The more you know: What Oblivion looks like while running on CryEngine 2

I tried oblivion twice, and I just couldn't do it, the medieval stuff just doesn't appeal to me.

But as far as I remember, Oblivion on the PC with max settings looked pretty damn great - don't see the need for the "graphical upgrade" aside from the fact the CryEngine engine is better in a technical sense and maybe somewhat prettier.

Great vid though.

Watched this earlier today courtesy of Digg. Awesome.

it does look better but i wouldn't re-pay for something just for better looking trees. the game has no graphical problems except the rosey cheek syndrome anyway. but a lot of time went into that.

Yeah, I guess I did only look at the shitty stream, but still, it's just eye candy really, what got me into the Elder Scrolls games was ALL OF THE DAMN BOOKS! I would seriously go to the Library in Vivec in Morrowind and just read the books about the divines and all that, *sigh* good afternoons wasted there...

Other than some better foiliage and water, it doesn't look much different. The latter 2/3 is a waste of time to watch inside the city. Unless it actually ran more efficiently than Oblivion (which ran like shit), then it's fairly pointless.

What exactly is this though? Did somebody export the Oblivion graphics and load them into Crysis or something?

i love the level system, so easy to exploit.

Watched the vid now, and frankly 'meh'. I've been playing Oblivion just this week, and with Nat Environments and a slew of other mods, it looks almost that good on my box, only at a much more consistant and high framerate than I get (I sacrifice fps for beauty in Oblivion).

The big pan-out at the end without dropping alot of geometry was the most impressive aspect. The night lighting had a little more moonlit 'atmosphere' to it, but overall, it wasn't earth shattering.

Also, to Shalashaska, I recommend a mod called KCAS, or Kobu's Character Advancment System, which un-borks the leveling logic, making it less meta-gamey, and OOO, or Oscura's Oblvion Overhaul, which is a massive content adding/modifying mod which takes off the training wheels of 'everything always being < +/- 4 levels from the PC level'. Its much more natural feeling for your lv4 character to get destroyed by a lv 15 Minotaur Lord by surprise, than having every single enemy be just a little stronger or weaker, whether you complete the game at lv 3 or lv 25.

That is just the kind of shit which TES5 could improve on; the mod community already figured out what was wrong and addressed it as well as they could, hopefully Bethsoft takes the subtle hint when they start the next chapter.

My PC can run Oblivion inside to look just as good as that, the outside however is just stunning.
I think I shed a tear of joy looking at the trees alone. *Ugh* God I love the Elderscrolls.

Weird...the song in the background is the instrumental of "Going Home". I'm actually singing that in Choir right now...

that video is total sex.

one question, who did this? Who took the time to remap all of Oblivion into the CryEngine 2?

Zatsuga: Tomorrow.

Man that looks amazing... now if we could actually RUN it..

I didn't like Oblivion though. I hated that whole "you never level up or get stronger thing". It's too pretentious.

Now I want to see some Aliens fighting humans in there...

i really want another elder scrolls game. ive got 100 hours of life to spare anyway.

I can has CryEngine2 bays'd eldur skrolez gaam plz?

I like it, it gives me bonerzzzz

Kudos for using Veoh, looks tons better than that youtube shit.

I love the idea of Oblivion, but I wish they would build in an "easy-mode" that uses static enemy levels and a little more actiony combat. There are a lot of us who would love to buy the game, but know we don't have the time to deal with the grind. We're generally the ones who play on consoles and can't install mods either. Come to think of it, I don't understand why all RPGs don't have an easy story mode that lets you play through the game quickly and easily.

moocow21: "Screw Oblivion. If Bethesda would remake Morrowind with graphics like this (and perhaps a new combat system) I would truly be in gaming heaven."

Improve upon Oblivion's combat system--it's hands-down the best in the franchise. And yes, Morrowind + Oblivion engine + tweaked = amazing.

I love the Dvorak Largo in the background. It gives the video a great feel.

Holy shit, my Digg made it on Destructiod! Awesome! I know the person who made this, it's pretty amazing how his work he's been doing for the past month on Crymod.com is really spreading around the internet!

not only has the video been removed, but crymod has essentially, as of sometime at 5 pacific time, prevented the creator from advertising his map.

In regular English: The map has been forcibly canceled by Crytek.

@CJSchmidt- The whole point of RPGs is to give you a huge adventure, with a story that matches. Hopefully the devs achieve that. What would games like Xenogears and Xenosaga be without the story? Oblivions actual "main quest" isn't as long as the 2 games I just brought up. You could concievably 'beat' the game in a much shorter time. You would just miss out on the point of why you should play it. I think the best thing about Oblivion is that I would boot it up, and say I'm just gonna do (X) quest, and 6 hours later I couldn't even tell you why I started...I'd just get lost in the world they created. Oblivion is the only game I've kept, everything else gets traded in...But Oblivion stays.

I still haven't beaten the main quest, and I have over 110 hrs on my guy.