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The concept of video game remakes dates back far further than you might expect.
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Ports and conversions of arcade games to home hardware can be considered a sort of proto-remake.
Ultimately, remasters respect limitations; remakes seek to overcome them.
However, that line isn’t always as clear as we’d like it to be.
Then again, developers may execute the risk of being too faithful to these classic games.
When you’re playing with nostalgia, it seems that you simply can’t just everyone.
(See what I mean?)
Given the game’s success, it’s fair to say that most consumers managed to sidestep the confusion.
Adopting more specific terms could help us understand exactly what we’re getting when we buy a game.
We’re expected to wait and see.
Perhaps faithful remasters could be termed “rebuilds,” or perhaps “restorations.”
Or are you making an entirely new version of it?
Existing terms like “reimagining” announce that intention.
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