I don't expect they would, since Skyblivion already has their blessing and the team has been working with representatives from Bethesda to make sure that everything they're doing continues to be kosher with them.

The Skyblivion devs also released a statement recently that they are also looking forward to the release of this remaster, and believe that there is enough love to go around for both projects.

Basically, Oblivion fans are going to be eating well this year. If the official Oblivion remaster is underwhelming, there will still be Skyblivion to look forward to.

I'm doubting the same day drop

Ye ah, they might have it drop next week. At the very least we know it should release by the end of the month.

They've been running weeks of marketing now.

Don't even for a second think those articles from 'games journalists' (marketers) were organic and that things 'leaked' - this has been a marketing campaign.

I'm hoping for remake. The game needs to abandon (or at least rework) their level scaling. It's by far the worst implementation it that I've ever seen.

Then make everything less orange, shiny, and bulbous.

Don’t think we know for sure how updated it is until tomorrow. Mod support is another big question mark

Every leak points to a remaster, using gamebryo for the game's logic and UE5 for the rendering part. Some leaks also mentioned it'll have an updated HUD, archery, stamina and blocking mechanics, but we don't know anything else.

Don't think we know yet. Based on earlier leaks, the thought is that Unreal Engine 5 is involved somehow, but there is uncertainty about whether or not it is full-on in UE5 or if UE5 is just being used as a rendering layer. If Bethesda's own engine is still used as the core of the game, we don't know if that means simply reworking the original Oblivion code, or if they updated everything to the latest version used for Starfield.

What we can assume is that, even if the original engine is used, there will need to be a good deal of work done to update it regardless, since it is still a 32-bit application that would need to be rewritten for proper 64-bit support. And a lot of the game mechanics, physics, movement, etc. would need to be updated to work with the UE5 rendering layer if that is indeed how it's working.

dude follow the link, there's an official bethesda countdown to the stream.

I'm with you there. It's going to be cool and I really want it, but I've already completed it a bunch. I'm never going to be able to get properly excited like I would for ES6

After this they'll remaster Morrowind. It'll be Elder Scrolls III 2, and two threes is six, so that'll be Elder Scrolls VI

Imagine what it'd be like if halfway through this livestream they just shift the "I" to the other side of the "V" and reveal VI as well though

hold your horses armor buddy, they still have a few other elder scrolls games to remake first.

As another user already said, this remaster is being done by an outside studio, so it shouldn't be significantly affecting any ongoing work at Bethesda.

While Todd Howard is full of shit half the time, I do believe him when he talks about their development roadmap. When Elder Scrolls 6 was announced, it was under the disclaimer that it was not an active project for the team at the time, and would not enter full production until Starfield was done. Starfield released in fall of 2023, so Elder Scrolls 6 should have been in full development for about a year and a half now.

Bethesda didn't make this port.

They literally have a teaser trailer for ES6 they officially released years ago (in 2018; similarly to how Cyberpunk 2077 was teased way the hell back in 2012). They said it wouldn't go into major production, though, until after Starfield released. Which has also already happened.

It might motivate me to dust off my old copy of Oblivion though.