What’s Old is New Again – Remastered, Redone, Remake

*MINOR SPOILERS FOR FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE* This isn’t anything new to us gamers. We hear X is getting remastered as a high res port to the current gem; an old property is making the same game again but with better graphics, or the game is made from the ground up and becomes its own thing outside of the original. Like Hollywood, trust in a brand new property can be hard to come by when a company can just bank on the built-in fandom of a familiar property. While many gamers have been vocal about games being sold to us again as essentially the same just with a brand new shiny coat: remasters have evolved to full on remakes that both old and new fans can get a brand new experience. A trend that if it must continue, and it will continue, I hope continues to try new things on these remakes. Resolution-Revolution A huge chunk of these re-released games are the ones that get the up-res treatment. Games like Final Fantasy X and X-2, originally released on the PS2, get released on the PS4 with a higher resolution. It’s a quick and low risk move for companies to do this, stretching the mileage of their games as much as they can. The pros to this move is that those who don’t have access to the original system can still play some of their favorite games and those who missed the game now get a chance to try it out. We have gotten so many of these over the years and at this point, it’s just a part of what gaming is now. The issue with this is that we keep getting re-releases over and ove…