What Games Would You Like To See An HD Remaster?

~~Leo656~~ · 08-04-2022, 11:53 AM

If I didn't know how old you are, I'd swear you were one of the same executives back in the 1990s who kept blocking the re-release of old Atari and NES games because "They're old and nobody cares."

Your personal biases show through strongly whenever this subject comes up. YOU are overwhelmingly in love with the newest and shiniest, therefore "everyone" is. Except it doesn't work that way, never has. Is the pool of kids who like "retro" games smaller than the pool of "spoiled brats" who "need" only the newest and shiniest? Sure. Nobody's disputing that. But you often outright come out with saying stuff like "NO kid will care about or tolerate _____" when all throughout the history of gaming we've seen otherwise.

I mean, you declared the new TMNT game "a flop" a year before it came out because "Nobody cares." Then it's a huge hit, and you say "Well, only old farts give a sh*t." Then countless anecdotes come out from parents who played it with their own young kids, and their kids loved it, and you counter with, "Well, MY kid got bored," as if that supersedes everyone else's experience. You can't "show the data" that proves Most Kids Are Your Kid, any more than anyone could prove that Most Kids Are My Friend's Kid. There is no hivemind of kids with a universal preference. And also, kids' tastes shift. A 6-year old who thinks the original Zelda is "dated and dumb" very well might become a 10-year old who loves it for what it is. That happens ALL the time, whether it's games, music, movies or anything. It's true many kids have an "Old Things are Bad because they're Old" phase, but many of them ALSO grow out of it and realize how dumb that mindset is.

Your perspective on retro gaming is very much "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" type of projection. YOU dislike "retro" stuff in games, YOU are a huge fan of shiny graphics and everything being "modern", and you feel so strongly about it that you cannot fathom how or why anyone would think differently. But they do.

It's probably true that the ratio of kids who'd rather play something Brand New than something 30 years old is skewed towards the former. But you constantly say outright that the latter doesn't exist at all, and that's simply false. Going "Eh, nah, I don't think so" doesn't stand as "evidence" of your position. You're just calling what you see from your vantage point, same as anyone else.

08-04-2022, 11:53 AM	#20
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	If I didn't know how old you are, I'd swear you were one of the same executives back in the 1990s who kept blocking the re-release of old Atari and NES games because "They're old and nobody cares." Your personal biases show through strongly whenever this subject comes up. YOU are overwhelmingly in love with the newest and shiniest, therefore "everyone" is. Except it doesn't work that way, never has. Is the pool of kids who like "retro" games smaller than the pool of "spoiled brats" who "need" only the newest and shiniest? Sure. Nobody's disputing that. But you often outright come out with saying stuff like "NO kid will care about or tolerate _____" when all throughout the history of gaming we've seen otherwise. I mean, you declared the new TMNT game "a flop" a year before it came out because "Nobody cares." Then it's a huge hit, and you say "Well, only old farts give a sh*t." Then countless anecdotes come out from parents who played it with their own young kids, and their kids loved it, and you counter with, "Well, MY kid got bored," as if that supersedes everyone else's experience. You can't "show the data" that proves Most Kids Are Your Kid, any more than anyone could prove that Most Kids Are My Friend's Kid. There is no hivemind of kids with a universal preference. And also, kids' tastes shift. A 6-year old who thinks the original Zelda is "dated and dumb" very well might become a 10-year old who loves it for what it is. That happens ALL the time, whether it's games, music, movies or anything. It's true many kids have an "Old Things are Bad because they're Old" phase, but many of them ALSO grow out of it and realize how dumb that mindset is. Your perspective on retro gaming is very much "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" type of projection. YOU dislike "retro" stuff in games, YOU are a huge fan of shiny graphics and everything being "modern", and you feel so strongly about it that you cannot fathom how or why anyone would think differently. But they do. It's probably true that the ratio of kids who'd rather play something Brand New than something 30 years old is skewed towards the former. But you constantly say outright that the latter doesn't exist at all, and that's simply false. Going "Eh, nah, I don't think so" doesn't stand as "evidence" of your position. You're just calling what you see from your vantage point, same as anyone else.