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flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Razgriz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think we need to make a distinction between remakes and remasters. Full on remakes like RE4 should be allowed to compete, remasters or remasters masked as remakes shouldn’t.

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• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  because they are good. The Thing is one of my favourite films of all time, it’s a remake.

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• M137@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because those remakes are very different from the originals. They’re more like new games based on the originals.

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• GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can we stop slut-shaming remakes? The main reason people hate remakes is because they confuse remake with remaster. Remaster is the same game with a new paint of coat, remake is a reimagining of the original. Music is probably the best medium for a comparison, songs get remastered all the time, but it’s very much the same song that just sounds better now. A song remake is a different take (usually by a different artist) on the same song, essentially a cover.

  We tend to be more critical of covers but nobody would dismiss a good cover just because it’s a cover. So why do we do the same with games?

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  • Destraight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because it is still the same game. Then they expect us to pay for it again? That is so frustrating

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    • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So if you’ve seen Fincher’s Dune then paying for Villeneuve’s Dune is not acceptable? After all they’re technically the same movie because they’re based on the same source material.

      I get not liking a remake because it’s one to one the same, but I don’t get not liking a remake just because it’s a remake. System Shock remake is true to System Shock but it still feels different enough to be a separate game.

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      • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not saying that these, or remakes generally, are bad(I’ve even been thinking of picking up the DS remake). I just don’t think they should be contenders for GOTY.

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      • Destraight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What about quake? That got remade and we didn’t have to pay for that

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