A month after the launch, a small portion of the remastered players for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have completed the main quest line. But in a game like this, that’s not particularly surprising. Fans say they’re too busy doing other things.
I’m one of those fans! I’ve enjoyed playing Oblivion, which was remastered since overshadowed April 22nd, and when I left the sewer and handed Jauffre a Kings Amulet at Weynon Priory, I did everything but the main quest line. I joined Fighters Guild, explored Cyrodiil and completed many side quests. I even tried to get out of the map, just as one player managed to do it.
why? Well, the oblivion side quest is a great fun (it doesn’t ruin the story here), but I’m also trying to avoid the main quest (and potentially difficult parts like Kvatch) for the time being, while keeping it to a minimum.
So I decided to enjoy oblivion until I was bored enough to play the game properly. There is none but Neat Is there a Bethesda game like this? So they’re amazing. You always do what you like, but the game still works.
It appears that many other players are doing the same thing. “I’m busy doing other things, like hunting slaughterfish on Lake Lemare,” said the incredibly named Redditor MrcrispyfriedChicken, in response to the Percent Completion Statistics to complete the main quest for Oblivion Remastered.
“I’ve already spent 160 hours, and Kvatch is still waiting for me,” added Roffear. “I’m actually one of those weirdos who likes Gate of Forget, so I don’t intentionally finish the main quest until I find and close all 60 gates in my world,” Ellert0 said. “In 44 hours and in-game, I never even went to Weynon Priory,” said Playahatinig-88. “These poor Kvatch city security guards never had a chance.”
At the time of the publication of this article, only 2.97% completed Oblivion Remastered’s main questline on Xbox, and 4.4% were slightly better on Steam. Why the difference? I think that’s because it’s the Xbox element of GamePass. Of course, all Steam players are because they actually bought the game completely.
Ranking the best races in Forget
Ranking the best races in Forget
Either way, that’s still a low percentage for Oblivion’s remaster, which has still seen over 4 million players. But in reality, most video games have an incredibly low campaign completion rate, whether it’s an epic 100-hour open world fantasy role-playing game. In fact, many games have a surprisingly low percentage of players who stick or continue to play after an hour or so. This is the whimsical nature of a gamer.
For remastered Oblivion, the stats can be further distorted as they are a remaster of the beloved game that many players finished at the time. If you completed the main quest for Oblivion 20 years ago, you probably don’t have a tendency to do it again now, and you’d like to focus on a rather new visual and upgraded bits and bob. Or, just like one player did, spend seven hours lining up books and getting the domino’s chain reaction appropriately.
Thaddeus122 stated that they were almost 100 hours and had not completed three of the main quests. However, they completed the arena and Mazes Guild. And what about the rest of the time? “Levelling, making money for a house, all the gates of forgetting, nilroot quests, a bunch of small quests. To be fair, don’t travel anywhere fast.”
Wesley is the UK news editor at Passthecontroller. Find him on @wyp100’s Twitter. You can contact Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
