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Chapter 1: What is the latest news on Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered?
Today in the nerdy news you need to know about, The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered is out now and costs $50. Blessing is hanging out with Hideo Kojima. And what time can you pre-order Switch 2 at the retailer of your choice? We'll evolve this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.
Chapter 2: Who are the hosts discussing Oblivion Remastered?
what's up everybody welcome to kind of funny games daily for tuesday april 22nd 2025 i'm one of your hosts greg miller alongside the master of hype snow bike mike greg good morning what a way to start the day how does your tummy feel
My tummy feels great, but you know what doesn't feel good?
There was conversation out there. You were sending caveman messages to Roger.
The worst responder ever. He's done this multiple times where he just sends you one-word responses. And you're like, I just need to know if you're at work tomorrow because if I call Greg Miller because I'm having some problems at 930 in the morning, who's going to step up? Who will carry the baton?
Yeah, yeah.
And now I've learned I can't trust Roger. Can't trust him. What was the message you sent? Please read it verbatim. I don't have my cell phone on me, but I did. Oh, that's convenient. I wrote, hey, Slappy. Nope. This is important. Are you working tomorrow? And he wrote back triple question marks. And all I needed was a yes or no.
I do believe the reporting I heard. Give me the reporting. Was that you texted Roger last night, work tomorrow.
You work tomorrow.
I don't think there was a you in there.
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Chapter 3: What are the new features and improvements in Oblivion Remastered?
It's set in the fictional providence of Cyrodiil and revolves around the player characters bid to defeat a fanatical cult that wants to open portal games, I think that means gates, to demonic realms known as Oblivion or the demonic realm known as Oblivion.
The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered launches today, April 22nd, priced at $49.99 in a shadow drop across PC, Xbox Series X and S, and PlayStation 5, as well as on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. It weighs in at 119.2 gigabytes. Goddamn. Again, maybe you missed this trailer. Maybe you missed the presentation. Let me read as Wesley's article goes on to say.
Here's the official blurbs about what you're going on with, okay? The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered modernizes the 2006 game of the year with all new stunning visuals and no refined gameplay. Explore the vast landscape of Cyrodiil like never before and stop the forces of Oblivion from taking the land in one of the greatest RPGs ever from the award-winning Bethesda Game Studios.
Rediscover Cyrodiil. This is now bullet point stuff. Journey through the rich world of Tamriel and battle across the Plains of Oblivion, where handcrafted details have been meticulously recreated to ensure each moment of exploration is awe-inspiring. Navigate your own story.
From the noble warrior to the sinister assassin, wise and sorcerer to scrappy blacksmith, forge your path and play the way you want. Experience an epic adventure. Step inside a universe... Bursting with captivating stories and encounter an unforgettable cast of characters. Master swordscraft and wield powerful magic as you fight to save Tamriel from the invasion. And then the complete story.
Experience everything Oblivion has to offer with previously released story expansions, Shivering Isles, Knights of the Nine, and additional downloadable content included in Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered. Snow, bike, mic. I, of course... I'm a Bethesda sicko. You know how much I love these games. You know how much I love Starfield. We can go back through all of them. I never played Oblivion.
This launches on 2006. I am working at the Columbia Daily Tribune. I have a video game column called Game Over. I have a 360. Okay. For some reason, the way it was sold, the way it was talked about, the number, I don't know. I can't go back and tell you. Totally, I never... Never thought about it. I started IGN in 2007. I'm on the PlayStation team. Okay. So it comes to PlayStation that year.
I still don't trust you there. I just knew the horse armor joke. I don't know if it was something if I was so young and naive and video games were very different back then. Yeah. I think maybe I kind of associated this with WoW to a degree. Not that I thought it was WoW, but I put it in that class of PC gamer. I'm like, I'm never going to play that. That's not who I am or whatever.
But I never, ever played this. So I am very interested. I'm downloading Oblivion at my desk right now on the Xbox and, of course, on my ROG Ally X so I can take it anywhere with me with the power of Xbox.
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Chapter 4: How does Oblivion Remastered differ from a full remake?
If you want to go up, you can go to $60 for Oblivion Remastered Deluxe Edition. Of course, reading a little bit from that on the Xbox Wire goes like this. Available for purchase separately or as an upgrade to the base game. So again, just $10 if you're using Game Pass.
The Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered Deluxe Edition includes all of the above and adds bonus quests, unique weapon sets, unique armor sets, unique horse armor sets, digital art book, and official soundtrack. There's more to go. Get that if you want.
