As a non Final Fantasy fan may I ask......why do people wanna FF7 Remake? To me a remake is something people wanna see change or different. If FF7 is such a fantastic game why do people want it remade? That’s a dissonance for me.
Let’s take, say, the movie Back to the Future 2. A studio can hire a production company that takes the original film negatives and scans them in to the computer. Because that’s physical film, they end up getting an incredible amount of resolution and detail out of those negatives that was not previously possible to display, leading to vastly improved picture clarity.
Oh VHS, you used to get this
And now on a Blu-ray, you get
Nothing about the movie had to be reshot. It was filmed in 1989, and you could probably get a crystal clear, razor sharp 4K image out of this film almost for free. (Comparatively speaking)
Let’s say you want to do that for Resident Evil 2.
That’s kind of as clear as it’s ever going to get. There’s no re-scanning negative film stock to uncover hidden detail. At best, you can run it through a filter, and while modern neural network filters like ESRGAN and Gigapixel are way better than the older filters like HQ2X or SuperSai, they still leave noticeable smears and artifacts:
Now, I get that the old visuals are fine. I don’t think it’s unknown that I play a lot of retro games. There’s nothing wrong with pixel art, there’s nothing wrong with low resolutions, there’s nothing wrong with chunky polygons. There is charm to be had in that aesthetic.
And in the context of contrasting with movies, there’s a lot here to liken to Ted Turner’s efforts to colorize old black and white movies. Sometimes, old things are best left in their original, untouched formats. But that limits the audience to people who understand the intended historical context, which might be difficult to come by.
And then there’s the control aspect. You don’t steer a movie with a remote control, but you do use a controller with video games, and sometimes that controller looks like this:
Sometimes you can remap things to work with modern controllers, but some would argue that remapping the C-buttons to an analog stick doesn’t always work out properly.
Or what about the case of a game like Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, where they use features that modern game controllers don’t even have anymore, like pressure-sensitive face buttons?
Not everything can be fixed by a port, and often things are lost in translation.
And so the solution becomes to remake the game. To go from this:
To this:
Preserve the spirit and the intent but give everything a makeover. Tighter controls, better inventory management, shorter loading times, more visual detail. Make it look new again, but don’t change what it was going for.
And that’s the thing with Resident Evil, right? It’s been a lot of things. When you say you’re remaking Resident Evil 2, there are a lot of directions you can go in. You could remake it in the style of the Resident Evil 1 remake, seen above, where you preserve the fixed camera angles and pre-rendered backgrounds. You could remake it in the style of Resident Evil 4, where it’s more of a pulpy summer blockbuster full of flashy moments and action movie one-liners. You could remake it in the style of Resident Evil 7, where it’s a tense, deliberate first person game.
They didn’t do any of that. Or they did all of it all at the same time, depending on how you view things. But it is still identifiably Resident Evil 2, just now on Blu-ray. See more and experience more than ever before.
But in being a remake, it leaves the door wide open for it to become something like Turtles in Time: Reshelled, or Super Mario 64 DS, or that bland Activision Goldeneye remake where they put Daniel Craig in it.
But even those games still stuck to their original genres, and their original concepts. The Final Fantasy VII Remake is a completely different game that they’re retelling the original game’s story through. That’s not a remake by any definition of the word, unless your whole definition is just “it is also a video game.”
Which, sure, I guess it is, but that doesn’t mean we should sell a side-scrolling beat’em’up as a remake of Project Gotham Racing, you know?
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