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Experimental42 on 16 July 2014
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Was told to comment my thoughts in another thread, so gonna bring it here I guess. Will if wrong thread for this and asked.

And I want to say before the copy pasta that that I LOVE HD remasters, just not what they're doing now because of a perceived lack in value.


http://plebegaming.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/excessive-hd-remasters/

I'm fine with HD remasters. I love what they do by going back and bringing some of the classics with updated visuals so today's graphics whores may appreciate them more and I get to enjoy them with more modern touches. What's not to love about updated nostalgia?

Where I draw the line though is when HD remasters for games that literally came out last year are repackaged and sold at pretty much full price. It's not bringing back a classic. It's slapping a new coat of paint on on something barely out of our minds and trying to sell it to us at roughly the same price of the original launch. I work hard for my money, so I'd appreciate if you'd work a little harder for yours, be it a reasonably reduced price for the product you spent almost no effort on, or the extra effort updating a more dated game/collection would take.

If you want to make a good remaster you need to do one of two things:

1) Remake something great that's old enough to invoke nostalgia.

2) Remake a good game like The Last of Us but price it reasonably, perhaps start at a place equal to the price the original is currently selling at.

I'm all for them making money. I just think it's a scumbag move to charge full price, or close enough, for a remaster.

You say it's not different than normal ports, but it is. They're releasing year old games, not brand new ones, at the same price you might pay for brand new material. How much work did they do on them? Not much. They're charging 125% of the price for a game that took 10% of the effort.

How often before have we gotten such terribly priced HD remasters? Yeah with the price drop it's the same price as Wind Waker HD, but Wind Waker was out of production, years old, and received a massive upgrade so it was a great value. Hell most HD Remaster games now come as Collections and are much cheaper than a standard game. FFX/X-2, DMC HD Collection, and several MGS collections are great examples of HD done right and packed with value, but today's re-releases? Not so much.