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Originally posted by Unicorn:
Well, you agree that the success of these remakes is based on pure nostalgia, right? The people who bought it did it mainly for the reason that they played the games on the older hardware and really felt that nostalgic feeling.
I was thinking you play they, remember the good old days, card, and get people to buy it that way. If you believe trends reported in newspapers old is in, so even if it is something they have never seen you sell it to them using that idea, "it harkens back to the days when you were a kid, remember static instead of crowds cheering", that sort of thing, and that is the way you market it, but no I don't think the success of these remakes is based on pure nostalgia, I think nostaliga is the way you sell them at first.
Succees depends on, as all things, how much people like them. You can hand them every new game out there and all but one could end up in their reject pile, so there is no one way to ensure people are in love with it but there are ways to garner interest in a people to have them make the purchase, if that counts as success, them purchasing the item, then perhaps it is one way to gain success.
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Originally posted by Unicorn:
But you have to take into account that there are other difficulties: The artist may not be available for redrawing the graphics and the game's engine was developed for an older OS. Thus inthe worst case, you have to accept an inconsistent style of drawing in the graphics (Critical Point is IMHO a striking example), and you will have even more costs in developing and testing an engine that complies with the current OSes, drivers and hardware.
Then if the artist is not there, get premission and hire those that can do it, if it is not the original artist so long as they can copy that style it's not a huge issue in my book.
As for the OS, you realize that in maybe five years or perhaps less, these "new" games will likely not work on the newest OS system and within 10 years we will either have to have two computers, one with an older OS or will have lots of nice cases with CD's that no longer work properly on our computers.
Everything changes so fast that yes it is a problem with the OS being different but then adapt it, if need be through a patch, yes it costs money but making a patch might be cheaper then redoing the whole game. Go for the cheapest routes to save money and it can still work. Don't cut corners, but save where you can, a patch instead of reprograming is just one example.
[This message has been edited by SCDawg (edited 07-22-2004).]