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Mukuchina Kurasu

PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:04 pm


I hear people say stuff like "Metroid Zero mission is as for from a remake as you can get. Because it's almost like a whole new game." to me, that is just like saying "It's fully REmade. so it's not a remake." They took the premise and story, and made a new game with it, a FULL remake, you don't see these very often.
I've heard the same with Goldeneye for the wii, don't know much about it, but it looks like the same idea, but I'm hearing people say "It's not a remake by any means." It sure looks like a remake to me. It is a new game with the same premise and title, I don't know how similer it is yet, but I think it's definitly a remake.

So my question is, how do you define remake? Do you think these games are remakes?
PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:07 pm


A port is a simple adaptation

A remake leaves the core mechanics alone

A re-imagining can be related however you want to the principal game.

Soopar Kegan


Allegro

PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:10 pm


Definitive remake: RE:Make, for the Cube.

A perfect port of RE:1, but done so masterfully that it felt like playing a new game.
PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:18 pm


Soopar Kegan
A port is a simple adaptation

A remake leaves the core mechanics alone

A re-imagining can be related however you want to the principal game.
I see, I think I agree. Depending on what you mean by "core mechanics" like, with Metroid. That keeps the core mechanics of the metroid series, the NES one was very limited, so the added a lot of new features, abilities and level designs. But the goals and style of gameplay is pretty much the same.

If I understand correctly, I can't think any "re-imaginings" of video games. At least none that remain video games anyway. Do you know of any? Or do you think of Zero mission as a "re-imagining?"

Mukuchina Kurasu


Kuzodav

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:25 pm


Here's how it goes.

Original: Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1)
Remake: Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions (PSP)
Port: Final Fantasy Tactics (PSOne Classics, Playstation Network Store)
Alteration: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (GBA)
PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:26 pm


Most reimaginings don't even leave the story, you know, like, they might actually follow the chronology of the game. Like Metroid Prime. that's a reimagining of that particular IP. A good one, which has become what people think of when they think of Metroid.

Soopar Kegan


Allegro

PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:27 pm


Kuzodav
Here's how it goes.

Original: Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1)
Remake: Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions (PSP)
Port: Final Fantasy Tactics (PSOne Classics, Playstation Network Store)
Alteration: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (GBA)
Excellent way of describing it.
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