You don t have to shoot movies again before getting them to bluray.
Remasters give a bad signal to industry leaders. Don t cry when more paid dlc for on disc content and other anti consumer practices come out.
Also, it s worrying because it means people are ok to replay the same games with just update technical parameters.
I thought we could make it to page 2 without this. Even page 3 on a real good day.
But here we are. That's intangible, tinfoil link between a bad practice and thing-I-don't-like, despite OP's very carefully laid out post.
Next, the worry, because this poster is so worried about the state of the industry, and how the leaders are going to be affect, he doesn't mind grouping remaster buyers into a single category - people who have already played the game prior.
Nevermind the fact that there are many people who missed out on TLOU like I did, or people who didn't finish it the first time, or even people who just want to enjoy one of their favorite games in a better format.
Nevermind the fact that remasters have existed in other ways with ports on older systems that were clearly better than their previous versions (but that depends on the port. See: Mega Man DOS), so if anything, this is a generation that has less remasters than ever.
(Maybe you want to get nitpicky and play semantics here, and call ports of previous gens just ports, when many followed this upscaled/technically better suit and were remade for a purpose, but that's fine)
Nevermind the fact that there are literally less remasters as a whole in this generation right now than original titles.
I could go on, but you all get the point - no matter how many times you make this topic and explain to those who are unaware, some people won't listen. No matter how farfetched they sound.
I don't like the idea of remasters. I feel like everyone just wants to continue to live out the past in gaming. I can sort of agree with late last gen remasters because those consoles were putting out games on their dying breaths. Older than that though, I think games should be played on the consoles they were built on. Maybe that's the purist in me.
I also am shocked at how complacent everyone is at playing the same games over and over again. The fact that there are so many people hyped about a remaster of a remaster is insane
. FWIW, I know I can ignore the remasters and remaster hype, and I generally do.
If you can ignore the remasters and their hype, why not do so? You say you can, but yet the first paragraph is demeaning people who'd like to play a game again due to your purist nature.