I can’t be silent anymore and I don’t understand why others are still silent. Seriously, who likes remasters and why are they made?? Let’s still discuss this point and try to answer two main questions: Why and for whom is this done??
I play the role of a dissatisfied client who seems to have been duped, but I am assured that this is something completely different.
How much have I heard about the release of new remasters in video games and films?.
Diablo II, Mass Effect, ViceCity, I don’t even want to go into depth, how many remasters have been released and should be released..
The same situation with films. If something was popular before, then there must definitely be a remake..
Indeed, why come up with something new when you can repeat something old and earn even more money from it?. Money for money’s sake. Humanity has chosen a path of development, a path in which Target justifies the means. Where the rich should get richer without creating a new product for society.
But there is nothing surprising in this activity. I think many people know the phrase “Current always follows the path of least resistance.” A person chooses the same path, the path where a minimum of effort will be expended to achieve the goal.
But there is one discrepancy, you can agree with me, you can not, it’s your choice. People, unlike the laws of physics, make mistakes. I believe that humanity was mistaken in choosing this path of least resistance.
Ask why? What’s wrong with the fact that the new generation will be able to learn about the masterpieces of the past, touch the emotions that we once felt when playing the old Diablo or collecting hidden packages in Vice City?.
And what then? Remaster, remaster? People have come up with so many masterpieces, in games, in films and in literature, and yet no one has remastered them. Yes, some works may be similar, borrowed, blatantly stolen here and there, but moderately original.
Is it really impossible to create something new, let it be similar to the old one, but how else??
Just imagine how much we have lost, how much we have lost… and how much we could have gained if humanity had thrown its energy into creating something new. Have we seen cyberpunk if, after the release of The Witcher 3, CD PROJEKT RED decided to re-release parts 1 and 2? Some people may not like Cyberpunk, but I’m sure that you won’t be cold or hot if they make the first Witcher with new graphics.
I completed the first Witcher, I liked it… I completed the second part and I also liked it! But I wouldn’t like it if I finished the first Witcher and they offered me to play it again, under the pretext that if we pay, we’ll improve the graphics..
Let’s return to the question, what then, what after the remaster?? Don’t you think they’re slowing us down?. The developers spend, oddly enough, more effort on them than the previously released original, why do this double work?? As a result, we get zero mental activity and enormous physical labor.
What work was done in Diablo II: Resurrected, this game needs to be made again from scratch and there is nothing to forget or spoil..
I think there will be people who agree with me and say roughly the same thing. I want to ask you, are we, as consumers of this product, simply going to silently tolerate and encourage this activity?? Really, we can’t do anything, what’s stopping us from expressing a negative opinion on this matter?? Do not encourage this activity or generally treat it with indifference and contempt? Why do popular bloggers encourage remasters for the sake of popularity and money??
If suddenly a remaster of some popular game comes out, I’m sure any blogger will start reviewing it, expressing his positive and at the same time negative opinion, so that both will like it at once. I’m wrong?
Or maybe people like me are in the minority and people are ready to play The Witcher 1 with new graphics just because their favorite game has come out again.
This blog aims to identify consumer preferences, answer the question of whether you are willing to sacrifice time to play the remaster?
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I play the role of a dissatisfied client who seems to have been duped, but I am assured that this is something completely different.
Whose client are you?? If you don’t buy remasters, you’re no one’s client. And you’re itching about how "companies aren’t doing what I want them to do". Well, the grandmothers at the entrances are also itching about everything.
People, unlike the laws of physics, make mistakes. I believe that humanity was mistaken in choosing this path of least resistance.
Gravity made a mistake by choosing this direction of influence. Well, like, kamon, no one chose anything. People are people, you might as well criticize the fact that we have two legs instead of four. Like, “evolution shouldn’t have given us two legs, it would have been much more fun with four.”!"Maybe there would be, maybe not. It’s not for me and not for you to decide. And evolution didn’t “solve” anything.
“Later” for whom? For us players; for the studio that released the remaster or remake; for the publisher who ordered this remaster/remake?
Or maybe people like me are in the minority and people are ready to play The Witcher 1 with new graphics just because their favorite game has come out again?
In my opinion, this is an excellent reason to replay a favorite and familiar game and get new emotions from a new visual, for example.
What are the benefits of remasters and remakes for players??
— getting the opportunity to join the old game on new platforms (MGS HD Collection for PS3 and Xbox, remasters of Resident Evil 4, which allow you to play it anywhere, too);
– often – the only way to run a game on modern hardware without "hemorrhoids" – the brilliant Homeworld 2 on Win7-10 works very poorly, the remaster works very well and smoothly;
– for fans and fans – this is an opportunity to take a fresh look at the game: Shadow of the Colossus for PS4, Diablo II for PS4-5 and Xbox, Resident Evil 2-3 Remake;
— and most importantly, no one is forcing anyone to buy it. Apart from the case of WarCraft 3, I don’t remember that the release of a remake/remaster blocked the ability to play the original game if a particular user wanted that.
