(it's satire, for those unaware, but damn funny)

I am pretty sure Hard Drive dot net is a satirical tech blog.

I wonder if someone has/will make a fell for Todd's lies again award meme with the bewildered guy wearing an Iron_Helmet_(Skyrim). Probably needs some real headlines/reviews (well, aside from Starfield).

I don't mind the remasters, because I'm too young to have actually played any of the remastered games when they were released. So, I played Oblivion Remastered, and that's the only way I would've ever know about it. I thought that Skyrim was just a legendary standalone game that people loved (I've still never played it). I can see it as a waste of time for the studio and a ridiculous cashgrab as well, especially for the people that played the originals.

“Dylan wasn’t even born yet when the original announcement trailer released,” Carter said, shedding a single tear, “now that he’s seven, I get to share the experience of watching that announcement for the first time. I can’t wait to see his jaw drop as he realizes what he’s seeing."

Article is some top tier parody lol

Really though, surely this game couldn't be too far off by now

Bethesda made it sound like all studio resources prioritized starfield first, they've only been working on ES6 for a year or two. Just 10 more years to go!

The problem is that it's believable at this point

I don't mind remasters if they are that - remasters. Faithful graphical updates to the originals (e.g. Halo 2 Anniversary). But a lot of the time they are janky remakes instead by outsourced development for as cheap as possible. They usually end up as insults to the originals.

Halo 2 anniversary was good but I'm one of those people that would have preferred halo 1 campaign remade in the halo 2 engine instead of having a visual overlay with the collisions from the original models

If that's your fancy then sure, but I much prefer a remaster, especially when you can swap on the fly between old and new, I feel like that should be a requirement for them. You can't really do that with a remake, as the physics etc will be different.

the only reason to switch for me was if it was a better visual reference for alignment of glitch maneuvers or if the collisions were off by too much. For me nostalgia filter makes the original look better in my memories than when I actually go look at it again, and if the game is 100% identical under the hood I will exploit every bug and glitch out of habit even if I don't want to.

I suppose with a game that old there is a good chance of something similar to what happened to majora's mask 3ds happening (character movement worse, boss mechanics dumbed down to the point of being insulting but also not even working well) if they were to change much more.

Okay, hear me out... I have no place for this anymore because conspiracy theories are overrun by super crazy people... but that's not my point right now...

So, my conspiracy theory is that some government entity established satirical websites as a means to spread misinformation or to desensitize the population..

It's really strange that like pre 2008 (i dont have excat dates here), there were basically none of these kinds of sites, and then they started popping up everywhere...

It's one of those things that I believe got us to this point...

But I'm probably crazy and wrong who knows

It's just nice to see what's changed in X amount of years. People who wouldn't have bought the original will buy the remaster, then be able to see the old graphics, maybe even prefer it. To get a firsthand look at the original is a nice touch, understanding how they built the world with the limitations they had and to see how far we have come. But each to their own.

The problem I have with remasters is how they fundamentally change the art direction so often.

They’re good supplements to their original, but I don’t think they’re fit replacements.

Agreed.

Probs because they are usually outsourced for cheap with little direction from the main studio, "as long as its good enough". And/or the main studio has completely changed since the original and they just dont have the same respect for it.

"the government spreads conspiracy theories" has been a (proven) theory since conspiracy theories existed

I can assure you with absolute certainty that satire has been an established tradition for a very long time before 2008

It’s weird when applied to other mediums, nobody is out there repainting the Mona Lisa in a modern art style then marketing it as the “new” Mona Lisa and going as far as to replace the original with it.

The closest parallel I can think of would be remake/remasters in film but even then you’d be hard pressed to not start an argument with Star Wars nerds over mention of the remasters.