General PS5 Stuff

Hmm... Personally would almost always take a remaster over a remake. Just make another game if you are going to change gameplay or recreate everything. Same way I would rather watch an old film in black and white, but maybe with the image with less blemishes and the sound clearer, rather than for it to be remade entirely with modern cast and crew (or worse, colourised!).

I want to experience old games (particularly those I haven't played before, such as the Soul Reaver games) the way they were intended to be experienced by the original developers. Up the resolution, maybe use higher resolution textures, but keep the art, controls and gameplay the same.

I prefer Nightdive's way of doing things because while it's fine to have just a simple uprez some games from long ago are just straight up unplayable by today's standards usually in terms of bugs that were never patched, controls that have never heard of accessibility for people with disabilities and 9/10 a terrible camera that you had to live with. I think that's what a good remaster should do, just increasing the resolution and wanting 40/50 quid is just a piss take.

Oh totally, price should be changed accordingly. A minimum effort remaster should only be £20-25 at most, which, I think, is what Night Dive normally charge for their very well done releases. Reminds me, I really need to get around to their remaster of Dark Forces I have sitting on my drive.

I always like those remasters that let you switch between the original look of the game and the new look, such as the Tomb Raider ones and the Monkey Island ones.

Good point on accessibility. Ideally, those options could be built on top of the existing game, although I would guess that wouldn't always be possible.

Looks alright to me but I like olde worlde looking graphics and thought the Tomb Raider remasters were really well done. Never played them though. It's one of those things that everyone seems to have played and loves but completely passed me by for some reason. Know bugger all about it. It's like when people start reminiscing about the Amiga or Commodore 64. I have no idea what I was doing around those times

Ding ding ding!

There are plenty of people that won't watch an old film because it is in black and white or because it has black bars. Away from technical issues, there will be even more that will find the old style of acting unwatchable or find old films too slowly paced or too stagey, etc, etc.

As with many of those issues, games have seen objective improvements. Different people have different tolerances though. And, as I said before, if you are putting in the effort to update mechanics and controls, then you might as well just make a whole new game.

What I really do object to with remakes is that the originals often end up disappearing. Take the Resident Evil remakes, where up until very recently you could no longer buy the original Resident Evil 2 (it has just in the last month or so been added to GoG, with 3 coming soon).

On the subject of remasters, I didn't realise that an improved version of Epic Mickey had been released.

www.eurogamer.net/epic-mickey-rebrushed-a-flawed-fascinating-curio-transformed

I certainly like what Capcom did with the Resident Evil remakes (maybe they should have given RE3 remake more content, but hey) and surely remakes like Demon's Souls or Shadow of the Colossus have a place in my games library, but I'm not so sure about remastering games of the previous generation that are still perfectly playable on today's hardware...

...unless it's Bloodborne; I'll bite BB remaster/remake/whatever out of your hands 

I absolutely loved my time with SR1&2 and I think in this case a basic remaster is OK though I always prefer a remake that brings the game up to modern standards.

Not sure where I stand on changing bits from the original or being a faithful remake though.

1 minute to disappointment ?

Called it! 😆

Hell is Us looks cool

Fable with gore

Can spot a generic UE style run animation a mile off