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Remaking and You For Dummies
Posted on Thursday, February 5 2009 @ 19:15:51 Eastern

So I been watching and playing games for the last 14 years. I've noticed the ideas of a game is soon losing its touch and fading away. There are so many great games out there. Some are not as worthy, and some are but they're not apart of a series and is relatively new. So what's been happening in today’s video game industry?

Well all the great games that I have been looking forward to all have been part of a series. Halo 3 was one of many trilogies that gamers tend to buy because of the name is all so popular as well as with the popular Gears of War. Gears of War was one of Epic's most popular game same as Unreal Tournament. Gears of War I liked because it was a new part to a science fiction 3rd person shooting game that made a great success.

So why are we making more remakes. Ghostbusters is another game that is coming out. I remember playing that on the original NES. If some of you do remember, at the end of the game it said something like "Conglaturation! You have completed a great game" I mean come on? With a screw up typo? Bionic Commando: Rearmed is a remake of Bionic Commando. All these games are becoming rather easy to play, the remakes you will easily get the idea of and will bore you to death.

From the same question above, why do we continue to play these remakes? Have companies lost interest in trying to make something new? Are they scarred they won't be successful? Don't worry fellow video game companies; it's not just your fault. We consumers also have a role too. Do we become so jaded we continue to buy the game because of its familiar name? Are we scarred to try a new game? Do we underestimate some companies? If you answer yes to any of these questions, you will know what comes next.

So the main problem is companies are too scarred to do something new, as well as consumers are too scarred to buy something new. So companies, make new games. As for consumers, buy new games, try them out. Experience what your jaded self never been experienced. Hopefully with this advice everyone in the game industry will become more influent and happy.

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Master_Craig
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Feb 11th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
You\'ve got points but at the same time I think I would have to disagree. Games are remade because the developers think it'll sell/make money and the fans of these games would most likely want to play these remade games. I heavily enjoyed the remade Resident Evil on the Nintendo Game Cube, and despite its mixed views I enjoyed the HD Remix of Street Fighter. Developers do try new things, sometimes it's hit (Assassin's Creed, Little Big Planet, Fallout 3) and sometimes it's a miss (The Force Unleashed, Mirror's Edge). A lot of developers also tend to make games that we have honestly seen over and over again (no offense to anyone here but Halo 3 is a great example). Remade games aren't necessarily a bad thing, developers do try new things but a lot don't. In today's world, it's very hard to be new and different.

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UghRochester
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Feb 12th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Both the consumer and developers both have the same problem. The consumer buys the sequals or sometimes a remake from the classic NES to the Gamecube or Wii. it's not just remakes of games either. The filming industry remade many movies. The Hulk (which were not that bad) was one i understand why they remade it. The newer animation and effects made a great impact on the movie. Same with games being remade. Better graphics (which is why we continue to buy the sports games like Madden, Tiger Woods PGA Golf Tour etc.) But its also the name of the game we feel will be a great game.

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neodragon17
Joined: Feb 2009

Posted: Feb 12th, 2009 at 9:01 am
You can only come up with so many ideas before the well starts to run dry. Just look at this year's upcoming gameas. They're mostly sequels/remakes of things we've more than likely already played before. Street Fighter 4? Resident Evil 5? Tekken 6? Has our lack of originality gotten to the point where we have to squeeze every last possible penny out of existing franchises?

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LinksOcarina
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Feb 12th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I have no problems with remakes or anything like that, but but the problem is when they do a BAD JOB at it. As for sequels, thats a whole new problem but I want to point out that some sequels are good, and sometimes it's necessary to have a sequel to a good game. I am not a big fan of sequels but I am not against the idea of them.

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omega--007
Joined: Feb 2009

Posted: Feb 13th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Just like in the movies it's hard to make an original game that isn't copying an idea from already existing games. The problem is that devolopers are becoming to comfortable with where they're at because they already made it into the gaming industry so they're just sticking with the franchises that they know loyal fans will buy. Look, at what happened to Sonic. But I think that it all depends on wheter or not the creators of these remakes are in it for the money or in it for their fans.

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tom-
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Feb 13th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Sequels aren't remakes (unless we're talking about Dynasty Warriors). Licensed properties translated to games aren't remakes. Remakes that actually are remakes, though, can't really be discussed so broadly. I can't think of many games that have been poorly remade. I can think of a lot of terrible spinoffs, often of games that were terrible from the get-go (Golden Axe: Beast Rider, for example), but it's rare for a company to spend the time and money on remaking something that wasn't already intrinsically fun. Super Street Fighter 2: HD Remix, Space Invaders Extreme, Wipeout HD and, yes, even Bionic Commando: Rearmed wish you well.

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darkhadoken
Joined: Feb 2009

Posted: Feb 15th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Have we forgotten about Guitar Hero (( queero )) used to be Frequency.then amplitude.or the other way around. Then it went into the :: Sequalremake :: factory and came out as guitar hero. Its starting to get hard to count just how many of those games have come out but people still purchase them. Its just like street fighter. That game has seen various game remakes.cross overs and tweaks over its twenty year history but people still buy them. As long as a game is fun. there will always be a crowd that wants to buy it. I dont mind remakes and i dont mind makeovers as long as the game continues to be fun and catches my attention. And for the record.mirrors edge was a new feel for an old first person genreand i personaly loved every delirious minute of playing that game.

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