There’s been a lot of talk recently about how all the best games so far this year have been remakes, and why that’s a worrying portent of doom, but I’m here to tell you: it’s a good thing. If you’ve seen much of what I’ve written on TheGamer before, you’ll know 168澳洲༒幸运5开奖网:I don’t🃏 much care for remakes in general, and think the industry should be focusing moജre on fresh experiences, not cynically banking on the popularity of old franchise names 💧and our own lingering nostalgia. However, even if remakes as a whole are a sticking point, it’s never a bad thing for them to be great.
Much fuss has been made about how nine out of this year’s ten🎃 highest rated games are remakes, ports, or similar re-releases, but let’s break that number down. Three of those ten games are 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil 4 on different platforms, and a further two are 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 4 Golden: that’s five slots taken up by two games, which doesn’t seem like a fair way to measure things. Of the other five, there’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Th😼e Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition, which nobody seriously includes as a game from this year, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tetris Effect: Connected, which launched on PS VR2 as an upgrade. The other three slots are taken by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metroid Prime Remake, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dead Space Remake, and the one true newcomer to proceedings, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hi-Fi Rush.
It’s strange to see this described as a new trend, however. Last year’s top ten includes 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Portal & Portal 2 (which beat Elden Ring to number one), 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5 Royal in three different slots, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition again. The Stanley Parable, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:God of War (2018), and Persona 5 Royal once more all arrive before 15th p🌼lace. I won’t do this for every year, but in 2021 the top two spots were held by deluxe editions of Disco Elysium and The House in Fata Morgana. Remakes and remasters usually review more positively than the ღaverage game because they’re typically reviewed by people who already like them.
This year seems no different then, but I’d argue it’s not just th🦹e s😼ame, it’s better. A lot of the game🧜s listed above are just ports or graphical tweaks - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Co𓆉mplete Edition is only so great because the base game is beloved. No one is giving it five stars because the puddles are a little shinier, they’re giving it five stars because of the game itself. But the three that have garnered these headlines are so much more than that, and that makes them worthwhile.
While nothing has achieved the complete rebuild of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7 Remake, both♛ Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 reshape their foundations to create something fresh. Even for fans of the originals, the remakes are a new experience. Refined, heightened, modernised. M♚etroid Prime is not quite to that level, instead being more inline with a typical polish, but it’s also a significantly older game than we often see churned out for a remaster.
Naughty Dog made a lot of fuss over 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 1, and how every inch of the game has been dialled up to perfection. I doubted it at the time, callꦚing it a vanity project. Pl𓆉aying the game did not dissuade me, and these new remakes only prove my point further. I wish it could have 🅘been given the Resi 4 treatment, and I bet a lot of the die-hard fans do too.
All things considered, I think the industry has too many remakes and would prefer to see us building towards the future, not looking at ways to improve the past. But these three games feel like the wrong ones to go postal about. If we’re going to have to live with remakes, I’d much rather they be strong reimaginings that offer a fresh experience rather than just a graphical polish. It’s a good thing that the best games of the year are Resident Evil Remake, Metroid Prime Remake, and Dead Space Remake. It could 🌄be worse: it could be Persona 5 Royal again.