As every gamer on the internet has already heard and consequently cracked jokes about, The Last Of Us Part 2 is getting a remaster despite having com❀e out just three years ago and already being widely considered one of the most technically impressive video games eve♌r made. There’s been plenty of discourse since, largely revolving around the argument of it not needing a remaster, as well as the question of whether games really need remasters at all.
Editor-in-Chief Stacey Henley 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:wrote a great piece on the potential consequences of the industry’s tendency to remaster ‘classic’ games over and over again, especially that it’s overall a net bad for the media landscape that one of the most prestigious of Sony’s prestige studios has seemingly been doing nothing but making already excellent graphics look ever so slightly better. It’s about maximising money instead of focusing efforts on the many other projects that Naughty Dog could be working on – that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:unnamed fantasy game, for instance, or Factions 2, which has allegedly been in development foꦰr years with nothing to show for it. There are only so many times you can get fans to pay for the same game with minor changes, after all.
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Except that, despite The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered’s name, the re-release is not just a remaster. In fact, I think most of the immediate backlash against the game comes from the fact that it’s not immediately apparent there’s more to that $10 upgrade. The game will include three ‘lost leve꧂ls’, ‘Boar Hunt’, ‘Jackson Party’, and ‘Sewers’. This, in itself, is pretty cool. They’re early development levels that were cut from the game, now made accessible from the main menu in what feels more like a museum exhibit t𒁃han extensions of the game you already know and love. There’s also a roguelite mode called No Return, for some reason, which lets you fight through randomised encounters till you die, as well as developer commentary, which I’d actually be keen to see.
Don’t get me wrong: I still 𒁏agree with Stacey’s overall point. Constantly remastering games instead of looking to future projects is bad for the industry, and it highlights that studio executives will always try to extract as much value as possible from a product even when they have a massive amount of goodwill and momentum going that would be best used in working on new proje🔥cts. But considering that you can get the remaster for $10 if you already own the base game, that extra content does seem… kind of worth it?
Again, it’s easy to roll your eyes on hearing that Naughty Dog is doing yet another remaster, especially thinking about how little was changed in The Last Of Us Part 1. But this remaster is more than a remaster, it offers a⛦ peek into what could have been, and why the game ended up the way it did. That’s interesting, and I’d pay to own that, especially since I already own The Last Of Us Part 2.
So it’s not really true that there’s something wrong with the product or the way it’s priced. For what you get, that’s decent value for money. I’d say it’s more of a marketing problem. If the naming was more accurate, maybe people wouldn’t have immediately reacted in annoyance. Director’s Cut isn’t quite honest, considering the added ‘lost’ levels aren’t polished and don’t fit into the final game, but something along those lines would have been better than ‘Remastered’. I think Collector’s Edition would have worked far better𒁃, personally.
I still don’t really think this remaster is necessary, but it feels less important in this release than the lost levels, the extra game 🌄mode, and the commentary, which should have been highlighted inಌ the first place. We’ll have to wait for the remaster to actually come out to see how these additions balance against each other, but however it shakes out, the remaster’s name still sucks.
The Last Of 💫Us P🅺art 2 Remaster Is Bad For Naughty Dog And The Industry
Naughty Dog is working on yet another remaster of its masterpie♏ces, and it feels like video games are obsessed with the glories of the past