These allies can join players in most adventures, level up, and use customized gear and abilities to assist while traipsing through Tamriel.Īs for the story, the Blackwood chapter takes players to several familiar locations, including the Imperial City of Leyawiin first seen in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. You can purchase Oblivion directly from the Microsoft store - and please, for the love of Akatosh, don’t become a vampire.With Companions, players can recruit, travel with, and fight alongside an NPC that will have their own personalities. Regardless, I’m happy to see an old favorite re-emerge in time for the holidays. As Bethesda rushes in the shadows to bring us Elder Scrolls 6 and beyond, it appears as if they’re banking on nostalgia to bring in quick funding for their future exploits. Bethesda fans are largely calling for remasters of older titles like Oblivion and Morrowind (2002), and ports of newer titles like Skyrim- a sensible opinion. The Skyrim (2011) remaster released earlier this month was largely a disappointment-offering no new content and graphics that users have been running on PC since 2012.

Previously, Bethesda brought back Fallout: New Vegas (2010), and Fallout 3 (2008) became available the same day as Fallout 4. The Oblivion revival is the first backwards-compatible Elder Scrolls game.

Other favorites making a comeback include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2007), XCOM: Enemy Unkown (2012), Assassin’s Creed II (2009), and the Gears of War series. Far and away the most requested game to be brought back to life, Red Dead Redemption (2010), was finally revived in July 2016.

Though the road to backwards compatibility was tumultuous to say the least, Microsoft seems to be finally making good on their years-old promise of bringing fan favorite games to their next generation consoles.

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