Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot

Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s one thing I really hate and why video game preservation is so important. We need to keep games alive forever so future generations can enjoy the classics and all the masterpieces out there.

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  • EvilZ@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agreed however … I had a discussion about this for Fallout 1 a d 2 and one of the comments was that it should be remastered to be like fallout 3 or 4…

    I get it but… Just leave classics to be classics… If classic are being changed and remastered than… It’s not a classic anymore…

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It only really makes sense when the remaster is trash (like GTA I guess). Otherwise, all I can see it doing is increasing sales of both the original and the remaster…

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It only really makes sense when the remaster is trash

    I gotta disagree. Even when the remaster is (arguably) better than the original, there’s a lot of value in the original art assets and the more rudimentary gameplay as a historical guidestone. For the same reason you wouldn’t tear up the original Mona Lisa because we’ve got a high resolution digital copy, you don’t just scrub copies of the original version of Pong from the internet because we have Wii Tennis.

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They actually updated the remaster a few weeks ago and it is a huge difference.

  Now the only glaring issue is the music, since the originals came out before game studios knew to secure licensed music rights in a way that would allow future re-releases in different formats.

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  • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They can update the remasters all they want and it won’t make delisting the originals any less shitty.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Agreed. But I was responding to the claim that the remasters suck. With the recent updates, that’s not as accurate unless the music is the most important part of the experience for you.

      The improved controls, higher resolution, gameplay tweaks (fucking David Cross RC missions in the original were ludicrous), and restored lighting make a pretty compelling package. If the remasters launched in their current state they’d be considered excellent.

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• donuts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For what it’s worth, they actually updated the trilogy to make it suck less, by a lot.

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