have performance issues with Unreal Engine games but I also have a modern system that isn't the PC equivalent of a PS3. They make them precisely because most people don't have issues, otherwise they wouldn't buy them.
The main issue Unreal needs to fix is shader complication stutter. They don't really have issues outside of that which isn't the consumer's hardware at fault. My advice is to stop expecting a 10 year old graphics card to be relevant and catered to in modern gaming.
Not everyone is willing to play games with upscaling, or at framerates below 100 FPS. Even 2-3 year old graphics cards can struggle with UE5 games, and the visuals aren't that great (not enough to justify the low FPS).
You're absolutely right. It's also not like UE4 can't do photorealism. Look no further than The Outlast Trials for a visually stunning UE4 game. And with light overclocking, I hit an average of 150 frames with an RTX 3060.
And here is proof the original commentary was correct. People with a 5 year old GPU expect the unattainable. UE4 cannot do what UE5 does and UE5 requires very expensive hardware to play at maximum settings.
Can games be made in UE4 for lower priced hardware and play well and look good? Yes. Unfortunately, the AAA houses disagree and want us all on a $3000 PC. This has always been the way. PC vs Console has been like this since the Commodore 64. You could buy a ColecoVision or the vastly superior C64. The CV was $200 all in. The C64 was $1000 all in as you purchased a monitor for highest resolutions. That was the early 80s when money stretched further, too.
In terms of PC Games, a 3 year old card is old. I will not use upscaling and I will not pay outrageous prices either which leaves me not playing too many games at the moment.
Don't talk sh*te. A 3090 can run every single game at 4k easily, and that card it 5 years old at this point.
countless people are still rocking the 1080ti which is 8 years old. Plays any games at 1080p perfectly.
Performance is only as "busted" as you make it in UE5. If you find the most polished UE5 games "busted"? You are playing them on a busted PC, let's be real. No insult is meant here. The days of 4 and 6 core CPUs are done. When I play, say, Fortnite on a modern 8 core CPU with a modern graphics card it looks and plays incredibly without issue. Fortnite is an online shooter. Not only does it have to nail the game but it needs to nail the net code as well. Not an easy task.
Body Cam was made by a pair of kids. 2 teenagers made it. Had they had a team imagine what it could be?
No, it's not the engine or lazy teams, it's the vision of the game from conception and not settling before finish due to itch to get paid. Labor of love games from AAA to Indie are always the best.
what the point to release it now, when they can announce and release it right after xbox showcase.
It's not real. There is so many factors against an Oblivion remake that it's not even funny. Ignoring everything else, Bethesda simply wouldn't swap to unreal over the creation engine. While we all hate it, that's their in-house engine, and they have decades of experience. Bethesda simply has no institutional experience with unreal. Not to mention Bethesda doesn't have ghe staff to work on 3 games at once.
yes so why did you downvote my comment?
Oh no, not an arbitrary number! Whatever will you do to cope with this tragedy!?
Maybe you said something that made someone indifferent toward you. Maybe acceptance isn't your bag. Who knows, right?
We don't all hate it, in fact most fans would be lost without it. There's nothing wrong with the creation engine. How do you think all the great mods get made? It's all because of the creation. Everything I've heard negative about the creation engine is either made up, or minor af
It is real and was leaked “officially” in the Microsoft/FTC documents. It is being developed by Virtuos, not BGS, and is likely using Creation for physics/gameplay, and UE5 for graphics rendering only, so your argument falls apart here.
Hey, you know your PC gaming! Thank you for saving me the time to explain it!
You don't explain anything. You spit out elitist BS and expect people to believe it.
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This journalist needs to get his facts straight. His account was Hacked and deleted, he didn't delete his own account. The hackers did. Think before you write and publish and stop spreading around false equivalencies. Detective Seeds even announced that his account was hacked and deleted.
