Bad Video Game Remakes and Remasters

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Bad and Terrible Video Game Remakes have been stinking up the place for a while now. Worse than the original? SURE. From the PS5 to the Switch and whatever, you can play decades of awful remakes ALL in the palm of your hand without any kickback. But why? If anything, it's probably cause you're a weirdo like me.
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00:00 - Intro (Terrible Remakes and Warcraft)
03:50 - Needed more Love (XIII)
06:18 - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
07:39 - Panzer Dragooning and Others
10:44 - Rippin' on Pokemon Gen 4
12:42 - Remakes of Classics
20:55 - The Worst Remasters (SANIC)
24:50 - Dumb Publisher Decisions
28:39 - The "Reimagination"
32:25 - Goldeneye Not Starring Brosnan
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[@austineruption]

Pick up a Backbone One today here! go.playbackbone.com/e/austineruption What are some video game remakes you've played that sucked the big one? Lemme know here, cause there's probably more than enough for me to make a second video if there's a want! ALSO YES, I saw your poll results... I guess I gotta do all three of those, huh?

[@rancid_]

@austineruption Appreciate the new video and all you did during 2023. Looking forward to your channel next year!

[@TramiNguyen-oi3kp]

Kirby

[@jacksonteller3973]

Flashback remake is underrated IMO

[@jacksonteller3973]

Honestly the original Goldeneye game has aged VERY badly. It sounds like you're letting nostalgia cloud your judgement of the remake, personally speaking as someone who never owned an N64 I have ZERO nostalgia for the original game and think it plays and looks like shit I think it's a damn good remake and I really don't see the COD comparison at all, I think that's a HUGE stretch personally. Plenty of people like myself actually do fondly remember this remake so speak for yourself.

[@jacksonteller3973]

House of the Dead remake is good you're nuts.

[@BlitzAce987]

funniest thing about the XIII Remake is that visually it honestly looks worse than the original from nearly 20 years earlier

[@gundamw3490]

😂

[@marbles8641]

Because, in trying to make the game more graphic and detailed, they lost the cell shading that made it so iconic. Hell, more companies need the cell shading that Arc System works is known for!

[@marcellosilva9286]

Half a year ago I beat Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne and I was blown away by how well the cel shading in that game holds up, it's maddening the devs thought it was unnecessary in the XIII remake.

[@Marzimus]

Not a good game either...

[@vaporsaver]

Funny a remake came out 20 years later, after the cliffhanger ending sets up a sequel that never happened.

[@ehrenloudermilk1053]

I went to sit down on my bed today. Missed, and slid onto the floor. Broke by fall with my left hand in a glass ashtray. Ashtray broke and sliced my wrist. Sliced it good. I thought fast and dialed 911 and unlocked my door. Took off shirt and belt and used them to slow bleeding. I live alone and 30 minutes to the nearest hospital. Talked to a very nice 911 lady until I went out. I'm alive. Some tendons were cut. So I can't play video games until hopefully surgery and physical therapy. Sorry for the long story. Just had a real crazy day. Thought I'd share.

[@amirgarcia547]

Cool story bro, even if it’s got nothing to do with the video.

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

I don’t care

[@Nechrome9]

Hope you're doing better now!

[@gregorytgore]

That's what you get for smoking

[@EhrenLoudermilk]

Dont smoke. One of those big glass ashtrays from the 70's. Used it as a change dish ​@@gregorytgore

[@kolonarulez5222]

That version of Frogger was the first video game I ever played. Glad to hear it was actually difficult and not entirely unskilled little kid me

[@bes03c]

I replayed it a few months ago. It is still hard but consistent. The PC version still has an active modding scene today.

[@GuiOmania]

I rent it in the 90’s once because that was the only game available that look ok and it was brutal !!!

[@jooglebob]

It was one of the first games I ever played too. The PC version has levels with far more reasonable time limits and smoother controls and I wonder if Austin would have had a better time with it if he wasn't playing the PSX version. I mastered the PC version, but then when trying the PSX version I stunk because of the controls. I think it's a decent game for the time it was released, for an early 3D game. I enjoy the aspect of exploring levels and figuring out where the babies are and developing a plan to clear the level as quickly as possible. The sequel is pretty good as well.

