![]() ![]() ![]() Also an opportunity to adjust the original story and visuals to include changes that later sequels adopt, or update the "Blind Idiot" Translation into something more accurate and readable. Just don't expect to be able to release it again five years later, unless it's a Compilation Rerelease. So what's a developer to do? Easy: take the original game, upgrade the visuals so that they're on par with the current standards, add a few more recent gameplay mechanics, maybe fine-tune the levels a little, and presto, now you can convince the consumers to buy basically the same game they bought five to ten years ago! If you want to confuse them further, you can explicitly promote it as a sequel to that game, despite having largely the same content. As computer technology and game design is constantly evolving, many titles look and play dated in comparison to what's available, say, five to ten years after its original release. While some could argue that video games are an artistic medium on par with movies and literature, most video games fail to stand the test of time in the same way that other media do. Yahtzee, Zero Punctuation, Rise of the Triad ![]()
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