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From a pure technical perspective, they are remastering the wrong games.

 

[Hitokiri03]

Underwelming announcement. :/

For an underwhelming game.

So it makes sense.

 

[_h8bit]

I really don't mind remasters but I wonder if they could have saved themselves some time by just figuring out backwards compatibility.

 

[Conduit]

Well, shinobi redeemed! Half of bit.

 

[Diablo Rosso]

If Sony are in the mood for remastering one game out of a series then they should do Killzone 2. I'd be there day one, as I probably will be for this, GoW 3 is my favourite one.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Was blown away by this on PS3, but have no desire to revisit it; it already looked incredible.

Welcome to the new gen, same as the old gen.

 

[EmptySpace]

This fucking gen man. Who needs new games?

whine some more as if it's truly hurting you in some way.

 

[raven777]

Well, shinobi reedemed! Half of bit.

what did Shinobi say?

 

[mclem]

It's already happening.

Why do you think we're getting less games? We just lost half of the game industry last generation due to chasing the AAA white whale.

Look at the Wipeout team? Look at Evolution being downsized. It's already happening.

I've said much the same elsewhere.

That's why I have a problem with remasters, really. Not because of what they are in themselves - I've no objection to them as products in their own right, and happily bought several - but because they're touted as necessary to prop up the AAA arms race, which I think has reached a point where it's poisonous to the industry.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

probably a shitty uprezzed port like most of the remasters we have been getting....

will rent for the easy ass platinum.

Do we expect AF?

 

[EatMyFace]

This fucking gen man. Who needs new games?

Don't like remasters? Don't buy them.
If no one buy them, no one willl make them.

There is a market for this though, especially on PS4 where tons of 360-only on Wii owners have migrated. Remastering the greatest PS3 games on PS4 and pricing them cheap would be a really smart move by Sony.

 

[Pezus]

I feel really sorry for all of those people that hate remasters being forced to buy remasters. It really does suck, and I'm so sorry.

I mean, I get it! I know how cheap it is to develop games on next generation hardware, so there's no need to try and recoup those investment costs by creating simple ports/remasters of previously successful IPs for a quick infusion of profit that can do nothing but help the production of next generation IPs both old and new.

But yeah, I also hate being forced to buy video games I don't want. I wish I could just save my money and only buy the games that interest me, and ignore the ones that don't, but that's just how it is, I guess. So obnoxious.

Yep, Sony is the devil

 

[daman824]

If it's $60 than it's a huge rip off. Or it at least better include both gameplay and graphical improvements outside of 1080p and 60fps.

Tlou was a year old game and came with a lot of dlc. But a 5 year old game that I can probably find for $10? No way

 

[akidnamededdy]

People crying about yet another remaster and calling it the remaster generation should try and list the games that have actually been remastered this generation until now, because there's not nearly as many as you seem to believe.

The Last of Us
Tomb Raider
Sleeping Dogs
Halo 1-4
FF Type-0
Saints Row 4
GTAV
Darksiders 2
DmC
DMC4
Tearaway
Now God of War 3

Surely I am forgetting some.

 

[Gucci Messiah]

This better be $30 or less

 

[KnockOneOff]

Well if this is true, I guess I will buy but hope God 4 isn't too far away and this just gets us ready for God of war 4

 

[shiftplusone]

I like remasters but who hasn't played this at this point? Unless they're gonna port the entire series seems like a waste. I just don't see a market for this one. Maybe I'm just biased and burnt out do to replaying threw the entire series off and on since beginning of the year.

well there was like 80 million ps3s sold and 75 million 360s, and the game sold a few million, so it seems reasonable that

A. not everyone who had a 360 also had a ps3
B. Not everyone who had a ps3 bought god of war 3

and of course if you just played 6 god of war games in 3 months you're probably burnt out and biased

Not that i'm going to play this because why would I? I did this one already and it's not interesting enough to sit through it again

FF Type-0

not that this invalidates the list, but this being brought to the US for the first time on consoles doesn't really fit into the "nothing but remakes" argument

It's basically a localization brought to relevant platforms imo.


and did darksiders 2 get a remaster? I thought it was just ported to a new system

 

[2thepoint]

I like remasters but who hasn't played this at this point? Unless they're gonna port the entire series seems like a waste. I just don't see a market for this one. Maybe I'm just biased and burnt out do to replaying threw the entire series off and on since beginning of the year.

