Thinking about those I’ve played, I don’t think remakes have ever detracted from the original to me.
The first time I finally completed Metroid 1 was shortly after Zero Mission (which had the cool effect that the locations of some power ups was still fresh in my mind).
I also enjoyed Samus Returns despite it missing the point of Metroid 2, and that didn’t make Metroid 2 worse in retrospect.
Kind of similar with Majora’s Mask 3D, Mario 64 DS…
I’ve never hold up a first play because of a potential remaster, especially not if it was not announced.
I have hold up a few replays when rumours of a remake are floating around though (like I did with Skyward Sword). I stopped a halfway through replay of Xenoblade Chronicles when they announced Definitive Edition. With how long XC games get if you try to do everything… Yeah.
Still lacking a definitive version in English of the original, Tales of Phantasia, as far as I know. The playstation version with skits and stuff was Japanese only.
The only officially localized version was GBA… and its epic tale of the legendary war :
“Kangaroo.”
(8:18:48 if the timestamp didn’t work)
On the previous generation (which seems to be a lifetime ago now) Microsoft got badly burned on trying something like this, because they did it (and announced it) spectacularly wrong.
They wanted to allow game sharing by tying it to a system where you wouldn’t be able to play your own games if your console wasn’t online, so it could always track who’s supposed to play every game. Lots of people shat on their announcement, because, understandably, fuck needing an internet connection to play offline games.
Sony exploited that saying their console would not need to stay always online and mostly “won” that generation’s console announcement, while Microsoft hastily backpedaled to the usual too, probably costing them quite a bit since release was so close.
So in the end I think both were very reluctant to try the kind of DRM that would allow sharing again.
Elle voulait peut-être prouver qu’elle a les bonnes valeurs pour devenir avocate pour politique véreux. Notice me Sarko sempai!
To keep up with the worst reasons for which people can hunt fossils, on top of selling them in auctions for rich assholes, now you’ll be able to grind them into a powder and sell them as medicinal remedies.
Making people pay to skip boring “gameplay” loops, and then paying them a trifle to get them to play more. While getting hundreds of time that from serving ads.
The good content is hiding somewhere under all that, promise! Keep digging and you’ll find it.
Signer maintenant pour ça, c’est pourri.
Maintenant dans mon coin de fonction publique y a eu des choix qui ont été fait il y a juste quelques années de ça, et on a passé pas mal de temps à intégrer du Microsoft. C’était clairement pas la préférence de tout le monde mais on n’a pas eu le choix. Même si on serait pas contre le principe, on flippe un peu qu’une décision politique nous demande de tout dégager et remplacer.
No, that’s why I said Super Famicom and PAL SNES were coloured. American SNES doesn’t like fun, so its buttons are all purple.
Not Google, but my favorite was “ethnaically anabigaus” appearing randomly on generated pictures.
Completely unrelated, but…
What the hell are those controller buttons?
One looks melted, the other 3 have weird shading like they’re partly hollow. Super Famicom and EU SNES (the ones with colours) are smooth and round.
You must connect with the road, every km or so stop and hug the asphalt.
The paper was right. I read that and I’m dying right now.
Dude.
You could at least look at what you’re replying to before jumping in and going full outrage mode. I didn’t even say anything about what I thought of the validity of that experiment.
Keep putting yourself forward to defend the poor, misjudged car company belonging to a crazy asshole.
They obviously pre-cut the wall, probably for safety reasons, and they were like, let’s make it a silly cartoon impact hole while we’re at it.
Good job.
Another generic live service bites the dust. Sure, keep trying for the formula that only works for about 5 games in the whole world at any given time.
I like how it thinks it is likely from a videogame, but somehow, it’s absolutely certain it has the character’s name.
And then a bunch of facts about famous videogame character Lemmy Kilmister.
Only yesterday, I searched for a very simple figure, the number of public service agents in a specific administrative region. This is, obviously, public information. There is a government site where you can get it. However I didn’t know the exact site, so I searched for it on Google.
Of course, AI summary shows up first, and gives me a confident answer, accurately mirroring my exact request. However the number seems way too low to me, so I go check the first actual search result, the aforementioned official site. Google’s shitty assistant took a sentence about a subgroup of agents, and presented it as the total. The real number was clearly given before, and was about 4 times that.
This is just a tidbit of information any human with the source would have identified in a second. How the hell are we supposed to trust AI for complex stuff after that?
Early millennial, saw that movie a dozen times growing up. Some TV broadcasts, and an overused, quite damaged home-recorded VHS.