Remakes/Reboots/Remasters

This week, Paul, Joey, and Ron discuss reboots/remasters/remakes, or what we like to call “revisits” or “seances.” How do we distinguish between them? What makes a “good” revisit? What are some notable examples? Will the current and upcoming classic library streaming services affect the quality or frequency of revisitations at all? We talk about all of this and more. We jump around a lot, so we don’t have specific timestamps, but we touch on Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, The Last of Us, Quake, Sony’s “Director’s Cuts,” Demon’s Souls, and more! It takes us a while to get to that discussion, though, because we really got in the weeds talking about the new Max Payne reboots, Kingdom Hearts 4, Elden Ring, and we set up an indie swap for next week’s episode! It’s a big ol’ episode but we had a lot of fun making it. Hope you enjoy!

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We’re on Twitter: @Losperman (Joey) and @bigbadron (Ron)

00:11:55: Indie Swap roulette! You can find these games here:

https://sophieh.itch.io/sophies-safecracking-simulator

https://adamgryu.itch.io/a-short-hike

https://basically-games.itch.io/baldis-basics-plus

https://davidsgallant.itch.io/i-get-this-call-every-day

https://glander.itch.io/art-sqool

https://firepunchd.itch.io/ridiculousglitching

https://pixelforest.itch.io/farmers-stealing-tanks

https://studioclump.itch.io/ssml

https://thebonesbrothers.itch.io/sticky-cats

00:26:54: Remedy remaking Max Payne 1 and 2 for next-gen consoles/PC

00:43:00: Kingdom Hearts 4 announced

01:11:19: Joey’s been sinking a ton of time into Chrono Cross (more to come)

01:13:45: Paul’s been wringing every last ounce of excitement from Elden Ring

01:30:18: Ron and the whole Pixels crew have been playing GTA Online (we did our first heist!)

01:45:03: “Revisitations” or “Seances”: Remakes/Remasters/Reboots

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