21st March 2024, 1:48 AM
Heck I'm utterly terrified of what Bloober is going to do with Silent Hill 2, so I can only imagine what your worries may be there.
The total reimaginings of past games are a unique thing we're seeing now, but I can understand where you're coming from. Frankly, the speed of how they're bringing back "nostalgia" is rather sickening. Was it always like this? It may have been... but there's a LOT more cash thrown at these things now than there used to be. "Too big to fail" indeed. Now, I still pull out lots of old games and play through them rather often. Heck, just check my recent reviews over in the review threads. I've been on a real Donkey Kong kick lately and am currently working through Donkey Kong Country 3, remembering that while I may prefer a lot of the level design from DKC2, DKC3 was still a good game.
Anyway, yeah, the industry is reselling us our childhood and really... all I need them to do is keep their own past accessible. Movies, books, and music have FAR better preservation in place than games do. It's a shame how hard it is to keep even purchased emulated ROMs around for more than one generation, and the end result is the fans end up doing far better a job preserving gaming past than corporations do. Piracy provides a superior product all too often.
The total reimaginings of past games are a unique thing we're seeing now, but I can understand where you're coming from. Frankly, the speed of how they're bringing back "nostalgia" is rather sickening. Was it always like this? It may have been... but there's a LOT more cash thrown at these things now than there used to be. "Too big to fail" indeed. Now, I still pull out lots of old games and play through them rather often. Heck, just check my recent reviews over in the review threads. I've been on a real Donkey Kong kick lately and am currently working through Donkey Kong Country 3, remembering that while I may prefer a lot of the level design from DKC2, DKC3 was still a good game.
Anyway, yeah, the industry is reselling us our childhood and really... all I need them to do is keep their own past accessible. Movies, books, and music have FAR better preservation in place than games do. It's a shame how hard it is to keep even purchased emulated ROMs around for more than one generation, and the end result is the fans end up doing far better a job preserving gaming past than corporations do. Piracy provides a superior product all too often.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)