[@Mintcar923]

The original Frogger was my first game I ever owned.. Coleco mini

[@Ozufeba]

Same for me. My dad usually played sports games on the PS-, then randomly rented this. Neither of us could ever beat it lol

[@faereman]

The worst part about CTR's microtransactions is that it felt from day one that it was gonna happen, because you get SO FEW coins by playing normally while the items at the shop are very expensive in comparison (you get about 50 coins per race and your average unlockable costs 1500 coins...). I'm still VERY far from having unlocked everything and I've had the platinum trophy ages ago. The thing is designed to forced impatient players to splurge.

[@joshshrum2764]

I’ll just ignore it when i play it, but nothing is as bad as the chocobo gp game because at least you can get every character without paying in CTRR.

[@Frederik-DK]

The real reason the Sonic 1 GBA version is bad? It's a port of the mobile phone Java version, which is also why the music sounds like a MIDI file.

[@therealjaystone2344]

GBA had a lot of ported games from the SNES

[@residentgrey]

That is sad because the platform has support for tracker modules, which provides more controls for manipulating sound.

[@GreatFox42]

Do you have a source for this? This is the first I've heard of this and I can't seem to find any such statement.

[@Frederik-DK]

@@GreatFox42 It's written on The Cutting Room Floor's article about the game but if you compare screenshots of the GBA game and the Java version, you can see the similarities.

[@GreatFox42]

@@Frederik-DK Thank you.

[@lucasLSD]

The crystal chronicles one pisses me off the most because even new games have this problem of not sharing progress like Monster Hunter World's campaign.

[@2ndbleak]

Ooooh that was so infuriating in Monster Hunter World

[@davidaitken8503]

All Square/Enix had to do was to make it easier to get 4 Gameboy Advanced systems, 4 GBA to GC cords, and 4 players all living in the same village be less cumbersome to play together and they somehow managed to mess even THAT up!

[@goldeklee]

@@davidaitken8503 Honestly I'd have taken something like the Stardew Valley approach and have a Host save file for online play. You keep the co-op vibe going, and while yes, still no local multiplayer, you can actually access the memories that required multiple different characters to acquire. The fact that the solution was *so* easy, and they still messed that up is one of the most baffling, and disappointing things I've ever seen. Crystal Chronicles deserved so much more

[@TheCommanderTaco]

Out of curiosity was the gameplay core wise the same as the original version? Never played the original, but as a huge FF fan I bought the switch version and immediately got bored after the 1st dungeon. As a multiplayer with a party ( which I know was the core mechanic of the game) I could see it being fun ( but as AngryJoe stated "anything with friends can be fun"). As a person who mainly plays games solo having to carry the jar and not having the traditional gain experience from defeating monsters was just a design that did not click with me.

[@goldeklee]

@@TheCommanderTaco So typically, in multiplayer you'd be passing the chalice from person to person as the need arose. There were also certain memories (a mechanic that becomes important later) that were made for multiplayer, meaning you miss out on a few of them with how the remaster is designed. You also cannot slowly build up and improve your town with friends in it either. Essentially, they gave us cross platform, but also took away the features that made multiplayer fun. The general gameplay is mostly untouched outside of that however, with the combat... well, being more fun with friends as it usually is. The game was less about the combat and more the story and relationship building, and half of that was basically cut out to get a piece of the mobile gaming pie.

[@Boonehams]

16:04 - I decided to look up Satoshi Urushihara after Austin mentioned him, and the very first line in his bio said, "Satoshi Urushihara, the Master of Breasts..." and now I have a new hero.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Love the artwork and even watched some of his anime and hentai (one of the first times I've seen one).

[@abadenoughdude300]

Guy was the god of softcore back in the days of fledgling anime fandom of the 90's, like before it was common practice to actually follow artists and recognize their work you took one look at a random pic and you knew he did it. I know why Austin is telling people to not look him up but it's still kinda rude.

[@lutfimakarim8258]

If you ever make a part 2, how about discussing Bomberman: Act Zero as a bad reimagining?

[@subtledemisefox]

I remember my brother and I seeing that game in the video store and we both said "that's not Bomberman!" and left it on the shelf. Not long after we watched the Armake21 video about it and laughed every time he brought up the "S&M robots"

[@joshshrum2764]

Yeah he needs to eruption allover that game since it gets passive mentions, and yes i had to say eruption allover because it’s perfect.

[@kingkarrot9304]

Ruining the Mrs. Ruby boss fight in Sly 1 is my 1st thought

[@lgrcen2008]

what happened?

