would you remake the Mona Lisa?
Video game remakes are fundamentally anti-art. Video games are products of their moment, the constraints of the technology, production cycle, and individual devs is what makes the game. If you view gaming as art then remaking a game is equivalent to repainting a painting.
If you view videogames as just consumer entertainment and not art then I guess it makes sense to take something that other people make, and sand away all the edges to be more easily consumed.
It's not like movies, like take the 1950s "The Blob". It's a shitty movie that was remade into a good movie in the 80s, but unlike with videogames basically all they took from the original is the idea of the blob. Everything else was new, new plot, new camera shot choices, soundtrack, etc.
With videogames it's fundamentally different. It's not like the makers of Halo Campaign Evolved (this name is painfully bad btw) isn't new devs taking the idea of Halo CE making a whole new game with new levels, design, gameplay. No, they're just copying a game from 20 years ago.
All remakes are soulless.
If you view videogames as just consumer entertainment and not art then I guess it makes sense to take something that other people make, and sand away all the edges to be more easily consumed.
It's not like movies, like take the 1950s "The Blob". It's a shitty movie that was remade into a good movie in the 80s, but unlike with videogames basically all they took from the original is the idea of the blob. Everything else was new, new plot, new camera shot choices, soundtrack, etc.
With videogames it's fundamentally different. It's not like the makers of Halo Campaign Evolved (this name is painfully bad btw) isn't new devs taking the idea of Halo CE making a whole new game with new levels, design, gameplay. No, they're just copying a game from 20 years ago.
All remakes are soulless.
