Price is terrible.

[drtekrox]

I don't really care about the alleged 'woke' stuff, this is a game with magick and the console command to switch genders is

sexchange

The price though. It's a 20 year old game. There has not been AU$85 of work done to validate this. It's just outright greed. So Todd, you won't be getting any of my money since you demand way too much.

[Lord Griswold]

Sounds like a poor excuse to me. The game got hand-crafted graphics upgrade, new voice acting, quality-of-life improvements, a better user interface, and numerous bug fixes and gameplay changes that basically smooth out the rough edges of original Oblivion while keeping the things that were fine. It's pretty much as close to a remake as you can get without calling it a remake. You really think they just slapped on some newer graphics and called it a day? They worked pretty hard on this. It sucks that the price is higher in your country but I guess you can blame your politicians and policy makers for that.

[drtekrox]

I'll just not buy it. It's too expensive due to greed for a game that is literally just the old game, with the old models and textures, running through Unreal Engine 5. (confirmed already on nexus)

[stecph]

I agree,price is way too steep for a remastered.

[aftermath1467892]

If they could charge less for it, they would without a doubt. The reality is that games cost money to make, and there's no guarantee for any sort of return. They have to make the difficult decision to price it, and that price needs to offset the money lost in the wages for all the people that worked on this project. It may not *seem* like a lot of work, but you can read their in-depth article on the news page and realize that they remade a ton of assets, reworked some gameplay mechanics, and, of course, worked this all into unreal engine. This is something that a small developer would take a decade to do on his own, not simply hitting a "port now" button and calling it a day.

It's unfortunate that higher prices (if you can call $60 usd high) are seen as greedy in today's world. How are people supposed to engage in expensive projects if they can't charge proportionately? It would be a total loss every time you decided not to be "greedy". It's a fair price, and that's why it's charged as such.

[Moose]

just wishlist it and wait. it's not worth 50 dollars to me either, but pretty much everything goes on sale eventually. June 26 - July 10, 2025: Steam Summer Sale. Wait til then and I bet you can get it for 20-30% off.

[abrodycz788]

Does anybody remember that youtuber who was just straight porting skyrim assets and scenes into UE5 when UE5 came out? The graphics upgrade isn't as hard as it use to be in fact I learned how to do that specifically because I thought it was cool. So all you complaining all these assets and handcrafting and blah blah blah....No it really isn't that hard anymore.

They cleaned the code redid some VA lines because of previous agreements and contracts and learned how to work Gamebryo with UE5. Now that is impressive on some level I won't say there was not some impressive work done there. But realistically they should of cut the price down between 40-50 USD roughly 50-60 AUD.

Out of nostalgia I re-bought horse armor again....still feels the same it did the first time I did it back in the day slightly duped but got horse armor lmao

What would of made it slightly a little less jarring for me would of been a slightly reworked combat system....Truth is it literally is working on the OG's framework but with a cleaner code some expansions in the code better engine and visual handling...But still on the original framework

While some part of it was impressive this was an obvious cash grab from Microsoft, that bought bethesda some time for ES6. I am a sucker for for the ES 3 and 4 games so I won't complain to hard about it. My only real gripe is they could have improved the magic and combat systems to be a bit more modern and fluid....still has that chunky peanut butter flavoring, would have been nice with the new visuals.

[Frostbeast]

Can someone from the USA confirm that the 50 Dollar pricetag is without taxes for you?

[Ireth Tassartir]

Publicado originalmente por drtekrox:

I'll just not buy it. It's too expensive due to greed for a game that is literally just the old game, with the old models and textures, running through Unreal Engine 5. (confirmed already on nexus)

I came here to discuss this. Just NO! They won't see my money. Still a lot of games to purchase and play, and there are other games I would rather play for this price than Oblivion.

[FhqwhTODD]

Publicado originalmente por drtekrox:

It's a 20 year old game.

Considering the trash that is released nowadays I consider that a plus.

[Lone Wolf]

Remmeber when Bethesda tried to make mods cost money in Skyrim?
Remember how Bethesda tried to implement a system where they would get 80% of the money for mods they don't own?
Remember when Bethesda lied and lied and lied and lied about so many things in Skyrim, Fallout etc.?
Remember the "game" Fallout 76? Or should I say tech demo?
Remember the canvas bag and Nuka Cola fiasco? Where they deliberately scammed their customers?
Remmeber Todd Howard? "SIXTEEN TIMES THE DETAIL!!1! It's a meme at this point.

Don't forget people! Remember!

They will NEVER get any money from me or my friends and I will continue to tell people to not buy stuff from this company.
And the audacity to charge almost full price for a game that is 20 years old... Small changes doesn't warrant such a high price tag.

[GuNNuP]

12 dollars is terrible, or free if you know how to take advantage of points. /s

[ToJKa]

Could be worse. I was expecting it to cost 80€ and DLCs sold separately

[Kleinens Ens]

Companies steadily test if they can charge stupid customers more and more. Just don't buy a remaster for a price of a full game.

[Jiro Dragonheart]

I was surprised it was only 50 USD for this remaster.. most companies would have made it 60 or 70.

[Frostbeast]

Publicado originalmente por Jiro Dragonheart:

I was surprised it was only 50 USD for this remaster.. most companies would have made it 60 or 70.

Wait until the new Switch 2 games are out. Or GTA6...... I fear the future.