Current Events > POLL: Imagine one of these 10 games is remade completely.

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Soul Reaver is a personal favorite series of mine. Wish someone would pick it back up

None. Fuck remakes.

Square Enix has the rights but they're just sitting on it

What's actually wrong with remakes though? I never would have played the first two Yakuza games if they weren't remade, and while I have played Odin Sphere on PS2, the remake version is so much better that I could never go back even if I wanted to.

Soul Reaver if handled properly.

Would be nice to have the entire voice cast back though.

Maybe...maybe, Legacy of Kain.
No interest whatsoever in the others.

My issue with remakes is that in the games industry they're used to replace the original rather than compliment it. Demon's Souls didn't get a remake because Sony had something creative to say with the property. It was remade because they wanted to cash in on the franchise name but didn't want to deal with the rights issues tied to the original. We will never see another official release of the original Demon's Soul on future consoles cause Sony got their new shiny version with no kerfuffle to just fart out every generation now.

Will we ever see an official port of the original non-shitty Spyro PS1 games rather than the crappy remakes? Certainly more likely than the Demon's Souls situation. Maybe on the Playstation 7. But probably not.

Remakes in video games is essentially a cancer to video game preservation and appeals to some lame desire that apparently exists within the gamer culture to replace rather than preserve. At least in the movie industry remakes tend to actually do things different than the original film they're based on, and if they don't, they tend to get shit on (see: Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake). In gaming there's some sort of weird fetishization that a remake has to be "exactly" the same game as the original, but with shinier graphics and probably some control or camera updates to erase all trace of it not being a brand spanking new game. As if PS1 graphics are not part of the charm and identity of something like Crash Bandicoot.

Your Yakuza example is actually the opposite to me. I want to get into the Yakuza series, but I'm not going to until some way to play the original games is available to me, be it by Sega actually porting them instead of just replacing them with the new remakes (which will likely never happen), or I get a hold of a PS2 and play them on that, which is definitely way in the future.

Honestly, while I have no intention of playing the FF7 remake until the whole thing is out, the fact that it actually does things to the story structure of the original game (even if Sephiroth showing up in Midgar is a decision motivated entirely by how absurd it would be to release FF7 media without Sephiroth in it to cash in on the Sephiroth fanbase, rather than any creative narrative decision they have for the character) and has a gameplay system that sets it apart makes it one of the more compelling video game remakes in, well, ever to me.

Legend of Dragoon

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/1/AABhrNAACrwX.jpg

That screenshot is from pe2.

*twitch*

these dudes today would butcher the masterpiece that is Need For Speed Underground.

Was wondering if anyone would know that. :P