Yes, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Still Has All the Bugs, Glitches, and Memes Fans Know and Love From 20 Years Ago

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has only been out for 24 hours, but already players are enjoying its nostalgia-fueled gameplay — bugs and all.

Every veteran Bethesda fan knows the studio’s games come with a generous dollop of jank. Oblivion, which first launched in 2006, was one of the chief culprits, with objects flying all over the place, characters making poorly-timed (but often hilarious) on-screen interjections, and things happening in the background that, in the context of what was going on in the foreground, were perfect meme material.

Nearly 20 years later, and Bethesda’s remaster (not a remake, it’s insisted), has all the “charm,” of the original, as Todd Howard put it. And that’s not an issue. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.

“Oblivion is back,” is what players of the remaster are saying in response to clips of the game going wrong in some way, or doing that Bethesda game thing of having a random NPC's face steal the scene.

Even glitches players exploited in the original Oblivion have been found to work in the remaster.

The permanent bound weapons and armour glitch still works in Oblivion Remastered LMAO pic.twitter.com/Nzp8gCAucK— Nerbit (@Nerbit_13098) April 22, 2025

And players are recreating Oblivion memes, trying to recapture the hilarity of the game’s NPC behavior as it was all those years ago.

Original for comparison pic.twitter.com/egYXGxe438— crobb