There's no remake coming out, life would be so much better for those of you still convinced this remake is coming out soon, so so very soon, within the next few weeks, if y'all just let it go and move on. Sure, there were leaked documents seeming to show Bethesda working on a remake of Oblivion, but that was years ago and many things can change day to day in that world.
Anyone with two braincells realized this was nonsense from the start. People falling for the click bait.
This journalist needs to get his facts straight. His account was Hacked and deleted, he didn't delete his own account. The hackers did. Think before you write and publish and stop spreading around false equivalencies. Detective Seeds even announced that his account was hacked and deleted.
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So the guy who said we were getting Oblivion this month said his account was hacked and deleted…
If Bethesda were considering releasing a remake of Oblivion in UE5 then the question would be who is going to fix the mess that they would surely release? They know that they can't fix their own messes. They've been relying on their mod community for almost 2 decades now to fix what they mess up.
I hear about it so many times that I just assumed you had reported on it too.
I never listen to Leakers because even on the rare occasion they are right they are still ethically compromised people
Agreed. I love how it has the word greed baked in. It's why I uses it, lol!
Shouldn't give these clowns the time of day. More often than not they're just making stuff up, and the ones that aren't are betraying the trust of the developers to try to steal five minutes of fame for something they had nothing to do with. Low life attention seekers.
Wow, reading this in Dale Gribble's voice really portrays the shortsightedness very well.
Glad I could help.
So, Bethesda was making their own UHD HDR remake, caught a YouTube video of a small team remaking Oblivion in UE5 while simultaneously seeing SkyBlivion and realized which looked next gen and which did not. I know nothing about release dates, I know nothing about contracts. I do know what I typed happened. I'd love to see any UHD HDR Elder Scrolls game at this point. Elder Scrolls 6 has been in development for too long now but I understand. Bethesda always starts with the bleeding edge of current tech then upgrades as they develop. With the exception of Starfield. They should have completed the original plan of each world being it's own Skyrim but by now it's obvious why they did not.
I cant imagine how the remake would exist, unreal engine on top of that, urrgh, just thinking about the bugs and who's going to fix them, that would be a gigantic mess
Go watch the Zelda Ocarina of Time remake on YouTube if you do not have the $1500 GPU to play it on and tell me how it's not possible. That is a one man project, too.
Off topic, but I'm currently playing Oblivion (never played it before) and it's one of the most bland RPGs I've ever played. The only good thing about it is the side quests. I keep scratching my head trying to see what it did better than Skyrim like its fans claim. Every single criticism I have for Skyrim exists or started in Oblivion.
You're not crazy. It's terribly bland in the same vein as Skyrim (they don't hold a candle to Morrowind especially at its time), but it's remembered with awe because for many millions of kids it was the first decent mainstream/accessible 'immersive open world 1st person perspective RPG', in the era of the explosion of videogames, with pretty and detailed 3D graphics (it looked great at the time) and internet everywhere to spread the hype, especially as RPGs grew out of being mostly a nerdy niche genre with a high entry point of an unwieldy tangle of rules.
So yeah, it blew millions of kids minds and became massively popular, but for whoever had a few more years, experience with rpgs and some perspective, yeah, it was bland and still is.
Make sure to rate this community note helpful. About time these fake leakers are called out. https://x.com/DetectiveSeeds/status/1906165593016799478?t=eSDqxi-9cVoQbSJxAAXfhQ&s=19
He’s been one of the most reliable. 🤡
Oblivion remake’s literally leaking right now off Virtuous website.
He claimed it would release April 3rd. Then moved it to this week. Then next week. He piggy backed off NateTheHate and JeffGrubb. We all knew Oblivion Remake was coming, it was in the FTC court documents. '🤡'
It's disingenuous to ignore all the stuff he's announced/leaked well ahead of time that's happened… to then cite April 3rd as the reason he is obviously a "fake leaker". Have you considered his friend at SIE had wrong or old info? EvenNatethehate doesn't have a 100% hit rate, dude… also, please tell me you didn't just like your own comment… holy jesus.
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Didn't this just get accidentally released from the above though?
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