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@roadrunner some games simply do not need to be remade, but re-releases are good for preservation purposes. Some games DO need to be overhauled. In many cases "product of it's time" means that it's inaccessible, buggy, causes seizures, won't work on multicore CPUs, has no useful settings to speak of, impossible to play legally, impossible to play with modern peripherals & full of absolute bullshit that seemed ok at the time (arbitrary and non-signposted critical path, obnoxious copy protection)
@roadrunner i generally dislike movie remakes but i think it's potentially allright to do if you're just making the movie with a sharper camera and like
idk
less racism, or something else that was bogging the original down. Games are sadly far more complex and failure prone, you can't just copy them onto a disk with higher data density.
In practice a lot of remakes are bullshit though