Oh man, where do I start? Okay, so Oblivion — you know, that epic RPG from back in 2006? — just got a facelift with this remastered thing. It’s all modern now, on PC and consoles, and sure enough, folks in VR are diving in headfirst. Like, seriously, we barely blinked, and bam! They’re already modding it. I mean, why am I not surprised?
So, this whole makeover brings Oblivion into the Unreal Engine 5 — not that old Gamebryo thing. Which means, if I understood right, you’re getting cooler textures, characters look way better, things actually move right, and the lighting? Top notch. Oh, and modders are gonna love this. ‘Cause, you see, ‘Praydog’ whipped up this UEVR plugin. (Want the link? Go find it yourself, I’m not your internet guide.)
Now, this UEVR is packed with goodies — 6DOF head movement, full stereoscopic 3D, and… well, a bunch of techie stuff I won’t pretend to fully get. Oh, and there’s this person online, ‘LunchAndVR,’ fiddling with it. Creating mod profiles or whatever. It’s like watching someone mix potions in a digital cauldron.
There’s a YouTube video — if you’re into that sort of thing — showing these early antics. And surprise, surprise, it’s all very beta. Like, no full 6DOF yet because the motion controls decided to throw a tantrum and crash. But hey, it’s not all doom and gloom.
The tests seem solid. Imagine creepy dungeons with moving lights and scary rats. Well, ‘indoors good, outdoors meh’ is basically the verdict. And maybe you need a beast of a computer to make it sing. Yeah, they used an RTX 4090, a nerdy i9-13900 processor, and… wait, 64GB of RAM? That’s like enough to power a small spaceship.
If you’re brave (and maybe a little crazy), you can snag Praydog’s UEVR mod and play around. Some profiles are floating around, like one from ‘Keyser’ for better VR performance, and another from ‘Pande4360’ — links are somewhere, everywhere, I dunno. But heads up, you need Oblivion Remastered on PC, and it’d better be the Steam version or, maybe, the Xbox Game Pass one works too.
Anyway, I’m rambling. But really, who could resist rambling about Oblivion in VR? It’s a wild ride, and everyone’s tinkering away like we’re all digital alchemists or something.
