The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered has been a blast, but in retrospect, it's probably the last Elder Scrolls game I'd have picked for a remaster. After all, there are plenty of games in 2025 with similar sensibilities to Oblivion. Bethesda still pumps out open-world RPGs using the formula it helped pioneer, and games like Avowed and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 invite direct comparisons to the 2006 version – a game that is handily playable on modern systems.
That can't be said about, for instance, Daggerfall. The sophomore Elder Scrolls game has more in common with a fantasy life simulator than a modern open-world RPG. This is a game where becoming a vampire means sunlight will kill you in a matter of minutes, you can learn conversational Spriggan, take out a loan from the bank, and buy a boat to sail across a procedurally generated world so massive that it would take 60 hours to cross it on foot.
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