"The term Remake no longer implies any kind of respect or reverence for the original title" Well said. I like you coining the term Revision instead of Remake, I'll use the new term from now on
I completely gave up on AAA games about a decade ago, most modern devs are cultural parasite, they couldn't make anything meaningful if you put their lives on the line. They don't seem to have a genuine love for art either, it's just a job to put food on the table.
I always got the impression that they're ashamed to be working within the gaming industry, which is why they try so hard to gay it up to be just like they're favorite movies. I specify movies because I know for damn sure that none of them read, unless it's a comic book.
The Silent Hill subreddit is the most cringe thing ever. (Plenty of so called fans there are still coping. "Just wait til it comes out!") For some reason, all these weirdos jumped on the Silent Hill bandwagon and completely ruined it. I hold such people partially responsible for Konami's decision to remake SH2, because they hyped it online for over a decade. That's not even the best one... SH is just one of those things people love to make videos about, attempting to analyze and educate the rest of the world on its lore without ever playing the games.
Warning! This game was made in a time period where society was healthier, less brainwashed and less mentally ill. A time period where truth wasn't problematic and the absurd wasn't normal. PLAYER DISCRETION ADVISED
They are inter-generational strip miners. There's no AAA designers anymore, only committees and product managers. All either pulled from some mundane business school, or a pool of activist commissars.
Kek, your words & phrasing cut to the quick. "Inter-generational strip miners", indeed. It seems less about creating an artistic product and just... a product. I'm willing to bet most people with good creative ideas are ignored, secretly loathed, or drummed out. You have me thinking of Kent Lansing from _The Fountainhead_ , among other things.
One thing I really hate about modern remakes is how the devs change the art style of these older games to photo-realism. In this transition from stylized to realistic it's like all the soul is removed from the games. It also doesn't help that realism nowadays is used to celebrate the ugly like rendering all the peach fuzz on a woman's face.
Just look how much more dense and alive the world of MGS3 feels compared to MGSV. Virtual photo-realism is boring and is no longer impressive. Imagine if visuals peaked at the ps2 era-- like if technology continued to improve, but in-game models never needed to be above ps2 quality. AKA no need to spend seven years rendering every speck of dirt in every pour. The kind of games we might've had today is insane to think about. This obsession with tech ultimately cripples developers' potential.
@@TheNwahDango Not only that, but games would all perform at 500 FPS and all would have loading times nearly absent. Look at how many games in the last 2 years only had stuttering issues or performance issues of some kind.
I’ve gone back to the Wii lately and man it has been a blast. The lego games are so much fun. Easter eggs, secret codes, secret levels, men being men and women being women. All things that just don’t exist in games anymore.
16:42 - This has been a pattern for quite a while. They uglify every character, subvert stories, reject deeper, methaphysical meanings. Subversion and destruction is their true nature.
God forbid they try to create their own IP and craft their own aesthetic & world. _Redfall_ might have sucked majorly (originally meant to be live service) but at least they didn't puppeteer another IP's corpse like some deranged ludo skinwalker.
“Of course this was back when Kojima was into biological women.” I’m never unsubscribing, this channel is perfect. I think the reason SH2 remake looks terrible and the MGS3 remake looks good so far is because MGS3 is being remade by actual Asians.
I hope, HOPE, they run out of classics to make remake slop for within the mext 10 years, it's gonna be so funny watching them scramble around and squirm like insects trying to find ANY fondly remembered game that they haven't pozzed already.
The potential of the industry really did seem limitless in the early 2000s with all that innovation, i remember imagining just how amazing and how much better games would become if they were already that good then. Now gaming is 90% slop made by spiteful narcissists working for a corporate machine they claim to hate while actively vandalizing everything their perceived out-group values or antagonizing them. Gaming is merely an industry that exists within a wider, continuously more and more feminizing and destabilizing society and i don't see things improving within the foreseeable future. The best bet is to play and preserve the old stuff and what rare good modern stuff manages to slip through the cracks so that maybe one day, it can be replicated and isn't lost to time. We should probably count ourselves lucky that we got to experience the golden age from a prime position, i don't think anything like it will happen again in our lifetimes.
I relate to what you said in its entirety. The wonder and imagination of what was yet to come having experienced gaming since the 80's and seeing it up to the point you stated, was absolutely an amazing experience. Yet again, just to be nearly destroyed due to modern day. I wouldnt call it soul crushing but it is so disappointing and disheartening regardless. My favorite past time and hobby obliterated in many ways. Ive even went 18 months without gaming at one time. Something I never thought or could fathom happened. What a damn shame
@@FatherSaunders I had older siblings who introduced me to Amiga with games like Savage, and we later had Mortal Kombat II on the SNES. Those days will never come back.
While it's very limited what we as costumers can do besides making our voices heard, i can warn friends from not buying it and ignore it. I won't give these people a single cent.
All the best games in history have fan patches, hi-rez textures and 4K widescreen support - whether native PC or emulation - made by people that love the games.
@@felipee5239 It couldn’t be known, unless they started adding random trans flags as textures to old PS2 games. Older games are seen as “problematic”, so woke activists want the remasters and remakes.
They ban those too. The mod communities are banning what they call "anti-diversitity" mods. Soon, a straight white male won't even be an option for mods.
its funny because anita sarkeesian promoted that game as a feminist game but in the end of the game the main character who is a woman gets saved by a bunch of men. LMAO, meanwhile jedi survivor is the opposite you play as a dude for the whole game and in the end you play as the bug eyed black woman debra wilson and you are saved by her. I cant imagine what was so offensive by beyond good and evil.
They should be putting a disclaimer on, saying this is a game with a female protagonist, short hair and green lipstick, that is actually good and not woke.
@@TWL380 Someone posted it on the steam forums for the Beyond Good and Evil Anniversary.. It says "Beyond Good & Evil - 20th Anniversary Edition brings the original experience to today's platforms. The story and gameplay remain as they were when the game launched in 2003. As Such, some characters and cultural references contain stereotypes. Ubisoft acknowledges the negative impact of their representation. Much like in the game itself, we keep on learning about our world, our games, and the stories and representations within them.
Do NOT support any Sweet Baby Inc. or ESG endorsed product. If you give your money to them, you're endorsing the coercion of creatives, developers and artist who are THREATENED to comply or lose their livelihoods. Do NOT support the "remakes" of classics. They are used to "correct" and erase history, revisions. Respect the creators and artists.
OMG Bro love your videos, i'm peruvian and i hear the wok3 spanish payed streamers by Sony and is disgusting, they are saying that SH2 remake is amazing and if you don't like the new design of Angela you are a virgin that only want sexy characters XDDD
The moral of the story here is that it's best if we remastered the games ourselves. We shouldn't have to do this, but the current state of the west is so overwhelmingly leftist (thanks fink and co) that there really is no other option. On the positive side, there are now more tools than ever to get started on your own. However, on the negative side, most of us are busy working longer hours than ever to pay bills and make ends meet (thanks again fink and co), so fan-made remasters are few and far between.
And make no announcement when you do have everything in order to get started on one, unless you want it taken down and C&D'd before you can ever release it. Look at the recent Link's Awakening DX HD remake on PC. Released out of nowhere. No name attached. Uploaded, taken down, and reuploaded by the community who took it and ran with it, amazed by the work put into it. It doesn't hurt to spell it out so the people in the back can hear it, but this is a fight for our culture, and it has to be a careful step-by-step process if you want to get it right and get your work into the hands of likeminded men. We're starving and humiliated right now, and we can only count on ourselves to reach out a helping hand, dust ourselves off and get up again.
The only way for this cultural vandalism of entertainment to end is if the education department can be taken back, which has been overtaken by them for the past 70+ years. Which then leads to all forms entertainment (sports, gaming, music, Hollywood, etc..), and I just don't see that happening anytime soon. It will decades to weed out the professors, teachers, administrators, officials, etc... that use these institutions to influence followers from the youth to continue the cultural vandalism.
I don’t know guys. Fan made projects have been targeted by activists who are puppets of the 1% demographic that controls everything. I hate GTA Online and everything about it, but the fact that Take Two banned many modders who worked on improving the game just told me all I needed to know about these mega corporations. The CEO of Take Two got rid of many employees, but he is getting millions in bonuses. It is pure greed, which is not only about money, but also about power. Nexus Mods also bans anybody who tries to create based mods for various games. You don’t like the forced pronouns in Starfield? Well there is, or was a mod for that. Nexus Mods got rid of it. This has to be a fight we have to take up. Our projects have to be brutally gatekept. Open source software is one of the easiest ways leftists can come in and completely ruin it, as I’ve seen happen before.
