The PSP is a console I will always have great affection for. So very flawed but for me at the time it was the most amazing technology. Great new series.

@lunchbox2042

7 ай бұрын

The handheld that got me through the 2 hour breaks between college courses.

@artate92

7 ай бұрын

people that werent there for it dont understand this was before the smartphone craze. for a kid to walk around with a handheld this powerful was insane. a web browser in your pocket , that also played movies music and games, on top of all the other things that sony filled the XMB with over time...........was just insane. ill never forget it.

@STANI420

7 ай бұрын

I dont get what flaws you are speaking of, it was amazing for the time it came out

@Vadim_Slastihin

6 ай бұрын

​​@@STANI420it was much more powerfull. And unlike ds really had a lot of mature games. Only normies and kids preferd ds because it apeals to casuals in the age before smarphones

@fearlesswee5036

6 ай бұрын

The PSP would've been nutty if it had dual analog sticks. That's the ONE flaw I think the system really had. It was ahead of the curve in just about every other category. Still, it practically set the world on fire at the time without dual analog, so it wasn't like the system suffered from it or anything. Just that we might've gotten more FPS games, and ones that controlled way better.

Of all the content y'all produce, this series of videos (what went wrong/true story of, etc) have quickly become my favorite. It's everything I loved about Memory Cards (RIP memory cards 😢) distilled into a long form deep dive into one particular incident instead of simply listing multiple unrelated gaming facts. It also really let's the team showcase their journalistic ability. I really hope this continues.

@shortsrus

7 ай бұрын

Highly recommend checking out "death of a game" from NerdSlayer if you enjoy this

@SpartanArmy117

7 ай бұрын

Agreed, although I will say I'm a little disappointed in this one. I get no one wants to get hit with a lawsuit, but in the "true story" all we get is that they were happy with their work? That's some weak tea. I've wanted to hear the story of this game for so long that I was excited as hell to click on this video only for it to be the same as every other one. Once again, I get the issues of trying to track down these stories and they probably already put in so much time they had to cut their losses and just put it out, but it's still disappointing.

the sad thing is even if PSP Oblivion came out, it just wouldn't have matched those PSP GTA and Monster Hunter games in terms of how well the experience was translated. The GTA Stories games were as long and feature complete as the console GTAs, and even had mechanics unique to them. Oblivion just seemed like an increasingly diluted version of the original; cut skills, few notable locations from its tie-in, and overall a lack of consideration towards the "down time" of a Scrolls game.

@DarthPhillius

7 ай бұрын

Funnily enough a lot of people said the same about Redguard but the game was a great spin off. As long as you're not silly enough to expect a clone of the console game then there's still a lot to enjoy. And as it followed a different story it could've filled the gap nicely until Skyrim.

@mingusmofaz5898

7 ай бұрын

​@@DarthPhillius Redguard was an incredibly mediocre game and it's not because it was unlike the rest of the series.

@Rihcterwilker

7 ай бұрын

​@@DarthPhillius It would certainly be quite open and ambitious if completed, but people look this unfinished prototype and think this is exactly what the full game would be.

@Fractal_blip

7 ай бұрын

Incorrect

@quinnmarchese6313

7 ай бұрын

@@DarthPhillius i get what you're saying, but like the whole point of the psp was its ability to near replicate console experiences. its one thing to be knowledgeable about the hardware and have tempered expectations, but everything was going against oblivion psp. its temp boxart was literally just the oblivion boxart (could be blamed on storefronts but still). people were going to be expecting a full oblivion experience, and they simply wouldn't have gotten it from this game (although it would've still been acceptably good). my point was that neither GTA Stories or Monster Hunter made compromises, and were both actually ported back over to PS2 without changes--while GTA Stories on PS2 did kinda suffer from being so near GTA 4, the PSP Monster Hunter games were their definitive versions until the 3DS rolled around.

I remember seeing the article in Game Informer. The PSP version was supposed to be a kind of dungeon crawler.

I would have loved a game like this on the Vita. The two sticks would have been perfect for it. And I hope there are more of these to come. Really interesting and great work.

@zodiac909

6 ай бұрын

Amen

@BiohazardEXTREME

4 ай бұрын

I think the Vita would've actually been able to handle a proper open world experience. Maybe not as huge as the main Oblivion game, but at least 1/6 size of that area to explore, maybe with towns and dungeons being a bit more densely packed to make the most of it. I would've loved to see something like that.

@napa5235

Ай бұрын

​@@BiohazardEXTREMEgiven the vita has a borderlands 2 full 1:1 port. Surely it could handle a game like skyrim. Too bad nothing got made for it.

That would have been incredible. I remember anticipating it and being heartbroken when it was canceled.

