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NEWS: Square Enix, Atlus, Konami, More Game Companies Tease Announcements in 2023

Franchise, franchise, franchise. No new ideas. Seems that is what gaming has become.

yuna49 wrote:

Franchise, franchise, franchise. No new ideas. Seems that is what gaming has become.

Don't forget the remakes. Especially the remakes of the biggest and and most iconic games of all times that have zero chance of living up to the hype or legacy that the original games set. FF7 Remake already failed to sell anywhere near as well as the original financially, let alone it's mixed reception story wise. Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill 2 are most assuredly going to be painful and ruin the original games as well. And then you got those remakes of games not even 10 years old shows how creatively bankrupt gaming is these days like the Last of Uses and Call of Duties. Maybe a new Silent Hill by Ryukishi07 could be interesting. Final Fantasy XVI by YoshiP has promise. But at this point you need a notable creative attached to something to get my attention. Someone I can actually trust and know what their style is like. And indie devs are not much better. The amount of retro 8-bit platformers, Metroidvanias, and quirky Earthbound RPGs is in a similar glut and overdone to the point of annoyance.

Shout out to ports of older games that enhance on the original like Tactics Ogre and Romancing SaGa / SaGa Frontier / Minstrel Song. Keeping the great classics alive for a modern generation and not ruining them like actual remakes do.

Accoring to some rumors, Atlus may be developing a Persona 3 remake. That's something I really want since they would add all of the content from FES and Portable into one console game, and I suppose stuff from P4 and P5. However, considering they're releasing P3 Portable to consoles this year, it sounds kind of weird

Don't forget the remakes. Especially the remakes of the biggest and and most iconic games of all times that have zero chance of living up to the hype or legacy that the original games set. FF7 Remake already failed to sell anywhere near as well as the original financially, let alone its mixed reception story wise. Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill 2 are most assuredly going to be painful and ruin the original games as well.

And then you got those remakes of games not even 10 years old shows how creatively bankrupt gaming is these days like the Last of Uses and Call of Duties.

Maybe a new Silent Hill by Ryukishi07 could be interesting. Final Fantasy XVI by YoshiP has promise. But at this point you need a notable creative attached to something to get my attention. Someone I can actually trust and know what their style is like.

OrangeVision wrote:

Thankfully for me there are indie games. I much rather spend my time exploring new ideas, (some of which fail, some that don't and some that will stay with me forever) than experience minor improvements over a game I've basically already played countless times.

Indies...

You mean countless Metroidvania copycats, Chrono Trigger wannabes, and misery simulators?

I hear nowadays PS1 demakes are becoming a thing too.

FFVIIR was a success, what heck are you going about here? Nobody sane was expecting the remake to sell as the (OG which had several releases over the years to pad its numbers) because it is not 1997 anymore. The OG FFVII benefited from coming out at time where 3D gaming was still a novelty and raising into prominence.

What even is a misery simulator, are we still taking about Depression Quest in 2023?

There's been plenty of modern games that sold better than FF7 did back in the day. 6 million by the end of the year it came out is kind of small peanuts compared to something like Call of Duty that can sell over 30 million copies like Modern Warfare 2019 did. Even the modern number of 13 million isn't that hard to beat for the big dogs. The fact the modernized, action oriented remake that was made for the more mainstream audiences didn't even match the old, antiquated, outdated, dumb turn based RPG is kind of a mark of shame if you think about what the intent was and how we were told the original game was a product of it's time and would never work as is today.

Is it a financial bomb? No. But after all the harping from executives and JRPG haters it's a bit of a "lol, lmao" kind of situation that it couldn't beat the original. The Resident Evil 2 remake outsold the original so it's not an impossible feat at all. (original is still better though)