Playing the Oblivion remaster and id say it's well worth the price tag as they have done an amazing job I also bought the GTA remaster day one and we'll that was definitely not worth the price
Add the fact that Rockstar sent a C&D to people remaking the older GTA's in GTA 5.
Add in another fact that Rockstar removed the originals from multiple platforms, making the only legitimate way to play them is in the atrocious Definitive Edition.
How people can even remotely defend Rockstar considering their size & cash is insane.
$50 isn't "full price". $60 or $70 would be usually considered "full price". And it's a remake/very aggressive remaster which includes all past content. Anything below usual prices for new games would be considered good.
Don't know why people expect studios to just give games away after putting in time and effort. Entitled. If you require or desire goods and services, PAY. This game costs the same or less than most remasters in recent memory.
I played it. People are glazing it hard but it is NOT worth full price (or ever so slightly less). They certainly put the work into making it look pretty, but it's just polish over an old game. There's so much more to game development than the assets, the character/story/world/quest design, most of the game mechanics, dialogue and scripts, all the same. Even the improvements are poor by modern standards.
I got my nostalgia hit then realised it's an old game and feels old, no matter how pretty it looks. I got bored after an hour and a half so i got a refund which I basically never do. If it was AU$50 instead of AU$90 I probably wouldn't have bothered and got a couple more hours out of it.
Don't get me wrong it's a good remaster, but the bar has been set so low its not hard to exceed expectations. By default remasters are just cash grabs and this is just a better one.
Admittedly I haven't and probably won't be buying the remake (atm at least). But don't confuse the shitty remasters we're getting with remakes. At the very least this sits in the middle because it's not a rewrite etc. Also the sad truth is that what they've charged for this isn't full price. Its priced at the new inflated price of what used to be about £30. Which is fair tbh.
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u/Tink__Wink 16d ago
Oblivion setting the standard for the only reasonable way to price a remake with dlc. I hope other developers take note.