Man! I would have LOVED a PSP port of Oblivion. I spent so many hours playing the XB360 version of Oblivion and tons of time on my PSP. Shame to both hear about the release of this game and the cancellation of this game all in a 20 minute stint. Oh, what could have been!!!

@SpartanArmy117

7 ай бұрын

I remember being so damn excited for this port as well. So weird to think I can pick up my ROG Ally and just play the full version now. Time is moving too fast haha.

@boobalooba5786

6 ай бұрын

The ROG Ally is such an amazing thing. It is the system I always imagined my PSP could be and I couldn't be happier with it. The Ally has basically replaced my gaming pc outright because being portable is such a huge bonus even when I am at home I prefer it.@@SpartanArmy117

@davidstinger1134

6 ай бұрын

@@SpartanArmy117 Eh, even the Vita could have moved the full version of Oblivion, what's impressive is seeing these "portable PC consoles" running shit like RDR2.

@SpartanArmy117

6 ай бұрын

@davidstinger1134 Oh yeah, I didn't mean to insinuate oblivion is hard to run haha. But you're right it's crazy the stuff you can run on these things, and with things like frame gen, you can play even more intense titles. These things would've blown my mind as a kid.

@necromax13

4 ай бұрын

Honestly, they should've just ported Morrowind to the PSP. If they managed to cut it up to make it run on the Xbox...

Rumors say that man is still in the dungeon, T-posing.

VERY strong first episode guys! Fantastic new format and show. I love that you guys are in a place that you can now do more shows and I love the choices you've been going for so far.

Really enjoy this format of videos you guys are producing. Thanks for your hard work Ben/Peter/Ash!

Once again, another fantastic video - really enjoying this style of video (as well as all your other stuff!)

Nice vid on the subject. Hopefully we'll see some more like this, similar to the 'what went wrong' vids.

I'm not an Elder Scrolls fan, but I can say that this is a shame. I'm sure fans would have dug this game. I first heard about this title from Blameitonjorge's "Top 40 Lost or Cancelled Video Games" video. This probably would have made top bucks.

More of this! Love this format idea!

Love these kinds of history videos! Been following the gang since the WC days and I love seeing you trying new things! Keep up the good work.

Dude, if a good Monster Hunger could be made on the PSP, it should have been able to handle a good translation of Oblivion. Even it it was trimmed to fit the hardware.

This was a great video! Really looking forward to more like it.

As much as I love worst, wierd and top ten lists of games, this is the best video you guys have done for a long time... Do loot crates one more time please 😂

Man, I love well-researched deep-dive video essays.

The disturbing dream mentioning may also be reference somehow to the elderscrolls 3 morrowind as the main character in that game was constantly disturbed by "disturbing dreams" and it all had an impact on the main quest line in that game

More videos like this please. There’s only so many top 10 lists a person can watch

Great video! I would like to see more content like this.

Bloody love a video essay from you lot.

your ears are shaped as if you've never worn them over-ear headphones before

Oh damn, here I go playing Oblivion again... Thanks Ben!

I hope triple jump does more of these videos and the ones like the Sega one Tiz gooooood

Really good Video, thanks for sharing this interesting story :)

Very interesting video! Thanks for this

This. This is the type of video I want to see. I expect it might be more evergreen than the normal lot. Hopefully this is a success, because I'd love to see one on the PSP BioShock.

Hope to still see this released some day. Need more TES spinoffs in between main games.

@shun0825

6 ай бұрын

this could be a good spin-off game for switch or a premium game for mobile hopefully releasing on apple first cause on android it will be pirated the next day it releases being android an open source OS

This format just has a certain vibe I haven't gotten really since "Escape from Mount Stupid" a decade prior. It's a good vibe.

i love this man. you guys should do a little more of this type of content, its great. Your presentation is amazing ben

If I remember correctly, the PS3 version of Oblivion did not run very well. The framrate would dip alot and each save would increase the actual file size of the game and would eventually crash and corrupt saves. Most Bethesda games on PS3 would be like that which was why I was glad I chose to go with Xbox before switching to PC. The PS3 was just hard to develop games for, even Gabe Newell had to stop after the really bad port of The Orange Box on there. I'm going on a tangent, but I do remember seeing Oblivion on the PSP in the form of an article in a Gameinformer magazine back when people would actually read those lol; just seemed they couldn't fit a portable version of Oblivion as well.

@johnyrico5705

6 ай бұрын

You don't remember correctly 😋 Thiwas in Skyrim. Oblivion looks and plays better on PS3 then X360. Better draw distance, faster loadings

i loved oblivion on the 360 and almost forgot that it was announced for the psp back in the day. i guess i would have loved it on the psp though😅

I actually miss the PSP. Still a pretty system with a great library of games. Even the UMD had a certain unique charm.

