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Let's talk about game remasters

Remasters gud?

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 9.6%
  • No

    Votes: 11 13.3%
  • Depends

    Votes: 50 60.2%
  • What can change the nature of a man?

    Votes: 14 16.9%

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Dexter

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It depends on the actual work put behind it, shit like what BeamDog is doing are just cash-grabs based on a popular IP, since they barely do any actual art/sound/development, but instead fix just a few bugs and compatibility issues and re-release. They do a lot less than some larger developers do with a single big Patch to a game and don't even come close to the Witcher GOTY releases or similar.

On the other hand I'd say things like these are worthwhile:






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What I loved about the Monkey Island: SE and why I don't mind the changes too much is that you could switch between "classic" Monkey Island and the "Remake" with the flip of a button.
 

Naraya

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^ right, I forgot about those. It's definitely labour of love.

As for Monkey Island, I couldn't stand the remakes. The classic switch is the only redeeming quality :P
 

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Going to be interesting when we reach the stage when we need remasters of remasters because future computers.
 

Delbaeth

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Well it's already the case for a few.
Take the firts Ys games for instance, or the first Tex Murphy: Mean Streets > Overseer > The Poisoned Pawn.

And there's the Dune II case, where you have the Westwood's remake Dune 2000, but then, you have few community remasters of Dune 2, and the Dune 2000 mod for OpenRA.
 

deuxhero

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Remasters are only good when it's actually a remaster, the assets were originally a higher quality but toned down to fit in the game.

Enhanced remakes/ports or enhanced editions can be good, but they aren't remasters. Something like Fallout (great game, terrible engine) could benefit from one greatly (but won't happen because Interplay were idiots and lost the code and art for the game)
 

sser

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I'd gladly pay a $5-10 convenience fee to get some of the older games to work flawlessly on this generation's tech.
 

PlanHex

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I'd gladly pay a $5-10 convenience fee to get some of the older games to work flawlessly on this generation's tech.
Isn't that what they do with most/all GoG releases though? Doesn't really fall under remaster/remaking. Plus I think remasters tend to go for 10-20 and complete remakes are often full price.
 

sser

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I'd gladly pay a $5-10 convenience fee to get some of the older games to work flawlessly on this generation's tech.
Isn't that what they do with most/all GoG releases though? Doesn't really fall under remaster/remaking. Plus I think remasters tend to go for 10-20 and complete remakes are often full price.

I still find myself having to implement workarounds to make a lot of GOG games work.
 

octavius

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Default GOG configuration is stretched image (probably since the lowest common GOG customer can't cope with black bars on the sides) and too low CPU cycles.

But the only GOG game that I've tried so far that didn't work right away was Quake 2 for some reason. But since I already beat it twice I couldn't be bothered to diagnose the problem, and skipped it.
 

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