Oh man, Oblivion is back! Yeah, you heard me right—The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has hit the scene again, all spruced up like it’s got a new lease on life. Someone decided to throw it through the magic engine-wash of Unreal Engine 5. So, forget those fuzzy graphics from back in 2006. Now, it’s like picking up an old comic book and finding out it’s been redrawn by a new artist. The textures and characters almost jump out at you, like they’re eager to be modded. And the lighting? Blindingly beautiful. Seriously.
Not even a minute went by before the VR junkies got their hands on it. I mean, it’s like they could sense it in the air. There’s this modder’s paradise they’re diving into called Praydog’s UEVR plugin. It’s like a toolkit for turning everything into VR wonderland, and it’s got everything—6DOF head movement, 3D action, controllers that know what you’re doing. But let’s not kid ourselves, you’ll need to fiddle with it to make it sing. LunchAndVR (great YouTube name, right?) is already knee-deep in it, trying to get it just right. And yeah, there’s a video if you’re curious—though I’ll admit I got distracted by all the zombie slaying.
LunchAndVR, or “Mr. Explorer with a VR headset,” is doing some early testing. Sure, things crash sometimes—like, did we expect anything else? But man, when it runs, it runs. There’s rats and zombies in dungeons with dynamic lighting that makes the whole thing feel like a haunted mansion. Outside, it’s a little hiccupy, but hey, we take what we can get.
Anyway, before you start dreaming of VR adventures, you might need a beast of a computer. The setup LunchAndVR’s flaunting is like something out of a sci-fi movie—RTX 4090, Intel Core i9, 64GB RAM, and who knows what else. Medium graphics, they say, but I’d bet the glow sticks it looks better than that. Oh, and you’ll need a Quest 3 with some wizardry called Virtual Desktop’s VDXR run on ‘Ultra’. Magic words, right?
So, while these little VR tweaks are still cooking, you can dive into Oblivion VR, like, today. Just snag Praydog’s UEVR mod and maybe poke around some shared profiles—LunchAndVR and pals have got some tucked away on Google Drive. One’s a 6DOF thing from ‘Keyser’, and another’s a 3DOF from someone who calls themselves ‘Pande4360’. Download them if you dare (or can find them).
Oh, and don’t forget to grab Oblivion Remastered off Steam or Xbox’s PC Game Pass. If you already have it, lucky you—your next VR adventure’s just a click away. If not, well, time to go hunting. Happy dungeon crawling!
