There are a lot of games out there that are beloved by many, and most can be redesigned to look better in today's standards. We all get excited to play that game again, or that we can't wait to experience the nostalgia. When you buy it, that all is ruined. Hello and welcome to this Community Writing Challenge.
Okay, I've seen many people out there rant about remasters be awful, but if you look at it in a gamer's point of view, you would look at these thing in disgust as well. From the greatest games played by many, to the game that marked us, but wasn't noticed for it was, we've seen these kinds of games be remastered to death or never. It can exciting, but I would rather you keep that excitement in before you play it. If you have ever played a remaster, you expect nothing else, but a graphics upgrade, but somehow the devs have to add an extra feature to the game that won't be playtested and that's the one thing I'd like to mainly talk about.
As a fan of countless games, there are some great games liable to remaster. As a dev, you need excess money to create more games with more time on your hands or just have it. Remastering a game (if you haven't noticed) is a money pit for devs and producers, and it's easy to implement. All you need to do is up the graphics and maybe solve something the fans had a problem with. Sometimes that's bad to change something in the game. Yes, fixing a glitch isn't much of a bug-fest doing so, but adding new features in a game is home for bugs. Because the change is so small, playtesting it isn't mandatory for the testers. This makes me mad sometimes. It such a big thing to me if a remaster gives us new glitches or a new problem to face. I know most of you are thinking, "Wow! This guy likes to b**ch!." No. I'm not b**ching, I'm simply stating a judgement that the company needs. I've messed with game engines, I've tried game development on my computer once and bugs are hard to keep at a small rate! And since the game will be bought by many judging eyes, the game will have less value overtime because of the game's glitches and many bugs.
It's kind of like a rare and priceless painting, one smudge of dirt or wine on it devalues the painting. You spill your cup of coffee on it, it's worth hundreds of dollars less now. That's kind of how it's like with games, but with bugs and glitches. A great example of this is Skyrim's Special Edition. They added new graphics to the game, but where did they get the graphics upgrade? Mod Authors. They used the buggiest thing in the known gaming universe to make this a remaster. In my part of playing?
Well, it's the buggiest thing since the game's launch in November of 2011. I've seen corpse standing in place saying "Hello!" when you walk up to them, Mammoths flying in the air just for standing there or running into a giant and people dying without reason. New glitches and more new problems for the player to face. I don't know why they didn't playtest this game while using mods, the thing that leaves games vulnerable to crashes, corrupted files and so many bugs. I know this is a Bethesda a game and they are know for these types of things, but this is worse than what we have seen so far.
Sometimes the bugs in a game can changes something in a game without the devs knowing. An example for this would be the Bioshock Collection. If you play Infinite, there are animation glitches with Elizabeth or the background characters. The one that let me know the game wasn't playtested was when I saw a lady in the beach scene not have her left eye and a guy that had his eyes rolling to the back of his head! But the one that made me almost cry was when the Coin Flip animation was bugged. The coin just spun in the air between the player and her. That epic moment ruined because the devs thought the game would be alright.
Another thing that most remasters don't do well on that gets most people mad is when there isn't much graphical improvement or a downgrade. This sometimes makes us think the Devs don't care about the fans or our money, but mocks us with this! I mean, have you see The Joker in Return to Arkham? He looks like a clown! The game looked so dark and gothic, but this makes it look bright and smooth. What happened to the awesomeness that we knew, devs?
And It bothers me when a devs decides to make a game compatible to new gen consoles without any graphics upgrade and calls it a remaster. I mean, you can try to wow your buys and fans with the new graphics engine you developed, but that would extend the release date and you rather have the money by November or before Christmas.
The only good ones so far were Dishonored, Tomb Raider, Dead Rising, and Dead Island. They've stepped up a but from what they used to be. There might be a few glitches and bugs here and there, but they're minor and can easily be fixed with mods or the devs. They were fun and had no extra change to them. These games would be a good example for Remasters since this year has been the year of broken games.
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this CWC. I have been thinking about writing this awhile back, but put it in my list of trashed blogs because I couldn't put together a good read for this. Again, I hope you somewhat like this and 'til next time...
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