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TWIG Goes On Vacation, But The Gaming Industry Doesn't

I suppose I can't really blame them given how popular the modern Resident Evils are. Shooters are one of those genres that will do well with more mainstream audiences and leaning Resident Evil more in that direction will of course be successful. At least Capcom still put out collections of older Street Fighter games despite the newer games doing well.

Remakes don't replace the original, except for when the owners kind of do it themselves. Capcom didn't initially see the value in the "old" RE games, even the GOG was doing the heavy lifting. Some publishers delist older versions of games so you are only left with the newer one. Capcom's reaction reminds me of how American McGee approached EA wanting to make another Alice game, to the point where he would have paid them a license fee and done it on his own. It was basically a zero risk, zero effort proposition to EA, and the response was, you guessed it, "we don't see the value in that."

I think the problem is that the decisions and control of these creative works ultimately sits with business managers who don't particularly care about what industry it is. They could be managing anything, and treat it the same way, so it is lost on them that somebody might be fine with an "old" product or putting something out there knowing that it will only do ok numbers.

It's like if Blankman learned that Batman is real and lives in his city. (Blankman isn't too deep a cut, is it?)

How do you become an executive and not even understand why people enjoy playing, seriously.

This helps underline why Ryo appearing in Tamers is such a big deal: he's an in-universe video game character who turns out to be an actual dude, who by extension has met the other characters of an in-universe fictional cartoon who are also, as it turns out, actual people who live in another dimension.

I'm glad the Remake trilogy takes the wild swings it does, because it's embracing how much everyone knows the original Final Fantasy VII and embraces its own legacy.

The old PSX games have the very particular problem of having pre-rendered backgrounds that likely weren't preserved in a way to redo them in higher resolution. Square Enix clearly isn't so bothered as to let that stop them, since they still made their ports of FF7 and 8 with blurred backgrounds. But I would not be shocked if someone at Capcom simply can't get over how crappy it looks and vetoes any re-releases over it.

It's a bit of a shame that all of this would fly over the heads of folks, largely because so many of the older Digimon games just haven't been re-released in any capacity.

This is an attitude that's been inculcated in us by this industry's extreme fetishization of the new. You really don't see this kind of thing with any other medium -- the utter disdain so many half for "old" media. It's beyond apathy, well into the realm of antipathy.

Isn't Adventures being a cartoon in Tamers only a thing in the dub?

And once again, it seems only Nintendo follows the preservation gold standard where people can complain about three versions of Mario 3 being on Switch Online, but they're still available! They didn't decide because the GBA version was out they didn't need the Mario All Stars or NES versions release

Kicksville wrote:

The old PSX games have the very particular problem of having pre-rendered backgrounds that likely weren't preserved in a way to redo them in higher resolution. Square Enix clearly isn't so bothered as to let that stop them, since they still made their ports of FF7 and 8 with blurred backgrounds. But I would not be shocked if someone at Capcom simply can't get over how crappy it looks and vetoes any re-releases over it.

RE2 & 3 did receive Japan-only PC re-releases that came out on DVD with rather high-quality backgrounds, i.e. the SourceNext ports, and it's those releases that the modern fan HD restorations are based on, so there are high (enough) quality backgrounds for those two games. RE1, admittedly, didn't get that kind of benefit, but even that has had a fan HD restoration (to some extent), so it's not impossible.

But, also, Capcom eventually did "get over" it & allowed GOG to re-release the games on PC, and have been shown that there is good reason to keep the OG RE games available again. Sure, Capcom may not be willing to do it themselves, but they now know that there are other companies willing to do the work for them.