Excellent video, I completely agree with you! I could understand players asking for certain older games that aren't easily available to be ported for current systems, like Blood Will Tell which has become an expensive PS2 game, but since this current generation is backwards compatible there is no logical reason for this demand. For instance, The Last of Us was ported to the PS4 because PS3 games were not compatible with the PS4, however it's absolutely ridiculous how The Last of Us Part II is getting a PS5 release, when the PS4 version is perfectly playable on PS5 and readily available for much less. Uncharted 4 on PS5 is actually inferior to the PS4 original version since it's missing the online portion of the game that's so much fun. The same can be said about the inferior port of Red Dead Redemption for the PS4 and Switch that are also missing the online component from the Xbox 360/PS3 original. Other pointless examples of remakes/remasters are Alan Wake, Dead Space, and all the BioShock games since the superior and original Xbox 360 versions are already playable on Series X. You mentioned that many gamers are obsessed with graphics, so that shows how superficial they are and how they spend more time looking at games than actually playing them to completion. Do they not realize that gameplay (the single most important element in a video game) has been practically the same since the 7th generation of consoles with very little innovation if any? I blame the uneducated video game consumer more than the developers; they're the main reason why companies keep re-releasing the same games over and over again and why the video game industry has been stagnant for so long.

I think remakes are good if the original game was limited by hardware constraints, the black ops 2 map tranzit was intentionally made with lava and fog everywhere because the consoles at the time could not load everything in fast enough. So if a remake lives up to the original concept then i am all for it

remakes and re masters are actully really important mgs 4 has been stuck to the ps3 since 2008 game remakes the only reason i touched resident evil 4 was for the remake becasue the shooting and camera in the og was unplayable for me also a lot og older games have very outdated humor and takes poltically so a remake or remaster can help them fit modern standers

I’m glad there’s people like you who call out this bs. I wish other KZfaqrs spoke about this. I am so sick and tired of people begging for remakes of games that are just fine the way they are. Now there are actually 2 games that I think could use a remake but I’m not gonna beg for them to happen like everyone else does. As for remasters I don’t mind them if it’s for games that are still stuck on old gen consoles.

Something that bothers me the most about remakes is how often do the people who made the original take part in remaking the game? almost every remake the creative spark is completely gone and they add hd graphics and it just feels so divorced from art and creativity. I wish they'd just make cool new games. How many game developers want to work on these remakes for games they were never involved in creating?

For me personally I like Remakes/Remasters, of course there are outliers of game that REALLY don’t need a remake or remaster, but most of the time I think they’re good because they give more people a chance to experience them. You tell people to play old game but that’s just kinda ignorant to the fact not everyone has every generation of console or can afford to buy whatever old game they want due to the prices being jacked up. In my experience, people always ask for remasters for games that are stuck on Old Consoles like the PS3, and/or seriously need a Performance boost. Some examples for me are Sonic Unleashed and Batman Arkham Origins, both are great games but they’re trapped on the PS3 and run like Crap. You can play both on Xbox via backwards compatibility but again, not everyone has one, so a remaster for all modern platforms would be great. When it comes to remakes I always see people talk about games from the Late 90s/Early 2000s that are in desperate need of an Upgrade. Games like Sonic Adventure which hasn’t been ported since 2011 and even then needed a major upgrade to both its graphics and mechanics. I guess, just avoid the obvious cash grabs but don’t be mad at people for buying/asking for what they like.

Amen, I wish the bigger KZfaqrs would say this to their huge fan bases but they never will.

Awesome video! I think Retro Gaming is the way to go too! Gaming nowadays is just not as good as it used to be and that ain't nostalgia talking. DLC, battle passes, always-online games.... it's ridiculous...

Being honest, I don’t think I’ve heard any mainstream critics just saying “The graphics are amazing 10/10 game” and not talking about anything else. Even IGN has a Pros and Cons section at the end of each review

I'm actually glad From Software released a remaster for Dark Souls 1. For some reason the older original version runs like trash on my PC, not even hitting 30 fps, while the remaster runs smoothly with 60+ fps.

I knew this 3 years ago, with every GTA release since Red Dead Redemption 2. I remember talking to acquaintances (and they agreed), how repackaging video games is money. Hollywood did the same thing. It took YEARS for consumers to catch on. Streaming services are a new version of cable television. Etc.

