The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Review

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered reviewed by Travis Northup on Xbox Series X, also available on PlayStation 5 and PC. Stick around after the score for an interview with Travis about the review process and his RPG tastes.

"The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is an awesome nostalgic adventure that recaptures most of what I loved about the 2006 original, while sanding down many of its roughest edges. The result is a fantastic open-world RPG that’s aged quite well, with questlines and stories that are better than I remembered, modernizations (like the slightly improved leveling system) that remove some of the friction of the original, and loads of opportunities to make this adventure whatever you want it to be via the plentiful freedom afforded to you. On the other hand, not enough has been done to make this thing significantly less buggy than it notoriously was back in the day, and some design choices – like the enemy scaling and procedural Oblivion levels that become dull fast – have not been improved, which feels like a squandered opportunity. Even so, I never expected to so thoroughly enjoy replaying this uniquely goofy RPG, and I am so, so glad I took this walk down memory lane (now with the option to sprint down it)."

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