I liked, if you remember, Starfield had the digital art book, and I really found that fascinating. We would use that before the pre-streams of just putting it up, and it would cycle through all the artwork up on the screen because we're kind of moving past the days of getting the physical stuff. We're kind of in this 50-50. We're moving past that. But I like that.
The soundtrack, Greg, the soundtrack on this game bangs, my man.
Again, as somebody who has no sight unseen on this, when they were talking about it in the presentation today, one of the guys said it was really the music, and they went back and forth to that song a few times, and I was like, damn, that is a song. I was hyped at the end when they did the whole thing. It sucks, again, as Wesley says, the worst kept secret in gaming. We all knew this was coming.
Jeff Grubb just can't shut his mouth. He can't let people have a nice thing. So you felt for the end of the video when the guy is like, I'm so excited that I get to tell you it's available today. You know what I mean?
Interesting one on the release date. Can we talk about that? Yeah, the shadow drop. You come off of a four-day weekend for many here in the States. Of course, Easter Sunday and beyond. But interesting that we didn't drop this Thursday or Friday last week when everybody had a longer holiday. We waited until Tuesday, and it's been the worst-kept secret because we've known about it for a while now.
But it is out of like, well, the secret's out. We move this to like before the weekend when everybody's going to be playing it. They got to hide the Easter egg.
You got to make the ham.
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Chapter 5: What is the price and edition options for Oblivion Remastered?
I'm hoping I lock in, but it could also be that I jump in and even though old game is new, old game is new, but still has old systems. And I'm like, ah, this, I, why don't I just go play Starfield, which is always something that happens to me. Why don't I just play, go, I've been tinkering a long time ago, but going back to Starfield or Skyrim.
Then, of course, we're doing the ESO show, which we want to stream when we're done with the four episodes. I've gone in and made a character. I've tinkered. I enjoy what I'm playing there. Why don't I go do that? There's a lot that could go wrong on this and send you off of that, right? The...
Other side to it, on the positive side, is I think that Expedition 33 is a game that, again, knock on wood, delivers. We all liked what we previewed. It delivers that in a review sense. And, again, the people who listen to shows like this and consume games like we consume them either jump right on it or know to do it or whatever.
The other hope would be, as Xbox is always trying to do with this Game Pass thing, is They want a big game to bring you in to get it right now, and then before you cancel your subscription, you look around, and you go, oh, this Expedition game came out, and I saw that it got great reviews. Oh, South of Midnight's on here. I remember a lot of people liking that. Oh, I never did Avowed.
Like, they want a library surrounding this, I think, that when you come in for the big thing, like,
Oblivion bringing you back I know it won't be a astronomical number but Oblivion getting remastered dropping today getting headlines is going to catch the eye of people who have lapsed in games who haven't played since Oblivion or haven't done whatever or have a soft spot for that game and it will make them go oh but I can get what is Xbox Game Pass oh oh okay and then you're in and you do want to try these other things maybe
There's never enough time in anybody's day to play all the games you want to play. But in the long run, I don't know if the Oblivion conversation is going to be so long tail that it just runs ruckshot over Expedition 33. My hope would be that game delivers. So you have this big jump today. Barrett, when is Expedition 33 out? It's imminent. Is it 26th?
25th? Is it Friday? It's this week. It's Friday, I think, right?
So the 25th.
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Chapter 6: How does Oblivion Remastered fit into the Xbox Game Pass ecosystem?
Yeah, of course. I don't want Roger to win and he's rounding out a really good team right now. But no, this is just fine.
Well, again, hopefully Expedition 33 is great and just cancels out whatever the remake is.
Could be fantastic for me. Could be great.
Let's get some other people in here. PrettyDudeSuperChat says, Xbox slash Microsoft is having quite the year currently. Not sure they have a game of the year for the year, but impressive nonetheless.
Yeah, they're having a very strong start to the year. We talked about this on the X-Cast a while back of just the past couple of years. They were quiet at the first half and then really punched you with a lot of games in the second half. And we wanted it to be spread out and share the love. And they're hitting that right now.
They're definitely showing from Indiana Jones that kicked off in December into now. You've been flooded with games to fill out your Game Pass library. And it only continues, right? Doom the Dark Ages comes out next month in May. And then beyond that, we go... even further with the Summer Games Showcase. We know there's more games coming. We're talking about Outer Worlds 2 rounding out the year.
