Nostalgia and remake culture
Nostalgia and remake culture
"The current obsession with nostalgia and remake culture is easy to understand when you realize that it's a symptom of a culture that isn't allowed to imagine a future."
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Or uh maybe old games are still good and it makes sense to provide an easy way for newer generations to play them? If a record label remasters a Beatles album do we get mad over that? Music doesn't have an expiration date so why should games?
This is a very good example. I am going to steal this in the future.
I don't think it costs over 200 million and 5 years of labor to remaster a Beatles album, but I'd believe it if you told me that's what they charge
Then tell me why every pokemon game sell more and more even if they are worse and worse.
- absolute population growing
- share of population with feasible access to pokemon-compatible consoles growing
- share of population who see video games as a legitimate pastime growing
Presumably because they are continually picking up new players from younger age groups while retaining many older players, but I don't really have any interest in those games so I don't know much about them. I'm not really seeing how this directly relates to my comment, either.
Scarlet and Violet may only run at 10FPS and there are plenty of other flaws, but it's still a ton of fun. And those are sequels, not remakes. The gameplay is a dramatic shift from everything the mainline series has done before.
Legends Arceus has performance issues too, but was was critically acclaimed.
As for the remakes, they're generally pretty good upgrades. Gen 1 has really aged poorly, but FRLG are fantastic. I never liked Diamond or Pearl, but BDSP were really solid and fixed almost everything they could without making fundamental changes to the game. I'm really hoping they re-make Gen 5 because those are my favorite and they are stuck on the DS- my adult hands can't handle holding something that small for hours on end.
Clodsire alone proves your entire premise is incorrect.
He is a friend shaped ferry fish ðat only knows how to love!