This review is great! Idk how you resisted going more in depth. I think your main gripe with the remake is the new Maria. That's totally fair tbh, I do think Maria is still really good but I don't think anyone was ever going to top the all time masterclass performance of the original Maria. I think it's probably the best voice acting performance I've heard in a video game. The ending monologue especially is just so perfect in it's raw emotional delivery that it hits hard every time I replay the game. I think it was genuinely be impossible to recapture that magic try as they might.

I enjoyed it as a pastiche, but it don't touch the OG.

There's no such thing as a perfect remake. So just like the Resident Evil remakes, they're not perfect either, and the originals will always be better even though I love them all well except Resident Evil 3 remake. I love both Silent Hill 2, the original, and the remake, but the original will definitely be better

I was too afraid to finish the silent hill games as a kid haha but I should jump in now

Atlus need to re release SMT and SMT II with new graphics and the press turn system. I felt in love with the franchise after IV, played both Devil Survivor, IVA and both Vs, but can't play the first two due lack of localization and no press turn. :/

Silent hill 2 is the GREATEST survival horror games of all time for me. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about the characters and the story. I love the analysis of the video! Also will you do a kingdom hearts video soon?

150 dollars equivalent? how about 350 🥶 ?

I didn't get the opportunity to play a lot of these old games on their respective systems when I was a kid, so seeing the modern remakes feels like a treat. Take Last of Us 2 Remastered for example, never got to play it, but I'll finally be able to in May.

I dont mind it if a remake is like Pokemon HGSS or ORAS, they might have the same plot as the old game but they feel like completely different experiences than the original. Fire Emblem Shadows of valentia is like this as well for that series

It's our fault? I don't remember ever asking for a Last of us 2 remake being remade a God awful amount of times or Horizon for that matter.

I don't dislike RE4, however I still agree with everything you said here. The length of the game is my biggest gripe, but outside of that, I was too locked into the RE series to not like it.

While other games desperately need a remake i agree with the video. Some things are getting stagnant and some remakes arent even remakes just a new ip with the games name. Preserving games is the better option so all can try them at least once. Even games stuck in regional locks

Here's a crazy idea... instead of remakes, let's just have remasters ported to modern hardware. Purchases of these largely pre-made titles can be used to fuel development on sequels and new franchises.

I feel like I disagree with the nostalgia take. I think a lot of people that play remakes never played the original, and probably never would've played them if it wasn't for the remake. Definitely agree that the last of us end the dead space didn't he remakes though m

RE4 remake sales number is 9 million copy unit

Backwards compatibility needs to be the norm . Also, I really liked RE3 Remake

Sorry (not sorry) but I would not, in good faith, say that Overwatch has "incredible art direction, storytelling and interesting world". Maybe it's because it's been many years but the art direction doesn't feel all that outstanding, and in terms if storytelling and world... Like c'mon, the world is just "near future with generic robot rights issue" and we don't even know _why_ the bad guy org does what it does. You can say what you want about TF2 but your statement about Overwatch feels much more applicable to its predecessor.

Yeh but saying games from the ps2 and 3 can’t be remade or remastered shuts so many games away from newer fans I would just be happy with some remasters or ports of infamous resistance and killzone stuff like that

The remakes are a way for them to show the game to kids who weren't born the first time it came out, why wouldn't they do it? If you like the original, you can still play it

I totally agree with what you said about revisiting games your nostalgic for. I’m playing through lego star wars the complete saga (a game i loved dearly growing up) and it’s very eyeopening to realize that it’s not the flawless masterpiece I thought it was. It’s not a bad game by any means but it has its issues and there are things that could be improved on.

Halo 2 anniversary, Dead Space Remake and Ninja Gaiden 2 Black are the only solid remake I have played

This video is great and i agree with a lot of the points. But i still like Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes.

I think that last of us needed a remake. It was fine, but part 2 showed us how outdated it was. Yes, horizon remastered and last of us 2 remastered shouldn't exist. But overall, remakes make good because why would you put dlc on an old game, when there wasn't dlc for years?

Yep is money, but is I see it as a necessary evil to move forward. Example ask yourself why last gen capcom at the start was all remasters? The didn't have the money because of the bad spending of the PS3/360 the dark era thanks to all those remasters selling well they were able to get out of the hole and make new games. I know people hate Remakes and Remasters but sometimes is necessary in order to see if gamers are still interested in the franchise before doing another entry in the series. I dont mind Remakes as long as they are executed well like RE2, RE4, Shadow of the Colossus, Dead Space Remake, SH2R, even now with Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, etc. Games are becoming almost unsustainable and good remakes can made some franchise remain alive. Last example thanks yo Onimusha Remastered selling well and telling Capcom we still love the series we got another entry coming this year, all I hope i get remastered versions of Onimusha 2 & 3.

