Can someone persuade me to "NOT" refund this game?...No seriously

[MSgt Peterson]

Seriously not trying to troll. It's been picking at me since I played it for nearly two hours when it came out and it driving me nuts since I thoroughly enjoyed Oblivion back in the day, easily having more than a thousand hours on the 360 and a few hundred on the original, non steam PC version, but that's just it, I played it so much, like over a thousand times that I'm like, I just can't get excited. I really, like REALLY want to play this but my brain just like "nope", not really worth it when you got the OG that you can mod and Skyoblivion around the corner.

Like I know It was going to be a remaster but there's like, no real meaningful improvements or additions, past some minor things a modder could add. The Graphic's are amazing sure, but I'm sure I could probably mod OG oblivion to get a similar graphical upgrade, not that I'm a graphic hog to begin with. Then there's Skyrim. I don't care much for it, not since 2012, but Skyrim did improve upon Oblivion in some aspects, mechanically.

There's duel wielding, which isn't in this for some reason, not sure why. Kill/finisher animations, though subjective considering the remake even fails at this with the assassination animation failing pretty bad for the assassination of the Emperor. There's no weapon or armor crafting for some reason. Again, not sure why, I doubt anyone would complain about it.. The caves and most of the oblivion dungeons are still highly repetitive, boring and a slog to get through from what I've seen so far. Who wants to go through 13 boring oblivion gate dungeons again? Even If they are pretty now? The cities haven't been redesigned at all in any way. They could have at least, made some small attempt to make them a bit bigger than the OG having basically glorified villages with castle fortifications. The leveling system is basically the same, but you don't have to min max as much, which is nice, but it's still crap. There's also the issue of seeing bandits....wearing deadric armor....so your gonna rob me for my money....even though like, your wearing super valuable gear you could sell to make yourself a small fortune? Ok than, that makes perfect sense. There's no new quests of any sort that I'm aware of besides the Deluxe edition quest to get the armor, which I guess functions as a upgrade to the Imperial Dragon Armor? There's no option for more homes, or build able ones on that note. No companions either probably besides the adoring fan, not that I used them that much in skyrim anyway. Then thee's no "official" mod support for the game, which is a huge issue in the longevity of this game since 90% of the fan base will use mods. I know small mods are already a thing but I haven't seen anything that could potentially point to modders being able to add anything new substantial to the game. The closest is basically a model replacement such as Donkey from Shriek and Qiqi....from Genshin, which I'm not really counting.

[Videogame Jukebox]

My god think for yourself.

[['w']]

as i was 21 a part of myself implored "TOUCH GRASS STOP GAMING"... kept on going and now I'm a happy isolated middle aged man with too many cats..
maybe sometimes one should listen to their inner motives, as long as it doesn't entail siting on dead bodies while driving through the neighborhood and wearing the temple of a third one as a cap

[pasci_lei]

Use your own brain.

[Dixon Sider]

This is what I do and it always works for me. I wait a few weeks and come back. If I still want to return the game when I get back, I try to return it.

[Advent]

Just return it if you don't feel like playing

[ComatosePhoenix]

I mean, you already bought it, Do you desperately need 50$? if you do, your screwed anyway because the money just gets refunded to your steam account. You should keep the game on principle. A reminder to be more careful in the future.

[JKDos]

You don't have to force yourself to like it. If money is a problem, refund and wait for a sale.

On the surface, it's still that wacky game released in 2007. You can give an 1989 Ford Pickup a shiny red paint job, and replace the stereo, but it's sill a 1989 Ford Pickup.

[FhqwhTODD]

Do what you must.

[dustinwills51]

Originally posted by 'w':

as i was 21 a part of myself implored "TOUCH GRASS STOP GAMING"... kept on going and now I'm a happy isolated middle aged man with too many cats..
maybe sometimes one should listen to their inner motives, as long as it doesn't entail siting on dead bodies while driving through the neighborhood and wearing the temple of a third one as a cap

are you me?

[Jeris]

What's the worst that can happen if you keep it? Unless you are absolutely broke and shouldn't have bought it in the first place. No downside to owning it.

[TheSkimMilkGorilla]

I'm loving it. I have to have put almost 10,000 hours in Oblivion. I can confidently say I've done everything it has to offer, but this game has a ton of fixes and I refuse to watch any videos because I want to analyze and see everything a first time. I love it. I love the new lines, voice acting, some new quests, slight alterations. It's everything I've wanted. Stop using quick travel. Take it in organically, get immersed, but IF YOU don't like it, refund it. It's not gunna offer anything spectacularly new, BUT The Shivering Isles is the greatest DLC ever made and I'm so excited to start.


Cheese burger.

[Geralt]

You wrote a book saying you don't like it. There ISN'T any convincing you.

[mudcrab]

do what you want dude.

[MSgt Peterson]

Jeesh, so helpful lol
Can't believe reddit of all places is more helpful than the steam forums lol

Originally posted by TheSkimMilkGorilla:

I'm loving it. I have to have put almost 10,000 hours in Oblivion. I can confidently say I've done everything it has to offer, but this game has a ton of fixes and I refuse to watch any videos because I want to analyze and see everything a first time. I love it. I love the new lines, voice acting, some new quests, slight alterations. It's everything I've wanted. Stop using quick travel. Take it in organically, get immersed, but IF YOU don't like it, refund it. It's not gunna offer anything spectacularly new, BUT The Shivering Isles is the greatest DLC ever made and I'm so excited to start.


Cheese burger.

Did they even fix the old bugs? Don't think I heard of any mention of that.

Fair enough, I am curious to see everything looks again as a pseudo first time. Yeah, Shivering Isles still ranks as one of the best DLC's. I still consider it the GOAT for DLC's.

[1200V2]

You can not go back in time to start over with this game.
Your memories are here and not when you started playing this game in the past.
So refund it is the smartest thing to do.

Execept you can try to do something different in this game.
But what have you already not done in this game?
Try to find a game that give you a the same newness of this original game.

Because your old memories will remove the newness of this game. And games and time are to expensive to try to play an old rehash of a game and end up with a ground hog day of a game experience. Try to find a game that give you the same experience as the Original Oblivion and not the boredom of a Remaster.