After spending 200+ hours and never finishing the main quest of Oblivion, I would love to go back and play it again. Some caveats being,
a) if the game was recreated using the new engine
B) tweaked the combat
c) made the Oblivion gates less cookie cutter

What say you?

By Oblivion's fire would I? I would pay for it all over again just to play it with the Fallout 3 engine, which never stutters even with all the graphics options set to max.

But not if it had the new UI. I'd rather play the original Doom.

For consoles its a no-lose proposition, provided Bethesda doesn't make dumb decisions along the way. (I too single out the Skyrim UI in this regard.)

For us computer folk it becomes more complicated. You bet to heck I'd like an improved engine, one that takes full advantage of modern and future (so far as this is possible) PC hardware. At the same time we have a great many wonderful mods that remedy many of the game's shortcomings and improve it in other ways. If those become unusable in the revamp process a remake loses much of its appeal. Even then I might well purchase it as a stand-alone alternative to modded traditional Oblivion rather than and out-and-out replacement. Depends on what they actually do with it I suppose.

ADDENDUM: The more I think on it the more I don't want any sort of game-play revision. Remake improvements should be confined to bug fixes and having the game run more efficiently, and on PC support for modern technology, including DX11. I wouldn't mind better graphics, especially distant scenery. Otherwise Oblivion should remain Oblivion. And again it must not break existing PC mods.

-Decrepit-

Only if it's compatible with most of the current mods. I won't play Oblivion with the vanilla level scaling system.

I don't know if I would. I already played it for years. I have new lands to explore.

The Creation engine does seem more optimized than the Gamebryo engine. But if moving to the Cration engine meant removing Attributes I would have to say no.

It does run very nice. With Oblivion I always had one CPU thread screaming at 100% load and another one at 50-75%.

I don't think attributes/lack of attributes are tied to the engine, but I could be wrong. My limited knowledge says not however.

Without a moment's hesitation.

Not an engine. Gamebryo is a renderer.

Creation Engine has existed since Morrowind, Skyrim just made it official. NetImmerse (later Gamebryo) was simply the middleware licensed for the engine's render. Granted, that's a fair bit of work, but the render is only half of the actual game engine.

Every single game Bethesda Game Studios has made was built on the same engine, tweaked and optimized and upgraded from before. Skyrim is no exception.

Considering the Oblivion remake, I would say no because there really isn't much to gain by moving to a new version of Creation Engine if the game and its base data remains unchanged. When Bethesda actually changes the render entirely, or if we get an upgraded data master that allows for much more to be done with it, then I'll think about it.

no, i'm not a fan of the hd remake thing going on. i played ob (still do everyonce in a while) why would i want to rebuy it when i can start it up from steam or bust out the old xbox game? It still looks pretty good anyways

IMO, Oblivion is too recent. I wouldn't mind a smoother running Oblivion experience on PC, but I think I'd sooner want a revamped Daggerfall game that plays like it was originally intended, like the Bretony demo. Add some decently improved textures & sprites and I would play Daggerfall all over again for sure.

Aye, I almost mentioned Daggerfall in my initial post. That's the TES title I'd most like to see in shiny new graphics, along with better A.I. (schedules and the like) for NPCs. Course I'm thinking state of the art graphics rather than just high res textures and sprites. DX11 from the ground up. Due to the size of the 'world' I don't see it being practical or even possible on current generation consoles, even discounted the DX11 requirement, which in this climate means it'll never happen, not anytime soon. Not that I was holding my breath in any case.

-Decrepit-

'Tis why I was referring to simply improved textures & sprites, nevermind more polygons and AI. I know the size of Daggerfall with modern graphics would take up far too much data, but look at how many times Nintendo has managed to remake/ reinvent their old Mario titles. Be interesting to see something like that done with. Daggerfall.

I'm still playing oblivion, and part of what gets me interested in it again are things I haven't done before. As I played more and more this pretty much left mods, but some mods are fantastically entertaining if played legit. While it may be easy to hack all stats and appearances and go crazy once you start modding, I am really enjoying going back and playing a legit character based on spells from midas magic.

I would not. The game does have its share of flaws definitely, but a remake would do next to nothing to me. Even though graphics would look much better it would only last for just so long before I′d get tired of it. Graphics is important but not everything and I have played this game for far too many hrs to fully enjoy a HD remake.

It′s like a HD remake of your favorite movie. Yes it would look better but you would still know the plot and everything that happens and it would just be fun the first time you watch it.

In next gen when Bethesda upgrades to a new graphics engine for Fallout 4 I wish they make a Oblivion 10 year anniversary remake since the wait for Elder Scrolls 6 will be extremely long (probably 6 years from today).

Nope, not a chance.

The fundamental gameplay behind Oblivion is flawed and generic.

Flawed and generic? Skyrim is more flawed and generic than Oblivion, thank you.

I'd disagree. And Oblivion was my favourite game of all time.

What, specifically, is generic about Oblivion's gameplay?

Most certainly. I'd like to see Bethesda redo ALL of the previous TES games with the new engine.

PS - I like the new UI, idk why people are complaining about it so much -.-

Didn't they use the same engine for Skyrim? I was disappointed when I heard this, because I was hoping with a brand new engine, that the game would be more stable... and less bugs.

It is basically the same, it is just tweaked more, with backwards flying dragons and non-functional magic resistances. To be honest, they had little choice, seeing that the game has to run on console systems that are five years old. Still, it does look better, and it runs lightyears smoother than Oblivion, bugs and all.

Not Oblivion, but maybe Morrowing and Daggerfall.

Nothing generic, but certainly flawed.

Generic gameplay today means "shoot guys until they fall over, do this for 5 to 6 hours, have your hand held every step of the way."

Flawed means things like the level scaling making you weaker as you supposedly get stronger and encouraging the player to grind.

One of this is certainly Oblivion and one is certainly not.