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Regarding video game remakes/rereleases

Jamesmac

I often find that if I own the original version of a game, I avoid getting it's remake/rerelease unless there's enough of a difference between the original and the new version to justify getting it. Recently I've been playing the MegaMan Star Force Legacy Collection, and I own the original DS version of MegaMan Star Force: Dragon version, so with the Legacy Collection I chose Pegasus version instead because then there's enough of a difference to what I already know to justify playing it.

However, when The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Majora's Mask 3D came out, I didn't get them because I already own the original versions on Game Cube and aside from the graphics and quality of life changes, they're not really that different.

Funnily enough, if I've played the remake of a game before playing the original, I sometimes get the original just to see how it compares the remake experience, which is a bit weird considering it's never the other way round. I did that with Final Fantasy VII after playing Final Fantasy VII Remake, for example.

anyone else feel the same way about these kinds of things?

  • Another example of a remake I played before playing the original was Mega Man Maverick Hunter X. Both this PSP remake and the original SNES Mega Man X are some of my favourite games, and I often revisit both

  • in reply to SunshineDrive

    Is that a remake of Katamari Demacy by any chance?

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    I'm kind of in two minds about the new Star Fox.

    On one hand, yeah, it looks good for how reasonably priced it is, but on the other hand, it's a SECOND Star Fox 64 remake!?

    I mean, I guess having three different flavours of Star Fox 64 sounds kinda neat, but... then again, it has been 15 years since the 3DS remake. I suppose the Mario Galaxy movie introduced a whole new generation to Star Fox and this game will probably be their entry point to the series, which I suppose makes sense. Wouldn't be a bad entry point either. I'm still sticking to the 3DS version, though. It still holds up, IMO.

  • Did anybody else ever get to play “my beautiful katamari” on PlayStation…(actually think it might have been Xbox) I used to love it with my sister - seeing who could roll up the city the fastest and biggest. We used to take turns and then write our ball size down in a note book Joy we were super geeks we would just play it about 20 times in an hour or so and write all our scores down 

  • How apt that we were just discussing remakes and Star Fox 64, and 2 days later the remake of this was announced. I just watched the Nintendo Direct. I did wonder why they stuck him in the movie.

    I must confess to actually being quite excited, I would have liked a new adventure, but they have put a lot of polish on the old one, and the new challange mode and multiplayer features look pretty good.

    And at last, for a family it's really handy that we will only need 1 copy to play multiplayer locally. I keep having to buy two copies of games so people can play together in the same house. My son likes sci-fi and related games, I think he will enjoy this. 

    I still have all the old chatter in my head, I used to really enjoy repeating it.

  • in reply to Jamesmac

    Oh yeah, that was an excellent version, again as I didn't own the original I got that. (I have many fond memories of playing multiplayer dog fights on the N64 version -I sometimes got to be the 4th player if my brother and his friends were playing).

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    I remember playing Star Fox 64 3D in 3D. It was surreal, like having a tiny little universe with little star fighters in the palm of your hand, blew my mind!

  • in reply to Jamesmac

    There's a super high platform in gerudo village, and I accidentally jumped off it and got real fear. Sometimes the 3d was too good! I think after that, I'd either close my eyes or turn the 3d off for those bit.

    I did get Mario 3D World twice, as the switch one has Bowser's fury.

    Do you count the upgrades they are doing for switch 2? I think that is a good way to do it, as you don't have to buy the whole game twice, just but the upgrade pack. We upgraded the kids Kirby and the forgotten lands as it has extra content (they played that together so much), and upgraded Tears of the Kingdom too.

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    That's exactly how I feel about it.

    I take it jumping off of Death Mountain in 3D was pretty scary though....

  • Yeah, I tend not to rebuy if I have the original, unless there's a reason as I'll just get out the old console to play it. We got mario kart 8 twice, as the switch version had the assists that let the kids play when they were small that wasn't in the Wii u version.

    And yeah I'll get a remake version if I did't have the original, though I don't go hunting for the original afterwards. 

    I did get ocarina 3d, as that wasn't actually mine, it was my brother's, and his n64. It was cool, though as I'm afraid of heights, I had to close my eyes when jumping off things.