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! Contact us: [email protected] 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 Theme song by lovers.tiff: loverstiff.bandcamp.com