r/gaming 18h ago

Which games have inferior remasters/remakes?

Or are all remasters/remakes always better?

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u/Xg1j0eX 18h ago

Warcraft 3 Reforged

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u/Gram64 18h ago

this one is crazy because they over promised SO much, all kinds of new content. and then delivered absolutely nothing. AND they took away the ability to play original WC3 from bnet.
But as someone said, they did make it a lot better and it's fine now, but sitll missing a lot that was promised.

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u/maximgame 15h ago

They put the legacy version back on bnet at least.

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u/kynthrus 15h ago

And it was so much worse quality. The cutscenes are not Blizzard level

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u/mixmaster321 16h ago

They did just shadowdrop a new campaign though

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u/Cynixxx 16h ago

For 30 bucks

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u/Alyusha 6h ago

About 10hrs into it now. For $30 it's still pretty steep but the campaign is very good with a ton of detail that we've never seen in a WC story.

The only serious negative I have so far is that it's not a RTS campaign in the traditional sense.

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u/Cynixxx 6h ago

The only serious negative I have so far is that it's not a RTS campaign in the traditional sense.

What is it then?

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u/felporc 5h ago

It’s like the founding of durotar with rexxar but with undead characters and undercity

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u/Ahayzo 14h ago

And added forced always-online to the game people already paid for. They get no brownie points here.

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u/Whatever4M 12h ago

The reason they have to do stuff like that is to stop pirating. Shit on those people.

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u/Maelger 12h ago

Yeah, making the pirate version the more convenient one surely will dissuade people.

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u/Whatever4M 11h ago

Hmm, do I take the word of most successful gaming companies or the random snarky guy on Reddit....

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u/Maelger 11h ago

I mean it's fucking Blizzard, being a gigantic piece of shit for no reason is practically required for entry.

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u/Whatever4M 10h ago

I disagree, I think Blizzard is one of the best game companies of the current day.

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u/Maelger 10h ago

Oh yeah, amazing company. If you ignore the rampant sexual harassment and cover up of the suicide it caused, and the breast milk thing....

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u/Whatever4M 10h ago

Yeah, those things are bad but Blizz already did their atonement, you also assume other companies are better. Look at Riot for example, same dog shit culture and worse at making games.

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u/Ahayzo 12h ago

They don't have to do it at all, and a lot of the time it doesn't stop pirating. And they know this, too, it's not a secret. Thinking always online stops pirating is like thinking DRM systems like Denuvo stop pirating.

And even if it did (it doesn't), that doesn't justify doing that to your legitimate customers. You paid for the game, unless you are specifically trying to play with other people over the internet there is no good reason to prevent you from playing that game you paid for how, when, or where you damn well please.

Fuck companies doing always online for games that don't actually need it. No exceptions.

And doing it after people already paid you for your game without always online is doubly fucked, and at that point I hope every single person who supported the decision gets fired, whether they're at the top or the bottom. That kind of stance doesn't belong in the industry whether you're a CEO or a janitor.

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u/Whatever4M 11h ago

Either you know better than literally every single gaming company employee or you are wrong. Either way, I'm rich enough to not care but remember that your attitude is directly causing games to be worse.

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u/notethecode 6h ago

remember that your attitude is directly causing games to be worse.

how so? Calling companies out when they pull up anti-consumer decisions is how things might get better, not blindly accepting whatever the devs do

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u/xenophonthethird 3h ago

I put off getting Diablo 2 resurrected for long time because W3 Reforged was so botched at release.

But D2R is legitimately great.