The remake topic

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The remake topic

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When remakes should be done? Should they be done just because somebody wants to make a remake?

A couple of statements to discuss:

1. game is playable when it has easy to use GUI,
2. game is playable when graphics used to make it allows to distinguish things from things,
3. game is playable when it has almost no bugs or at least no critical bugs,
4. game is playable when you feel generally comfortable playing it,
5. some people have different tastes, for some highres is better than lowres,
5a. you dont remember if Hurrican is faithful remake of original Turrican and you cant tell without googling if they just remade it or they did totally original levels and called the game Hurrican, because it resembles Turrican,
6. some people have different tastes, for some looks is more important than gameplay,
7. some people have different tastes, for some gameplay is more important than looks,
8. you play old games to feel nostalgic experience,
9. you play old games to play old games because you find them better than new games,
10. this topic will be helpful in creating the basics for theory of gaming experience,
11. eMTe wants to get permission for hosting original Tetris and he thinks original is way worse than further clones; what's in his mind?,
12. this topic was created to provide heated discussion, to stimulate brain sensors and for fun,
13. 1-12 are false.
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Here is something else to ponder, and I don't mean to offend anyone, but do you find that a gamer that got into the scene within the Next-Gen console era is a lot more shallow in the way they perceive games than someone who has been gaming through it's evolution?

I would think that making a remake of a game would be to add something new to the game, but it should be a new twist, or a new feature, maybe Mannan is really Alexander's father in King's Quest 3, or perhaps in Ghouls and Ghosts you get a light saber, or maybe in pong you get power-ups...something added and updated other than just the graphics...more than the way of thinking that "this game is awesome, but it would be better if the graphics were better..."
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