• lilja@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    It’s relevant enough for PC Gamer to be writing about it, so someone must’ve been asking.

    This “dead genre” has been steadily receiving games the whole time it’s been out of the zeitgeist. And it’s popular enough that they were willing to remake one of the greats as well as its sequel. Things aren’t dead just because you personally don’t like it.

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      8 days ago

      Remaking a game from a few decades back reads more as desperate than anything else. They’re relying on nostalgia for sales, not actually attracting a new audience