[@kingkarrot9304]

@@lgrcen2008 it’s a rhythm based boss battle, and the music isn’t properly synced to the attacks as the come at you. Makes it borderline unplayable

[@lgrcen2008]

@@kingkarrot9304 Thx

[@JakeLT64]

Monkey Ball Banana Mania was the worst offender for me. I can excuse the gameplay differences since it was remade in unity, I can try to excuse Monkey Target, the only party game people care about being broken at launch, but Banana Mania has NO MULTIPLAYER. In 1 & 2 you can take turns. In Deluxe you can play simultaneously. Idk how a remake of a party game can come out without a way to play it multiplayer and it just doesn’t seem like a big deal and is never addressed with an update over 2 years later.

[@Dominion_Hawks]

Random, but the Goldeneye 007 is the game I've played the most online on my Wii. I really liked it

[@marc-antoinepepin8908]

check out Agent 64, It's a game that wants to copy the original Goldeneye

[@therealjaystone2344]

That’s why goldeneye 007 will never get a remake for licensing reasons

[@mrterrychaos]

It was an atrocity that House of the Dead remake released without a light gun. Time Crisis 4 released on PS3 with a sensor based light gun to accommodate flat screen TV setups so it's possible. Inb4 "there's not really enough demand to pack in a light gun peripheral" - if there's no demand for light guns, then there's no demand for light gun games. Even the PC version doesn't officially support the sindens or gun4ir without a community patch. Once that's set up though, it FIXES that game's gameplay.

[@jacksonteller3973]

eh not everyone likes playing those games with light guns, I prefer playing them with controllers myself.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

not gonna lie i would 100% get into modern FPS if they made Quote-unquote "Lightgun" Controllers to play them, they already got pretty much all the mechanics built-in on other non-gun shaped controllers

[@streetmagik3105]

Okay, I'll go there, the artist from Langrisser (Satoshi Urushihara) did a bunch of softcore stuff. Probably best known in the states for Plastic Little. The DVD of the anime even had a boob jiggle counter mode.

[@skapokonroll]

If you wanna talk about bad remakes, that horrible Popeye game on the Switch and PS4 was supposedly a reimagining of the arcade game. I don't think there's a remake out there that misses the point of the original as much as that one.

[@kingbash6466]

That one Megaman X port for the iOS feels like an April Fool's joke from Capcom. it's so awful that it's genuinely funny.

[@catantcha99]

The X collection on PS4 is also a really bad version of X one. The PlayStation x games run okay at least

[@lando8913]

I remember when XIII came out it was talked about everywhere, for a short time. The comic style was so unique with the panels popping up and stuff. I'm surprised it didn't get better ratings. I swear it was getting like 9/10s at the time..

[@cobrallama6236]

I remember playing the Frogger remake on PS2 a lot. It was called Reptile Run and was a mini game in Final Fantasy X-2.

[@marvel8797]

Ah, XIII, the game that anyone only ever knew about because the show X-Play dedicated an entire episode to the making of it prior to release and then when it came out they gave it a 3...out of 5.

[@coreylineberry8557]

Got to say I read that in Adam Sessler's voice.

[@HorusDeathtouch]

For some reason, I remember as a kid the G4 people doing nothing but praising it.

[@BareBandSubscription]

@@HorusDeathtouch Yeah, I seem to recall somebody somewhere speaking very highly of XIII, and I was pretty sure it was someone associated with G4

[@Unquestionable]

Gotta say the Langrisser remakes are a lot more player friendly compared to the original. I got a copy of Warsong for like ten bucks in 2002 and while I loved it was absolutely brutal to the point of frustration. The remake is a bit too easy but after playing it I definitely enjoyed it a lot more considering it was impossible to get stuck unlike the original. Still you didn't go too hard on it. Also shout out to the semi related Growlanser series, some of the same devs and same art direction but a semi RTS where we got the entire series excluding the first and last titles. A shame because they're pretty solid if a bit needlessly difficult at time, with the 4th game being absolutely incredible on the PSP/Vita.

[@theozillanuke8281]

Digimon World already got as close to a remake as NB are probably willing to make. Two in fact. Digimon World Redigitize for the PSP in Japan only which has been fully translated into English and made available to play on a PSP emulator. The other which did get a US release Digimon World Next Order on the PS4 and Switch.

[@RippahRooJizah]

It reminds me of Gunstar Super Heroes, a game that was a sequel, but also effectively a remake as well.

[@HoroJoga]

Is Next Order a remake of the original?

