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Your favorite video game doesn't need a remake | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)

submitted 1 year ago by restingboredface@sh.itjust.works to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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Curious about y'alls opinions on this. I like the idea of getting new people to experience an older game by aligning it to modern graphics and accessibility standards. But capitalizing on nostalgia with quick updates to that make it look modern rather than making new games seems like just more of studios trying to squeeze money out of us.

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are people asking for a Bloodborne remake? I always thought they just wanted a port to systems other than PS4. Which I still think Sony should do.

[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I believe you're correct. I can't speak for other people but for myself it is not that i want a bloodborne remake or remaster. I just want a PC port.

I'm not paying a subscription to stream the game to my PC. Im not buying a ps4 to play a single game. And i believe I'm not entirely alone in this

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

\1. Many retro games were made for CRT TVs at 480p. Updating the graphics stack modern TVs is valuable, even if nothing else is changed.

\2. All of my old consoles only have analog A/V outputs. And my TV only has one analog A/V input. The mess of adapter cables and swapping is annoying. I want the convenience of playing on a system that I already have plugged in.

\3. I don't even still have some of the consoles that play my favorite classic games, and getting retro hardware is sometimes difficult. Especially things like N64 controllers with good joysticks.

Studios don't need to do a full blown remake to solve these problems. But I'm also not going to say the Crash and Spyro remakes weren't welcome. Nintendo's Virtual Console emulators toe this line pretty well.

But studios should still put in effort to make these classic games more accessible to modern audiences, and if that means a remake, that's fine with me.

(I'm mostly thinking about the GameCube/PS2 generation and earlier. I don't see much value in remakes of the Wii/PS3 generation yet.)

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

tow this line

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don‘t want Remakes. I want Re-Imaginings!

Don’t give me Final Fantasy 6 Pixel UHD 4K with the same old boring Battle System - give me a new game with the same story!

Or heck - let me play as the bad guy! Make it “The legend of Zelda - The Rise of Ganondorf“ where you’re doing the stuff that happens between kid-Link and grown-Link in Ocarina of Time

[–] richmondez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Err, what you describe is a remake, the new coat of paint over the same old game is a remaster.