I never buy remakes or remasters of games I've previously played - been there and done that. 90% of the games I play today are either indie, AA or emulated, that's where the passion, creativity and fun is. The only AAA's I have now (since moving to pc some time ago) probably came as part of a humble or fanatical bundle.

how is it our fault that new games suck

I don't think remakes are the problem, it's just who's the one handling them like for example Persona 3 reload and Silent Hill 2 remake, you can clearly see the passion they put into it and it's not there to replace the original but bring it to a new audience but some remakes don't get the point and completely fuck it up like FF7 "Remake" trilogy

I 100% agree. I'm guilty of this too early on with the remakes but I'm trying to do better. I try to buy games that innovate.

The reason i buy remakes of classics is I was a dumb kid so all my old copies are usually running all funky so I want them on steam so I can play it without the game crashing. By the way the only ones I am referring to are spyro and crash.

It’s so nice being the kind of person that almost exclusively plays Indie games on steam. I avoid almost all of the awful, shady and deceptive practices that apparently plague modern AAA gaming. It’s to the point that I didn’t even know remakes are a problem.

Constant remakes are what make indie games that much more important

Games should have comparisons so that future games and existing IPs (both AAA and Indie) can learn from, evolve from, and improve on what worked and didn't the first time. I'd rather have a game focus on being good AND executing an idea well than be innovative for "innovation." Only bring a franchise back when it's _ready_ to return (Baldur's Gate 3, Metroid Dread, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, etc.). Not every game needs a sequel, or a remake.

4:22 "Critics shower the game with praise while the community was stunned with the massacre" Meanwhile on screen Metascore Generally favorable____ 85 User score Generally favorable____ 8.7 Mmmhh... ok -_-

Love the music in the background, actually a remaster or port of Sonic Unleashed Seoul’s be good with better controls and music adjustments.

Your entire video is invalid because you missed out on the most important reason for why Law is the best alignment in SMT4 vanilla: when Merkabah tells Flynn "This woman has come in contact with Tokyo's manga. She is unclean, and would lead we righteous ones astray." God's kingdom having no place for weebs is absolutely, 100% the *only* reason anyone needs to pick Law. Let's not forget that Walter simped for Hikaru so bad that he turned into an arm foetus.

BGs keep seasoning

I dont mind remakes that actually need it like games from the 5th or 6th generation but when you remake the last of us multiple times or horizon zero dawn, it just gets stale fast since these are games that are fresh in our memory and because they are so recent graphically and mechanically they generally hold up vs a game that came out 25 years ago

I can’t wait to play the same Spider-Man again. Or Last of Us 1, 2. Or Horizon remaster. Or three consecutive generations of Shadow of the Colossus.

Last of us remake is barely a remake lol

Personally the idea that remakes are what‘s ruining the industry is just such a wrong take, it‘s the over corporatization of the industry, the publishers poking their noses where the shouldnt and hampering the art. Remakes are fine, remasters are fine, they arent just for nostalgia, theyre to make the game more accessible, to give a cult classic a second chance at the recognition it deserves, and to make pretty games. They also are less than 1% of games being made, usually made by devs who specialized in remaking or remastering a game instead of the original studio. How do we fix this? We dont, it doesnt need to be fixed. what needs to be fixed is people buying games they hate just so that they can complain about them. What needs to be fixed it the perception that the only games that matter are the ones made by ea, ubisoft, bethesda, sony, or microsoft. Capcom for one puts out banger after banger, go give their games a try

Ok but how long can they keep going? There are only so many games with enough of a nostalgia factor to be remade. Some remakes do utulize modern technology to improve upon the previous iteration significantly but a remake of a remake would be pointless. Sure graphics might improve but gameplay is king now a days and graphics come second, as can be seen with popular games that use retro or simpler styles. I'd argue this wave of remakes will pass eventually.

why don't people just play the games from 2 generations ago?

An incest of ideation, a phrase Solar Sands coined, I think applies to video games too

But Sony still won't greenlight a bloodborne remake

I don't get why MGS3 needs a remake, that game is a 10/10.

Yeah fix it by downloading roms and not pay for remasters/remakes. The original game was good enough

Did you even play ff7 remake or rebirth? They arnt even 1:1 remakes, the story is way different

Or just the fact that 90% of new big budget games pull bullshit like 30 dollar skins and paring down the final product so they have an "ultimate edition" while shutting down studios that do make good games

The only ones I'll accept are ones that actually need a remake. ff7 makes perfect sense, but the last of use doesn't need one at all, not for another decade tbh

The Dead Space remake was better than the original game. Heck they even fixed that horrible level with the turret and turned it into something more bearable. Everyone wants a remake of the second game now because of how great the first game ended up.