[@theozillanuke8281]

@@HoroJoga Yes and No. It takes some of the areas and the basic gameplay ideas but throws new areas and ideas in there. It is a new game with a new story (or maybe I should just say that it has a story) but it references the original a lot. It uses the Digimon World 1 gameplay not 2 or 3's so if that is what you are interested in then this is what you are looking for. If you want a full remake of the first game then I would say not to hold your breath. Next order and Redigitize are bigger and reuse so much of the content from the first game that I don't think they would remake it. Rerelease maybe but not a remake. If you want to know more a guy on KZbin recently did a series retrospect on the whole series and he goes into more detail than I could.

[@joebove4]

A little while back, I received my copy of Gargoyles Remastered from Limited Run, and boy, does this feel like minimum effort given form.

[@TheLastComa]

I also quit WoW in Cataclysm....my characters died fighting Deathwing canonicaly. Was upsetting to leave the community but it was just too much and was an actual addiction that was made worse with every new update and addition to the game ..more checklists to cross off, more mounts and shit to grind for....losing sleep hours in giant raid groups. I miss it but it was definitely not healthy.

[@TG-ge1oh]

Relatable. I quit around the same time as well. Pretty much for the same reasons, in addition to having increasingly less time to spare on grinding for higher gear score.

[@PeepoActual]

My man, thank you for all the work you do for us.

[@Spit1990]

B 😊

[@averagefez]

You're half-right about CTR's microtransactions in that they're only applicable to stuff you can get in the store. Otherwise, you still have to play Adventure Mode to unlock the boss characters and you still have to beat the time trials to unlock N. Tropy. They're not as intrusive as you think.

[@Danbo22987]

The part of the game that is a remaster of the original is completely free from the “microtransactions” so it’s really unfair to call the game as a whole “a bad remake” because of that

[@Tamarocker88]

The microtransactions were FAR MORE intrusive than he led on, what are you talking about?! Yeah, the items in the shop were largely cosmetic, except for unlockable characters like the flag girls etc... There were numerous severe problems with the store. 1: they severely restricted offline wumpa coin earning rates, making it a COMPLETE slog to earn their in-game currency, forcing online play (which was extremely buggy, had constantly crashing and disbanding lobbies), 2: they prioritized implementation of their online shop over fixing bugs and problems with the game both offline and onilne 3: You couldn't simply buy the items you wanted. The online shop had a restricted rotating inventory. You either had to get lucky, check back in on the store every single day, or waste those hard earned coins buying out tons of unwanted items to empty out the item pool and force yours to rotate into a slot. Worse yet, many of the most desired or popular items (looking at you flag girls) were relegated to only being available in expensive bundles, not to mention that the shop's item slots contained pools of items that only rotated on a daily to weekly basis unless you bought items. It was EXTREMELY predatory and designed to be a grindy waste of time that would annoy people to the point of handing over their money.

[@Tamarocker88]

@@Danbo22987 Half the fun of playing CTR is playing multiplayer, so I say it's fair to equate the online multiplayer to 50% of the experience. While I agree the single player campaign is great, the online MTX BS completely ruined the remake for me. And I'm one of the OG high skilled players who ranked in the top 0.01% of players in the online grand prix. I bailed on the game once I earned that grand prix kart because I wasn't about to waste another minute dealing with the atrocious online lobbies and matchmaking, let alone the predatory MTX.

[@averagefez]

​@@Tamarocker88 Okay, simmer down, you seem a bit tense. I just wanted to clarify that the MTX(as skeezy and terrible as they are) don't really invalidate the overall quality of the game and the best way to say no to the practice is just not to pay a cent for any of them. I don't disagree with anything you're saying.

[@Tamarocker88]

@averagefez Not tense in the slightest. The MTX do detract from the overall quality of the game. The online gameplay and inclusion of the MTX are part of the game. By saying they don't have any effect on the value of the game is to ignore them completely.

[@lankyGigantic]

Jet Set Radio for the Vita had a very interesting bug where it would constantly pause and unpause

[@BugsyFoga]

If I’m being entirely honest, the whole nitro fueled micro transaction fiasco didn’t really bother my experience with the game in the long run, sure it was pretty dumb thing to add in the game, but despite all that I still had a great time .

[@bcd32dok36]

If I remember correctly the developers tried to make the micro transactions as optional as possible by increasing the numbers of coins you get from races and putting stuff in the store on sale constantly on some days.

[@polocatfan]

the problem is that it was literally illegal for them to do and they never got in trouble.

[@LoliconSamalik]

17:15 Oi. Respect Satoshi Urushihara. There's a tenderness and melancholy to his character art that you don't find oftenly mixed with beauty.

