Story is relatively cheap to develop. A lion share of the cost of making a game is the coding (which with this being moved to another engine, there almost certainly was a lot of that) and art (which it seems they redid like all of that and there’s a good chance a lot of the animations had to be tweaked).
Basically the only thing wouldn’t have to pay for was the story writers and some level designers (people still had to touch up the maps even if there was some automated conversion that pulled most of the map into Unreal Engine 5).
https://youtu.be/1jZXzv1-CmA – like this isn’t just a texture upscale and some minor tweaks to the animations, it’s a large scale remaster.
Experience everything Oblivion has to offer with previously released story expansions Shivering Isles, Knights of the Nine, and additional downloadable content included in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.
The deluxe edition includes some new stuff and cosmetics, as well as non-game extras.
• New quests for unique digital Akatosh and Mehrunes Dagon Armors, Weapons, and Horse Armor Sets
• Digital Artbook and Soundtrack App
Edit: The MS store makes it even more explicit regarding the “additional downloadable content” included in the standard edition:
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Standard Edition includes:
Digital base game
Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine story expansions
Additional downloadable content: Fighter’s Stronghold expansion, Spell Tome Treasures, Vile Lair, Mehrune’s Razor, The Thieves Den, Wizard’s Tower, Orrery, and Horse Pack Armor
$50+!? Isn’t this like a 20 year old game?
I mean … not really, they all but rebuilt it. New assets on a new engine.
Yes, assets and fancy graphics but the gameplay and story are still the same?
Story is relatively cheap to develop. A lion share of the cost of making a game is the coding (which with this being moved to another engine, there almost certainly was a lot of that) and art (which it seems they redid like all of that and there’s a good chance a lot of the animations had to be tweaked).
Basically the only thing wouldn’t have to pay for was the story writers and some level designers (people still had to touch up the maps even if there was some automated conversion that pulled most of the map into Unreal Engine 5).
https://youtu.be/1jZXzv1-CmA – like this isn’t just a texture upscale and some minor tweaks to the animations, it’s a large scale remaster.
As a consumer, the costs of development are irrelevant to me.
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It’s like an classic car. After 20 or 30 years it starts to go up in value again.
But classic cars are finite. This is infinite.
And it doesn’t even include the DLC of the original game like skyrim se did, you have to buy the deluxe edition (an extra £10/$10)
The original expansions are included.
The deluxe edition includes some new stuff and cosmetics, as well as non-game extras.
Edit: The MS store makes it even more explicit regarding the “additional downloadable content” included in the standard edition:
Cool! I was just looking at the poster they made and it looks like the DLCs are part of the deluxe set but it is designed badly or I misread it