I didn't notice this was a Triple Jump video when I clicked on it, but when I saw and heard Ben, I was very quickly reassured that I would enjoy it. It sucks that we lost what might have become a miracle port, at least we still got a couple of them on the system. I wonder if the original Devs would be able to and more importantly allowed to do their own sort of "fan made" version of it for emulator to be up to the level they intended it to be at

I play Oblivion on my Steam Deck, controls take some serious getting used to since Oblivion on PC never had native controller support. But it works surprisingly well until you have to do anything in the menu.

I have the actual demo on my ppsspp emulator, and let me just say: Even though it's short, it's still my favorite way to play it

Community needs to finish this to run on the psvita as a port. I really want an elder scroll game on psp or vita. Perhaps Daggerfall...

I remember waiting for Oblivion travels

An unfinished Alpha build that is still more inspiring than Starfield.

I love playing the early version leak on my vita. Same with the early unfinished saints row for psp. It’s just so fun messing about in an unfinished game.

I will never forget, getting to play the elder scrolls for oblivion for the first time!!! it is the game that got me into the series, heck it is the game that got me into playing large, open world, endlessly amazing and immersive large scale, single player, RPG games!!! I can only imagine if we got a portable version and how great that would’ve been?? I really feel like they should’ve went ahead with this project and revamped it for the Vita.. Oblivion to this day is one of my most beloved games of all time! Out of all the games I’ve ever played, I have the most special and warm, cozy place in my heart where oblivion is concerned due to how grand of an experience it was for me and My, few friends that played it during the first five years after it’s release. For its time, you could not not get more game for your Buck, where console gaming is concerned!! All you needed was about $450 to get you a good Xbox 360 and a copy of oblivion and you were playing 10 times longer without having completed the entire game, then people that might’ve bought a PS3 or an Xbox 360, and four or five typical god of wars And devil may cries and NFL and NBA games with the inclusion of a racing game or two?? With buying oblivion and an Xbox(which was the absolute best place to play it) and oblivion, you didn’t even need another game if you really liked adventure and exploration and RPG in general?! The Witcher three is the only other game that I can think of that for each time when it came out in 2015 came the closest as just how amazing oblivion was in 2006, even by 2009 when me and my best friend played it for the first time, it still blew you away then, and it was half off at that point !!!!

The demo seems to be very different to the magazine pictures but thanks for showing us

Should have waited for the sweet spot between Oblivion and Skyrim and dropped it in 2009. More dev time, more time for Oblivion sales to wane. It would have been perfect.

Sony needs their very own western rpg studio seriously, id assume that studio would be able to rise in popularity as that studio would be used to long form gameplay and building out worlds and lore and world systems...... i could see guerilla doing that as they have sort of done that with horizon which is open world but with light rpg elements

After the faff that was Morrowind for Xbox you have to give those devs credit for even trying to get an oblivion style game running on the PSP.

very creative video idea i love it

I remember this! In hindsight it feels like the forerunner to Skyrim on Switch..

That PSP version looks really good. Keep in mind we're talking about something that has less power than the PS2, which was weaker than the original Xbox, a system that ran Morrowind, the Elder Scrolls title before Oblivion.

Not much of an elder scrolls fan myself but I'd love a fallout game in this format. Imagine Fighting a death claw in a post-apocalyptic arena with a sturdy set of t-51 power armor and a reliable automatic rifle, *ON THE GO!*

I'm glad the Steamdeck exists now that let you play those old titles on the go, this would of been an incredible dream back in 2006.

There was also oblivion mobile. It followed the same story of saving Martin and retrieving the amulet of kings but it was a top down 2d game.

You might have a bit of a colour balance issue there. You've got a real Umpa Loompa vibe going on.

I can’t believe what that were able to accomplish with this on the psp, assuming it translated 1 to 1 roughly with what you showed us. This game would have been so awesome

What an ambitious game for its hardware, even if it was a mostly linear experience it would have sold well to have Elders Scroll: Oblivion experience on the go.

I was so hyped for the idea of a portable spinoff of oblivion when I was a kid, and I even pre ordered it back when I thought preordering games was ever a good idea. The beta looked like it probably wasn’t what most people, myself included, would’ve wanted out of it which feels like a big part of why it was likely canceled. Though the developers seemed to be doing the best you could really expect from a portable elder scrolls spinoff on 2005 portable hardware. Oblivion’s dungeons were kind of just bad and arguably the weakest part of the game. The large open environments and atmosphere on the other hand were really special for the time and there probably wasn’t a way to properly capture that psp hardware. I can’t even remember a single dungeon from oblivion because they all sort of blended together and were more or less just simple mazes with enemies strewn about and occasional braindead “puzzles”. The dungeons being almost entirely combat focused also helped highlight how weak the combat was. Still wish this game got to see a proper release though. The beta looked very far along in development and promising in its own right, the comparisons to the home console/pc version aren’t really fair given the massive difference in power. The psp really didn’t have any good western rpgs that I can remember at least and this really would’ve been a visual showcase for the time as a portable first person rpg.