They won't stop, not ever. Their goal is to outlast you by every means possible. Which is why pushback is needed from everyone no matter how small a role.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth This comes right down to reducing our quality of life, make sure we don’t live as long as our parents and grandparents generations have, and being drones. The quote “you will own nothing and be happy” has been said a million times but I will say it again. That is our reality.
The Four R's, Remake, Remaster, Re-Imagining, and Reboot. And I want everyone damn Silent Hill 2 pretend fans to watch "The Making of Silent Hill 2", I want every damn apologist from the 2007-2012 Era of Silent Hill games to watch and understand WHY Silent Hill was scary and how the Remake will never be a real Silent Hill game.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth Like I’ve been saying 90 percent of people are asleep. As much as I’ve enjoyed Ptolemy and his content, he is a small minority who actually knows what’s going on. Most people aren’t aware of what’s going on, and that is the truth.
@@KratostheThird Also it seems not a big deal for those that have some awareness. Because let's be real, there are far more important things in life that worrying about the aesthetics, integrity and essence of a video game.
Oooh yeah, dude. My greatest fear for Delta is that they're hiding EVA because they know they massacred her. And they just want everybody to spend their money before knowing. Let's also remember The Boss revealing her scar at the end. I'm sure that'll be fucked in some way. 😡
Crestfallen warrior becoming a Kang in the remake made me sell my PS5 immediately after finishing the game ( that and the body type A/B nonsense ), fuck modern Sony and all the shills that support them.
Gaming is over lads. I'm sorry, I miss it too but the egregore of the modern day has changed people so fundamentally that you cannot ever get classic gaming back because the people of silver and gold who created those projects don't exist anymore. Now it's wood stubble and straw people whose minds are seared so badly they could never create beauty if they even desired to do so.
I don't get those kind of messages. We keep seeing "Gaming is dead, goodbye" comments everywhere in all based channels, yet it's been years and we still see them. You don't really think it's dead and you still have some kind of attachment and hope to video games, otherwise you wouldn't check out youtube video about video games, especially about new ones. This is the equivalent of "I'm leaving Twitter for good this time!!!1!" Why is it impossible for us to make our own video games, though? We managed to create an industry that far surpassed any other in history, we managed to create classic games that can be enjoyed for dozens and dozens of generations in the future (akin to classical music and movies), why is it that after a greed + woke infestation, suddenly we can't do anything anymore except doom-posting? Let's find the talented game makers in our side, give them support and help rebuild video games. Because 90% of games are trash, doesn't mean we can't build the remaining 10% ourselves and make them great.
@@NeptasI didn't mean to piss you off. I'm making a larger ontological point in my comment about this world and people in general. I also don't think me listening to a Ptolemy rant about the world and use vidya as a method to do so is the same as what you're describing. I also don't think acknowledging the ephemeral nature of things is me doomposting. Colossians 3:2-3 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God
@@Th3BigBoy Lol you didn't piss me off, it's all good, I'm just seeing a lot of "gaming is dead' posts, yet we're still here and commenting about it. Gaming will be truly dead when even the passionate gamers completely leave and give up. In the end it's up to us to decide if we want to give video games another chance and create a new generations of actually good developers with good intents, or if we let them die (because we all know wokes and "The Modern Audience" actually don't care about video games at all). And yes, we should set our eyes on God and Christ, but if we can have video games honor Him (just like music, for instance), even if it's just one good game, I think it's worth trying.
@Neptas I do agree with you that Games can honor God. Just like something fantasy based, like LOTR can spur a man to virtue and towards logos. If games are to be saved or to retain any value, the emphasis ought to change from graphics and game engines to good philosophical discourse through the characters. For example, there must be an acknowledgment that evil exists. Relativism needs to die. I suppose a single solid title would go a long way in shifting things. Perhaps that's why we are denied even that.
@@Th3BigBoyI not only miss just gaming , I miss how our entire western society was before Larry and Co. decided to buy up everything and ruin not only our entertainment, but our home ownership and way of life. Everything, and I mean everything, is going downhill. I hate to be a doomer, but this is the stark reality we live in today.
_"Oi babe, wake up. New Ptolemy-sama dropped."_ _"You fokin wut? A video essayist in the style of old YT, like a condensed and rational /v/ post? Are you mad?" "Aye. Beats the shit outta the bloody content farmers."_ *The attempts of going for more polygons & photo-realism have been disastrous.* I hate to beat on about it but FF7's "Remake" problems were those of totality, a death by a thousand cuts. They teased people with tech demos. All they had to do is not change the plot or mis-market the game. A lot of zoomies and Gen Alpha won't play games with "bad / old graphics". I think that is a fundamentally incorrect way to view games (muh _ludo_ ) & with which to judge them. If you would have asked me in 1998 what 2020s would be like with hardware advances, I would have probably mentioned VR, semi-realistic physics models, different input controllers, improved AI. That last item. *How come there are no games taking advantage of extra processing to give a better AI/Computer enemy experience?* I'm thinking mainly strategy games for simplicity's sake. Panzer General, Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin, or even Warcraft II / Starcraft with local hardware being used for neural networks to make the computer play in novel, non-predictable ways - as well as learning from previous gameplay. Instead, we get bloated uncompressed textures and near photorealism. It's certainly a choice but not applicable in all cases for a "good game". The most entertaining gaming moments I have had were when enemy did something novel and surprised me... or pushing boundaries in a mod/game and seeing what breaks or is exploitable (for fun, not to ruin other people's games). I mean, Civ 5's AI is a literal state machine. People have built "computers" in Civ5 knowing precisely what the AI's behavior is going to be. For a strategy game, that's depressing... Also besides the technical & creative problems, yes, we have people actively trying to subvert this hobby & industry. It blows.
Thankfully we don't need a SH2 remake. The fan made Enhanced Edition of the PC port is so kino that modern audiences can just play that instead of this ESG/DEI garbage remake.
Enhanced Edition is incredible fan made remasters are the way forward especially now recompiling is becoming genuinely viable as seen recently in that amazing fan remaster of Majora’s Mask
It's obvious why all these masterpieces of our past are being targeted. I don't even glance at these "modernized" atrocities anymore. I don't give them my time nor my attention, because I know there's so much anticipation and glee behind these attacks on our culture. Glee to see the outrage and the complaining, the protests and the boycotts. Our time and energy going to waste. I see "Silent Hill 2" making headlines in 2024 and I simply use it as an opportunity to revisit the original game on PS2. The new shit doesn't exist, and in my home it will never, in any way replace the original, nor be mentioned in the same breath as the original. There's no pull towards these products once you see through what's going on in the industry - nothing there to tempt you to hand over your $60. We all see the diabolical shit they're pulling here, and it's already behind us. Just stick with the classics.
What they really want is to purge all record and proof that there ever was a normal, non-possed past where things made sense and where art was beautiful. Turn and twist the best works of our past, remake them, repackage them, bury the originals in every way imaginable; in search results, in removing them from online services - on and on until the only entertainment available is ”their” entertainment. Doing remakes is the next best thing to book burning. They’ve done this over and over again, blatantly and in the open, with more on the way, and they’ve gotten away with it for so long, they think they’re untouchable - that no one’s gearing up to push back against this regime when the day comes when they truly go mask off and start purging more than just our entertainment.
@@DouschReminds me of aftermath of Russian revolution, where they "remade" majestetic statues of tsars and the like into these weird looking travesties which looked like a toddler made them.
@@DouschNot that anyone here cares about Old Hollywood, but I remember back in 2019 some leftists complained about John Wayne Airport existing simply because of John Wayne himself. The reason? He did an infamous interview for a magazine way back in 1971. Actual film students at USC walked out of a John Wayne film exhibit. This is the kind of stuff that people need to pay attention to. I don’t need to say it, because these crazies going after old media is already here and already been here. Ian Fleming’s old 1950’s Bond novels need to be read by sensitivity writers. We have people who view old John Wayne movies and making racist statements about them on social media. We have people who praised the Rings of Power, because it taints the legacy of Tolkien’s work and philosophy. I am completely fed up with these people taking past entertainment media and telling us it was all bad. All they do is ruin it.
If we ever get out of the era of cultural vandalism and gaming goes back to how it used to be, I wonder how most people are gonna look back on this time period in history. Where everything related to gaming was just seething commie trash for about a decade or two. Hopefully, all this destructive madness will just be forgotten about and seen as an anomaly that occurred in the gaming industry never to be repeated again, like waking up from a nightmare. And then society can finally get back on track to producing things of value.
The only way for this cultural vandalism of entertainment to end is if the education department can be taken back, which has been overtaken by them for the past 70+ years. Which then leads to all forms entertainment (sports, gaming, music, Hollywood, etc..), and I just don't see that happening anytime soon. It will decades to weed out the professors, teachers, administrators, officials, etc... that use these institutions to produce followers from the youth to continue the cultural vandalism.
