Will/should EA dust off that remastered trilogy idea?

Aug 22, 2017 13:33:19 GMT ShadowAngel said:

Aug 22, 2017 13:18:12 GMT @carefull said:

(sigh) people really can't move on or what? I am so not on board with remakes and remastered of perfectly good old movies and games. I own them, I've played it. I want new things, new adventures, new characters. I am too young to be stuck in the past.

The only title at all that I would buy remastered is Jade Empire, because it was missed by so many players and b/c the graphics are dated, and even then, I'd rather have another game set in the setting and setting expanded.

Remasters aren't necessarily because people are stuck in the past. Most tend to happen 10 years+ after the originals. It's quick easy money for the most part for the developers and it's a way for newer fans to try the originals if they're newcomers, plus we've exceeded multiple console generations by that point where playing something so old can feel fresh again(especially if you haven't played it for 10 years), games aren't made like they used to be. It's why FF7 has a lot of hype, MCC was hyped but ultimately bombed because *broken* and the newer resident evil games are garbage compared to the older ones. I guess you could say some could be stuck in the past, but I wouldn't blame them if the past is better than the present. I still share the mindset that I'd rather progress into the newer games, but you'd see me also be in the camp that newer games tend to be bad in general.

Maybe it makes sense for consoles, but I am a PC gamer, so can't really relate to this.

I came back to playing SP games in 2016 after about 9 years away (last SP game I've played was KOTOR2 in 2007), and I've played the entire ME Trilogy for the first time in late 2016. It held up just fine for this "new" fan. So did DAO.

I am no spring chicken, being of an age that is the answer to everything, but only once I have experienced the syndrome of the "games used to be better before!" and that's when BioWARE released NWN1. Since then, every newer game appeared to be an improvement on the previous one.

With Mass Effect series I certainly like ME2/3 > ME1, and Andromeda is my favorite among the four. The Inquisition is inverse for me, since I do like DA2 waaaay more, but well, I still don't want to go back in time & look towards DA4 instead to fix what Inquisition so badly broke for me.

As far as I am concerned, the 2010+ crop of the BioWARE games I harvested in 2016-2017 are way better than the generation of the late 90's-early 2000's, Baldur's Gates, IWD and KOTOR. And ye gods, NWN1... the worst game ever in my experience. 

KOTOR2, SWTOR and JE will always stand alone for me, because they are very different from anything else, and I have never played a vanilla version of KOTOR2, only the heavily modded one with RC.