[@Haruharuharuko1942]

My favorite part about the master chief collection was installing it via the disk on Tuesday and not being able to play halo 2 until Friday no joke

[@statesminds]

Warsong/Langrisser remasters arent bad imo. You can change the art to old style but wish could change the sprites in game

[@williammoore1030]

Feel like remakes are finally getting more consistent. There are still lazy cash grabs but of the ones I’ve been interested in lately, they seem to mostly be great. BTW XIII is pretty decent now I bought it on sale a few days ago for a few dollars.

[@therealjaystone2344]

RE1R started it all 2 decades ago

[@williammoore1030]

@@therealjaystone2344 first one I remember playing is super Mario all stars. On the SNES.

[@Glitchy1988]

@@therealjaystone2344 Re1R was amazing though. It's 2 and 3 HD that where trash.

[@Mitchisable]

Just play the original XIII. It still holds up well.

[@ElTequilla]

Yeah but a decent remake of a decent game.. is just very pointless.

[@iofevil91]

In the same vein of the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1 I am glad that I have The Master Chief Collection because it is everything in one place on modern consoles, but even today I run into all sorts of weird bugs you don't get on the original.

[@KingKrouch]

The funny thing about Parappa HD is that it's just the PSP version with some HD textures injected into it.

[@Tenchi10]

I was lucky enough to get a review copy of Langrisser, and I agree it isn't the best remake, but it was a good one. Something I'm glad got a full scale release. The average gamer won't be looking for fan translations...let's be real lol. I don't even do emulation, because I work so much. I love emulation too! More recent, it was Jurassic Park from Limited Run, and it was basically a straight port with updated controls. I'd rather have these than another GTA Trilogy "remaster."

[@iap7597]

Don’t forget the Assassin’s Creed 2 “remaster” for Xbox One and PS4. It just added very warm colors over everything and somehow made the bad details pop out much more.

[@KeybladeKidZack]

The Ezio Collection actually got a ton of really nice high quality textures... on like 40% of the assets (the fabrics look amazing). The rest just got put through a filter since this precedes AI upscaling, and because of that the visuals are left feeling really disjointed.

[@Snaaake_Beater]

What are you talking about? the collection are my favorite games of all time and I love them. I have played the originals on PS3 2 in the look really grey really really grey and less detailed

[@ElTequilla]

That sounds more like AC 3 to be honest.. but I do recall the Ezio trilogy had it own shortcomings. Ubisoft is notorious though for some of the most painfully average, barely qualifying remasters. From PoP, Splinter Cell, Far Cry, Heroes 3 and more, it’s all very underbaked.

[@ZeroKami86]

Light guns and LG games need to make a comeback, I want a good LG game for PC with an affordable LG.

[@bretton_woods]

AS a guy in his mid 30s who has hardly bought any new games from the last 10-15 years, im both saddened and unsurprised that all the games I enjoyed (or at least knew about) growing up have been wrecked by awful remakes...

[@therealjaystone2344]

Even the niche jrpgs got the treatment too like tales of symphonia

[@arekusu.]

I know it's mentioned already in the video, but that Silent Hill HD collection is really the first "remastered" game I ever played. Never played the original releases, as I was way too young at the time, but even I recognized the awful technical problems. I still enjoyed it, but I found the framerate drops especially jarring. There really needs to be a proper remastered release for the first four SH titles. I'd gobble that shit up in an instant. Edit: my mistake, I didn't think about it until you reminded me. Technically Fire Red was my first "remake/remaster". No sense in mentioning it, though, those games rocked.

[@southpaw117]

FireRed was awesome, but it disappointed me so much as it was my first Pokemon game since Red and I was hoping for an adventure bigger than what Ruby and Diamond demonstrated, not a remake. Then, the next Pokemon game I got was Let's Go, Eevee!. I bought both of those without really knowing anything about them, so imagine how distraught I was to have purchased the same game three times!

[@RndStranger]

The bad remakes in the Sega Ages line were about the first dozen releases. Then M2 took over the line and they became amazing. You can get those early 3D remake ones for a couple of hundred yen. The later ones which had the full featured remakes with piles of extra modes and options go for 10000 yen or more, which considering the original price tag was 2500 yen...

[@thomaswrightson2230]

Maybe if there's a part 2, you might need to include Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, depending on how the developers managed incorporating modern controls and the graphical update.

[@TheCommanderTaco]

Rerez did a cover of it, but also the Popeye game lol.

