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Remakes, Remasters, and the ethics of preservation (Gaming)

by cheapLEY @, Thursday, December 10, 2020, 09:17 (1204 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Eh, who cares? It’s never been about preservation. The original games didn’t go anywhere.


Sometimes they do. Sometimes they are impractical to find. Sometimes they don't run on modern hardware.

So? It’s not any developer’s responsibility to ensure their software works on every machine moving forward. That’s ridiculous.

And as Noodle put it, sometimes the remasters are people's first experience with the the game.

Again, so? Who are you to decide the old version is the one they should experience? In this case the actual people who made the original game have decided this version is the one they wanted to put out there. You’re going to tell them they’re wrong?


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