What are the benefits of remasters and remakes for the studios that produce them??
– the most important thing: https://giantwins.co.uk/bonus/ to get better at it, get the opportunity to hone the skills of intra-studio interaction, the skills of specific employees and many other working aspects, while being in a relatively safe territory. When you make a remaster, you have some cushion of the popularity of the original game in advance, which will provide at least part of the payback. Producing a new IP not only requires a much greater investment of effort and creative energy (which is much more stressful, which is not good), but also requires significantly higher marketing costs;
– in addition to the previous point – get used to the new platform, concentrating on the features of its work, and not leaving the solution to this issue at the last second, because before that your head was busy solving gameplay/plot/artistic/millions of any other issues;
– not always everything goes well for a game at the production stage, and a remake-remaster is also a way to make the game the way it was originally intended (again, Shadow of the Colossus is on my mind);
– and to a lesser extent – with the help of a remaster you can always “test the waters” of the popularity of a particular series in current realities, and then make a full-fledged continuation, for example.
BUT all of the above does not mean that I categorically support remasters. I’m talking about the phenomenon as such, and remasters and remakes can be both good and bad (and, unfortunately, there are plenty of them), this is always decided privately. I am categorically against lumping the whole phenomenon into one stinking pile.
And, speaking of the “path of least resistance” – here you are, the author of this opus, because you could not just throw a stick at the phenomenon of remakes and remasters, like a caveman at a mammoth, but study the question, figure out: “Why, why, how many of them are made, are there really that many of them, do they bring in that much money?”?", analyze it all and then judge. Or at least you could run the text through Word, so that when reading every sentence you don’t stumble over sudden commas and other oddities of the author’s style. But you chose the “path of easy resistance” and are simply rambling into the void, unleashing on your readers your own negativity towards remakes and remasters, without trying to be either interesting or constructive.
But I wouldn’t like it if I finished the first Witcher and they offered me to play it again, under the pretext that if we pay, we’ll improve the graphics..
Well done, completed the original version of the game. But it’s worth considering that every year there are more and more new players. And, most likely, they will want to get acquainted with the classics, but not all of them want to see the old picture on their monitors. Remasters are largely made just for a new audience.
Why and for whom is this done??
I have the same question about this post.
I’m not against remasters, but they have to be justified. That is, I don’t see the logic in a remaster of the same Alan Wake or some Observer, because the original games look pretty good anyway. But at the same time, a remaster of some StarСraft or Diablo 2 looks more appropriate. After all, let’s not deny the obvious, time has not been kind to the original games.
T.e. it all came down to differences in store policies.
Well, formally – yes, I am for the remaster to occupy a new niche, not an old one. But with SC and D2R there is a unique factor: the original and unremastered graphic is sewn in there, no one bothers you to use it.
Well, let’s go back to the modifications – you installed them?
I don’t use mods.
Metro Redux, Darksiders, Titan Quest.
The difference with WarCraft 3 is that Varick was taken away from those who bought them. Metro, GTA and the rest can no longer be BUYED, but access to the games from those who have already BUYED them has not been taken away (unlike the situation with W3).
The withdrawal of old games from sale (due to the release of a remaster or without it) is an inevitability that is neither good nor bad, just like gravity – it is just an inevitability. With the same success, one can now swear at the fact that a huge number of games that were released before 2010, when Steam and its ilk were not widespread, are now simply unavailable for purchase. Because they were not released digitally, because you can buy them, but they are not patched for new hardware, and so on
Thank you for at least admitting that D2R is bad
So, come on, don’t decide for me what I “recognized” and what I didn’t; and you won’t thank me for what I didn’t do. Diablo remaster is still good in my eyes, it has problems with the network part, but their solution is mainly a matter of time.
If you bet on the positive that the old version is still available for purchase, then you understand that there is something wrong with the remaster. 😉
I put positive freedom of choice and the opportunity to play the way you want and where you want, within the framework of legal restrictions and opportunities.
I don’t know what you don’t like.
The “original” Diablo II on my laptop didn’t want to work properly, because.To. The hardware in the laptop is quite new. But I bought the re-release and enjoyed getting acquainted with this series of games.
P.S.: Yes, I’ve never played any of the Diablo games. Well, what do you want?? I’m still only 20 years old – until some point I didn’t know about this series at all.
The situation here is twofold. If the game is relatively new with still good graphics and gameplay, then it doesn’t need a remaster, or, moreover, a remake. And if the game is already graphically, and maybe gameplaywise, outdated, then a remaster or remake will not hurt it. After all, this will allow not only the old people to remember their games, but will also give the new generation of gamers the opportunity to touch good games in good quality and with good graphics.