[@medes5597]

​@@TheCommanderTacoit's not our til January

[@WilliamSmith-ex9et]

Will never use the modern controls so I’ll never know 😎

[@thomaswrightson2230]

@@medes5597 It's out February 24. And...I'm skeptical.

[@Big5mokE719]

Also the ps1 frogger remake was a masterpiece. I still play through it about once a year

[@Santoryu90]

I do wonder if Activision adding microtransactions to CTR Nitro Fueled after a while was actually the plan all along or they just couldn’t help themselves.

[@Snaaake_Beater]

The micro transactions are really just cosmetics and the amount of free custom characters and levels doesn't make it looks so bad

[@micshork]

There was a game for the Nuon called “Merlin Racing” but was Re-released on the PS1 and divided into 4 separate titles. ATV Racers, Rascal Racers, XS Airboat Racing and Miracle Space Race.

[@RenegadePandaZ]

Why anyone thought it was a good idea to remake House of the Dead in an era where we have no decent lightgun substitute that is commercially available baffles me.

[@jacksonteller3973]

House of the Dead remake is good, Austin is nuts.

[@monkaWGiga]

@@jacksonteller3973 It's alright but it's just not right without a lightgun.

[@RenegadePandaZ]

@@jacksonteller3973 Ive seen gameplay of it and it looks really ugly to me. Its overly brown, muddy, the dialogue doesnt hit right, and the lack of a light gun basically takes away half the point of the original.

[@jacksonteller3973]

@@RenegadePandaZ eh I don't think the original has aged well, remake looks better to me.

[@theozillanuke8281]

Nintendo didn't kill the Golden Eye remaster MGM did. They don't like the fact that the remaster used Pierce Brosnan when the movies had Daniel Craig playing 007 at the time. That's how Activision was able to do what they did. While Rare was discussing what to do Activision told MGM that could make a remake with Daniel Craig and all discussion ended. Wii version was made because Activision was afraid that Nintendo would torpedo the idea. Nintendo didn't care in either case. It published the game but didn't own the right to the game MGM does.

[@wuoarh0815]

they later added an option to panzer dragoon for a classic reticle „behind the dragon“ - personally loved it almost as much as the original 😅

[@zachrion]

"Gooning about" don't say that again unless you know what you were doing lol

[@jawsoftitans714]

IN house of the dead defense for the 24.99 dollar pricetag, there two modes(classic and hoard), diffrent guns, achivements , art gallary and if u have those new light guns its compattible with it.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

What was the music kicking in at the end of the James Bond entry? It brought up an AMV memory for me.

[@quinnhurst3472]

A pretty good reboot/ remake is missile command recharged. It takes the original formula of the original game and tweets it just a little bit to add a little bit more variety into the runs as well as having an online functioning and a bunch of extra goodies to unlock as a fan of the original, the remake /reboot was a lot of fun and I recommend that anyone who is into missile command or wants to experience it for the first time go and pick it up. It's something like $20

[@SupremeMarioGamer]

Why aren't there GOOD remakes of BAD games? Fire Emblem 6 & Devil May Cry 2 are the worst games I've ever played & I'd love an actually tolerable version of these to exist.

[@austineruption]

I think there's a VERY small amount of these. Like the glow up Metroid 2 got.

[@zaneseibert]

This is why I hope The Witcher remake ends up good.

[@thomasffrench3639]

@@austineruptionis Metroid 2 bad tho?

[@kingbash6466]

@@austineruption Funny how that game technically got 2 remakes.

[@lucasLSD]

@@thomasffrench3639 Even back then I didn't like it so... Maybe?

[@bobafett4265]

25:40 Beenox used the CTR remake as a base to add even more content that wasn't in the original game, going beyond just CTR or even CNK, secondly the publication on CTR Nitro Fueled lacking MTX was a miscommunication saying it would be lacking in the DLC department, thanks GameSpot.....

[@Andrew-sy6on]

I adore the CTR remake. Played every months season, collected everything without spending another dollar outside the initial purchase, and still love randomly popping it in.

[@thechaosblue]

That Bryan Danielson phone wallpaper popped me 😂

[@MishKoz]

Omg I had completely forgotten about the Golden Axe remake but I DEFINITELY played it as a child.

[@IcyXzavien]

It sucks that Crash Team Racing's reputation was harmed by it's monetization because it's my favorite kart racer ever.

[@LeeFarbstein]

Love the content! Wondering if you would considering doing a section about the "Another Centuries Episode" series. Its one of my favorites that was trapped in Japan. That and Metal Wolf!

