Opinion | The System Shock remake offers a tentative, if elaborate, solution to the video games preservation problem

The two lines that best capture the tone of our System Shock remake review are identical.\

Pros: “Fastidiously accurate recreation of the original game” Cons: “Fastidiously accurate recreation of the original game”

  • Hiccup@preserve.gamesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure remakes (or even ports) really count as preservation. Although you could think of them as preserving the popular accessibility of something resembling the original game. But I think it is nice that this remake is being faithful to the original.

    • retrohistories@preserve.gamesEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s not preservation in the way that preservationists use the word. Maybe we need a different term for this sort of modernisation process: game renovation maybe :D

      Drawn a lot of enjoyment from the remake over the last week or so. It can, like the original, be obscure in its signposting, but I love the shot in the arm it’s given to one of my all-time favourites.