Let's see.

A sizable userbase of ex-Xbox fans who transitioned to PS4 and missed out on excellent entries in franchises they have yet to be exposed to.

 

[CMojicaAce]

I've actually never played GOW 3. Not sure why. I'll pick this up!

 

[Elandyll]

If this is really is only about GoW3 and not the collection, the simple reason is probably that remastering PS2 games (and bringing all the assets up to par) would be extremely resource intensive, and that maybe said ressources are better used in the upcoming GoW 4? Of course they could be cynical, just up-rez the GoW collection (the one existing on PS3), and sell it as a full price product, but I doubt this is what we'd really want.

As a person who has never played a single GoW, I also imagine that having the remaster of III could be appealing to people like myself, or people who arrived on the PS4 ecosystem from either the 360 or the Wii...

 

[zma1013]

Indeed, despite some issues that have since been resolved, Halo took the right approach.

These single remasters / definitive editions are getting far too numerous for my tastes, especially on PS4.

Heh, "some issues"

Right idea, not enough dev time.

 

[Late Flag]

Part of me is a little tired of remasters.

The other part of me would buy a remastered Uncharted collection tomorrow.

 

[Xion4360]

I really don't mind remasters but I wonder if they could have saved themselves some time by just figuring out backwards compatibility.

well there's PS now, but some people do want to play remastered versions of their favorite last gen games.

The Last of Us
Tomb Raider
Sleeping Dogs
Halo 1-4
FF Type-0
Saints Row 4
GTAV
Darksiders 2
DmC
DMC4
Tearaway
Now God of War 3

Surely I am forgetting some.

Metro Redux

 

[family_guy]

No thanks. Remaster your best games, GoW 2 and Ghosts of Sparta.

 

[bananafactory]

The Last of Us
Tomb Raider
Sleeping Dogs
Halo 1-4
FF Type-0
Saints Row 4
GTAV
Darksiders 2
DmC
DMC4
Tearaway
Now God of War 3

Surely I am forgetting some.

And there's something like 270+ games out for PS4 and 170+ for XB1.

Work out the percentage, it's not very high.

 

[DieH@rd]

well there was like 80 million ps3s sold and 75 million 360s, and the game sold a few million, so it seems reasonable that

A. not everyone who had a 360 also had a ps3
B. Not everyone who had a ps3 bought god of war 3

and of course if you just played 6 god of war games in 3 months you're probably burnt out and biased

C. not everyone had any console last generation

 

[Game4life]

If Sony are in the mood for remastering one game out of a series then they should do Killzone 2. I'd be there day one, as I probably will be for this, GoW 3 is my favourite one.

Seriously Killzone2, Demon Souls, Uncharted 1, MGS4 etc.. are all better candidates but instead they take a game with amazing performance and remaster it.

 

[suddenlyissoon]

Just give me all the God of Wars again on PS4 and I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

 

[Kayant]

what did Shinobi say?

Not very exciting but GOW Ascension's coming to PS4.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=814792

Do we expect AF?

Sigh... This meme is really silly now.

 

[GnawtyDog]

probably a shitty uprezzed port like most of the remasters we have been getting....

will rent for the easy ass platinum.

TLOU:R and GTA V were great ports. Same as Halo 2 barring the bugs according to Xbox owners.

So NO.

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

One of my fav. experiences on the Ps3...So good, I dont even dream of playing it again, it would only damage my memories...its easily one of the best looking games I've ever played, better than some Next Gen games i've played so far.

Let alone if they dont include Ascension.

These remasteres are indeed getting out of hand...

