Oblivion Remastered’s Funny Character Faces Are Going Viral for Being Total Nightmare Fuel — and for Looking Like the Original Fallout Talking Heads

As thousands flock to the motorboat of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, the quality creator is being utilized to make terrifying (and often hilarious) abominations. Yes, Oblivion is back, and truthful are those comic faces.

Oblivion Remastered, developed by remake specializer Virtuos utilizing Unreal Engine 5, has a agelong database of ocular and diagnostic improvements. It runs astatine 4K solution and 60 frames per second, arsenic you'd expect, but different changes are much meaningful. Everything from the leveling systems to quality creation, and combat animations to in-game menus person been improved. Meanwhile, there's tons of caller dialogue, a due third-person view, and caller articulator sync technology. The changes are going down good with fans, immoderate of whom judge Oblivion Remastered would beryllium much accurately described arsenic a remake. Bethesda, however, has explained wherefore it went down the remaster route.

Bethesda’s remaster gives Oblivion a caller lick of paint, and portion everything successful the crippled looks a batch amended than it did 20 years ago, there’s nary getting distant from that trademark Bethesda look jank.

And, arsenic is typically the lawsuit with Bethesda games, Oblivion Remastered’s quality creator lets you make immoderate outlandish faces. Some of these person already gone viral crossed societal media, contempt the remaster being little than 24 hours old. Here’s a snippet of our favorites:

This is my magnum opus successful Oblivion Remaster. Sir Vancealot pic.twitter.com/q3hsDd3Uys

— CAMELCAST OFFICIAL (@CAMELCASTOff) April 22, 2025

Trying the Oblivion remake, quality instauration is going well, elves are gorgeous present pic.twitter.com/fjw4oqoPBl

— Julia (@Julia_CaSsian) April 22, 2025

As old-school Fallout fans whitethorn person noticed, there’s thing worryingly acquainted astir these Oblivion Remastered faces. That’s astir apt due to the fact that they rekindle memories of the archetypal Fallout talking heads, which, astatine the clip (late ‘90s) looked impressive, but present look, well… a spot similar immoderate of these Oblivion Remastered faces.

oblivion truthful comic to me. we yet person the exertion to recreate the og fallout talking caput renders successful existent clip pic.twitter.com/SSG5iVLlKq

— 🦇🩸𝕸𝖔𝖓𝖌𝖗𝖊𝖑🩸🦇 (@FearMongrel) April 22, 2025

one happening that's beauteous neat is that the mode immoderate faces are done successful oblivion remastered is akin to faces successful fallout 2 which means a fallout 3 remaster could look person to fallout 2 and person WAY COOLER LOOKING GHOULS pic.twitter.com/dHVawmh9cl

— shley died from lavender municipality syndrome (sad!!) ˂/3 (@gloomygvrl666) April 23, 2025

It’s each successful bully fun, of course, and evidence, really, that Oblivion is backmost successful a large way. What would beryllium a large Bethesda crippled motorboat without immoderate reliably aged look jank? Veteran fans wouldn’t privation it immoderate different way.

And it truly does look similar Oblivion Remastered is simply a hit. On Steam it enjoyed an awesome highest concurrent subordinate number of implicit 180,000 connected merchandise time — a fig that’s acceptable to summation arsenic the crippled heads into its archetypal play connected sale.

We've got a broad usher to everything you'll find successful Oblivion Remastered, including an expansive Interactive Map, implicit Walkthroughs for the Main Questline and each Guild Quest, How to Build the Perfect Character, Things to Do First, and overmuch more.

Image credit: @CAMELCASTOff.

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