The only way for this vandalism of entertainment to end is if the education department can be taken back, which has been overtaken by those for the past 70+ years. Which then leads to all forms entertainment (sports, gaming, music, Hollywood, etc..), and I just don't see that happening anytime soon. It will decades to change out the professors, teachers, administrators, officials, etc... that use these institutions to further influence the youth to continue the vandalism.
@@mr.sinjin-smythThis started during the Post War Era. The Soviets were infiltrating America since they had both been fighting each other in the Cold War era. The 1960’s was when riots, school protests, divide and conquer was coming to fruition. And we have been following the same trajectory ever since.
I just want ports. Not remakes, not even remasters. I remember being super excited when the FFVII remake was announced. I had just played the original on PS3. I'll always remember that playthrough. Even then, in high school, playing a nearly 20 year old game, the original FFVII showed me things that I didn't know games could do, could be. I bought a PS4, anticipating the remake, but never ended up getting it. By 2020 or 2021, whenever it came out, I could tell it wasn't FFVII anymore. I loved the Spyro games on PS1 as a kid, and naively celebrated when the remakes were announced. The remakes ended up being ugly and soulless.
The worst part of the SH2 remake is that it's GOING to sell super well, guaranteed. Because people constantly praise SH2 as the best game in the series and one of the best horror games ever, and because the PS2 original is so retardedly expensive now, this shitty remake that totally undermines massive chunks of the narrative with it's visual overhaul is going to be the way most people play SH2. I genuinely think the awful unfinished HD collection port would be a better way to experience the REAL Silent Hill 2.
i played RE1 remake year ago and it has to be one of the best well done remake in modern era. They manage to save the style and pretty much everything good that made RE1 good in the first place.
Remember spain. The reconquista started with 200 men. 1 country was freed by the original will of 200 men. There is only no hope when we are all dead. Just don't fight in the coming war
Shame, that skipping 90% of todays games is a norm for me, someone who loved videosgames since i was a little boy 30 years ago. Theres no creativity left in the industry, more like spite, greed and hate. Its either something youve played 100 times before, but somehow worse then games 10+ years ago, or filled to the brim with "micro"transactions focused on milking you dry, while the game is terrible at the same time, or it is a political propaganda. Gaming companies filled with beta simp cowards and feminist girlbosses. I still believe there are some individual game devs in all those companies that are actually talented and care about gaming - my dream is that they all would leave them and make their own studio.
Hate the fact that they skipped Silent Hill 1 to remake 2, obviously a cynical decision made because one is more popular than the other. On top of that they hire a company with a bad reputation to remake the game and waste money on consultants who tell them what to remove. It’s been 20 years and somehow the industry is more restricted than its ever been, instead of a remakes we get rewrites
Speaking on MGS3 remake - there's a reason that they haven't shown any images of Eva....shit they'll probably combine Eva and Raikov to make some trans/gay/double-triple-crossing superspy 🤮 - or she'll be a black lesbian😂 Even if they made her faithful, feminine, intelligent, badass on a bike...fuck that cash grab. Just play the OG. It's available literally everywhere and it's still amazing
As for Silent Hill Remake - i dont remember it that much anymore, is this womans appearance change not in conflict with the story of the game? The dude had a sick wife and was stuck with her, so he had fantasies about a sexy woman - if you make her ugly, you interfere with the story. Who would fantasise about a man-jaw landwhale? xD
I just wish all these franchises stayed dead. A "remake" is inherently disrespectful and wrong (the only exception being if the ORIGINAL TEAM does it, but even then you can argue it's pointless). I used to really like gaming, but now I feel nothing for its current state. Whatever, I have all the roms, the original hardware and emulation, as well as old PC games. I don't need their shit.
The war against men, male hobbies and tastes has many faces - the war against roms being one of them. If they could, they would break into our homes, rip the hardware from our hands and destroy it in front of us.
@@KratostheThird I've played Quake through countless times, it's definitely one of my favourite games. Weirdly enough I never really liked Duke3D though, even though I'm also a huge DOOM fan and I generally like BUILD games like Blood. In terms of FPS I can also highly recommend Unreal (1998), if you can somehow track it down, because Epic decided to absolutely remove their origins and their engine's namesake from existence.
Vicarious Visions did a good job here, both Tony Hawk and Diablo 2 remasters are pretty much exactly what they should be - visualy polished, but the same thing at the core. FF7 remake is like some sophisticated torture, delivering so many things spot on and then ruining key moments with unnecesary changes. Silent Hill 2 is such a delicate construction there is no way they won't mess it up.
" Diablo 2 remasters are pretty much exactly what they should be" Assassin is now chinese and the sorceress is arabic (because they were both white), Amazon has the necromancers face (the hottest white one got trannified), all the female chars are chest reduced and the Paladin went from an ebony-black chad to a scruffy homeless-lookin dude. They wokified the game, just in a more subtle manner. The sleight is still present.
@@malcontender6319What about Tony Hawk? I noticed more purple colors in that too, even though it’s supposed to be a throwback to the old Tony Hawk games on the PS1 and N64. It’s subtle, but there’s a noticeable undertone and sinister motive that was not in the originals.
You have remasters, remakes and a reimagining. Remasters are using the same engine and game base and enhancing it. Remakes are a ground up reaction. Reimaginings are usually remakes with a new direction. The re4 remake in my opinion is a reimagining, re1 remake is a remake
Hey we are finally are getting a new 2d Zelda game…that looks like it will be ruined with botw style mechanics, awful art style and Zelda has replaced Link. Apparently everyone thinks Zelda should be the protagonist because “her name is in the title.” A wahman in a game exists, so she must have her own game. Since when do games have to have the title match the player character? Plenty of games are named something other than the playable character. They hate the fact that Link has saved Zelda so many times over the years, so what is the solution? Replace Link with Zelda and now she’s going to save him. Yeah ok. I can’t wait to watch the game flop.
@@shadow4040 Not a great answer, what about playing as Zelda would be cool, fun and neat specifically? So what about the fans who have been playing Zelda for thirty years and don’t want to play as anyone other than Link, screw them? I’ve been waiting since Minish Cap for a new, completely original 2d Zelda game and now Link won’t be in it. What if Nintendo replaced Samus with Adam in Prime 4, you think Metroid fans be cool with that? I wouldn’t want Samus to be replaced. Most people who have actually played these games and enjoyed them, don’t want their legacy characters replaced.
@@shadow4040 That’s what they should have done in my opinion, give Zelda her own separate game like they did for peach. This new Zelda game is a mainline entry and it is the new “2d” or top down game. From the trailer it’s pretty obvious that Link will be kidnapped and absent from the game. I don’t have an issue with Zelda getting her own games ( though I still don’t see the point) I do have an issue if she replaces Link in his own game. Maybe I’m wrong, but it looks that way.
No, Persona 3 Reload is bad too, it is woke and censored. Thank God for piracy --not because I would bother playing modern slop even for free, but because some who would may do so instead of supporting it. I hope it only becomes more common.
Speaking of piracy, Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones was a disaster. The message is about capitalism, not about the Golden Age of Piracy, which was entirely different from what we know on capitalism. Leftism and revisionism need to end.
Black Mesa (aside from REmake 1) remains my gold standard for a from the ground up remake, but notice with Black Mesa? It was a labor of love by Valve employees in their spare time and initially, it was free game! Sure, they are charging for it now, but the missing Xen levels is in the retail release so I feel its an acceptable tradeoff. By the way, if there are any fellow S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans here, check out Lost Alpha, a fan game using the original build of Shadow of Chernobyl free to play with GSCgameworld's blessing.
I don't think the video game industry was ever healthy. If it wasn't blatant asset theft, sabotaging board members that only cared about money thus stifling innovative ideas, game development hell, or shitty work environments and subsequent lay offs, then it was the encroaching poison that is talked about in your video here.
Same here. REmake feels way too clinical and tryhard. The mansion is too over-the-top; dark, dingy and spooky like a Halloween attraction. As if the developers are saying "LOOK! SCARY MANSION! ARE YOU SCARED YET?!". In the original the mansion is brightly lit, well furnished and almost inviting, which lures the player into a false sense of safety while simultaneously giving a feeling of something being not quite right. This allows the game to breathe and organically build tension before the first zombie encounter. Because REmake lacks restraint in it's art direction and sound design (we get flickering lamps and dramatic lightning strikes as soon as we enter the dining room instead of the eerie silence of the original), that slow, steady build up is gone. Never thought of REmake as a replacement for the PS1 game tbh.
