#Nominees for Destructoid’s Greatest Remaster/Remake of 2022 – Destructoid
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Nominees for Destructoid’s Greatest Remaster/Remake of 2022 – Destructoid
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One may assume that the dawning of a brand new gaming era would basically convey an finish to the flurry of remasters and remakes that we noticed flood the market in the latest decade. However in fact not. Very like the movie trade, the idea of taking a second move at some beloved (and even not-so-beloved classics) is clearly right here to remain — with no signal from the money registers that it isn’t nonetheless a vastly profitable endeavor.
2022 contained two very excessive examples of the remaster/remake idea, particularly within the type of Sq. Enix sliding-door RPG Reside a Reside and Naughty Canine’s The Final of Us Half I. On one hand, we had a long-lost RPG courting again to 1994 and Nintendo’s Tremendous Famicom, whereas on the opposite we had a remake of a recreation lower than 10 years previous — one which had already been remastered at that.
It will likely be attention-grabbing to see how blurry the traces turn out to be with regard to how lengthy is “lengthy sufficient”? And whereas I’ve zero downside with the idea of remakes and remasters per se, it’s value elevating an eyebrow at the concept that every new era of {hardware} instantly requires the re-establishment of the earlier era’s best-selling video games. Not franchises. Video games. Time — and the creativity of the following wave of studios, builders, and gamers — will inform.
