EA Criticizes HD Remakes, Remasters and Backwards Compatability

[WYP]

EA's Peter Moore has criticised HD Remakes, Remasters and Backwards Compatibility, saying that "It feels like pushing stuff out because you've run out of ideas."

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[AlienALX]

EA's Peter Moore has criticised HD Remakes, Remasters and Backwards Compatibility, saying that "It feels like pushing stuff out because you've run out of ideas."

Of course they have run out of ideas. How to make a video game in less than a year will always result in a fail.

Good ideas (Fallout) take time and money to do.

EA can shut up any way. With their friggin Macdonalds games.

 

[cooperman]

 

[DarthDudo]

Hahaha that was pretty good

 

[TalllPaul]

Because EA are so full of fresh ideas.

 

[Merxe]

I commented on this on another site. I don't need to do it again. No one actully needs to. Everyone knows that whatever PR stuff EA states is a pile of bull****.

 

[JR23]

I bet EA will re-use this press statement in a years time when they've added a few more bugs.

JR

 

[Dicehunter]

Funny because Battlefield 3, 4, Hardline, FIFA, NBA, NHL, Madden and The Sims have all been the same game for the last 5+ years just with slightly updated graphics XD

 

[demonking]

No EA would rather milk us with only half a game and release the rest of it as small paid DLC's
This whole backwards compatibility thing is a load of it as well, Theme hospital was a windows 95 game but EA has made it compatible with modern day OS's and that is just 1 of the hundreds on the origin store.
Shame really, I would love to see an HD remake of the original dungeon keeper or the early Theme games.
I can see EA's point about companies being lazy and re-mastering games that nobody really wants to play again but there are some games that were so good they deserve a remake or to be made compatible with modern systems.

 

[JR23]

Funny because Battlefield 3, 4, Hardline, FIFA, NBA, NHL, Madden and The Sims have all been the same game for the last 5+ years just with slightly updated graphics XD

...and Need For Speed.

JR

 

[shambles1980]

remember when EA said games were to expensive and they would love to charge less but they just couldn't due to how they had to sell games. and there was no reason at all for games to be that expensive...
and then they started distributing games via origin and the prices didn't go down because EA just says anything they think people want to hear.

Personally one of my fave games of recent years was the HD remake of resident evil.
because it brought the game that every one should have had "but only game cube had" made it look a bit better and brought it to my pc..

 

[Dicehunter]

...and Need For Speed.

JR

I'd actually say they can't make their mind up on that franchise.

They have tried their hand at sort of sim racing with the Shift series, Way over the top nigh on Burnout arcade style with the latest Most Wanted and then there's the amazing Underground series.

 

[Dark NighT]

This comes from a company that is asking 60 dollar for a multiplayer only game, asking another 50 for its season pass, yeah good luck with that.

 

[SPS]

*yawn*

 

[ph235]

Funny because Battlefield 3, 4, Hardline, FIFA, NBA, NHL, Madden and The Sims have all been the same game for the last 5+ years just with slightly updated graphics XD

my thoughts exactly

I can understand their stance on backwards compatibility though - little profit in it for them I suppose.

 

[JR23]

I'd actually say they can't make their mind up on that franchise.

They have tried their hand at sort of sim racing with the Shift series, Way over the top nigh on Burnout arcade style with the latest Most Wanted and then there's the amazing Underground series.

AFAIK there are two development teams that work on each game alternately, one is mental and the other is mental but different.

JR

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Well, personally I like having the remasters, saves me the trouble of enabling wide-screen support through registry / .ini and .exe editing.

The ones I was hoping for, were NFS: Underground and Underground 2, those were great.
Guess we won't see them if this is EA's view, which, I find amusing at the same time. Most of the new games they release are just a bunch re-hashes of the old with a new engine.

 

[Dicehunter]

Well, personally I like having the remasters, saves me the trouble of enabling wide-screen support through registry / .ini and .exe editing.

The ones I was hoping for, were NFS: Underground and Underground 2, those were great.
Guess we won't see them if this is EA's view, which, I find amusing at the same time. Most of the new games they release are just a bunch re-hashes of the old with a new engine.

In all honesty I'm hoping that's exactly what their new NFS game is going to be, Underground but with a new engine

 

[NeverBackDown]

In all honesty I'm hoping that's exactly what their new NFS game is going to be, Underground but with a new engine

That's basically a remaster

I don't mind remasters. I actually like them. It's fun to get back into older games that you enjoyed ages ago and just play them again but with updated visuals. I'm actually awaiting a FF12 remaster for PC if it ever happens.. I spent over 1200 hours in that game as a child

What I do have an issue with is when console remaster's come out from the old to the new gen when the game is less than 2 years old. That just seems like a cash cow because you know it sold well and to remaster the game within a short time span means the Devs probably started working on a remaster right after they finished the original. I doubt its the Devs fault and more in line with publishers to make money but still I find console remaster's annoying. PC remaster again less so since most remaster's are really old games

 

[Excalabur50]

I wouldn't believe a single word that comes out of any EA reps mouth as they couldn't lie straight in bed, all they do is release broken games and then blame everyone else for it, SWBF will be broken too you watch, maybe re-skinning old games that work might be a good thing but being EA they'd probably break that too.