@@ericrhodes5174 I agree with all you've said. I found the brightness and the cleanliness of the original to be more unnerving for some reason. The music is better in the original I find too. I found the combat to not be as impactful as the original either as if the enemies were unphased by your bullets. There was that brief stagger while using the hand gun on zombies in the original. I played through the sega Saturn version last week for the first time. It's got some neat changes
Been seeing alot of fromsoft fans call for it but I genuinely hope Playstation leaves Bloodborne alone. Bluepoint ruined Demon's Souls art design and proved nobody in game development rn understands what makes those games special but FS. I really think it's just people who have never played the games calling for remakes nowadays because they see how much reverence the original gets online.
Honestly, even FS is slipping and doesn't understand what made their games great anymore. But I agree, people who actually want Bluepoint to remake Bloodborne want to watch the world burn, or so I'm convinced.
Careful though with the motivation-demotivation seesaw. Your videos struck me as becoming of a light for the way forward, not of the type who's here to milk the situation.
What makes Ptolemy charming is he isn't content slop with a new video every week. He's well spoken & quite funny in some ways. It's a precious thing to get that ~monthly video from Ptolemy. Synthetic Man is good, I wish he'd do a couple things differently to improve his content but it is what it is. @ricardoojeda2963 - Maybe you feel that way, but he pisses off the right people. Other ecelebs have taken a slight notice of Synthler. I wish he'd improve his content in certain ways but he's authentic (except hamming up _some_ of his rants) and an important opposing voice.
@@PaulieMcCoy Just watch his "immersion is dead" video and you'll see that he can't be trusted; calls people who don't want to play modern slop as "obsessed with politics" when he's the first to bring it up. He used to make good videos circa 2020-2022, but maybe jeřking off to g@¥ porn fried his brain, he said being into "that" in one of his streams. He's braindead.
SH "fans" rn: consume product don't ask questions, sh2 was overrated anyway, i asked for a remake of this perfect game because reasons(meaning: resident evil and dead space got one too), if you don't like it don't buy it, etc. ...and the cope continues.
A remake that changes a lot about the original isn't necessarily bad. The famous 80s scarface movie changed a lot about the old movie it remade, but was still great. But a different term for it might be required
i have been binge watching this channel in the last weeks and its funny how the start of the video you are repeating what i said in my comment on your video ''videogames should be movies" its as if we both had a similar experiences the evolution of media and games and movies in terms of our expectations and what we ended up happening. its causes and consequences and how it all relates to cultural changes.
I am only interested in rebuilds. Not interested in remakes and not so much in remasters. I want a rebuild which Demon Souls and persona 3 are good examples of. I suspect sometime in my lifetime AI will be able to remake games on the fly to my own specifications. Edit: interesting notes on DS. I hate FF7 “remake”.
I knew the SH2 remake was going to be bad as soon as the news broke. First of all, SH2 does not need a remake. And, even if it did, why wouldn't Konami remake the first one to start? Bloober Team is just horrible. And I'm sorry -- I know it's mean spirited -- but a bunch of dumb Polacks have no business working on a SH game. I knew based on their past work they were going to do this. I knew it was going to have ugly characters and that generic unreal engine look, with RE2 remake mechanics. I remember back in 2012, Konami released 4 abysmal Silent Hill pieces of media: Downpour, Book of Memories, HD Collection and that 0/10 POS "movie" (Revelations, which looked worse than even the 2006 movie.) They've had over a decade to get their act together, and just like in 2012, they've put out several pieces of trash in a short time: Ascension, Short Message, and the forthcoming SH2 remake we know will suck as well as another movie from that idiot who directed the first one. Isn't it ironic that SH was created because of the success of Resident Evil. But after the phenomenon of P.T. -- Capcom copied P.T. for RE7 and 8. And now Konami is back to copying Capcom? All we really needed was an announcement for ONE game: a mainline entry developed internally at Konami, with as many members of the original teams involved, namely the artists and designers. And along with that just a proper HD collection of the original 4. The only remake that would work is a RE1-style remake of the first SH.
@@KratostheThird yes. I knew that game would be bullshit too. GOG is the only good video game related thing I’ve seen from them. In general, I haven’t seen really good games come out of Europe. Ubisoft is trash as well as many others. Remember, Konami did this before too. Downpour was developed by some BS studio in Czech Republic.
@@j-555 I’m used to hearing American media and entertainment being trash, but I wasn’t expecting Europe to fall down the same path. It’s really sad. I really enjoyed Rayman Legends, which is one of the only franchises I really like from Ubisoft. That came out in…. 2013.
@@KratostheThird In terms of video games, Europe's always been kind of weird and the last market anyone in the industry cared about. Their video game industry is not well-established too. They have weird technical standards as well -- from refesh rates -- to even the voltage rating for consoles (240v instead of 100-120v like Japan or America.. wtf!?) And a lot of countries like Germany and the UK have absurd censorship, so various games are either heavily censored, not released or unpopular. Europe is one of the worst places to be a gamer, behind only Russia or China, lol. Their tastes are weird too, for ex, in the early 90s apparently the Amiga was the real popular system. wtf...
>Warning: Our previous games were BASED
"The term Remake no longer implies any kind of respect or reverence for the original title"
Well said. I like you coining the term Revision instead of Remake, I'll use the new term from now on
I completely gave up on AAA games about a decade ago, most modern devs are cultural parasite, they couldn't make anything meaningful if you put their lives on the line. They don't seem to have a genuine love for art either, it's just a job to put food on the table.
Having worked in the industry, I can confirm your assertion is mostly correct.
I always got the impression that they're ashamed to be working within the gaming industry, which is why they try so hard to gay it up to be just like they're favorite movies. I specify movies because I know for damn sure that none of them read, unless it's a comic book.
one day i jumped online to game with he boys...they had all bought 5 dolla skins...i knew it was over
@@hellworld3000What game ?
you'd have to be deeply naive to respond to any of these announcements with actual enthusiasm at this point
Or a CONSOOOMER, the type that treats you as though you're insane if you're not excited for New Product for Modern Audiences.
The Silent Hill subreddit is the most cringe thing ever. (Plenty of so called fans there are still coping. "Just wait til it comes out!") For some reason, all these weirdos jumped on the Silent Hill bandwagon and completely ruined it. I hold such people partially responsible for Konami's decision to remake SH2, because they hyped it online for over a decade. That's not even the best one... SH is just one of those things people love to make videos about, attempting to analyze and educate the rest of the world on its lore without ever playing the games.
Warning!
This game was made in a time period where society was healthier, less brainwashed and less mentally ill. A time period where truth wasn't problematic and the absurd wasn't normal.
PLAYER DISCRETION ADVISED
I was around in this era, and our society was better back then.
They are inter-generational strip miners. There's no AAA designers anymore, only committees and product managers. All either pulled from some mundane business school, or a pool of activist commissars.
Kek, your words & phrasing cut to the quick. "Inter-generational strip miners", indeed.
It seems less about creating an artistic product and just... a product. I'm willing to bet most people with good creative ideas are ignored, secretly loathed, or drummed out. You have me thinking of Kent Lansing from _The Fountainhead_ , among other things.
Should have known video games would not escape the looting phase of our declining civilization.
One thing I really hate about modern remakes is how the devs change the art style of these older games to photo-realism. In this transition from stylized to realistic it's like all the soul is removed from the games. It also doesn't help that realism nowadays is used to celebrate the ugly like rendering all the peach fuzz on a woman's face.
EXACTLY!!!!! 💯💯💯💯💯
Just look how much more dense and alive the world of MGS3 feels compared to MGSV. Virtual photo-realism is boring and is no longer impressive. Imagine if visuals peaked at the ps2 era-- like if technology continued to improve, but in-game models never needed to be above ps2 quality. AKA no need to spend seven years rendering every speck of dirt in every pour. The kind of games we might've had today is insane to think about. This obsession with tech ultimately cripples developers' potential.
@@TheNwahDango Not only that, but games would all perform at 500 FPS and all would have loading times nearly absent. Look at how many games in the last 2 years only had stuttering issues or performance issues of some kind.
@@Red_IX This is why I play old games.
I’ve gone back to the Wii lately and man it has been a blast. The lego games are so much fun. Easter eggs, secret codes, secret levels, men being men and women being women. All things that just don’t exist in games anymore.
The games industry needs another 1983.
Wasn't 1984?
But yes, sloooowly getting closer to that
@@ergastolo4281 nah, you're thinking of the one we are heading towards
@@thiefamongu3857 Oh right, my bad 😅
@@ergastolo4281 I wish I was wrong 😅🥲
Concord is ET from '83
Even without the "TwinPeaks feeling like Silent Hill" reference and David Duchovny starring in it, the thumbnail is a match made in heaven!
