The Big Question: What Game Shouldn't Get A Remake?
Remakes and remasters are all the rage right now. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Dead Space, Front Mission, The Witcher 3, and Life is Strange are just a few in the works right now. But as much as remakes can breathe new life into a game, some are just best left alone. Here are the games the editors of TheGamer don't want to get the remake treatment.
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Some games simply don't need to be remade, Silent Hill 2 being a prime example. For one, it still looks and sounds incredible. A lot of games from the early 2000s have aged poorly, but Silent Hill 2's peerless art direction makes it immune to the passage of time. Likewise, the atmospheric sound design and Akira Yamaoka's haunting soundtrack. A remake would add nothing to the game aesthetically or sonically. The story is perfect as it is, the weird voice acting is an important part of the vibe, and any attempts to meddle with any of that would just detract from the experience. I suppose the controls could be a bit better, but who cares? Just leave Silent Hill 2 alone.
The Mass Effect trilogy also received a (largely unnecessary) remake in an apparent attempt to remind everyone of BioWare’s good old days after a wobble with Andromeda and disaster with Anthem. Hopefully we won’t see the same thing happen with the Dragon Age trilogy ahead of DA4. The Dragon Age games are each completely different from each other in terms of aesthetic, gameplay, narrative, and arguably even genre. To try to remake all three of them, even in the slapdash polish-but-no-other-changes style of Mass Effect, would make for an atonal mess of three otherwise enjoyable (I’ll hear no Dragon Age 2 slander) experiences all mashed together.
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