Long before they were tasked with creating avatars for your Xbox 360, a little company called Rare made some fantastic games. If you owned a SNES or N64, odds are you played one of their games, and likely more than just one. The list has so many hits it seems unlikely that they could all come from one company. Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark…these are games still revered by many who may have grown out of their Nintendo worship, but look back fondly on these titles.
For some, the pinnacle of these efforts came in 1998 on the N64 with a game called Banjo-Kazooie. A platformer on the style of Mario 64 (with several gameplay improvements), the game was incredibly well received and went on to become one of the best selling titles of that generation for Nintendo. But enough back story, the question for today is how well does the XBLA HD Remix Super Turbo Hyper Fighting remake of Banjo hold up?
Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto shares some praise for Banjo-Kazooie and says it impacted Ocarina of Time in resurfaced quotes.
Sony's recent State of Play inspired this feature on video game remasters. How the industry is changing & how much they still benefit players. Mike @ Thumb Culture
At the rate in which we have been getting them, and the selections such as TLOU and Horizon and other similarly unnecessary remasters, no.
In terms of reintroducing classics and making them available again at a reasonable price where as previously they were locked behind ridiculously priced physical copies, yes.
agree with the Horizon but TLOU - I've never played it and the remaster it's quite impressive graphically so for someone who never played the original game it's a treat to enjoy such quality!
There a plenty of gamers who switch platforms and so I guess the remasters are meant for those
There is a new crop of gamers every generation that didn’t play the originals and some of us older games want remasters of older games to play them on current hardware. Overall I say yes it is good. Nobody is forced to buy them.
They can also gauge interest for older IP with remasters and it could lead to a new game in the series. Remasters aren’t for everyone but no game is anyway
Chances are their parents did... and may still have them. That's how I introduced my kids to gaming. They played what I had and worked their way up. They learn to appreciate them better that way.
I don't have an issue if they don't take away from developing new games. It's always nice to revisit a game you loved in the past with extra shine
remasters of older games absolutely.
but i dont see how a 4 year old game needs a ... Remaster. a upgrade update should do the trick
bjt i guess for newer players its a good option.
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I dont understand how they were able to release this on XBL....nintendo didnt want them to have goldeneye so how is this game any different?
For me, this game would be alright in it's current form, but not at this pricetag of 1200 MS points. Too high for an old game like this. Had it undergone some more drastic graphical improvements, then I could accept that price. It'll probably come on sale sooner or later, then that will be the time to get it.