Oblivion Remastered came out, is it worth it in 2025?

Oblivion Remastered has become a reality on PC, although it seems to look like a full on remake. Remakes a highly controversial, this is due to the unnecessary changes that are done to the original work. Picture this, imagine if paintings were “remade” to appeal to a period of time, wouldn’t that make it lose all sense of meaning? Yes, it would. Similar things happen with games, albeit, not in a scale like that of my example. However, elements that brought identity to the original work are often stripped away in favor to appeal to modern audiences. We at Infinite Start will cover this remaster that feels like a remake, and why you shouldn’t get it.

Oblivion Remastered is unfaithful

Oblivion Remastered does not remain faithful to the original game. Be it the updated visuals that opt to go for hyper realism, or the revised combat system, something does not feel right. If the whooping 100+ GB of data for the install does not scare you, then the optimization will. A lot of modern games use terrible engines that do not handle resources all that well. People have to remember that we are also speaking about Bethesda, a company that can’t stop blundering from left to right, trying to appeal to the common denominator of the masses.

The original in comparison is a solid title that runs in pretty much any system you have available. Even Windows XP is fair game for the original Oblivion, and you don’t even need to have GBs of space and RAM. The game is arguably better too, as the difficulty curve is actually real, without any sort of handholding that modern games force upon us.

Larian said it right, people want complex and deep CRPG games, they do not care about triple A slop, and nobody will remember triple A slop. Oblivion Remastered is dead on arrival.