Art Machine, trying to be a person


I will never understand people who get mad that a game has not been announced to have a remake. I ran across a page made by folks who noticed that the .hack//IMOQ games passed their 20th anniversary recently-ish, and CyberConnect2 had the gall to not remake the games?????? How dare??????????

Like YEAH I'm a huge .hack// fan, and YEAH those games have been hit super hard by the resale market to the point that basically nobody is going to have an opportunity to play them without sinking hundreds of dollars into buying all four games. That sucks!

I'd love to see ports of the games pop up on digital storefronts wherever possible. I'm a big proponent of the idea that game companies should be making their old games as widely available as possible, half because it's a shame that some games are just eventually gonna be lost, and half because those companies are just leaving money on the table.

But I've never understood people clambering for full remakes of games. I would much rather a company spend that time and money on making something new instead of just rehashing this thing I liked from my childhood. Ports are exciting to me because it's a chance for a new audience to enjoy an old thing I liked, but remakes and remasters require so much more effort that could be used to make something new.

And for this page to take the stance of "we are OWED this fancy remake of these games because xxxx amount of time has passed since the original releases" just REALLY makes me bristle. But I think I'm kinda alone in that feeling! Any time I see news of a remake of an old game, everyone's super hyped for it. So I'm probably wrong in my opinions, but I had to get them out there anyways because AAAAAAAAAA

(on a side note, this is why I've started to hate Nintendo Directs - everyone comes up with all these wishlists of things they'd like to see, start convincing themselves that their wishlists MUST be true, and then get actually angry when the multibillion dollar company has other things it wants to make. It's so tiring, and it ends up making me just want to tune everybody out forever)


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in reply to @goattrain's post:

As a Skies of Arcadia Port Guy,

my stance has always been, Remasters have a place and purpose, and ideally it's to allow people to experience a game that did something incredible and that people fell in love with, with some touches here and there to buff away the age. I agree, though; a fanbase feeling owed a remake speaks of a fanbase that has missed the point.
This isn't helped by A Certain Video Game Company remaking previous generations of games for new hardware.