I pre-ordered this as soon as I had heard about it. Waited a whole year to find out it got canceled.

love this!

This game was getting pretty similar to what I expected what Shadowgate 64 would be, the first time I played it. Even though I don't like the Shadowgate genre, I must confess that it got me very entertained. But I really would love that Oblivion for the psp would have seen the light of day! Too bad!

I remember when the leaked super early copy of this and the Saint Row PSP game dropped online. A lot of canceled potential

Seems very similar to how they made Blades

this would have been one of the, if not, the best psp game.

I would have loved a self contained mini Elder Scrolls on PSP or Vita

We've come full-circle with Skyrim being released on the Nintendo Switch. Skyrim on a little thumbnail-sized cartridge, playable on a $200 handheld that slips in your pocket would've blown my mind back in the 360 era.

Looks so similar to Blades, the phone game. I am assuming that's what came of it. Even some of the models and gameplay.

I have it installed on my vita. Atleast what was done so far. And it works very well on it and is fun.

These graphics look really good for a PSP game based on a epic WRPG. They are just so vibrant and detailed. In away TES:PSP is a bit more innovative than any modern Bethesda game considering they are using Metroid controls rather than the clunky controls they have before.

@ACHEESEDANISHZ

6 ай бұрын

This is a fairly early build as well, later on it looks far more polished.

"I am good at swinging my sword" - Triple Jump OOC

I remember when this was announced. I wasnt a psp player but i was stoked about it when hearing it was being made... then stopped hearing about it

I really enjoyed this video. Gave me some Vidiots vibes for some reason.

Honestly, had the game been completed and came out, it would've been an easy bestseller going by the gameplay changes, and teen me would've definitely tried to 100% it as I did with most of my PSP library back then. These days if I were to pick this up as the completed product, I'd dive into 3 dungeons, say the game rocks, but set it aside and not touch it again for years, then pick it up again, start from scratch and repeat the process.

I remember seeing this in a magazine with a release date and everything. I went to gamestop and pre-ordered it and marked the date. When the date came up, I went to gamestop to pick it up, and the cashier gave me my 5 dollars back and said it was canceled... my 12 year old brain couldn't understand why.

about to load up oblivion on my pc right now. god bless this game.

That music though 👌

Looks like some of the concepts got used for Elder Scrolls blades. Shame we never got a full release.

I traded my DS Lite with 11 games for a PSP in anticipation of this coming out.

Wowreeee what a nice video.

Is it the same climax studios that made landstalker for genesis? I loved that game

I loved my PSP and was hyped for this game. Sad that it was never finished, it would have been my favorite game on the system I'd be willing to bet as Oblivion was my absolute farvorite game during that time.

Me: grabs a steam deck, loads in oblivion "I FOUND THE PSP VERSION!"

Ive played it. It's fun but was never meant to be *oblivion* on the psp. It was a side story. It was a dungeon/ stage crawler. Fun and played very well.

This did make me want to replay oblivion And I shall Thank you

Ahh yes such memorable characters such as default npc the third.

I think when Vita came out, it wouldve been possible to port the console version of oblivion to it. Its amazing what you can push out of such an underpowered hardware with optimization. Gravity Rush and Killzone: Mercenary as examples of amazing looking games. Víta had the hardware power of smarphones released about half a year after it .. maybe more when it comes to graphics .. but by modern standard thats still crap .. only now are we able to emulate the full pc version on the most powerful android devices with box86 :D thats how much the technology had to evolve to overcome both no optimization and emulation/ translation layer handicaps (which is obviously much greater because a 2017 Switch with a 2015 underclocked mobile chip can play Skyrim natively :D )

Wow the audio on this one is really bad. Something happened with encoding this video. @TripleJump you may want to review and reupload this one.

needs a mod team to work on it and turn it in to something more

The faces all looked less terrifying at least .

I want to know about bioshock on the vita.

Nothing quite as disappointing as a canceled game that looked promising.

Easily could produce a Andriod/IoS version today with how powerful phones have become.

So the PSP had another hidden jewel, still for my money one of the best portable consoles ever

How to tell that devs run out of money for 20 minutes

I've played an Elder Scrolls game before

i just settle for listening to oblivion's soundtrack when i get the urge to play the game again to be honest

Its odd that this ended up being; The Elder Scrolls Blades.

10 Large Levels is my rap name, G.

I love this series and enjoy this topic, however, this video isn't exactly a hit for Triple Jump. Ah, well.... Much love to Ben and Peter and Ashton and the other guy!

I took thousands of pre-orders for this

What sucks is that NPCs in the game probably would’ve looked better than in Starfield