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Avec ou Nous
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Largely off-topic but I appreciate third party companies giving us Transformers figures of the Japanese series. I don't expect Hasbro to do it since I don't think most of them even came over to the west but I do enjoy my Micron Legend and Super-God Masterforce figures from FansHobby. I did pick up the Titan class Black Zarak though since it fits in fairly nice in scale with them and it's just a recolor of G1 Scorponok so it was an easy call for Hasbro to make one.
I think it's more important that remakes should be an attempt to provide the player a better overall gaming experience or at least one that is on-par with the original. Something like Super Mario All Stars comes down to your preference if you prefer the original NES games or the SNES versions. Personally I grew up with the NES ones so I never cared for All Stars much but I wouldn't say it's a bad game since it's largely the same and only people so familiar with the originals would be able to tell if the control is slightly off. Similarly, I think games like Metroid Zero Mission are an improvement over the original Metroid since it has a lot more content. Same with a lot of later versions of older Final Fantasy game like the GBA remakes of 1-6 simply being upgraded versions of their original games with additional content. But then you have cases like Mario 64 DS which technically has more content but it's so tedious with the character swapping and just an overall lesser quality product than the original. An issue with a lot of modern remakes is they often feel like they weren't made for the sake of giving modern players a better experience than the original since most of the time they have less content. They usually feel like a cheap attempt to profit off a popular game and don't have much reverence put into them. |
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FinalVentCard
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Yeah, we're in a bit of a golden age for folks who like the obscure weirdo Japanese characters like Star Saber or RID2001 Optimus Prime/Fire Convoy. Most of them are HasLab stuff, which is a shame, and I don't expect it to last much longer (I'm losing hope that we'll see Armada/Micron Legend Jetfire made for combining with Armada/Micron Legend Prime). But dammit, I got my remade Minerva and I got my remade Override. I'm satisfied. iwantotellyouaboutthetransformers.jpg
I can't agree with this because too much of this feels like it stems from the notion that a remake is meant to replace the original game. And that notion just... doesn't sit well with me. Again, it feels like it's coming from the position of people looking at games purely on their technical merits and nothing else. I think there's something to be said about how Dead Space's remake handled things; there are a lot of things you could point to from Dead Space as a categorical upgrade from the original game (the goddamned meteor shooting), but Dead Space also changes some narrative details from the first game. Meanwhile, the first Dead Space is also still widely available and perfectly playable. Which one you prefer to the other is entirely up for debate, but I've nevertheless seen plenty of Dead Space fans with the belief that both versions exist in a good balance with each other, serving to expand on the same story. The RE4 remake is also in that same position. A lot of this boils down to whether or not the original is available in a decent format (which just goes to show the need for archiving older games). |
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Flash33
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Personally I was never bothered with the Vanillite lines designs and never really got the hate for them. Are they weird? Sure, but not that much weirder than many other Pokemon designs, especially in regards to gen 1 (Grimer-Muk, Voltorb-Electrode, Weedle-Kakuna-Beedrill, Caterpie-Metapod-Butterfree, etc.). |
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BadNewsBlues
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If RE4 Remake had kept everything as it was in the original game in particular the entire Castle segment heads would’ve needed to roll. Sure they kept the water room section and arguably made it worse than the original but still a win that they cut a lot of the fluff and useless stuff like the empty Pendulum room with the Death Traps that you have to try to get killed by. And praise be that the RE3 Remake didn’t have roaming Nemesis or that BS puzzle with the random solution.
I’m the weird guy that grew up with the NES and SNES versions of the games in the All Star collection (sans both versions of the NES Super Mario Bros 2) but prefer the GBA versions of these games in spite of their washed out colors, screen crunch, and compressed audio. If only for the audio clips of Mario & Luigi’s voice lines and Super Mario Advance 2 giving Luigi a proper looking sprite while Mario’s stayed the same. |
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ANN_Lynzee
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Rob19ny you've been warned multiple times for your strange interactions in this column. You don't work here, no one is asking you for "facts" related Jean-Karlo's often innocuous comments within the column and you seem unable to engage in any actual discussion here.
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thecowardlyantoine
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They didn't do roaming Nemesis in 3make? I never played it since I did not like all the changes they made but but the RE2 remake did the roaming Mr. X thing so I assumed they would do the same or reuse the same AI for that. Kind of odd they would swap those mechanics around between games. Ironically I hated the Mr. X stuff in the 2 remake and it's one of the biggest turn offs for me since he was a scripted sequence in the original. It felt like they were trying to re-create the Nemsis scenes from 3 since it was so iconic back in the day so it's odd they would just not do that for 3's remake. I guess it would have gotten old if 2 games did it in a row but... why not just do it for 3 the game that it originated in and not 2? Very odd.. |
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Gem-Bug
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They did a different thing with Nemesis where there was a ton of scripted sequences and then one hub section of the city where he literally drops into the area anytime you entered it. It was a big let down from the PS1 RE3 where you had a semi-roaming Nemesis who'd engage you repeatedly in the first half of the game in a way that seemed random(though was based on a lot of different factors and choices you've made in game). I feel like the RE2 remake Mr. X is a perfected version of this design, personally. |
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BadNewsBlues
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RE7 which immediately preceded the remakes did this. RE6 had this to an extent with the Ustanak in the Jake & Sherry Campaign. Revelations had this with Rachel The RE1 Remake had this with Lisa Trevor. So yeah by about RE2 Remake it was pretty old. And then of course RE8 brought it back as did Separate Ways |
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