The Era of Video Game Remakes Is Just Getting Started, New Report Finds

4 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by PaulHoule

3 Comments

jfalcon

11 hours ago

Can't wait for them to reproduce Atari's "ET - the Extra-Terrestrial".

When a game's value is worth more in the landfill than on shelves, you know you got something special.

titusjohnson

9 hours ago

I'm a big fan of tasteful remakes/remasters/updates. I don't mind paying again. I liked the Monkey Island update, System Shock, Myst, and Oblivion. They hit the right balance of QOL changes to take advantage of modern control schemes and polishing up the gfx to match my rose-colored memories. Oblivion on my HDTV looks so much like how I remember it looking on my 15" Compaq my nostalgia bones vibrate.

> About 60 percent thought 5-8 years is the ideal amount of time between versions. Only 11 percent thought 10 years or more was preferable.

This I don't understand. 5-8 years old is the ideal age to remaster? So Skyrim should have had a full-blown remaster by now, if not 2?

I want to see 20 year old stuff get this treatment. Homeworld 1, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2, Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Max Payne, Mech Warrior.