Topic: Anyone else getting tired of remakes?

So everyone's head over heels over all the Mario remakes they announced in that direct. Everybody except me.

I've gotten a little fatigued towards remakes over the last few years, due to how quickly they're coming out these days and how little they seem to make an impact on their respective series(with a few exceptions). There are some remakes I enjoy, some even more than the originals, but those feel few and far in between. I have to wonder If I'm the only one who feels this way, so I ask: are you feeling remake fatigue or am I just being a curmudgeonly old man?

(For clarity's sake, I'm mainly referring to (mostly) one-to-one remakes of games, e.g. Crash N. Sane Trilogy, Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, Pac-Man World Re-Pac, etc.)

Tbh no not really, as someone who never got a chance to play those games I’m happy to be able to play them on Modern hardware, and the fact that they have updated visuals is always a plus.

As long the remakes elevated the graphics and gameplay contents, I'm happy with the remakes.
Take a look FF 3 & 4 NDS version compared with original version.

As someone who thought they got a bargain only paying $80 for a loose copy of TTYD, I’m certainly glad that there will be a better way to play the game. As long as there are plenty of original games on the system, I won’t complain about remakes being present.

I'm looking forward to playing TTYD as I never bought it when I had the chance during the GC days.

For some reason, I didn't want to risk £40...

I actually was just thinking to myself about how many remakes and remasters have been coming out. The switch era was when I truly started to get into gaming so I can't say that I'm tired of the remakes because I never played most of these games growing up. If I played each of these games already then I probably would've been more annoyed.

Kind of?

To me it only annoys me if entire series are over-relying on remakes over anything new. It still bugs me that people were told to buy Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD in order to get the remakes they actually wanted. Not even to get a new game, just to get more remakes. Not to mention RE4, which I'm still not convinced really needed a remake. I could play the original Gamecube release right now and it still ourdoes most action games out there today.

And in general I feel like remaking less than great is still an underrated concept. I'd kill for a version of Fragile Dreams with better gameplay, but that's not cool enough a name to remake. Metroid 2 has a lot of value for what it is, but at least modernizing it fundamentally changes what it is and it felt almost necessary with the awkward lack of one after Zero Mission happened to update it to the Super and beyond era of the series. It was so necessary, it happened twice. Or at least more games to look at FFVII remake to how you can modernize and change a game while still technically remaking it (though I'd be equally cool with turning an older action game into a turn based one).

I'm thrilled for some of the recent Mario remakes but I'd have been more than fine with simple HD ports like they did with Pikmin too. And as much as I badly wanted to own TTYD again, and as thrilled as I am to buy it, there is also a small part of me that really wishes they had just at least...tried to make a new game in a remotely similar style. They only did it twice, ever. There's so much more you could do with Paper Mario as an RPG then just exactly the same as what the first two games did. Not like there's any new Mario RPGs to even pretend it would be redundant (though it is ironic to say that, when there's two different Mario RPG remakes coming out in the span of one year).

Not really, no.

But then again, I'm a Pokemon fan, I'm used to buying the same experiences over and over. It's part of my code.

@Eel Right? I mean I know a lot of people didn’t like the D&P remakes but I never got to play them so I was more then happy too and I really enjoyed it.

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I wouldn't say I'm getting tired of them as I find it pretty easy to just ignore something if I'm not interested. I rarely replay games that I've already finished so I skip a lot of remakes and most of the Mario ones are pretty whatever to me but I've just got so many other games to play that it's no big deal.

@kkslider5552000 Are you a mind-reader cause these are almost my exact thoughts, especially that first point. Telling people to buy remakes so they can get new games sounds to me like they don't wanna go through with the effort of making a new game at all. It's been almost two years since Banana Mania came out and nothing's come from it since.

@Snatcher I understand where this comes from; believe me, I've been there--but I feel like there's still value in playing the original version of a game despite any hiccups they might have, and I promise you this isn't nostalgic connection talking. Playing a game in its original from makes it easier to appreciate what the developers were able to accomplish at the time with the tech they were given. I find you don't get that same feeling with remakes

On the fence a bit here.... I think some remakes are quite justified, especially when a certain period of time has passed - considered cases including Resident Evil 2, Demon's Souls, Tony Hawk 1+2 (sure there are more, but these spring to mind). The aged nature of the original games allows for a complete graphical overhaul & improved gameplay/mechanics - and is equally a great way to introduce 'classic' titles to a new generation of gamers.

