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This article was published by Adam Ismail (@glassjaw) on July 31st, 2017 in the Features category.
Its honestly very disappointing that this seems to be the current mindset. Future gamers might never get the chance to see what made these games so great without having working units of now aging hardware, copies of the games itself, or without the use of emulation. People would DEFINITELY buy the games if they were re-released into a digital or remastered format on the PS4...
...I know I would.
I still have a working PS2 and I can play all GT games from 1 to 4 there.Its honestly very disappointing that this seems to be the current mindset. Future gamers might never get the chance to see what made these games so great without having working units of now aging hardware, copies of the games itself, or without the use of emulation. People would DEFINITELY buy the games if they were re-released into a digital or remastered format on the PS4...
...I know I would.
"they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this?”'“I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 games,” Ryan said, “and the PS1 and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why would anybody play this?”
Dont let the nostalgia cloud your mind... Compared to the PS3 GT's, GT3/GT4 feel already bad/unpolished, with a lot of stuff to improve, and with GT1/GT2 is even worse obviously
Great article @glassjaw.
If there is never a remake of GT1, the best they could do is make GT1 DLC car packs for future titles. Lots of great vehicles in GT1!
I still have a working PS2 and I can play all GT games from 1 to 4 there.
Dont let the nostalgia cloud your mind... Compared to the PS3 GT's, GT3/GT4 feel already bad/unpolished, with a lot of stuff to improve, and with GT1/GT2 is even worse obviously
Aside of the framerate drops, they have lots of other issuesIt's ironic that you call GT3 and GT4 unpolished when they don't have framerate issues like GT5 and GT6. They didn't use out of place car models from last generation either.
I don't believe there has ever been a remastered version of any racing game. Ever.
The return on investment would make for a risk to create remastered racing games. I wonder how much money goes into licensing a Ferrari versus a Ford or a Cardigans song versus a Daiki Kasho song.Licensing. Whether it be for vehicles by long dead companies, track licenses that lapsed, or maybe most of all, soundtrack rights.
Without going into too much detail, my work deals in sports, and has to re-new their licenses every year. I imagine in PD's situation, the time frame was probably longer, but had an expiration date nonetheless.You would think once you purchase the licensing rights to recreate say a 2005 BMW M3, those rights would be forever on that particular car.
I understand purchasing new models, but those already bought should allow PD to recreate at will providing they stay within the original licensing.
A different colour palette, I guess?I always wondered on how one remasters older versions of Gran Turismo without making it look like "a re-skinned version of GT Sport".
Without going into too much detail, my work deals in sports, and has to re-new their licenses every year. I imagine in PD's situation, the time frame was probably longer, but had an expiration date nonetheless.
I always wondered on how one remasters older versions of Gran Turismo without making it look like "a re-skinned version of GT Sport".
Please elaborate on this...Aside of the framerate drops, they have lots of other issues
Very outdated graphics, car physics are much worse, PS2 joystick is hard and nowhere near as precise as PS3/PS4 ones... And then obviously there was no online mode, so fun factor IMO is much much lower than PS3 GT games no matter how good the campaign mode was.Please elaborate on this...
Oh come on...Very outdated graphics
Nope, first of all, I'm an oldschool gamer - I play games since the 8 bits consoles and I can enjoy games without being obsessed with graphics. Believe me - gameplay is far far more important than graphics.
I won't argue with your comments here, but does it really make a game "bad/unpolished"?car physics are much worse, PS2 joystick is hard and nowhere near as precise as PS3/PS4 ones... And then obviously there was no online mode, so fun factor IMO is much much lower than PS3 GT games no matter how good the campaign mode was.