[@silent_pete]

God, the Crystal Chronicles remake dropped the ball so hard that I'd blocked it from my memory lol

[@BugsyFoga]

Games that makes you just wanna stick to the original.

[@2glistenin]

OMG, the Crystal Chronicles remake hurt soooo bad. That's my favorite world in the Final Fantasy series, and I just know executives being executives look at the failure of that game and said, "It's the IP. Get rid of it."

[@FuraFaolox]

remaster

[@rafresendenrafresenden.1644]

Frogger ps1 is a really cool hard game

[@oukeith]

Frogger is a classic

[@withoutthejuice7193]

Bruh I’ve tried remote playing Spiderman 2 and that thing was a slideshow 😂😂

[@DionneDion]

Loving your videos as of late dude, you seem to pick up a lot of subjects I'm always interested in. Thanks for that.

[@aquasp102]

In relation to Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis on the GBA, it didn't just come out around the same time as Sonic 2006, it actually came out on the same day as Sonic '06 on November 14th. That was a bad day for Sonic to say the least.

[@anamethename3327]

"don't look up the artist" nah fuck that. Always look up the artist if you enjoy their work.

[@tbcbros.4801]

Always a good day when Austin drops a video.

[@JallenMeodia]

Bizarrely, I was actually at E3 when they announced the remake of Golden Eye. Full candor I had never actually played Golden Eye, I just vaguely remembered it from watching a friend play. So the only thing I questioned them on was if it had a difficulty selection and if I could have a beer...which they happily gave me because I was the only one in the room with a bottle opener. 😅

[@SnowTheGoon]

i love you for the get down meme at the end, im gonna have that play on repeat for the next week or two

[@manamaster6]

I like playing on my phone and was looking for a telescopic controller after the one I have (iPega Red Knight) wasn't compatible with my new phone and the size of its cameras. I checked the page of the Backbone and while looking nice, it is prohibitively expensive.

[@Phase02Innis]

"Maybe I just like shoulder pauldrons 10x larger than they need to be." You are/were a WoW fan so that checks out.

[@IlSH2]

22:50 somebody tell me whats the background music in that part. Please i gotta know! 😫

[@ianbaggins5063]

The funny thing about Panzer Dragoon's recent remake is that it was actually worse at launch on the Switch - the dragoon bobbing/flying around was worse, made for an even more inconsistent hit box, rotation was slower making some sections really annoying, and it ran at around 30FPS... ish. They patched it around the time the other ports released, made movement smoother, added a 60FPS mode etc. so its better. Still flawed, but better. The Sega Ages PS2 stuff also actually got a PD port, and that one was actually good - once Sega stopped dishing out bad remakes (Golden Axe etc.) they started focusing on stuff like Last Bronx, VF2, Dynamite Dekka, and PD - which were actually solid remakes that were far more faithful to the originals compared to the stuff America got on that compilation. My pick for a bad remake is RGG Ishin Kiwami (or just Like a Dragon Ishin). Now, compared to the stuff shown in the vid Id say its not quite as bad, but as a huge Yakuza fan, I just cant abide by the combat changes. They force the card system on you, make enemies stronger/tankier as a result, make bosses have way too much health forcing you into either using cards or using the gimped crafting system, and making each stance weaker than the original... That's not counting changing characters for no good reason, making everything more expensive, making payouts in gambling worse, and so many new glitches and issues introduced with switch to Unreal Engine... Its really more a Langriser type situation - where you can still have fun with it, but its better to seek out the original instead.

[@gumadood]

Langrisser 1&2 was the last game I bought in store before the covid lockdown took effect. I remember leaving work and heading straight to Best Buy to get the only copy there

[@adamlassiter1296]

Goldeneye Remake was awesome on the Wii.

[@MarbelSoda]

the saving grace for Crystal Chronicles is that the single player experience (look i had no friends) is still just as amazing as before.

[@yakumoyomi5765]

I'm glad that Goldeneye is forever linked to Promise (and the famous "Geddan/Get Down" meme).

[@belialofeden]

Bro in 13 there was a multiplayer thing with a tiny grim reaper that would sing and i still remember it to this fay

[@austinblack7991]

Actually the xiii remake was fixed it’s now just like the original now lost they couldn’t port the original game because the source code was so old

[@Big5mokE719]

I absolutely loved xiii back in the day and kind of forgot about it until i heard the new one was coming out. At first i was like oh great a sequel thats going to suck but once i found out it was a remaster i was super excited. I fired up my modded switch and definitely bought a totally legit copy of the game i definitely didnt download it for free then played about 10 mins and deleted it to never think about it again until this video.... house of the dead was similar its one of my favorite games and ive put hundreds of hours into it on dreamcast but the remake kept me busy for about 10 mins and bummed for life....

