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I'll wait for the Ocarina of Time remake. The leaks have been coming out for months now and say it is supposedly coming out this fall. The upcoming Legend of Z

by echelon 6mo ago

I'll wait for the Ocarina of Time remake. The leaks have been coming out for months now and say it is supposedly coming out this fall. The upcoming Legend of Zelda film sets seem to be based on Ocarina of Time, recent merchandise (LEGO sets, etc.) are based on Ocarina of Time to enhance marketing, etc. Nintendo just dropped the official Starfox 64 remake news yesterday, so this rumor is likely pretty legitimate. I don't play games much anymore, but that's something I will absolutely revisit due to nostalgia.

uncircle 6mo ago
Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia. I called it years ago, but I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again. Incidentally they will be also easier to AI generate, as part of their existing data set. It truly is the end game for our stale and uninspired culture. I missed Breath of the Wild, I’ll play it on the Switch 4 remake in a couple of years. /rant
- hootz 6mo ago
  And they charge a lot for them, too. The Luigi's Mansion 2 remake is too expensive for a graphical upgrade of a 3DS game.
- philistine 6mo ago
  The announced StarFox 64 remake is, on a very strict count, the second time they have remade StarFox 64. If you count StarFox Zero, which is kind of a remake but also not, we are on our third remake of StarFox 64. A game, mind you, which was kind of a remake of the original StarFox on Super Nintendo.
- mcphage 6mo ago
  > Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia. The thing is, though—Ocarina of Time is a good game. It was a good game almost 30 years ago when it first came out, and it's still a good game today. But there are generations of gamers who never played it. So why not spend some money to polish it up for modern audiences, and release it for newer consoles?
- maccard 6mo ago
  > I called it years ago, but I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again How many years ago? because movies have been remade since the beginning of motion pictures - the great train Robbery was in the early 1900s.
  - uncircle 6mo ago
    I'm mostly thinking about video games. The problem is systemic. It's simply less risky to remake than to create a new IP
    - maccard 6mo ago
      Remakes have been around since the early days of games too, particularly if you consider ports remakes. The Sega ages series of games were remakes of old games to the PS2.
- johnnyanmac 6mo ago
  > I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again. OOT is a 28 year old game whose last remake is 15 years old. Not everyone is going to play every remake, but everyone will have their favorites. That's why the remake market works.
mghackerlady 6mo ago
How many times are they gonna remake starfox 64 (which is basically a remake of the first starfox with bits from the then unreleased 2)

by echelon 6mo ago

uncircle 6mo ago

Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia. I called it years ago, but I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again. Incidentally they will be also easier to AI generate, as part of their existing data set. It truly is the end game for our stale and uninspired culture. I missed Breath of the Wild, I’ll play it on the Switch 4 remake in a couple of years. /rant

hootz 6mo ago
And they charge a lot for them, too. The Luigi's Mansion 2 remake is too expensive for a graphical upgrade of a 3DS game.
philistine 6mo ago
The announced StarFox 64 remake is, on a very strict count, the second time they have remade StarFox 64. If you count StarFox Zero, which is kind of a remake but also not, we are on our third remake of StarFox 64. A game, mind you, which was kind of a remake of the original StarFox on Super Nintendo.
mcphage 6mo ago
> Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia. The thing is, though—Ocarina of Time is a good game. It was a good game almost 30 years ago when it first came out, and it's still a good game today. But there are generations of gamers who never played it. So why not spend some money to polish it up for modern audiences, and release it for newer consoles?
maccard 6mo ago
> I called it years ago, but I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again How many years ago? because movies have been remade since the beginning of motion pictures - the great train Robbery was in the early 1900s.
- uncircle 6mo ago
  I'm mostly thinking about video games. The problem is systemic. It's simply less risky to remake than to create a new IP
  - maccard 6mo ago
    Remakes have been around since the early days of games too, particularly if you consider ports remakes. The Sega ages series of games were remakes of old games to the PS2.
johnnyanmac 6mo ago
> I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again. OOT is a 28 year old game whose last remake is 15 years old. Not everyone is going to play every remake, but everyone will have their favorites. That's why the remake market works.

mghackerlady 6mo ago

How many times are they gonna remake starfox 64 (which is basically a remake of the first starfox with bits from the then unreleased 2)