It’s almost hard to believe it’s been such a long time coming, butSkyblivionis still well on its way to hit its targeted 2025 release window. If you have any doubts, the brand-spanking-new 20-minute gameplay video showing offSkyblivionquests is almost guaranteed to clear them right up.
Mirroringlast year’s 20-minute gameplay showcasealmost to a T, the latestSkybliviongameplay video is all about those classicTES 4: Oblivionside-quests that many of us know and love. The two featured quests, specifically, are the Killing Fields and Fingers of the Mountain, and the gameplay shown off here is bound to send you for a nostalgic loop if you remember playing the Bethesda classic back in the late aughts.
Watch 20 minutes of brand new Skyblivion questing gameplay
News aboutSkyblivionhas been coming out for averylong time now. We’ve got articles discussing theSkyblivionteam’s progress here at Destructoid that are almost a decade old, if you can believe that, and we’re still roughly a year out from the mod’s release from the look of things. Yet, it’s hard to argue against the developer’s progress, as can plainly be seen in the video featured above.
If you’re anything like me, the odds are good that the gameplay shown here ispreciselywhat you rememberOblivionlooked like in action. Well, I can safely assure that this is in factnotthe case. Sure, evenSkyrim– whichSkyblivionuses as its baseline, tech-wise – is old in the tooth by now, but by golly is it a substantial upgrade toOblivion‘s now exceedingly wooden combat, for example. Two things, in particular, rootSkyblivioninto the same fantasy asObliviononce targeted: the fact that the mod lifts the original game’s voice-work as-is, and the fact that the modders are working hard to simply re-envision the same art and feel as Bethesda once worked with.
This makesSkyblivionridiculously true toOblivion, to the point where you might be hard-pressed to even define specifically what’s different about it. Yet, butSkyblivionnext toOblivion, and it becomes plain as day that the mod is a huge upgrade in every meaningful way. Can you tell I’m excited about the mod yet?
Though there’s absolutely no shortage of ridiculously promising mods in active development for Bethesda mainline RPGs, some of them do end up coming out in the end. There’s the acclaimedEnderal: Forgotten Storiesmod forSkyrim, for one, which is available as a standalone Steam download for all owners ofThe Elder Scrolls 5, but alsothe recently releasedFallout: London, which was built on top ofFallout 4. These projects take alongwhile to develop, but they do end up coming out in the end. And, if we’ve being honest, the team behindSkyblivionis nothing if not dedicated at this point. Now,what aboutSkywind…
