/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8262380]

What are good and bad examples of video game remakes?

[Anonymous No.8262657]

VNs aren't video games

[Anonymous No.8263175]

all remakes bad
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[Anonymous No.8263191]

>>8262657
If jRPGs are games, then these also count as games.

[Anonymous No.8263202]

>>8263175
This. I too have a crippling fear of change and of examining the objective value of what I remember from my childhood

[Anonymous No.8263212]

A good example of a game remake are the Steam Castlevania and Mega Man collections. Just the game, with some quality of life changes, and that's it. No need to change anything else

[Anonymous No.8263229]

>>8263175
>pleb opinion tries to /thread himself
What a marvelous impression of a stupid person.

[Anonymous No.8263257]

>>8262380
It's a complex case-by-case thing, but in general you have a bigger chance of fucking up by updating gameplay than by updating visuals. Though you will always get flak from the SOUL police regardless of how well you do.

A simple clear example for me it's OoT3D vs MM3D. Without going into visuals, I consider Ocarina a fantastic remake because the broadest gameplay changes are objective improvements to the inventory interface, and the added handholding can be completely and easily ignored if you decide so. Plus, there's great ideas such as adding gyroscope-based POV controls (which makes horse archery and Poe hunting super fun), and mirroring the ENTIRE game world for the Master Quest, which makes for a curiously fresh experience.

I personally think Majora's Mask remake was a hack job because the developers overstepped and "fixed" fundamental elements of how the original game worked and how it was designed as an experience. They might have thought they were improving usability and entry-level friendliness, but the changes are drastic and often go against the original's design philosophy to an extent that makes some of the core aspects (i.e. the time loop central idea) almost pointless.

[Anonymous No.8263279]

>>8263212
Compared to the based Anniversary and X collection the Mega Man one is utter shit. Split in two with no extra spin-off games.

[Anonymous No.8263414]

>>8263212
>>good
>>steam
never

[Anonymous No.8263428]

>>8263279
I meant Mega Man collections as in all of them.
They're all alright, and good representations of the games, while still being easy to access for all the zoom zooms who never had a chance to play them in the first place

[Anonymous No.8263746]

>>8263212
>quality of life changes
Such as?

[Anonymous No.8265898]

>>8263191
Those aren’t video games either

[Anonymous No.8265936]

>>8262380
>good
When it's different enough (REmakes, Zero Mission, Bionic Commando). Even if it's bad - it's a different game, I don't care about "muh younglings will have a wrong impression about the game based on the remake".
>bad
When it's pretty much only visuals, (Crash, Spyro, SotC, DeS, GTA Trilogy) because it positions itself as "same game, BUT BETTER" and it never is.
Medievil remake might be an exception to that because it does look pretty good and the original is way more about atmosphere and visuals rather than gameplay, but I've never played it, so I can't comment. How is it anyway?

[Anonymous No.8267678]

>>8263257
I agree, OoT3D is a great remake, I just wish it was on something that isn't the fucking 3DS. Even the Wii U would have been a better choice.

[Anonymous No.8268223]

>>8263212
>Steam Castlevania and Mega Man
Input/audio lag, wrong resolution. Horrendous remakes

[Anonymous No.8268340]

>>8265936
Medievil? Fun atmophere and plot but hampered by bad cameras and controls even by the era standards. I haven't played the remake but would love the same game but with way better cameras and controls.

[Anonymous No.8268607]

>>8268340
I'm asking about the remake.
I think I'm in the minority of people who didn't have any major issues with the controls or the camera, but I can see how it can be a problem, especially jumping, camera was only a bother in the town part to me.
As for the remake, only change that I've seen was the woman's narrations of the lore which I can live with, but I have not looked into the game at all.
Oh and the Glass Demon looks better in the original.

[Anonymous No.8268968]

>>8263212
What the fuck are you talking about? Do you even know what a remake is? What quality of life changes? They are just collections of emulated ROMs

[Anonymous No.8271332]

REMAKE is still the best remake

[Anonymous No.8271340]

>>8268607
soulless

[Anonymous No.8271346]

>>8265936
I don't mind enhanced port sort of stuff, or how that SotC remake ended up. It's so similar visually that it doesn't mess with me. At the end of the day, the originals are always there, but it feels bad to see the aesthetic go modern, rather than just see a cleaner ver of the older style.

[Anonymous No.8271358]

>>8268607
This is the only remake I didn't find myself nitpicking the entire time I played it. I absolutely loved the experience, and you could tell the people they got back made a difference.

>>8271340
I could do with the remake being a little less cartoony, but the original art and concepts were arguably more cartoony than the end result so I think it works.

[Anonymous No.8271362]

Mario All-Stars
Chrono Trigger on DS
Link's Awakening DX
Castlevania X68000
Dragon's Trap

[Anonymous No.8271413]

>>8271362
no

[Anonymous No.8271447]

>>8271413
Yes. Screenshots mean dick on a medium designed to be in motion. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.8271451]

>>8262380
Fantastic remake of Tsui no Sora

[Anonymous No.8271497]

>>8271413
>having problems with normal wooden doors
Uh, can you please take your antisemitism somewhere else?