As we all continue to wait for any news on the heavily-rumoured Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake, a fan has taken matters into their own hands and created a Doom-style boomer shooter version of the game about a bunch of potato-faced empire-lovers shutting some spooky doors.
Yep, stop staring at Bethesda’s socials for five minutes, this is worth exposing youself to missing a sudden official remake announcement for five minutes. Seriously, you can chill out, I’m sure the studio will send us all Adoring Fan singing telegrams to make sure none of us miss it, assuming it exists.
Right, here we go. Reddit user Sloth_Johnson has shared a clip of them playing an Oblivion-themed boomer shooter they’ve created using the Easy FPS Editor – a tool that’s designed to help you create your own old school FPS. Think Doom or classic Wolfenstein, but with whatever coat of paint you want slapped over it to create an end result similar to the Doom art gallery experience we all got a kick out of at the start of this year.
Rather than looking at paintings, Sloth_Johnson’s creation lets the player romp through a dungeon done up to look a bit like the interiors of the Imperial City’s stone buildings, cutting down hostile Adoring Fan sprites that keep yelling ‘By Azura’, because of course they do.
Once those little fellas and a pretty terrifying shotgun-wielding Imperial guard who naturally roars about you having violated the law have been cut down, you find Emperor Patrick Stewart in the final room and he gives you that speech about having had a wet dream about you. Except in this case, Sloth_Johnson just cuts him down before he barely gets a word out.
Hang on a minute, was the Hero of Kvatch a Mythic Dawn agent all along? Regardless, I’ve now got some sad news about this cool thing that even has its own renderings of Oblivion’s wonderful soundtrack. You’ll probably never be able to play it yourself. “Don’t think I can ever release this sadly, with all of the Bethesda assets and whatnot,” its creator has written in a Reddit thread about it.
Oof. Insert that Simpsons clip where Lionel Hutz imagines a world without lawyers here.
Even if you never get to play this Oblivion boomer shooter, you should definitely get to play another cool fan-made Elder Scrolls Oblivion thing soon, with massive mod Skyblivion on course for release this year regardless of whether Bethesda drops its own official remake soon.
