I’m one of them. Once I left the sewers, I was really hit by how old the game is. Explored the city a bit but it just felt dead. Put me off of all future remakes in general.
The whole remake scene feels like a huge cash grab. They need to offer a base and improved version. I don’t really want to play oblivion with slightly nicer graphics but the same stilted NPC pathing and empty cities. Current hardware can probably run the game with 5 times as many NPCs.
They don’t need to all have quests but at least it would make the city feel alive. And the pathfinding is boring, they just walk behind each other in a line. I turned the game off when I went into the boat inn and everyone spawned at the entrance and was just staring at me. Can’t believe I paid 70$ for that.
This is a complaint I’ve had about Skyrim for ages now. Every year they try to sell another copy of it, but it’s the same game they sold me in 2011. They’ve had 15 years to go back and fix literally anything. 15 years to add real meaningful content. They could have added a new full story with every reprint and been hailed as the best RPG ever, instead they ask full price to watch Lydia get stuck in the same fucking doorways that she did when I was in highschool.
You’re looking at it wrong.
They had 15 years to perfect the mod store. That code is airtight.Any Bethesda code being air tight is impressive.
That’s fair, I’m absolutely shocked that I can’t just pick all of them up on nexus, but from the few I’ve tried on fo4 I don’t see why I’d bother. Even most of the “do this one thing for the op weapon” mods have more effort put into them.
Yup. At least in skyrims case there are mods that do a lot of heavy lifting.
Honestly, they could move to just making a sandbox world and letting modders fill the game and I think the world would be happier.
The whole remake scene feels like a huge cash grab.
Not just feels like!
I’m also one of them. I was pulled in by the nostalgia of Shivering Isles, but lost interest before I made it there. At least I “only” paid $50, I guess.
That’s not as uncommon as you’d think. If you look at Steam achievements only 59% of players have made it past Act 1 on Baldur’s Gate 3. You know, the most popular RPG released in the past decade.
I’m in this group, admittedly.
Every time I play with friends, they want to switch classes or do a different path and restart the campaign.
I’ve played the intro area a dozen times but have never seen past act 1.
Act 1 can take super long though
Meaningless without a baseline metric. Maybe half of all Expedition 33 players played less than 15 hours. Cyberpunk, Skyrim, you name it.
I absolutely loved the time I spent playing Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3. I’ve also only played them for 12 hours or so.
If you look at achievements you’ll see that that’s the average ratio for most games. I don get why people will pay for games they won’t finish but that’s how it works.
Truth. I’ll sometimes look at the global achievements to see the drop off of each progression marker and it gets really low in some games. I think the average for final level achievements I’ve seen is between 20-30%. Puts the “really rare” achievements into perspective a bit.
Hype is a powerful marketing tool. People will buy something because its what everyone else wants or is playing, even though it’s not their type of game at all. So many dogshit games have sold well because of Twitch streams.
I remember reading something like this for another game I was playing and it had a trophy within the first 5 min of playing the game and based off of sales they could find that a weirdly large percentage of people that brought the game didnt even play it for more than 5 minutes lol.
Bethesda: Doesn’t matter, had
sexsales.I don’t think I could have lasted even that long with the Remaster, because from what I’ve seen from clips I’ve watched, it’s ugly. It’s not beautiful like the original game. The characters are really, really creepy looking; I hate the way they look.The original 2006 version is like playing a painting that’s come to life.
The only thing I like about the Remaster is that it inspired me to start a new game of the old original Oblivion. I’m going on three weeks now. And every time I turn it back on, I love it.
Long live the original Oblivion.
Personally, it was the first time I’d played the game, so I was more than satisfied. Played the whole thing, had a good time. The whole “leveling up makes the game significantly harder” thing was a bit weird, but it was definitely bearable. Certain location types (especially caves and holds) got EXTREMELY repetitive, which makes sense for 2006, but would’ve been nice if it was improved. In my opinion, it was definitely worth it for someone that had never played the original, but probably not nearly as much for those that already had. When they release the Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, I know damn well I’m not buying them unless there’s massive changes below the surface for the better, because I already own the games, I could play either one right now. Honestly, neither of those games look too bad, at least to me. They should focus on releasing ES 6 and Fallout 5, this other shit isn’t nearly as valuable to most people.
Yeo, as a gamer who grew up with Atari and Nintendo and a super Nintendo. Nostalgia will grab me for some games and immediately after purchasing I’ll say this was fun?
Most recent was the mortal Kombat collection. Holy shit mk1 and 2 did not age well I requested a refund
Of all the old games I played as a kid there’s very few i will play now. I will always have a soft spot for bubble bobble, occasionally a round or 2 of street fightter.
Even games from the Xbox 360 era have aged horribly. Like the first gears of war.
I will always have a weak spot for pinball though, especially the Terminator 2 pin
This is also me but on PC. I’ve played Skyrim but not Oblivion before. I was super excited to give it a shot with improved graphics. It is beautiful but the world feels really empty everywhere. Also the combat feels very lacking as the NPCs seem to lack basic AI features that I take for granted now, like when an ally suddenly dies next to them from an arrow into the back, maybe they should start hunting for an enemy? Nope they just stand there waiting for me to put an arrow into them too.
I’m not saying I won’t play more but I got about 14ish hours in and suddenly found myself prioritizing other games.
I had all this Nostalgia and bought it so my wife, a Skyrim head who never played Oblivion, could try it in what should have been the most accessible manner available. After like 90 minutes she apologized to me, said it just made her want to play Skyrim, installed that on the Xbox, played for fewer than 20 hours, and abandoned that too. For my part I also only got to the end of the sewer and I have a lot of good memories with Oblivion, was looking forward to Skyblivion, and just short circuited those two feelings with my wallet by buying the remake, which I didn’t end up playing really at all.
