Videogame remakes are unique in all of media, helping some players relive memories while letting new players make their own.
Jon Robson and Aaron Meskin, philosophers at the University of Nottingham and the University of Leeds, we have a tendency to align our identities with those of the characters we play and to take on the videogame world as part of our own subconscious reality because of how we’re able to virtually touch, feel, and immerse ourselves in it.
A videogame remake brings that back for the generations that originally played it. In a remake that nostalgia, that emotional investment, is able to come rushing back. More than that, though, it creates an opportunity for those original players to teach new players that emotional investment. In the same vein, new players become able to show older players how to interact with their favorite game in an updated way.
And in the way a remake updates a game for new technology, even the language of the game is updated. The films of our grandparents’ age might present some vernacular barriers, but even those are easy to pass over with a brief explanation because movies and humans still speak essentially the same language as they did 70 years ago. The language of a Nintendo 64, however, is fundamentally different to the language of a PlayStation 5.
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