Firstly, it is annoying when people believe it takes an entire team to dedicate to a remaster. You're not re-writing a story and often not adding any new gameplay elements, so all the writers, creative directors and gameplay/sound programmers aren't occupied. Literally, it is only a tech team that consists of very few people relative to the number of people in a studio.*

It doesn't take away from resources. While the creative team is building a story, the engineering team is working on a remaster, the work they do improves the engine for the next game, when they are done they are ready to board the new project as the programming team start building the game.

Graphics programmers and engine programmers need to adapt to new hardware, so it is better that remasters are done in year 1,2 and 3 of hardware, so they learn the skills to make better looking and performing games in years 3, 4,5 and 6, which is historically where all the better games have been in a consoles lifecycle.

In this case, Sony may not be doing you a service by releasing games you've already played. But there are millions of potential wii and xbox owners who didnt get to experience those games, and probably never will, so there is nothing wrong with re-releasing the best of a generation on the next generation.

Finally, sony have published only one disc remaster so far. TLOU:R, with two more in check (GOW3 and Gravity rush). Not bad for a studio which revealed 9 new ip's last gamescom alone and more at PSX. Click Here pl0x

*Corrinne Yu, graphics engineer of The Last of Us remastered fame said in an interview, any work she did to imrpove TLOU:R improved Uncharted 4 prospectively, and it didn't take her away from her work on U4 because tech is built collaboratively with a game.

I want new games on the platforms I buy. If I wanted to play games from last gen, I would have......last gen.

If youre going to charge me again for the same game, then it better have more content...

Aside from Nintendo, who in technological issues was hidden in a cave for the last decade, I can't believe the "need to adapt to the new hardware" thing.

This is basically how I sort of feel. It just makes this generation seem empty. This generation is doing well financially, but it feels really rocky.

Old remasters are great because a lot of them can have noticeable improvements that benefit both gamers that played them and gamers that havn't while remastering games that are fairly new is nonsense because its not even close to being as easily noticeable and its mostly for "the people who havn't played them" that doesn't benefit me who bought the console because I played those kinds of games.

I also want new games

As with any game, they need to justify their existence and their price. Often remasters just don't do that. Giving you the same game over again with minimal changes aren't enough to justify that game's existence from a consumer standpoint and bringing the game to a new audience also isn't enough.

(imo) There are two reasons to remake a game:
1. The game is unable to be purchased elsewhere:
ex. Grim Fandango, Homeworld, Xenoblade Chronicles
2. The game is significantly dated or has fixable flaws:
ex. Wind Waker, Homeworld, Phantom Dust, Ocarina of Time

Outside of that, it is hard for me to support remakes from a consumers perspective. Their audience consists of people who didn't care enough to buy the game the first time around and people who are fanatical enough to purchase the same game multiple times, neither of which are particularly good target audiences imo.

There are also more minor concerns such as development time that could better be spent elsewhere, lack of new experiences on new consoles and value concerns (which aren't universal complaints, but still widespread enough to mention).

Overall, I don't think the complaining about remasters is going away any time soon and I don't think that it should. The fact that publishers aren't delivering what a lot of consumers want (vocal minority or not) is always something worth speaking about. While this is obviously an opinion, that does not invalidate these sentiments...

So you can play your old favourites again!

Nostalgia rush and they are almost always better in terms of everything (graphics, frames, and the remastered OST!!)

more games to play on the console = bad. how dont you get it?

Quantity =/= Quality

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