Bad Video Game Remakes and Remasters

Bad and Terrible Video Game Remakes have been stinking up the place for a while now. Worse than the original? SURE. From the PS5 to the Switch and whatever, you can play decades of awful remakes ALL in the palm of your hand without any kickback. But why? If anything, it's probably cause you're a weirdo like me.

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00:00 - Intro (Terrible Remakes and Warcraft)
03:50 - Needed more Love (XIII)
06:18 - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
07:39 - Panzer Dragooning and Others
10:44 - Rippin' on Pokemon Gen 4
12:42 - Remakes of Classics
20:55 - The Worst Remasters (SANIC)
24:50 - Dumb Publisher Decisions
28:39 - The "Reimagination"
32:25 - Goldeneye Not Starring Brosnan

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[austineruption]

What are some video game remakes you've played that sucked the big one? Lemme know here, cause there's probably more than enough for me to make a second video if there's a want!

ALSO YES, I saw your poll results... I guess I gotta do all three of those, huh?

[Frederik-DK]

The real reason the Sonic 1 GBA version is bad? It's a port of the mobile phone Java version, which is also why the music sounds like a MIDI file.

[kolonarulez]

That version of Frogger was the first video game I ever played. Glad to hear it was actually difficult and not entirely unskilled little kid me

[BlitzAce]

funniest thing about the XIII Remake is that visually it honestly looks worse than the original from nearly 20 years earlier

[faereman]

The worst part about CTR's microtransactions is that it felt from day one that it was gonna happen, because you get SO FEW coins by playing normally while the items at the shop are very expensive in comparison (you get about 50 coins per race and your average unlockable costs 1500 coins...). I'm still VERY far from having unlocked everything and I've had the platinum trophy ages ago. The thing is designed to forced impatient players to splurge.

[lucasLSD]

The crystal chronicles one pisses me off the most because even new games have this problem of not sharing progress like Monster Hunter World's campaign.

[Boonehams]

16:04 - I decided to look up Satoshi Urushihara after Austin mentioned him, and the very first line in his bio said, "Satoshi Urushihara, the Master of Breasts..." and now I have a new hero.

[streetmagik]

Okay, I'll go there, the artist from Langrisser (Satoshi Urushihara) did a bunch of softcore stuff. Probably best known in the states for Plastic Little. The DVD of the anime even had a boob jiggle counter mode.

[mrterrychaos]

It was an atrocity that House of the Dead remake released without a light gun. Time Crisis 4 released on PS3 with a sensor based light gun to accommodate flat screen TV setups so it's possible.

Inb4 "there's not really enough demand to pack in a light gun peripheral" - if there's no demand for light guns, then there's no demand for light gun games.

Even the PC version doesn't officially support the sindens or gun4ir without a community patch. Once that's set up though, it FIXES that game's gameplay.

[lutfimakarim]

If you ever make a part 2, how about discussing Bomberman: Act Zero as a bad reimagining?

[cobrallama]

I remember playing the Frogger remake on PS2 a lot. It was called Reptile Run and was a mini game in Final Fantasy X-2.

[lando]

I remember when XIII came out it was talked about everywhere, for a short time. The comic style was so unique with the panels popping up and stuff. I'm surprised it didn't get better ratings. I swear it was getting like 9/10s at the time..

[JakeLT]

Monkey Ball Banana Mania was the worst offender for me. I can excuse the gameplay differences since it was remade in unity, I can try to excuse Monkey Target, the only party game people care about being broken at launch, but Banana Mania has NO MULTIPLAYER. In 1 & 2 you can take turns. In Deluxe you can play simultaneously. Idk how a remake of a party game can come out without a way to play it multiplayer and it just doesn’t seem like a big deal and is never addressed with an update over 2 years later.

[marvel]

Ah, XIII, the game that anyone only ever knew about because the show X-Play dedicated an entire episode to the making of it prior to release and then when it came out they gave it a 3...out of 5.

[TheLastComa]

I also quit WoW in Cataclysm....my characters died fighting Deathwing canonicaly. Was upsetting to leave the community but it was just too much and was an actual addiction that was made worse with every new update and addition to the game ..more checklists to cross off, more mounts and shit to grind for....losing sleep hours in giant raid groups. I miss it but it was definitely not healthy.

[Dominion_Hawks]

Random, but the Goldeneye 007 is the game I've played the most online on my Wii. I really liked it

[Cccccc-yrv]

Ruining the Mrs. Ruby boss fight in Sly 1 is my 1st thought

[kingbash]

That one Megaman X port for the iOS feels like an April Fool's joke from Capcom. it's so awful that it's genuinely funny.

[Unquestionable]

Gotta say the Langrisser remakes are a lot more player friendly compared to the original. I got a copy of Warsong for like ten bucks in 2002 and while I loved it was absolutely brutal to the point of frustration. The remake is a bit too easy but after playing it I definitely enjoyed it a lot more considering it was impossible to get stuck unlike the original. Still you didn't go too hard on it. Also shout out to the semi related Growlanser series, some of the same devs and same art direction but a semi RTS where we got the entire series excluding the first and last titles. A shame because they're pretty solid if a bit needlessly difficult at time, with the 4th game being absolutely incredible on the PSP/Vita.

[skapokonroll]

If you wanna talk about bad remakes, that horrible Popeye game on the Switch and PS4 was supposedly a reimagining of the arcade game. I don't think there's a remake out there that misses the point of the original as much as that one.