You know i actually searched remakes are pointless and wonder of wonders I'm here, excellent video

Kotor and return to castle wolfenstein are really the only two remakes I'd like to see

I never understand why people always ask for games that they already like to get remade or remastered. If the game is already good, why would you want a remaster? The only times I want a remake is when the game has either aged really badly or when it it’s only available on really old platforms that I do not own. But man, it always really hurts my brain when I see people say: ‘This game is so good, it needs a remaster’.

Well it depends on the game but some can be really good. I reccomend the Nightdive studios remasters like Quake 1+2 and Shadowman. They actually added a lot of new content. For games that are not that old I would agree with you that they often don't need a remake/remaster.

I want to say that you should buy some remakes... Rather remasters. The people quake 1 and remasters... that was done right. 10 dollqrs plus a new set of maps for the game. Those are the kind of remasters we should be supporting. Getting old classics up to standard. It's not a remake. It's simply just taking the source code and making it run nice and a little tweak for our systems.

It seems that many of the people who disliked this video did so before actually seeing the whole thing. He's not saying that ALL remakes are bad or pointless, mostly the ones that are remastered gen-on-gen, whereas remaking retro, especially out-of-print games, is generally fine. Graphical remasters, however, are often times just soulless cash grabs.

If we keep allowing all these remakes and remasters then backwards compatibility will disappear forever if they know they can keep selling the same games.

I like remakes it gives people who never played the orginal a chance to like I look forward to silent hill remake I never got to play it and I don’t have a pc or older consoles I understand certain games don’t need a remake or remaster like the last of us or last of us part 2

What bugs me about remaking RDR1 is that the obsession with graphics is so extreme… most people don’t realise that it’s a damn regression in every other way. Many people have been saying RDR1 is much better as a game than RDR2 which is an interactive movie. Alas the majority don’t consider those factors, they want the graphics. Fortunately I already knew it would never be remade in a million years. Good on you regarding Starfield. I played it, it is exactly as bad as you’ve presumed.

Its funny how many response essays have been written in this comments section, Starfield was fucking abysmal and is a huge red flag for bethesda like having played it for like 20 hours its bad your not wrong about it

I mean I only play on PC nowadays and I just want games like RDR to be ported to PC. I don't really care what a game looks like as long as its fun. Remakes are one of the only incentives for game companies to make PC ports of older games that didn't initially recieve them. God bless emulation.

So what do you have to say about GOG or Steam. Those give you the same old game but it’s updated to work on newer PCs. Literally I wouldn’t run some of the old DOS games I get off GOG or Steam without their updated versions.

Someone said that about the Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion ("I would love a remake"), and it made my blood boil.

I feel like this is ignoring one of the big reasons for a remake, that being accessibility. Most of these games that got remakes were made for older consoles that people don't have access to, and not a single one of them is backwards compatible across all platforms (Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo). Graphics usually play very little part in people suggesting for a remake, it's pretty much always about accessibility to the game itself (it's not about "this game should get remade to make it look better", it's about "this game should be remade for newer consoles") Out of all of the games you list here, the only one that doesn't really work for what you described was Skyrim's Anniversary Edition. I believe it was intended as an Xbox Series/PS5 release, but I don't believe it had any enhancements and the Special Edition was already playable on those regardless. In the case of everything else, it brought a game to a platform that otherwise wouldn't have been able to play it, and not all of these games are easy to find secondhand even if you have the console to play them on. Red Dead Redemption has never been on a Nintendo console, Last of Us was never on PC, Skyrim wasn't on Xbox One, PS4, or Switch, same goes for GTA V, Windwaker was only on GameCube, Skyward Sword was only on Wii, the original GTA Trilogy wasn't playable on PS4 or PS5, and even in a lot of cases newer hardware with newer drivers can make support for older games more difficult on PC I'm not going to say there's no merit to what you're saying, companies absolutely need to try harder to make games more polished (although we did just come out of one of the greatest years of gaming we've had in a while so some people might disagree), but I feel like this is missing a lot of points. Hell, we just came out of a pandemic, games currently in development were mostly made with a whole 2 and a half years of improper communication and remote development. There are so many factors that would affect the game development apart from solely greed

I don't mind remakes as long they're good and they don't feel points I really enjoyed the remakes for RE2 and RE4

I've got friends who just can't play a game if it's over 2 years old... They just have to have the latest graphics. They scoff when I talk about old games, and about retro gaming. It just makes. no sense to me.

