What would come out the other would be good, but it would not be the masterful experience that changed music and allegedly drove other competing musicians into despair and insanity when it released in 1968.
It’s as odd and arresting as asking Paul and Ringo to re-record the White Album using more modern instruments and recording equipment. Re-skinning it is anachronistic and awkward, putting the game in a weird uncanny valley. However, even in the case of a game considered a classic, like FFVII, it’s perceived perfection is a function of it maximizing the potential of the development at that period in time.
They may feature poor controls, outdated conventions related to gameplay or designed around technological principles that were modern once but no longer. These games are usually old and by modern standards, are now bad. The adage of putting lipstick on pig applies here 100%. Everyone screams, they tell you to get hyped and you’re wondering if someone has spiked your drink and holy crap did I can’t believe I wore glasses like that and did my hair that way.įurthermore, remasters retread the old, so it rarely breaks any new development ground with innovations. It’s like being told there’s a big surprise in store for you, you’re brought into a room surrounded by all your friends in a huge party atmosphere and you’re presented with your middle school picture in a nice frame. This discouragement of risk permeates the industry similarly and trickles down so deeply that these remasters become mega announcements on convention show floors. It was a sad scene for everyone involved and the food became as poor as the atmosphere. But over time, it wore, as we all stood and watched as the same 5 dishes rotated past us, hoping that when the mashed potatoes came back around, they’d be as golden as the first time we had them. It was a revelation at first, helping ourselves to as much as we could and we loved it. It was a revolving carousel of food, which consisted of a handful of options. When I was young, there was a local buffet nearby called the Carousel Buffet. Just a quick visit to any number of news sites and aggregrators shows a rotating short list of topics and news on games we’ve all played for years: Final Fantasy VII, Skyrim, Crash Bandicoot, Final Fantasy XII, Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, Resident Evils, Ratchet and Clank, God of War, did I say Final Fantasy?, Devil May Cry, Dark Souls and those are just the ones that are a reality. This slowdown in the amount of new games to learn about and discover adds to the sludge of recycled ideas and names that are backed by recognition and resources and get the most attention. The biggest and most egregious consequence of the proliferation of remasters is they discourage the development of brand new IPs, especially from industry heavy hitters. What are the consequences of a remaster culture and where does it come from? For video games to move forward as an art form and as an industry, these are questions that must be addressed. It’s also changing what gamers expect from developers and what developers expect from gamers and the relationship is leaning the entire industry towards a stagnation, even while upstart and indie devs are furiously pushing out fresh titles. Bringing back experiences from the past by applying a new veneer based on modern needs has become a bit of a problem really, and it’s causing a distortion in the market of products available to gamers.
Remasters and their subsequent demand from the gaming community are becoming a bit of a beast.
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