Bethesda’s Oblivion Remake Won’t Hurt Skyblivion Because It’ll Give Fans Two Unique Ways to Revisit a Classic

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Bethesda’s Oblivion Remake Won’t Hurt Skyblivion Because It’ll Give Fans Two Unique Ways to Revisit a Classic

After more than a decade of development, Skyblivion is finally coming out sometime this year. If you haven’t heard of Skyblivion yet, it is the ambitious fan-made remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in Skyrim‘s engine. The massive mod has been a passion project for a dedicated team led by Kyle ‘Rebelzize’ Rebel and it’s almost here.

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If you’re familiar with Skyblivion then you’ve probably also heard that there might be an official Bethesda remake coming. Well about that, Rebelzize doesn’t think it’ll affect their own project. Instead, he believes that an official remake could actually benefit Skyblivion by giving players more ways to experience the classic RPG.

Skyblivion‘s developers aren’t worried about an official Bethesda port

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The Skyblivion project began in 2012 as an effort to port Oblivion into Skyrim’s engine. But the project has gone from being a mere port to a full remake in the decade-long ******* that it has been in development. From the recent update that the developer Rebelzize released on

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, the project is now in its final stretch, with 93% of Cyrodiil’s world space completed.

With the Niben Basin and Valley complete all of Cyrodiil’s landscape has had at least a first pass. Next up: Improve previously worked areas of the map to bring them to higher standards.

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In a recent interview with

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, Rebelzize talked about the rumored remake of Oblivian that Bethesda is allegedly working on. He addressed the main concern of how it would affect the Skyblivion project by saying it wouldn’t be a big problem for the fan project. “I think whether the rumors are true or not doesn’t affect us much.”

Rumors of an official Oblivion remake have been circulating ever since

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’s legal battle with the FTC in 2023. There were some leaked documents at the time that mentioned it but we haven’t seen anything about it since. There have been more recent rumors that it could feature a Soulslike-inspired blocking system and launch in June 2025. But Bethesda hasn’t said a word.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake is reportedly real, and built in Unreal Engine 5.

The remake is developed by Virtuos and will feature improvements to gameplay systems like stamina, blocking, and stealth in addition to remade visuals.

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Rebel has said that Skyblivion only exists because of the dedication of its team. The project has been cooking for a long time and the mod is now in its final stages. We share his excitement to finally experience the years of work that has gone into recreating Oblivion with improved visuals, and updated mechanics.

Bethesda may be releasing its own remake but they support Rebelzize

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