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Oblivion Remastered is coming to the Switch 2 on August 11, as Bethesda announced with a trailer featuring a live-action Adoring Fan that conveniently shows as little gameplay as they can get away with. I would love it if, after all the work that’s presumably gone into getting it to run on the Switch 2, the PC version saw just a little more love.
Oblivion Remastered was patched on PC a couple of times after release, which is why the wonky khajiit tails and the Dark Brotherhood’s lore-breaking door got fixed. But it still hitches when you’re roaming around, and characters have weird dark lines across their eyelids whenever they blink, and there’s a whole list of other bugs at the UESP.
Even some of the bugs from the original, like Brother Holger suddenly talking like a completely different character, still haven’t been fixed—despite other NPCs being revoiced. Maybe like Tandilwe’s voice actor saying ‘Let me do that one again’ it’s been left in for the meme? These are the things that start to bug me, 60 hours into a Bethesda RPG.
The Switch 2 version will apparently integrate motion controls and the touch screen and have the full game on its cartridge, which is a surprise given how many games are going digital-only these days. It’d be nice if the PC version was worth playing on the Steam Deck, but right now you’re better off with a modded version of the original.
