Wes Johnson is back as Sheogorath for Oblivion Remastered's Switch 2 launch — but PC players want a patch, not a promo

Bethesda dropped a promotional video for Oblivion Remastered's Nintendo Switch 2 launch in August, and it's a lot more fun than the usual game-footage trailer. Veteran Elder Scrolls voice actor Wes Johnson — who voices the default Imperial males in Oblivion and dozens of other characters across the series — returns as Sheogorath, the cheese-obsessed Daedric Prince of Madness, goofing around in a sound booth while an increasingly exasperated audio technician tries to keep things on track.

The bit is simple: Sheogorath, in full costume and character, keeps questioning why he has to re-record lines he's already done. Johnson commits completely, and the result is a genuinely entertaining few minutes of marketing fluff. It's also the first time many fans have seen Johnson in action since he suffered a life-threatening medical emergency roughly 18 months ago that put him in hospital and required an induced coma — so the relief at seeing him healthy and in full Sheogorath mode is real.

Oblivion Remastered launched in April 2024, developed in collaboration with Virtuos, and was broadly well-received as a faithful but visually overhauled return to Cyrodiil. The PC version, however, has carried a long tail of technical problems — performance hitches, bugs inherited from the 2006 original, and new ones introduced by the remaster itself. Bethesda issued a handful of patches post-launch, but update 1.2 was the last one, and that arrived over a year ago. Recent Steam reviews have slipped to Mixed as a result, even though the game's overall rating remains Mostly Positive.

The community response to the Sheogorath video is warm, but the comments are full of PC players using the moment to ask — again — for a proper patch. Whether the Switch 2 release prompts Bethesda and Virtuos to revisit the PC build remains to be seen, but right now the gap between the cheerful promo and the state of the PC version is hard to miss.