E3 2017

[Sumez]

Yeah, once again - just play the gba game

[Xyga]

So that E3 trailer of Mario Odyssey only confirmed what I thought after seeing the first one: it's technically weak and a dreadful display of absolutely tasteless genericness for the masses, but hey it's Mario!!! so people already automatically love it, reviews will give it a 10/10 score, and practically every Switch owner will buy it.
Let's hope for the world it'll be a really enjoyable and rich game to play, but personally I find it so repulsive I'd have a hard time getting over the cringe to enjoy the gameplay, however good it might be.

To be fair E3 participants don't really care to prepare anything really creative and original to impress at all anymore, like the TGS it's just another scheduled industry meeting with predictable/known lineups and very little (good) surprises. They've almost managed to become as boring as electronics shows lol.

[ZellSF]

When a game beats the odds and turns out not only good, but great, it's not realistic to think you can just make it better.

It's easier to make something better, than create an entirely new product that's better from scratch.

Which quantity do you think is larger, the number of great games that are remakes, or the number of great games that aren't?

The number of shitty games that are remakes is less than the number of shitty games that aren't.

There are less remakes than there are new games. There would obviously be less of everything in the smaller pool.

Did you think your question through, like at all?

[dreadnought]

It seems to me your dispute boils down to semantics/definitions. For me, a "remake" has to have some fundamental changes, so for example the new System Shock is a remake (the fact that it is sacreligious and unnecessary is a different matter) same goes for the new FF 7.

The game in question here - Superstar Saga - is just an update for a new platform, "enchanced port" as Wiki puts it, and like most such things features easily coded additional eyecandy, simple new quest and some Amiibo tie ins. These were around since ZX Spectrum, my "favourite": Chrono Trigger (still deciding which one to play)

Then you have your "remasters" - mostly also completely unnecessary and done on the cheap (see: Beamdog et al). In most cases these are based on some basic gfx boosts which instead of improving the game's look make it look completely unnatural <--"personal opinion", most pc master racers love these, since they look "sharper" = superior *snigger*

Then of course is the curious case of "reboots", mostly disastrous affairs as well ("Thie.."- no, let's not even go there)

Yes, as you can see, I'm not overtly fond of any of these, to put it mildly