{"id":4932,"date":"2022-06-23T04:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/why-are-games-refusing-to-learn-from-final-fantasy-7-remake\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T04:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:49:16","slug":"why-are-games-refusing-to-learn-from-final-fantasy-7-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/thegamer-originals\/why-are-games-refusing-to-learn-from-final-fantasy-7-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Games Refusing To Learn From Final Fantasy 7 Remake?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have a strange relationship with video game remakes. I think in an increasingly unsustainable industry with mammoth costs and development cycles, remakes are wasteful of our medium’s talent, stifling creativity as developers are forced to rehash old ground with little to no artistic input. The Last of Us Part 1, an expensive tweaking of a game already crowned a masterpiece that seems to move the visuals laterally<\/a> and has as of yet showed us none of the much praised gameplay improvements<\/a> – improvements on a game we all called perfect, to boot – is the worst example of this<\/a>. Final Fantasy 7 Remake<\/a>, on the other hand, is far more interesting.<\/p>\n

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I have a strange relationship with video game remakes. I think in an increasingly unsustainable industry with mammoth costs and development cycles, remakes are wasteful of our medium’s talent, stifling creativity as developers are forced to rehash old ground with little to no artistic input. The Last of Us Part 1, an expensive tweaking of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thegamer-originals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}