Alright, so. It’s extremely a lot trying like at the moment may lastly be the day we get that long-rumoured Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster, given Bethesda’s received an entire stream deliberate. If nothing else, the entire leaky saga’s been an excellent catalyst for followers doing bizarre stuff with the unique.
Enter Boblivion, a modder’s freshly-released try at overhauling the sport in, er, a barely totally different option to Virtuos Video games. Can it’s weirder than the Oblivion boomer shooter somebody put collectively the opposite week? Properly, it positively appears to be like simply as trippy.
So, what’s this Boblivion mod do? Properly, it takes the traditional model of Oblivion and goals to alter “actually each single factor within the base sport to ‘Bob'”. As proven off within the photographs on the mod’s web page, which means a title display that declares you are firing up The Elder Scrolls IV: Boblivion, and offers you the choices of ‘bob’, ‘bob’, ‘bob’, ‘bob’, ‘bob’, and ‘bob’.
Every little thing from gadgets to spells, results, places, and menu/UI prompts look to have been re-christened ‘bob’. So, uh, good luck taking part in the sport and navigating round Cyrodiil if every part in regards to the unique sport is not completely singed into your mind.
The mod’s creator, who goes by Assman3000 (due to course they do), writes that your chats with NPCs may need been rendered a bit extra attention-grabbing, explaining: “This breaks dialogue although, as a result of all races at the moment are Bob. However you possibly can nonetheless discuss to individuals telepathically. Though, all they need to say is ‘Bob’.” Good.
In addition they admit that they’ve not fairly made completely every part Bob but, writing: “Once I determine methods to change the remaining, I will in all probability replace it together with all of the DLC.” Plus, they add, it is essential to notice that “in case you are prompted to exchange the unique Oblivion IV emblem video (the animation that performs in the beginning) or another file, then please again up the unique in a protected location in your laptop first”.
Cool, at all times value being protected when downloading a mod that just about breaks the sport by design. Are you hoping the official Oblivion remaster seems to have re-named each object within the sport one thing wacky? Tell us beneath!