He's not wrong though. I think one studio name can sum this up, Rockstar. Smh

Remakes of Movies, games or any type of media that's great makes absolutely no sense at all. I don't really game anymore because my console is suffering Troubleshoot issues I hope it gets fixed soon.

Another based take from NWG. Aesthetics and artsyle are way more important than general "good graphics." I'm also over remakes, prequels, sequels, reboots, etc. I want new fresh original media period.

Imo, it all comes down to a certain game franchise & the type of game genres. Like some racing games like Need For Speed: Underground 2, really needs a remake, because is not that easy to remaster a racing game, especially when they're dealing with car licensing, & have to remove certain car models, including car parts that are not available during this modern times. Which is the whole reason why most of these old racing games gets delisted from the stores everytime. Which kinda hurts preservation. Racing Games are always tied to licensing, which is why a remake would make sense for a racing game genre, as long as they keep the race tracks, & car upgrade stats.

Great video. As someone who played the original Demon's Souls NOT on the PS3 but on an emulator because I couldn't play it when it originally came out, I was amazed to see what the devs had accomplished. The world, characters and especially the soundtrack made me love the game to a point where I personally place it above Dark Souls II and III, even though these were more recent games that I played first. So imagine my disgust when I later saw the PS5 remake where they killed the atmosphere, butchered the soundtrack and made the design of both the characters and the levels look much more generic despite the improved graphics. The worst thing is that people kept saying that "If you don't like how it looks now, you're just blinded by nostalgia" or "The original game is not how you remember all those years ago, move on" Well guess what? I didn't play it all those years ago! I played and finished the original for the FIRST TIME a few months before the remake was released and I saw how Bluepoint completely disregarded what made the original so especial, and how everyone just followed the hype train because "OHH SHINY NEW GRAPHICS!!!" "IS THAT ANOTHER EPIC CHANTING ORCHESTRAL MUSIC LIKE DARK SOULS 3???, I'M GETTING CHILLS!" And then they forgot about it and went on to consume the next popular product the algorithm recommended. It's all so tiresome, really.

that gamers have no standards is the reason why there are microtransactions, loot boxes, day 1 dlc, invasive drm etc. companies know that regardsless how shitty a release is and how predatory microtransactions are within their games, there are enough idiots buying that crap anyways.

Capcom has made the same trend with Resident Evil 4 as well.

100% I'm guilty of buying remakes/remasters...and I always seem to be disappointed. Also, this push for photo-realism and motion captured animation takes a ton of creativity out of the art style and makes all games look and play vaguely similar.

I've never bought a remastered game in my life If I want to remaster a game I like I go online and find mods

just wanted to add that you video on the rockstar portion is very miss infomed rockstar had nothing to do with the defintive edtion of the old gta games a mobile game studio called grove street games was responible for that mess also the gta pc port had many improvements the next gen ports werent re master just ports

well the best is the quake 2 remaster, because it is free if you own the game, and black mesa was great!

This video is kind of nonsense. Starting with your complaint about starfield I'm not going to sit here and say it's a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination it has a significant amount of faults but you've never played it you can't have an informed opinion when you haven't played the thing your friends playing it doesn't count it's hard to take you seriously when you aren't informed about the thing you're talking about. Sure there are some remasters that are unnecessary but many of them aren't. For instance PS4 wasn't backwards compatible with PS3 games and so re-releasing some of those makes sense because they're not backwards compatible. Yeah sure you get a couple Skyrim anniversary editions or last of Us part 1 being re-released at least that was put on PC on a place that never was before which makes it worth it. We also have games like resident evil 2 remake resident evil 4 remake Dead space remake that are all incredibly well done add a lot to existing game improves upon them and makes in most cases a superior version to be the definitive way to play that story. There's nothing wrong with remakes or remasters there are way more examples of it working out very well for the consumer then it being a cheap cash grab. You complained about Red Dead being released I was excited to be able to play that on the go and buy it on my switch. But it wasn't released on Xbox that way because it's backwards compatible already it was only released on PS4 and switch where the game wasn't available. There's a massive issue online with a bunch of people forming uninformed opinions and spreading negativity without having proper knowledge to back up that negativity. Starfield didn't win game of the year it didn't get nominated for game of the year the games that did like Baldur's gate 3 or Alan Wake 2 push the medium forward. There's a lot of problems going on to this industry right now you can argue live service elements being predatory you can go on a long grant about how the gaming industry is financially booming almost better than any other industry yet they are a massive layoffs across the board. You can talk about how the development cycle for new games is just too long and can lead to it being unsustainable. But releasing a remaster of something that isn't available on the system that they have or a remake for an older game that had a lot of wonderful things about it but could seriously see some modern improvements there's nothing wrong with it I would love to see a kotor remake that game has a wonderful story but it's gameplay is ancient. Resident evil 4 remake is considered one of the best of the year and it's not because ooh pretty graphics It's because it enhances it's original concept it makes the game more impactful the acting is better the gameplay is better it is more frightening and practically improves on the original source in almost every way. Remakes can be a good thing I don't want lazy ones but most of them aren't.

