There’s something about Oblivion Remastered that makes it feel grounded (almost like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2), until you start noticing the finer details or end up talking to a lizard person, an orc, an elf, or an invisible gardener. This is without mentioning the creatures you can find in nature.

Games like Fable or Final Fantasy feel much more overtly cartoony and gamey by comparison. Oblivion somehow presents itself like a serious, grounded world, then the ambience and soundtrack kick in and it becomes pure fantasy.

It genuinely just feels like The Lord of the Rings in video game form (super obvious in parts of the main quest). It’s effortlessly immersive.

The Guild said they're under the protection of the Gray Fox so I thought killing them might make him show up...

Got oblivion for the switch a few days ago. It’s honestly not as bad as people make it out to seem. I like it but it DOES have its problems just like how it does on the other consoles. The hitches aren’t rly bad (for me). They don’t happen too much. and the frames don’t drop that as much. What I DONT like is how things in the world just pop up outta nowhere. Like a tree or bush just spawns in right in front of you. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth. But other than that, it’s not bad. Not saying that the hitches and frame rate dropping aren’t a problem, but it’s just not that bad to me. I’ve been enjoying it. What do yall think ?

This was a little while ago when the Oblivion remastered dropped and since I hadn't played before I fell in love immediately. It was a little early on in my playthrough so I didn't have everything down, including combat. I was walking around Blackwood I believe and noticed like three trolls spotted me and knowing I probably couldnt take them at the time I start hauling ass, all through the forests and woods. With the trolls still on my tail I found this little bar shack and thinking I could lose them in there (I was wrong) because I ran inside seeing the patrons in it, and not long after I got in the trolls broke in. I ran upstairs to the lodging rooms and hid, hoping the npcs would gang up on them. All the noises and shouts i knew they were getting slaughtered downstairs. Soon the trolls lost interest and left, I go downstairs and its just alllll bodies. NOT ONE TROLL

If I ever hear him say fearsome mudcrabs again he’s getting bonked. I’ve been neglecting that out of respect. He even crushed my crustacean! We had a crab for each person and that last one was mine! I was gonna name him Mr. Krabs.

Hail citizens. I was trying to see how I could get some local wildlife to follow us and figured I could do it while getting a swim in. You know, since it’s the only way to get clean! Tried having Pally stay still with me and let the crabs kinda mingle onto the screen. This is what happened instead. I like to let the NPC’s kind of make up their own mind. I have no idea why he went down after the crabs but it’s definitely within his character.

There’s a non-zero chance it is a recruitment centre for the Dark Brotherhood.

Hail Sithis!

Hi, I've started playing skyrim for the first time at the start of the year. And since I enjoyed it, I wanna try oblivion.

I'm plannig on buying the game from GOG but I see a lot of versions on here not sure which one I should get (I don't want the new remastered version)

Thanks!

I tried the remaster but it runs like shit on my series s so I'm just gonna play the original. Does it include the dlc or do I need to buy it (not too big a problem, only about $17 for the two main dlc's)

In my opinion leveling is too fast and a simple solution would be to either add an exp slider or maybe even have the option to turn off leveling from non major skills. I know mods fix this on pc but console players need a solution too.

Another gripe that could be solved by doing the first thing I mentioned is that it’s way too easy to get 100 in multiple stats which quickly makes any +stat gear worthless in the early/mid game.

Heya ! I felt the sudden urge to replay Oblivion (the OG) (don't think my laptop can handle the remaster) but while I want to have a pretty vanilla experience, I'd love to know if there's a mod that overhauls the insufferable dynamic scaling. So : anyone?

Also if you have mod suggestions for an improved vanilla experience, I'm all ears.

Thanks!

Hmmm?

Basically I want to try and change the amount of major skill-ups it takes to level from 10 to 20 to halve the maximum level as a stopgap to address the horrid late-game scaling; I don't mind losing out on extra Luck and Personality, and there's no new content after level ~20 anyway.

Sometimes it is said that Luck works in round numbers only as it its bonus is only 0.4 of its value -50 and it's not an integer if the value is not round. Does the not round Luck realy have no effect in comparison to the round one? Is 62 Luck has totally the same effect as 60 Luck or will there be some imperceptible increase? I know that Luck is useless anyway, but i need to know if not round Luck works in theory. Would it be better to icrease Personality (which is useless too) by 8 than have +2 Luck but it's not round?

