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0 pointsmaccard1d ago0 comments

> I called it years ago, but I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again

How many years ago? because movies have been remade since the beginning of motion pictures - the great train Robbery was in the early 1900s.

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uncircle1d ago

I'm mostly thinking about video games. The problem is systemic. It's simply less risky to remake than to create a new IP

maccardOP16h ago

Remakes have been around since the early days of games too, particularly if you consider ports remakes. The Sega ages series of games were remakes of old games to the PS2.

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uncircle1d ago

I'm mostly thinking about video games. The problem is systemic. It's simply less risky to remake than to create a new IP

maccardOP16h ago

Remakes have been around since the early days of games too, particularly if you consider ports remakes. The Sega ages series of games were remakes of old games to the PS2.

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