On the other side - we have cases like The Last of Us PS5 version (which had a PS4 remaster only a few years prior?!). 'Current-gen' situations then aim to justify an excessive price-point, which IMO is pretty poor.

Generally speaking though, I think there is far too much focus on remasters/remakes (also true for Nintendo) and this narrative starts to lean into a sort of creative bankruptcy. Where are the new IPs in modern gaming? Or even new games in existing but dormant IPs? (Starfox, FZero etc)

Reboots, Remakes, Sequels seem to be plaguing the film industry as well as gaming.... Not to say there isn't a 'place' for these though. Some recent sequels have been great - Baldurs 3, TOTK, Ragnarok etc and Remasters such as Metroid Prime are very welcome. BUT it would be great to see this toned down a bit, and resources/time/money/effort ploughed into new IPs.

Just my opinion, but would be great to have some more unique/fresh gaming experiences among all the above. For me this year, Inscryption is probably the game that has 'stayed' with me the most of everything I've played.

When you consider the upcoming GOTY contenders, nearly all the likely shortlisted are sequels or remakes - expecting TOTK, BG3, RE4, StreetFighter6, FFXVI, Starfield (Starfield is the outlier here, and although the consensus seems to be 'solid 8/10 game' at least Bethedsa pushed for something a bit different)

Honestly no. There has been a bunch of games that I like that I would probably never played if it weren’t for remakes and they help introduce a new generation to classic games like Crash Spyro and Ty.

@N00BiSH I think that’s fair, it is called a remake for a reason. Honestly nintendo could just port it and I would be happy, I just want a way to play the games lol! While I don’t really care if they remake it and am happy they do, I can see where your coming from with valuing the original and what not, as sometimes they do tend to adjust things and whatnot.

@N00BiSH
Remake games are optional choice.
You can decide to accept the remake or not.
There are some peoples will accept the remake games for better experience or they have never played the old version.
More choices merrier.

@BobTheBunkerGuy Can we talk about how that thing (at leas to me) as like the same graphics as 2 and it cost 10 dollars extra.

I think uncharted looks just fine but I wouldn’t complain if we got 1-3 with 4’s graphics! I would buy!

No complaints from me.

I've picked up the remakes of Advance Wars, Metroid Prime, Baten Kaitos and Quake 2 this year.

It's worth bearing in mind that most are made with teams far smaller and less experienced than those who would be making a new game, and on a much shorter timescale. They're often farmed out to external studios, even. So, I don't think they're taking away much from the development of new games.

As for the remake of TLOU1, it made a lot more sense to me when they announced that they were going to make a PC port of it and release it on Steam. It's just a shame that it's taken them so long to fix the bugs that plagued it at launch.

When you add up all the new (first-party or third party) games released on Switch, and then add up all the ports and remakes, surely the ports and remakes will outnumber original games.

I won't pretend that doesn't sting a little at times. Nowadays you see so many forum posts and reader letters clamouring for ports and remakes and I don't really get it. If there's a classic game from the past that I've not played I'd much rather find a way of playing the original version to get the authentic experience from which the game made its name.

But at the same time, you gotta be realistic. I must admit that the first time I reached the end credits in Ocarina of Time was the 3DS version, because it was playable portably. If you favour portable play then you have to accept that the nature of portables is that they're less powerful than consoles/PCs and therefore will always attract ports.

But if you're a TV-only type gamer... I'd be disappointed. But there's obviously alternative hardware out there for playing new games on.

I'm fairly happy with older games getting compiled into a collection (e.g. the Super Mario 3D All-stars, Pikmin 1+ 2) but the standalone releases better have a price that reflects the lack of creativity required to produce the release. Metroid Prime Remastered was available significantly cheaper - happy to buy it, but will TTYD get a similar price point?

Nope. I want more and more quality remakes!