I’m pretty tired of them personally. While I like the idea of making a great old game available to a new generation, too often it feels like HD re-releases have the bare minimum of work done to make them run on newer hardware, and get shoved out into the world with little more than shinier textures and a larger aspect ratio. I feel like we should be treating these games with a little more respect, and giving them a more loving polish before releasing them for sale.
The other thing I hate is how much it adds to this whole navel-gazing culture the industry has adopted recently. Everyone’s trying to re-release “classic” games, make retro-styled games, make witty references to older games, blah blah blah. It feels like people are trying as hard as they can to make themselves feel relevant, and are relying on their relatively short history to do so instead of being innovative.
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