Oblivion Remastered a month from release: Only 7% of gamers have completed the main quest

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Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has undoubtedly been a hit - a huge one, in fact - but a surprising amount of gamers haven't finished the game yet.

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Oblivion Remastered has sold like crazy, but has it been played like crazy as well? (Image Credit: Bethesda)

Indeed, those who have claimed the title of 'Champion of Cyrodiil' which is the achievement for completing the main questline was only 3% at the end of last week, and only stands at 7% now.

That's according to True Achievements (as noticed by Screen Rant) which has tracked the achievements completed by a sample base of some 185,000 Oblivion Remastered players, with only just over 13,000 of them actually having completed the RPG.

First of all: Is it really that surprising that fewer than 10% of gamers have managed to finish the main plot? Some folks don't seem that shocked by this revelation, and I guess there are reasons not to be.

One of which is that a lot of the veteran gamers playing Oblivion Remastered will be doing so to enjoy the game all over again, and so will be taking the time to smell the proverbial roses, and not rushing to finish the main quest.

On top of that, the availability of the remaster on Xbox Game Pass means that there may be a lot of players escaping from the Imperial Sewers, then maybe getting bored after an initial play around, and not getting much further.

It's also possible that some players may be put off by the lack of changes - other than the pepped-up visuals, which is the main difference with this remaster - as Screen Rant points out.

Overall, though, we think it's still a touch early to be making these calls. After all, the game has only been out for a month, and inside a week we've seen a reasonable spike in completion (from 3% to 7%) - and that could soon climb a fair bit higher.

Still, we get the point that we would have expected more people to have completed the remaster by now. Maybe this really is a reflection of a lot of the player base wanting to take their time rather than barrel through the campaign, especially after paying that $50 entry fee (for those non-Game Pass folks), a steep asking price given that this is a reboot.

As noted at the outset, there's no doubting that this has been a successful outing for Bethesda, with Oblivion Remastered being the bestselling game in the US last month (by the estimations of one analyst, anyway). The remaster has outgunned the original release of the Elder Scrolls IV, that's for sure, and many gamers are now looking forward to a revamp of another Bethesda classic, namely Fallout 3.