Basically all of the games that were rumored to be remade several episodes back are ones I’ve been thinking about for a long time. FFXII and Dragon Quest VIII are at the top of my list. Another game that I think would benefit greatly from being remade is Valkyrie Profile 2. The environments in that game are so beautiful. They NEED to be in HD! Yet another one is Brave Fencer Musashi. I don’t know if it would sell that well though.

I’ll “this” this.

Gaming has been particularly susceptible to ports and now up-res’d remasters since the hardware is always changing. In the time that we’ve gone through over eight generations of mainstream consoles, each with their own mediums, movies have gone through about 3 or 4. And whenever people can’t use their old purchases (which can’t happen often enough for game and movie publishers) you’ll see an uptick in transfers to the new medium, especially if that medium is a significant upgrade.

I absolutely think games are worth preserving but it’s becoming increasingly cumbersome. Not everything gets transfer/ported/remastered, and digital emulation is often a poor substitute. But like as not, digital-only gaming is an eventuality. Probably not next gen, but it’s coming. I also expect the current understanding of a hardware generation to change a lot as well.

The problem with that game was they decided to strip away elements that seemed ugly but in fact were done to hide certain restrictions (like draw distance).

The Resident Evil games got some spin offs, like Revelations, which were ok but imo they were underwhelming and saddled with poor design choices. Plus, they’re all continuations of RE4, which is more action than puzzle solving. May as well be any other third person shooter.

“I feel the lesson learned was not to make more games like this, given its success, but to re-release more games like this.”
This. But it’s actually a lesson that these watered-down companies can actually do. Capcom and Konami have development teams that are today a shadow of what they once were, despite probably having larger budgets and more people than ever before. Consequently, they usually make junk. But when it comes down to these re-releases, the job is easier: no gameplay to innovate, after all. That is, of course, when they actually do the remake themselves, rather than just farming it out to a third-party.

When companies cannot innovate, they fall back on trying to milk what worked in the past.

“The comparison to modern gaming is almost damning of the chopped up content served today with extraneous online modes or half-assed DLC campaigns.”
This is the delicious rub! By releasing the excellent, complete experiences of the past, they only serve to demonstrate how shitty is their modern, triple-A, Hollywood-bloat approach. I am glad of this, because I do not want people to ever forget that, once upon a time, gamers owned games, and got them all at once at the moment of purchase. And, what’s more, THEY WORKED.

“It would be a fine comeuppance indeed if in the mindless push for more remasters of old games, consumer distaste for modern games’ monetization methods were soured.”
This exactly. May it please God.

“Have you run aground of any remasters yet, fine fellows?”
I want a Final Fantasy XII remaster. I want it now. My bones ache for it. Give it to me.

*Steals opinion. Sells it for millions. MILLIONS*

Survival Horror, as I know it, is more of an off branch of point and click games. They use a lot of puzzle solving, a lot of back tracking, and a lot of reading mixed with limited action elements. The RE series was definitely more on the action spectrum, but certainly wasn’t full tilt on scares like the first person flashlight games of today.

“will be construed by other publishers as a genuine appetite for re-releases.”

If publishers come to this realisation then it should be something that strikes fear into their hearts, because it will mean that gamers have stopped looking towards the future of those companies.