I agree, though I'm still thinking a "director's cut" of the games is feasible. A LOT was cut at the last minute in all the games. Modders restored some of it and it greatly opened up replayability.People asking for a complete remake of 3 full RPGs + loads of DLC are expecting far too much lol.
People don't want to have their PS3s or 360s hooked up in 2020.
People like to play games at 4K and 60 rather than 720p and 25ish.
The PC versions need mods to even support controllers. Most people's PC libraries are going to be split between ME1 and 2 on Steam and 3 on Origin.
A re-release creates a community of people replaying, or playing for the first time, which leads to shared experiences, togetherness, memes, some small spark of joy in an otherwise miserable existence.
Well... all the reasons you cited are pretty damn niche and judging by the sales of the Bioshock and Borderlands collections, the investment it would take to get this done wouldn't be worth the return at all as I really doubt it would sell that much. I get what ou mean and of course it would be really cool to relive one of our favorites all dolled up for current gen stuff but I don't really see a thirst for this in the marketplace and I doubt it'd perform all that well either. I'd buy it to show support, but you seem to be overestimating the sales potential here, sadly.
I'm not saying you shouldn't compare remakes of video games to remakes of movies, but the hypothical remake that I've been comparing Mass Effect to was Yakuza, and the remakes of those games keep the same cast.She is. But as I metioned, if we are talking Remake than we should recast everybody. Just like movies.
The proposal I made was to rerelease each game one at a time, so let the revenue roll in. So Mass Effect Kiwami would come first, then so on and so forth.People asking for a complete remake of 3 full RPGs + loads of DLC are expecting far too much lol.
Why do people not want to have their PS3s hooked up in 2020? They can't play most of their PS3 games or digital PS1(physical too)/PS2 games anywhere else and it's much better as a blu-ray player than a PS4, I don't see any reason why people are going to specifically avoid keeping them hooked. I can see your point regarding 360s since the One pretty much replaced it outright but the PS4 is no substitute for a PS3... at all.
People like to play games at 4k? 4K TVs only had a 30% market penetration as of last year and that's specifically in the USA which is one of the wealthiest markets around.
Fair enough but the average user doesn't buy or even care about DLC, sales are always much much lower than the actual game.
As someone who has the games on PC, this is true but having the 3rd game on Origin is hardly that inconvenient and the mods you're speaking of aren't hard to find at all but most PC players don't much care about playing shooters with a controller when the M+Kb is right there.
True.
Well... all the reasons you cited are pretty damn niche and judging by the sales of the Bioshock and Borderlands collections, the investment it would take to get this done wouldn't be worth the return at all as I really doubt it would sell that much. I get what ou mean and of course it would be really cool to relive one of our favorites all dolled up for current gen stuff but I don't really see a thirst for this in the marketplace and I doubt it'd perform all that well either. I'd buy it to show support, but you seem to be overestimating the sales potential here, sadly.
I'm not saying you shouldn't compare remakes of video games to remakes of movies, but the hypothical remake that I've been comparing Mass Effect to was Yakuza, and the remakes of those games keep the same cast.
People also don't want to keep their old DVD players hooked up in 2020 to play movies from 15 years ago, or keep whatever smartphone they had in 2010 in order to use apps from that time.
The point is, people like to be able to enjoy stuff they like on what's considered their "current" hardware, no matter when it was actually made. Console video games are the only industry where this isn't the standard practice.