But I really miss new IPs. New ideas. It's great that we have the
Indies (although they often only seem fresh because there's so MANY of
them. Shall I count the number of Indie games that use the platformers-with-small-children-in-gruesome-danger-that-use-a- Chiaroscuro-art-style?. Indies are in a rut too) but I'd love to see
the Big Names put all their talent and resources into something fresh
rather than just rehashing old classics.
On 14/01/2025 17:20, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
But I really miss new IPs. New ideas. It's great that we have the
Indies (although they often only seem fresh because there's so MANY of
them. Shall I count the number of Indie games that use the
platformers-with-small-children-in-gruesome-danger-that-use-a-
Chiaroscuro-art-style?. Indies are in a rut too) but I'd love to see
the Big Names put all their talent and resources into something fresh
rather than just rehashing old classics.
Yep there's lot's of indie to mid games that are just rehashing the same formula but it's also the space where a lot of the innovation comes
from. If you look at the big publishers how many games have they
released in say the last five years that aren't either reuse of an IP or
just reuse of an idea.
Oh, yippee.
Oh, yippee.
Here's a (probably) incomplete list of remakes we can expect in the
near future:
Bubble Ghost Remake * Crazy Taxi * Croc: Legend of the
Gobbos * Dragon Quest 1 HD-Remake * Dragon Quest 2 HD
Remake * Front Mission 3 * Gothic * House of the Dead
2: Remake * The Legend of Heroes: Trails of the Sky *
Lunar: Remastered Collection (Lunar Silver Star & Lunar 2
Eternal Blue) * Max Payne 1 Remaster * Max Payne 2
Remaster * Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater * Operation
Black Mesa (Half Life Opposing Force/Blue Shift) *
Presentable Liberty Remake * Prince of Persia: The Sands
of Time * Splinter Cell * Star Wars: Knights of the Old
Republic * Suikoden I HD Remaster * Suikoden II HD
Remaster * Tiny Dangerous Dungeons * Tomb Raider 4
Remastered * Tomb Raider 5 Remastered * Tomb Raider 6
Remastered * The Witcher Remake * Xenoblade Chronicles
X: Definitive Edition * Yooka-Replayee
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:20:20 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson ><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, yippee.
I was just watching this, about how ray tracing's biggest use case is
to spruce up older games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8z-1Bqn4Rs
If you want to know why everyone's still interested in older games and
newer franchises are on the out, see other recent videos I posted
about how DEI and related political bullshit screwed up gaming to the
point that newer franchise ideas don't even have a remote chance of >attracting developers talented enough to pull the execution of said
game off.
They need to stop making games under the assumption every gamer is a
blue haired snow flake mentally ill fragile freak seeker of safe zones
who would rather be Oprah Winfrey than Conan the Barbarian... or Conan
the Talk Show Host for that matter.
Oh, yippee.
Here's a (probably) incomplete list of remakes we can expect in the
near future:
Bubble Ghost Remake * Crazy Taxi * Croc: Legend of the
Gobbos * Dragon Quest 1 HD-Remake * Dragon Quest 2 HD
Remake * Front Mission 3 * Gothic * House of the Dead
2: Remake * The Legend of Heroes: Trails of the Sky *
Lunar: Remastered Collection (Lunar Silver Star & Lunar 2
Eternal Blue) * Max Payne 1 Remaster * Max Payne 2
Remaster * Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater * Operation
Black Mesa (Half Life Opposing Force/Blue Shift) *
Presentable Liberty Remake * Prince of Persia: The Sands
of Time * Splinter Cell * Star Wars: Knights of the Old
Republic * Suikoden I HD Remaster * Suikoden II HD
Remaster * Tiny Dangerous Dungeons * Tomb Raider 4
Remastered * Tomb Raider 5 Remastered * Tomb Raider 6
Remastered * The Witcher Remake * Xenoblade Chronicles
X: Definitive Edition * Yooka-Replayee
I guess we only have ourselves to blame; we BOUGHT all the previous
remakes the publishers vomited up, so we shouldn't be surprised if
they're going whole-hog into the genre now.
But I really miss new IPs. New ideas. It's great that we have the
Indies (although they often only seem fresh because there's so MANY of
them. Shall I count the number of Indie games that use the platformers-with-small-children-in-gruesome-danger-that-use-a- Chiaroscuro-art-style?. Indies are in a rut too) but I'd love to see
the Big Names put all their talent and resources into something fresh
rather than just rehashing old classics.
But rehashes are what we get, I guess.
Yay.
On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:49:04 -0000 (UTC), Bozo User
<anthk@disroot.org> wrote:
On 2025-01-14, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, yippee.
Not remakes, but lots of games have open source/libre engine recreations
at https://osgameclones.com , and for sure there are texture packs and >>additions for modern times.
I'm actually fine with these. These are fan-led recreations made out
of love of the game. They aren't designed to prey on customer's
nostalgia because they are less risky and expensive than creating
something new. They tend to have a lot more respect for the source
material too (even if its usually only because, limited as the modders
are in resources, they /have/ to abide by the restrictions of the
original material).
I've a lot less respect when its a company with millions of dollars at
its fingertip and the best they can do is rehash the same game time
and time again. It's bad enough that the vast majority of games are
sequels; remasters and reboots are even worse.
TL;DR: I'll happily champion fan-remakes (Skyblivion, OpenTTD, etc.)
even as I slam professionally created ones.
But rehashes are what we get, I guess.
But rehashes are what we get, I guess.Yes. I think I'll like KOTOR and Max Payne 2.
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