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Mead posted...

Maybe Im alone but I feel like I played them all to death as they released so I think Im good as far as the original trilogy goes. I mean its cool that theyre updating them but thats not enough of a reason for me to want to play that entire trilogy again.

The main reason for re-releases like this is less just getting people who've already played it to buy it again (though that's certainly a bonus, because nostalgia is a powerful drug), it's to try and expose an entirely new audience to the games.

There's plenty of people who were too young to play the Mass Effect games years ago, and who aren't about to try and track down an old used 360 or PS3 to be able to play them now. But a re-release/remaster now on current consoles means those people may be more inclined to pick it up (especially if it winds up costing less than a normal current-gen game). Which in turn expands the potential player-base the next time EA releases a main sequence sequel (something they may need desperately after torpedoing the existing player-base via the clusterfuck that was Andromeda).

Just as an example, I never played the Uncharted games on the PS3, but I picked up the Uncharted Collection for the PS4 because it was three games in one set for only $40. That in turn helped establish me as a fan of the franchise in time to later shell out cash for Uncharted 4 and Lost Legacy. I almost certainly wouldn't have bothered buying the later two games if they hadn't made it easy for me to play 1-3 on my PS4.



Zangulus posted...

So many ports/remasters are messes when theyre first released.

And sadly, most of them stay that way. Even something as significant as the Master Chief Collection took something like 5 years to eventually get patched into being mostly fixed (mostly), but lower profile games tend to get shit out and then ignored by the developer after maybe one or two minor post-launch patches. Because they've already soaked you for most of the nostalgia money they're going to get in the first couple weeks or so of sales.

It's part of why I never look forward to whenever they mention an older game is getting a re-release. Because I've played too many re-releases.

And that's assuming you don't get the style of remaster where they change or add things as an extra incentive to play, only to half-ass the new thing so badly that a) it's not even remotely worth it, and b) it winds up breaking the game in entirely new ways. That was a big problem with the shit "Enhanced Edition" versions of Baldur's Gate that came out a while back. It doesn't feel very enhanced when the new characters they add are all mostly poorly-written and kind of clash with the existing aesthetics, and then on top of which can cause extremely hard-to-avoid irreversible game crashes that can basically invalidate tens of hours worth of playtime.
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