I agree with a few points in this video. Especially complaining about games like COD but buying them every year again. But altough many remakes or remasters are not needed, there are many good ones. For example the Resident evil remakes or the system shock and Dead space remake. Those remakes where not only better graphics but better gameplay, new additions and many improvements. And i don't at all agree with this generation being the worst. We have many good developers and many good games came out in 2023. Baldurs Gate 3, Marvels Midnight Suns, Lethal company, Dave the Diver etc. There are many good games out there and excellent developers you just have to look out for them and not stick to companies like Activision-Blizzard, bethesda or ubisoft. Although i have to say, many players are promoting lazy development. Like buying every COD, FIFA etc.

Always boggles my mind when I see the same people saying that modern gaming is trash spend their time praising remakes of their childhood games like RE4 or the new MGS3 coming out. In my opinion remakes are only okay if it's a complete reimagining or to give forgotten/"bad" game franchises that had good ideas a second chance by actually making them fun. Good games are good forever, so just rerelease them as is if they're stuck on a certain platform, maybe offer alternative control schemes so they're not a hassle for the modern audience at most (and for the love of god don't make then cost 70 bucks). I also hate the fact that people think that more pixels = better graphics, I still think the original shemnue games look 100x better than any AAA slop devoid of personality of today (with some exceptions like Ghost of Tsushima), but leave it to the remaster to ruin it all by "upscaling" the graphics that were meant to be displayed at a low resolution. Playing Yakuza Kiwami 2 after Yakuza 2 and it's night and day, the game lost all its personality all so it can look better as a screenshot. When every modern game uses the same color palette to look realistic none of them end up standing out.

When I finally got dragon Age 3for the ps4 in 2018, they scoffed at me cuz the game was like 4 years at the time and had "dated" Graphics by then.

I’m glad they remaster red dead og because I never got to play it and I don’t have a pc or Xbox

Bla bla bla.....Remakes are NOT pointless. There are many games that I would love to see remade. Dragon Age Origins, Witcher 1 (which is being done Woo-Hoo!), Beyond Good & Evil, and many many more! A lot of these older games were made with the technological limitations of their day. Most of these games had a vision that far exceeds what was eventually released. This creates the perfect opportunity for REMAKES. Why you have a problem with this, is beyond understanding. If you personally don't like Remakes, just don't buy them!

Sometimes the "This game needs a remake" comment makes me wonder if people actually enjoyed the original. Same for the usual "I miss this game" (a lot of times in combination with "I wish they remade this"). As if it's not possible to play it right now because it's not available in at least 4k ultra HD. Sure, I personally can appreciate good graphics from time to time but when playing a game, it's not like I'm constantly looking at how detailed the graphics are. But it's really not something new. The graphics over gameplay mindset was already rampant in the ps2 era. People were just talking about how good graphics (not necessarily on ps2) were as if that's the only reason to play a game. Personally I think some remade games are totally worth it if it improves on everything compared to the original like for example System Shock. But RE4, again? (just google how many versions there are of this game) TLoU again? But yeah, we are living in times where companies are lazy and investors just look at numbers. And it works because people keep buying remakes and unfinished products. I see it the same way as you do: people desperately feel like they must buy anything. It's like they're trying to fill some empty void in their lives, no selfrespect or anything. The blank stares I get when I say it would be great if they actually released something new that's just as great.

