Silknight: Sony is working on multiple remakes and remasters

[Coal Man]

For the unaware, this is the guy that's been proven right with his leaks concerning Tsushima. Still take it with a grain of salt but I'm bummed about the idea of multiple remakes instead of taking risks with exciting new IPs. I say this while playing a Remake right now, lol.

What a boring gen this is turning into.

[BearyManilowe]

If people would stop buying the same game 6 times, you'd see less remakes.

They're cheap to make, they sell fairly well. Ezpz.

[phaginator]

Yup boring gen for first party titles. Still I see good signs, Sony is turning away from live service garbage and we still have many good third party games. And let's be serial here, big backlogs too. Not complaining we have a slow gen.

[BigBallsMcgee]

this is what happens when people dont buy games cause need max virgins per second.

[mgftp]

Meanwhile OP ready to lap up that HZD Remaster slop quicker than anyone here.

[Coal Man]

Meanwhile OP ready to lap up that HZD Remaster slop quicker than anyone here.

Yes, it's my fave franchise. I'm playing a Remake right now, and then another with Rebirth after. What else is there to play? I'm not making the argument that remasters are bad, just that a console should have more stuff too, like new games for instance. I know you can't process the scope of my post so just thought I'd break it down like I'm talking to monkey with brain cancer. Cheers.

[JayJ350]

What, you aren't excited to consume same old products with slightly better graphics?

[dankydank]

Yes, it's my fave franchise. I'm playing a Remake right now, and then another with Rebirth after. What else is there to play? I'm not making the argument that remasters are bad, just that a console should have more stuff too, like new games for instance. I know you can't process the scope of my post so just thought I'd break it down like I'm talking to monkey with brain cancer. Cheers.

Rise of Ronin and Dragon Dogma in a few weeks boyo then Elden Ring DLC after

[bongowongo]

Seems about right.


I'll happily take some resistance/killzone remake/remasters.

[Akd123]

Yup boring gen for first party titles. Still I see good signs, Sony is turning away from live service garbage and we still have many good third party games. And let's be serial here, big backlogs too. Not complaining we have a slow gen.

this.i have a pretty damn big backlog.i think the only people complaining are the people who only play 2 or 3 games a year.probably like 20 good games on my backlog

[TokenV]

we should distinguish between remasters and remakes though

while remasters often only offer some QOL improvements and convenience to play on current hardware remakes often end up being absolute gems

like RE4, Link's Awakening, THPS 1+2, Crash Trilogy, ...

these are some of my favorite games of all time

[phaginator]

we should distinguish between remasters and remakes though

while remasters often only offer some QOL improvements and convenience to play on current hardware remakes often end up being absolute gems

like RE4, Link's Awakening, THPS 1+2, Crash Trilogy, ...

these are some of my favorite games of all time

Agreed.

Btw did you play these games when you were young or were these remakes the first you played them?

[TokenV]

Agreed.

Btw did you play these games when you were young or were these remakes the first you played them?

played the originals back in the day

but there are remakes where I never played the OG and also blew me away, like Mafia

or where the remake of childhood favorites are pretty meh like the GTA trilogy

so it's not only nostalgia, a remake can be amazing

with a remaster you sorta know what you're getting tbh

[phillipsanchez]

we should distinguish between remasters and remakes though

while remasters often only offer some QOL improvements and convenience to play on current hardware remakes often end up being absolute gems

like RE4, Link's Awakening, THPS 1+2, Crash Trilogy, ...

these are some of my favorite games of all time

Crash is a bit of a stretch. It came out last gen and they've been too lazy to give it a 60 fps update.
Hopefully it and Spyro get updates when they drop on Game Pass... but it's Activision.

[mgftp]

Yes, it's my fave franchise. I'm playing a Remake right now, and then another with Rebirth after. What else is there to play? I'm not making the argument that remasters are bad, just that a console should have more stuff too, like new games for instance. I know you can't process the scope of my post so just thought I'd break it down like I'm talking to monkey with brain cancer. Cheers.

You seem upset. Everything ok?

Seems about right.


I'll happily take some resistance/killzone remake/remasters.

I am with you, there are great Remakes and Remasters to be had on the Sony side and with dev time of a new IP and even existing AAA getting so long for them, why not have stuff with shorter dev times to fill gaps, better than nothing.

[CrimsonSteel]

When the games targeted are genuinely decades old or hard / impossible to play on modern consoles, I don't mind the remaster / remake situation. Super Mario RPG or Resident Evil 4, for example, are two great examples of games that had massive changes whether in cosmetics or added content that make them worth paying full price. Meanwhile, you get games like Last of Us or GTA V which get remade for each generation, and it's not necessary.

[Coal Man]

I don't hate remakes. If I got 30 remakes for the year, I would be completely fine with it if they also brought out 30 new games as well.

If someone mentions a PS4, you immediately think about Bloodborne guy, Spiderman, Aloy, Nathan Drake, Jin, Ellie and Joel, Cloud etc.

We are in the "latter stages" of the PS5 already, which character do you associate with this gen of Playstation? Only thing I can think of is the grandma from Returnal.

[Coal Man]

Rise of Ronin and Dragon Dogma in a few weeks boyo then Elden Ring DLC after

Dragon's Dogma can't run on console so if i ever get that it will be on PC. Ronin, I'm on the fence about but it has potential. Elden Ring I'm def excited about but it's not a new game.

Either way, these aren't Sony games. I bought the console to get chit from their first party studios. That's why I'm mad the console is dry of their games in 2023 and 2024.