I play the role of a dissatisfied client who seems to have been duped, but I am assured that this is something completely different
And what remasters did the “dissatisfied client” buy??
The same situation with films. If something was popular before, then there must definitely be a remake… Indeed, why come up with something new when you can repeat something old and make even more money from it?.
Oh, what a disaster, someone has already taken something off before you. Remove “Star Wars”, “The Magnificent Seven”, “Ocean’s 11”, “A Fistful of Dollars”, “The Ring” – these are all soulless remakes and plagiarism!
Is it really impossible to create something new, let it be similar to the old one, but how else??
Can. But, firstly, it is VERY difficult to come up with something completely new. And secondly, a new ip is both a greater risk and greater costs.
Have we seen cyberpunk if, after the release of The Witcher 3, CD PROJEKT RED decided to re-release parts 1 and 2?
But I wouldn’t like it if I finished the first Witcher and they offered me to play it again, under the pretext that if we pay, we’ll improve the graphics..
Usually, in response to such “if only that, if only that,” they remember a saying about grandparents and missing genitals.". Maybe they would see Cyberpunk, maybe not – it depends on how large the project will be – just improve the graphics and optimization for modern hardware, or get a full-fledged remake on the engine of the third part. And then – Are the Reds holding a bat over you with the inscription “Hear, Buy”?
I think there will be people who agree with me and say roughly the same thing. I want to ask you, are we, as consumers of this product, simply going to silently tolerate and encourage this activity?? Really, we can’t do anything, what’s stopping us from expressing a negative opinion on this matter??
If the remake/remaster is good, you praise it, if it’s bad, you drown it in shit, if it’s mediocre, you describe what’s wrong with it. Throwing a remaster as a phenomenon into the trash heap is, well, that’s just it. Well, the final vote is always a ruble vote.
answer the question if you are willing to sacrifice time to play the remaster?
Play the Resident Evil 2 remaster on PC or the original on PS 1… A very, very difficult and painful choice.
No custom modification will allow me to play D2R on console
Van, but it seems to me that you lumped remasters and remakes into one pile, I have nothing against the latter..
— and most importantly, no one is forcing anyone to buy it. Apart from the case of WarCraft 3, I don’t remember that the release of a remake/remaster blocked the ability to play the original game if a particular user wanted that.
Since this is the main thing, then we must admit what exactly they force. Metro Redux, Darksiders, Titan Quest. There are a lot of such games – from the latest GTA 3. And this is where we see a huge disadvantage for users – mods and custom patches, which by this time are often superior to remasters, are going downhill.
PS Thank you for at least admitting that D2P is bad, because Starcraft also removed the first part from sale, but everyone was happy. If you bet on the positive that the old version is still available for purchase, then you understand that there is something wrong with the remaster. 😉
The difference with WarCraft 3 is that Varick was taken away from those who bought them. Metro, GTA and the rest can no longer be BUYED, but access to the games from those who have already BUYED them has not been taken away (unlike the situation with W3).
T.e. it all came down to differences in store policies. And the fact that Starcraft 1 was also taken away and no one complained, you decided to correctly omit. =)
So, come on, don’t decide for me what I “recognized” and what I didn’t; and you won’t thank me for what I didn’t do. Diablo remaster is still good in my eyes, it has problems with the network part, but their solution is mainly a matter of time.
Well, let’s go back to the modifications – you installed them? One PlugY will give you an improved version of D2P, only with the old graphics. But in such games you stop paying attention to the graphics after 10 minutes, which is a drop in the ocean for a 100+ hour grind.
I put positive freedom of choice and the opportunity to play the way you want and where you want, within the framework of legal restrictions and opportunities.
I’m saying that I don’t care about freedom of choice when Titan Quest Anniversary Edition is an improved version of the original with a ton of bugs and balance changes. =)
Well, formally – yes, I am for the remaster to occupy a new niche, not an old one
Why? Especially in cases where the remaster contains the “old version” (Halo).
But with SC and D2R there is a unique factor: the original and unremastered graphic is sewn in there, no one bothers you to use it.\
Just like in Warcraft 3. And the difference is that in SC, in addition to graphics, like in D2R and W3R, they IMPROVED the network component, and not vice versa. =)
But in vain, because all the advantages of remasters listed above for players relate much more specifically to user modifications. =)
No custom modification will allow me to play D2R on console
Well, why won’t he?. Essentially the difference is in gamepad control. Macros to help. Not the most convenient option, but I wouldn’t be so categorical when it comes to PC gaming. 😉
But it’s much more important that the game is not designed for consoles, all sorts of meteors, teleports, jumps, explosions of corpses, curses in the end. There are many targeted skills that, of course, you can ignore and go to other builds, but this will not make D2R a good game for the console. =)