Why Remakes Are Pointless

Excellent video, I completely agree with you! I could understand players asking for certain older games that aren't easily available to be ported for current systems, like Blood Will Tell which has become an expensive PS2 game, but since this current generation is backwards compatible there is no logical reason for this demand. For instance, The Last of Us was ported to the PS4 because PS3 games were not compatible with the PS4, however it's absolutely ridiculous how The Last of Us Part II is getting a PS5 release, when the PS4 version is perfectly playable on PS5 and readily available for much less. Uncharted 4 on PS5 is actually inferior to the PS4 original version since it's missing the online portion of the game that's so much fun. The same can be said about the inferior port of Red Dead Redemption for the PS4 and Switch that are also missing the online component from the Xbox 360/PS3 original. Other pointless examples of remakes/remasters are Alan Wake, Dead Space, and all the BioShock games since the superior and original Xbox 360 versions are already playable on Series X. You mentioned that many gamers are obsessed with graphics, so that shows how superficial they are and how they spend more time looking at games than actually playing them to completion. Do they not realize that gameplay (the single most important element in a video game) has been practically the same since the 7th generation of consoles with very little innovation if any? I blame the uneducated video game consumer more than the developers; they're the main reason why companies keep re-releasing the same games over and over again and why the video game industry has been stagnant for so long.

I think remakes are good if the original game was limited by hardware constraints, the black ops 2 map tranzit was intentionally made with lava and fog everywhere because the consoles at the time could not load everything in fast enough. So if a remake lives up to the original concept then i am all for it

remakes and re masters are actully really important mgs 4 has been stuck to the ps3 since 2008 game remakes the only reason i touched resident evil 4 was for the remake becasue the shooting and camera in the og was unplayable for me also a lot og older games have very outdated humor and takes poltically so a remake or remaster can help them fit modern standers

Something that bothers me the most about remakes is how often do the people who made the original take part in remaking the game? almost every remake the creative spark is completely gone and they add hd graphics and it just feels so divorced from art and creativity. I wish they'd just make cool new games. How many game developers want to work on these remakes for games they were never involved in creating?

For me personally I like Remakes/Remasters, of course there are outliers of game that REALLY don’t need a remake or remaster, but most of the time I think they’re good because they give more people a chance to experience them. You tell people to play old game but that’s just kinda ignorant to the fact not everyone has every generation of console or can afford to buy whatever old game they want due to the prices being jacked up. In my experience, people always ask for remasters for games that are stuck on Old Consoles like the PS3, and/or seriously need a Performance boost. Some examples for me are Sonic Unleashed and Batman Arkham Origins, both are great games but they’re trapped on the PS3 and run like Crap. You can play both on Xbox via backwards compatibility but again, not everyone has one, so a remaster for all modern platforms would be great. When it comes to remakes I always see people talk about games from the Late 90s/Early 2000s that are in desperate need of an Upgrade. Games like Sonic Adventure which hasn’t been ported since 2011 and even then needed a major upgrade to both its graphics and mechanics. I guess, just avoid the obvious cash grabs but don’t be mad at people for buying/asking for what they like.

I’m glad there’s people like you who call out this bs. I wish other YouTubers spoke about this. I am so sick and tired of people begging for remakes of games that are just fine the way they are. Now there are actually 2 games that I think could use a remake but I’m not gonna beg for them to happen like everyone else does. As for remasters I don’t mind them if it’s for games that are still stuck on old gen consoles.

Amen, I wish the bigger YouTubers would say this to their huge fan bases but they never will.

I'm actually glad From Software released a remaster for Dark Souls 1. For some reason the older original version runs like trash on my PC, not even hitting 30 fps, while the remaster runs smoothly with 60+ fps.

Being honest, I don’t think I’ve heard any mainstream critics just saying “The graphics are amazing 10/10 game” and not talking about anything else. Even IGN has a Pros and Cons section at the end of each review