It’s funny because it’s true. That’s what ”she” looks like. This is the 2024 standard.
16:42 - This has been a pattern for quite a while. They uglify every character, subvert stories, reject deeper, methaphysical meanings. Subversion and destruction is their true nature.
Wishing for a remake is a monkeypaw wish. I'd prefer my favorite games be untouched by these modern game studios hacks.
I will make the same argument for books, movies and TV. Leave Tolkien's classics alone. Leave Ian Fleming's novels alone.
"...of course, this was back when Kojima was into *biological* women"
BURN
LETS GO THE MOST BASED UA-camR IS BACK🙌🔥 another fantastic video brother.
There are way too many remakes. And most of them miss the entire point what makes the original so good.
God forbid they try to create their own IP and craft their own aesthetic & world. _Redfall_ might have sucked majorly (originally meant to be live service) but at least they didn't puppeteer another IP's corpse like some deranged ludo skinwalker.
David duchovny face wtf
I lol'ed
“Of course this was back when Kojima was into biological women.”
I’m never unsubscribing, this channel is perfect.
I think the reason SH2 remake looks terrible and the MGS3 remake looks good so far is because MGS3 is being remade by actual Asians.
I hope, HOPE, they run out of classics to make remake slop for within the mext 10 years, it's gonna be so funny watching them scramble around and squirm like insects trying to find ANY fondly remembered game that they haven't pozzed already.
The potential of the industry really did seem limitless in the early 2000s with all that innovation, i remember imagining just how amazing and how much better games would become if they were already that good then. Now gaming is 90% slop made by spiteful narcissists working for a corporate machine they claim to hate while actively vandalizing everything their perceived out-group values or antagonizing them. Gaming is merely an industry that exists within a wider, continuously more and more feminizing and destabilizing society and i don't see things improving within the foreseeable future. The best bet is to play and preserve the old stuff and what rare good modern stuff manages to slip through the cracks so that maybe one day, it can be replicated and isn't lost to time.
We should probably count ourselves lucky that we got to experience the golden age from a prime position, i don't think anything like it will happen again in our lifetimes.
Remember "the shadow cannot create, it can only co-opt and destroy that which is already good." - John Tolkien.
I relate to what you said in its entirety. The wonder and imagination of what was yet to come having experienced gaming since the 80's and seeing it up to the point you stated, was absolutely an amazing experience. Yet again, just to be nearly destroyed due to modern day. I wouldnt call it soul crushing but it is so disappointing and disheartening regardless. My favorite past time and hobby obliterated in many ways. Ive even went 18 months without gaming at one time. Something I never thought or could fathom happened. What a damn shame
@@FatherSaunders I had older siblings who introduced me to Amiga with games like Savage, and we later had Mortal Kombat II on the SNES.
Those days will never come back.
While it's very limited what we as costumers can do besides making our voices heard, i can warn friends from not buying it and ignore it. I won't give these people a single cent.
Ptolemy is alive, hope youre doing well
Lmao whenever i point out that Lara Croft is a beautiful white woman people lose their minds in the comment section 😂😂😂
One of the only genuinely good UA-camrs left.
Lolwut? Well he is a dullard so of course he attracts dullards like you
Synthetic Man is also there, but i get that he's not everyone's cup of tea.
@@Rorschach1998 Yeah I love Synthetic Man too.
I love synthetic man he’s funny but I can understand that he’s a little too chudmaxxed for most people.
Just lets you know where Crystal Dynamics stands and makes it easy to not given them a cent. Fuck em and the others in the industry who think like em!
All the best games in history have fan patches, hi-rez textures and 4K widescreen support - whether native PC or emulation - made by people that love the games.
Those people probably are woke too…
@@felipee5239 It couldn’t be known, unless they started adding random trans flags as textures to old PS2 games. Older games are seen as “problematic”, so woke activists want the remasters and remakes.
They ban those too. The mod communities are banning what they call "anti-diversitity" mods. Soon, a straight white male won't even be an option for mods.
Ubisoft just slapped a woke disclaimer on their Beyond good and Evil anniversary edition also.
its funny because anita sarkeesian promoted that game as a feminist game but in the end of the game the main character who is a woman gets saved by a bunch of men. LMAO, meanwhile jedi survivor is the opposite you play as a dude for the whole game and in the end you play as the bug eyed black woman debra wilson and you are saved by her. I cant imagine what was so offensive by beyond good and evil.
They should be putting a disclaimer on, saying this is a game with a female protagonist, short hair and green lipstick, that is actually good and not woke.
I can't find a screenshot of it. What does it say?
@@TWL380 Someone posted it on the steam forums for the Beyond Good and Evil Anniversary.. It says "Beyond Good & Evil - 20th Anniversary Edition brings the original experience to today's platforms. The story and gameplay remain as they were when the game launched in 2003. As Such, some characters and cultural references contain stereotypes. Ubisoft acknowledges the negative impact of their representation. Much like in the game itself, we keep on learning about our world, our games, and the stories and representations within them.
@@ChronosChris Thank you. I can't stand what ubisoft have become.
You "woke" me up from their illusions abd taught me their tactics.
The hero we need. Thanks for the video
The king returns.
Do NOT support any Sweet Baby Inc. or ESG endorsed product. If you give your money to them, you're endorsing the coercion of creatives, developers and artist who are THREATENED to comply or lose their livelihoods.
Do NOT support the "remakes" of classics. They are used to "correct" and erase history, revisions.
Respect the creators and artists.
*Do not support MODERN Remakes made for the "Modern Audience"
@@ergastolo4281Resident Evil 1 remake from 2002 is NOT one of them.
Those days are over sadly.
OMG Bro love your videos, i'm peruvian and i hear the wok3 spanish payed streamers by Sony and is disgusting, they are saying that SH2 remake is amazing and if you don't like the new design of Angela you are a virgin that only want sexy characters XDDD
Angela laterally looks like a british lad, thats not a woman.
Turning all women into men. We're witnessing the final stage of feminism.
The moral of the story here is that it's best if we remastered the games ourselves. We shouldn't have to do this, but the current state of the west is so overwhelmingly leftist (thanks fink and co) that there really is no other option. On the positive side, there are now more tools than ever to get started on your own. However, on the negative side, most of us are busy working longer hours than ever to pay bills and make ends meet (thanks again fink and co), so fan-made remasters are few and far between.
And make no announcement when you do have everything in order to get started on one, unless you want it taken down and C&D'd before you can ever release it. Look at the recent Link's Awakening DX HD remake on PC. Released out of nowhere. No name attached. Uploaded, taken down, and reuploaded by the community who took it and ran with it, amazed by the work put into it. It doesn't hurt to spell it out so the people in the back can hear it, but this is a fight for our culture, and it has to be a careful step-by-step process if you want to get it right and get your work into the hands of likeminded men. We're starving and humiliated right now, and we can only count on ourselves to reach out a helping hand, dust ourselves off and get up again.
The only way for this cultural vandalism of entertainment to end is if the education department can be taken back, which has been overtaken by them for the past 70+ years. Which then leads to all forms entertainment (sports, gaming, music, Hollywood, etc..), and I just don't see that happening anytime soon. It will decades to weed out the professors, teachers, administrators, officials, etc... that use these institutions to influence followers from the youth to continue the cultural vandalism.
I don’t know guys.
Fan made projects have been targeted by activists who are puppets of the 1% demographic that controls everything.
I hate GTA Online and everything about it, but the fact that Take Two banned many modders who worked on improving the game just told me all I needed to know about these mega corporations.
The CEO of Take Two got rid of many employees, but he is getting millions in bonuses. It is pure greed, which is not only about money, but also about power.
Nexus Mods also bans anybody who tries to create based mods for various games. You don’t like the forced pronouns in Starfield? Well there is, or was a mod for that. Nexus Mods got rid of it.
This has to be a fight we have to take up. Our projects have to be brutally gatekept. Open source software is one of the easiest ways leftists can come in and completely ruin it, as I’ve seen happen before.
They won't stop, not ever. Their goal is to outlast you by every means possible. Which is why pushback is needed from everyone no matter how small a role.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth This comes right down to reducing our quality of life, make sure we don’t live as long as our parents and grandparents generations have, and being drones.
The quote “you will own nothing and be happy” has been said a million times but I will say it again. That is our reality.
The Four R's, Remake, Remaster, Re-Imagining, and Reboot. And I want everyone damn Silent Hill 2 pretend fans to watch "The Making of Silent Hill 2", I want every damn apologist from the 2007-2012 Era of Silent Hill games to watch and understand WHY Silent Hill was scary and how the Remake will never be a real Silent Hill game.