red dead redemptions need a remaster for PC :P

Want to do movie reviews with me Nordic?😊

Thats why i love Minecraft

If a remake is interesting enough, why not? 😂 if it flops then we can collectively laugh at their hubris. But, RE2 was a pleasant surprise despite the tank controls and fixed camera angles being gone. It allowed for a different experience while preserving and respecting the genre defining gameplay loops. Remasters are something I find harder to sell myself on however, due to those scummy business tactics we lets slide too often. Master Chief Collection comes to mind and NO FRIGGIN-A CO-OP?!?!?!?!

Then there is Konami making a mgs 3 remake, boring and stupid looking and some unreal blurry trash. Yare yare why the fuk they didn't do one effing collection rather then money dipping volume scam

Sometimes remakes sometimes add more to a story. Like RE4, they added so much lore.. and took out some very annoying quick time events.

Dead space remake was good. Can't say I know of any other good remakes/remasters.. maybe age of empires definitive edition?

"Boring, bloated piece of crap, Starfield.... I haven't played it" 🤣 I don't like Starfield but you lose all credibility with this statement. You've basically just admitted that your opinions are controlled by others, or at least formed with the goal of being contrarian or edgy. You speak like a teenager who is more interested in the negative discourse around the industry and going against the popular grain than having an interesting or original thought. You call people "ravenous consumers" because they buy games they're interested in, which just makes it sound like you can't afford games and you're bitter about it. Stop being negative, stop creating straw-man arguments, learn to appreciate the artistry and hard work that goes into these games instead of ranting about how other people choose to spend their time or money.

if we're talking about a reMAKE like RE4, then yes. keep doing stuff like this. but if we're talking about remastering the last of us part 2? i'm beyond good i think way too many people get these 2 mixed up, not you per say. remakes can be very very good but remasters are almost always a cash grab

Dunno, i rather have good remakes than bad new games, and there are still good games coming out beside that. Remaster and remakes are not the same, period. I agree with that graphic thing tho, but ultimately you make it out to be an extreme which it isnt. there are low graphic games that are good and there are high graphic games that are bad.

The original ps3 last of us was fantastic but the sequal was a hatecrime along with everything since,

I completely disagree with you. I think the games from 40 years ago are the ones that don't need remasters. Those pixel graphics are basically timeless as no matter how high quality our displays get, they'll always look just as sharp as they did back then, they just need to output with the right res of the screen, a basic port. Games from 2000-2015 are all things I could see needing remasters or full on remakes. The main reason is the absolutely terrible textures they used to have compared to today. Just look at how much better the Jak Collection looks to the original games just from redoing the textures and nothing else. Otherwise it's exactly the same game but it makes it look so much better. We also have way better lighting effects for modern games making some of those older ones just look bland or flat in comparison. Very few games aged as well as Dead Space 2 for example. Both Dead Space 1 and 3 look well below the bar of modern games. The only thing I don't like about remakes is when they directly change the story or gameplay mechanics/ physics. I think the original Dead Space had a far better story than the remake and they remove some of the notable parts of the ship. I do like the new game, but it feels wrong when things are unfaithful to the original. Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary also looks so much better than the original, but I still don't like it for being unfaithful in the atmosphere. Halo 2 Anniversary in comparison is nearly perfect, the only change is the sound of the weapons which is weird with the new wrath and hunter sounds, but it's still far better than the original. I will say the industry does have a tendency to make really crappy "remasters" though like the GTA one or the Uncharted ones. Basically just a straight port or still looking incredibly low quality while charging a higher price than they're worth. Something like Spyro Reignited or Crash Remastered deserved the $60 price tag, Mario 3D All Stars and Twilight Princess HD did not.

