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The most interesting recent(ish) remakes to me have been Odin Sphere and Nier Replicant--a pair of games that were made on shoestring budgets initially that developers circled back around to after they'd grown successful enough to take another shot at them.
Remakes/remasters that are done just for modernization are hit or miss but the main issue there imo is that the remake is often just marketed as a replacement to the original, or that they no longer feel a need to make the original readily available. Like, they're not incentivized to make the PS3 version of Demon's Souls available on more platforms and/or to turn those servers back on; if they did people might play that version instead of paying $70 for the remake. Even when a remake turns out good I still think the originals should be made available beyond having to emulate them, which doesn't happen often enough. That said if they want to remake Persona 3 but make it look and play like Persona 5 I have $60 sitting here.
It does get weird when we're "remastering" games that are already available and perfectly functional, though. The Last of Us stuff this time smells to me like "prestige games are extremely expensive to make and the pandemic is costing us a lot of money" but ND knows that their fanboys will buy whatever they put out so they're just selling them the first one again to fill the bank a bit.
Remakes/remasters that are done just for modernization are hit or miss but the main issue there imo is that the remake is often just marketed as a replacement to the original, or that they no longer feel a need to make the original readily available. Like, they're not incentivized to make the PS3 version of Demon's Souls available on more platforms and/or to turn those servers back on; if they did people might play that version instead of paying $70 for the remake. Even when a remake turns out good I still think the originals should be made available beyond having to emulate them, which doesn't happen often enough. That said if they want to remake Persona 3 but make it look and play like Persona 5 I have $60 sitting here.
It does get weird when we're "remastering" games that are already available and perfectly functional, though. The Last of Us stuff this time smells to me like "prestige games are extremely expensive to make and the pandemic is costing us a lot of money" but ND knows that their fanboys will buy whatever they put out so they're just selling them the first one again to fill the bank a bit.
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