Unfortunately, you'll be lucky to influence a few gamers with that, while thousands more won't care or just don't have time for that.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth Oh - they have the time, just not the attention spans nor the critical thinking skills.
.. They're doomed, aren't they?
@@malcontender6319 This is why I say 90 percent of the population is asleep.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth Like I’ve been saying 90 percent of people are asleep.
As much as I’ve enjoyed Ptolemy and his content, he is a small minority who actually knows what’s going on. Most people aren’t aware of what’s going on, and that is the truth.
@@KratostheThird Also it seems not a big deal for those that have some awareness. Because let's be real, there are far more important things in life that worrying about the aesthetics, integrity and essence of a video game.
I'm sick and tired of modern remakes. Leave the originals alone.
I hate them too. That’s why I play old games now.
Oooh yeah, dude.
My greatest fear for Delta is that they're hiding EVA because they know they massacred her. And they just want everybody to spend their money before knowing.
Let's also remember The Boss revealing her scar at the end. I'm sure that'll be fucked in some way. 😡
The demon souls remake is butchery your not alone
Crestfallen warrior becoming a Kang in the remake made me sell my PS5 immediately after finishing the game ( that and the body type A/B nonsense ), fuck modern Sony and all the shills that support them.
Gaming is over lads. I'm sorry, I miss it too but the egregore of the modern day has changed people so fundamentally that you cannot ever get classic gaming back because the people of silver and gold who created those projects don't exist anymore. Now it's wood stubble and straw people whose minds are seared so badly they could never create beauty if they even desired to do so.
I don't get those kind of messages. We keep seeing "Gaming is dead, goodbye" comments everywhere in all based channels, yet it's been years and we still see them. You don't really think it's dead and you still have some kind of attachment and hope to video games, otherwise you wouldn't check out youtube video about video games, especially about new ones. This is the equivalent of "I'm leaving Twitter for good this time!!!1!"
Why is it impossible for us to make our own video games, though? We managed to create an industry that far surpassed any other in history, we managed to create classic games that can be enjoyed for dozens and dozens of generations in the future (akin to classical music and movies), why is it that after a greed + woke infestation, suddenly we can't do anything anymore except doom-posting? Let's find the talented game makers in our side, give them support and help rebuild video games. Because 90% of games are trash, doesn't mean we can't build the remaining 10% ourselves and make them great.
@@NeptasI didn't mean to piss you off. I'm making a larger ontological point in my comment about this world and people in general. I also don't think me listening to a Ptolemy rant about the world and use vidya as a method to do so is the same as what you're describing. I also don't think acknowledging the ephemeral nature of things is me doomposting.
Colossians 3:2-3
Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God
@@Th3BigBoy Lol you didn't piss me off, it's all good, I'm just seeing a lot of "gaming is dead' posts, yet we're still here and commenting about it. Gaming will be truly dead when even the passionate gamers completely leave and give up. In the end it's up to us to decide if we want to give video games another chance and create a new generations of actually good developers with good intents, or if we let them die (because we all know wokes and "The Modern Audience" actually don't care about video games at all).
And yes, we should set our eyes on God and Christ, but if we can have video games honor Him (just like music, for instance), even if it's just one good game, I think it's worth trying.
@Neptas I do agree with you that Games can honor God. Just like something fantasy based, like LOTR can spur a man to virtue and towards logos.
If games are to be saved or to retain any value, the emphasis ought to change from graphics and game engines to good philosophical discourse through the characters. For example, there must be an acknowledgment that evil exists. Relativism needs to die.
I suppose a single solid title would go a long way in shifting things. Perhaps that's why we are denied even that.
@@Th3BigBoyI not only miss just gaming , I miss how our entire western society was before Larry and Co. decided to buy up everything and ruin not only our entertainment, but our home ownership and way of life.
Everything, and I mean everything, is going downhill.
I hate to be a doomer, but this is the stark reality we live in today.
_"Oi babe, wake up. New Ptolemy-sama dropped."_
_"You fokin wut? A video essayist in the style of old YT, like a condensed and rational /v/ post? Are you mad?" "Aye. Beats the shit outta the bloody content farmers."_
*The attempts of going for more polygons & photo-realism have been disastrous.* I hate to beat on about it but FF7's "Remake" problems were those of totality, a death by a thousand cuts. They teased people with tech demos. All they had to do is not change the plot or mis-market the game. A lot of zoomies and Gen Alpha won't play games with "bad / old graphics". I think that is a fundamentally incorrect way to view games (muh _ludo_ ) & with which to judge them.
If you would have asked me in 1998 what 2020s would be like with hardware advances, I would have probably mentioned VR, semi-realistic physics models, different input controllers, improved AI. That last item. *How come there are no games taking advantage of extra processing to give a better AI/Computer enemy experience?* I'm thinking mainly strategy games for simplicity's sake. Panzer General, Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin, or even Warcraft II / Starcraft with local hardware being used for neural networks to make the computer play in novel, non-predictable ways - as well as learning from previous gameplay.
Instead, we get bloated uncompressed textures and near photorealism. It's certainly a choice but not applicable in all cases for a "good game". The most entertaining gaming moments I have had were when enemy did something novel and surprised me... or pushing boundaries in a mod/game and seeing what breaks or is exploitable (for fun, not to ruin other people's games).
I mean, Civ 5's AI is a literal state machine. People have built "computers" in Civ5 knowing precisely what the AI's behavior is going to be. For a strategy game, that's depressing...
Also besides the technical & creative problems, yes, we have people actively trying to subvert this hobby & industry. It blows.
lol at thumbnail
Thankfully we don't need a SH2 remake. The fan made Enhanced Edition of the PC port is so kino that modern audiences can just play that instead of this ESG/DEI garbage remake.
Enhanced Edition is incredible fan made remasters are the way forward especially now recompiling is becoming genuinely viable as seen recently in that amazing fan remaster of Majora’s Mask
Fan made mods and games have passion behind them. SH2 ticks off all the boxes of this corrupt, rotten, creatively bankrupt modern gaming industry.
It's obvious why all these masterpieces of our past are being targeted. I don't even glance at these "modernized" atrocities anymore. I don't give them my time nor my attention, because I know there's so much anticipation and glee behind these attacks on our culture. Glee to see the outrage and the complaining, the protests and the boycotts. Our time and energy going to waste.
I see "Silent Hill 2" making headlines in 2024 and I simply use it as an opportunity to revisit the original game on PS2. The new shit doesn't exist, and in my home it will never, in any way replace the original, nor be mentioned in the same breath as the original. There's no pull towards these products once you see through what's going on in the industry - nothing there to tempt you to hand over your $60. We all see the diabolical shit they're pulling here, and it's already behind us. Just stick with the classics.
What they really want is to purge all record and proof that there ever was a normal, non-possed past where things made sense and where art was beautiful. Turn and twist the best works of our past, remake them, repackage them, bury the originals in every way imaginable; in search results, in removing them from online services - on and on until the only entertainment available is ”their” entertainment. Doing remakes is the next best thing to book burning.
They’ve done this over and over again, blatantly and in the open, with more on the way, and they’ve gotten away with it for so long, they think they’re untouchable - that no one’s gearing up to push back against this regime when the day comes when they truly go mask off and start purging more than just our entertainment.
@@DouschReminds me of aftermath of Russian revolution, where they "remade" majestetic statues of tsars and the like into these weird looking travesties which looked like a toddler made them.
@@DouschNot that anyone here cares about Old Hollywood, but I remember back in 2019 some leftists complained about John Wayne Airport existing simply because of John Wayne himself. The reason? He did an infamous interview for a magazine way back in 1971. Actual film students at USC walked out of a John Wayne film exhibit.
This is the kind of stuff that people need to pay attention to. I don’t need to say it, because these crazies going after old media is already here and already been here.
Ian Fleming’s old 1950’s Bond novels need to be read by sensitivity writers. We have people who view old John Wayne movies and making racist statements about them on social media. We have people who praised the Rings of Power, because it taints the legacy of Tolkien’s work and philosophy.
I am completely fed up with these people taking past entertainment media and telling us it was all bad. All they do is ruin it.
If we ever get out of the era of cultural vandalism and gaming goes back to how it used to be, I wonder how most people are gonna look back on this time period in history. Where everything related to gaming was just seething commie trash for about a decade or two. Hopefully, all this destructive madness will just be forgotten about and seen as an anomaly that occurred in the gaming industry never to be repeated again, like waking up from a nightmare. And then society can finally get back on track to producing things of value.
The only way for this cultural vandalism of entertainment to end is if the education department can be taken back, which has been overtaken by them for the past 70+ years. Which then leads to all forms entertainment (sports, gaming, music, Hollywood, etc..), and I just don't see that happening anytime soon. It will decades to weed out the professors, teachers, administrators, officials, etc... that use these institutions to produce followers from the youth to continue the cultural vandalism.
