Welcome to VG247’s Greatest Video games Ever Podcast: Episode 36 – The very best recreation that actually wants a remake.
It is a easy proven fact that video video games, not like nearly each different artwork type, simply do not age very nicely. An enormous driver for that is how the medium’s improvement is intrinsically tied to technological development, however there are different distinctive elements that make it difficult to revisit older video games, issues like standardised controls, person interface language, and quality-of-life options that we take with no consideration, regardless of lots of them having solely been invented inside the final decade. Different obstacles for outdated video games to beat are discovery and availability, which is why recreation preservation has turn out to be such a sizzling matter lately. As expertise adjustments, outdated video games turn out to be incompatible with newer {hardware}, and the machines they had been designed for turn out to be rarer and rarer. Not solely that, however they typically simply disappear from storefronts, as licenses expire and studios disappear, setting their publishing rights adrift in authorized purgatory.
So, some video games desperately want a remake as a result of they’re so outdated that they are insurmountably ugly, inconceivable to search out, troublesome to get working, or difficult to function. The unique Lifeless Area, nevertheless, nonetheless holds up superbly within the artwork division, is available on digital storefronts, is backwards appropriate with Xbox Collection consoles and Home windows 11 PCs, and its controls and interface are nonetheless thought of trendy. So we’re a bit stumped on that one, however it’s best to take a look at Kelsey’s evaluation to see if it is any cop.
Till then, this is a podcast all about the most effective video games EVER that actually, really, correctly want remakes.
This is an artist’s impression of Chris Bratt disapproving of Goldeneye 007 being ported to Xbox with none important enhancements to talk of. (Help associates of VG247, Folks Make Video games, on Patreon).
Forged: Tom Orry, Alex Donaldson, James Billcliffe, and Jim Trinca.
Our picks this week (SPOILERS AHEAD):
Tom – PGR2
Simply play Forza mate truthfully it is no occurring
James – The Simpsons Hit & Run
A tragic casualty of licensing entanglements which can be in all probability now inconceivable to unpick, this Simpson’s recreation is genuinely beloved, and for good motive: it is a kind of uncommon licensed video games that does the supply materials good justice, whereas additionally being a totally wonderful recreation. A part of the pack of bizarre, experimental GTA III clones that got here alongside when each writer and their canines had been trying to find the following massive open-world crime sim, Hit & Run turns Springfield into an exhilarating online game location with wonderful arcade driving, devilish platforming, and an ideal Treehouse of Horror story that completely stands tall alongside the golden period of the present. Briefly, it is one of many biggest licensed video games ever made, in all probability jostling for the highest spot with the mighty Witcher 3 on that entrance. It is that good.
The Gamecube model goes for £80 nowadays. Good luck.
Alex – Ultimate Fantasy VIII
It is typically thought of the red-headed stepchild of the franchise, and makes numerous missteps, however absolutely a case of over-extended ambition is extra deserving of a remake than its quick predecessor, which was good the primary time spherical?
“What’s VG247’s Greatest Video games Ever Podcast?” you ask? Nicely, it’s primarily a 30-minute panel present the place individuals (Jim Trinca and associates) resolve on the most effective recreation in a particular class. That is it. It is good. Take heed to it.
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