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Maaaan the Halo remake is exhaustingly Modern in its bullshit... Cortana has all kinds of extra tutorial dialogue. The intro of invisible elites, instead of being a scary moment of guys suddenly dropping dead around you, is her going "Invisible elites!! Look for distortions in the air!" Christ alive

Increasingly coming in on the side of "all remakes are at best fundamentally unnecessary and at worst actively terrible". Every big budget remake makes 1 million little compromises on cool shit that served as part of the original identity in favour of "modern game design" and "quality of life".

I dunno I think it's something you can do well and worthwhile-ly. Certainly unnecessary but so is most of the best shit in life. I think it just happens to mostly get done on a thoughtless whim by someone who doesn't care much about it

I think you can certainly do it well, there's lots of objectively good remakes out there but I just dislike mostly how the remake has a tendency to displace the original in conversation unless it's particularly controversial or haphazard.