This video is kind of nonsense. Starting with your complaint about starfield I'm not going to sit here and say it's a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination it has a significant amount of faults but you've never played it you can't have an informed opinion when you haven't played the thing your friends playing it doesn't count it's hard to take you seriously when you aren't informed about the thing you're talking about. Sure there are some remasters that are unnecessary but many of them aren't. For instance PS4 wasn't backwards compatible with PS3 games and so re-releasing some of those makes sense because they're not backwards compatible. Yeah sure you get a couple Skyrim anniversary editions or last of Us part 1 being re-released at least that was put on PC on a place that never was before which makes it worth it. We also have games like resident evil 2 remake resident evil 4 remake Dead space remake that are all incredibly well done add a lot to existing game improves upon them and makes in most cases a superior version to be the definitive way to play that story. There's nothing wrong with remakes or remasters there are way more examples of it working out very well for the consumer then it being a cheap cash grab. You complained about Red Dead being released I was excited to be able to play that on the go and buy it on my switch. But it wasn't released on Xbox that way because it's backwards compatible already it was only released on PS4 and switch where the game wasn't available. There's a massive issue online with a bunch of people forming uninformed opinions and spreading negativity without having proper knowledge to back up that negativity. Starfield didn't win game of the year it didn't get nominated for game of the year the games that did like Baldur's gate 3 or Alan Wake 2 push the medium forward. There's a lot of problems going on to this industry right now you can argue live service elements being predatory you can go on a long grant about how the gaming industry is financially booming almost better than any other industry yet they are a massive layoffs across the board. You can talk about how the development cycle for new games is just too long and can lead to it being unsustainable. But releasing a remaster of something that isn't available on the system that they have or a remake for an older game that had a lot of wonderful things about it but could seriously see some modern improvements there's nothing wrong with it I would love to see a kotor remake that game has a wonderful story but it's gameplay is ancient. Resident evil 4 remake is considered one of the best of the year and it's not because ooh pretty graphics It's because it enhances it's original concept it makes the game more impactful the acting is better the gameplay is better it is more frightening and practically improves on the original source in almost every way. Remakes can be a good thing I don't want lazy ones but most of them aren't.

Awesome video! I think Retro Gaming is the way to go too! Gaming nowadays is just not as good as it used to be and that ain't nostalgia talking. DLC, battle passes, always-online games.... it's ridiculous...

I like remakes it gives people who never played the orginal a chance to like I look forward to silent hill remake I never got to play it and I don’t have a pc or older consoles I understand certain games don’t need a remake or remaster like the last of us or last of us part 2

I want to say that you should buy some remakes... Rather remasters. The people quake 1 and remasters... that was done right. 10 dollqrs plus a new set of maps for the game. Those are the kind of remasters we should be supporting. Getting old classics up to standard. It's not a remake. It's simply just taking the source code and making it run nice and a little tweak for our systems.

You know i actually searched remakes are pointless and wonder of wonders I'm here, excellent video

"Boring, bloated piece of crap, Starfield.... I haven't played it" 🤣 I don't like Starfield but you lose all credibility with this statement. You've basically just admitted that your opinions are controlled by others, or at least formed with the goal of being contrarian or edgy. You speak like a teenager who is more interested in the negative discourse around the industry and going against the popular grain than having an interesting or original thought. You call people "ravenous consumers" because they buy games they're interested in, which just makes it sound like you can't afford games and you're bitter about it. Stop being negative, stop creating straw-man arguments, learn to appreciate the artistry and hard work that goes into these games instead of ranting about how other people choose to spend their time or money.

Kotor and return to castle wolfenstein are really the only two remakes I'd like to see

Well it depends on the game but some can be really good. I reccomend the Nightdive studios remasters like Quake 1+2 and Shadowman. They actually added a lot of new content. For games that are not that old I would agree with you that they often don't need a remake/remaster.

If we keep allowing all these remakes and remasters then backwards compatibility will disappear forever if they know they can keep selling the same games.

I knew this 3 years ago, with every GTA release since Red Dead Redemption 2. I remember talking to acquaintances (and they agreed), how repackaging video games is money. Hollywood did the same thing. It took YEARS for consumers to catch on. Streaming services are a new version of cable television. Etc.

I feel like this is ignoring one of the big reasons for a remake, that being accessibility. Most of these games that got remakes were made for older consoles that people don't have access to, and not a single one of them is backwards compatible across all platforms (Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo). Graphics usually play very little part in people suggesting for a remake, it's pretty much always about accessibility to the game itself (it's not about "this game should get remade to make it look better", it's about "this game should be remade for newer consoles") Out of all of the games you list here, the only one that doesn't really work for what you described was Skyrim's Anniversary Edition. I believe it was intended as an Xbox Series/PS5 release, but I don't believe it had any enhancements and the Special Edition was already playable on those regardless. In the case of everything else, it brought a game to a platform that otherwise wouldn't have been able to play it, and not all of these games are easy to find secondhand even if you have the console to play them on. Red Dead Redemption has never been on a Nintendo console, Last of Us was never on PC, Skyrim wasn't on Xbox One, PS4, or Switch, same goes for GTA V, Windwaker was only on GameCube, Skyward Sword was only on Wii, the original GTA Trilogy wasn't playable on PS4 or PS5, and even in a lot of cases newer hardware with newer drivers can make support for older games more difficult on PC I'm not going to say there's no merit to what you're saying, companies absolutely need to try harder to make games more polished (although we did just come out of one of the greatest years of gaming we've had in a while so some people might disagree), but I feel like this is missing a lot of points. Hell, we just came out of a pandemic, games currently in development were mostly made with a whole 2 and a half years of improper communication and remote development. There are so many factors that would affect the game development apart from solely greed