What if the frame the Mona Lisa was in had to be replaced every 10 years since it stopped working? Plus, then this means that something like the Master Chief collection should be something you love since you can swap between the original and the new version with a button press.
Except sometimes during the framing process the painting goes missing, so all you can do is remake the painting. Like what happened with Spyro.
I feel like your analogy is breaking down, what happened to Spyro? It's a PS1 game, which is easily emulatable. Just package the game with an emulator, not really a revolutionary concept. Nintendo and Sega have been doing it for years and I'm pretty sure the Bubsy releases on Steam are just emulators as well.
I like it when games give me new equipment that aren't just stat boosts.
Then you are good to go play it on emulation, so why are you complaining about remakes? The source code for spyro was lost, so they couldn't just use that when they did the reignited trilogy, they had to put the effort in to remake the Mona Lisa, unless they decided to just stick a polaroid on the wall.
Also worth noting, they were more faithful to the core of the game than Team Silent would’ve been had they done it (again) themselves. They admitted this because they wouldn’t have wanted to make the same thing all over again.
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The world isn't the same as it was 15 years ago either. Something that was incredible and ground-breaking when it came out can, in retrospect, easily become dated and out of touch as the world moves past it. Wanna talk Star Wars? A New Hope revived a genre if not an entire medium, but watching it in 2024, it just isn't that good. Everything it does has been done better, and being the first one to do it by itself isn't enough anymore.
I still like A New Hope. It's a good movie no matter the year. If you can't appreciate something just because it's old, the problem is probably with you.
I didn't say that. I like plenty of old movies. A New Hope, specifically, does not hold up as well as other movies before and after it do. At the time it came out, it was doing things no other movie was doing. Now, it's been left in the dust. Other movies have as-good (or even better) visual design and spectacle, while also having better writing and characters. It's still a fun time, but it isn't any more than that now, even for everything it achieved then.
Sometimes developers have to use tricks to get around certain technical limits of hardware, and those tricks caused by that technical limitation are exactly what gives the game a unique sense of identity. Without those limitations the games would not feel the same nor have the same spirit.
I meant movies generally, not specifically Star Wars movies.
Obviously since that's episode 4 there were 3 previous ones. DUH.
"The world isn't the same as it was 15 years ago either. Something that was incredible and ground-breaking when it came out can, in retrospect, easily become dated and out of touch as the world moves past it."
But you'll never get a real ending to Kotor 2. Anything that a remake would add on would essentially be fan fiction. Even if you had the entire team of original developers back to work on it, it's still not possible. To illustrate, think of something you were working on 20 years ago, now recall all the feelings and ideas you had surrounding it, and also everything you were doing or thinking at the time that would have influenced what you were working on. Did you do it? Can you even remember what you were doing in October 2004, specifically? Because if you aren't in the exact same place mentally it's never going to be the proper ending that Kotor 2 should have gotten if it hadn't been rushed out the door. It's going to be the same as if a different person wrote it anyway, and if that's the case they may as well write something original instead of trying to revise history and pretend that Kotor 2 got a real ending.
Just because some time has passed doesn't mean that people can't make a work that is true to the original's intent and character building. Hell, it doesn't even mean that other people can't write it.