 

[InsaneTiger]

It already looked stunning, so I'm sure this will be amazing in terms of graphics. I just don't remember having any fun with it.



Didn't play God of War 2, I see.

Nothing wrong with 3, it was a very fun game. All the GoW are pretty similar. What do you think was different that it wasn't fun for you?

 

[Moobabe]

Tearaway is a remake, not a remaster. There's no way you can straight port that game to the PS4 without changing the core mechanics of the game. Also, MM has already confirmed that Tearaway Unfolded will have 50% more content than Tearaway.

And we have The Order and Bloodborne in a couple of days and its not even April.

Year of the remaster indeed...

 

[LiK]

This better be $30 or less

I'm guessing $40

 

[Zombie James]

Don't think I'll double-dip on this one, but curious to see how this will look on current-gen. It was already a fantastic looking game.

 

[Forkball]

Wow developers are really going all out with these remasters. I bet we get Uncharted 1-3 remasters eventually.

 

[Conduit]

what did Shinobi say?

IIRC, Ascension remaster.

I had a typo in previous post. You can correct if you want.

 

[pager99]

I feel really sorry for all of those people that hate remasters being forced to buy remasters. It really does suck, and I'm so sorry.

I mean, I get it! I know how cheap it is to develop games on next generation hardware, so there's no need to try and recoup those investment costs by creating simple ports/remasters of previously successful IPs for a quick infusion of profit that can do nothing but help the production of next generation IPs both old and new.

But yeah, I also hate being forced to buy video games I don't want. I wish I could just save my money and only buy the games that interest me, and ignore the ones that don't, but that's just how it is, I guess. So obnoxious.

Wait you cannot be serious, no ones forcing anything get a grip ))))))

 

[paolo11]

Are they going to fix the SPOILERS

Spoiler

CLIFFHANGER ENDING?

 

[NIGHT-]

Part of me is a little tired of remasters.

The other part of me would buy a remastered Uncharted collection tomorrow.

Would you buy them remastered individually for $40 a piece?

 

[Metallix87]

Heh, "some issues"

Right idea, not enough dev time.

Basically, but again, that's been resolved now.

 

[bombshell]

This fucking gen man. Who needs new games?

What would you estimate the ratio of remasters vs. new games this gen to be?

 

[Zeyphersan]

I've said much the same elsewhere.

That's why I have a problem with remasters, really. Not because of what they are in themselves - I've no objection to them in themselves - but because they're touted as necessary to prop up the AAA arms race, which I think has reached a point where it's poisonous to the industry.

Seriously.
"Guys, you don't have to buy them! But this is how publishers are funding new games now, so if you don't buy it, you won't get any new games"

No one sees anything wrong with this mindset?

 

[Logash]

I will not be buying this if it were full priced. If they gave me Ascension (a game I've never played) with it I would buy it for sure but there is no way Imma pay full price for a game I beat YEARS ago.

 

[Nightengale]

Seriously Killzone2, Demon Souls, Uncharted 1, MGS4 etc.. are all better candidates but instead they take a game with amazing performance and remaster it.

Today is GoW's 10 year anniversary.

There's a reason why it's announced today.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

The Last of Us
Tomb Raider
Sleeping Dogs
Halo 1-4
FF Type-0
Saints Row 4
GTAV
Darksiders 2
DmC
DMC4
Tearaway
Now God of War 3

Surely I am forgetting some.

Metro Redux, Borderlands, Grim Fandango, and Resident Evil HD as well.

There are tons this gen, but it isn't necessarily bad. It's just underwhelming most of the time.

 

[Tsunamo]

As tempting as God of War III in 1080p is I probably wont bite unless it's budget priced or comes with Ascension.

 

[Akiller]

Plotwist:the Platinum trophy Will contain GOW PS4 teaser site.

 

[Blackquill]

Last generation you would get a few games in a remaster. Now you get a single game, but will still pay full (or close) price for it. Progress.

this

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

I love God of War III, but enough with the remasters already! : /