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Update: Video Game Remakes
🕑 Added 2023-02-12 04:42:01 +0000 UTCHey everyone. I'm back to working on a new gaming video. This time on video game remakes!
I had the idea to do the video after the back-to-back releases of the Dead Space remake and Metroid Prime Remastered. It got me thinking about what the point is in even making a game remake (besides the obvious point that they make a ton of money).
So far my idea is that there's two distinct kinds of video game re-release: remakes and remasters. And while there are classical definitions for each of those terms, they become really blurry sometimes. Some remasters replace every part of a game and change some core features, while some remakes stay 100% faithful to the original. So I want to first redefine remasters to mean anything that is trying to modernize an old game, and remakes to mean anything that reinterpret the old game into something new. (e.g. Metroid Prime, Dead Space, and Demon's Souls all have remasters, whereas Resident Evil 2, 3, 4, and Final Fantasy 7 all have remakes)
Then my idea is that remasters are important since they essentially preserve old video games. Some older titles aren't easily accessible to play anymore, and being able to remaster and re-release them lets them live on past whatever console they're originally bound to. And remakes, to me, are less important since they're rehashing older content for name recognition, but if they have something interesting to say then I can appreciate them. Ultimately money is the main motivator, and if a remake can do it's own thing then that's better than no game getting made at all.
I'm a little bit into the script and it's looking to be a bit of a shorter video (famous last words, I know). And I made a mockup of the kind of thumbnail I want. I'm not 100% sure if I'm happy with it, but I don't know what else I'd add or change about it.
If anyone has any thoughts or comments, I'd love to hear them!
Comments
Blue Moments
Love the cover picture! This will be an awesome video
Fade
I've seen "Remake" and "Remaster" used interchangeably. It's kinda confusing really. The lines get especially blurry when upscaled ports could be considered a remaster. Like Marvel's Spider-Man "Remastered" on PS5. Aside from changing the model to be closer to the MCU actor. (Liked the old one more.) Adding the PS5 controller stuff, Put the DLC in the base and touched up performance. It's the same game that already existed on PS4. That you probably already bought because it's sequel was coming out and it was a bonus. It feels like a port rather than remaster. Especially because you could play the original on the PS5 out of the box anyway.
Lextorias
I definitely want to mention it. In general I just want to cover the idea that games like part 1 are remasters more than they are remakes, and there’s no reason for them if the original still holds up well (like TLOU does). to me a remaster should come out if the original is dated, and a remake should reimagine the game, not just recreate it
Avram
Not sure if you could fit it in but it could be interesting to touch on the recent The Last of Us part 1 "remake". Beyond it being completely unnecessary, it's so not a remake. Sure, they remade it graphically in a new engine but the gameplay has no changes even though it was a perfect opportunity to redo the combat system and make it look like the one in part 2