[@donaldwright8567]

Austin: "They just don't make old-school, pixelated, FPS like the original Goldeneye anymore." Me: "My friend, have you ever heard of a little game in development called 'Agent 64: Spies Never Die'?..."

[@Xetelian]

More than once I've wanted to go back to a game that I don't want to dig out and set up so I run and emulator and it runs better on the emulator than it does on the system...

[@TrllyToys]

20:27 boy do I have news for you

[@austineruption]

ridiculous timing

[@88WearyExile]

​@@austineruptionDude! Please, this is killing me! What's the music you used during the Ape Escape segment?

[@halfdraggy]

Fun fact director of digimon games division habu has stated that he wants to work on a digimon world 1 remake or rerelease

[@kicksandswords]

Yeah I was so excited for the XIII remake but then I said let me check online to see what the reviews look like and boy am I glad I did that. I can't believe they took out the cel shading and just made an overall worse game. Unfortunately I ended up buying the panzer dragoon remake which was pretty boring not to mention the trophy that requires you to play the game for 100 hours and it's a game you can beat in 40 minutes if not faster, yeah easily one of the dumbest trophies I've ever come across. I deleted it with no intention of ever going back.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Can't you just leave the game on for 100 hours?

[@ravencorb1354]

God dam Austin! Why is it yours are the only video game videos I give a dam about these days lol ... your videos are amazing! Please keep them up

[@Son1cJ3t]

What is the price history website you are using @8:55?

[@Laihoistheman]

Anyone know the name of the cinematic platformers he had playing in the background when he was talking about good ones?

[@khadelsnerdo]

Thank you for mentioning Star Ocean Second Story R

[@ELEKTROSKANSEN]

29:32 Do you mean 2013 specifically, or "the nowdays" in general? Because yeah, I'd agree that in 2013 the genre was pretty much dead, but I'd also say that the genre is vigorously revived currently. Of course these games look and feel differently nowdays - for example: they abandoned the "single screen" design in favor of more traditional side-scrolling presentation - but I'd say games like Limbo, Inside, Black The Fall, Planet Alpha or Little NIghtmares and the like easily count as modern cinematic platformers. And there are lots of games in that style now.

[@TonyTama]

And in other news Nightdive Studios reminds people why they are the best at remasters with Turok 3 to add to the trilogy.

[@deathstinger13]

in the FFCC remaster's defense, the original didn't have any sort of split screen either. Multiplayer also required everyone to have their own GBA and GBA-GCN link cable. And best this one can tell, the solo experience is pretty spot on. What could have helped is a way for people to start additional characters on one person's account then have them all quest together. Like an ultra-lite version that doesn't allow you to play solo, but does allow you to join friend's games as a character from their file. Heck, just being able to play a character from the host's village woulda been good.

[@vastfield8090]

20:08 this is pretty unfair to the sega ages 2500 line, as while some of the early ones are rough, they eventually started porting games instead under this label, with very high-quality emulations and collections the one you’re showing here is in fact considered one of the very best, a remake of dynamite deka / die hard arcade with many extra modes and features plus the original arcade game in case you don’t want that

[@HoodlieRPG]

They could totally have a studio make an Ape Escape Recaptured trilogy, but they refuse to acknowledge something so bright and charming. The cowards.

[@ianstolle8304]

Does this sega Dragoon have anything to do with the SSB dragoon parts?

[@superiorone2061]

LOL where can I find the clip at 11:07 😂

[@jordanambrose4459]

Did you really sneak a Kohmi Hirose song in there

[@MyEcho4]

20:20 welp. Wish granted, kinda lol

[@Kranitoko]

"sonic has passed" *Shows dead sonic* SIR I NEARLY SPAT OUT MY FOOD 😂

[@GenerationZ313]

Batman Return To Arkham made changes that affected the atmosphere of both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. Thankfully the Switch version that just came out is based on the original release and not the remaster, though it would have been nice if they included the B.A.T. mode from the Wii U version as an option. That would've made the Switch port definitive. At least we have the Armored Suit from said version now which is nice (though it would've been even better if it showed up during cutscenes.

[@pablokpsctr]

Oh I really enjoyed the Panzer Dragoon remake, but of course I don't have the reference point since I did not play the original.

[@battlericky17]

2:49 respectfully that thing will ruin your phone battery