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Anthony McGlynn

Todd Howard defends "VO line flub" in Oblivion Remastered since "it's part of the game’s character," but some bugs only stick around because they're "so complicated"

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered gameplay showing the emperor looking at the player in their prison cell.

One of the great joys about playing last year's Oblivion Remastered was seeing and hearing all the mid-2000s Bethesda jank and voice-over mistakes still intact. It's a glitchy, messy game at times, and that's very distinctly part of the appeal. Todd Howard agrees, and leaving in these bugs and errors was a specific decision for the remaster.

"I think there's a lot of fuzzy judgment calls," he explains during a roundtable attended by GamesRadar+. "Like, which ones are players gonna go try to do - take that one where you can stand on things – fixing that is so complicated."

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