The only way for this vandalism of entertainment to end is if the education department can be taken back, which has been overtaken by those for the past 70+ years. Which then leads to all forms entertainment (sports, gaming, music, Hollywood, etc..), and I just don't see that happening anytime soon. It will decades to change out the professors, teachers, administrators, officials, etc... that use these institutions to further influence the youth to continue the vandalism.
@@mr.sinjin-smythThis started during the Post War Era. The Soviets were infiltrating America since they had both been fighting each other in the Cold War era.
The 1960’s was when riots, school protests, divide and conquer was coming to fruition. And we have been following the same trajectory ever since.
I just want ports. Not remakes, not even remasters. I remember being super excited when the FFVII remake was announced. I had just played the original on PS3. I'll always remember that playthrough. Even then, in high school, playing a nearly 20 year old game, the original FFVII showed me things that I didn't know games could do, could be. I bought a PS4, anticipating the remake, but never ended up getting it. By 2020 or 2021, whenever it came out, I could tell it wasn't FFVII anymore.
I loved the Spyro games on PS1 as a kid, and naively celebrated when the remakes were announced. The remakes ended up being ugly and soulless.
Do you mean the original on PS1? Because I don't recall FFVII being available on PS3 unless it was one of the PS1 Classics available for the platform.
@@KratostheThird yeah the original ps1 version was available for purchase and download on ps3.
This reminded me of the sheer disappointment that the FF7 reboot ended up becoming. They threw away everything that was great with FF7.
At least they didn't make the women trans, black, and gay.
@@bluedistortions Stop giving them ideas.
@@bluedistortions They already nerfed Tifa.
Oh well, at least she still looks fine
@@ergastolo4281lol she's fine. Her melons are MAASSIVE in the bikini and Chinese dress
The worst part of the SH2 remake is that it's GOING to sell super well, guaranteed. Because people constantly praise SH2 as the best game in the series and one of the best horror games ever, and because the PS2 original is so retardedly expensive now, this shitty remake that totally undermines massive chunks of the narrative with it's visual overhaul is going to be the way most people play SH2. I genuinely think the awful unfinished HD collection port would be a better way to experience the REAL Silent Hill 2.
i played RE1 remake year ago and it has to be one of the best well done remake in modern era. They manage to save the style and pretty much everything good that made RE1 good in the first place.
2002 isn’t the modern era. But yes, it’s probably one of my favorite remakes.
It's never been more over.
Remember spain. The reconquista started with 200 men. 1 country was freed by the original will of 200 men. There is only no hope when we are all dead. Just don't fight in the coming war
Shame, that skipping 90% of todays games is a norm for me, someone who loved videosgames since i was a little boy 30 years ago. Theres no creativity left in the industry, more like spite, greed and hate. Its either something youve played 100 times before, but somehow worse then games 10+ years ago, or filled to the brim with "micro"transactions focused on milking you dry, while the game is terrible at the same time, or it is a political propaganda. Gaming companies filled with beta simp cowards and feminist girlbosses. I still believe there are some individual game devs in all those companies that are actually talented and care about gaming - my dream is that they all would leave them and make their own studio.
Beta Simp Cowards = Millennial/Gen Z males who lack testosterone and sip Starbucks coffee.
Hate the fact that they skipped Silent Hill 1 to remake 2, obviously a cynical decision made because one is more popular than the other. On top of that they hire a company with a bad reputation to remake the game and waste money on consultants who tell them what to remove. It’s been 20 years and somehow the industry is more restricted than its ever been, instead of a remakes we get rewrites
Based as always
Speaking on MGS3 remake - there's a reason that they haven't shown any images of Eva....shit they'll probably combine Eva and Raikov to make some trans/gay/double-triple-crossing superspy 🤮 - or she'll be a black lesbian😂
Even if they made her faithful, feminine, intelligent, badass on a bike...fuck that cash grab. Just play the OG. It's available literally everywhere and it's still amazing
David Duchovny in a wig
How many games does Konami have to shit out before you learn your lesson?
God forbid kids learn tank controls.
As for Silent Hill Remake - i dont remember it that much anymore, is this womans appearance change not in conflict with the story of the game? The dude had a sick wife and was stuck with her, so he had fantasies about a sexy woman - if you make her ugly, you interfere with the story. Who would fantasise about a man-jaw landwhale? xD
What does Angela have to do with James?? She's her own person. She isn't Maria. Also what James finds sexy is different what we find sexy.
"9 Minutes, Scully! We lost NINE MINUTES!!"
I just wish all these franchises stayed dead. A "remake" is inherently disrespectful and wrong (the only exception being if the ORIGINAL TEAM does it, but even then you can argue it's pointless). I used to really like gaming, but now I feel nothing for its current state. Whatever, I have all the roms, the original hardware and emulation, as well as old PC games. I don't need their shit.
The war against men, male hobbies and tastes has many faces - the war against roms being one of them. If they could, they would break into our homes, rip the hardware from our hands and destroy it in front of us.
I’ve been playing old boomer shooters like Quake and Duke Nukem 3D.
@@KratostheThird I've played Quake through countless times, it's definitely one of my favourite games. Weirdly enough I never really liked Duke3D though, even though I'm also a huge DOOM fan and I generally like BUILD games like Blood. In terms of FPS I can also highly recommend Unreal (1998), if you can somehow track it down, because Epic decided to absolutely remove their origins and their engine's namesake from existence.
Need a new video ASAP considering what just happened
Damn, your videos never disappoint. Keep em coming!
Modern "remakes" are wet RE-IMAGINATIONS for the "modern audience", not actual remakes made for the fans
Hey mate, don't supposed you've played FF Rebirth? Not that I wish you suffering but I'd be interested to hear what you think.
Konami killed off PT and give us this in return
Make Games White Again
Make Gaming Great Again!
in order to do that you have to heal the culture and to do that you have to remove the anti whites from power.
Hell yeah, new video
Vicarious Visions did a good job here, both Tony Hawk and Diablo 2 remasters are pretty much exactly what they should be - visualy polished, but the same thing at the core. FF7 remake is like some sophisticated torture, delivering so many things spot on and then ruining key moments with unnecesary changes. Silent Hill 2 is such a delicate construction there is no way they won't mess it up.
" Diablo 2 remasters are pretty much exactly what they should be"
Assassin is now chinese and the sorceress is arabic (because they were both white), Amazon has the necromancers face (the hottest white one got trannified), all the female chars are chest reduced and the Paladin went from an ebony-black chad to a scruffy homeless-lookin dude.
They wokified the game, just in a more subtle manner. The sleight is still present.
@@malcontender6319What about Tony Hawk? I noticed more purple colors in that too, even though it’s supposed to be a throwback to the old Tony Hawk games on the PS1 and N64.
It’s subtle, but there’s a noticeable undertone and sinister motive that was not in the originals.
You have remasters, remakes and a reimagining.
Remasters are using the same engine and game base and enhancing it.
Remakes are a ground up reaction.
Reimaginings are usually remakes with a new direction.
The re4 remake in my opinion is a reimagining, re1 remake is a remake
Hey we are finally are getting a new 2d Zelda game…that looks like it will be ruined with botw style mechanics, awful art style and Zelda has replaced Link. Apparently everyone thinks Zelda should be the protagonist because “her name is in the title.” A wahman in a game exists, so she must have her own game. Since when do games have to have the title match the player character? Plenty of games are named something other than the playable character. They hate the fact that Link has saved Zelda so many times over the years, so what is the solution? Replace Link with Zelda and now she’s going to save him. Yeah ok. I can’t wait to watch the game flop.
Because Super Princess Peach did so well for them, lol Nintendolts.
@@shadow4040 Why do you think she should get her own game?
@@shadow4040 Not a great answer, what about playing as Zelda would be cool, fun and neat specifically? So what about the fans who have been playing Zelda for thirty years and don’t want to play as anyone other than Link, screw them? I’ve been waiting since Minish Cap for a new, completely original 2d Zelda game and now Link won’t be in it. What if Nintendo replaced Samus with Adam in Prime 4, you think Metroid fans be cool with that? I wouldn’t want Samus to be replaced. Most people who have actually played these games and enjoyed them, don’t want their legacy characters replaced.
@@shadow4040 That’s what they should have done in my opinion, give Zelda her own separate game like they did for peach. This new Zelda game is a mainline entry and it is the new “2d” or top down game. From the trailer it’s pretty obvious that Link will be kidnapped and absent from the game. I don’t have an issue with Zelda getting her own games ( though I still don’t see the point) I do have an issue if she replaces Link in his own game. Maybe I’m wrong, but it looks that way.