I totally disagree and am baffled how little NordicWarriorGaming seems to understand the gaming market. How on earth could you reduce remasters / remakes to "buying the same game over and over again"? Aren't you aware that there are people who didn't play the originals, either because they were too young, or didn't have a certain system back then? Let's take The Last of Us, a rather extrem example, that although it was released merely 11 years ago, already got _two_ remasters, one of them barely a year after the original release. I bought the first one. Why? Because I didn't have a PS3, never played the original, and preferred to play a version with higher resolution and higher frame rate on the PS4 I did own. I also bought the second remaster. Why? Because I wished to replay it with the graphical fidelity (which is a huge part of what creates immersion) of its successor TLOU2 on the PC with whom I replaced my old PS4 in the meantime. Yes, I paid another 50€ for a game I already owned. So what? That's about the cost of going to the cinema two times, but for significantly more hours of entertainment. It's not a lot of money. I started PC gaming in 1994 and I'm pretty sure it never was in a _better_ state than now. Many games back then weren't actually very good. They were held back tremendously by technical limitations and often lacked all quality-of-life features we now take for granted. Take System Shock for example, an incredibly innovative game that helped to shape a whole genre. Try to play the original - it's awful. The remake released last year may not be nearly as important for gaming history, but you can play it without getting eye cancer or breaking your fingers. I wouldn't recommend the original to anyone who started gaming in the recent decade, because they very much likely would have no fun at all. I would totally recommend the remake though. Same goes for later releases. I'd even say that games of the 2000's aged worse than 90s games, because they lack the charm of 2D or very early 3D graphics and often look absolutely awful by modern standards.

I'm counting with totally overrated noob developers, with no clue about gaming and project management, but with a budget of half a billion bucks and a deadline of seven years for a new game, and a chance of 90% for it to fail. Okay, as we all know, even a remaster is often beyond their abilities, but at least the Halo 2 Remaster was a better game than Halo: Finite, and ME 1 from the trilogy better than Shitfield. Or Fallout 3 to 4 and Skyrim, which I've remastered myself ;) And nope, Bethesda has no fans anymore, just random people who eat everything if it has the right brand name on it. I'm a game since Space Invaders, and we are practically living in the end times of gaming, but new gamers are born in it and have no clue how gaming once was.

I agree that alot of remakes/remasters are gross, but I gotta say that the FF7 remake is one of the best games of the decade IMO, and yes I played the OG.

let people buy their remakes, remakes are cool at least when it's well done. and if it isn't just play the original.

Remakes are great, and it has almost nothing to do with graphics. Modern games are trash. So, if the only way you can get a good AAA game is if they remake a classic, I think it’s what they should do. The devs could learn how to make a good game. Most remakes should be of games that are 10 years old. However, I think exceptions exist. Some games were rushed out or had some other critical flaw that kept it from being excellent and popular. While some could be patched, some need to be remade and others could greatly benefit from a new release. If you think shooters haven’t evolved, you are clearly a shallow thinker. I say this as someone who knows DOOM (1993) is still excellent. The problem is not remakes; it’s people buying crappy products because they are new and or trendy. It doesn’t matter if it’s a remake of a 5-year-old game or a brand new one. Ghost Recon (2001) is an excellent game. Yet, it can be much better if it was properly remade. There are so many ways that it could be improved and expanded. It is not going to become popular by me telling my friends about it. There would need to be a remake. If it’s done properly, it can inspire new games to be better. TLDR: don’t buy bad games; buy good games, regardless as to whether it’s a remake.

The thumbnail for your video shows why remakes are not pointless. "stop buying remakes" 🤡 people are buying them so they are not pointless. I Love remakes and I say bring them on! I do hate remakes of games that aren't even a decade old. But older games, especially from the 5th and 6th generation, are great! Games from those Generations were very limited by the hardware and 3D was still a new thing so they would benefit a lot from a remake

The only remake I personally enjoyed was Resident Evil 1 Remake. It surpassed the original in almost every way,problem is developers took that idea and remake everything afterwards😂

The people asking for remakes should get a pc.

Part of the reason for the number of remakes is the whiny tantrum reception of many gamers when companies make new types of video games that push the limits. the overblown reactions and constant tantrums make it a safer bet to remake something with a proven track record. you brought it on yourselves you whiney losers haha lol. still some of the remakes are amazing especially the capcom resident evil ones.

thank you! I felt like I was the only one. People are brainwashed by remakes, people should enjoy the original game the way it was meant to be.

Bloodborne needs remaster, I stand by this

I disagree

what on earth are you yapping about 💀 this is a hard listen/watch

Looks like the dopmine addicted kiddies found and downvoted this one.

This video is so negative. I had to stop listening to it. I love remake games Skyrim on the PS five is incredible.