This is not the Remastered edition and not a mod for it. It's an OBSE plugin for the original 2006 game that puts real VR into the game's rendering. The idea for now is: Oblivion stays Oblivion — no gameplay replacement, no reimagined combat. Same game, just in a headset.

Why 2006 and not Remastered? Well... It's just my fav game of all time and also... mods... beautiful mods that Remastered doesn't have.

OBVR has been developed and tested by exactly one person on exactly one headset. That's the reason for this post.

What works

- Real stereo 3D. The world is rendered twice per frame, once per eye. Not one image shown to both eyes (like Luke Ross mods). (If you like AER you can enable that though...)

- Hyper Stereo build in (similar to PrimaShocks 3D Boost mod but built in not modded and without the visual artifacts)

- 6DoF head tracking. Look around, lean, duck, stand up. The vanilla camera is multiplied by the HMD rotation rather than replaced.

- Native headset resolution and FOV. The game renders into eye-sized targets and the frustum is taken from the headset, so you don't get a 16:9 monitor image cropped into your face.

- HUD and menus in the headset, either on a cinema screen or floating in the world.

- Its own settings menu inside VR — ~50 settings, arrow keys, changes persist to the INI. No taking the headset off to edit a file. Not all settings work atm.

- Vertical look moved off the mouse onto your head, which is the single biggest comfort win.

- Gaze-based aiming. Arrows and spells go where you look, not where the mouse points, while your walking direction stays under mouse/gamepad control. The bow visually follows your gaze while you draw (Luke Ross style VR).

- Crosshair at the right depth, so it fuses into one instead of doubling.

- Dialogue zoom removed, persuasion minigame works, works with and without the 4GB patch, works under Mod Organizer 2.

What does NOT work YET — please read this before installing

- No motion controllers. No hand tracking. No room-scale movement. You play with mouse + keyboard or a gamepad, seated or standing in place. This is a "the game is in VR" mod, not a "reach out and grab things" mod YET. If that's what you want NOW, this isn't it FOR NOW. POSSIBLY LATER THOUGH.

- A known hang. Occasionally freezes the game. It has happened three times, it's not reproducible on demand, and the cause isn't found yet. Diagnostics are built in and this is one of the things I most want testers for.

- No D3D9 device-loss handling. Alt-tabbing or changing resolution may take the game down. Untested territory.

- Rare NPC glitches — an NPC snapping away during cutscene dialogue, and very rarely all NPCs collapsing into a pile. Cosmetic, rare, unfixed.

- SteamVR/OpenVR only. No OpenXR yet (Oblivion is 32-bit, which rules out most OpenXR runtimes).

- Windows only for now. Linux is the eventual goal.

- Tested on one headset (Pimax Dream Air) and one GPU (RTX 4090). Everything about how it behaves on anything else is genuinely unknown. That is the main thing I'm asking for.

Requirements

- The original Oblivion, 1.2.0.416 (Steam/GOG version, not Remastered)

- xOBSE 22.13

- DXVK

- SteamVR running

What I'm asking for

Mostly: does it start, and what does it look like on hardware that isn't mine? Specifically —

1. Does it launch and reach the headset at all on your HMD?
2. Is the scale right? Do people look human-sized?
3. Comfort — anything that makes you queasy, and what you were doing at the time.
4. If it hangs or crashes, OBVR.log and OBVR.log.prev next to Oblivion.exe. The .prev survives a restart and is usually the useful one.

Frame rate reports are welcome but expect a small hit: the world is rendered twice at full headset resolution.

Happy to answer anything.

And yes eventually I want to make this not just a VR mod but a VR port with swords, shields, bows, magic and grabbing stuff all in VR.

DM me if you want to try the mod and give feedback.

I though the spawn point after using the trapdoor should be right next to the Button to open up the lock room with the boss chest? But I keep spawning in the room behind the wall every time I used the trap door. I've even used the main entrance a few times and use the button a few times already. But once I reset the dungeon and use the trap door. I'm still spawning behind the wall and not next to the button.

I have collectively put around 7000 hours across Elder Scrolls 3-5. Started with Morrowind as a wee lad. Didn’t get oblivion remake initially but want all of your thoughts on whether or not it’s worth the money or just continue to enjoy the unreal mods the community has made.

Goddamn I'm level two and my 5 damage sword just tickles them, I try to fight one and she breaks through my shield and kills me in like 5 hits 😭.

Anyone have any other monster races they made using the vanilla ones? I was thinking of Ogre maybe using the Orc could be another one.