Yes, I’m that guy, and obviously you wanna say “GrEaT tHiNG yOu don’t HaVe tO pLaY iT!!1!” Spare me. Just let me rant a bit here. I am so, so sick of this whole movement of Remake this Remaster that Reboot this. Fallout: New Vegas is my #1 most cherished favorite video game of all time, and everyone expects me to be cheering and ecstatic about a remaster as if that is a good thing and that I want it to be changed, especially when it’s another payment. I don’t want a remaster and every single time one is announced, I groan and roll my eyes. Pretty sure I’m the only one as well, cause everyone around just looks at me like I’m crazy for not wanting everything I love to be redone.
This decade has undeniably drifted into “the Great Remaster.” For whatever reason, the absolutely nonsensical logic of games now is “This masterpiece is so good that it deserves to be changed.” It makes no sense whatsoever, yet it seems the collective consciousness and the public overmind has decided that a masterpiece video game needs to be changed to whatever the latest and greatest graphical fad is. Somehow video games are not seen as pieces of art and complete pictures, they are seen as machines in perpetual need of changing to whatever the newest thing is.
“This whole Mona Lisa thing is really cool and all, but let’s admit, it’s aged a lot now. I mean, come on. Paint? It doesn’t even look real. It has cracks and stuff in it that obviously suck. Let’s admit: it could be bigger. If Leonardo had access to better technology at the time, he could have done a better job. She looks kinda, eh. Her skin could be better. And the frame could do with some serious redoing, it’s so old and, I dunno, out of style now. What an eyesore. It doesn’t even have indicators to show me where to look and which one is her! How am I supposed to look at this shit? Literally unviewable. So we are thinking, Mona Lisa is so good that it deserves to be remade. We are gonna release a brand new MONA LISA: REPAINTED! Get your Special Smile Edition for Early Access and a special Leonardo NFT!”
The so-called-law of diminishing returns has led apparently millions of people into being incapable of enjoying anything that isn’t UE5, cause “it looks like shit now.” Do you not realize, if this is your way of life, every game that is being released right now is actually shit that really need improvement and updating because it looks like shit and has aged badly (in 15 years from now?) What is it exactly that makes you think changing a game makes you feel nostalgic? This wave of thinking is leading people to not be able to appreciate anything old and for people to be incapable of trying anything until it gets a new remaster that makes them go “Hmm. Mona Lisa was repainted digitally… I might actually love Mona Lisa now! Wow guys, I just looked at it! It’s amazing, I love this classic Mona Lisa thing now that it’s not the classic Mona Lisa!”
To be clear: I’m always in favor of ports. Just allowing a game on new devices is great. That isn’t changing the game either. It’s like taking a detailed photo of a painting. But we aren’t talking about a port here.
I think that the things which “deserve remasters” are not the ultimate classics but rather the games that had potential, but sucked. Those should be redone, not the greatest of the greatest.
You are all feeding companies millions of dollars, teaching them that they all need to rehash and redo the same shit they already did, delaying the production of anything new, making companies do “safe” decisions, shitting on the classic masterpieces… I cant stand it. I’m so sick of Remaster this, Remake that, Reforge this, Reboot that. Milk the all-time classics for what they are worth by changing the all-time classics!
Every goddamn post on here now is “OH MAH GAAAAH guys are we gonna get THIS in the remaster?? Would you want this?? How about they change that?? Let’s admit this sucks, change that. How much money should we give to Bethesda for not making something new! My brain cells are incapable of enjoying anything old that isn’t made in UE5! Until in the future of course when we will ‘all agree this game looks like shit and needs a remaster!’ What’s wrong? You didn’t have to buy it. The rest of us wanna appreciate the classics!”
I think I might be the only one in the world who hates this shit for the whole decade now, especially last 2 years. I feel totally alone in this. Go ahead, tell me all about how I shouldn’t care and how great the classics are that need to be changed. Maybe send me to an asylum. Call me an asshole but I think, if you “fix” New Vegas and how it looks, you are not playing New Vegas. It does not need to be changed. It does not need to look like Fallout 76. It does not need Unreal Fucking Engine which has become its own cultural wave now***. Fallout New Vegas is a masterpiece, and if you change it, you aren’t playing the masterpiece.***
Yes, I’m an insufferable asshole. Now go on, out with the clever insults and the downvoting and the “you don’t have to play it,” go now and be good little customers and pay Bethesda for it again so you can “enjoy the classics!”
If you don’t like my post, why should you care? You don’t have to read it…
