The Age of Remasters

Easily the Dead Space Remake is the new bench mark for Video Game Remakes. It remains faithful to the original game while improving the level design, fixing outadated gameplay and mechanics and adding new content that gives additional context to the game’s story and it’s characters.

They are not gonna stop till you can play the last of us on your grandpa's pacemaker

Remaking old games isn't "lazy" because they still have to completely remake the old game from scratch with all new art assets, sound, graphics, etc. Yes they don't have to re-record voice lines and music or come up with new ideas, but they don't do it to be lazy. They do it because it's very safe and a risk-free investment.

gaming got invaded by lazy cash-grab-business-clerks. they don't care about fun they only care about making as much money as possible with the lowest effort possible (----> remakes). this is literally what you learn in business studies.

"Remasters" have existed since the 80s. They just used to call them ports and remakes (Super Mario All Stars, King's Quest vga remakes etc).

Once The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction gets a remake I can die happy. My whole childhood relieved and remastered would send me over the hills.

Skyrim: (Now has fishing with its 7th release) Me: Ahh shit. Here we go again...

I shared your video in my group cause that was Honestly really well done overall 🙂. There are way too many games getting re-released that Don't need it.

I was in college in 2005 and didn't get my head above water in the real world until like 12 years later. I did virtually no gaming then, so all these remakes are new to me. I even missed FF7 being a Nintendo kid back in the day.

Remakes and remasters aren’t a bad thing for gaming. The problem is releasing games in a state the devs aren’t happy with then releasing the “full” version a few years later. A great example is Sun/Moon followed up with Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon. We also don’t need PS5/Xbox Series X versions of games already available on PS4/Xbox One. Why does The Last Of Us have a release on PS3, PS4 and PS5, for example?

I agree with you! As you said, remakes can help preserve older games and introduce them to a younger audience. But it sucks that remakes have become a substitute for new games. Also, adding slightly updated textures to a game that isn't even 10 years old, and asking $70 for it, is just greedy. If I had to make an exception, though, I think a PS4 game that could really benefit from a remake/remaster, is Assassin's Creed Unity. Out of all the AC games, this one was the most ambitious. The technology of the time wasn't ready for what this game tried to achieve, and it needed much more time in the oven than the typical Ubisoft yearly release. I'd love to see someone give it another go. When it comes to "next gen updates", I find so ridiculous the fact that if I buy a new GPU right now, I would be able to play all my PC games with better graphics and better frame rate, but if I get a PS5, I'd have to sometimes pay a fee to upgrade my PS4 games.

8:53 well, there was the remake on the 3DS, i think it looks good. chrono trigger definetly should had a remake or re-release though, it's definetly underappreciated by younger generations.

Homeworld Remastered Collection and Command and Conquer Remastered Collection are 2 Hall of Fame worthy efforts. The Homeworld RC has the original versions included as ports without any changes that I know of. The C&C RC has all types of bonus extras and include content from multiple versions of the game(like Dino Levels from a Playstation port) and a custom music player that include original music, remastered music, and bonus music, as well as the ability to listen to any music from the 2 games whenever you want so you can listen to red alert music while playing the original game and vice versa.

You should've mentioned Metroid Prime remastered.

You had me at Xenogears.... GOD knows how much the fans would want a complete REMAKE that would breathe life into the emptiness of disc-2 😢

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I've subscribed after watching two vids, very good stuff I like the narrative, reminds me a bit of dunkey, you can definitely ignore this but two things I thought were punch up the endings, and make it clearer when you rant softly/whispery (still funny)

Great video again brother. Keep it up :)

We're in the medieval era of gaming were technology is advance

I grew up with the original PlayStation, but I love it when my favourite games are remastered. I love playing Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, Prince of Persia and Tomb Raider on my PS3 because the enhancements make them so much better than they already were on the PS2. It's also the same with The Nathan Drake Collection, The Last of Us, Return to Arkham, and The Ezio Collection on the PS4. I have also grown to love remakes, depending on if they're done properly. I was disappointed with Crash N.Sane and Spyro Reignited, but I love Medievil, Shadow of the Colossus, and Gears of War Ultimate Edition. They're prime examples of what remakes should be like. I'm also super excited for the Tomb Raider Remaster next February