hello i came to see your profile after seeing your art from a random fandom (your art is very amazing and im in love with your stylezation of characters!), but i came across your recent text post regarding the lack of need for modern remakes and it just made my respect for you jump into the heavens! it feels to me like, ever since this remake trend started, more and more people attack anyone who opposes this blatant cash grab of a practice. not only is it pointless on an artistic value, but some remakes even attempt to replace the original despite cutting "outdated" or "controversial" content, i just cannot understand the hype for it. and, as you said, absolutely no one is attempting to remake a substantially old or outright Terrible game which is ridiculous. not only is most of the games being remade not nearly as old as mg1 (thus don't deserve it), but most of them are far from being "outdated" in a gameplay sense (i know you said you're far from a gamer, but i am a fairly dedicated one and feel the need to reiterate this point). gameplay to me is part of the artistic vision - placing a sterile 3rd person perspective with a "modern" UI and realistic graphics is just a complete downgrade in every possible sense. some games are meant to be difficult and appeal to certain demographic (not Every possible "consumer"). i'm tired of people who consume every new product at an alarming rate and complain the second there's nothing "new" that i'm wearing nostalgia tinted glasses when i say the same things for an original game and a remake that i played consecutively 2 weeks ago. im sorry this turned into a rant more or less, but i can't seem to encounter anymore people that have a disdain for remakes and consider them unnecessary wastes of resources.
hi, i'm very glad there are people that share my sentiment. the more i think about the remake trend and its implications about how people perceive and value art and video games as a form of art, i get more angry than before. if im gonna turn your ask into another rant, a more recent example that makes me particularly livid is the yakuza franchise, with yakuza kiwami 3 and yakuza 0 director's cut. even despite their controversial in-game changes, they actively attempt to displace the original games which are taken out from the digital game stores, effectively forcing the choice out of people's hands, all while they didn't necessarily need these remakes in the first place. publishers create a problem that they then sell an expensive, shitty solution to — what big tech nowadays does a lot. and it's not like they don't pump out new yakuza games every year or so! ugh.
and it really is an attempt to trim down the fat and spray on a hasty coat of shiny ray-tracing paint to appeal to the mass market, and, sure, games are products, and products are meant to sell, but if you really want to make a buck on the highest reaching demographic, go make shitty google play mobile games, not capitalise on a property made for a particular audience that you didn't even have any hand in. and it's another massively disappointing thing — the original team has no say in said remakes, most of the time they don't even participate. for another example: plants vs zombies. yeah, im struggling for any more well-known examples, but the community agreed that game did really need a definitive version — unfortunately, the original team was never even contracted about helping out on the remaster, even if they (by their own admission) would have gladly done so. but no, popcap just slapped ai art onto it and called it a day. not only is it just cheap, it's a slap in the face for the creators you're profiting off of. it's a horror, and it's what gets me the most — and it's very, very upsetting to me how very few people even think about the creators and creative visionaries and artists etc. etc. who get no respect to their work, all in the name of profit. also because people seemingly can't accept their experience somehow being 'imperfect', the charm of old graphics and innovative, out-of pocket gameplay. everything needs to be better, everything needs to be more smooth and palatable, so we're gonna throw your slightly charred steak into a blender and serve you the meat sludge that comes from it. like i said in that original post — remakes should be the author's choice, if they have the opportunity to improve things they consider outdated by their standarts, due to a lack of experience or proper technology, not the executives' need for more easy cash.
anyway, thank you for sharing, im hoping our complaints are gonna be loud enough and people start voting smartly with their money. though considering the crazy high prices they're putting on remakes, i think it's more than possible people could just stop being able to afford them lol