[2010JW]

The only remakes that would be acceptable are modern age, modern mechanics, controls, graphics Metal Gear Solid games. And I am talking about the MSX versions

[LtGoose]

Where is the Socom remake/remaster you fukin cowards

[mgftp]

Where is the Socom remake/remaster you fukin cowards

Imagine it came true...

[BearyManilowe]

Imagine it came true...

Yeah but they'd probably remake Socom 4.

[nkiritsis13]

Well, hopefully they're PS3 games with some of the remaining PS4 titles because they stopped being interesting.

Seems about right.


I'll happily take some resistance/killzone remake/remasters.

Hell yes.

I've said it before, Sony could have just brought back these two alone (plus several other IPs they have) and had success with multiplayer.

I guarantee you that zero zoomer oriented Resistance and Killzone combo would make bank just by virtue of being straight faced shooters with no pastels, neon colors, or tiktok garbage polluting every other mainstream shooter, including Sony's new rival Call of Duty.

That alone is probably why Helldivers 2 is such a hit; the game is targeting the rest of the market who doesn't want all of this watered down fortnite crap.

If early indications are anything to go by, Sony's live service games were just following the trend of what's popular in a locked in market that is provably over capacity. All they'd have to do is put out regular old shooter like Socom alongside a Killzone and Resistance for the sci fi lean to lock in the rest of the market that has been left behind due to all of the trend chasing.

When the games targeted are genuinely decades old or hard / impossible to play on modern consoles, I don't mind the remaster / remake situation. Super Mario RPG or Resident Evil 4, for example, are two great examples of games that had massive changes whether in cosmetics or added content that make them worth paying full price. Meanwhile, you get games like Last of Us or GTA V which get remade for each generation, and it's not necessary.

What makes it extra shítty is how many games that aren't even that old are locked behind streaming only in their most expensive PS+ tier because "screw backwards compatibility," even though those streamed games are still being emulated, just on Sony's backend.

Although some could either use extra polish or deserve such treatment, they could really use some humbling and cut the perceived need to go full retard on remastering/remaking every game when some would hold up just fine with much less intensive and demanding work.

I know it won't likely ever happen, but it would be nice to see some remakes that tackle improving games that were flawed and have room for improvement that could see new life. The trouble is that they would be more likely to ignore gameplay flaws and just focus on throwing rainbow posters in the background.

I don't hate remakes. If I got 30 remakes for the year, I would be completely fine with it if they also brought out 30 new games as well.

If someone mentions a PS4, you immediately think about Bloodborne guy, Spiderman, Aloy, Nathan Drake, Jin, Ellie and Joel, Cloud etc.

We are in the "latter stages" of the PS5 already, which character do you associate with this gen of Playstation? Only thing I can think of is the grandma from Returnal.

Hey now! There's Soy Milk Kratos, the 3D furry girl, and Mary Jane's chin.

Sony themselves are acting like they're in some halfway point through this generation with laughably little to show for it. They're unwilling to take risks to the point where they're more invested in porting over proven successes to PC for even more sales on the same games than venture out on anything new (or even just bringing back old IPs that would be new to a new generation).

I still have my doubts on how efficient that strategy even is instead of designing the games with port compatibility in mind from the onset instead of stumbling around as soon as the bean counters give the clear for the PC release.

Games like the Last of Us port hurt their reputation on quality control a bit which isn't a complete loss, however they're also placed in this awkward marketing position where it would be too costly to re-market their games so far out from the original release date. I can't count the number of PS games on PC that I either never knew were already out or just kind of figured they already were but didn't even care enough to check because, again, they've been so risk averse that their recent games have been blurring together from a casual observer standpoint. They're all just the same things I remember being on PS4 just remastered, but hell if I know which if you were to ask me today.

[Coal Man]

^^ yeah wouldn't mind some remakes you guys mentioned, especially some cool PS3 stuff which is incompatible and unplayable by the newer consoles today. Provided they can maintain the grit and atmosphere of the original without altering certain parts to align with gamers today. They already did that just with FF7 remake, where on the release of Rebirth they sent out a patch to remake. There's a cutscene where Tifa was like 15 or 15 and she has on this outfit. It's not even bad and you can't see anything revealing but they decided to cover her up even more. They even changed at least one line of dialog in another scene that I know of. Smh.

Anyways it's a sad state to scroll online and see many people making fun of the console calling it the Remasterstation 5, or folks ironically saying they can't wait to buy a PS5 pro for ND's new release TLOU part 1 remaster remix enhanced edition lol. On the surface, remakes of old games aren't bad, but the console needs new IPs of its own where when someone mentions the PS5 you can close your eyes and immediately think of the unique franchises and characters that define it.

In the so-called latter stages of it's life, that simply doesn't yet exist.

[freeburn]

Remakes don't have to be a bad thing but when you aren't really putting out much other chit, it seems obnoxious.

As someone who doesn't do nostalgia gaming I could give a chit less about these remakes. I have a PC so I can generally still go boot up a 10 year old game and play it. Console users just being cucked completely, being resold games they've already purchased, after the console companies who sold the game made it unplayable across different generations. Somewhat unreal people buy into this dogchit but hey, console plebs got us here in the first place.

[mgftp]

Remakes don't have to be a bad thing but when you aren't really putting out much other chit, it seems obnoxious.

As someone who doesn't do nostalgia gaming I could give a chit less about these remakes. I have a PC so I can generally still go boot up a 10 year old game and play it. Console users just being cucked completely, being resold games they've already purchased, after the console companies who sold the game made it unplayable across different generations. Somewhat unreal people buy into this dogchit but hey, console plebs got us here in the first place.

I mean most modern remakes are of games still available on modern consoles, backwards compatibility is very much a thing now.