That's two from Obsidian in one year would be crazy, right? So, yeah, they're hitting you with a lot of games. And as you talked about, right, the big thing about Game Pass is continuing to put more good titles in there to make you not want to unsubscribe. I think there was some months there in the past two years where there was moments going... Is this worth it?
Should I be paying $20, $25 for Game Pass right now when maybe I'm not getting those third-party titles coming in? I'm definitely not getting the first-party titles, and I think they're showing it right now that they can keep that going throughout the year, all 12 months, to justify you paying for that, which is great.
You say justify you paying for it. Let's talk more about your dollars and cents. Over in the super chats, Colin Barry writes in and says, is the price tag surprising for Oblivion, especially if you can only get it with Game Pass Ultimate, which so far I'm still confused if it's available for PC Game Pass. I don't understand the confusion, and I also... Game Pass Ultimate...
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Chapter 7: Will Oblivion Remastered overshadow upcoming games like Expedition 33?
Game Pass kind of brings a different fold into it all of like, well, it's just on Game Pass, and it's easy to say that, but... When I get a proper remake like this, a remaster, whatever you want to call it, it gets me excited. And it's a Bethesda title, right? If you really want to play Oblivion, you're going to get a lot of hours out of this. It will justify your $50 purchase.
Uh, Mike, as my oblivion expert, since you're here, Marco super chats in and says, as someone who will be playing oblivion for the first time, is there a specific time that you would recommend to jump into the DLC?
Yeah, it's been a long time for me, uh, Margo. So I don't know the perfect answer for you, but my answer will always be whenever I play these games. Um, just go with the story, get lost in it. And if you show up to a part of the DLC where maybe it's a little too much for you, back out and go the opposite direction. But I don't remember how these DLCs go. It was a very long time for me.
Chat, feel free to pop off and let us know what you would recommend if you want that. Getting back into this, you know, well, there's just a fun one here. Guitar Hero Arrow says, Stop! I violated the law. I'm paying the kind of funny court a fine rather than serve my sentence. My stolen items are now forfeit. So good.
Of course, referencing how it will be in oblivion when you steal stuff, which is fun and all that stuff. Anyways, though, I want to do one thing about this to get to that. Gondor's Condor says, my 30th birthday taxed axe did Oblivion shoot Claire obscure numbers in the foot. We've talked about that. Happy birthday. Yes, happy birthday.
Happy 30th birthday. It will be very exciting to see that shake out. If you really want to start talking about Expedition 33, now you have Marathon doing a closed alpha, right? Sure, that's only going to be so many people, but there's a lot of games in the way, and there's been a lot of games no matter what this whole year and beyond.
I say beyond a lot, but you know there's just a lot of games, so I don't worry about that. If it's a good game, it's going to shine. We all know that. If it's a great game, it's going to shine, y'all.
And Mr. Hawks in that line of thinking says, I'm not like Mike. Maybe it's OCD. Maybe it's Maybelline. I see what you're doing there. But when I start a new game, I'm locked in until I finish it. Expedition 33 is my future. Good. Commit to what you want to play and go with that. You know what I mean? Have some fun with that. Memo in the notebooks, getting an Oblivion one in here.
Never played Oblivion, so I'm super stoked. Love you guys over at Kind of Funny. Shout out to Cool Greg. Such a real one. Hope to get you all to one of my shows. Oh, it's one day. This is Memo who did the musical thing. Cool, Greg went to it. And then I had one more in here before we get out of this oblivion rock block. Unless you're writing with some more stuff.
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Chapter 8: What do fans and listeners say about Oblivion Remastered and Xbox's strategy?
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funny support this show by mentioning us at checkout terms and conditions apply and we're back number two on the ropa report everybody the one The only. Blessing Adeoye Jr. is in Japan. And apparently, he's hanging out with Hideo Kojima. We go to Instagram.com slash Blessing Jr. Where we see this beautiful photo of Bless hanging out with Kojima in front of the Ludo Astro Man.
And it says, if I had a nickel for every photo op I've had with Kojima and the looted statue, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but still crazy that it happened twice.
Lightning strikes twice.
You might go, what the fuck is going on? What is he doing? And I will tell you, blessing... Not great at reporting. Oh, okay. Who is great at reporting? Dan Reichert, who has the exact same photo and says, I'm thrilled to be spending the week at Kojima Productions in Tokyo and playing a ton of Death Stranding 2. Look for my preview on GameSpot on May 8th.
Of course, that means you don't have to look for Dan's thing on May 8th. Blessing will report on it on May 8th here on Kind of Funny. That'll be a Gamescast. YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. Podcast services around the globe.
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