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I'm half-interested in remakes, if only because Capcom is good at it, but certainly the major problem is that all these old games are leveraged as IP for potential revenue streams, with no official preservation effort to speak of.This might ruffle some feathers but if I'm being honest, I kind of hate what this remake/remaster trend has done to the perception of older games. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing classic games being brought back but there's something about the way these games are being brought back that bothers me.
Whether it's a full remake or a remaster, I feel like there's this widespread mindset amongst both developers and players that older games don't have value as they are and need to be updated whether it be graphically or mechanically to fit modern standards in order to justify re-releasing them.
I feel like a lot of games would benefit greatly from just a resolution bump, an improved frame rate and better load times but for a lot of people that doesn't seem to be enough so instead we get all these projects that completely overhaul the graphics and sound or change the gameplay in some way. At a certain point when you make so many changes I feel like you start to lose something.
There was this weirdly cool moment, when all the major movie streaming services started up, where they all offered a repository of sorts for most of their films. Paramount Plus had shit I'd never seen, and hundred year old films like some of the Frank L Baum production company Wizard of Oz movies. (I mean, they weren't good, but still!) It only took a few months for them all to realize they weren't making money, and panicked and had to start licensing out all of their content to anyone who would buy it, but what a vision of the future that felt like.
We'll never see a library or repository like that for games for about the same reason, no profit incentive, but it's more painful in this case; old gaming hardware breaks down and the software designed for it can't be transferred or adapted without serious effort, as opposed to watching film the same way we always have. (Or at least, since the nickelodeons on the boardwalks fell out of vogue.)