Podcast: Remakes, reboots and remasters
Listen or be unmade
Welcome to the freshly relaunched RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show! You might think this is episode 31, but actually it’s episode 1 again. We’re rebooting it, even though we just did that last year. We’ve started by making it more accessible. Instead of three of us chatting about videogames between snippets of jaunty music, there’s just a sad man saying “Sonic the Hedgehog” over and over. We’re confident you’ll like it.
OK, not really. But we are talking about remasters, remakes, reimaginings and recurrent nightmares. Katharine wouldn’t mind a spruced up Deus Ex, so long as the characters were given necks. Brendan thinks a rejigged Assassin’s Creed could work well (what a perverse thought). Meanwhile, Adam doesn’t want any of his childhood loves remade, lest they pollute his fond memories. Although maybe Pathologic 2 will be good. However, the real question is what games from today will be remade in the distant future?
You can listen above, or go straight to Soundcloud where you can download it for later.
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Links:
Remaking old adventure games is bad, says Ron Gilbert
Pathologic remake confusingly renamed Pathologic 2
How Doom’s Glory Kills maintain momentum
Everything you need to know about Final Fantasy XII
Underworld Ascendant is a bit of an Ultima Underworld remake
Resident Evil 2 remake is in the works at Capcom
Grow Home’s flailing hero is a good robot
Adam talks to a nice man in Budapest
Assassin’s Creed’s post-murder chatting
Psst! You can play No One Lives Forever for free
The cancelled Legacy of Kain game, Dead Sun
The long road to Timesplitters Rewind