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Austin Wood

As ex-Blizzard boss says Oblivion Remastered "will never hold up" despite acclaim, Baldur's Gate 3 dev reckons "AAA is feeling more and more disconnected from the audience zeitgeist"

Oblivion Remastered screenshot of NPC preaching with eyes shut.

On the heels of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered shadow drop, ex-Blizzard president Mike Ybarra stirred the pot with the suggestion that the 19-year-old RPG "will never hold up against modern masterpieces like Elden Ring."

"I would love to be proven wrong. But I'm not," Ybarra added, stressing a shift "from safe, open-world RPGs to what Elden Ring brought us all." He recognized that there's an argument for nostalgia, but concluded that "I think the gaming community wants fresh and new more than ever."

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