The response to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster has been extremely positive. The game has a solid 80 on OpenCritic, and has been warmly received by fans. Fans who, for the most part, also played and liked the 2006 original. Though sales figures are currently unavailable, producer Kei Morimoto says if they're solid, a Dead Rising 2 Deluxe R🧜emaster or remake is "🐈definitely possible". It may be possible. It's also, respectfully, a ba🐻d idea.
This is nothing against 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dead Rising 2. I like it well enough myself, and if a remake fell from the trees into my hard drive, then sure, I'd play it and probably enjoy it. But it will not fall from the trees. It will ship from the offices of Capcom, from the desks of dozens, possibly hundreds, of developers who collectively could probably make something a lot more interesting than a game I've already played. This is th🌜e dead end the moder꧂n video game industry is facing, and no one seems to realise we're hea🅠ding straight foℱr a wall.
We're🍸 told, frequently, that remakes and remasters exist to test the waters for future installments. But there is little evidence of this. When the first entry of a series is remastered, the most frequent course of action is to remaster the next entry. But haven't tღhe waters, at that point, been tested? Don't we know that it is safe to float out the boat of a new game entirely?
Remasters Should Lead To New Games, Not More Remasters
The remaster of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dead Space was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:planned to lead to a ꧑remaster of Dead Space 2, but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:low sales derailed this plan. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 was going to lead into 3+4, rather than a new entry, when Activision felt the team was better suited to being a tiny cog in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty machine than actually making a video game. Tony Hawk himself𓆉 teased big news for🍷 the game's 25th anniversary, which 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:passed last week without word. If news is to come, I would bet on𝓰 3+4 finally appearing rather than THPS 6 or anything like it.
The problem is, it's hard to find common ground on this amongst gamers. Some are content with reheated experiences because, like most other things you shove in a microwave, they're comfort food. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Bandicoot needed two remasters (N.Sane and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nitro Fueled) before beiౠng trusted with a new game. Sales didn't match the remasters, and that was taken as proof that all new things are doomed to fail.
Likewise, we had a pretty good (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:if often generic and unintuitive) remaster of the first three 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tomb Raider games earlier this year. Despite the fact my own favourite game, Tomb Raider: Legend, was not in this pack, I wrote that 168🧔澳洲幸运5开奖网:we didn't need more Tomb Raider remakes when we're 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:in this huge drought of꧒ new Tomb Raider games. A true sequel, or spin-offs t🧜hat aren't mobile trash, would be far more exci꧅ting. Fans were outraged by my attempts to tear down the Tomb Raider empire with my vile hatred.
Dead Rising Isn't Back Until We Get Dead Rising
This is where it all comes back to Dead Rising. There are four Dead Rising games, which largely descend in popularity as time goes on. So let's say DRDR sells well, and we do get Dead Rising 2. What's next? Do we plough on into 3, and then 4, despite the fact that few hold much affection for those games to begin with? Does Capcom finally make a new Dead Rising? Or, as I suspect would be most likely, is Dead Rising just crossed off the whiteboard of potential remakes while Capcom rolls onto the next project and remakes 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dino Crisis?
Those of you now screaming about wha🌳t a good idea that would be, why do we accept having our childhoods sold back to us instead of asking for new games?
Dead Rising 2 would likely do about as well as DRDR, even if I fear any further attempts would drop off a cliff. So i🌼f money is the only concern (and this, 🌞ultimately, is a business), then it makes sense to remake the sequel after the first instalment sold well. But eventually, where do we go? The industry is currently awash with remakes, to the point where soon we're going to be remaking remakes.
This has already happened. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Naughty Dog, the central flagship of Sony, is currently 🔯unlikely to produce a siꦑngle original game for the PS5. However, it has used its valuable development time this generation to remaster 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 2, and remaster 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 1 for the second time. Also at Sony, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Horizon Zero Dawn is being remastered despite visuals having barely changed since its launch in 2017, whileꦍ its gameplay remains highly approachable and the game is readily available.
Of course, the things you say when you're considering the ramifications of the industry, and the way you act as an individual can be opposed, even hypocritical. I'd be first in line for a Tomb Raider: Legend remake, I am disappointed that work on THPS 3+4 was shelved, and were it not a buggy mess I would have just played the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lollipop Chainsaw rema🌄ke. These remakes aren’t unethical ev𒊎ils to be eradicated, they're just boring.
But video games shouldn't be boring. It definitely shouldn't be my reaction to Dead Rising, the series where you can tape a 🥂chainsaw to a broom hand𒅌le in order to splatter zombie guts on the wall. Every Dead Rising fan I know has an idea for where the next game should be - my personal pitch: the Olympic Village - and I'm sure the developers do as well. And of all the fans I've ever spoken to, none of them has said their best idea for a new Dead Rising game is to just do Dead Rising 2 again.
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