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No, Persona 3 Reload is bad too, it is woke and censored.
Thank God for piracy --not because I would bother playing modern slop even for free, but because some who would may do so instead of supporting it. I hope it only becomes more common.
Speaking of piracy, Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones was a disaster. The message is about capitalism, not about the Golden Age of Piracy, which was entirely different from what we know on capitalism.
Leftism and revisionism need to end.
Black Mesa (aside from REmake 1) remains my gold standard for a from the ground up remake, but notice with Black Mesa? It was a labor of love by Valve employees in their spare time and initially, it was free game! Sure, they are charging for it now, but the missing Xen levels is in the retail release so I feel its an acceptable tradeoff.
By the way, if there are any fellow S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans here, check out Lost Alpha, a fan game using the original build of Shadow of Chernobyl free to play with GSCgameworld's blessing.
Talking about Yoshi Shinkawa; Would a hypothetical, current year remake of Zone of the Enders remove the COCKpit?
Another great video. Keep it up.
that thumbnail...🤣
I don't think the video game industry was ever healthy. If it wasn't blatant asset theft, sabotaging board members that only cared about money thus stifling innovative ideas, game development hell, or shitty work environments and subsequent lay offs, then it was the encroaching poison that is talked about in your video here.
Game Development Hell = Duke Nukem
Forever
Bad Work Environments = LA Noire
Sabotaging Board Members = Bungie
I always choose the playstation original of resident evil over the remake and im not sure why. I prefer the vibe i guess. I dont know
Same here. REmake feels way too clinical and tryhard. The mansion is too over-the-top; dark, dingy and spooky like a Halloween attraction. As if the developers are saying "LOOK! SCARY MANSION! ARE YOU SCARED YET?!". In the original the mansion is brightly lit, well furnished and almost inviting, which lures the player into a false sense of safety while simultaneously giving a feeling of something being not quite right. This allows the game to breathe and organically build tension before the first zombie encounter.
Because REmake lacks restraint in it's art direction and sound design (we get flickering lamps and dramatic lightning strikes as soon as we enter the dining room instead of the eerie silence of the original), that slow, steady build up is gone. Never thought of REmake as a replacement for the PS1 game tbh.
@@ericrhodes5174 I agree with all you've said. I found the brightness and the cleanliness of the original to be more unnerving for some reason. The music is better in the original I find too.
I found the combat to not be as impactful as the original either as if the enemies were unphased by your bullets. There was that brief stagger while using the hand gun on zombies in the original.
I played through the sega Saturn version last week for the first time. It's got some neat changes
Been seeing alot of fromsoft fans call for it but I genuinely hope Playstation leaves Bloodborne alone. Bluepoint ruined Demon's Souls art design and proved nobody in game development rn understands what makes those games special but FS.
I really think it's just people who have never played the games calling for remakes nowadays because they see how much reverence the original gets online.
Honestly, even FS is slipping and doesn't understand what made their games great anymore. But I agree, people who actually want Bluepoint to remake Bloodborne want to watch the world burn, or so I'm convinced.
welcome back!
Careful though with the motivation-demotivation seesaw. Your videos struck me as becoming of a light for the way forward, not of the type who's here to milk the situation.
Pray bless us with your succor for many fortnights further Master Ptolemy~
Is it me or is that thumbnail mulder from xfiles?
Jack!
I really hope that thumbnail is photoshopped
Fax
do a collab with synthetic man
That guy is a hack, our boy should stay away from him tbh
@@ricardoojeda2963 okay, leftist in disguise.
@@ricardoojeda2963 He might've had a few bad takes here and there but he is still an important voice against the madness
What makes Ptolemy charming is he isn't content slop with a new video every week. He's well spoken & quite funny in some ways. It's a precious thing to get that ~monthly video from Ptolemy.
Synthetic Man is good, I wish he'd do a couple things differently to improve his content but it is what it is.
@ricardoojeda2963 - Maybe you feel that way, but he pisses off the right people. Other ecelebs have taken a slight notice of Synthler. I wish he'd improve his content in certain ways but he's authentic (except hamming up _some_ of his rants) and an important opposing voice.
@@PaulieMcCoy Just watch his "immersion is dead" video and you'll see that he can't be trusted; calls people who don't want to play modern slop as "obsessed with politics" when he's the first to bring it up. He used to make good videos circa 2020-2022, but maybe jeřking off to g@¥ porn fried his brain, he said being into "that" in one of his streams. He's braindead.
Evil cannot create it can only destroy
SH "fans" rn: consume product don't ask questions, sh2 was overrated anyway, i asked for a remake of this perfect game because reasons(meaning: resident evil and dead space got one too), if you don't like it don't buy it, etc.
...and the cope continues.
when i saw the thumbnail, i instantly thought of x-files. 🥰🥰😈😈😈😈
Update: they showed remake Eva and God she is HOT. The MGS3 remake is saved 🎉😂
looks like David Duchovny in a wig on the thumbnail 😂
thumb nail dude looks like mulder from xfiles as a women
Layers of fear was awesome, I laughed the all way through. It's like all bad horror clichés crammed into 1 sh!tty game.
It was boring. Walking simulator that did nothing for horror.
remember MMDOC?!?!?! i do!!! and i learned to never support ubi after that
A remake that changes a lot about the original isn't necessarily bad. The famous 80s scarface movie changed a lot about the old movie it remade, but was still great. But a different term for it might be required
David Duchovny
no deathcore intro?
i have been binge watching this channel in the last weeks and its funny how the start of the video you are repeating what i said in my comment on your video ''videogames should be movies" its as if we both had a similar experiences the evolution of media and games and movies in terms of our expectations and what we ended up happening. its causes and consequences and how it all relates to cultural changes.
I am only interested in rebuilds. Not interested in remakes and not so much in remasters. I want a rebuild which Demon Souls and persona 3 are good examples of.
I suspect sometime in my lifetime AI will be able to remake games on the fly to my own specifications.
Edit: interesting notes on DS. I hate FF7 “remake”.
David Duchovny 🤣
I knew the SH2 remake was going to be bad as soon as the news broke. First of all, SH2 does not need a remake. And, even if it did, why wouldn't Konami remake the first one to start? Bloober Team is just horrible. And I'm sorry -- I know it's mean spirited -- but a bunch of dumb Polacks have no business working on a SH game. I knew based on their past work they were going to do this. I knew it was going to have ugly characters and that generic unreal engine look, with RE2 remake mechanics.
I remember back in 2012, Konami released 4 abysmal Silent Hill pieces of media: Downpour, Book of Memories, HD Collection and that 0/10 POS "movie" (Revelations, which looked worse than even the 2006 movie.) They've had over a decade to get their act together, and just like in 2012, they've put out several pieces of trash in a short time: Ascension, Short Message, and the forthcoming SH2 remake we know will suck as well as another movie from that idiot who directed the first one.
Isn't it ironic that SH was created because of the success of Resident Evil. But after the phenomenon of P.T. -- Capcom copied P.T. for RE7 and 8. And now Konami is back to copying Capcom? All we really needed was an announcement for ONE game: a mainline entry developed internally at Konami, with as many members of the original teams involved, namely the artists and designers. And along with that just a proper HD collection of the original 4. The only remake that would work is a RE1-style remake of the first SH.
Poland dropped the ball after CD Projekt Red turned overly leftist. Layers of Fear was a boring walking simulator.
@@KratostheThird yes. I knew that game would be bullshit too. GOG is the only good video game related thing I’ve seen from them. In general, I haven’t seen really good games come out of Europe. Ubisoft is trash as well as many others. Remember, Konami did this before too. Downpour was developed by some BS studio in Czech Republic.
@@j-555 I’m used to hearing American media and entertainment being trash, but I wasn’t expecting Europe to fall down the same path.
It’s really sad. I really enjoyed Rayman Legends, which is one of the only franchises I really like from Ubisoft. That came out in…. 2013.
@@KratostheThird In terms of video games, Europe's always been kind of weird and the last market anyone in the industry cared about. Their video game industry is not well-established too. They have weird technical standards as well -- from refesh rates -- to even the voltage rating for consoles (240v instead of 100-120v like Japan or America.. wtf!?)
And a lot of countries like Germany and the UK have absurd censorship, so various games are either heavily censored, not released or unpopular. Europe is one of the worst places to be a gamer, behind only Russia or China, lol. Their tastes are weird too, for ex, in the early 90s apparently the Amiga was the real popular system. wtf...
@@j-555 A friend of mine went to a TV giveaway scam a long time ago. Turns out the TV was PAL, not NTSC. Didn’t work on American TV outlets.