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Can we stop griping about remasters?

OuiOuiBa

Member
Yep, and it is why I added "(...) which are too recent to be perfectly emulated (not so many machines actually are)".
This is actually very confusing, sorry, so let me rephrase it: I mean that few machines are actually perfectly emulated or able to be emulated at all, either due to their being too recent or other issues :)
 

JohnnyFootball

GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Yep, and it is why I added "(...) which are too recent to be perfectly emulated (not so many machines actually are)".
This is actually very confusing, sorry, so let me rephrase it: I mean that few machines are actually perfectly emulated or able to be emulated at all, either due to their being too recent or other issues :)

I'm still confused. This doesn't seem to mesh with your previous comment.

I see remasters as one of the reasons for publishers trying to sell the same games over and over, instead of a "buy once, can use for life" system (using emulation / DRM free downloads), so I am not fond of them at all.
IMHO emulation should allow for old games to be sold the same way as music (both DRM free and platform agnostic).
Of course, I consider remasters to be nice for games which had low performance / game breaking bugs, big flaws, which are too recent to be perfectly emulated (not so many machines actually are), or are ridiculously expensive today.

From what I gather you seem to suggest that once you own a game on one system you should own it on every system. That's not going to happen and it has rarely (if ever) happened in any other entertainment medium.
 
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